How To Stream Movies and TV Shows From The Cloud to Roku

Cloud storage has become a popular way to watch content. Unfortunately, services like Google Drive and Dropbox have also become home to pirates who upload a lot of copyrighted movies and TV shows to fake accounts and then share the links with popular apps and Kodi.

Roku is also capable of playing your own movies you upload to the Cloud or from shared links from cloud storage providers. You will need to use special Roku channels or Apps that will let you retrieve these shows from cloud storage and watch them on your HD TV.

There are actually quite a few Roku channels especially made for watching movies and shows from popular cloud storage services.

If you have a large library of DVDs, you can also convert them to digital format, create a media folder of your favorites and store them on the cloud or on your own personal NAS. Your videos can then be accessed and watched anywhere from portable devices like phones or tablets or on your large screen TV using a Roku or other media streamer. You can even share links with friends and family so they can watch them as well.

Popular Free Cloud Storage Sites

If you don't have a large library of content, any of these online storage sites offer plenty of free space to store some music or video files. You can use them to access from your Roku using special apps which you can add to your Roku free. You first need an account with a cloud service with one of the services listed. For your Roku to be able to access this content, it must be then uploaded to your cloud storage space.

Box

Box is a Free online Internet storage provider. Individuals can Store 10GB of data for Free or pay a little extra for extra storage space.

Google Drive

Google Drive is also very popular. You can store up to 15GB of content per user account for free. If you need more storage 100GB only costs $1.99/month. Maximum playback resolution is 1920 x 1080. Make sure you tick the box that says videos so they will play when you upload them to your drive.

DropBox

Dropbox also offers 5GB of storage for free, they offer extra storage for using their desktop app or referring a friend. They even offer their own Dropbox Roku channel to let you directly access your movies on your Roku.

Put.io

Put.io is a cloud service that is different. It lets you securely download torrents from behind a VPN to their server. Since their Internet connection is extremely fast. Put.io bypasses your Internet completely during the download process. It will still use your Internet provider to play downloaded content from their cloud server back to your Roku with their channel. They don't offer free accounts but do offer a limited 1-day trial to try out their service. Learn more

Not all video formats will play on every device. iPhones, tablets and Roku are limited on which video formats they play and should use video encoded in MPEG4, MOV or H264.

Popular Roku Channels For Streaming From The Cloud

There are really are some great channels available on Roku for streaming your favorite media files from the Cloud. They not only let you play movies, but will let you access photos and music files as well.

Couchy Play

Couchy Play is the Swiss Army Knife of streaming apps. It's a great way to play music or videos from the cloud. This Roku channel supports many different kinds of media such as photos, songs, and videos from your favorite cloud services like Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive.

Couchy Play Works with These Devices

ROKU
Google TV
Apple TV
Android-based Tablets and TVs
Samsung SmartTV, LG, Panasonic VierCast TV

Sign-up for Couch TV

Add Couchy Play Channel

Plex Roku Channel

Plex continues to be a popular channel for those that have collected huge libraries of video content. You can access all your files from a PC, NAS or from popular Cloud services using the Plex Roku channel.

Plex Cloud Sync

Plex Cloud Sync provides an easy way to link all your favorite cloud storage accounts. It works with most popular online cloud providers. Here are the full instructions to setup Cloud Sync with your Cloud provider.

Plex DVR

Now you can also record Free live HD TV using the Plex DVR from an Over The Air Antenna.

Plex is free to play your own media files or from sources online by using these Plex Unsupported App Store apps. The DVR function requires Plex Pass. This costs $4.99/month, $39.99/year or a single lifetime payment of $119.99 which is good forever. Get Plex Pass

Shows recorded from the Plex DVR work with your favorite channels like ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, FOX, BBC, Telemundo, ITV, Univision, CBC and many more. These shows can be set to be automatically downloaded and are automatically integrated into your Plex media library ready to watch directly from the Plex Roku channel.

Get Plex for Roku

AVIA Roku Channel

AVIA is both an app you can download from Google Play for your Android devices and also a Roku channel. It is made to play, control and share your private media by casting it to your Roku media streamer from the Android app.

This Roku streaming App is free to use with your favorite cloud services. If you want to turn off the ads, there is a one time $4.99 fee and it gives you Chromecast support for casting to Apple TV, Roku, WebOS along with custom themes.

AVIA also interfaces nicely with many cloud services. It plays videos directly from Facebook and Google Plus or use a DLNA enabled NAS on your home network to play your movies and shows from these devices as well.

Add AVIA Channel

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