How to Convert and Watch Flash Drive Movies on Vizio HD TV

Vizio HD TV like other smart TVs has one USB port that lets you plug in a flash drive to view local media files on your television. However, you may notice that not all videos like MOV, AVI, MKV, VOB, WMV, MPG, etc on your flash drive can be played well on Vizio HD TV due to the format limit. Don't be frustrated. In the following paragraphs, we will present an easy way to let you watch flash drive movies on Vizio HD TV freely without any limit.

From Vizio TV official website, we know its supported file must be encoded with H.264 and the audio as AAC. If your Vizio TV refuses to play a movie file from USB flash drive, you'd better convert it to a format compatible with Vizio HDTV. To complete the task, what you actually need is a powerful video converter utility. Brorsoft Video Converter is one of the best options.

Working as an easy-to-use and yet professional video converter, it helps you convert DivX, XviD, H.265, DTS, AC3, etc all incompatible files to Vizio HD TV supported H.264 video codec and AAC audio codec. To assist you get you want video without applying to other tool, the program also offer many customization tools for you to trim the video leave only you wanted portion, crop the video to adjust the black edges, adjust output video aspect ratio to let it fit with your Vizio HD TV display screen, etc. Plus, it offers kinds of preset profiles for media players including iPad, iPhone, Nexus 10, Nook HD, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Galaxy S6, etc to meet your different needs. If you are Mac users, please turn to Video Converter Mac, which has the same function with the Windows version. Here is how to do it.

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

How to Play Unsupported Videos on Vizio HD TV from Flash Drive

Step 1: Start the Vizio HDTV video converter and drag .mkv, .avi, .wmv, .vob, .flv, etc files to the software interface to import the file. It support batch conversion.

Step 2: Set output video format as H.264 MP4 under Format > Common Video. In general, mp4 is a well-accepted file format for its ability to save memory storage and keep up the video quality. Here 3 H.264 presets "H.264 Baseline Profile Video(*.mp4)", "H.264 Main Profile Video(*.mp4)", "H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4)" are supported.

Tip: Before start the conversion for Vizio HDTV, you can click the Settings icon and adjust the video bitrate, codec, frame rate, audio sample rate, etc parameters. Make sure the video codec is in H.264 and audio codec is in AAC.

Step 3: Hit the Convert button; this video converter will start to convert videos for playback on Vizio TV through flash drive.

After the conversion is over, head to the destination folder where the converted files are stored, transfer the files to the flash drive and then plug the drive into the Vizio HD TV. What's else? Start enjoying.

Additioal Tips: If you are considering to get a powerful all-in-one tool to convert videos, Blu-ray movies and DVDs to Vizio HD TV as well as Sony TV, Panasonic TV, PS4, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Galaxy S7/S6/S5, Google Nexus 10/7, Kindle Fire HD, etc at the same time, the all-in-one Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate program will be a nice choice for you. If you are running a Mac OS X computer, iMedia Converter Mac is the alternative.