Unable to Play HD/4K MP4 on MiniX Android Box

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The Minix Android box brings you great home theater experience by offering perfect support for a wide variety of the most popular file formats so that you can get the freedom to enjoy all you media from an array of sources on any TV. However, some people complain that they are unable to play HD or 4K MP4 files on Minix Android box with the following models:

MiniX NEO U9H, MiniX NGC-1, MiniX NEO Z83-4, MiniX NEO U1, MiniX NEO X8 PLUS, MiniX NEO Z64W 10, MiniX NEO X8-H PLUS, MiniX NEO X6, X88i, X68i, X7, X7mini, MiniX NEO X5

Supported file formats by Minix Android box

To fix this format incompatible issue, we should first be clear of what file formats can be played on Minix Android box. From Minix Android box official page, we get the following information that Minix Android box can handle the following video and audio file formats:
Video formats: DAT/MPEG/MPE/MPG/TS/TP/VOB/ISO/AVI/MP4/MOV/3GP/FLV/
MKV/M2TS/MTS/M4V/WMV/ASF
Audio formats: DTS-HD/DD/DD+/MP2/MP3/WMA/WAV/OGG/OGA/FLAC/ALAV/APE/AAC

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From above lists, we can see that Minix Android box have include native playback support for MP4 file format. However, it is well known that MP4 is a container file format which can hold various different video and audio file formats, if the MP4 file are encoded with Minix Android box unreadable compression codec, the Minix Android box will fail to open the MP4 files.

Transcode unsupported HD/4K MP4 for Minix Android box

Here, a powerful MP4 Video Converter program called Pavtube Video Converter is highly recommended to you. The program has full support for all 4K/2K/HD/SD MP4 video encoded with various different compression codec such as H.264, H.265, H.265, H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV/VC-1, MVC, etc. Thanks to its batch conversion mode, you can import multiple MP4 video files at one time for conversion. You can easily transcode MP4 to Minix Android box best favorable H.264 MP4 file formats with perfect quality and super fast conversion speed.

If your Minix Android box lacks the ability to stream 4K resolution video, you can also use our program to compress 4K to 1080p for smooth media streaming experience.

Adjust output profile parameters

Click “Settings” on the main interface to open “Profile Settings” window, here, you can flexibly choose or specify exactly the profile parameters including video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like to get better output video and audio quality.

Step by Step to Convert 4K/HD MP4 for Minix Android Box Streaming

Step 1: Step 1: Import HD/4K MP4 files.

Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click “File” menu and select “Add Video/Audio” or click the “Add Video” button on the top tool bar to import HD/4K MP4 files into the program.

Step 2: Define the output format.

Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, select Minix Android box best compatible digital file formats “H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)” from “HD Video” main category.

Tips: Click “Settings” on the main interface to open “Profile Settings” window, here, you can flexibly choose or specify exactly the profile parameters including video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like to get better output video and audio quality.

Step 3: Adjust output video aspect ratio.

If the MP4 file adopts an aspect ratio that doesn’t match with your TV display screen aspect ratio, you can change the aspect ratio to make it adapt with your TV with the following settings:

Open the “video editor” window, click the “Crop” tab. In the “Crop” window, switch to the “Advanced Mode”. To keep the cropped aspect ratio, there are several aspect ratios for you to choose from, including 16:10, 16:9, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2, and 2:1. Once you select your TV compatile “Display aspect ratio”, the “green crop frame” will keep this ratio to crop video and you are able to preview the final effect in real time. If you want to keep the same aspect ratio in your final output files, do remember to set the Video “Size (pix)” in “Settings” section as the same ratio as display aspect ratio.

Step 4: Start the conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit the “Convert” button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the conversion process from HD/4K MP4 to Minix Android box supported file format conversion process.

When the conversion is finished, click “Open Output Folder” icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then you can smoothly play any HD/MP4 files on MiniX Android boxes with perfect quality.