Windows 10 media player is an excellent video player that easy to use, you may often use it to play videos recorded or downloaded from the Internet. In recent years, 4K videos are becoming more and more popular, you can get 4K videos from camera, camcorder or online websites, in this article we want to share the best way to help you play 4K videos on Windows 10 media player smoothly.
Can I Play 4K videos on Windows 10 media player
If you have tried to play 4K videos on Windows 10 media player, you may have found that most 4K videos cannot be played by Windows 10 media player, what’s the problem? It is because 4K videos are in Windows 10 media player unsupported video codec and format. Nowadays 4K videos are in many different video codecs and formats, such as H.264 MP4, XAVC-S MP4, XAVC MXF, etc. they are not well supported by Windows 10 media player, in this case how can we watch 4K videos with Windows 10 media player? The best way is to convert 4K videos to Windows 10 media player best supported video format for watching.
How to convert 4K videos to Windows 10 media player?
If you have got some 4K videos that not supported by Windows 10 media player, you can use video converter software to convert videos to compatible format for Windows 10 media player, Acrok Video Converter Ultimate is the best 4K video converter program on the market, it can convert nearly all the 4K and HD videos to any formats you want, such as convert 4K video to MP4, convert 4K to MOV, etc. besides 4K UHD and HD video conversion, this program can also rip the latest blu-ray and DVD disc movies to unprotected video formats, such as rip Blu-ray to MKV, convert Blu-ray to MOV, convert Blu-ray to MP4, etc. and then you can transfer converted Blu-ray and DVD movies to any playable devices for watching freely.
Download 4K Video Converter
Now you can follow the link below to free download 4K video converter, aka Acrok Video Converter Ultimate, both Windows version and Mac version are available to use, it can help you to convert Blu-ray, DVD and 4K videos on Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 or Mac.
Convert 4K files to Windows 10 media player
Step 1. Download Acrok Video Converter Ultimate Windows version or Mac version from the link, install this best 4K video converter on your computer, launch it you will see the brief main interface.
Step 2. Start Acrok 4K converter on your computer, click “Add Files” button to import unsupported 4K video files into the program. Acrok 4K Video Converter supports batch conversion, so you can add multiple 4K video to convert to Windows 10 media player by batch. If you want to rip Blu-ray to Windows 10 media player, please click “Load Disc” button to import.
Step 3. Click “Format” bar, from its drop-down option, select “Common Video” > “H.264 MP4 Video (*.mp4)”. To keep 4K resolution, you can click “Settings” to adjust video resolution to 3840×2160 cause the default video here is often encoded with 1920×1080. But if you play video with Windows 10 media player and don’t need the original 4K resolution, you don’t need to change the video size.
Step 4. Go back to the main interface, click right-bottom “Convert” button to begin the conversion from 4K video to Windows 10 media player supported file formats conversion process.
When the conversion is completed, click “Open Folder” to pop out the folder with converted files, then you can easily play 4K videos with Windows 10 media player, or transfer converted videos to other devices for watching smoothly.
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