Problem Using AVI files on Chromecast via Seagate Wireless Hard Drive

Morning all,

Firstly thanks in advance for any assistance or replies I receive to the questions and issues I am facing.

Firstly I have the following

Seagate 500GB Wireless Hard Drive (White not black)
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3552005.htm

I have set this up on my iphone using the app and also linked it to my wifi.

I have a number of films on it and am streaming the movies using my phone as a remote to a google chromecast but this is where I encounter issues.

The chromecast or Seagate app are saying that AVI formats are not valid or streamable.

I can only stream the ones which are MP4.

Do anyone know a way around this without converting all the films from avi to MP4 and if not then can anyone recommend a free converter software that does not take all day literally to do a couple of films as I am using a free avc converter software and it took from 11am until 8pm yesterday to convert just 3 films :-(

Thanks.

 

Handbrake will do the trick, or free video dvd converter ultimate (windows os). It supports acceleration for H.264 mp4 conversions. You may give it a try.

 

Thanks very much for the reply, do you know if this is a fast process or is it pretty much real time conversion as the film runs?

Thanks

 

Actually, you can basically drag and drop the video files into Chrome browser and Chromecast from there. The point here is, you can do so on video types such as MP4; however, you probably will find difficulty doing the same on other video formats like AVI. In this case, a video converter app like Handbrake or Brosoft's video converter can help you out.