AVI movie plays and looks good on my pc, but when I try to play it from flash drive on my tv (through samsung blu ray player) it gets pixelated and scrambled.
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These are movie files from your computer I’m guessing? If it’s the issue I’m thinking, the movie file might be a smaller resolution or low file size, which means it has artifacts when shown on your screen.
Example, I have a movie file 540×360 pixels. This is standard definition which will look okay on a phone or laptop when viewed at original size. When viewed full screen, it will look blocky because the player is stretching such a small file to fill either 1280x720p screen or 1920x1080p screen (or even 3840 x 2160 if you have a 4k tv).
I have another file, 1920×1040 pixels. This file is high definition, and will look great no matter what you play it on. Phone, laptop, TV. When the player stretches the video to full screen, there are lots of pixels to work with so it doesn’t have to stretch the tiny pixels to fill the space.
If the movies you are watching have small files, there really isn’t a way to fix it via your player. You have to re-encode the movies. If my hunch is wrong, then ignore everything I just said.
It is probably the wrong resolution for the TV
It’s down to two things usually, compression and resolution. I badly compressed video blown up from a lower than the display’s native resolution will always look pixelated.
The only other thing is that your player can’t keep up with the file (if it’s especially large) and it chokes on the thing.
If the size is too small and too compressed, the best thing to do is see if there’s a Blu-ray or decent DVD available.