Some tricks for viewing AVI movies on Galaxy Tab 4(7.0/8.0/10.1)

Summary: Have problems playing AVI videos on Samsung Galaxy Tab 4? Here is a simple guide on how to get AVI playable on Galaxy Tab 4 with ease.



I have some .avi files my friend emailed to me. I’m wondering if I can put these AVI videos to my Galaxy Tab 4 for watching. Does Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 play .AVI format? I’ve got some clues via online searching. You can read on to find something you want.

Although AVI is on the Galaxy Tab 4 supported video format list, not all AVI files can be played well on Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. This is caused by AVI's complexity. AVI is a container format which may be encoded by different codecs. Some of the codecs(like XviD, DivX) may not be compatible with Galaxy Tab 4, so you'll have problems when viewing AVI videos on Galaxy Tab 4, even with some popular Android video player like MX player, Mobo, etc.

If you wanna play AVI files on Galaxy Tab 4, the best solution is to encode/re-encode .avi to Galaxy Tab 3 most likely video formats like MP4. Here’s is how:

Download Brorsoft Video Converter app. Overall, the program can be used as an all-in-one video conversion app for Samsung Galaxy tablets and phones. With it, you can easily transcode AVI to MP4 videos for Galaxy Tab 4 with high quality and fast encoding speed. Besides AVI, it can also help you transfer almost all 1080p/720p HD videos including VOB, MKV, MPG, MOV, TiVo, MTS, etc. for Galaxy Tab 4, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Tab 2 10.1/7.0, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S3, Galaxy Tab 3 and other Android devices. It has an equivalent Mac version entitled Brorsoft Video Converter Mac, which can convert AVI videos to Galaxy Tab4 on Mac OS X (Include Mountain Lion and Mavericks).

How to Convert AVI to Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 supported video formats

Step 1: Add AVI Video Files

Install and run the Galaxy Tab 4 Video Converter to your PC, click Add Video to import your source AVI videos. Batch conversion is supported so that you can add multiple files.



Step 2: Select output format for Samsung Tab 4

Click Format bar, you can get optimized videos for your Galaxy Tab 4 under "Samsung > Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Video(*.mp4)". The output videos could fit on Galaxy Tab 4 perfectly.



Tip: Set output video quality
If you like, you can click on Settings you could easily set bitrate, frame rate, codec, channels, sample rate, etc to adjust parameters that affect video quality and file size for the video you prefer. Keep in mind that bit rate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.

Step 3. Start converting AVI to MP4 for Galaxy Tab 4

In the end, go back to the main interface and click the “Convert” button to start converting AVI video files for playing on Galaxy Tab 4. Once the process completes, just click “Open” to find the Galaxy Tab 4 playable MP4 videos after the conversion and transfer them to your device via USB with ease.

Additional Tips:

If you are considering to get a powerful all-in-one tool to convert videos, Blu-ray movies and DVDs to your Galaxy Tab 4 or other devices like iPad, Google Nexus 10/7, Kindle Fire HD, Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S4, Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 simultaneously saving time and effort, the all-in-one Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate program will a nice choice for you. If you are running a Mac OS X computer, iMedia Converter Mac is the alternative.

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