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Best Method to Play AVI Video in Chromecast

by Christine Smith • 2022-11-04 17:34:29 • Proven solutions

Chromecast is one of the finest, portable, and convenient tools to stream content from your smartphone, tablet, or laptop to your television. It's so affordable that making it one of the most preferred gifts through the festive season. Chromecast is a nifty little device, just a tad heavier than a typical pen drive that can be plugged into the HDMI port of contemporary television, and you can use the mobile app of the device to live stream videos and movies or play music and multimedia files on your television. However, Chromecast doesn’t work with all video or audio formats. Namely, to successfully play AVI video with Chromecast, you have to consider the following way.

Part 1. Convert AVI to Chromecast Supported Format
Part 2. Cast AVI to Chromecast with Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate)

Chromecast recognizes MP4 and WebM. These two formats have Video codecs High Profile Level 4.1, 4.2 and 5 as well as VP8. They have audio codecs HE-AAC, LC-AAC, MP3, CELT/Opus, and Vorbis. These codecs make these formats recognizable, and you can play these files on your television using Chromecast. But other formats will not be recognized. The formats not recognized are AVI, WMV, FLV, MPG, MOV, WTV, OGV, and more. If you have an AVI file, then you need a converter to convert the AVI videos to MP4 or WebM formats that Chromecast support.

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Part 1. Convert AVI to Chromecast Supported Format

Here is how you can convert AVI to Chromecast format for your television.

Step 1 You can use a Chromecast Video Converter. You need to download the software, install and launch it first to get a simple three-step process with which you can convert an AVI video to be compatible with Chromecast.

Step 2 Once you open the converter, you can use the simple drag and drop feature or click add files to add AVI video to the Chromecast video converter.

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Step 3 Select MP4 or WebM as the output format. Just as mentioned above, Chromecast is fully compatible with MP4 and WebM format, so you should select the /MPEG-4 AVC Video (*.mp4) format. You can find it by clicking the expand button beside Output Format: and choose Video > MP4 or WebM, then select your desired resolution in the right.

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Note: If you don't want to batch convert AVI to MP4 or WebM, but convert to them respectively, then you can click the setting icon beside the Convert button on the right of the pane.

Step 4 Click on the Start All or Convert button to start AVI conversion, after a while, your AVI video will be converted to Chromecast supported format in .mp4 or .webm. Now you can either click the folder-like icon in the bottom or switch to the Finished tab to fetch the converted AVI video.

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That's it! Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate) works with over 1000 video/audio formats, including MP4, WebM, AVI, MKV, MOV, etc., and almost any popular device like mobile devices, PSP, and TV via the HDMI port courtesy Chromecast. When time is of essence and convenience is key to having an entertaining time, you should resort to the software that makes converting AVI to Chromecast format easy and surefire. That is what Wondershare Video Converter would do for you.

* Some of the above codec formats may need to be supported by system.

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