Video files and movies are never found in versions optimized for smartphones. They often take up too much memory space and are encoded in a format that the smartphone cannot reproduce without downloading particular applications.
If you are talking about a DVD movie, it will need to be converted into a standard video file before you can see it on the screen of your smartphone, be it an iPhone, a Samsung Galaxy, a LG, an HTC or an iPad or a Android tablet.
In this article we see the best and recommended programs to convert and compress a video on your computer, so that it can be played in the same quality on a smartphone.
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Keep in mind that all smartphone phones read the MP4 video format which becomes the conversion standard.
1) A very simple program to use, among the most powerful, even if it does not support AVI, XVid and OGG files, is HandBrake which is one of the best video video converters, which works on Windows and also on Mac OS and Linux.
HandBrake allows you to convert a movie from a physical DVD to a file that can be opened on a mobile phone without the need for manual configurations.
To do this, it is necessary to install the most famous DVD copying program (ISO), DVD43 (Windows only), which bypasses the protection often included in the original DVDs.
On HandBrake, click on the Source menu and choose the type of video you want to convert.
Select the file or folder (to convert all the video files inside it) or insert the disc into your computer to choose the DVD.
Once the file has been added, the destination must be chosen.
In Tools -> Options, select the output file and enter a predefined path in the path box or path.
For example, you can tell HandBrake to automatically save all converted video files to the desktop or to another folder.
To quickly select the transcoding settings, click on the option in the Preset column where you can find iPhones, different types of Android phones, the iPod Touch, the iPad and the Apple TV.
You can also select one of the normal profiles.
Optionally, you can change the conversion settings after selecting a preset.
For example, you can change the width and height of the video.
Once you are ready to convert, click on the Start button.
The video file can be copied to the mobile phone using the USB cable connection (with iTunes) or via Wifi (with Airdroid for Android).
Or it can be copied to BitCasa cloud storage which supports streaming video on Android and iPhone.
PLEASE NOTE: HandBrake is one of the best programs to convert videos so that you can view them on iPhone and iPad
2) Format Factory is the easiest program to use to convert videos and its ability to have pre-configured presets makes it particularly suitable for converting any video so that it can be viewed on a portable device that can be a mobile phone.
The conversion profiles are listed in a drop-down menu with the video resolution indicated, ie the height and width dimensions.
In the Output Settings settings you can then select the screen resolution of your smartphone or tablet quickly (by decreasing the video resolution, you compress the file which becomes much smaller).
Format Factory also supports AVI and Divx files
3) FreeMake Video Converter is the best looking and most comfortable program to use thanks to a complete, but not confusing and very intuitive interface.
The instructions to convert a video so that it is visible on a smartphone are almost trivial:
Click on the + Video button to add the file to be converted, choose the suitable preset for your smartphone.
If you cannot find your mobile phone, choose the MP4 format and add the new preset by choosing the height and width resolution of the smartphone screen.
Save the new preset and click on the Convert button to convert.
Obviously it supports all the most popular video formats, including AVI.
4) SUPER, perhaps the most powerful audio and video converter, is a historical Windows program that supports all types of files.
However, SUPER is also a more complicated program, with a decidedly confusing user interface.
If you do not want to perform any type of video conversion, you can still watch movies on your mobile phone with different applications than the standard one.
- 10 apps to watch videos and movies on iPad and iPhone
- Best Android Apps to watch videos and movies
Also, for Android, I want to emphasize that it is always possible to watch streaming video with VLC for Android
