Can’t Play YouTube Videos on Kindle Fire? Solved!

Date July 7, 2017 Author Catherine Category YouTube

Most tablets fans like Amazon Kindle Fire, like Amazon Kindle Fire 7 (2017), which is light, cheap and beautiful. However, there are little flaws: Amazon Kindle Fire 7 only can support the limited video formats: MPEG-4 (3GP, 3G2, MP4, M4V), WebM, Matroska (MKV). So poor. We know Youtube is a famous video library, you can watch about 2000+ videos everyday on it. So playing Youtube video on Amazon Kindle Fire is becoming a hot topic. Most Youtube video is FLV video formats, obviously, this video format is not supported by Amazon Kindle Fire. Share our secret with you: We have found the ways to play Youtube video on Amazon Kindle Fire at below, hope they are helpful for you.

Way 1: Play Youtube Video on Kindle Fire by Installing Youtube App

Are you still complaining that Kindle Fire can’t play Youtube videos? Before this post, you can’t play Youtube video on kindle fire, after 3 minutes, you will solve this trouble effortlessly. We know that YouTube app for Kindle Fire is not pre-installed on them. and you need to install Youtube app on Kindle Fire. Youtube app for Kindle Fire is not present in Amazon App-store, so you have to install the YouTube on Kindle fire HD from sources other than Amazon app-store. Following will show you how to install it smoothly.

Steps for Adding YouTube app on Kindle Fire

1. To allow installation of Applications from sources other than Amazon app-store, first go to the ‘Settings’ tab and tap on ‘Applications’

2. Tap the option ‘Apps from unknown sources’. This will bring up a warning note telling you that downloading apps outside the Amazon App Store could be harmful. Tap ‘OK’

NOTE: Make sure to do some research to find a reliable download site to accept the warning).

3. Go to Amazon’s ‘App Store’ and download and install a File Explorer or File Manager app on your tablet, which is necessary for side-loading apps. Here, you can try ‘ES File Explorer’.

4. To find the app open your browser and search for the latest app by YouTube.apk. All Android apps have the file name ‘.apk’.

5. Tap the link to download the app in question. This will bring up a prompt telling you that the file will be downloaded to your device, tap OK.

6. Now Open up the ‘ES File Explorer’ or other downloaded file manager app. On the left side tap Local, and in the drop down menu tap Download and find the YouTube.apk file.

7. Choose the file for the app you just downloaded. This will bring up a screen asking if you want to install the application. Tap Next to install. Wait for few seconds and the YouTube App for Kindle Fire  will be installed

8. Once the app is installed go back to the Home screen, the Kindle Fire YouTube should appear in the ‘Device’ section alongside the others. Click the ‘YouTube’ icon to open it on your Kindle Tablet and start watching videos.

Way 2: Convert Youtube Video to Kindle Fire Supported Videos

Actually above steps are little complicated, if you don’t want to install Youtube app on Kindle Fire or you can’t install the Youtube app on Kindle Fire successfully, you can try another way: Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate for Windows/Mac which can hlep you to convert any Youtube video to Kindle Fire acceptable video formats like: MP4, WEBM, etc. Compared with Youtube app installation, this software is easy to install, the user-friendly interface won’t let you down.

Sometimes, users like to transfer vidoe to Kindle Fire from PC, iPhone ot other devices, there are so mnay vidoe formats, for better and fast video transfer, you also can use this video converter and convert some video files to Kindle Fire supported video formats, then you can play any video on Kindle Fire. Best of all, you have many DVD and Blu-ray discs at home, it’s a precious time to play them on Kindle Fire, you can rip and backup disc to digital video files for Kindle Fire. This video converter review can help you to know more.

Quick Guide: Convert Youtube Video to Kindle Fire

Step 1. Download the Kindle Fire video converter through the above link. Install and launch it on your computer. Then click “File” to load Youtube video files, also you can load the Blu-ray and DVD disc, disc image, or folder to this video converter if you want to do.

Step 2. From the Amazon Kindle Fire 7 (2017) official information, we now MP4 is Kindle Fire 7 favourite video format, this software has preinstalled the best video format for Kindle Fire 7, you can click Format and choose “Amazon Kindle Fire HD (*.mp4)” from “Android”. You also can choose Kindle fire supported video format in “HD Video” category, such as: H.264 HD MP4 Video.

Tip: Even though Amazon Kindle Fire 7 (2017) can support MP4 video format, not all MP4 video format can be supported due to the codec compatibility, you can click Setting and adjust the vide and audio parameters easily. You can adjust the video and audio codec, you also can adjust the video resolution, for example: Compress the 4K to 1080p.

Step 3. After picking up the right output format for Kindle Fire 7 (2017), click “Browse” to set an output folder to save the converted video sources. Then click “Convert” to start conversion for Kindle Fire 7.

When you are waiting for the result, you also can watch the Youtube video at the preview window. If you can’t want to know more kindle fire supported video formats, below table is for you.

Kindle Fire Audio Formats Supported: AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV

Kindle Fire Video Formats Supported: