“I just made some mp4 files with my phone. Put them on Stora and browsed to the folder with TWO TVs. A Samsung and an Aquos. The Aquos said, “Data not available”. The Samsung doesn’t show any files.”

MP4 as the most popular video format, is widely used. You may get lots of MP4 files no matter captured by cameras or downloaded from online. However, many users meet the problems while adding MP4 to Samsung TV(no matter via USB or DLNA) for playback.

According to Smasung’s official site, MP4 is listed as Samsung TV supported video format, but Samsung TVs are particular about what audio and video codec inside in the MP4 video container. It only supports playing MP4 in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video codec and AAC audio codec. Samsung TV MP4 issues are also affected by MP4 video resolution, frame rate, bitrates and etc. The solution to viewing MP4 files on Samsung TV for you is to find a third-party tool to make everything easy. The U2USoft Video Converter Ultimate is one of the best options.

This video converter app helps you convert MP4 to Samsung TV more friendly format i.e. H.24 MP4 and then play them on Samsung TV’s big screen. Besides MP4, MKV, MTS, MPG, FLV, XAVC, MOV, AVI, TiVo and more videos are supported. Plus, it offers kinds of preset profiles for media players including iPad, iPhone, Nexus, Google Pixel, LG, Huawei, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Galaxy S10, etc to meet your different needs. If you are Mac users, please turn to  Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, which has the same function with the Windows version. Here is how to do it.

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Guide of converting MP4 files to Samsung TV supported formats

Step 1. Add MP4 videos

Launch this video converter. Click “Add Video” button and import the videos you want to convert or directly drag & drop them into the program. Batch conversion is supported. You can add more files at one time.

Step 2. Choose the output format

Now click the Profile icon to reveal output panel. And and mouse cursor to TV and Players category to Select Samsung TV as the output format. The optimized output format will contains the best video settings for playback on your Samsung TV.

Tip: Click the “Settings” button and customize proper video/audio parameters if necessary. Video size, bitrate and fame rate are flexible and can be adjusted as you like.

Step 3. Start converting MP4 video to Samsung TV

After the above steps are done, you can click “Convert” button to convert your MP4 Video to Samsung TV comfortable MP4 format. Easy operation and faster conversion speed, these two are the most outstanding points of this Samsung TV video converter.

Once the conversion is done, simply click “Open” button to find the converted MP4 files and then you can watch them on Samsung TV via USB, DLNA, WLAN smoothly.