How to Play AVI on iPhone Have troubles playing AVI on iPhone? Let me tell you the reason: iPhone only supports some types of video cameras AVI footage via the camera card reader accessory, while it won't let you play downloaded AVI movies or AVI videos from other sources on iPhone. Otherwise, you need to convert it to iPhone compatible format with a video converting software. Imelfin Video Converter for Mac is a good choice.
How to Play AVI Files on iPhone ? To play AVI video files unaccepted by iPhone, you need to convert your AVI to iPhone friendly format first. This Mac app provides iPhone preset so that you can directly choose the preset to let the program set the video format, video resolution and more automatically. With loss-less video quality and ultra-fast video conversion speed, the following are the detailed steps to convert AVI to iPhone on Mac.
Step 1: Load videos Launch Imelfin video converter for Mac. Click the Add Files button to load video or audio files from your computer or other devices like USB device, camcorder, MP4 player, etc. You can also directly drag the files you want to convert to the main interface. Note that batch conversion is supported so you can add as many files as you like at one time.
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Step 2: Select an output format Select the format you want from the drop-down list. This software can convert video to various video formats like MP4, MOV, MKV, FLV, AVI, WMV, 3GP, etc. and video presets for portable devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod, Samsung, HTC, PSP, Xbox 360 and more are provided to let you convert videos to fit your devices. You also can click "Settings" to customize the output settings in details.
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Step 3: Convert your files When you're ready, click the Convert button to convert video. While converting videos, you can preview the video and set the actions like shut down computer and open output folder when conversion is completed.
More About AVI Format AVI is the audio-video interleave is a container introduced by Microsoft. Motion JPEG is a type of AVI compression, used mostly by digital cameras. While most downloaded AVI, which is ubiquitous for standard definition video content on the Internet, are encoded with XviD/DivX codec and there's no indication Apple is supporting such AVI. So you need to convert AVI to iPhone compatible formats like these:
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Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 1080p, 30 frames per second, High Profile level 4.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 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 per channel, 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.
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