All Media Solutions to Desktop Media Players
What makes it easy to watch video on your computer? It is Desktop Media Player. Powerful Desktop Media Player like VLC can enable you play nearly any video on PC or portable devices while simple media player only can play some common MP4, 3GP videos on your devices. There are so many Desktop Media Player options to perform so many functions in the market and they can all get a little flaw that brings you some troubles when streaming media. Here gathered all the solutions to play video successfully on popular Desktop Media Players such as VLC, WMP, WMC, Plex, Kodi, QuickTime, KMPlayer, MX Player, etc.
VLC Media Player
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Powerful as VLC, it still comes across some video playback issues from time to time. Below lists the solutions I can found and hope this can help you get better media entertainment with VLC media player.
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile–based devices. The default file formats for WMP are WMV and WMA. So you will often meet video playabck issues on Windows Media Player.
QuickTime
QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images. You can import video files like MOV, MP4, M4V, H.264, MP3, AAC, etc to QuickTime Player. And MOV is the most common one. Some videos like MKV, AVI, FLV, H.265/HEVC, etc can’t be played on QuickTime.
| Blu-ray to QuickTime | DVD to QuickTime | ISO to QuickTime |
| VOB to QuickTime | H.265 to QuickTime | MKV to QuickTime |
| AVCHD to QuickTime | 4K XAVC to QuickTime | AVI to QuickTime |
Kodi
Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open-source media player software application. It is available for multiple operating systems and hardware platforms. Kodi actually supports many video formats such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, FLV, MKV/MKA (Matroska), QuickTime, MP4, M4A, AAC, Ogg, etc. But you still will meet some issues while playing videos on Kodi.
iTunes
iTunes is the best way to organize and enjoy the music, and movies you already have on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — and shop for the ones you want to get. However, iTunes also has strict limitation on input files. iTunes only supports .mp4, .mov and .m4v video as QuickTime and MP3, AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible .aa audio files.
| Blu-ray to iTunes | DVD to iTunes | ISO to iTunes |
| Torrent Movies to iTunes | FLAC to iTunes | FLV to iTunes |
| MKV to iTunes | H.265 to iTunes | MP4 to iTunes |
Solutions to Other DeskTop Media Players
KMPlayer
| Blu-ray to KMPlayer | DVD to KMPlayer | MP4/MKV to KMPlayer |
MX Player
| Blu-ray to MX Player | DVD to MX Player | H.265 to MX Player |
DeskTop Media Player Software：
ByteCopy for Windows/Mac – It can rip Blu-ray/DVD to multi-track MP4/MOV/AVI and lossless MKV keeping all chapter markers to DeskTop Media Players.
BDMagic for Windows/Mac – The best Blu-ray solution to rip and backup any commercial and region-locked Blu-ray to H.265, M3U8, MP4, MKV, AVI, FLV, etc to DeskTop Media Player.
DVDAid for Windows/Mac – Capacity of ripping copy-protected and unprotected DVD to VLC, QuickTime, Kodi, WMP, etc with suitable format.
Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate for Windows/Mac – Function of converting Blu-ray/DVD, 4K/SD/HD video in any format to nearly all popular video format you have ever seen. Then you can play source video on your DeskTop Media Player.
