HOW TO… Store videos on a Fire TV Stick to watch anywhere
What you need: Amazon Fire TV Stick Time required: One hour
If you use an Amazon Fire TV Stick to stream films or TV from online sources, you’ll already know that it has internal storage that can accommodate installed video and audio apps, as well as games. But did you know that you can also access that storage yourself, and use it to host your own videos, photos and music?
All you need do is install a couple of apps (ES File Explorer and VLC Media Player) from the Amazon App Store, which is built into the Fire TV Stick itself. Once you’ve done so, you can transfer files wirelessly from your computer to your stick, so you can access them on your TV whenever you want
Space is limited, so it makes sense not to try transferring hours of unedited footage. Our advice is to work with something you’ve trimmed down so you can maximise the variety of videos you transfer.
Before we start, a note about the ‘four-way controller’ that we refer to later. This is the
