Peaceful warrior HD trailer cannot be played

[meanmachine]

After downlaoding soem HD trailers from iTunes store, I get the following error message:

"Peaceful Warrior" was not copied to the Apple TV "name" because it cannot be played on this Apple TV.

It runs from within iTunes..

Anyone else had this problem?

Meanmachine.:confused:

[Jeff Meredith]

I have had a similar message with the music video
This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race from FallOut Boy (Disclaimer: My daughter bought this!)

It always fails to copy every time I sync despite having plenty of space. I love my Apple TV but suspect it's having indigestion on some names.

Does it work with other HD trailers?

[macphin]

I had this problem when content was more than 8-9mb/s. Don't know exactly how much. But, it just can't play it. I had to re-encode them.

[SLJ]

the HD trailer from apple site cannot be play on Apple TV, check the video specification and it doesn't support 720P HD materials.

[crazzyeddie]

Fairly easy answer. The AppleTV only supports the following video formats:

H.264 and protected H.264 (from iTunes Store): Up to 5 Mbps, maximum resolution: 1280 by 720 pixels at 24 fps, 960 by 540 pixels at 30 fps

MPEG-4: Up to 3 Mbps, maximum resolution: 720 by 432 pixels at 30 fps.

So, if you have a 720p trailer, it must be less than 5000kbps.

[arnop]

What you can do to watch the HD trailers on your apple TV is download them in 720 (not 1080, it just won't work), add them as a regular movie to itunes when the download is finished and then, send it to your apple TV.

The quality is great and it'll work just fine :)

[Radioman]

Fairly easy answer. The AppleTV only supports the following video formats:

H.264 and protected H.264 (from iTunes Store): Up to 5 Mbps, maximum resolution: 1280 by 720 pixels at 24 fps, 960 by 540 pixels at 30 fps

MPEG-4: Up to 3 Mbps, maximum resolution: 720 by 432 pixels at 30 fps.

So, if you have a 720p trailer, it must be less than 5000kbps.

This is what I thought, but I have played some 720p files at over 6Mbps :confused: No rhyme or reason that I can see...

All the HD content from the apple.com doesn't play though. It's quite poor really I have to say...

I can only hope that future firmware updates will fix it, though I fear it is a hardware limitation.

Expect to see mine on Ebay soon!

[neven]

Look on the bright side - Peaceful Warrior has received terrible reviews, so you're not missing much :)

[sava66]

Two Questions:

how do I know what frame rate, etc. a movie is saved at? Also, What if I am positive that this movie isn't in HD?

Sava

[Jaydhil24]

Now that was a weird movie but not too bad.