Can I play ntfs files with vlc player on a firecube? Thx.
Not on the second gen cubes but apparently the new 3rd gen cube will read external ntfs formatted drives. Now that’s good news.
Thank for the answer.
I seen something on atv on the new cube,
In an unexpected move, Amazon has added support for NTFS USB drives to the 3rd-gen Fire TV Cube. This is surprising because no Fire TV device in the past has ever supported NTFS formatted storage drives. Whether they were a Fire TV, Fire TV Cube, Fire TV Stick, or Fire TV Smart TV, they all only supported FAT32 drives out of the box and required some complex manipulation to support any other drive format.
Connecting a USB drive formatted to use NTFS, be it a flash drive, hard drive, or SSD, to the Fire TV Cube’s full-sized USB-A port results in the drive being mounted and accessible by any app. With past Fire TV models, connecting an NTFS drive caused an error message to appear, which prompted you to format the drive. For NTFS drives to work on older Fire TV devices, you have to either use an app that had the ability to mount NTFS drives itself, which meant the drive could only be accessed within that one app, or add support for NTFS to the OS yourself through some other means, such as by rooting the Fire TV.
On the Fire TV Cube 3, files stored on NTFS drives show up in any app that supports external storage, such as Kodi, MrMC, and VLC. The Fire TV Cube’s new built-in media player app also sees files stored on NTFS drives just fine.
I saw that too, but I think it is false after checking it out. Thx.
Wow tx for this article. Looks Like I was wrong and the 3rd Gen FireTV Cube is the first FireTV device to support external ntfs drives. Now that’s huge as if this is true and it works this eliminates the worry about downloading big file sizes. That article was published by AFTVNEWS and is a trustworthy source for FireTV news and info.
Well considering everything els supports ntfs i think they are behind…
Come on amazon you are recoding android os which reads ntfs… lol
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I just setup a 3rd generation cube last week for my landlord, didn’t get a chance to to test. When I signed into amazon it asked if I wanted to transfer settings and apps from her firestick 4k, said yes and it did, downloader and other apps installed
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Ya you can do that with an Amazon account and FireTV device. They added that feature some time ago.
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