Is it possible to smoothly play 1080p MKV movie files via Apple TV?

I want to play 1080p mkv movies stored in my iPad Air on TV.
Is Apple TV capable to smoothly play such a video file? Or would you suggest a HDMI-Ligthning adapter?
Has any of you used any app for this purpose? Does Avplayer HD do this job? Or which app would you suggest for this? App should support subtitle files.

AppleTV cannot play MKV files.
If you have an app that can Airplay an MKV file be aware that the app will be decoding the MKV locally and then recompressing to either an h264 stream or compressing the iPad screen display and sending via Airplay - either way quality will suffer.
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