Converting DVD to Amazon Fire TV friendly format enables you to stream DVD on Amazon Fire TV with Plex via Netgear ReadyNAS, QNAP NAS, WD My Cloud NAS, Synology NAS, etc. In this case, you can migrate your physical DVD discs in the attic or basement to saving the room on cupboard. You also can protect your DVD discs from scratching, damaging, destoying. So how to copy DVD to Amazon Fire TV 2/1?

Obviously, you cannot stream DVD disc on the Amazon fire TV directly. What you need to do is to rip & convert DVD movies to Fire TV compatible video files likes MP4 with DVD ripping tool. Here, Pavtube ByteCopy can convert any DVDs (including commercial css-protected DVDs and normal ones) even Blu-rays to ATV compatible format to meet your personal needs. What’s more, it is also capable to convert DVD to various video formats, like MP4, H.264, MOV, FLV, MPEG, M4V, AVI, WMV, MKV, etc. Just 4 steps that you can rip all DVDs to Amazon fire TV and got a digital library of movies for watching any time.  Read the review. 

Note: If you are on Mac, turn to ByteCopy for Mac for ripping DVD to Samsung Wireless Mobile Media Streaming Device on Mac (El Capitan included). 

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How to Convert DVD to Amazon Fire TV (2/1) Playable Format?

Step 1. Run DVD to Fire TV Converte
 
This converter both support DVD/Blu-ray disc/folder/ISO, your ISO image file would be recognized automatically so there’s no need to run virtual drive to mount it any more. Just click "File" to load your DVD, Blu-ray and ISO images.

Tip: If you need to rip DVD with wanted subtitles and audio track, you can click the drop down menu after “Subtitles” and “Audio” to select your desired tracks. 

Step 2. Choose Format.

Click the drop-down list besides “Format” list, you can find many presets and columns for different devices and programs. Let’s switch to “HD Video” column and select “H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)” for Amazon Fire TV.  

Tip: If you want to customize output video size, bitrate, frame rate and others, just click “Settings” to enter profiles settings window. Here you can set size to “1280*720” for Amazon Fire TV.  

Step 4. Start conversion.

Now hit the big red “Convert” to start converting DVD movies to Amazon Fire TV MP4 with best settings for playback. After the conversion, you can get the converted videos in .mp4 format by tapping the Open button.

The latest Amazon Fire TV update has added official support for external USB storage, which is used for storing apps and games. As for other uses of USB storage, Amazon explicitly states that you cannot access any media that you side-loaded onto the USB device. But fortunately, Amazon is not going out of their way to block apps from accessing USB external storage. Apps like VLC and Kodi can play media stored on an attached external drive without any issues. So you can put your converted DVD MP4 files to External USB storage then stream them with VLC and Kodi. Another way is to put DVD rips to NAS to stream on ATV.

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“I sideloaded Kodi 14.2 on the Amazon Fire TV 2 box. I have an external hard drive connected to my router that has all of my media. I have some SD files and a bunch of blu-ray rips, some compressed but most uncompressed. All of the SD content I played works fine and most of the blu-ray content works fine as well. However, there are some blu-ray files (some are .mkv, some are .m2ts, and some are .iso) that play choppy no matter what I try to do. I have tried re-ripping them with other programs and nothing works. It’s not a network issue as it never shows that it’s buffering…I tried all of their fixes and nothing has worked yet. I even tried older versions of Kodi with no luck. So, any ideas?”

According to what the questioner mentioned, I guess that there are two things that could be the issue:

First, it should be hardware acceleration. Under Settings – Videos – Playback, turn off “Allow hardware acceleration (MediaCodec)”. It has problems on the Fire TV (and Android in general). You may need to set the settings level to Expert for this. The negative to disabling this is that it will affect interlaced video. Deinterlacing won’t look as good.

If that doesn’t fix the problem, it is possible that the particular Blu-ray files are encoded in VC-1 as opposed to H.264. Many Blu-rays are, and if you are using unaltered .m2ts or .iso files its possible they are still VC-1. Unfortunately the Fire TV 2 cannot decode VC-1 in hardware, and its little CPU can’t keep up. Your only solution is to transcode them into H.264 or another format on your PC (assuming you are set on using Kodi on a Fire TV2 ).

