- [Problem Solved!] MKV Not Playing in Windows 10 Media Player 2 years 25 weeks ago
When you want to play a video file on your Windows 10 computer, you can directly use the Windows snap-in video player - Windows Media Player that is pre-installed on your computer. You don’t need to install a third-party media player to play videos. It is convenient.
However, Windows Media Player doesn’t support all types of video files. You can go to this post to see which video formats are supported in Media Player: File types supported by Windows Media Player.
When you want to play an MKV video in Windows 10, you may discover that Windows Media Player won’t play MKV. As per the list of Windows Media Player file types, MKV is not included.
MKV not playing in Windows 10 is not an absolute event. If you have downloaded and installed the MKV codec for your Windows Media Player, you will be able to play MKV files using this Microsoft media player.
Using the MKV codec is not the unique method to fix the issue of MKV not playing in Windows 10. You can also use other methods to play MKV files on your Windows 10 computer. In this post, we will show you what you can do to solve the issue.
What to Do If MKV Not Playing in Windows 10?
Convert MKV to a Windows Media Player supported format
Use a different media player
Play MKV files using a web browser
Modify your Registry keys
Install the MKV codec in Windows Media Player
Upgrade Windows 10 to the latest version
- PS4 Video Formats | How to Play Media Files on Your PS4? 2 years 44 weeks ago
Nowadays, not only can you use PS4 to play games, but you can also use it to play music files, videos, and photos. Since 2015, you can even use PS4 to play media files that are saved on an external hard drive or USB drive.
When you want to play media files from a USB drive on your PS4, you should pay attention to these two important things: the files’ types and codecs you want to play on your PS4 and the file system of your USB drive.
That is,
Your PS4 can only play some certain formats of media files. So, you also need to make sure that the media files in your USB meet the corresponding format requirements.
The USB drive you connect to your PS4 should use the file system supported by PS4, otherwise, your PS4 can’t read your USB drive and the files in it.
Here comes some questions:
What kinds of media files’ formats are playable if you want your PS4 to play videos from a USB drive?
If you are using PS4 unsupported video formats, what should you do to solve the issue?
What kinds of file systems are supported on PS4?
If your USB drive is using an unsupported file system, how to convert it to a supported one?
These are the questions worth mentioning if you want to play media files on your PS4. If you don’t know, you can refer to the information we will show in the following parts.
- Solved! - How to Fix Windows 10 Can’t Play MP4 3 years 7 weeks ago
MP4, which is also known as MPEG-4 Part 14, is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store videos and audios. It can also store subtitles and still images. Like other modern container formats, MP4 allows streaming over the internet.
How to play MP4 on Windows 10? An MP4 file has good compatibility. Almost all media players can play MP4 files. But, this doesn’t mean that you will not encounter any issues when playing MP4 files.
For example, you may encounter the Windows 10 can’t play MP4 or MP4 files not playing issue. This problem is not limited to a certain MP4 player on Windows 10. It can happen to Windows Media Player, VLC, Movie Maker, etc.
It is a very common issue. Perhaps, you are currently bothered by this issue. To help you get out of it, we collect some solutions and show them in this post.
How to Fix MP4 Files Not Playing on Windows 10
Install the necessary codecs
Try another MP4 media player
Run the Troubleshooter on Windows 10
Reinstall Microsoft Live Essentials
Disable WMV DirectX Video Acceleration
Change the file extension for your MP4 files
Modify the VLC settings.
Convert MP4 to a supported format
- Top 4 MOV Players: How to Play MOV Files on Windows 3 years 28 weeks ago
What should you do if you can’t play MOV files? Don’t worry. MOV player can help you. Here are the top 4 free MOV file players you can try.
What should you do if you can’t play MOV files? Don’t worry. MOV player can help you. Here are the top 4 free MOV file players you can try.
3 Steps to Play MOV Files
Download and install this free MOV player on PC. Next, launch it and close the templates window to enter into the main interface.
Import your MOV file by clicking the Import Media Files button. Drag and drop this file to the timeline.
Click the Play button in the preview window to enjoy your movies.
Number 2. Windows Media Player Play MOV File
Windows Media player (WMP) is the default player for Windows and it can play AVI, MP4, MPG, WMV and other movie files.
However, if you want to play MOV file in this video player, you need to download the latest version of Windows Media Player and install the 3ivx code that allows you to play your MOV file in WMP. Otherwise, you cannot play MOV files.
