I own a fire stick and I’m considering selling it and buying an hdmi cable in order to connect my PC to the TV.

But before doing that I’m curious, if I were to install KODI on the FireStick TV, where does the app/device actually store my pirate videos such as TV series, anime etc.?

Also, if you do know how to use closed captions I’d really appreciate it because a big reason of me using netflix on fire stick and paying for the service were subtitles to improve my English.

I just realized chrome can do that on any video, that’s why I’m really considering to just connect my personal computer to my television and stream pirated content from any platform.

  • novarime@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    You have to serve the media. It’s not going on the firestick directly but you’ll either need a server backhand like jellyfin, or just set up an smb fileshare on your computer with all the media and point kodi at it.

    • gemew26@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Thank you for the help! I kind of guessed it, but I didn’t know free solutions such as jellyfin existed, that’s amazing. Is there any way to implement closed captions, and can I download from 9anime or similar?

      Edit: also my fire stick is from June 2022, lite model. Can I install kodi on it?

      • novarime@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Quite a rabbit hole but you can look at bazarr which can be integrated with radarr (movies), sonarr (tv).

        But Kodi also has a facility to download subs on the fly, as long as you set the sources.

        • gemew26@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          amazing, thanks. I’m still a bit sceptic though, I need to download all the anime or tv series (btw, do you know from where? I use 9anime but I don’t see a downlod button) and host them on a server, when I can just insert the hdmi cable into a TV and sell the fire stick. I’d like that, it has a remote as well, but it’s a lot of work and I’ve such a little amount of time available lately :(

          • novarime@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Search for FMHY. There’s a site for guidance, and it’s also a subreddit, but i’m not sure of its status at the moment with reddit going dark.

            Should provide some help.