Decoding .mkv (Matroska) video formats

Question

I have a media player that I made using c# and I wanted to decode mkv formats, but I can't find any good info about the codec or how to encode/decode mkv files. How can I decode matroska (mkv) video format?

Answer 1

FFMPEG, VLC, DirectX (the most difficult, but probably most efficient way), and Gstreamer (my recommendation) all have .NET bindings. Take your pick.

Here is a quick link for matroska in gstreamer to get you started: