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covertsurfer

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Jan 18, 2007
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I have a 9GB 1080p MKV but have now realised that AppleTV might not be able to play it back.

Is there a definitive answer to whether it can cope with it?

Thanks
 

chrono1081

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Jan 26, 2008
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It will play it just fine (as long as you have an N router) but you wont get 1080p it will make it 720. My Avatar blue ray rip is 1080 and 12 gigs and looks fantastic on my ATV2.
 

GermanSuplex

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It will play it just fine (as long as you have an N router) but you wont get 1080p it will make it 720. My Avatar blue ray rip is 1080 and 12 gigs and looks fantastic on my ATV2.

How are you getting a 1080p MKV to play on your ATV2?
 

87vert

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Oct 7, 2008
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stock it probably won't play but you can swap the wireless card for a broadcom hd decoder card and play 1080p. I have played a couple blu-ray rips that way.
 

covertsurfer

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Jan 18, 2007
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I need my wireless that's the problem.

I may have to resort to a Boxee Box in the future and just use my laptop with HDMI out at this moment in time
 

newagemac

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Mar 31, 2010
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I just dragged and dropped it into iTunes and it shows upon my apple tv2. I ripped it using Aunsoft blu ray ripper to rip Avatar into 1080p.

You did reencode the file though right? It wasn't a straight passthrough video rip from the full bitrate of the Blu Ray in .mkv to .m4v, correct?
 

chrono1081

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Jan 26, 2008
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I'm not sure :/ I don't know much about video :(. The exact steps I took are this if this will help:

Put blu ray in
Rip using Aunsoft blu ray ripper using 1080p "original quality" setting into .mp4 the bit rate is original too according to this setting.
Drag I to iTunes.


Edit I just noticed your talking about the atv1 :/ mine is on atv2
 

JRoDDz

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Jul 2, 2009
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I thought Apple TV cannot play files with the MKV file extension? :confused:

Are you sure your file is an .MKV file and not .M4V?
 

Cave Man

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I have a 9GB 1080p MKV but have now realised that AppleTV might not be able to play it back. Is there a definitive answer to whether it can cope with it?

No, it won't play it. The best you can do is open the file in Handbrake and encode it with the Apple TV preset and bump the resolution up to 720p. If the audio is DTS, then you'll want to transcode that to AC3 using one of the nightly builds of Handbrake.

Rip using Aunsoft blu ray ripper using 1080p "original quality" setting into .mp4 the bit rate is original too according to this setting.

You're putting it in an mp4 container and not an mkv container. MKVs cannot play on the Apple TVs without software hacking (e.g., XBMC).
 
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