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Home streaming magically started working which is good but I have no idea what specific thing actually did it so I guess if you have the same problem just do a bunch of signing in and out of iCloud and rebooting things.
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noirstronaut posted:I'm still debating if I want a new Apple TV. What is everyone doing with theirs that they didn't do on the old one? Playing Geometry Wars and Galaxy on Fire. Anxiously awaiting the new NHL app. Enjoying not having to reboot the whole device if one app decides to screw up (Netflix, I'm looking at you).
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canyonero posted:Watching live HGTV and Food Network with my parents' DirecTV account. Slightly lovely/shady question: can I get some friend's/family's credentials to get access to some of these cable-based apps? Or is there some kind of flag or hard check?
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Feenix posted:Slightly lovely/shady question: can I get some friend's/family's credentials to get access to some of these cable-based apps? Or is there some kind of flag or hard check? Yes, you can. No, there isn't any hard check.
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Feenix posted:Slightly lovely/shady question: can I get some friend's/family's credentials to get access to some of these cable-based apps? Or is there some kind of flag or hard check? The apps don't seem to care, I have Comcast for Internet and borrowing my mother-in-law's Frontier Communications credentials works for every cable channel app (with the possible exception of Adult Swim, which gives me a credential error when trying to play their live streams, though it could be that the app is buggy). I have a feeling that companies will probably start cracking down on that sort of thing eventually but until then it's pretty great. [Edit: that said its still a mess, there's only a few Apple TV-native apps; for most of the cable channel apps you have to AirPlay a stream from your phone and for some of those to work you have to enable device mirroring. And all of the apps kill the feed if you leave the app, meaning you can't use your phone while watching SyFy or whatever. The workaround I came up with was pulling my wife's old 5s out of storage and using it as a dedicated TV streaming device; you could probably pick up a used iPod Touch pretty cheaply to serve the same purpose.] asecondduck fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Dec 22, 2015 |
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Kilometers Davis posted:There's an Adult Swim app? For iOS, not TVOS.
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just got one of these for Christmas to replace my Boxee Box. holy poo poo, the future is amazing.
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Yeah I bought one yesterday to make life easier while I'm away from my plex box (my Apple TV 3 ideally needs to be on the same network). There's a lot of ported stuff from the old model which is fine, but I hope they improve. Air BnB is probably the worst app ever but with work it could be pretty awesome. When I did the update to the latest version, it auto downloaded BBC iplayer which is neat I guess. I'm glad my UK and US apps can still live side by side too.
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The plex app wouldn't take my password from the remote all on my phone. I had to enter it with the Siri remote. That was weird
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Anyone had problems with it not working on their TV? My early 2010s LG isn't playing ball. Annoyingly I didn't test it before moving it in a car and I've got not much in the way of HDMI devices here to test the TV (LGs of that age have a habit of the HDMI ports dying, and the fix is to put the mainboard in the oven. Hm.) but I know the ATV is fine as I tried it on another TV, even tried reducing the resolution to SD to see if that'd help, but nothing.
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I really wish there was some volume normalization in tvOS. Different apps have wildly different volume settings. I have to crank Netflix really high to hear, which then means as soon as I launch Plex everything is cranked to 11 until I wildly scramble to mash the vol-- button on the remote.
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Is that with the volume compression tool built into the system? (Slide down on the remote while playing a video and look under Audio.) In other news, anyone who wants game streams and didn't cough up a buck for UnTwitched can get it for free over the holidays(?)
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No, this is with full dynamic range 
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Working with Bluetooth headphones might very well be my favourite upgrade so far.
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Important Apple TV PSA: When you set the Apple TV's name for AirPlay purposes, you can use emojis 😭🙌💪
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Ars has a breakdown on running emulators through the new Apple TV. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/12/using-the-new-apple-tv-to-emulate-classic-game-consoles/ If anyone does this please post up how well it works, I would consider upgrading at some point if I can start getting more apps than my ATV3.
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Duckman2008 posted:Ars has a breakdown on running emulators through the new Apple TV. Well, I think they do a good enough job explaining that. I did this last month, and I've been using it on my iPhone for longer. The UI is wonky if you have tons of games, since there is no way to sort the library. Games themselves run fine. You can changing or remove the filtering and they run full speed. The game metadata scrapper is okay with non-US releases, but works great with US region roms. Would I buy a new Apple TV just for this? Ehhhh, I don't know, not yet anyway. But if you do have one, and can set up Xcode (it's easy) then it's a nice bonus.
