Connect to a remote Synology via AppleTV

[jdag]

anything work well for making iTunes work?
Getting videos and art work in is easy... keeping iTunes running is a full time job..

What do you mean specifically? I have iTunes running on an iMac 24x7x365 and rarely restart the computer or close/reopen iTunes.

I will say that 1 thing that helped assure connectivity between my 3 AppleTVs and iTunes was to set the AppleTVs to not power off. They use a tiny amount of electricity, and by remaining powered on I never lose connection to iTunes.

 

[priitv8]

Well, I've set it to pass through the video when possible and just encode DTS to ac3.

I understand. But there really is no other way for any appleTV to be able to play a high-bitrate AVC movie with lesser lag or effort, than have the stream downconverted to lesser bitrate. What I read in this forum, I get that appleTV is reported to handle up to 10Mbps video streams. From a blu-ray comes down anything from 30-50Mbps. That is 3..5 times appleTV's capability. Where the ceiling actually is, can be fairly easily tested, though.

keeping iTunes running is a full time job..

Why so?

 

[Fabian90]

I understand. But there really is no other way for any appleTV to be able to play a high-bitrate AVC movie with lesser lag or effort, than have the stream downconverted to lesser bitrate. What I read in this forum, I get that appleTV is reported to handle up to 10Mbps video streams. From a blu-ray comes down anything from 30-50Mbps. That is 3..5 times appleTV's capability. Where the ceiling actually is, can be fairly easily tested, though.
Why so?

Well, the weird thing is: with AirVideo HD it plays these 30mbit movies perfectly (even if I set it to passthrough) but after 5 minutes or so it just stops playback. Is there some buffer/cache than could run full? The playback works perfectly for 5 minutes and then it just stops and goes back to the main menu.

 

[priitv8]

Well, the weird thing is: with AirVideo HD it plays these 30mbit movies perfectly (even if I set it to passthrough) but after 5 minutes or so it just stops playback. Is there some buffer/cache than could run full? The playback works perfectly for 5 minutes and then it just stops and goes back to the main menu.

AFAIK, aTV 3 has 8GB of Flash memory that is also used as buffering space. I also have the feeling that it must keep all screensavers etc cached from the net. But iTunes movies are hardly over 4GB in size anyway.