Good player for MKV files?

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I'm looking for a good player for MKV files, any suggestions?

You're looking for hardware acceleration right?

Try Windows Media Player Classic HC for windows and/or XBMC for linux/osx.

I installed a program that is called simply "MKV Player" it opens MKV files, but there is one problem with it, I can not rewind the movie, I can only play

vlc is nice when everything else isn't working since it uses its own codecs. mlayer is good on *nix with the mkv libs.

I think vlc is the best player for windows and mac right now?

VLC has a high compatibility rate but doesn't do any hardware acceleration. If you want smooth playback that's pretty much a must.

Of course VLC does hardware acceleration. As you just said, it's a must.

Windows Media Player + CCCP < VLC < nothing else

I am going to suggest Media Player Classic - Home Cinema. Accept this suggestion as somewhat opinionated...

I am not an expert on this subject. The issues I had with VLC were slight but noticeable. In VLC sometimes an image would leave somewhat of a "ghost" in a way different from MPC. Video codecs tend to be based on the belief that one frame helps to predict the next frame, this is usually the case except when a scene transitions etc. In VLC I noticed somewhat of a "ghost" when a scene transitioned. I assumed it was the source file, but on switching to MPC this issue seemed diminished. Interpolation on VLC sometimes had issues for me. Colors could look funny, sometimes pixels would just look out of place, kind of similar to the scene transition thing I mentioned, just at random parts. None of these issues were THAT bad. I feel as though perhaps I was doing something wrong with VLC, or maybe my experience with VLC was different from the norm.

It does? Cool! A year or so ago it didn't (dxva that is) so I stopped using it when I upgraded my GPU. MPC-HC has some bad issues sometimes (out of sync jitter and such every so often).