The Best MP4 Players for Windows10/Mac/iphone/Android

After a busy day of work or study, you can find a favourite movie to relax. However, if the video is not smooth or clear enough, it will definitely affect your viewing effect. Therefore, it is very necessary to find a suitable MP4 player to watch your favorite movies and videos on Mac or Windows 10. Your electric products may be equipped with a default player, but sometimes the default player can’t meet the high-quality watching demands. The third-party MP4 player will provide you higher quality video playback or other useful functions. Because MP4 is one of the most popular and standard video formats which has high compression rate and light file size. Here we have a brief introduction about the different types of MP4 players for Windows 10 and Mac. To help you make a choice, listed below are the top-rated MP4 players.

Part 1: Top 5 MP4 players for Windows 10

1. PlayerFab All-In-One (Lifetime)

The PlayerFab All-In-One is an all-inclusive media player. Videos that are available to PlayerFab range from local videos, DVD/Blu-ray/UHD disc to streaming videos. The software is definitely a comprehensive media player. Besides, if you want to search for videos on different streaming platforms, all you need to do is open the PlayerFab. Because it supports watching videos of a wide range of popular streaming platforms, such as Amazon, Netflix, Tubi, Peacock, etc.

Features:

1. Powerful built-in functions: PlayerFab provides an array of built-in functions, to ensure users have the best watching experience in FHD 1080p video quality and EAC3 5.1 audio quality. Using the PlayerFab, you can gain access to excellent theater-like effects to watching videos.

2. Automatically skip the initial advertisements: PlayerFab will automatically skip the initial ads of most popular video websites including Amazon IMDB Free TV, Tubi, Roku, Paramount+ to ensure a smooth and comfortable watching experience.

3. Support a wide range of formats: PlayerFab is an all-inclusive media player, and it supports a wide range of formats such as H.264, H.265/HEVC, MP4, MKV, MOV, FLV, VOB, M2TS and so on. 

4. Navigation Menu on DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays；The upgraded 4K Media Player now offers all-round supports for navigation menu playback on DVDs, Blu-rays, and 4K Ultra Blu-rays, regardless of what form they are.

5. All-Round 3D Playback on All Forms of 3D Contents: with a pair of 3D glasses, you can watch 3D movies at home. Because the player comes with all-round 3D playback support on genuine 3D Blu-ray discs, ISO files and SBS (side-by-side) or top & bottom 3D videos. There are four 3D output modes, namely, Anaglyph Red/Cyan, 3D-Ready HDTV (Checkerboard), Micro-polarizer LCD 3D (Row-interleaved) and HDMI 1.4 enabled 3D TV.

System Requirements:

●Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7 (32/64 bit)

● Intel i3 or above

● 4GB of RAM or above

●40GB of free hard disk space or above

● Live Internet connection required

2. VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player, initially named VideoLAN Client, is a VideoLAN branded product and is the multimedia player of the VideoLAN program. It supports numerous audio and video codecs and file formats, and supports DVD video and audio discs, VCD video and audio discs and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a streaming server for unicast or multicast over IPv4 or IPv6 high-speed network connections. It incorporates the FFmpeg project decoder and libdvdcss library to make it capable of playing multimedia files and encrypting DVD discs.

Features:

1. VLC multimedia player is cross-platform in nature and it is available for Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, BSD, Pocket PC and Solaris.
2. Unlike another famous player, Mplayer (which uses the Gtk+ library), VLC uses the Qt library to write the user interface for Linux.
3. For Windows, Linux and some platforms, VLC provides a Mozilla extension package that allows QuickTime and Windows Media multimedia files that come with some websites to be displayed properly under Mozilla's browser on non-Microsoft or Apple computer operating systems.
4. Starting with version 0.8.2, VLC also provides an ActiveX extension package that allows users to display QuickTime and Windows Media files attached to certain web sites properly under Internet Explorer.
5. From version 1.0.5 onwards VLC's ActiveX extension package has dropped the js interface call.
6. VLC also has a very good feature - it supports playing some parts of video files that have not been downloaded.

3. KM Player

It is another widely used Windows MP4 player that supports the latest Windows 10 as well as other OS versions. It supports all mainstream video and audio formats such as MPEG-4/2/1, WMV, FLV, MKV, 3GP, AVI, Quicktime, MP3, AAC, FLAC, and others.KMPlayer combines all the codecs available on the Internet. In addition, KMPlayer can play DVDs and VCDs, import subtitles in various formats, use the most popular WinAMP sound plugin, and support a wide range of video effect adjustment options.

Features:

1. KM Player collects all the codecs available on the Internet and supports most of the video, music and picture formats.
2. A variety of adjustments can be made when playing video, such as video filtering, sound channel, brightness, screen zoom, screen shift, skip to 5 seconds ~ 10 minutes, etc.
3. You can set the music mode, Bass, stereo, etc. in the playback of music, and you can also load Winamp plug-ins.
4. It supports customizable keys and Skin replacement, and it supports capturing video and sound, so you no longer need to install other software to capture sound or video.

