Apple TV 2 set up question

[Britishlion]

Hi All

I am in the UK want to stream my movies from my macbook pro to my TV.

I have Plex on the macbook pro and from what i have read so far i would need to jailbreak the ATV2 to do this.

My question is, Does the ATV just plug into the TV via HDMI and then wirelessly stream from my Macbook.

If so would it stream my 1080p movies ?

Sorry for all the questions just want to make sure I am right before buying.

[jmcgeejr]

Originally Posted by Britishlion

Hi All

I am in the UK want to stream my movies from my macbook pro to my TV.

I have Plex on the macbook pro and from what i have read so far i would need to jailbreak the ATV2 to do this.

My question is, Does the ATV just plug into the TV via HDMI and then wirelessly stream from my Macbook.

If so would it stream my 1080p movies ?

Sorry for all the questions just want to make sure I am right before buying.

Since I just did this I can give you some notes.

yes if you JB you can install Plex on it. The ATV does just plug into the TV via HDMI and yes it will stream. I have had success with streaming DIVX Movies and TV shows. I have tinkered around with my MKV's, mostly 8GB 1080P files or so. And where it doesnt look as good as playing it raw on my HTPC it will play AS LONG AS YOUR MB is powerful to transcode them.

[Britishlion]

Originally Posted by jmcgeejr

Since I just did this I can give you some notes.

yes if you JB you can install Plex on it. The ATV does just plug into the TV via HDMI and yes it will stream. I have had success with streaming DIVX Movies and TV shows. I have tinkered around with my MKV's, mostly 8GB 1080P files or so. And where it doesnt look as good as playing it raw on my HTPC it will play AS LONG AS YOUR MB is powerful to transcode them.

Great news, when you say powerful enough, I have an Intel Dual Core 2 duo 2.4 , do you think would be powerful enough ?

thanks for the help

Is is easy to jailbreak the ATV, I am slowly learning my way round Mac's

[blueroom]

If you don't want to go the jailbreak route then simply re-encode your videos to ATV2 .m4v using Handbrake. Although they'll be 720p they'll still look great plus you can AirPlay them via iTunes. I use Identify2 to tag them.

[rowley]

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I concur with blueroom. Convert with handbrake and stream without the need of jailbreak.

[Britishlion]

Originally Posted by rowley

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I concur with blueroom. Convert with handbrake and stream without the need of jailbreak.

Is it as easy as that ? Just use handbrake and convert all my video to mp4 will iTunes then see all my videos ?

I have over 200 videos ?

[Outrigger]

Originally Posted by Britishlion

Is it as easy as that ? Just use handbrake and convert all my video to mp4 will iTunes then see all my videos ?

I have over 200 videos ?

I have the new mini with plex installed and a jb'ed atv2 with the plex client running. it will play pretty much any type of videos, however, when I went the wireless route, there is buffering every few seconds for 1080 and 720 contents. since then, I have hardwired atv2 directly to a switch and now, everything is smooth.