Written by Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet is an outstanding portable video player, with it, you can purchase movies and TV shows from Amazon’s video store, stream movies from Netflix, and dig through a trove of free movie and TV content during your one-month trial membership to Amazon Prime. However, sometimes, when you are travelling outside without Internet connection, you may wish to load up your own movies such as MP4 video downloaded from online, shot with device recorders, etc and play them anywhere at any time as you like. The following article will show you how to transfer and play MP4 video to Amazon Kindle Fire tablet.
Best format and settings for Kindle Fire tablet
Before transferring any video to Kindle Fire tablet, first you should be clear the best playback settings of Kindle Fire to get the optimal playback experience. Although Kindle Fire tablet can handle various different video and audio file formats such as MP4, M4V, MKV, WebM, 3GP, 3G2, AAC, AMR and Vorbis, etc, however, it would be much ideal for you to encode MP4 video to the settings listed below:
Video settings
– Container: MP4
– Codec: H.264
– Resolution: 1024 *600
– Frame rate: 30fps
Bit rate: 1500 kbps
Audio settings
-Encoder: AAC
-Channel: Stereo
-Sample rate: 48000 Hz
-Bit rate: 128 kbps
Transcode MP4 for Kindle Fire tablet
Here, you can get the conversion easily done with our best MP4 to Kindle Fire Converter – Pavtube Video Converter. The program has full importing support for all 4K/2K/HD/SD MP4 files encoded with various different compression codec such as H.265, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VC-1/WMV, Real Video, MVC, etc and audio compression codec like MP3, AAC, WMA, DTS, FLAC, DTS-HD, etc. Thanks for its batch conversion mode, you can import multiple MP4 video at one time to save your precious time. You can easily output MP4 to Kindle Fire supported H.264 MP4 format.
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To generate the best playback settings for Kindle Fire tablet, click “Settings” to open “Profile Settings” window, here, you can flexibly adjust output profile parameters such as video codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc to produce the best playback settings for Kindle Fire tablet.
For Mac users, please switch to download Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to perform the same conversion on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite, etc.
How to Convert MP4 Files for Kindle Fire Tablet Playing?
Step 1: Load MP4 files.
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 MP4 files into the program. You can load multiple MP4 files into the program by clicking “Add from folder” button.
Step 2: Define output file format.
Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, here you can directly output Kindle Fire or Kindle Fire HD preset MP4 file formats under “Android” main category.
Tips: Open “Profile Settings” window, here all the profile parameters including video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc are adjustable to facilitate you to produce the best playback settings for Kindle Fire tablet.
Step 3: 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 process from unsupported MP4 to Kindle Fire/Fire HD/Fire HDX best playback settings.
When the conversion is finished, click “Open Output Folder” icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files.
Transfer video to Kindle Fire tablet from computer
Connect the Kindle Fire to your computer using a Micro-USB cable, You should see the Kindle Fire pop up as a drive on your Mac or PC. Locate the video subfolder, and drag and drop your video files here. Then, eject the drive and givthe tablet a minute to collect itself. To find your videos, go into your apps and locate the Gallery app. This is an app that is common to every Android-based device and it’s there to show off your photos and videos. Open it up and your videos should be there.
