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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Anyone know if this natively supports 4K H.265/HEVC MKV and what player to use? Converting to 1080p H.264/AVC is pretty time consuming.
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Obviously, a Fire tablet will not display 4k. It doesn't have the sceen resolution to do that. However, I would expect that it would down convert it to something it could play. But does the CPU have enough horsepower to do the down convert in real time? Again, I expect that it would, because it only has to down convert fast enough to support normal speed viewing. But I guess that's a question for Amazon. Also, if you're slinging 4k videos at the Fire tablet, that's going to consume a lot of network bandwidth and local storage for video information that you will just be throwing away. Still, that might be better than spending years and years converting all your 4k videos manually on your computer and cooking its CPU. If you're interested in streaming rather than playing local content, look into the Plex media server, as it will down convert on the fly as it streams. This does not take anywhere near the horsepower that manual down converting "all at once" does.