Can’t Play AVI Videos on Philips TV via USB?

Elizabeth Taylor — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:36:48 +0000

We have many ways to play video on Philips TV. Streaming video via USB port is one of the ways. When playing video on Philips TV via USB, many people meet the same problem that Philips TV say that AVI files can’t be recognized when they play them on Philips TV.

Symptoms in Playing AVI on Philips TV

"when i play media files (AVI format) through my USB flashdrive using the USB input of TV, after around 4 mins the picture judder starts and also the audio goes a little out of sync. It is quite unpleasant to watch."

"My Philips TV only plays some of my AVI files but not others via USB drive."

Why is Philips TV not able to recognize AVI through USB flash device?

NOTE: Not all USB flash drives are recognized by your Philips TV.

Only memory cards in FAT/DOS format are supported.
Portable hard discs are only supported as a mass storage device without any multimedia capabilities. If your portable hard disc comes with multimedia capabilities, you have to connect your hard disc as a standard peripheral device.
Your TV supports playback of files in JPEG (Photo) and MP3 (Music) format exclusively. Video files such as AVI, MPEG4, MKV, etc. are not supported.
Make sure that your TV has the latest software installed. You can find the latest TV Firmware Upgrade Software and Readme File documents on the Philips support website. Refer to the SOFTWARE & DRIVERS section.

Follow these steps below to check if your USB flash device is supported.

Switch off your TV.
Insert your USB device into the USB connector at the side of the TV.
Switch on your TV.
The BROWSE USB icon will be shown on the home menu if the TV recognizes the USB flash device.
Note: If the TV does not recognize the USB flash device, try re-inserting the USB flash device and repeat the procedure again.
Select the BROWSE USB icon and press the ‘OK’ button to access the content browser.
To view the media files that are stored on the USB flash device, select the folder of your choice and press the cursor right to browse through the contents.
Large files or files from high capacity USB drives can take a little longer to load in thumbnail browsing view. Switch to file browsing view for a quick view of all available files.

If your Philips TV still does not recognize AVI files from the USB device, you also can try to convert AVI to MP4 for Philips TV playback with some video converters. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, as the best Philips TV converter, is winning more and more credit. With it, you can easily convert MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, AVCHD, MXF, VOB, RMVB to Philips TV more supported video format with no efforts to play video on Philips TV. Besides AVI, you also can rip Blu-ray and DVD to Philips TV compatible video format. You also can add subtitles to video for Philips TV and replace audio in video.

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How to Get AVI work with Philips TV via USB?

Step 1. Click "File" button to add your video files to the program. Or directly drag the video you want to convert to the left item bar.

Step 2. Set right output format. Click “Format” bar, and select .mp4 from “Common video” or “HD video”. Or choose the format from “TVS”.

Tips: The default settings may not satisfy you, and you can click the “Settings” button to change the settings by yourself including video resolution, bit rate, audio sample rate, audio channel etc. for full screen playback smoothly. Or keep no changes, which is also a good choice.

Step 3. Click the “Start conversion” button on the main interface and the software will start to convert video to Philips TV friendly video formats immediately. When the conversion finishes, click “Open” to find the converted video files.

Then you can effortless transfer the video files to play .avi files on USB stick directly to Philips TV.

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Playing .mp4 files on Philips TV via USB Stick directly

Elizabeth Taylor — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:34:01 +0000

Some Philips TV models can play MP4 files without anu hassle while some Philips TVs only like Divx/Xvid with AC3 or MP3 audio in an AVI container. Moreover, you can play some MP4 files on a Philips TV but when you play another MP4 video, the same Philips TV refuses to play them. Why And how to do when your Philips TV can’t recognize your MP4 videos

Generally, this is no fault of your Philips TVs. The .mp4 is just a container for the video and audio codecs. For instance the .mp4 could have the video coded in DivX, H.263, XviD, H264/AVC, or M-PEG4 to name a few. But your Philips TVs only can read part of the codecs. Therefore, when you can’t play a MP4 video on a Philips TV, the main reason will boil down to the codec used for your MP4 files. You can check whether your Philips TV supports MP4 video and what video and audio codec it supports in the following attachment:

Please find attached an overview of all supported CODEC’s in Philips TV model numbers. Now not only for TV but also for HTS (HTSxxxx) and Blu-ray (BDPxxxx) players.

Codec_table_all.xls
Codec_table_all.pdf

If the format is NOT supported, you might consider converting it to a format that your Philips TV supported. There is a video conversion program for doing this. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is the best Philips TV converter, which is winning more and more credit. With Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, you can convert MP4 to Philips TV accepted H.264 MP4 videos or DivX/XviD AVI without any quality loss. In addition, it not only supports MP4 videos, but also handles various common video formats, like MOV, MXF. MTS, MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV .etc. Apart from converting MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, AVCHD, MXF, VOB, RMVB to Philips TV more supported video format with no efforts to play video on Philips TV, you also can convert 2D to 3D for Philips 3D TV playback.

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Steps to Convert MP4 Videos to Philips TV Compatible Format for playing

Step 1. Add MP4 video file

Click the “File” button and choose the “Load Files” to import MP4 file you want to burn. You can even burn more than one MP4 file at once. For this you can merge all them in one. A single video can also be classified into different mini clips.

Step 2. Pick output format for Philips TV

After importing MP4 files into the app, you need to select an output format that is compatible with Philips TV. Open the “Format” list on the right and click “HD Video >HD MP4 “. Check the supported video format and codec of your Philips TV. You also can choose DivX AVI, XviD AVI, etc.

Step 3. Covnert MP4 to Philips TV

You can then start MP4 video to Philips TV conversion by clicking the “Convert” button. When the conversion is done, you can share the output videos to Philips TV, portable devices, players etc. and enjoy yourself.

After the conversion is over, connect the USB drive with computer and head to the destination folder where the converted files are stored, transfer the files to the USB drive then plug the drive in the Philips TV. Enjoy.