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Duckman2008 posted:Ars has a breakdown on running emulators through the new Apple TV. Is there a way to do this with a PC or am I just out of luck?
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There's no way to do this with a PC. If you know someone with a Mac and a paid developer account, theoretically you could get them to make a build and invite you as a beta tester, but I'm not sure what legal mumbo jumbo this would expose them to.
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TheJoker138 posted:Is there a way to do this with a PC or am I just out of luck? Check for a hackintosh thread on these forums.
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Hughlander posted:Check for a hackintosh thread on these forums. At that point it's just cheaper to plop the emulator and games on a cheap HTPC and pair an Xbox 360 controller or w/e.
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Anyone using gamecenter live on their AppleTV 4: does scrubbing not work correctly? Whenever I try to fastforward, rewind, or scrub the video it always just defaults back to what's live.
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tofes posted:Anyone using gamecenter live on their AppleTV 4: does scrubbing not work correctly? Whenever I try to fastforward, rewind, or scrub the video it always just defaults back to what's live. I've had that problem for the past week or so. It's annoying. I use Siri for time skipping now and it still works fine.
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GutBomb posted:I've had that problem for the past week or so. It's annoying. I use Siri for time skipping now and it still works fine. Cool, thanks for the tip.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:At that point it's just cheaper to plop the emulator and games on a cheap HTPC and pair an Xbox 360 controller or w/e. You can run the hackintosh in a virtual machine thus incurring no expense. It still may not be worth the time. But it's what I meant. 
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Anyone having weird AirPlay issues when pushing Spotify to the new ATV4? Mine only wants to seem to play for about 1-2 minutes before it drops the AirPlay connection and starts playing the last played Apple Music radio station that was listened to. I've checked all the AirPlay settings and there are no restrictions or anything like that so I have no idea what is going on. Anyone else seen this happen? I've tried restarting the box a few times to no avail.
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I've had some problems, but not the ones you're talking about. Here the biggest problem is that Spotify often doesn't seem to find the ATV's Airplay. However, I can Airplay by swiping up and using the "universal airplaying" option.
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puppy party posted:Anyone having weird AirPlay issues when pushing Spotify to the new ATV4? Mine only wants to seem to play for about 1-2 minutes before it drops the AirPlay connection and starts playing the last played Apple Music radio station that was listened to. I've checked all the AirPlay settings and there are no restrictions or anything like that so I have no idea what is going on. Anyone else seen this happen? I've tried restarting the box a few times to no avail. I've had that problem with another app, yeah.
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I have the tiny Steel Series controller. is it compatible with my Apple TV?
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Laserface posted:I have the tiny Steel Series controller. is it compatible with my Apple TV? If it's bluetooth, then yes. (also, if it works with iOS, it will work with tvOS)
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Laserface posted:I have the tiny Steel Series controller. is it compatible with my Apple TV? As long as it's an MFI controller yes.
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Duckman2008 posted:Ars has a breakdown on running emulators through the new Apple TV.
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I have an Apple TV connected to my computer monitor. The volume buttons do nothing useful. (When it's connected to a TV, it changes the TV volume fine.) Is there a way to make the volume keys change the internal Apple TV volume? So I don't have to walk across the room and fiddle with my computer speaker knob each time.
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I may be wrong but I don't think there is an actual internal volume setting with the ATV. It's dependent on your setup.
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Kilometers Davis posted:I may be wrong but I don't think there is an actual internal volume setting with the ATV. It's dependent on your setup. The only solution I can see here is to get Bluetooth speakers instead. When I use my Bluetooth headphones, the volume buttons actually change an Apple TV specific volume thing. It looks like the iOS volume graphic.
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Anyone else using Provenance? My remote not My new MFI Horipad ultimate are not working for roms aside from the menu button bring up the menu overlay for Provenance. Not sure how to fix...
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VLC app dropped today. Plex does what I need but I know a few of you were looking forward to it.
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How does VLC read files, off network shares or something?
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EL BROMANCE posted:How does VLC read files, off network shares or something? Exactly. If you don't want to setup a folder share, you can also use direct streaming through your browser. It is pretty cool.
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