What Are Android Supported Video Formats?

Overview

When users use their Android devices, the video incompatibility issue always troubles most of users, which caused the playback failure. What are Android supported video formats? And how to play the unsupported video formats on Android? I have written about HTC, Apple, Huawei, Olympus, Fujifilm and more other devices supported video formats, and this time, we penetrate deeper into the topic of Android systems. To get better understanding when you use it, Precisely, we'll analyze and discuss which video file formats are supported by Android!

Android Supported Video Formats

Android does not support all formats, no matter when regarding of audio, video or image. For supported video formats, we need to get the wrapped video codec also supported as well as the supported video container formats.

Android supported video codec:
• Android supports the video codec H.263.
• Android supports the video codec H.264 AVC
• Android supports the video codec MPEG-4 SP
• Android supports the video codec VP8

Android support video container formats:
• 1. H.263 3GPP(.3gp) MPEG-4(.mp4)
• 2. H.264 AVC 3GPP(.3gp) MPEG-4(.mp4) MPEG-TS(.ts, AAC audio only, not seekable, Android 3.0+))
• 3. MPEG-4 SP 3GPP (.3gp)
• 4. VP8 WebM (.webm) Matroska (.mkv, Android 4.0+)

From what list above, we can clearly know that the H.263, H.264, MPEG-4, and VP8 are supported codecs, and the 3GP, MP4, MKV and WEBM are supported container formats. Only when the supported codec match with the supported format, we can get the smooth playback. For example, we can get MP4 H.264, MP4 H.263 played on Android, but not MP4 H.265 or MP4 XviD; Also we can not get FLV, WMV, RMVB, AVCHD, etc played on Android. However, you don't need to worry when you meet this situation. Where there is a problem, there is a way.

How to Successfully Play Any Video File on Android System?

In order to make all video file formats suitable for the Android system and can fluently play by Android system, A professional converter is what you need most. iDealshare VideoGo, as a professional and popular converter, has been serving people for many years and receiving lots of good reviews with easily handling steps.

Now let's see some main functions of iDealshare VideoGo as below.
• Users can easily convert any unsupported video format, WMV, MOV, FLV, MOD, etc to any Android system supported formats, such as MP4 H.264.
• Users can easily convert any unsupported video format to any iOS, Mac, Windows best supported video formats.
• Users can easily convert any unsupported video format to any what your device, player or platform, like PSP, Zune, Roku, Samsung TV, Toshiba TV supported video file formats.
• The conversion will be finished with high quality and speed.
• Also, the conversion steps are very simple. Users only need three steps for the video conversions.

Make Preparation: Run iDealshare VideoGo

Free download the professional Android Video Format Converter - iDealshare VideoGo (for Windows, for Mac), install and run it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Add Android unsupported video files

Click the Add File button to import the unsupported video format to iDealshare VideoGo.

Step 2 Set Android media format

Click the "Profile" button to select preferable one from "Android" category or "Android Pad" category.

Step 3 Convert Video to Android Supported Format

Click the Convert button to start the conversion and get your desired Android MP4 video formats.