Kindle fire as portable DVD player (digital) for disabled person? (app)

[mrwumpus]

I have a disabled relative who loves watching DVDs all day but he's too rough with the flimsy portable DVD players which run about $70. I was thinking I could get him a Kindle fire with a big microSD card and rip a bunch of his DVD movies onto the microSD storage. Compressed, these movies wouldn't take more than about 1gb, so I could get 60+ on a 64gb SD card.

Do you think that would work well for him in terms of getting to the movies? Maybe there's a video playing app on it that might be friendlier?

My concern is all the pre-existing shovelware will distract him.

[Skunk Workz]

VLC has an Android version, and plays pretty much everything.

Does he have a PC available? If so you could do the same and run a Plex server so that the same content is available on multiple devices, or even use a Roku or similar streaming stick to stream from the Plex Server, or even something like Hulu or Netflix.

[gguerra]

ES File explorer and your favorite video player for Android should do the trick. Ripping 60 movies will take a while. There is another recent thread on this here https://www.city-data.com/forum/consu...vd-ripper.html

I've used MX Player, VLC, BSPlayer, Daroon and Kodi. Kodi would eliminate the need for the ES File Explorer since you can setup a "library" and point it to the external SD card. It would bring in all the titles, artwork and other movie information along with it.

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