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Thursday, September 24, 2015

How to Play DVD Discs in Windows Media Player on Windows 8.1/8/7

In this tutorial I show you how to make Windows Media Player play DVDs on your PC or portable devices

Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Chances are you have a bnuch of DVD collections and try to open those DVD movies on Windows Media Player for playback but as the result of error meassage? That's because there are copy protection mechanisms encrypted on most DVDs. Here i will share some useful tricks and tips with you to help you easily play DVD medias with Windows Media Player.


As we all know, playing DVD disc on Windows must require an external DVD drive to mount the contents on disc. Relatively, if you want to watch DVD movies on Windows Media Player directly without a DVD player, here is an quick and easy workaround for you: Ripping and converting DVD to Windows Movie Player more compatible video format like WMV, so that you can directly watch your DVD videos in Windows Movie Player without hassle. In order to complish this task, here i recommend you try the Brorsoft DVD Ripper, which has the capacity of playing all of your upencrypted or encrypted Blu-ray and DVD discs.

With this ripping tool, you can lossless backup the DVD movies with exactly the same file structure; rip DVD medias to Windows Media Player highly compatible WMV videos, so that you can playback in Windows Media Player without scratching discs or using the disc drive frequently. What’s more, you can also rip DVD videos to other popular video formats like MP4, M4V, MKV, AVI, MOV, VOB, MPG, 3GP, FLV, SWF, F4V, etc. bypassing all kinds of DVD copy protection. Besides, you can extract audio from the DVD movies: MP3, AC3, WMA, M4A, WAV, OGG, AAC, MKA, MP2, AIFF, FLAC, etc. audio formats are supported. Now don't hesitate to try the program and check out the guide below on how to convert DVD files to Windows Media Player friendly videos step by step.

How to convert DVD to Windows Media Player easily

Step 1. Import DVD movie

Insert the DVD disc into your computer's hard drive and run the DVD ripping program. Click "Load DVD" and import your DVD movies. You can also add DVD folders, ISO image files to convert. After the DVD has been loaded, you can select the subtitles and audio tracks.



Step 2. Choose WMV as output format

Click the Format menu, select Windows Media Player friendly format as your output video format. There, you can take WMV as your output video format. If you prefer high definition videos, move your mouse pointer to "HD Video" and then choose HD WMV. Then you can click "Settings" to tweak the detailed video and audio encoding settings.



3. Start conversion

Finally click the Convert button to begin ripping DVD to Windows Media Player format.

After encoding process has finished successfully, go into the destination directory and drop the converted files into Windows Media Player. Once all this is done, your videos will be ready to play with Media Player on Windows. Enjoy.

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