If you are will to transcode Blu-ray to Kodi supported H.264 MP4, I can recommend you Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, with which you can easily rip Blu-ray disc movies to Kodi supported format for watching. Besides, with it you can rip Blu-ray to any unprotected common videos, such as MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, WMV, MPG, M4V or other formats you need. And you also can rip DVD and other unsupported video to Amazon Fire TV 2 supported formats.

If you are Mac users, please turn to the equivalent Mac version Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac to transcode MKV files to Fire TV on Mac OS X (OS X El Capitan included). (Read the Review)

Now, just free get Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate on Windows computer and follow the steps below to transcode Blu-ray to Amazon Fire TV 2 with suitable format.

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  Other Download:
  – Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/blu-ray-video-converter-ultimate/
  – Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-Video-Converter-Ultimate/3000-2194_4-75938564.html

Steps to convert Blu-ray to Kodi for playing on Amazon Fire TV

Step 1: Load files to the program.

Run Blu-ray to Kodi converter on PC. Click “Load File”button to import Blu-ray disc or Blu-ray ISO movie into the software.

Step 2: choose output file format.

To convert Blu-ray to Kodi for playing on Amazon Fire TV 2, please choose Kodi supported format. Click the “Format” bar and choose Common Video -> H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4), this format is well supported.

Tip: By clicking the Settings icon, you can adjust video and audio parameters like codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc. In this way, you can take charge of the size and quality of the output files. In principle, the larger input values, the better output quality, but the corresponding larger file size.

Step 3: Start Blu-ray to Kodi conversion.

Click “Start Conversion” button on the main interface to start Blu-ray to Kodi conversion process.

When the conversion is done, you can add files to Kodi on Amazon Fire TV, and then you will be able to play Blu-ray on Amazon Fire TV with Kodi, and there is no Blu-ray limitations anymore. Just try it!

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Actually, until now, Amazon Fire TV only supports several video and audio formats, which brings much inconvenience to users. The Amazon Fire TV compatible formats are as below:

Video: H.263, H.264, MPEG4-SP, VC1

Audio: AAC, AC-3, E-AC-3, HE-A, PCM, MP3

Photo: JPG, PNG

Obviously, MKV, as one of the most commonly used video container, unfortunately is not in the list of Amazon Fire TV supported video formats. In order to smoothly play MKV on Amazon Fire TV, we need to convert MKV to Amazon Fire TV compatible video formats. Here a powerful third party app –  Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is highly recommended due to its easy operation and high speed. Moreover, no loss of quality will occur after the conversion.

Besides MKV, it also supports encoding H.265, AVI, MOV, FLV, MPEG, VOB, 3GP, MTS, etc. to Amazon Fire TV compatible formats with ultra-fast speed and zero quality loss. If you are Mac users, please turn to the equivalent Mac version  Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac to transcode MKV files to Fire TV on Mac OS X (OS X El Capitan included). (Read the Review)

Now, just free get Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate on Windows computer and follow the steps below to turn MKV to Amazon Fire TV with suitable format.

• Free download and install
            

  Other Download:
  – Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/blu-ray-video-converter-ultimate/
  – Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-Video-Converter-Ultimate/3000-2194_4-75938564.html

Step-by-Step Guide on How to Turn MKV to Amazon Fire TV Suitable Format?

Step 1. Add MKV to the software

Run the MKV converter for Fire TV. Click the “Add video” button to load MKV videos for converting. You can preview the video on the right window.

Step 2. Choose output format

After the files are added, click Format > Common Video and set output video format as mp4 for playing on Amazon Fire TV.

Step 3. Set advanced settings(Optional)

By clicking the Settings icon, you can adjust video and audio parameters like codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc., in that way, you can take charge of the size and quality of the output files. In principle, the larger input values, the better output quality, but the corresponding larger file size.

Step 4. Start to turn MKV to H.264 MP4

When all the above settings are completed, you can press “Start Conversion” button to start converting MKV to Amazon Fire TV playable MP4 video. You can follow the conversion process via the pop-up windows.

Upload converted MKV file to Amazon Cloud Drive for watching on Fire TV

Photos or videos you take on your phone or tablet can be automatically uploaded to Amazon Cloud Drive, so they appear on your Fire TV within seconds.

1. Go to Amazon Cloud Drive (https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive).
2. Click on the Photos & Videos tab in the page header.
3. Click Add Photos & Videos.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions to upload the photo or video.

Now, just open Amazon Fire TV, select the uploaded videos then watch them freely. (Also learn: upload ISO to Amazon Cloud Drive)

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