Watching HD/4K Videos on HTC One M8/M9

HTC has finally veiled its yearly flagship smarphone on 2015 WMC, which attract many attentions of the users. We can say this one of the most eagerly anticipated flagship smartphone really win the reputation by its own. M8 has won hearts and minds last year with its stunning design, neat interface, and powerful internals. The questions is whether this One M9 can fight for a better war this year.

With an octa-core processor, much-improved 20.7 MP camera, and some nifty features that come with the latest Sense UI, the HTC One M9 has taken big steps in some areas, while in others - such as the display and design - remained unchanged. Read our HTC One M9 review to find out whether this is for better or worse.

For this 5 inches full HD 1920*1080p resolution, it will allow you enjoy the very vivid playback experience and the advantages of 1080p is that it will not drag the operation speed. But how to play videos on HTC One M9 will put you into some troubles to take full advantage of this full HD colorful screen. Here are three part to full cover the supported format , stream videos to M9 and about non-supported format solution.

Part I : HTC One M9 format list

HTC One M9 supported formats: DivX, XviD, H.264 MP4 and WMV

HTC One M9 video formats not supported: MKV, AVI, FLV, MTS, VOB, MOV, M4V, TiVo,etc.

Part II: Stream videos to HTC ONE M9 (Supported formats)

1. Using USB cable

This is a traditional way for transferring files between HTC One M9 and computer. You just need to hook up the USB cable comes with your M9 and then you will receive a notification from the task bar of desktop that the USB is connected.

When the Android smartphone is connected as USB storage, the screen will indicate that USB storage is in use and you receive a notification. Choose "USB Connected or USB Connection" will be fine.

Touch "Turn on USB Storage" to confirm that you want to transfer videos to HTC One M9. And now you can stream your videos between M9 and the desktop.
This may only happen when your computer is beside you and you don't forget to bring the cable USB. For the convenience , which is not very convenient.

2. Using free Could Service app

This way is convenient and no need for cable USB. You only need to download one cloud client app on your HTC One M9 and on your PC or MAC, then you can stream your videos from your computer to your smartphone or upload One M9 videos to your computer. Even you are away from your computer, as long as you connect your M9 to net, you can download and upload video to computer.

Here recommend you several free Could Service client apps : OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box.

Part III: Stream videos to HTC One M9 (non-supported formats)

If you just happen want to watch some videos like MXF/VOB/FLV/AVI/H.265 which can't be supported by M9 , how to tackle this?Or the files Size (pix) is far beyond the M9 resolution like 4K ?How to play 4K videos on HTC One M9?

Here you can try this all-in-one converter which will save you from this dilemma. Pavtube Video Converter for Mac can make all those unfriendly formats into the most suitable format for HTC One M9 for playback. Simple guide as below:

Step 1. Load your source files no matter what formats they are like MKV, AVI, FLV, MTS, VOB, MOV, M4V, TiVo, etc, all can be decoder by this app

Step 2. Choose proper format for M9.

You can also go to "HD Video">"H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)" for output profile will be H.264 High Profile.

Step 3. Adjust parameters if you need.

In order to cater to this full HD M9 resolution, you can adjust the default Size (pix) to 1920*1080p. And if you want to make your 4K videos watchable on your M9, you can downsize to natively 1920*1080p which will bring the best performance to your 4K videos.

Step 4. Start to convert videos to HTC One M9

After these steps, you can enjoy HD videos on HTC One M9 without any problem.

Tips:

If you want to free watch non-supported formats by HTC One M9, you can just install one third-party free media player app on your M9, and playback your videos via this media player app like VLC or MX Player. This will also work, but picture quality may not good as well as unknown problems always happen. Still you can have a try.

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