I get a warning when I look at renting a video in HD saying this device will only play it back in SD. I play HD files on it all the time. ???
Any way to make it work?
I haven't seen this message on my tablet. Are you running a rooted or a non-stock ROM? Some streaming services would degrade the quality of their service in such cases.
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The temptation to install an ICS rom on my Fire is too much! I'm going to do it this weekend. But before I do, I need to know, are all features of the Stock Kindle Fire available in the ICS Kindle app? Will I lose any functionality? My wife actually reads many books and magazines on it and will be mad if she can't anymore.
thanks!!
Hi,
When you upgrade to the ICS rom, it will become an android tablet. You won't be able to use amazon instant video. You will loose amazon books, magazines, music, docs, web, and all that.
However, you can download the amazon kindle app to download books (magazines I am not to sure about).
The Amazon app store does not want to install (at least on my KF). There are a lot of apps I need to re-install from the Play store, and delete the Amazon version.
I'd say, if it's not yours and she's happy with it, don't F**k with it.
But, if it IS yours and she's happy with it, still, don't F**k with it.
You will definitely loose amazon instant video (incl. amazon Prime) in case this is important to you. You'll retain the books via the amazon kindle app and also the music via Amazon's mp3 app including access to the cloud. Of course you can also use the Amazon Appstore for Android, but you might prefer to use Google's Play Store, since the apps are updated more frequently. If you need the video option, you could also try dual-boot which gives you both worlds. Videos themselves can of course be viewed without dual boot. The advantage of an ICS is OTG/mass storage, meaning that you can hook a hard disk to the kindle and view the films from there. With twa_privs ROM and the BSPlayer you will have flawless video decoding of highest quality. Check for respective threads to get the right hardware to do so. I am fine with all USB2 devices (USB stick, hard disk) formatted in fat32, but never got usb3 or ntfs to work.
Just picked up a Fire 8.9 and have a question.
Can you still watch videos on Amazon Instant Video if the device
is rooted ?
If not can you use a temp un-root app to watch Instant Video content ?
BrettXNA said:
Just picked up a Fire 8.9 and have a question.
Can you still watch videos on Amazon Instant Video if the device
is rooted ?
If not can you use a temp un-root app to watch Instant Video content ?
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Amazon Instant Video is unaffected by rooting, only way it would likely stop working is if you start disabling/removing the Amazon services & other stuff it relies on.
Simply answers is: No, the rooting process doesn't break it
I can say from experience though (and it's not something I saw in any of the rooting tutorials) after you install google play you will want to find all of the amazon apps (shopper, music, kindle, etc) and DISABLE automatic updates via google play for those apps. Else you're going to end up with versions that do not work with the amazon carousel.
Not sure if this is a real incompatibility or just an issue with an errant warning message in the play store. When you select a movie and click on the rental price you are shown a price for the HD version and the SD version. The HD price for all movies has a message that says HD playback is not supported on this device. However, it still will let you click on the HD price and proceed to checkout. I haven't had the need to try it yet and see what happens. Is this just a errant warning message for some reason like a unrecognized resolution?
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Not sure if this is a real incompatibility or just an issue with an errant warning message in the play store. When you select a movie and click on the rental price you are shown a price for the HD version and the SD version. The HD price for all movies has a message that says HD playback is not supported on this device. However, it still will let you click on the HD price and proceed to checkout. I haven't had the need to try it yet and see what happens. Is this just a errant warning message for some reason like a unrecognized resolution?
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I already started a thread on this, here is the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2486796
Sorry for bumping this. Does anyone know if the play movies can play HD yet? Has it been fixed? I know it can support 1080p but I was just wondering about the play store videos..
So I'm having extreme frustrations with the native Youtube app for my Fire TV Stick. It's often slow, randomly crashes, CONSTANTLY lags without fail, and I can't even use the Amazon Fire TV Android app to type to search. It's just not an overall well done app for the Stick at least. I can't speak about the Fire TV Box, which I might purchase due to some sluggishness with the Stick (i.e. Youtube, Kodi, etc) So, I've tried other alternatives on the Amazon Appstore. Namely OneTube. It works decently, but it doesn't look too pretty, is difficult to find things when I don't know what I want to watch, and no Cast/pair support.
The older Youtube for Google TV works well, but unfortunately, when using the remote, I can't click the search box to search anything lol.
I've used the Youtube for Android TV 1.0.5.5 app(sideloaded) and, minus the regular complaints about the app itself, runs great! No lag, videos work fine, and I can type to search with the Amazon Fire TV app on my phone. Downside is that I can't seem to find a pair device setting in the app itself :/ Now maybe I need to sideload google play services in order to get it to show up? I'm not sure, but I thought that was only necessary if you wanted to sign into your YouTube account.
So my question is are there any alternate YouTube players that work well, or is there a way to pair my device with the new Youtube for Android TV app?
The kodi YouTube app works very well and you could use yatse to cast videos to it.
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Due to the unstable stock ROMs on my T800, I recently installed a 7.1.2 ROM. Everything is running fine except I have lost the ability to play movies in HD from services such as Google Play and Vudu.
Does anyone here know of the requirements these services look for to play movies in HD? When I sent a support email to Vudu it did some checks, one of which was for HDCP which came up as "unprotected". Is there something I can install to get HD back?
Thanks.
UPDATE: It appears that Google Play is allowing HD after all, at least on LineageOS. Vudu though is still an issue. Filed a support request with them.