3 Simple and Perfect Solutions to Fix Windows Media Player MTS Playback Issue

Indeed, most people may have met the problem of Windows Media Player won’t play the recorded AVCHD MTS videos, or Windows Media Player MTS no sound when playback! Such issues may occur more common and frequent especially after the Windows system update. Do you know why? Actually, Windows Media Player 12 has already provided support for MTS files playback in AVCHD video format (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and Dolby Digital audio AC-3 or uncompressed linear PCM audio). The playback failure of MTS videos on Windows Media Player is mainly due to the lack of a requisite codec that Windows or the Player doesn’t include by default. Even so, to fix the MTS playback issue on Windows Media Player is much easier than you think, just keep reading to learn the below 3 solutions of how to play MTS files on Windows Media Player.

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Installing the missing MTS codec for Windows media player is a good method to settle MTS files not working on Windows Media Player as well. However, if you know little about codec or can’t figure out which codec is missing, you can refer to the codec packs I have introduced before to download one of the codec packs to make MTS file work like a charm. Moreover, you have to pay attention that don’t download the wrong codec pack, because codecs can be written for 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems. Next, I will show you how to download and install K-Lite Codec Pack.

Step1: Downloading K-Lite Codec Pack by visiting https://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm.

Step2: Click “Download Basic” option and then click “Mirror1”, “Mirror 2” or any one of the locations to download K-Lite Codec Pack.

Step3: During the installation process, choose the “Players from Windows” on “File Association” interface and then click “Next”.

Step4: Choose the file extension you want to play with Windows Media Player, scroll down the slider to tick .mts format under “MPEG TS” option, then click “Next” to successfully install the K-Lite Codec Pack. After done, you are able to smoothly play the MTS files on Windows Media Player.

If you don’t want to spend so much time and energy on downloading and installing codec packs, using some Windows Media Player alternatives also can perfectly solve Windows Media Player MTS incompatibility too! For example, VLC media player can be regarded as one of the best alternatives of Windows Media Player which has rich built-in VLC codecs so that nearly all common video and audio files can be played on VLC without any issue! You can just download and install VLC media player from the official site https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ to fix the MTS playback problem