Blu-ray playback on Windows- Get Windows Media Player support Blu-ray files

Summary: From this article, you can learn how to rip and convert Blu-ray to Windows Media Player supported video and import to it for organizing, playing or sharing.



Q1. “I just installed Windows 7 premium home,full retail 64 bit version. I was surprised to find media player does not support BluRay playback.”

Q2. “Is there anything I can download so I can play my Bluray movies using Windows Media Player?”

When you try to load Blu-ray movies to Windows Media Player for playback, you may have met some troubles like above quoted. Are you looking for a simple solution to importing Blu-ray to Windows Media Player with smooth playback? Here is how to.

In fact, Windows media player is capable of playing many types of media. However, many video formats, such as Blu-ray, are proprietary and typically require a royalty payment in the form of a license to its owner. In order for Microsoft to include support for Blu-ray discs, it would have to pay Sony a royalty, which would likely mean passing on that cost to consumers. Instead, Microsoft chooses to let the consumer decide on whether to pay to use Blu-ray technology. An alternative way to play Blu-ray with Windows Media Player is to rip and convert Blu-ray to Windows Media Player highly compatible WMV video.

Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper is just such a Blu-ray ripping tool you need, which comes with super high conversion speed and keep the output files in good quality simultaneously. With it, you can fast rip Blu-ray to Windows Media Player friendly WMV videos as well as many other popular video formats like AVI, MP4, MOV, MKV, MPG, FLV, etc. bypassing the AACS and BD+ copy protection. If you running a Mac computer and looking for a solution for converting Blu-ray to pretty much any other video file, please try Blu-ray Ripper for Mac. Now follow the step-by-step guide for you.

Tutorial: Converting Blu-ray to Windows Media Player format

1. Install and run this best Blu-ray to Windows Media Player Converter. Click load disc button to import the Blu-ray movie files to the program.



2. 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.



3. Finally click the Convert button to begin ripping Blu-ray 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. Just enjoy.

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