I tested 7 mkv movies & they all played fine on the Apple TV
Seems like they would take a long time to load, no?
I tested 7 mkv movies & they all played fine on the Apple TV
Seems like they would take a long time to load, no?
They all loaded right away on the Apple TV
What do mean ?
I have a fast connection & I'm wired
It just seems like a 30-40 GB file would load more slowly than a 6-10 GB one. Guess that's not the case?
It just seems like a 30-40 GB file would load more slowly than a 6-10 GB one. Guess that's not the case?
The movie will start playing once a sufficient about of the movie has been buffered.
No, I don't think so. Say it takes 1GB of streamed data in buffer to start to play. It wouldn't make any difference if that 1GB came off a 5GB file or 50GB file.Wouldn't this take longer with a larger file though?
There's an easy way to find out. Try moving one movie, then go into iTunes, right-click the movie and select Show In Finder (or choose Get Info and see what the file path is). If it shows the correct path, then you know it works.If I add a movie to iTunes from my hardrive & then I move that movie to another location on my drive ,will iTunes still find it automatically ?
Two Apple TVs can work with the same iTunes library. But as far as iTunes sharing on the guest network and the main network, that I don't know. From what I understand, guest networks are pretty much only for accessing the Internet and not accessing your files.I have an AirPort Extreme
I want to get another Apple TV for the guest room, I already have the AirPort Extreme setup for a guest account
Can my guest connect to my iTunes home sharing movies using the guest account wifi ?
, and can they airplay to the Apple TV from there phone using the guest wifi ?
One more thing
I have an AirPort Extreme
I want to get another Apple TV for the guest room, I already have the AirPort Extreme setup for a guest account
Can my guest connect to my iTunes home sharing movies using the guest account wifi ?
, and can they airplay to the Apple TV from there phone using the guest wifi ?
No, I don't think so. Say it takes 1GB of streamed data in buffer to start to play. It wouldn't make any difference if that 1GB came off a 5GB file or 50GB file.
I tried iFlicks but IDentify 2 is so easy I can't do with out it.
Another question
I have some old avi files , they don't have the highest resolution so when I convert them in iflicks using the Apple TV 3 preset
Most of the avi have black bars on the right and left side when I play them on my Apple TV
Is there a way to make it full screen
Are these files TV shows? If so, you should keep in mind that those black bars are probably due to the aspect ratio as TV shows used to utilize the 4:3 ratio. If you want to change the aspect ratio, then once again, you should pick up a copy of Handbrake. It's free and it can do a lot more than iFlicks can, including changing the aspect ratio.Another question
I have some old avi files , they don't have the highest resolution so when I convert them in iflicks using the Apple TV 3 preset
Most of the avi have black bars on the right and left side when I play them on my Apple TV
Is there a way to make it full screen
No. The only kind of customization you can do on the Apple TV 3 is rearranging the app icons on the main menu. If you want to do anything more than that, you'll need to pick up an Apple TV 2 and jailbreak it.Is there a way to add a recently watched tab on Apple TV home sharing , like Netflix has
These are 1gb mkv files
I have another question
If I add a movie to iTunes from my hardrive & then I move that movie to another location on my drive ,will iTunes still find it automatically ?
No, I don't think so. Say it takes 1GB of streamed data in buffer to start to play. It wouldn't make any difference if that 1GB came off a 5GB file or 50GB file.
iFlicks does optimize automatically its remuxed output while remuxing (and this can't be disabled, even if you absolutely don't need to waste time on this) - I think this might be the case when adding metadata.
BTW, it's very easy to quickly test whether an MP4 (mov / m4v) file is optimized. Here's a full tutorial on it (I copy it here in its entirety as I don't want to promote my blog by just giving you a link to the original. Sorry for the length: when writing tutorials, I tend to be as clear as possible):
Apple TV users and Streaming Video Providers attention: deciding if a video file is optimized
In yesterday's article, along with a lot of benchmark data, I've explained the advantages of optimizing your iOS- and Apple TV-native (that is, MP4, MOV or M4V) video files, should you want to stream it or watch it from a, head seek-wise, inherently slow(ish) medium like an optical disc or a traditional hard disk.
In the current one, I explain how you can find out whether a video is indeed optimized or not. That way, you can save you a lot of time by avoiding re-optimizing it. If the tool you use allows it at all – for example, iFlicks or MP4Tools don't allow for separate optimizations, “only” during at the end of a full, (compared to a quick, manual checking) time-consuming remuxing. (Subler, of course, does it – see yesterday's article on using this feature.)
It's very-very easy to find out whether a particular video file is optimized. I show you two ways of doing it.
Menneisyys,
There's a much easier way to tell if an MP4/M4V has been optimized. Use Atom Inspector from the Quicktime Developers page.