If you have any problems about putting and playing AVCHD MTS/M2TS videos on Kindle Fire HD Tablets, you can follow this simple tutorial to Free Convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS to Kindle Fire HD friendly MP4 video format with Free MTS Converter for Mac on Mac Apps Store.
Question: Best settings for transferring avchd to Kindle file HD for playback
“I have an AVCHD clip from my camera I wanna transfer for playback on Kindle Fire HD, what’s the best format and settings for it?”
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Amazon Kindle Fire HD features a new 1280×800 high definition LCD display that brings your content to life. With a beautiful screen, refined interface, and huge coffer of media consumption options, the Kindle Fire HD is a decent HD media player and document reader. But before you put local contents to the Kindle Fire HD tablet, it’s better to make sure that your files are supported by the device.
Kindle Fire HD Supported Video formats: MP4, 3GP, VP8 (video playback at 720p)
- Read More: Top 10 Limitations of the Kindle Fire HD
Your AVCHD camcorder such as Panasonic HDC-SD9, Sony Handycam HDR-CX550V, Canon Vixia HF S21, Canon HF10, Sanyo Xacti, JVC GZ-HD 10 creates AVCHD MTS/M2TS files – and these files, because of unsupported format, will not play on Amazon Kindle Fire HD. Here’s a solution for people who feel like watching AVCHD MTS/M2TS videos on Kindle Fire HD for free. By Free converting AVCHD MTS/M2TS videos to 720p MP4, your HD recordings become compatible with the Kindle Fire HD tablet. Refer to a guide below for a guide of how to Free convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS videos for Kindle Fire HD on Mac OS.
Required software:
This is a freeware designed by Pavtube studio for Sony, Canon, JVC and Panasonic AVCHD Camcorder/camera owners to convert recorded AVCHD .mts/m2ts videos to various video formats for using in portable devices. Once upgraded to full version, you can get even more presets for video editing software (e.g. Apple ProRes for Final Cut Pro, Apple Intermediate Code for iMovie, etc), Only $19.99.
A Simple Guide: Best solution to fast Free Play AVCHD MTS/M2TS videos on Kindle Fire HD for Mac users.
Step 1. Run the installed Free AVCHD to Kindle Fire HD Converter Mac; hit the “Add Files” button to import the AVCHD videos from camcorder.
Step 2. To play AVCHD MTS/M2TS video on Kindle Fire HD, choose H.264 video (*.mp4) for your Kindle Fire HD 7″/8.9″ to play with. Click “Format” bar and Choose “Android > Amazon Kindle Fire HD H.264 (*.mp4)” as output format for Kindle Fire HD 7/8.9.
For better quality and higher resolution, you can click “Settings” button to adjust the output parameters of the video. Remember the file size is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss. According to my experience, for free watching AVCHD videos on Kindle Fire HD, 720p with 1500~2500kbps is just all right.
Video
- Video Codec – H.264
- Resolution – 1280*720
- Video Bitrate – 1500~2000kbps
- Frame Rate – 24fps
Audio
- Audio Codec – AAC
- Sample Rate – 44.1khz
- Audio Bitrate – 128kbps
- Audio Channel – Stereo
Step 3. When you are satisfied with all the settings, you can click “Convert” and let the software do the Free AVCHD MTS/M2TS to Kindle Fire HD MP4 video conversion.
If you wanna edit/cut the video files to make your own creative movie, click the “Edit” button. In the Video Editor interface you can edit your AVCHD videos by cropping, trimming, adding watermarks and setting special effects including 3D effect.
After the process, you can click “Open” to locate the converted MP4 video files and just transfer them to your Kindle Fire HD 7 or 8.9 Tablet for playback without limitations on Mac.
If you have no idea about Kindle Fire HD file transfer, you can check out my old post Synchronizing Your Content files (Videos, Pictures, Music) to Kindle Fire HD to learn more.
If you are Windows users, the Streaming Server app enables you to use your web browser to visit the HTTP server and select your wanted media contents for streaming from your shared folder to your Kindle Fire HD tablet via Wi-Fi network.
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