The Best solution to playing AVI files on iPad Air

Summary: Ste-by-step guide for converting AVI to iPad Air friendly videos so that you can play all DivX or XviD encoded AVI movies on iPad Air without any incompatible issues.



iPad Air features a brilliant 9.7-inch HD screen which brings your entertainment to life in stunning clarity on a vibrant 2048-by-1536 spectacular high-resolution display. With over one million pixels in your hand, text is sharper, game-play is smoother and HD movies are more vivid. However, if you’ve taken a glance on the supported media types of iPad Air, it's easy to find that the iPad Air only plays Motion JPEG encoded AVI files and can’t play AVI files encoded with DivX, Xvid, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263 and etc. Thus, you may have some problems when playing AVI on iPad Air: some avi files playback without sound, some avi files even can't be recognized.

The reason that you can’t view AVI video files on iPad Air is simple. AVI is a container format which can include different codecs. Some of the codecs may not compatible with iPad Air, so you'll have hard time when playing 1080p/720p AVI movies on iPad Air.

To get the work done, you may have to convert AVI to iPad Air compatible video formats (e.g. H.264 MP4) first and then transfer the result videos to your tablet. For rewrapping AVI files for iPad Air, you can get Brorosft Video Converter which is easy to use and produces excellent results.

It can fast convert all AVI files(whatever it is encoded with DivX, Xvid, etc) to iPad Air more compatible video or audio format. In addition to converting AVI to iPad Air, this program also supports converting WMV, WTV, MPG, FLV, VOB, MKV, 3GP, TiVo, etc to iPad Air. For Mac owner, please turn to Video Converter for Mac; it enables you to convert AVI to iPad Air on Mac OS X(Mavericks). Just download it and follow the steps below to transfer AVI files to iPad Air for playing smoothly.

How to Convert AVI to MP4 videos for iPad Air

Note: The quick start guide below uses Video Converter Windows screenshots. The way to convert AVI videos to iPad Air on Mac is almost the same. Just make sure you get the right version according to your computer operating system.

Step 1. Install and launch the best AVI to iPad Air Converter, and then click "Add Video" or "Add from folder" or just drag and drop to import your source AVI materials.



Step 2. Hit the menu bar of "Format", choose "iPad" category and find the optimal video format for iPad Air. “iPad HD Video(*.mp4)” is recommended here. You can also choose MOV, MP4, M4V format from Common Video.



Step 3. Set Output video quality

Most folks are looking forward to the best format setting for iPad Air. You can customize the parameters via clicking the Settings icon on the main interface. Since the supported resolution of the iPad Air goes up to 1080p, you can set video size as 1920*1080 to get full HD 1080p video.



Step 4. Press the “Convert” button, begin to convert avi videos to iPad Air supported video.

Once the process completes, locate the files and transfer and copy the converted MP4 videos to your iPad Air. In this way, you can effortlessly watch all AVI video files on iPad Air.

If you have other media files like DVD, Blu-ray library, FLV, MKV, MTS, MPG, VOB, TiVo, etc HD videos for transferring to Apple iPad Air, you can try the package tool Brorsoft’s Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate or the iMedia Video Converter for Mac users.

See also:

How to Rip Blu-ray movies to iPad Air
Watch MKV movies on iPad Mini
How to Stream MKV/AVI/VOB/TiVo/MPG videos to iTunes