Last updated on 2012-04-05, by Tony

Two Methods To Help You Play Videos Smoothly With Your Phone

As the development of science and technology, multimedia technology turns mature. Not only it is applied to devices like computers and projectors, but also phones. More and more people tend to play videos with their phones. For one thing, it is a portable device that is easy to carry; for another, the high resolution and large screen of the phones nowadays can provide you almost the same effect as that of the computers when watching movies.

However, phones are not as powerful as computers, so sometimes you may find some videos incompatible with your phones or you can’t play them smoothly with your phones. This is really depressing; it is just like finding out that your computer is not powerful enough to run popular games like “Call of Duty“. In order to help you solve this problem, this post will present you two methods.

1. Convert videos to mp4 files

Since most phones can just support mp4 and 3gp files, many people will download other players to help them play more videos like rmvb files, avi files and so on. However, those players are not that powerful. Sometimes you may find that your phone fails to play an rmvb file smoothly once it is longer than 40 minutes. It seems that your phones can’t support those formats too well even though you download a powerful player. However, if you try to convert those videos to mp4 files with Video Converter, you may find that your phone can perfectly support the converted videos even though they are larger than their predecessors in video size and storage.

This may seem to be weird, but the truth is quite simple. The hardware, decryption chip and the original player of a phone are all designed to perfectly support mp4 file while the installed player can’t work in coordinate with the phone when playing other video files like rmvb file. To this extend, you’d better convert the videos to mp4 files so that your phones can support them perfectly and you won’t bother that the videos can’t play smoothly in your phone.

2. Change the video size

If your phone can support mp4 file without installing other players and your phone still can’t play some mp4 files smoothly, the first method is of no use. Under this condition, you’d better change the videos to smaller size ones with Video Converter. Your phone can’t play them smoothly because your phone is not powerful enough to play such large size videos. The same thing goes to your computer; you need to lower the resolution and the image quality if you can’t play the game smoothly.

Nokia N97 can’t play mp4 files smoothly that are 1080P. However, if you turn the videos to 360P by changing the video size with Video Converter, N97 can support them perfectly.

Anyway, those are two methods for you to play videos smoothly with your phones, you can convert them to mp4 files with Video Converter or change their video sizes if they are already mp4 files with Video Converter.