Top Compatible Video & Audio Codecs on Samsung Galaxy Devices

Video & Audio Formats Supported by Samsung Galaxy Phones and Tablets

This post has summerized the full video & audio formats supported by Samsung Galaxy S21/S10/10+/S9/S8/S7/S6/S5, Galaxy Note 9/8/7, earlier models and solution to make unsupported videos playable for Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets.

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I usually watch videos on the internet on my samsung galaxy note but one day it just started saying sorry this video cannot be played. How can i get it to work again? - Yahoo Answers

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Samsung Galaxy devices, like Galaxy S21/S20/S10+/S10e that is expected to be red-hot, have enjoyed a great reputation among Android fans. Their razor-sharp screens, unassailable performance and long battery life make Samsung Galaxy series the most popular gadgets to watch movies thereon. However, the more you play videos on Samsung Galaxy devices, the more you will encounter video format incompatibility issue. That’s why more and more Samsung users wonder the best video formats for Samsung Galaxy tabs and phones for limitless playback. And this article will give the extract video and audio formats and parameters Samsung Galaxy devices support and will show you the perfect video codec and parameter setting that best suit your Samsung Galaxy S21/S20/S10/S9/S8/S7/S7 edge, S6, S5, Note 21/20/10, etc.

Video/Audio Formats and Encoding Parameters for Samsung Galaxy

There comes a problem that you cannot play some common videos like MP4 occasionally even though they are claimed to be supported videos by Samsung Galaxy devices. The explanation to this problem is that such kind of video format, though supported by Samsung Galaxy, may encode with the audio and video codec that Samsung Galaxy cannot support or may not meet the supported specification of audio and video codec. Worse still, sound or video may not work if the contents have a standard bit rate/frame rate above the compatible frame/sec of Samsung Galaxy. To help you out, here we list the recommended video and audio formats, video encoding profiles and parameters that the specific Samsung Galaxy devices support for playback, including Samsung Galaxy S10/S9/S8/S7/S7 edge, S6, Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Note 8.

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Samsung Galaxy S21/S20/S10 supported video formats: MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, WEBM.
Samsung Galaxy S21/S20/S10 supported audio formats: MP3, M4A, 3GA, AAC, OGG, OGA, WAV, WMA, AMR, AWB, FLAC, MID, MIDI, XMF, MXMF, IMY, RTTTL, RTX, OTA, DSF, DFF.

Samsung Galaxy Format and Parameter Setting	Galaxy S21 5G	Galaxy S7/S7 edge	Galaxy S6/S6 edge+	Galaxy Note 9/Note 8	Galaxy Note 7
Supported video format and codec	MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, WEBM	MPEG4, H.263, H.264, DivX, DivX3.11, VC-1, VP8, WMV7 / 8, Sorenson Spark, HEVC	MPEG4, H.264, H.263, VC-1. DivX, VP8, WMV7 / 8, Sorenson Spark, DivX3.11	MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, WEBM	3G2, 3GP, ASF, AVI, FLV, M4V, MKV, MPEG-4, WMV, WebM
Supported audio format and codec	MP3, M4A, 3GA, AAC, OGG, OGA, WAV, WMA, AMR, AWB, FLAC, MID, MIDI, XMF, MXMF, IMY, RTTTL, RTX, OTA, APE, DSF, DFF	MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB / WB, OGG, FLAC, AC-3, apt-X (Bluetooth)	MP3, AMR-NB / WB, AAC / AAC+ / eAAC+, WMA, OGG (Vorbis), FLAC, AC-3, apt-X	MP3, M4A, 3GA, AAC, OGG, OGA, WAV, WMA, AMR, AWB, FLAC, MID, MIDI, XMF, MXMF, IMY, RTTTL, RTX, OTA, DSF, DFF, APE	3GA, AAC, AMR, AWB, FLAC, IMY, MIDI, MP3, MP4, OGA, OGG, OTA, RTTTL, RTX, WAV, WMA, XMF

How to Change Video Format into Samsung Galaxy Series

Samsung Galaxy devices only support limited video formats listed above, there are still some videos like MTS, M2TS, AVCHD, AVI, MOV, etc that Samsung Galaxy series cannot recognize. Fortunately, a better solution to remove the hassle to play these unreadable videos on Galaxy S21/S10/S9/S8/S7/S6, Galaxy Note 21/9/8 is to convert the videos to Samsung Galaxy viewable ones with a professional program called MacX Video Converter Pro.

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Step 1: Open and click Video button. Select +Video to load the video on this Samsung video converter.
Step 2: Choose the specific Samsung Galaxy device from its pop-up window.
Step 3: Then click “RUN” button to start the video to Samsung Galaxy conversion. Just three steps, you can finish the video conversion and therefore put video to Samsung Galaxy devices for playing on the go.

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