You may get QuickTime MOV videos by free downloading from Apple computer its websites or natively in Apple computer, or through iTunes, etc. However you get them, there’s no way to play those MOV videos on Windows Media Player directly. You may be a little bit frustrated about the failure to play MOV with the media player. But in fact, that’s not a big problem. You can easily solve it by using a MOV Converter to help you convert MOV to AVI first.
The iOrgSoft MOV to AVI Converter would be the best program for you to convert MOV to AVI with little time and also allows you to do some further editing if you need, like trimming, cropping, splitting, adding some special effects, or flipping and rotating your videos to the exact angle that you want. After the conversion, you can then freely play your QuickTime MOV files on Windows Media Player, or for you to use the Windows Movie Maker or its DVD Maker to give the videos some further editing with ease.
Tip: if you want to convert MOV to AVI Mac, you may use the Mac version, that is, the MOV to AVI Converter Mac, the usage should be the same with the Windows version, and you can refer to the specific steps below as well.
Step 1. Add QuickTime MOV to the converter
When you launch and add MOV files, you should download and get installed the converter first to get ready. Then hit the “Add File” button top on the interface so that you can choose the files that you want to convert. P.S. batch converting is available for you to convert bunches of video at a time.
Step 2. Choose a proper output format
This step is important yet it’s easy, you can make it with the route as follow: “Convert to”->”Common Video”-> “AVI(Dixv)(*.avi)”.
Tip: Theoretically Speaking, all the three output AVI format are ok to output. But if you output the avi format that is encoding with Xvid and you find the sound and video are not synchronous, then you may choose another two for output
Step 3. Convert MOV to AVI
By the end, you can finally run the conversion now. You just need to hit the big round orange “Convert” option to begin the conversion. When it finishes converting MOV to AVI, you can find your converted files with clicking the “Open” button on the bottom of the software.
Tip: If you want to edit the videos, you can refer to the Guide to edit videos