iPad Air 2 has a re-engineered Retina display and it’s all in a durable aluminum enclosure that’s only 6.1 millimeters thin. While, iPad Mini 3 is still amazing with a stunning Retina display, an incredibly powerful A7 chip with 64-bit architecture, the revolutionary Touch ID fingerprint sensor, advanced wireless technologies, and a battery that lasts up to 10 hours. Both are the full iPad experience—that you can take with you everywhere and do just about anything.
Anyhow, as for movie entertainment, you have to accept the fact that iPad Mini 3/iPad Air 2 is somehow picky at file types so that you will have issues when playing some incompatible videos on iPad Mini 3 and iPad Air 2. So here we list the supported video formats for iPad Mini 3 and iPad Air 2 for your reference.
Supported Video Audio Formats for iPad Mini 3
Video formats supported:
H.264 video up to 1080p, 60 frames per second, High Profile level 4.2 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
Audio formats supported:
AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), HE-AAC, MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
Supported Video Audio Formats for iPad Air 2
Video formats supported:
H.264 video up to 1080p, 60 frames per second, High Profile level 5.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
Audio formats supported:
Audio formats supported: AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), HE-AAC, MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
(These tech specs are from Apple’s website)
Recommended software to transfer media files to iPad Mini 3 and iPad Air 2
To help you get unlimited video experience on your iPad Mini 3 and iPad Air 2, you can find a apps from App Store first. If there are still issues exist with video playback, you can catch a converter for iPad to convert unsupported codecs and sources like Blu-rays, DVDs, various HD or SD videos files to playback format with iPad Mini 3 and iPad Air 2.
If you wish to play any DVDs directly on iPad (iPad Mini 3 and iPad Air 2 included), the only precondition is that the media is in the right video format and parameters. Then you could utilize a top DVD Ripper- like Pavtube DVDAid right away to do the DVD to iPad Mini 3/iPad Air 2 conversion and then sync to your iPad for playback.
Then Pavtube ByteCopy: It is versatile Blu-ray Ripper to rip any Blu-rays and DVDs that can be played on iPad Mini 3 and iPad Air 2. A highlight feature is that it can preserve multiple audio tracks and subtitles when ripping your Blu-ray and DVD movies, then you can freely swith to your desire language when playing on media players.
To find an all-in-one solution to to transfer Blu-ray, DVD, and all kinds of HD/SD files (including MKV, AVCHD, M2TS, AVI, FLV, WMV, MOV, etc) to best video for iPad Mini 3 and iPad Air 2, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is what you are looking for, which integrates the optimized presets for different models and waht you need to do is simple find your device model listed, then click “Convert” in one go.
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