Summary: Samsung Galaxy Note 4 seems not to support AVI video playback. Fortunately, there is an easy way to fix the issue. Let’s find it out here to play AVI files on Galaxy Note 4 freely.

The Galaxy Note 4 embraces Samsung's heritage of an unrivaled Galaxy mobile experience. Its extraordinary 5.7-inch Quad HD (2560x1440) Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen must be persuasive that Galaxy Note 4 would be your best choice to play your collection of HD video file with high quality. The only problem is that there is a limit on Galaxy Note 4 video format. For example, we find Galaxy Note 4 seems not to support AVI format. So, how to play AVI on Galaxy Note 4?

First of all, let’s take a look at Galaxy Note 4 supported file types:
H.264, MPEG-4, H.263, VC-1, WMV7, WMV8, Sorenson Spark, MP43, VP8, HEVC

Obviously, you can’t find Xvid, DivX, AVI on the format list. Assuming that you want enjoy AVI files on Galaxy Note 4, you’ll need to get some help from 3rd-party software to convert AVI movies to Galaxy Note 4 friendly format. (Note: Some guys suggest to install a media player app for Galaxy Note 4, but it’s a pity there are still some AVI files can’t be recognized by Samsung’s Note 4 due to the unsupported video or audio codec.)

To process a fast and smooth AVI to Galaxy Note 4 conversion, a professional video converter app is needed. Being a yet professional and easy-to-use video converter program, Brorsoft Video Converter is highly recommended to help you finish the conversion task. This Galaxy Note 4 video converter offers quite effective solution for you to convert almost all the videos AVI and MKV, MOV, MTS, FLV, TiVo, VOB… to Galaxy Note 4 friendly videos without quality loss. It also allows you to adjust the video, audio parameter to get a decent output video that you want. For Mac users, please turn to AVI Converter for Mac. Check the following guide to know how to change AVI video format for playing on Galaxy Note 4 without hassle.

Encoding different AVI files to Galaxy Note 4 for playback

1. After downloading, install and run the Galaxy Note 4 Video Converter on your PC, then click “Add Video” button to load your video source.

2. Choose the output format. Click “Format” bar, you can easily find the optimized videos for Note 4 under "Samsung > Samsung Galaxy Note(*.mp4)". The output videos could fit on your device perfectly.

Tip: If you like, you can click “Settings” to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. According to my experience, the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.

3. Click Convert button to start converting AVI to MP4 for Galaxy Note 4.

So there you have it. Pretty simple! Once the process completes, download and transfer the result .MP4 files to your Galaxy Note 4 and then you can watch all AVI movies on Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with great enjoyment.

Source:How to get AVI files work on Galaxy Note 4

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