

Since the Amazon Fire TV will only accept FAT32 USB Drives, you can’t store files larger than 4GB on a drive that the Fire Tv can read. This poses a problem since many high definition video files are larger than 4GB in size. There is actually a simple solution to this problem. Kodi has the ability to detect split RAR files as a single video file. All you need to do is split your larger video files with a RAR utility before moving them to your USB drive. This guide will show you how to do that on both a Mac and Windows computer.

Windows Guide

Download and install WinRAR.

Right-Click the video file on your computer and select “Add to archive…”

From the “Compression method” menu, select “Store“.

From the “Split to volumes, size” menu, select “4,095MB (FAT32)“.

Click “OK” and wait for the process to complete.

When WinRAR is done, you will have 2 or more new files in the directory containing the original video file.

Connect your FAT32 USB drive to your computer and move the new files (not the original video file) to a new folder on your USB drive. The folder’s name should be the same as the original video file.

Connect your FAT32 USB drive to your Fire TV and launch Kodi. Open Files > extUSB and navigate to the new folder you just created.

Open the folder and you’ll see that Kodi detects the split files as if it were the original large file. You can play the file as you would any other file in Kodi.



Mac Guide

Download and install SimplyRAR.

Launch SimplyRAR and drag the video file into the SimplyRAR window.

From the “Compression Method” menu, select “Store“.

Check the “Split archive” option on the right.

From the “Split to volumes into” menu, select the “100Mb Files” option and click the “Create RAR” button at the top.

Create a new folder to save the files into. Both the new folder and the files should have the same name as the original video file.

When SimplyRAR is done, connect your FAT32 USB drive to your computer and move the new directory (not the original video file) to your USB drive.

Connect your FAT32 USB drive to your Fire TV and launch Kodi. Open Files > extUSB and navigate to the new folder you just created.

Open the folder and you’ll see that Kodi detects the split files as if it were the original large file. You can play the file as you would any other file in Kodi.



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