4. GOM player

GOM is an excellent MP4 player for Windows, which supports all famous audio and video formats such as AVI, MKV, MP4, WMV, MOV, FLV, OGM, VOB, DAT, OGG, ASF, M1V, m2V, MP3, AAC, FLAC, WMA, RMA, and others. It takes up few system resources and can be a playback program to watch movies in many formats with the best picture quality.

Features:

1. Equipped with auto-decode function, it supports not only DVD/VCD/RM/ASF/WMV/MOV/AVI video files, but also most video files taken by camcorders, digital cameras and cell phones.
2. Supports playback of corrupted files received in P2P sites such as BT or e-mule, files completed due to interrupted page transfers, indexed corrupted AVI files.
3. You can save the video footage you want to capture as an image (JPG, BMP) file, and you can also use the continuous screen capture function to capture the scene of the movie as a continuous scene in frames.
4. The size of the screen can be scaled freely at 50%, 100%, 150%, etc. Similarly, the ratio of the screen can be adjusted at 4:3, 16:9 or any ratio.
5. The video speed during playback can be adjusted, either fast or slow (0.2~4.0 doubling speed). The time moving unit during playback can also be set arbitrarily.

5. Real player

Real player is a good and free MP4 video player for playing Mp4 on windows 8 or other OS versions. It is a cross-platform player that is also compatible with Mac, Windows Mobile and Android Mobile. A real Player is a tool that enables real-time transmission of video over the Internet via streaming technology. It does not require downloading the video and allows you to play online on the Internet as long as the line allows, making it extremely easy to watch TV programs of your interest online.

Features:

1. It supports playing videos in various online media formats, including Flash, FLV or MOV formats, etc., and it can record videos during playback.
2. It also adds a one-click download function for online videos to the browser, supporting IE and Firefox, so you can download YouTube, MSN, Google Video and other online videos to your local hard drive for offline viewing.

Part 2: Top 3 MP4 Players for Mac

1. DivX Player

DivX Player is one paid media player for both Windows PC and Mac. It supports playing a wide range of formats including DivX, MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, FLV, and more. It is mainly designed for the 4K UHD and HD 1080p/720p video playback. It allows you to play MP4 on Mac and PC in extremely high quality. DivX Player allows you to stream your videos, music and photos to DLNA compatible devices like your tablets, PS4, Xbox, Chromecast, and more. Besides, those videos can also be converted to MP4, HEVC, MKV, and DivX format quickly and simply.

2. Vidmore Player

Vidmore Player is a functional and practical Blu-ray video player, by using the software can easily open and play various formats of video files, to help the user's video playback, the software has a super lossless sound and ultra-clear picture, to meet the user's various multimedia files playback needs. Besides MP4, it highly supports any popular video and audio formats like MOV, AVI, MKV, FLV, WMV, VOB, MP3, WMA, AAC, M4A, FLAC and more.

3. QuickTime Player

QuickTime Player is the default media player for Mac users.  QuickTime can work as a good MP4 video player for you to view all kinds of media files on Mac. It supports all kinds of common audio and video formats such as  MOV, MP4, M4V, MPEG-2, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AVCHD, AVI, M4A, M4B, MP3, and others. QuickTime Player is equipped with the editing and conversion functions. But this free MP4 video player for Mac does not support playing DivX and WMV formats.

Part 3: Top 3 MP4 Players for iPhone

1. PlayerXtreme HD

PlayerXtreme HD is a powerful video player that helps to play MP4 videos in all sorts of formats. It provides the users with the personal library and makes it easy to watch the videos without finding them. PlayerXtreme is not limited to your drawing room. You can take it to school, use it for a presentation or just pass time while waiting for your flight.

2. HD Player

HD Player is a free and powerful player which helps play MP4 formats and transfer them from the local files to your iPhone, iPod, iPad and such via iTunes. You can directly play video from the File Explorer or any other File Managing applications. It has Many features like Slow Motion, Fast Forward, Backward. The application associated with your files. You can set this application as default to open Video Files.

3. iStream Tunes

iStream Tunes is one of the kind media players produced for iOS. It enables the users to watch movies and play playlists as well. Works with Wi-Fi as well as 4G.

Part 4: Top 2 MP4 Players for Android

1. MX Player

MX Player is the first Android video player that supports multi-core decoding. Designed with many advanced functions, the MX Player is called a powerful player for Android. And the multi-core device's performance is up to 70% better than single-core devices.

Features:

● Provide a fast file transfer function without mobile data usage.

● Zoom in and out by pinching and swiping across the screen.

● Move to the next/precious text freely.

● Equipped with kids-lock functions to protect your data.

2. BSPlayer

BSPlayer is the top hardware accelerated video player for Android smartphones. With the BSPlayer, you can play your MP4 file on Android without large battery consumption.

Features: 

1. Supports multi-core (dual and quad-core) HW decoding, which is improve the playback speed significantly.
2. Hardware accelerated video playback - increases speed and reduces battery consumption.
3. Multiple audio streams and subtitles.
4. Playlist support and various playback modes.

Conclusion

Are you looking for a good MP4 player for your Windows PC , Mac or phone? After reading this post, you can get a detailed review of the excellent MP4 video players, and the main features and functions are explained here. Each of the players has their advantages respectively. You can pick your preferred one for the MP4 video playback. If you have any better recommendation, please share it in the comment with other readers.