Mrs Overall Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Neither me or my hubby are PC literate, but he had a Kindle Fire (not HD) bought for Christmas, he was on BBC News and wanted to watch footie, then something came up asking for him to install Flash Player. It all went downhill from there as we didn't have a clue as to what we had to do.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I have a Fire HD, you could be struggling to get YouTube on it. Amazon don't want you using YouTube on their devices, they'd prefer you to be downloading movies and books and other media, from their AppStore... That said, I think you may be able to get YouTube type apps on the Amazon AppStore, that you can download and use. Not sure how good they'll be. Try going on the AppStore (Apps) on your device and searching for "youtube". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Have a look at this for bbc stuff. http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/tablets/kindle_bbc_iplayerapp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky_Gibbon Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Neither me or my hubby are PC literate, but he had a Kindle Fire (not HD) bought for Christmas, he was on BBC News and wanted to watch footie, then something came up asking for him to install Flash Player. It all went downhill from there as we didn't have a clue as to what we had to do.. Kindle doesn't support Flash so if he was trying to load something whilst looking at a webpage then it probably didn't like it. However there are apps that'll let him get into some of the same content. Search for and install the following from the Apps Store and you'll have access to both iPlayer and TVCatchup (which is basically Freeview channels over the internet). If you want to watch something go through the app rather than the webpage. BBC Media Player BBC Iplayer (Kindle Tablet Edition) TVCatchUp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_bloke Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I'm pretty sure the Kindle already comes with a Kindle version of the BBCi Player. Flash and the itv player have to be sideloaded; there's some nice tutorials on how to do this on the web. Kindle supports Flash just fine, it's the Amazon App store that doesn't have it, hence the need to get it from elsewhere (sideloading) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky_Gibbon Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I'm pretty sure the Kindle already comes with a Kindle version of the BBCi Player. It didn't when I bought mine last November but maybe that's changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollie Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 i watch stuff all the time on you tube using my kindle hd, no problems. i just go on web and type you tube and up it pops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Overall Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 Thanks folks, lots of info there ta... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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