How to Play MOV in Windows Media Player?
Install Windows Media Player 12; MOV Player; Convert MOV to WMV, AVI etc
It must be very annoying that your MOV file recorded by your iPhone device can not be played in your Windows Media Player. Is there a method to solve that? Because many Windows Media Player users do not like to shift to another media player to play their video files. The following will introduce three popular methods to help you to easily play your MOV file in Windows Media Player.
Method One: Update your Windows Media Player
Actually, Windows Media Player supports to play QuickTime files version 2.0 or earlier versions, but nowadays our MOV files are normally the later versions. Most Windows Media Player versions do not support to play the MOV files except that you have the latest Windows Media Player 12. So you can update your former Windows Media Player to the latest Windows Media Player 12 to get your MOV file successfully played.
Method Two: Convert MOV to Windows Media Player WMV
We know that Windows Media Player supports to play many video formats, like WMV, AVI, ASF, etc, and we can use an MOV to Windows Media Player converter to convert the unsupported MOV to Windows Media Player best supported WMV and then import the converted WMV to Windows Media Player for compatible playback.
Avdshare Video Converter works very well to convert MOV to Windows Media Player WMV, AVI, ASF, MPG. This Avdshare Video Converter will lose no quality when converting MOV to Windows Media Player WMV and the conversion speed is super fast, usually 90X faster than the converter you ever used. Besides, this Avdshare Video Converter supports to convert any unsupported MKV, FLV, etc to Windows Media Player WMV for your playback convenience.
Avdshare Video Converter also has the built-in player to directly play MOV without conversion on Windows computer.
Guide on Converting MOV to Windows Media Player WMV
The following guide will work to convert any MOV file to any Windows Media Player version best supported WMV.
Make Preparation: Free download MOV to Windows Media Player Converter
Free download the professional MOV to Windows Media Player Converter - Avdshare Video Converter (for Windows, for Mac), install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.
Step 1 Import MOV Video file
Easily import your MOV file to this MOV to Windows Media Player by clicking the Add File button. You can also drag and drop your MOV file to your MOV to Windows Media Player. Batch converting many MOV files only needs you to import all these MOV files to this converter.
Step 2 Select WMV as output video format
Windows Media Player best supported WMV can be selected by clicking the Profile button>General Video category.
Step 3 Complete the conversion
You can easily complete your MOV to Windows Media Player WMV conversion by finally clicking the Convert button.
Method Three: Download K-Lite Codecs to your Windows computer
Windows Media Player requires codecs to play your video files. Windows Media Player has many default codecs installed to play WMV, AVI, ASF, etc, but lacks the right codecs to play MOV files. So you can download K-Lite Codecs from http://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_mega.htm, install it. Next you can use your Windows Media Player to open any MOV file easily.