Enable 4K Video Playback on Blackberry Smartphones

Enable 4K Video Playback on Blackberry Smartphones

For Blackberry lifers who have got a Blackberry smartphone in hand, you may come the ideal to play the 4K video that you’ve just downloaded from YouTube or shot with your 4K camera/camcorder on your Blackberry KEYone/DTEK60/DTEK50/PRIV/Passport/Classic/Leap. The following article will show you how to enable 4K video playback on Blackberry smartphones listed above.

Can Blackberry Smartphone handle 4K video?

Among above listed 7 Blackberry Smartphones, you can use Blackberry KEYone, Blackberry DTEK60 and Blackberry PRIV to shot 4K video at 30fps. Other 4 smartphones only allow you to record 1080p HD vidoeo at 60fps or 30fps. When we tried to search “play 4k video on Blackberry” on the Internet, we didn’t get any information about this issue. Although we still not sure whether Blackberry smartphone has the ability to process 4K video, however, one thing that we can ensure is that we won’t get a smooth 4K video playback experience on Blackberry smartphone. For one reason, the maximum display resolution of Blackberry is just 2560×1440, which can not handle the extra pixels offered by 4K video. In addition, 4K video display usually require a lot of power, it drains almost fourth the battery as compared to a HD display. What’s more, 4K video requires a lot of storage, all your Blackberry smartphone storage will be eaten up.

Therefore, to get a smooth video playback performance on your Blackberry Smartphone and save more storage space for your smartphone, it would be much ideal for you to compress 4K video to Blackberry smartphone favorable 1080p or 720p video formats listed below:

Multimedia Playback capability of Blackberry Smartphones

Best tool to compress 4K video for Blackberry Smartphone

Looking for a powerful 4K Video Converter to convert and compress any unsupported 4K video for Blackberry smartphone playback, here, we highly recommend Pavtube Video Converter to you. The program has full support for all 4K video such as 4K AVI/WMV/MKV/MOV/MP4/MXF/XAVC/XAVC S, etc with the compression codec of H.264, H.265 or Prores. Thanks to its batch conversion mode, you can load multiple 4K video into the program at one time for converting to Blackberry Smartphone compatible file formats listed below.

To get better playback effect, click “Settings” on the main interface to open “Profile Settings” window, adjust to output Blackberry Smartphone playable video codec and audio codec, from “Size(pix)” drop-down list, select “1980*1020” or “1080*720” to compress 4K to 1080p or 720p. You can also tweak other settings such as video bit rate, frame rate, audio bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc according to your own needs.

Adjust output video aspect ratio for Blackberry Smartphone

The 4K video uses an aspect ratio of 16:9, which doesn’t match with your Blackberry smartphone display screen aspect ratio such as 1:1 for Blackberry Passport or Classic. To fix this issue, you can use the “Crop” function offered by the program to change output video aspect ratio to let it fit with Blackberry Smartphone.

For Mac users, please switch to download Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to convert and compress 4K video for Blackberry smooth playing on macOS Sierra or macOS High Sierra.

How to Get 4K Video Played on Blackberry Smartphone Smoothly?

Step 1: Load 4K video.

Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click “File” menu and select “Add Video/Audio” or click the “Add Video” button on the top tool bar to import source 4K video files into the program.

Step 2: Define the output format.

Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, select one of Blackberry Smartphones compatible HD file formats such as “H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)” under “HD Video” main category.

Step 3: Compress 4K to 1080p/720p.

Click “Settings” on the main interface to open “Profile Settings” window, from “Size(pix)” drop-down list, select “1980*1020” or “1080*720” to compress 4K to 1080p or 720p. Click “Codec” drop-down list to choose Blackberry Smartphones compatible video and audio codec. You can also change other settings according to your own needs.

Step 4: Adjust output video aspect ratio.

Go the “Crop” tab in the “Video Editor” Window, switch to the “Advanced Mode”. To change output video aspect ratio, there are several aspect ratios for you to choose from, including 16:10, 16:9, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2, and 2:1, you can choose Blackberry Smartphones accepted aspect ratio. Once you select a “Display aspect ratio”, the “green crop frame” will keep this ratio to crop video and you are able to preview the final effect in real time. If you want to keep the same aspect ratio in your final output files, do remember to set the Video “Size (pix)” in “Settings” section as the same ratio as display aspect ratio.

Step 5: Begin the conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit the “Convert” button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the conversion and compression process from 4K video to Blackberry Smartphone.

When the conversion is finished, click “Open Output Folder” icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then feel free to transfer and play the converted files on Blackberry smartphone.