play AVI on iPhone 4

How to play AVI on iPhone 4

what is avi?

AVI( Audio Video Interleave), is a multimedia container format. Developed by Microsoft in 1992, it is the most common format for audio and video data on a computer. AVI is actually a type of RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format), which divides a file data into chunks, or blocks, each chunk being identified by a FourCC tag.

The audio and video data in an AVI file are stored next to each other. The audio data is stored uncompressed in PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) format in various parameters, while the video data is stored in compressed format with various codecs and parameters. The variety of codecs used in the files often becomes a problem. This is because the particular codecs used in producing the AVI files may be different from the codecs installed on the computer used in playback, thus making playback erroneous. Despite this drawback (which may be overcome by installing the right codecs), AVI files remain popular because of their high compatibility with the editing software VirtualDub and the playback software Windows Media Player.

Video clarity of AVI files (with file extension.avi) mostly depends on the codecs used, and the type and level of compression. Fidelity of the audio is mostly excellent, the options being the same as those for MP3 and WAVE.

AVI files may be opened on Windows with Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, VLC media player, and Winamp; on Mac OS with Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, and VLC media player; and on Linux with VLC media player and Xine multimedia player.----from myformatfactory

How to open .AVI files

Windows

• Windows Media Player

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iPhone 4 Compatible AVI File

can iphone 4 play avi?

Careful iPhone users might notice that Apple added AVI support according to Apple's iPhone tech specs. And would like to play their AVI on iPhone 4.

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.

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.

Simply, iPhone 4 supports some types of video cameras watch AVI footage via the camera card reader accessory, while it won't let you play downloaded AVI movies on the iPhone 4.

Play AVI Files on iPhone 4

If you want to play AVI movies downloaded from the internet on you iPhone 4, you can convert your AVI to iPhone 4 friendly format. AVI with JPEG compression is high quality, but it's HUGE. So you can convert them to MP4 format and it looks really nice on your iPhone 4.

Sadly, many AVI decoding tools have yet added support for the newly released iPhone 4. It's a hassle to get all the way to the end only to discover that your video file won't play on your iPhone 4. I recommend AVI to iPhone 4 Video Converter for Mac, which provide optimized presets for your iPhone 4 so you don't need to worry about the settings for your iPhone 4.

Download it for free here:

Download Intel version

Download PPC version

1. Add AVI to iPhone 4 Video Converter for Mac

2. Select iPhone 4 preset from format list

3. Hit convert to start video to iPhone 4 conversion on OS X

4. Import output files to iTunes and sync it to iPhone 4 and then you can play AVI on iphone 4

iPhone Video Converter for Mac Key Features

1、Convert Video to iPhone Video and Audio

Convert video such as M2TS/MTS, MOD, TOD, AVI, MKV, WMV and audio for playback on iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, etc. This video converter supports new iPhone 4, you just need to select output settings: "iPhone 3GS Video MPEG-4".

Note: Some MP4 and MOV format video can't be played in iPhone or the image is not very clear, that's because the encoding of the video is not compatible with iPhone. You can convert the video using this iPhone video converter to improve the quality of the video.

Extract audio to iPhone audio like MP3, AAC, WAV for playback on your iPhone and other portable players.

Capture your favorite scene from video and save as BMP, JPG image format.

Note: This iPhone video converter won't bring any damage to original videos.

2、Edit Functions

Crop away black borders of the movie and watch it in full screen.

Trim the length of any title or chapter to get video or audio clips you need and convert the specific segment you like. You can get your favorite lines or episodes and save them in MP3 format for your iPhone as ringtones.

Merge several video clips to one output file so that you can enjoy a long video without interruption.

3、Offer Various Settings

Adjust movie video effects by setting video brightness, contrast, saturation, applying a built-in video effect and normalize sound levels of DVD.

Support video output settings, including resolution, frame rate, encoder, bit rate and audio output settings, including sample rate, channel, encoder and bit rate.

Note: You can improve the output video and audio quality by setting a higher bit rate and resolution, but the output file will be bigger. If you want to compress the video or audio size, just set a low bit rate.

4、Easy-to-use

easy to useYou can preview video files before conversion and adjust the output settings.

This program allows you to launch other system and let this program run in the background while converting videos.

It's a professional iPhone video converter developed for Mac PowerPC and Intel users, and it supports Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Snow Leopard on iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, etc.

iPhone Video Converter for Mac Reference

Input Video Formats:MP4, MOV, FLV, AVI, VOB, 3GP, 3G2, MKV, WMV, M4V, MPG(MPEG), TS, TRP, MTS, M2TS, TP, DAT, MOD, ASF ...

Input Audio Formats :MP3, MKA, MP2, WAV, WMA, M4A, AC3

Output Video Formats :MP4, MOV, M4V

Output Audio Formats:MP3, AAC, WAV, M4A

Supported Digital Devices :iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4

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