Can't Play MP4 files on Xbox One? Resolved

Unlike the pure game console as PS4, the Xbox One is more than a comprehensive recreation center. With excellent multimedia performance, we can both connect the TV and USB device to Xbox One to play videos. In this guide, we will introduce a way how to transfer and play MP4 on Xbox One for great visual experience. If you just have the intention to add MP4 to Xbox One for playback, read this article to learn how to.

The Xbox One support multiple video formats like AVI, MP4, MOV, M4V, WMV. However, you'll probably meet the issue that not all of the MP4 files are supported on Xbox One. The basic reason is that different MP4 files have different video codecs and the codecs might not be compatible with Xbox One(It can only support H.264, MPEG-4). To view incompatible MP4 files on Xbox One, an ultimate solution is to convert MP4 files to Xbox One more friendly formats, and then transfer the converted files via the DLNA server.

Actually, it's easy to get the job done as long as you get Brorsoft Video Converter. This video converter has been proven to be an outstanding MP4 to Xbox One converter. With it, you can convert different MP4 videos to Xbox One compatible H.264 MP4, WMV effortlessly. In addition to MP4 files, this program also allows you to convert all videos in AVI, MKV, MPG, VOB, TiVo, MOV, etc to a decent format as you want. What's more, with the built-in editor, you can trim, crop, adjust special effect to your source video, so that you get the very part and effects at your will. If you are a Mac user, you can turn to Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac (Mavericks, Yosemite included), which has the same function as the Windows version.

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How to convert and play MP4 files on Xbox One

STEP 1: Load MP4 files to the converter

Launch Brorsoft Video Converter, and click Add button to import your source materials. Batch conversion is supported so that you can add multiple files for conversion at a time.

STEP 2: Select output format

Click Format > Common Video and set output video format as H.264 Video (*.mp4) or WMV(WMV9) (*.wmv).

Tip: When playing MP4 on Xbox One, it supports 10 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 X 1080 at 30 fps. You can click Settings to adjust the video size to get the best quality video.

STEP 3: Start converting MP4 to Xbox One

Click the "Convert" button to start and finish the MP4 to Xbox One conversion.

After the conversion, click "Open" button to quickly locate the generated video. Now you can transfer the converted MP4 videos to play with Xbox One easily.