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Glad to hear it's working well. I recommended it to someone else on SA recently but hadn't actually tried it myself.
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Kenderama posted:I really don't get what the issue is running XBMC on ATV2. the menus are sluggish as hell compared to my other HTPCs unless you turn the fanart/thumbs/scrolling synopsis off PVR can't play HD channels smoothly as the ATV doesn't have hardware decoding support for the codecs used (in AU/DVB-T at least) I'm about to sell mine, luckily i bought it for only $85 as the ATV3 had just come out and nobody knew it wouldn't be jailbroken for ages. The only positive it does have is that the airplay support is stable, i've found it to be very unstable on openelec
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I guess I really never noticed much slowness - or if I did, i ignored it.  I am just happy xbmc will play anything I throw at it without requiring a server like Plex.
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Kenderama posted:I guess I really never noticed much slowness - or if I did, i ignored it. Yeah it's perfect for me. XBMC, Netflix and NBA League Pass all in one spot. I had a mp4 chug away in XBMC, threw it into iTunes and it played fine over Appletv.
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Mar 14, 2013 18:27
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I do agree that the ATV is nice for its native support of MLB/NBA and Netflix. That's one thing I sorta left out of my original complaint.
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Bucket Joneses posted:I do agree that the ATV is nice for its native support of MLB/NBA and Netflix. That's one thing I sorta left out of my original complaint. If only it had the NFL I would never need cable again.
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Ramadu posted:If only it had the NFL I would never need cable again. And that is why it's still a while away and it will be a lovely fight the entire way to getting unblocked local games in your region.  .
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Shmoogy posted:And that is why it's still a while away and it will be a lovely fight the entire way to getting unblocked local games in your region. I don't think there's an online only streaming package for NFL? I think you can only do that if you have that Direct TV thing?
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Joe Don Baker posted:I don't think there's an online only streaming package for NFL? I think you can only do that if you have that Direct TV thing?
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I've been using Handbrake to convert old performance videos so that they can be added to iTunes and watched over Apple TV. I recently acquired some more old footage, but it's on a DVD (actual DVD video, not just data files burned to a disc). Is there a good program that can rip that directly into an iTunes format? Or do most people rip into whatever and just use Handbrake after the fact?
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Mar 18, 2013 18:15
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OS X or Windows? You can rip DVDs directly in Handbrake, but if they are copy protected I don't think you can rip them in the Windows version.
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Handbrake can handle the entire thing and you end up with an iTunes-compatible video. It's almost the exact same process as converting a file.
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Diabolik900 posted:OS X or Windows? You can rip DVDs directly in Handbrake, but if they are copy protected I don't think you can rip them in the Windows version. gooby on rails posted:Handbrake can handle the entire thing and you end up with an iTunes-compatible video. It's almost the exact same process as converting a file.
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AppleTV 5.2.1 is out with a bunch of bug fixes and a re-designed Hulu Plus. @evad3rs (The Evasi0n jailbreak group) is credited with all of the security holes. Obviously, if you're jailbroken you'll want to hang out until further news on Seas0npass
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tonic posted:Give iVI a try. Make sure you select "pass through" and it will simply remux (rather than re-encode) mkvs and throw them in iTunes nicely tagged for you. Takes my iMac around a minute thirty for a 30 minute TV show. I've found iVi to be awesome for metadata tagging, but I've never been able to get conversions to work the way I want. Even when I select "pass-thru", it still eventually starts "Doing Original Conversion" in the queue window and takes about 45 minutes for a 22 minute show. Can you post your settings so I can see what I'm missing?
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On some movies, the Apple TV shows a timecode above the progress bar. Any idea what that is? I guess it's probably the time of the last chapter stop, but why would you want to know that, especially to the millisecond? (Maybe this works differently on real iTunes movies, rather than my rips?) Oh, nevermind, I figured it out while trying to find a screenshot that demonstrates it. But I guess other people might be interested... it's showing the chapter title, which happens to be set to the timecode of the chapter start. I'm not sure if this is IVI doing it because the file doesn't have chapter titles set, or if the upstream file has the chapter titles set this way. Not a big fan... I would think doing Chapter 1,2,3 would be better.
