The Samsung Galaxy S6’s 5.1-inch beautiful 3840×2160 screen is great for watching movies. It is capable of storing and playing videos perfectly encoded in the MP4 container format. While, if you have MKV, AVI, VOB, MPG files you’d like to transfer to your device, you can convert them into the MP4 format yourself. This article will introduce an easy to encode MKV/AVI/VOB/MPG to Galaxy S6 for playback on the go.
There are multiple software products available for this purpose. A completely free method for converting videos into the MP4 format for Samsung Galaxy S6 uses Handbrake. It converts the file into the MP4 container format. There is no Samsung Galaxy S option for Handbrake, but there is a general MP4 option in the Container drop-down box on the main screen. Note: Handbrake input formats just includes MP4, MKV, AVI, M2TS, TS, it won’t help you convert VOB, MPG, FLV, MOV, TiVo, etc files for Galaxy S6.
To convert and put more movie files to Galaxy S6, we recommend you to download Brorsoft Video Converter app. Overall, the program can be used as an all-in-one video conversion app for Samsung Galaxy tablet and phone. With it, you can easily transcode AVI(Divx/Xvid), MKV(DTS), VOB, MPG, TiVo to MP4 videos for Galaxy S6 with high quality and fast encoding speed. Besides Galaxy S6, it can batch convert videos for Galaxy Tab 4, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy S5, Kindle Fire HD, Nexus 10 and more Android devices. It has an equivalent Mac version entitled Video Converter for Mac, which can convert videos to Galaxy S6 on Mac OS X(including Yosemite, Mavericks).
How to convert MKV/AVI/VOB/MPG to Samsung Galaxy S6 supported format
Step 1: Add Video Files
Install and run the Galaxy S6 Video Converter to your PC, click “Add Video” or “Add from folder” to import your source .vob, .mpg, .avi, .mkv videos. Batch conversion is supported so that you can add multiple files.
Step 2: Select Output Format
Click drop down menu of Format; here you can select “Samsung > Samsung Galaxy S III Video (*.mp4)” as the output format, which is a format specially designed for Galaxy S3 but also works for the S6 perfectly.
Tip: Set output video quality (Optional)
If you like, you can click “Settings” to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. According to my experience, the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.
Step 3. Start converting videos to Galaxy S6
In the end, go back to the main interface and click the “Convert” button to start converting AVI, VOB, MPG, MKV for playing on Galaxy S6. Once the process completes, just click “Open” to find the Galaxy S6 playable MP4 videos and transfer them to your Galaxy S6 with ease.
If you are considering to get a powerful all-in-one tool to convert videos, Blu-ray movies and DVDs to Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Tab 4, Galaxy Tab 3, Nook HD, Kindle Fire HD X, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, iPad or other devices at the same time, Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate will be a nice choice for you. If you are running a Mac OS X, iMedia Converter Mac is the alternative.
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