iPhone supports video H.264, MPEG-4 in .mp4, .m4v, .mov formats and audio files in AAC, MP3, M4a. If you want to play the unsupported format video on iPhone, you will:

1.Install codecs for the iPhone to play your video?

When our computer software player cannot handle the video format, we can download the corresponding codec for it but can we do this on smartphones? It’ll be very cool to watch various videos on the smartphone, but I’m sorry to say this method doesn’t exist yet.

2.Use the multi-format supported player- VLC4iphone?

As previously introduced in this post, VLC player is the media software coving most formats with all codecs built in. It’s used for all Windows and Mac OS and what’s more, it’s available for Smartphone like iPhone and iPod touch, that is, VLC4iPhone. In order to get VLC4iPhone at Cydia store, you have to jailbreak you iPhone or iPod touch.

However, I have searched online for this app and found the user experience for it is unsatisfactory.  Users’ complaints include no fullscreen as advertised, lag video and some annoying advertisements, only working well on a certain type of video, etc. Perhaps there will better version for it in the future or you may try your luck at it.

3.Convert the video format?

Converting the video format to the iPhone supported format is the best way to watch videos on iPhone at least for the time being. There are many excellent video converters and some are free like Avidemux, HandBrake and Xvid4PSP. They are powerful with great output quality.

If you want a tool to convert your video with faster speed, optimized video quality for your iPhone, you may be interested to check our iPhone video converter and free download to have a try. Or, if you would like to watch your favorite DVDs on your iPhone, you can use a DVD to iPhone converter to directly rip your encrypted DVDs to your iPhone with fast speed, excellent quality and ability to decrypt DVDs with new copy protection.

iPhone 4

Obviously, the newest and hottest attraction in the cellphone market recently is the iPhone 4. It was reported that this fresh out of the oven iPhone is on hot sale with 600,000 pre-orders on its first day. The selling points of this new pet including Retina display screen (great for watching HD video) , Multitasking, HD video recording, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and so on. All these new cool features make it be worthy of a cool phone.

Unfortunately, people have found iPhone 4, the most successful product launch in Apple’s history, has bug issues, with complaints about data signal-strength problems. Then in an official statement posted on July 2, Apple said the problems are due to the wrong algorithm formula for signal indicator and it would issue a free software update in a few weeks that incorporates the corrected formula, also it reminded the not full satisfied customers that they could return the undamaged iPhone within 30 days of purchase for a full refund.

So will you return the bug iPhone 4? In a forum, someone has launched a vote for this issue and I find more than 70% people voted to keep it for they have no issues currently and over 20% people chose to give Apple chance to fix it and then decide.  You can check the vote here.  If you haven’t got the iPhone 4, this vote may also help you decide on whether or when to buy the new iPhone 4.

For people who are willing to give others’ chance to fix the problem they have and for those who are waiting for the fix result to decide on whether to buy it, hope Apple won’t disappoint them.

Will you return iPhone 4? Please tell us your opinion in the comments.