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This is an ATV/XBMC question but it's more suited for this thread: If I want to use a BT keyboard for character entry while in XBMC, do I have to first pair the keyboard from within iOS before launching XBMC? I ask because this particular keyboard is normally paired with an iPad but if I want to quickly switch it over to the ATV, XBMC doesn't seem to have any functionality to allow this.
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Ramadu posted:If only it had the NFL I would never need cable again. I subscribed to Verizon's $5/mo NFL app. Watched the games on my jailbroken iphone4, and used AirVideoEnabler to push it to the ATV. Quality wasn't amazing, depends on your wi-fi speed. You have to poke the screen every 10 minutes to prove you're alive, or find a way to simulate activity some other way.
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OldSenileGuy posted:I've found iVi to be awesome for metadata tagging, but I've never been able to get conversions to work the way I want. Even when I select "pass-thru", it still eventually starts "Doing Original Conversion" in the queue window and takes about 45 minutes for a 22 minute show. Can you post your settings so I can see what I'm missing? Does it show "HD: Pass Thru" in your queue? The only thing I did was check enable pass thru in the conversion settings. There are some MKVs that just won't do Pass Thru for me in iVI for whatever reason (lots of WEB-DLs strangely). And obviously if it has AC3 audio, it still has to convert that to AAC to be iTunes compatible. But for a 45 minute show, it usually only takes a few minutes. It should look like this:  It has been so off with metadata recently though. I feel like TVDB updated something and iVI is just no longer catching anything. tonic fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Mar 30, 2013 |
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What's the usual turnaround on Seas0npass updates for new Apple firmware? I just decided to jailbreak my ATv and am frustrated that I can't currently. I guess I'll stick with handbrake for now. Edit: I have apple tv 2. ScarletBrother fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Mar 31, 2013 |
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For all you people having problems with atvs and Xbmc: I used to run xbmc, but as many of you pointed out, it really isn't ideal. So after a bit of googling about I found Firecore's ATV Flash Black. http://firecore.com/atvflash-black It's a very simple setup, and gives you a great media player that you can hook up to a NAS and play back all sorts of media. I find it fits my needs perfectly. You can also use the software to install other "apps" like Xbmc etc. straight from the ATV! It does cost some money, which of course isn't ideal, but for what it does, I find t well worth it.
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I've looked at ATV Flash but I'm not sure how it updates the media library, can you tell me how it does that? Do you tell it to scan a directory, or does it look every x hours, or does it update on change? If I drop a TV show on a folder on my server I can ping XBMC to update the library but I'm not sure how it works here. I also think I may miss the XBMC library sync now that I finally got it all set up.
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ATV flashes media library works just like you'd imagine a media library thing would, really. You point it to a folder on your server, tell it what the folder has in it, (tv shows, movies, etc.) and it curates it, pulling all the necessary metadata and all that. I'm not near my TV at the moment, but if I remember correctly, you can tell it to scan for changes every x hours, might have other options aswell, I can't quite remember. Personally I just use Flashes folder view and favorites to manage my media. It needs no scanning, it fetches the metadata every time you enter a given folder, and if you create a new folder it shows up automatically. It's perfect, and simple enough for my not-computer-interested fiance to manage her shows on her own folder on the NAS and watch them from the big screen without any hassle. I do miss some of the eyecandy of XBMC. You can make that thing look amazing. But imo Flash looks well enough, the UI fits the ATV's general theme well, and the gains in speed outweigh the looks a thousand times over.
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tonic posted:It has been so off with metadata recently though. I feel like TVDB updated something and iVI is just no longer catching anything. Anyway, if you are using the Mac App Store version, you can download an updated version from here until the real update comes through: http://t.co/8ZMuDjD14R You need to clear the cache too, because apparently it caches the "bad" TVDB lookups too. You can also switch to TagChimp, but I didn't find it as good as TVDB and it was missing new TV episodes. Also, it uses different series naming, so that can make a mess of iTunes.
