Samsung Blu-ray Player Won't Play Some AVI Files, Solved!

Samsung Blu-ray player can play some avi files but not others
I have an external hard drive that I hook up to my Samsung bluray player. Most movies that i upload to it are avi and most of them work. But at times, some shows or movies that are also avi don't. What's going on? and how can I fix this?

Why Samsung Blu-ray Player won't play some AVI files?

It is well know that AVI is a multimedia container file format and it can hold files encoded with various different video and audio codec as below:
Video codec: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (A)SP, H.264/MEG-4 AVC, VC-1/WMV, Real Video, Theora, Microsoft MPEG4 V2, VP8, MVC
Audio codec: MP3, WMA, AAC, AC3, DTS, PCM, LPCM, DTS-HD

Play AVI files on Samsung Blu-ray Player

Some of AVI files that meet Samsung Blu-ray Player supported AVI file types including video codec, frame rate, bit rate, audio codec, etc can be viewed on the Disc Players with no problem, other AVI files that do not comply with those standards listed below will fail to make that.

File Extension	*.avi	*.mp4
Container	No Limitation	AVI
Video Codec	Divx 3.11/4/5/6	H.264 BP/MP/HP
Resolution	1920 x 1080(WMV v7, v8, MSMPEG4 v3: 1280x720)	1920 x 1080(WMV v7, v8, MSMPEG4 v3: 1280x720)
Frame Rate(fps)	6-30	6-30
Bit Rate(Mbps)	30	30
Audio Codec	Dolby Digital LPCM ADPCM(IMA, MS) AAC WMA Dolby Digital Plus MPEG(MP3) DTS (Core)	Dolby Digital LPCM ADPCM(IMA, MS) AAC WMA Dolby Digital Plus MPEG(MP3) DTS (Core)

To get incompatible AVI files played on Samsung Blu-ray Player, you will need to perform a codec transcoding and profile tweaking process. To get the job easily completed, you can download this simple to use and workable program - Pavtube Video Converter for Windows (best video converter review)/Mac to transcode unsupported AVI to Samsung Blu-ray Player playable H.264 BP/MP/HP codec or Divx 3.11/4/5/6 codec. In the program's profile settings windows, adjust other settings such as video resolution as 1920x1080, frame rate as 6-30fps, bit rate as 30Mbps or audio codec as AAC or other supported codec types.

Besides AVI, you can also use this progam to batch convert other unsupported file formats such as MP4, MKV, MOV, MXF, WMV, FLV for watching on Samsung Blu-ray via external hard drive or USB drive.

How to Convert AVI to Samsung Blu-ray Player with the Best Playback Settings?

Step 1: Load unsupported AVI files into the program.

Launch the program on your computer, on the top menu bar, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" to add unsupported AVI video into the program, you can also load multiple AVI files to the program by clicking the "Add from Folder" option.

Step 2: Output Samsung Blu-ray Player supported video format.

Click the "Format" bar, from its drop-down list, select Samsung Blu-ray Player supported codec "H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4)" under the "Common Video" main category.

Step 3: Adjust output profile settings.

Click "Settings" to open "Profile Parameters" window, you can adjust the output video codec as H.264, size as 1920x1080, frame rate between 6-30, bit rate as 30Mbps, audio codec as AAC or other supported codec according to your own needs.

Step 4: Begin the conversion process.

After all setting is completed, go back to the main interface, hit right-bottom "Convert" button to start AVI to Samsung Blu-ray Player best playback settings conversion process.

When the conversion is completed, hit the "Open Output Folder" on the main interface to pop out the folder with converted files. Then transfer the generated files to your USB drive, plug the USB drive into your Samsung Blu-ray player's USB port for playing AVI files on Samsung Blu-ray player with no problem.

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