How to play AVI(Xvid) videos on Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Samsung Galaxy Note II is an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean smartphone with a 5.55-inch screen. It also features a 1.6 GHz quad-core processor, 720p resolution display, 2 GB of RAM, and storage capacity up to 128 GB — when using a 64 GB microSD card with the projected 64 GB model. If you like enjoying movies anytime and anywhere, the phone will be your best choice. However, before transferring AVI movies to it for playback, you have to make sure your files are supported by Note 2:

Video:
Codec: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, VC-1, DivX, WMV7, WMV8, WMV9, VP8
Format: 3GP(MP4), WMV(ASF), AVI, FLV, MKV, WebM
Full HD(1080p) Playback & Recording

Audio:
Codec: MP3, OGG, WMA, AAC, ACC+, eAAC+, AMR(NB,WB), MIDI, WAV, AC-3, Flac
Music Player with SoundAlive
3.5mm Ear Jack

From above formats, we can know the Note II can support AVI with DivX, but it doesn't play Xvid AVI. So, many users are likely to meet problems when play AVI files on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2? The article explains why and how to get all AVI videos and Galaxy Note 2 to play nicely.

In the first place, free download Brorsoft Video Converter app. Overall, the program can be used as an all-in-one video conversion app for for Galaxy devices. With it, you can easily transcode AVI to MP4 videos for Galaxy Note 2 with high quality and fast encoding speed. Besides AVI, it can also help you encode/re-encode almost all 1080p/720p HD videos including MKV, VOB, MPG, MOV, TiVo, MTS etc. for Galaxy Tab 2 10.1/7.0, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S3 and other Android os tablets. It has an equivalent Mac version entitled Brorsoft Video Converter Mac, which can convert .avi videos to Galaxy Note 2 on Mac OS X (Include Lion and Mountain Lion).

How to reformat AVI(Xvid) videos to Samsung Galaxy Note 2 supported video formats

Step 1: Install and run the Galaxy Note 2 Video Converter to your PC, clic "Add Video" or "Add from folder" to import your source AVI videos. Batch conversion is supported so that you can add multiple files.

Step 2: Click on the dropdown menu of "Format", here you will the optimized videos for the Galaxy Note 2 under Samsung > Samsung Galaxy Note(*.mp4)". The output videos could fit on Galaxy Tab 2 perfectly.



Tip: Set output video quality (Optional)
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.

Step 3. In the end, go back to the main interface and click the "Convert" button to start converting AVI video files for playing on Galaxy Note 2. Once the process completes, just click "Open" to find the Galaxy Note 2 playable MP4 videos after the conversion and transfer them to your device with ease.

P.S. Samsung provides a guide to describe the existing data transfer methods that are already available to you. For more information, visit How to Transfer Media to Your Android.

If you would like to get a powerful all-in-one tool to convert videos, Blu-ray movies and DVDs to your Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy Note 10.1, Galaxy Tab 2, Galaxy S3 simultaneously saving time and effort, the all-in-1 video covnerter app - Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate will be your best choice.