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smackfu posted:Anyway, if you are using the Mac App Store version, you can download an updated version from here until the real update comes through: Awesome, I had been checking their website but somehow missed this. Totally fixed the metadata issue for TV episodes 
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Is there a windows analogue to Magic Media Marker? I'd like to be able to feed a piece of software a folder full of files and have it correctly name&tag everything so its not a mess in my ATV E: to clarify, this is being shared through itunes to an ATV3 Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Apr 8, 2013 |
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My roommate has an annoying habit of changing the wifi password. This is a problem, as I've misplaced my apple remote. What I have been using is my phone, but as my ATV no longer knows the password, its not on the network. I do on an iOS device and I do own a bt keyboard, how do I get the ATV to wake up, accept input, and put in the wifi password?
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Apr 14, 2013 03:16
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Got a programmable remote or universal remote? Or borrow someone's harmony remote.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Is there a windows analogue to Magic Media Marker? I've used meta-x in the past and it works, although I found it so cumbersome that I couldn't justify paying for it. A quick search found http://www.hutsongroup.com/Hutson_Group/Vidalin.html which uses the same tagging engine as meta-x. I've never heard of it before and the name sounds like some new erectile dysfunction med, but maybe it'll suit you.
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gypsyshred posted:My roommate has an annoying habit of changing the wifi password. This is a problem, as I've misplaced my apple remote. What I have been using is my phone, but as my ATV no longer knows the password, its not on the network. I do on an iOS device and I do own a bt keyboard, how do I get the ATV to wake up, accept input, and put in the wifi password? A new remote is $20. Best Buy has them or maybe Walmart.
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gypsyshred posted:My roommate has an annoying habit of changing the wifi password. This is a problem, as I've misplaced my apple remote. What I have been using is my phone, but as my ATV no longer knows the password, its not on the network. I do on an iOS device and I do own a bt keyboard, how do I get the ATV to wake up, accept input, and put in the wifi password? Do you have the ability to temporarily hook up the Apple TV via Ethernet? If so it's on the network at which point you could use your phone to set the wifi password.
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Has Recently Watched or Movies just randomly disappeared for anyone else in Netflix? ATV3 on 5.1
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That happened to me a few weeks ago. Went back to normal after either a reboot or the next day.
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Yeah, I've seen that before. My only guess is that Recently Watched is dynamically added and if there is a network glitch, it thinks it should be hidden.
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Yup - it's back this morning. Weird.
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Yeah, I've had that happen before. I assume it's an issue on Netflix's end, honestly.
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snickles posted:I've used meta-x in the past and it works, although I found it so cumbersome that I couldn't justify paying for it. A quick search found http://www.hutsongroup.com/Hutson_Group/Vidalin.html which uses the same tagging engine as meta-x. These are all great, but I was looking for something for Windows
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Greetings apple drones! As it goes right now I'm running an old 360 more or less on its last legs as a media server streaming content off my PC. Once this 360 goes I thought I might go with an ATV since I also run a jailbroken iPad 3 along with an unbroken iPhone 5 at 6.1.3 (  ) I'd like to JB the TV as well. Any one have suggestions on equipment/configuration for something like this? My TV is 720 maxed and would be HDMI. Also how is the sound, just a regular jack?
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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:Greetings apple drones! If you are wanting to JB an ATV you need an ATV2 - ATV3's are not jailbreakable. The ATV has HDMI and Optical audio out, and ATV2 is 720p so you would be all set. Just warning you though, unless you get really lucky, expect to pay $150+ for an ATV2, as everyone who has them to sell knows that they are not available and they are a hot commodity.
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I've been using remote on two iphones with my 3rd generation AppleTV for around a year now. Starting a few days ago neither phone will recognize the AppleTV. I've force quit the application, deleted and reinstalled, reset the AppleTV, setup the AppleTV as new, and reset the router, all to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? Or is this take it back to the Apple Store?
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