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Shmoogy posted:My macbook air is wireless, and apple tv is wired and it's not good for video. Pretty okay for anything except movies/games, which doesn't leave very much use for me. Hoping the one in mountain lion is better optimized. I have the same experience. I was hoping to play games on the big screen, but the frame rate was just too low.
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Puddin posted:I'm looking at getting an ATV2 for XBMC (being a little hard to find however, all I can find are ATV3's) to replace my old xbox running XBMC. I know there's no jailbreak in sight for the ATV3. Your only real option is to pre–convert your videos using something like handbrake and then stream them from iTunes. All the on–the–fly streaming software I've seen is for OSX, or requires an iOS device as a go between.
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mongoibur posted:Has anyone used http://beamer-app.com/ ? You're basically live converting the movie file and streaming it to the TV, so unless your computer can re–encode 1080p content in real–time (it can't) you will get lower quality (480p). It works fine for SD content as long as you have a relatively recent Mac.
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May 15, 2012 00:00
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FishBulb posted:That seems like a lot of work to me, Id rather just have a 99 dollar 1080p streaming box. If you don't mind running your poo poo through handbrake (what I do), or getting your content from iTunes/NetFlix, it's a really good device.
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Jun 28, 2012 18:51
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Thwomp posted:Speaking of handbrake, is there any way to skip needless video conversion? I've read that most often, it's just audio that needs to be converted to get a movie file to play on an Apple TV (or other iOS device). I just pick the apple tv 2 setting and let it rip. I don't know if it will detect whether only part of the video needs converting.
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Jun 28, 2012 18:58
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skipdogg posted:To convert MKV's to MP4's I've been using this. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=163050 It just remuxes things so it only takes 10 to 15 minutes or so tops. I use it to convert things for my aTV and iDevices and use iTunes home sharing to stream them out. This is actually perfect and, I think, better than handbrake for what I use it for. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Jun 29, 2012 17:34
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dexter6 posted:Actually, it says blocked on TV and Mobile, so I guess that answers it. So you think you can dance is probably the best amongst the pile of poo poo that is reality television  (I only watch it because MY WIFE)
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Jul 31, 2012 19:37
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randyest posted:Yes you should because ATV3 is better and smaller and 1080p (unless you need to JB for some reason, like you don't have an iPod/iPhone/iPad/Mac around to stream non-iTunes format media to it.) This. There are so many ways of working around the limitations of a non–jailbroken ATV. The only thing you don't get is the ability to browse you content on the ATV itself ala XBMC or PLEX. (Unless you go the route of converting your content to iTunes format which is trivial if it's already h264 encoded.)
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Aug 7, 2012 08:02
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Legdiian posted:This may be a dumb question, but if I go to Walmart and buy a DVD out of the $5 bin, what is the official "Apple way" to get that media on my Apple TV? Buy it again from iTunes you silly goose. DVDs are only meant to be played in a DVD player and breaking the encryption to view it elsewhere is against the law in most countries. That's got nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with the copyright holder. e: I'm relatively new to the ecosystem, isn't there a way for iTunes to rip a music CD to your library? I'm sure if it weren't for the encryption problem there would be a similar mechanism for DVDs, but there's an obvious legal liability there. ZShakespeare fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Aug 8, 2012 |
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Aug 8, 2012 17:59
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The media companies took a look at how easy it was to copy and redistribute a CD and decided that they didn't want that for their video media. They devised a DVD encryption scheme that was broken and rendered ineffectual in the first week of encrypted DVD media becoming available. So, while it did nothing to stop piracy, it ran afoul of digital copyright law which prohibits the circumvention of digital locks. That's why we, as legitimate consumers, can't have a built in method for ripping DVD content and have to jump through hoops every time a new technology is released.
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Aug 8, 2012 18:31
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smackfu posted:Of course the digital copies don't have any of the extras that people expect from a DVD. Kind of sad. Sure they do.
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Aug 9, 2012 05:47
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smackfu posted:Really? Maybe you are talking about something different than me. I'm thinking of stuff like commentary, making of videos, gag reels. I've never seen that on an online vid, just the bare video and maybe subtitles. http://itunes.apple.com/ca/tv-season/game-of-thrones-season-1/id482730236 Look towards the bottom of the list. Some of it is even free.
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Aug 10, 2012 04:33
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puppy party posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for programs that will remux MKV files to be aTV compatible? Preferably something can drag in meta data at the same time would be nice. Mp4tools to Remux (it'll just repack the file into an m4v container without reencoding if it's already h264 encoded, just reencode the audio if it's not AAC, etc.). iDentify to tag. If you were particularly enterprising I'm sure you could make them work together. ZShakespeare fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Sep 16, 2012 |
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Sep 16, 2012 22:53
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dexter6 posted:I have been slowly converting my AVI and MKV collection to m4v using Handbrake, but obviously each run takes a while. I recently tried using MP4Tools and have not had much luck. The videos seem to convert fine, and the M4V files play fine in VLC, MPlayerX and Quicktime however they do not play in iTunes and will not transfer to an iPad. Are your Avis and mkvs already encoded with H264 video and AAC audio? If not you can't just Remux, you must reencode. You'll notice the pass through option in mp4tools turns red.
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Sep 17, 2012 21:45
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I noticed that repacked xvid+aac videos actually play on the atv(3), though sometimes with dropped frames. As for why your vids aren't playing I've got no clue. I haven't run into an issue like that.
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I had to sign out of, and back into my itunes account on both computer and apple tv.
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