Can Xbox One Play DVDs? Here's the Answer

As the successor to Xbox 360, Xbox One is a home video game console. Can Xbox One play DVD? The answer is "Yes". Xbox One falls into two categories: The hard drive version as well as optical device version. Xbox Store has a "Blu-ray Player" app, which is able to let you play videos not only from Blu-ray disc, but also DVD in the DVD-ROM version. But the hard drive version of Xbox does not allow you to play DVDs. Maybe that is thereason why many people say about "Xbox One cannot play DVDs". But you should pay attention, when you are going to play DVD movies on Xbox One DVD-ROM version, you should know that the optical drive may be likely broken. If you don't want to do this, you can optionally choose another solution, rip DVD movies to the video format that Xbox One supports instead of directly inputting the DVD disc into it. This article is prepared to show you that.

• Part 1. Best way to play DVDs on Xbox One (Highly recommended)
• Part 2. Play DVDs on Xbox One

Part 1. Play DVDs on Xbox One after converting DVDs to Xbox One compatible video

If you don't want to repair for the expensive Xbox optional drive, you should consider to rip or convert DVDs to Xbox One compatible video, so that you won't often encounter the issue of "Can Xbox One play DVDs" or "Does Xbox One play DVDs". Using Xbox One to play videos ripped from DVDs will save a lot of times and money.

Here we recommend the best DVD to Xbox One Converter – Video Converter Ultimate, which is able to convert DVDs to optimized Xbox One video formats. This program will be your best choice to play DVD on Xbox One.

1 Download and install Video Converter Ultimate.

Download and install Video Converter Ultimate on Windows or Mac computer. Launch the program.

2 Load DVD and start to rip DVD

Insert the DVD disc to the DVD drive. After it is detected by computer, click the "Load Disc" button and Video Converter Ultimate will get ready to show your content from the DVD.

Choose from the two provided loading modes, Navigation Mode and Parser Mode. After loading, all DVD videos will be listed. Choose the video that you want to convert to Xbox One.

3 Convert DVD to Xbox One compatible video formats

Highlight the DVD video, then click "Profile" and choose the Xbox compatible video formats (WMV, MP4, AVI, TS or MPG). After that, click "Convert" button and convert DVD to Xbox One supported video format immediately.

Part 2. How to play DVDs to Xbox One

There are a solution for you to play DVDs on Xbox One. But you should make sure that your DVDs is not protected, then you can directly put the DVD disc to Xbox One optical drive for playback. However, for the first time to insert DVD to Xbox One, you need to install a Blu-ray app on Xbox One.

1 Install "Blu-ray Player" app from Xbox Home to Xbox One

From Xbox Home, go to its "Store". Choose the "Apps" category from the "Categories" section.

2 Search for "Blu-ray Player" app

Select Search apps and then enter "Blu-ray" to search Blu-ray Player app.

Or you can google Blu-ray player app from the browser and download it from the internet.

3 Install Blu-ray Player app and insert a DVD disc to Xbox One

Install the Blu-ray player app on Xbox One.After downloading and installing Blu-ray Player app on Xbox One, launch this app, and you are now able to insert a DVD disc into Xbox One optical drive. Your DVD disc should begin playing automatically.