“I am exporting video from After Effects. I want to put the video files onto a usb stick and play the files on an LG smart tv. Can any wise members tell me which is the best format to export from Adobe After Effects to LG TV?”
LG releases a lot of TVs every year, probably more than anybody else. Most of them are inexpensive, but they rarely offer good value compared to their competition. If you’re looking for a new TV and were considering buying LG, this is the page you need. Here is a comprehensive list of LG TV supported video and audio formats, along with best solutions to can’t play any media files on LG TV issues, from the top-end 4K OLEDs to more bog-standard LED LCD sets. Hope this page will give you some help.
Which Video Format is Supported by LG TV?
We gathered the supported video and audio formats of LG TV from LG official site and owners manual. Between different LG TV models, maybe there is a little difference in their compatible video and audio formats. The following table specifies all the supported codecs and containers by LG TV as follows:
.asf, .wmv, .wma; divx, .avi; .mkv; .ts, .trp, .tp, .m2ts; .vob; .mpg, .dat; .mpg, .mpe, .mpeg; .mp4, .m4a, .m4v; .mov; .f4v, .f4a, .flv; .wav; .mp3;
What Formats Does an LG LED TV Support by USB?
Video File Formats:
To play videos directly from a USB flash drive connected to a USB port on LG LED TV, the video should be in DivX HD format. Depending on the model, the LG TV supports DivX 3, 4, 5 and 6.
Audio File Formats:
LG TVs support several audio file types, through a USB connection, including the AAC and MP3 formats. It also supports AC3 Dolby Digital files, EAC3, HE-AAC, MPEG, PCM and DTS.
LG 4K TV playable Video Files
As a major TV manufacturer, LG is working hard toward being the leader in the 4K TV industry by providing a good number of impressive Ultra High Definition TVs. From LG 4K TV’s official website, we get the information that LG 4K TV supports to play 4K video with HEVC or VP9 codec with a video frame rate of 60fps. And LG 4K TV compatible audio codec includes AC3, EAC3, HE-AAC, AAC, MP2, MP3, PCM, DTS, DTS-HD, DTS Express, WMA, RA.
LG 3D TV Compatible Media File Formats
Using existing receivers to deliver 3D content to LG 3D TV-sets, via an HDMI or equivalent connection, if needed. LG 3D TV formats span from the Side-by-Side 3D and the Top and Bottom format 3D, to the Anaglyph 3D effect.
Failed to Play your Movies on LG TV? Solved!
LG TV supported video format is limited. From the information we mentioned above, you may be disappointed to find that there are many video formats not well supported. For those videos whose formats are not in the list, how can we play them on the LG TV?
How to Watch Unsupported Video Files on LG TV?
When you transfer a video file to LG TV, you need to make sure the video format and the video codec are both supported by your TV-set. Take MP4 as an example. Although MP4 is listed as LG TV supported video format on LG official website, LG TVs are particular about what audio and video codec inside in the MP4 video container. LG TV only supports playing MP4 in H.264 / AVC, MPEG-4, H.263, MPEG-1/2, VC-1 video codec and AAC, AC3, DTS, MP3 audio codec. As MP4 is actually a container format, it will use different encodings for video and audio. In other words, LG TV MP4 issues are also affected by MP4 video codec, audio codec, etc.
If you videos can not be played on LG TV smoothly, it is essential for you to convert your video file to the video format with the video codec and audio codec supported by your model of LG TV as per your Manual. Or you can directly convert your video file to H.264 MP4 with MP3 audio codec which is supported by almost all models of LG TV. But how to do this job?
How to Play Common Video, DVD Movies on LG TV via USB?
What if we want to play other video formats like H.265/HEVC encoded MKV and MP4 movies on LG TV via USB? A simple workaround is to convert them to LG TV supported video format. UFUSoft Video Converter Ultimate or Video Converter Ultimate Mac is just the right any video to LG TV Converter! Besides converting H.265/HEVC to LG TV format, it also supports converting other video like Blu-ray, DVD, MOV, FLV, AVCHD, Xvid, MXF, AVI, RMVB, RM, TS, VOB, 3G2, 3GP, OGV, MVC, DV and etc to LG TV model best supported video format – H.264/AVC MP4.
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