Yeah, but it is just a pain to do with either a remote or Remote on iOS. I should be able to arrange them using my iPhone or iPad screen which would be a lot less tedious.
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Apple TV Beta Includes Redesigned Interface With iOS 7-Style Icons, Fonts
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Yeah, but it is just a pain to do with either a remote or Remote on iOS. I should be able to arrange them using my iPhone or iPad screen which would be a lot less tedious.
Guys, sorry for the silly question (but I am considering to buy APTV3) - as I understood - no way to play any movie formats except the iTunes standard one? Correct? Is there an option to brows/play native AVI/MKV etc video from/on ApTV3 from iMac? (instead of mirroring the whole iMac screen)
Apple TV Beta Includes Redesigned Interface With iOS 7-Style Icons, Fonts
Just discovered you can go into the settings and turn them off even quicker! There's a yes/no option for each in there. Never noticed that before.
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You can either convert to mp4 in handbrake or, like I do, use an app called Beamer from the Mac to the Apple TV, which uses AirPlay.
Just discovered you can go into the settings and turn them off even quicker! There's a yes/no option for each in there. Never noticed that before.
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You can either convert to mp4 in handbrake or, like I do, use an app called Beamer from the Mac to the Apple TV, which uses AirPlay.
Thank you! With Beamer - can I control it and brows the iMac from the ATV3? Or, i shall brows, start and control the movie from iMac? And - please confirm Beamer plays the Subtitles as well. Thanks!
Apple TV Beta Includes Redesigned Interface With iOS 7-Style Icons, Fonts
You drag and drop on the Mac, make a playlist, then play, pause or fast forward by using the mac, the remote or the iOS remote app. I believe beamer plays subs, but never tried.
Edit: Yes Beaner can play subs. http://beamer-app.com/
You drag and drop on the Mac, make a playlist, then play, pause or fast forward by using the mac, the remote or the iOS remote app. I believe beamer plays subs, but never tried.
Edit: Yes Beaner can play subs. http://beamer-app.com/
The way I do it is natively. I use a cheap app: iFlicks 2. It takes the mp4 stream and the audio from the mkv wrapper and re-wraps it in an iTunes-friendly package. It'll re-encode the files if it has to, but most out there only need the audio re-encoded which takes 5 minutes. It also gets the artwork and metadata, so iTunes and the Apple TV show the videos just like they would if you'd've gotten them from the iTunes store.
Also, in my experience of doing this for a few years now, iTunes seems to be a very capable media streamer. I've only had to restart it a few times to fix minor streaming issues. Bonjour, it seems, makes this process fairly painless. In all, I'd recommend the Apple TV Gen 3, it's served me as a very simple, fairly stable media center.
Thank you. Will try iFlicks2 . Another question - are you able to brows your iTunes library (on iMac for example) directly from the ATV3? Thus, to start / stop playing movies directly from the tv
You can browse your iTunes library on the Mac via the Apple TV. Also can browse cloud purchases.
Yes, just as Shandyman said: you can do everything natively on the Apple TV. I keep my iMac on in sleep mode in the office and any time I want to watch something, the Apple TV wakes it up and it's ready to go. Also, the full iTunes movie & music stores are fully integrated, so you can buy or rent a movie or song in seconds. And iTunes Match integration as well.
And you join the rest of dinosaurs in the ios 6 is better looking and easier to read trend. Yay.
I am trying iFlicks2 and Almersoft Video Converter Ultimate.. iFLicks2 is good that has a watch folder and iTunes upload options, but I think it is much slower then Almersoft converter.. And with iFlicks2 my iMac fan starts blowing with up to 2500 rpm and temp raises to 40 degrees.. While with other - the fan is up to 1800 maximum. strange
That is very strange. It slows down my old imac, but there's almost nothing that won't. I haven't had any fan ramp-ups or any unusual behavior. Also, are you passing through the video file? Or are you fully re-encoding the file? That could be the cause of the slowness. If you have it set to encode for the Apple TV, it'll encode the entire file. If you set it to itunes compatible it'll just encode the audio and put it into an mp4 container.
I checked - compatible for itunes.... It took 5 minutes to convert one AVI small 30 minutes TVseries file.
Yes, I liked the glossy and skeumorphic design because there was more than just white with blue text, it was fun, not its just boring like a 1995 website.
I think thoughts on this depend on the age of the person. To me (and many others that have been around a long time) flat, colorless is retro and going back to how it was before skeumorphic design. Going to skeumorphic design was a big step forward, now we have gone backwards.