Amazon Fire TV Not Playing Blu-ray Digital Copy? Check Solution Here

Diana Joan

Dec 12, 2014 07:49 am / Posted by Diana Joan | Categories: DRM

Fire TV is Amazon’s answer to the Apple TV which brings Amazon Instant Video, Showtime Anytime, and tons of games to your big screen TV. You can get video on Kindle Fire Tablets to stream to Amazon Fire TV or use Plex Media Server, XBMC to get your Fire TV to play local video files. However, it doesn’t seem to work when you need to enjoy Blu-ray Digital Copy with Amazon Fire TV.

enjoy Blu-ray Digital Copy with Amazon Fire TV

Digital Copies all boil down to the DRM (Digital Rights Management) which prevents you from playing them on unauthorized devices. With the DRM protection packed, it seems impossible to view Blu-ray Digital Copy on Fire TV. Here, we will provide a simple solution and make it possible to transfer Maleficent Blu-ray Digital Copy to Fire TV for watching.

1. Insert the digital copy disc to DVD-ROM and transfer Blu-ray digital copy to computer, either in M4V or WMV format. This process is straight-forward, you may refer to this guide for detailed steps.

2. Remove DRM from digital copy, and convert it to Fire TV friendly format.

The app I use: Pavtube ChewTune ($29) (More options can be found here)

It is an intuitive and stable DRM converter to help you remove DRM protection from Blu-ray/DVD Digital Copies, iTunes, Zune, BBC iPlayer, Napster, Blockbuster, etc. and convert videos to Amazon Fire TV compatible videos. Now free download it and try to enable Amazon Fire TV play Blu-ray Digital Copy without DRM limitation.

Detailed steps:

Step 1. Run ChewTune, the top Digital Copy to Fire TV Converter(Mac version is ChewTune for Mac), drag and drop digital copy movie to the software.

Digital Copy to Fire TV Converter

Step 2. Select an Amazon Fire TV friendly format, e.g. H.264 .mp4 for conversion. I choose “Common Video” > “H.264 Video (*.mp4)” and it worked for Amazon Fire TV.

Amazon Fire TV video format

Step 3. Click the big “Convert” button to convert Maleficent Blu-ray digital Copy to Fire TV supported videos. The conversion takes quite a while but overall video quality is quite decent.

When conversion completes press “Open” and it’ll find converted videos. In this way the DRM-protected Blu-ray digital copy is transferred to DRM-free video.

Have no idea about how to Stream Local Video Files to Amazon Fire TV? Here is methods:

  • Stream Video Files via Kindle Fire TabletsAmazon Fire TV works as a media steaming device, it can also stream all contents stored on Amazon tablets. So to watch the converted iTunes movies on Amazon Fire TV more easily, you can transfer the iTunes movies to Amazon Kindle Fire HD or other tablets at first.
  •  Play Converted iTunes Video with Plex Media Server or XBMC.Plex Media Server and XBMC are the most famous home media sharing/managing solutions which helps you connect your clients with all of your local and online media. The combination of centralized library management, streaming of online content, and transcoding functionality provides flexibility and ease of use.

Now you are ready to put Maleficent Blu-ray Digital Copy onto Amazon Fire TV for playback. Hope it helps! Also learn how to stream Blu-ray/DVD Collection to Amazon Fire TV with Plex.

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