Best Free DVD Player Software: Top Picks for Windows & Mac Users

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Top 5 DVD Movie Players Download Free for Windows 10/Mac

Posted by Kaylee Wood | Last update: April 28, 2020

2019 is undoubtedly a productive year with various Hollywood movie blockbusters as well as upcoming DVDs like Beauty and the Beast, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, The Fate of the Furious, etc. For you DVD movie collectors, you may need an excellent DVD movie player to play DVD movies smoothly with high-quality images and dulcet sounds just like in the theater and hope the DVD movie player would not cause damages to your precious DVDs. This post will offer you top 5 DVD movie video player softwares to help you play DVD movies on both Mac and Windows PC.

No matter you are a Windows 10 user who have to say goodbye to Windows Media Center that play DVDs natively on Windows PC, or a macOS Sierra/Mojave user who need a DVD player for macOS Sierra to play DVD movies files on MacBook, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac Mini, etc, you can find a suitable DVD movie player here. The following DVD players for Windows/Mac each has its own merits and are listed in no particular order.

Top 5 DVD Movie Players Download Free Recommendation

No.1 5KPlayer – Muti-region DVD Movie Player with DVD AirPlay Ability

5KPlayer is a multi-functional DVD movie player software for Mac/Windows that can play any file smoothly and in high quality including 1080p HD 4K UHD 8K FUHD videos, AVI MKV MPEG WMV FLV movies, MP3 AAC FLAC music and more. As a superior region free DVD player software , 5KPlayer has great confidence to handle all homemade DVDs and commercial DVD discs regardless of region codes 1-6, Disney DRM, DVD CSS, Sony ArccOS, etc. You can freely play any DVD movie disc bought in America, Australia, Japan, etc in your region without worrying about the encryption techs and DVD won’t play problem .

Besides supporting DVD disc, ISO images and Video_TS, what highlights this DVD movie player is that you can use its DVD AirPlay function to play DVD movies videos on Apple TV to enjoy movie blockbusters and TV series classics at home with theater effects.

No.2 VLC – Open-source & Cross-platform Media Player with DVD Playback Ability

VLC is as poweful as 5KPlayer when referring to DVD movie playback. With great compatibility with different operating systems like Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, etc, this DVD movie player has attracted a large number of users and owned a strong fan base. It is a piece of cake for VLC DVD player to handle DVD discs in different types without the help of any third party software that you can rest assured to play DVD movies on any device powered by Windows, macOS Sierra or iOS. However, sometimes you may encounter problems like VLC can’t play DVD or VLC audio delay . Don’t worry! You still have some other superb DVD players here to choose from.

No. 3 Macgo Blu-ray Player – Functional Media Player Supporting DVD & Blu-ray Files

Macgo Blu-ray Player is an amazing blu-ray media player software owning the great ability to play Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray ISO file, and Blu-ray (BDMV) folders on all Windows operating systems (Windows 10 included) and play Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray Menu, ISO files, and BDMV folder on Mac OS (macOS Sierra included). Since Windows 10 doesn’t natively support DVD or Blu-ray playback, this DVD movie player unfortunately can’t play blu-ray menu now. But the DVD playback ability on Windows is under active development now. You can pay for the premium version to play DVD movies without any loss of data and frame, and have all audio tracks, sub streams, chapter markers, etc preserved.

No.4 KMPlayer – Free DVD Player with Reputable Functionality

“All the Videos in the World with KMPlayer.” With the slogan, KMP shows its ambition to be a versatile multi media player for Windows as well as a poweful DVD movie player that can cover different types of contained formats. Now, KMPlayer can play DVD movies RTS MPEG AAC WMA OGG etc files and supports high resolution up to 4K UHD. Like any other player software, KMPlayer bundles with its own internal codecs making it possible to play any video movie music and DVD disc without installing any plugin. If there is no KMPlayer bundleware during the installing, this free DVD player would be much more popular. Good news, KMplayer Mac will come to us very soon and you can already download the beta version now.

No.5 MPlayer – Free DVD Movie Player Supporting Multi Systems

Available for various operating systems including Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, etc, MPlayer surely can be an advanced and your first-choice DVD player to play DVD movies, CDs, blu-ray discs and H.263, H.264/MPEG-4, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AAC, AC3, AMR, etc files. However, sometimes you may meet MPlayerX white screen problem when you open video in MPlayerX and enter into full screen on Mac computer or encounter MPlayer malware adware issue during the installing. Under the circumstance, you probably need to uninstall the old version DVD movie player and then upgrade to the newest version downloaded from the webpage.

How to Play DVD Movies on Mac/Windows 10?

Notice: If you want to play DVD movies on your macOS Sierra computer, you should first get an Apple USB SuperDrive or other optical drives to load the DVD discs as all the macOS Sierra compatible computers including MacBook, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac Mini and Mac Pro (with the exception MacBook Pro without Retina Display) no longer feature DVD SuperDrives now.

Step 1: Free download a DVD movie player listed above, install and run it on your computer. (Take 5KPlayer as an example.)

Step 2: Insert your DVD to the DVD drive and click the DVD button to load your DVD disc.

(You can also choose the ISO image directly to play if you have ripped your movie DVD with a DVD ripper .)

Step 3: Import and play the DVD movie source to enjoy.

PS: 5KPlayer can also enable you to edit your DVD movies like choose chapter, deinterlace video , specify audio, fast forward, add external subtitles, etc.

Is the DVD movie player you choose from the list provided here useful? If yes, just play DVD movies at will and enjoy the show. If not, you can find more free DVD player here: Top 10 DVD player download free->>

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