Amazon device to direct play MKV
I am looking to recommend an upgrade from the original Fire Stick for some of my users, and I am having a hard time finding out if any of the Amazon devices will natively play MKV container movies without any transcoding. The old Fire Stick requires that I encode the movies to mp4 to avoid transcoding, and also won't play a few of the audio codecs directly. Thanks.
I only have the Firestick 4K but it plays my library which is 99+% all MKV/HEVC *8 & 10 bit).
I've got a test library with many assorted files and this device seems to play them back fine for me.
The only thing I don't like about it is that it's WIFI only which is fine for a stick. My Shield TV is connected directly to ethernet and my MiBox-S use an $12 Ethernet dongle. Both also seem to work fine on WIFI.
I'm not fond of the Amazon UI which I think is confusing for finding your
