Wednesday, February 4, 2015

How to fix video playback errors on Kindle devices – Ghacks Technology News

I do not own a Kindle but my mother does. Mainly she uses it to read some books, listen to audiobooks and watch movies When she is traveling.

I’m the one who is copying audiobooks, ebooks and movies to the device and ever since I started doing so I ran into issues with the default video player on the device.

I quickly discovered That the Kindle supports the MP4 format videos and That had to be in That format for the default media player to play them.

I also found out That is not the videos right category to find the videos that you ‘have uploaded to the device. You have to select the apps and there the personal application to play videos using the default Those player.

While some mp4 files play just fine right away, others would not play at all even if I used the same program is convert them into the format.

I tried multiple video converters, Miro Video Converter from Freemake Video Converter is, and there was not a single converter That produced only videos That the Kindle would play.

The error message was always the same (German in this case. It basically states That the video can not be played.)

kindle can not play video

After trying various converters and conversion to no avail settings, I Decided to try a different course of action.

Since the Kindle is based on Android, it Should support Android apps Including other media players.

A tap on the apps store and then he loaded the store interface on the device. A search for a video player mana returned Including results for Kindle Beta VLC.

Since I really like VLC on the desktop, I Decided to give it a go. It is freely available and while I can not guarantee That it will run on all Kindle devices, it installed fine on my mother’s Kindle Fire HD device.

 vlc for kindle

Once installed, it Becomes available under apps as well. You can launch the player Directly from there or select it as the default playback device When you open your personal videos on the Kindle device.

VLC supports other formats dry as mkv or avi on top of it Which Means That you do not even need it anymore convert your videos to mp4 format before you move them to your Kindle device.

The VLC Media Player is just one solution for the video playback issue. Other players also be small capable of playing video files Kindle That the default video player does not play.

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How to fix video playback on Kindle devices errors

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If you can not play the videos on your Kindle device that you ‘have copied to it, you apr be interested in a solution to the issue so That the error goes away.

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About Martin Brinkmann

Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook, Twitter or Google+

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