I purchased an AppleTV two days ago and thought I had everything working smoothly...at least until today.
I have tons of my own movies that I have ripped via Handbrake to my MacBook (MP4 format). I load these movies into iTunes so that I can put them on my iPad for road trips.
So for the first two days I was amazed how I could access my movie library through "computer" then "movies" on my AppleTV menu. I would select the movie I wanted to watch from those listed on the menu (the movies on my MacBook Pro). The movies would take maybe 10-20 seconds to begin streaming and then would take off with no troubles at all.
Well today, my movies begin to go to Apple TV but just show that spinning icon on the screen. It may show the first scene but the movie never actually starts. This sits like this indefinitely and I'm not sure what happened to cause this issue. My music is streaming just fine, as are photos, and even other apps like youtube.
My internet speeds at home tonight show Ping 13, download speed 3.5 mbps, upload 6.5 mbps....so that should be good enough.
Is there simply something I'm missing or will it always be like this...this being being able to use it a couple of days and then not being able to use it another.
I also tried sending my movies from the iPad and the same thing happened. So it appears Airplay is hooked up fine.
My router is a Apple Extreme and I do have a Apple Express upstairs being used as a signal Extender. This is the same setup I used the last couple of days so I'm puzzled.
Thanks,
Hook
I have tons of my own movies that I have ripped via Handbrake to my MacBook (MP4 format). I load these movies into iTunes so that I can put them on my iPad for road trips.
So for the first two days I was amazed how I could access my movie library through "computer" then "movies" on my AppleTV menu. I would select the movie I wanted to watch from those listed on the menu (the movies on my MacBook Pro). The movies would take maybe 10-20 seconds to begin streaming and then would take off with no troubles at all.
Well today, my movies begin to go to Apple TV but just show that spinning icon on the screen. It may show the first scene but the movie never actually starts. This sits like this indefinitely and I'm not sure what happened to cause this issue. My music is streaming just fine, as are photos, and even other apps like youtube.
My internet speeds at home tonight show Ping 13, download speed 3.5 mbps, upload 6.5 mbps....so that should be good enough.
Is there simply something I'm missing or will it always be like this...this being being able to use it a couple of days and then not being able to use it another.
I also tried sending my movies from the iPad and the same thing happened. So it appears Airplay is hooked up fine.
My router is a Apple Extreme and I do have a Apple Express upstairs being used as a signal Extender. This is the same setup I used the last couple of days so I'm puzzled.
Thanks,
Hook