Play QuickTime MOV video on Galaxy S7 Edge


Does Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge have native support for QuickTime MOV video files? If you are experiencing incompatibility issues while playing MOV files on Galaxy S7 Edge, you may follow this guide to solve your problem.

Galaxy S7 Edge won’t play iPhone X MOV files
“Hello guys, my wife has switched to a new iPhone X. Now I would like to play .mov files from her iPhone X on my Galaxy S7 Edge. Unfortunately, my S7 Edge won’t open them properly. I try to figure out a way to do this, but no luck. Is there anything I can do to make this possible? Please kindly suggest a solution if you know. Thanks a lot.”

play .mov files on S7 Edge
MOV files use Apple’s proprietary compression algorithm, being very popular in Apple products like QuickTime, iPhone, and iPad. However, this popular Apple QuickTime MOV format is not so compatible with Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and other Android phones and tablets. In addition, MOV is a container format, it can hold various video and audio codecs. If your MOV media contains a codec that your device doesn’t support, it will fail to play. If that’s the case, you might need to convert MOV to a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge friendly format first. In the guide below, you’ll learn how to convert MOV files to MP4 format for playing on Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge beautifully.

How to encode MOV videos to Galaxy S7 Edge compliant files?

Software requirement
HD Video Converter
having .mov files that S7 Edge won’t playconvert MOV movies for viewing on Samsung S7 Edge
More than converting MOV files for S7 Edge, this video converter supports transcoding 4K, 2K, Full HD 1080p/1080i, HD 720p and SD video files in format of AVCHD, MTS, M2T, M2TS, TS, MXF, MKV, H.264, H.265/HEVC, P2 MXF, AVI, MP4, WMV, M4V, etc. to any formats you request.

Follow these steps:
Step 1: Start up HD Video Converter as the best MOV converter for Galaxy S7 Edge, and click ‘Add File’ to load your source files.
play .mov files on S7 Edge

Step 2: Select output format for Galaxy S7 Edge
From ‘Profile’ list, select ‘Samsung Galaxy S7 edge (*.mp4)’ as output format under ‘Samsung’ catalogue.
Important: If you’ve loaded a number of video clips to do batch conversion, please do remember ticking off ‘Apply to All’ option before you start.

Step 3: Adjust video and audio settings (optional)
If necessary, you can click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profiles Settings’ panel to modify video and audio settings like video encoder, resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio encoder, sample rate, audio bit rate, and audio channels. 3D settings are also available.

Step 4: Click ‘Convert’ to start format conversion for Galaxy S7 Edge
As soon as the conversion is complete, you can click ‘Open Folder’ to get generated H.264 MP4 files for playing on Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge with optimum performance.

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