Connect Toshiba Trhive to PC-Transfer video to Toshiba Thrive from PC

Connect Toshiba Trhive to PC-Transfer WMV/AVI/MOV/MKV/VOB video to Toshiba Thrive from PC

Introducing the Thrive Tablet by Toshiba, powered by Android 3.1 (Honeycomb), offering a better way to browse the web, enjoy e-books and HD videos, play games, listen to music and more. Complete, convenient and customizable, it's everything a tablet can and should be, with a gorgeous 10.1-inch diagonal high-res multi-touch widescreen display, features you can personalize and speedy performance so you can multitask your way through your digital life (and favorite entertainment) with ease.

Have you been the owner of the Toshiba Thrive? Well, this article aims to give some tips for the newbies of the Toshiba Thrive- how to connect Toshiba Thrive to PC for transferring media files movie/video/music to Toshiba Thrive from PC.

As far as we know, the Thrive used Media Transfer Protocol, not USB Mass Storage Protocol to export its internal flash storage.
Windows 7/Vista: Windows 7 and Windows Vista have MTP support built in. Thus, just need to plug the Thrive in using the Mini USB cables and it came up under My Computer as AT100. And then you can transfer video, movie, music, etc to Toshiba Thrive from PC as you need.

Windows XP: Windows XP does not have MTP support built in like Vista/Win7 does. The only way we figure out how to install MTP support in XP was to install Windows Media Player (version 10 or higher). And then you can plug the Thrive in using the Mini USB cables and it comes up under My Computer as AT100. Now you can transfer media files video, movie, music to Toshiba Thrive from PC as you need.

Tip: Another transfer option is to use a file manager that can see your network shares. Here we recommend the free ES File Explorer, which can enable you to copy folders across that way. It’s slow but no duplicating of effort.

Well, when some Toshiba users successfully connecting the Thrive to PC, they may have the trouble to transfer WMV/AVI/MOV/MKV/VOB video files to Thrive. Here we will offer you the solution, too.
According to the spec of Toshiba Thrive from its official wet, it’s not hard to find that the supported format of Thrive is limited.
Supported video format: H.263, MPEG-4, H.264
Supported audio format: AAC, WAV, ACC+, OGG, AMR, MP3, WMA, AAC+, MIDI

Thus, when you intend to transfer other video/movie like WMV, AVI, MOV, MKV, VOB, etc to Toshiba Thrive, you need to convert WMV/AVI/MOV/MKV/VOB to Toshiba Thrive compatible format in advance with an easy-to-use software. Here we recommend Brorsoft Thrive Video Converter to you, with which you can convert any video/movie like WMV, AVI, MOV, MKV, VOB, etc to MP4 for Toshiba Thrive easily at super fast speed.

Step 1: Import video/movie WMV, AVI, MOV, MKV, VOB, etc to the best Toshiba Thrive Video Converter.
Free download Brorsoft Video Converter and launch it as the best Toshiba Thrive Video Converter. Click the button “File” to add WMV, AVI, MOV, MKV, VOB video files to the best Toshiba Thrive Video Converter.
Tip: If you wanna join your several video files into single one, just check the “Merge into one” box. Afterwards, you can copy videos to Toshiba Thrive without interruption.

Step 2: Select an output format for Toshiba Thrive and set the output folder.
According to the tests, MP4 format is of the best compatibility with Nook Tablet. So you can click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Common Video”, under the sublist, “H.264 Video(*.mp4)”, “MPEG-4 Movie(*.mp4)”, are both the compatible one to put video/movie onto Toshiba Thrive. And then you can set the output folder for Toshiba Thrive.

Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to adjust audio and video parameters for Toshiba Thrive.
Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface. You can set the Video Size (pix) as 1280*800 which can easily remove black borders from the video, thus you can play videos on Toshiba Thrive in full screen playback.

Step 4: Start converting your video/movie WMV, AVI, MOV, MKV, VOB to MP4 for Toshiba Thrive.
Click the “Convert” button; it will convert video/movie to MP4 for Toshiba Thrive immediately with the CUDA acceleration technology. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.