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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Play AVI videos on Roku 4 via USB

Summary: Stream AVI to Roku 4 for play issues have solved! This article give you the solution on converting AVI to Roku More Supported MP4 on Mac or Windows.

The Roku 4 Media Player channel enables you to playback personal video, music and photo files from a USB drive on your TV. However, if you try to stream AVI to Roku 4 USB channel from computer or external USB drive, you will find Roku 4 cannot read AVI video.

According to Roku official website, the following USB drive formats are supported: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and HFS+. What’s more, Roku 4 only supports H.264, H.265 MKV, MP4, MOV and VP9 video codecs. Apparently, AVI is not included here.

So how to prepare your AVI files for playback on Roku 4? Luckily, there is an easy workaround-encode/re-encode AVI to Roku 4 supported MP4 videos to make your AVI movies playable on Roku 4.

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Since Roku USB Media Player channel only plays MP4 and MKV video, in order to play all kinds of AVI files on Roku player, we had better convert AVI to Roku more compatible MP4.

Pavtube Video Converter is just the right AVI to Roku Converter which has both Mac and Windows version! It helps to convert various AVI files whatever encoded with DivX, Xvid, etc to Roku more supported MP4. Besides converting AVI to Roku format, Pavtube Video Converter also can convert other video formats like VOB, TS, WMV, MOV, 3GP, RMVB, WTV, Apple ProRes, AVCHD, MXF, DV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, ASF, FLV, WebM, and etc to Roku supported video format.

It even can convert all kinds of audio format like FLAC, WMA, WAV, OGG, M4A, APE, AC3, DTS, AIFF, RA, AU and etc to Roku supported MP3 or AAC.

Furthermore, this ideal AVI to Roku Converter also features editing functions like crop video black boards, merge several videos into one file, split a large video into chapters, rotate video, add subtitle/effect/watermark to video files, increase video sound volume, adjust video parameters like codec, bitrates, resolution, aspect ratio, size, frame rate and etc.

          

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- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.com/video_converter/
- Amazon Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-75734821.html
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-75734821.html

The tutorial about how to convert AVI to Roku 4 supported file format

1. Start video converter, drag and drop the AVI files to the software window to import.



2. After the files are added, click Format > Common Video and set output video format as mp4. The reason mp4 is the target format is that by packing the videos in mp4, the file size will be reasonable small and the video quality remains



Tip: There are also some optional tinkering you can take to make the videos look better on a HDTV screen, such as changing the aspect ratio or specifying the video resolution. Just click the Settings icon to do it.



3. Finally, hit the Convert button to star converting AVI to mp4 for Roku 4 playback.

After the conversion is completed, transfer the converted videos to Roku’s SD card or to a USB stick that can be attached to Roku 4 streaming player. Now you can enjoy MP4 movies with Roku 4.

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