![]() Scroll down and click “Install” and a few seconds later it will say “App installed” if it was successful. Once it does it should prompt you to install. It may take a few seconds or minutes to download depending on your network speed. ![]() Click on the appropriate version and a few seconds later the download should start. If you have a 1080p Fire TV device, you want ARMv7.apk. Which one should you choose for Fire TV? If you have a 4K Fire TV device, then you probably want the ARMv8.apk package. On the next screen you’ll see a list of APKs for various platforms. On the next screen select the version you want to install. Next scroll down and click on “vlc-android”. Be careful not to get it from any other source. For VLC, you want to enter “” and then press the “Go” button. It will then prompt you to enter the source you want to download and install from. If it isn’t on the apps list on the main screen you may need to search for it in your apps list. Now that “Downloader” is installed, go to the home screen and click on and run “Downloader”. You should see a big orange button called “Downloader”. If you have an Alexa enabled Fire TV device, just hold down the microphone button and say “Downloader” or, go to the main screen’s search feature in the upper left and type in “Downloader”. Go to the home screen on your Fire TV device. You can’t really do things that easily with Fire TV. If you’ve ever done sideloading on a phone or tablet you probably just hooked it up via USB to your computer and dragged and dropped the file to the device’s storage. Next you have to get the APK which is the application package installer loaded on your Fire TV. When it is done, repeat these steps again to confirm that VLC is no longer listed. Scroll down to VLC and if it is there, click on it, then click on “Uninstall”. Go to “Settings”, then “Applications”, then “Manage Installed Applications”. If you don’t do this, it will try to upgrade it during sideloading but fail because the application source was different, so you have to uninstall what you have first. Second, you’ll need to uninstall VLC if it you’ve already installed it from the appstore. ![]() If not, press it and then select “Turn On”. On your Fire TV, go to Settings at the top right of the home screen, then click on “Device”, then “Developer options”, then look if it says ON or OFF under “Apps from Unknown Sources”. As long as you are careful to install only apps from reputable sources, you should be fine. This may sound a bit scary, but all this does is let you install things that didn’t come directly from Amazon. There are a couple of things to prepare your Fire TV to sideload VLC:įirst, you need to turn on the ability to install sideloaded apps. Even if you’ve never sideloaded before, you can go through this step by step and be running the latest VLC in no time. Sideloading is a bit complex, but it’s not too hard. ![]() After sideloading the latest version, all of these problems disappeared. With the version from the appstore, I was having frequent problems with hangs, crashes, buffering during playback, and problems playing some files. At this writing, the Amazon Appstore has version 2.1.11 of VLC, while the latest available is 3.0.5. Unfortunately the version in the appstore is old, flaky, and rarely updated. You can just click to install and you’re ready to go. Why sideload though? Amazon Appstore has the VLC for Fire app already there. Just share a folder to the network, and you can play anything in there without any complications. Unlike other solutions like Plex which require additional software to be installed and index your content, VLC can play a video straight over the network share. I use it mostly to access videos from Windows/Samba shares on my local network. VLC is a great addition to Fire TV for moderate to advanced users, as it allows you to stream videos from internal storage, from Windows Shares over your local network, or from standard video streaming services. Many of you may be familiar with the VLC video player from its Windows version, but they also have a version for Android which also works on Fire TV devices. ![]()
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