Fix Windows Media Player AVI Playback Issue in Windows 10

Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video files in kinds of formats(WMV, AVI, ASF, WMA, etc). While, many users are having trouble opening AVI files in Windows Media Player on Windows 10. In this article we outline the best way to play AVI in Windows Media Player easily and fluently.

Although Windows Media Player can support AVI format as it official claimed, but a variety of factors like installing other media players, Windows updates, video codecs, etc can cause them not to play. Once isolate the issues, you can look at options to play it directly, or try to find software to convert the AVI files to Windows Media Player most compatible WMV format.

Brorsoft Video Converter Ultimate is a professional tool that can deal with most kind of AVI videos regardless of the different codec to WMV for Windows Media Player playing without quality loss. Plus, with the built-in video editor, you can also choose to trim, crop, add watermark to your original videos. Now just download its free trail version and follow the below guide to convert AVI for playing with WMP beautifully.

How to Convert AVI to WMV for Windows Media Player

Step 1: Load AVI files

Run AVI converter and load AVI clips to it by clicking "Add" button.

Step 2: Choose 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.

Step 3: Start converting AVI movies

Finally click the Convert button to begin converting AVI 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.