How to Play AVI Files on iPad

How to Play AVI on iPad? If you want to play AVI movies downloaded from the Internet on you iPad or iPad 3G, but you can't directly drop the AVI files to your iPad library, then how to do that? Are there any way to play AVI on iPad? In this article, we will introduce how to play AVI files on iPad. Before we move to how to play AVI on iPad, we need to know what kind of video can be play on iPad. Let's have a look at what apple.com has said. - H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; - MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; - Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format. Generally speaking, iPad supports M4V, MP4, MOV and some kind of AVI file format. So, to play unsupported AVI file on iPad, we are required to convert AVI to iPad compatible format with an AVI to iPad Converter. The one we need is Cucusoft iPad Video Converter Suite. Guide: How to Convert AVI to iPad, Play AVI on iPad Step 1: Download and Run Free download Cucusoft iPad Converter Suite and install it, then select the iPad Video Converter. Tips: For Mac user, here is Mac iPad Converter for you to convert, play AVI on iPad.

Step 2: Load and Set Click "Open file" to load the AVI files and select the output format as iPad friendly format in the "Profile" list and set the output folder for saving the converted files.

Step 3: Convert and Transfer When settings done, click "Convert" button start to convert AVI to iPad. When finished, connect your Apple iPad to PC and sync the converted video to iPad with Apple iTunes. OK! Now you can play AVI on iPad freely! What's AVI? AVI, Audio Video Interleaved, storing sound and moving pictures in RIFF format developed by Microsoft. An AVI file can use different codec and formats so there is no set format for an AVI file unlike for example standard VCD video which sets a standard for resolution, bitrates, and codec used. Related: How to Upload Video to iPad, How to Transfer Movies to iPad

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