How to Play MOV Files in Windows Media Player?
Download and install Windows Media Player.
Download and install the 3ivx codec software.
Restart your PC.
Right-click the MOV file you want to play.
Select Open-with.
Choose Windows Media Player.
Number 3. VLC Media Player Play MOV File
VLC media player is a free and open-source media player that supports a variety of different video & audio file formats. It is another great MOV player for Windows, Mac and Linux. With this video player, you can easily play MOV file to fix the cannot play MOV files issue.
In general, VLC can play almost any media file format, and it can even convert file format without quality loss. Follow the steps below to play MOV files with an open-source MOV player.
How to Play MOV File in VLC
Step 1. Download and install VLC media player.
Step 2. Open this open-source MOV player.
Step 3. Click Media, choose Open File... to select the MOV file you want to play.
- 16 Best Free MKV Players for Windows/Mac/iOS/Android 3 years 35 weeks ago
#1. MiniTool MovieMaker
Supported OS: Windows
To play MKV files in Windows, You can try MiniTool MovieMaker, a free, no ads, no bundle video editing software.
As long as you have the best free MKV player, you can not only play MKV files easily but also convert MKV to MP4, AVI or other file formats.
Main Features of the Best MKV Player for Windows 7/8/10
Free, no ads.
Play MKV, MP4, AVI, MOV, FLV, VOB, and other files.
Convert MKV to other video files, and even convert video to audio file.
Edit MKV files easily and quickly including add subtitles to video, rotate video, trim or split video, add music to video file, etc.
Change video resolution.
Make Hollywood-style movies in one-click.
#2. VLC Media player
Supported OS: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Mobile
VLC Media Player is an open-source media player that can play MKV files without installing codec.
VLC Media Player supports most video and audio streams you will find in an .mkv file. If you use this well-known multi formats video player as an MKV player, you are able to organize and operate MKV video's multiple video/audio/subtitle tracks in a decent way.
But unfortunately, VLC takes to open up a file and lacks user-friendly interface. Although this open-source MKV player offers some advanced features including rotate video, it is too complicated to handle with them. It is recommended to choose VLC alternatives.
#3. 5KPlayer
Supported os: Windows 10/8/7/XP and Mac OS X 10.6 or later
This free MKV video player does have a slew of extra features as follows:
Play lossy/lossless music.
Free download MKV movies from 300+ online video sites and download videos songs from 1000+ video sites.
Related article: download audio from YouTube.
#4. Media Player Classic
Supported OS: Windows
- [FIXED!] Windows Media Player Not Playing Video Only Sound 2 years 19 weeks ago
Windows Media Player is a Windows snap-in media playing tool. It is usually the default media player on your Windows computer if you haven’t set another tool as the default one. Some Windows Media Player report that their Windows Media Player not playing video only sound.
Sometimes, the issue comes with some error codes like:
Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the required video codec is not installed on your computer.
OR
Windows Media Player cannot play, burn, rip, or sync the file because a required audio codec is not installed on your computer.
OR
A codec is required to play this file. To determine if this codec is available to download from the Web, click Web Help.
OR
Invalid File Format.
This issue is always related to the codec. You can use the methods introduced in this post to solve it. Let’s go.
How to Fix Windows Media Player Not Showing Video?
Update your Windows Media Player
Enable Now Playing window
Reinstall Windows Media Player
Use an alternative
Convert the video format
- 10 Best Media Player for Windows 10 That You Should Have 2 years 49 weeks ago
Searching for the best media player for Windows 10? There are countless media players available on the web. It might be hard for you to find out what the best software is. In this post, I picked out the 10 best media players for Windows 10. Let’s have a look!
Looking for the best media player for Windows 10? In fact, Windows Media Player is enough for most users who need to play video/audio on Windows 10. It is included with the Windows operating system, so users can play video or audio files without the need to use third-party media player software.
However, Windows Media Player is not powerful and it only supports MP4, WMV, MOV, 3GP, AAC, WMA, MP3, ALAC, and FLAC. As a result, users may encounter the playback error like “Windows Media Player cannot play the file” while trying to open media files with Windows Media Player. To get rid of this error, you’ll need to use a top-notch media player like VLC, KMPlayer…and MiniTool MovieMaker. Later, I’ll explain them one by one.
