

Moreover, no loss of quality will occur after the conversion. Besides convert MKV to Amaon Fire TV, it also helps to convert AVI, MOV, WMV, RMVB, MTS, MXF, FLV, VOB, SWF etc to Amazon Fire TV supported video format. With it, you can fast convert MKV to H.264 MP4 that can be easily played with Plex in Amazon Fire TV. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is the utility for you. How to Convert MKV to H.264 MP4 with AAC Audio for Fire TV and Plex? Solution 3: Simply convert your MKV files to mp4 with h264 video and AAC audio with a video converter so that you can play with Plex on Amazon Fire TV. Here is more info on NAS and which has a compatibility list of NASs that plex can be installed which includes details on which can transcode or not: Solution 2: That error message could definitely be improved, but your NAS cannot transcode which it would need to do to play the formats/codecs the fire TV does not support natively via HLS streaming.

Honestly your best bet if you can't transcode, is to use an External player with the app, or as was previously suggested re-encode all your content to MP4 with AAC audio. You can direct play MKV's with AAC audio though.

Because if you force it to Direct Play, and it is an MKV with AC3 audio, you won't get sound. However, the feedback unveils that this method get MKV files to play on Fire TV via Plex but no sound.(amazon fire stick). Then uncheck all the "Device supports *" options.

Plex > Options > Settings > Device media profile > Media profile > Select "Force Direct Play". Solution 1: Changing the following settings on the Amazon Fire TV Plex App maybe allow you to play mkv files. You may be my last resort of help! I hope that this pretty basic information is sufficient. So I guess there is another problem with respect to the file-format. I am far from being an IT-expert, but to me this error-message doesn't make sense as the connection to the server is definetly established. When trying to play another format (i.e.mkv) I get the following error-message: "It is not possible to play this video as no connection to the required Server could be found. Question: ”Dear Plex-community, I installed the Plex-Server on my Sinology DS212j-NAS and a amazon Fire TV in order to watch my media on TV.
