AVI to Surface Pro 4 - Cannot Play AVI Videos on Surface Pro 4

Summary: Have trouble when playing AVI files on Surface Pro 4? If so, follow the simple guide to learn how to convert AVI videos for Surface Pro 4 without quality loss. 

With an October launch, the Surface Pro 4 is also expected to come with the first major Windows 10 upgrade and will be divided into two screen categories; namely 12 and 14 inches. With the larger display and higher screen resolution are great for us to watch TV shows, AVIies, and videos. After you got this new tablet, you may want to play AVI files on the Surface Pro 4 but have on idea. In this article you will learn the best way to play AVI Files on Surface Pro 4 Windows 10 tablet. 

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Every bean has its black. As other tablet PCs, While, when you wanna transfer some personal video files like AVI to Surface Pro 4 tablet, you would find the 4rd generations Surface Pro 4 can’t play these videos well or even can’t recognize them. To play and watch AVIies on Surface Pro 4 smoothly, what you need concern first is the Surface Pro file format. 

Note: If you try to use HandBrake to free convert AVI to Surface, you will find there is no specific profile for Surface Pro 4, since HandBrake is no more than a video transcoder freeware for Apple (and has few Android profiles). 

Here, first you need to get a another AVI to Surface Pro 4 converter program? Puzzle at which one to select? With extraordinary features, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is a must-have video converter to convert various HD and SD videos like AVI video for playing on any iOS, Android and Windows devices, including the Surafce Pro 4 tablet. . Its equivalent Mac version is iMedia Converter for Mac. Now you can use it to convert videos like A-B-C for plaing on Surface Pro 4. 

Convert and Transfer AVI files to Surface Pro 4 on Windows/Mac 

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Step 1: Add source AVI file 

Launch the excellent AVI to Surface Pro 4 Converter. And then click “Add Video” import your source materials in .AVI format. Besides AVI, you can also load FLV, MKV, AVI, VOB, TiVo, MPG, AVI, etc. files to the program. Batch conversion is supported so that you can add multiple files. 

 

Step 2: Choose a Surface Pro 4 profile. 

Click “Format” bar and move mouse to “Windows” column, you can easily find the profile of “Windows > Microsoft surface windows RT/pro H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” as the best profile for Surface Pro 4.The output videos could fit on your device perfectly. And choose the destination folder to save the converted videos. 

 

Surface Pro 4 supported video formats: MP4, WMV, MKV 

Surface Pro 4 unsupported video formats: Blu-ray, DVD, ISO, AVI, FLV, MPG, MTS, M2TS, VOB, TiVo, M4V, TS, etc. 

Step 3: Make personal settings optionally and additionally 

If you like, you can click “Settings” to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. 

Step 4: Start converting AVI video to Surface Pro 4
After above settings, you can start the AVI to MP4 Conversion to fit the Surface Pro 4 so as to play back videos in portable and wireless way. You can view the duration and remaining time of the conversion process, and choose whether to shut down computer and open output folder when conversion completed. 

Once the process completes, download and transfer the converted MP4 videos to your Surface Pro 3 using the USB cable and enjoy it in travel. 

P.S. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate also enables or add external subtitle, crop and trim videos, merge multiple videos, adjust parameters by clicking the “Edit” button and take snapshot. 

Now, get this Top Video Converter for Surface Pro 4, you may have no issues on play FLV, MKV, AVI, VOB, TiVo, MPG, MOV, etc files on Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro 2, Surface Pro 1 an so on. Enjoy your life! 

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Can all AVI files playable on Microsoft Surface 2 Windows 8.1 RT Tablet

Want to transfer and play AVI video files on your Microsoft Surface 2? Check out this tutorial to get the easiest and best method.

Microsoft Surface 2 is a new tablet that comes to succeed last year's Surface RT.  With a slightly thinner and lighter design, the Surface 2 sport a much better 10.6" screen, upping the resolution from 1366 x 768 pixels to 1920 x 1080 pixels - a much-needed improvement, which we think is better for browsing the web, playing games and watching videos.

While, Surface 2 only plays videos it supported.  So I googled and I find Surface 2 supports a lot of media formats including:

Surpported Video: 

Formats: MOV, WMV, AVI, M4V, MP4, MTS

Codecs: H.264, H.263, Motion JPEG, MPEG-4(Part 2), VC-1, WMV 3(WMV 9), XviD, DivX

Compstible Audio: 

Formats: MPEG-4, MP3, ASF, ACC LATM, ACC LOAS, ADTS, WAV

Codecs: AAC, Dolby Digital, MP3, WMA, MPEG-1 Layer I, Layer II, MPEG-2, ULAW, PCM, ADPCM


Needless to say, AVI is not included here.  To watch AVI on Surface 2, you’d better convert your AVI to Surface 2 compatible format like MPEG-4/H.264 MP4 format. Now follow this article; you will learn how to accomplish this easily within a few clicks.

The tutorial about how to convert AVI to Surface 2 supported file format

To begin, free download Surface 2 Video Converter or Surface 2 Video Converter for Mac.

The software has a codec pack that enables conversion between different video and audio file formats, it can convert AVI, MOV, AVI, FLV, MPG, etc to Surface 2 supported file format such as mp4 with the best quality.

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2. If you have any requirements of outputting 3D (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, Anaglyph) in AVI/MP4/AVI/MOV/WMV formats, you are suggested to try this Video Converter Ultimate (Mac Verison: iMedia Converter for Mac) (Both are also 20% off)

Tutorials: Converting AVI videos to Surface 2 friendly format

Step 1: Load AVI video files to this Video to Surface 2 Converter

Download the Pavtube Video Converter on your computer, install and run the program, add videos.

You can choose to import videos or the entire folder by clicking the top left two icons.

 

Step 2. Choose a proper format for Surface 2.

Click "Format" drop-down list and choose "Windows-> Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4)" as the compatible MP4 preset with best video quality. Or you can choose other presets if you don't need full size videos.

 

Step 3. Customize video specs for Surface 2 (Optional).

If you are not satisfied with the default output video specs, click the "Settings" beside "Format" bar to enter Profiles Settings interface. Hit to adjust target video size, bitrate, frame rate and other settings here. Usually the higher bitrate you choose; the larger file size and better video quality it will be.  

Step 4. Edit source video or adjust target video settings (Optional) 

Pavtube Video Converter provides basic editing functions before conversion; you can enter the video editing window by hitting the pencil-like "Edit" icon on the top to free trim, crop, add watermark, edit audio and subtitles. 

 

Step 5. Start AVI Videos to Surface 2 Conversion.

You can hit the big red "Convert" to start converting AVI to MP4 with best video settings for Surface 2. After the conversion, click "Open output folder" in the conversion window, or "Open" in main interface to quick locate the converted video.

Now, you can transfer AVI videos to Surface 2 for smooth playback without any problem.

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