Great Alternative to Air Video with great presentation (on iOS devices) coming soon to AppleTV
http://firecore.com/blog/13548
http://firecore.com/infuse
http://firecore.com/blog/13548
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Infuse is also the reason i got an Apple TV. I am sad didn't make it to the beta group, but Ill be waiting for it to be released, hopefully very soon!
It's not like air video at all. Infuse doesn't need a server side app to host the videos. It can view off a network share like NAS or any SMB server and play the videos locally. This may be the first app which handles DD and DTS properly since they are licensed for it.
Plex needs to transcode videos not native to the Apple TV. So if you, like me, has a large library of videos not supported you'd need to install the Plex server on a fairly powerful server. I don't have the means to do that. Infuse can play most videos without any transcoding.
Also for pr0n that you don't want in Plex library!
As long as the Airport Extreme Base Station is supported by Infuse. What protocol does it use?
You could try out the free Infuse 3 for IOS and see if it works. I think the limitations are just the DD/DTS and some other things. If it works then the ATV4 version should since it would make sense that they share the same codebase.
Not sure what you exactly mean by "protocol", but file sharing is set to SMB and AFP if that's what you're referring to.
You're killing me. Lol I am really looking forward to the release. I didn't get in on the beta in time
Got my beta code last night and gave it a 10' try today. So far:
- it quickly discovered all my network shares (I have a HDD connected to an Airport Extreme router and a WD My Cloud NAS where I store videos, pictures, my iTunes library, documents, etc.)
- easily set up favorites (a couple of video folders off my NAS through upnp)
- playback of mp4, m4v, mov, mkv formats seems solid - quick start, responsive ff and rew, etc.
- however, it does not play "raw" formats such as mts, m2t, m2ts, ts, the kinds that your camcorder will record. The app either hangs or simply crashes back to the home screen.
As it looks right now, it does not seem to be a one stop solution to all my needs. Strangely, my Panasonic TV's built in media player, although atrocious in terms of UI, plays every kind of video file I throw at it. I was hoping Infuse would be a replacement for that. Maybe it will be with some more work.
- it quickly discovered all my network shares (I have a HDD connected to an Airport Extreme router and a WD My Cloud NAS where I store videos, pictures, my iTunes library, documents, etc.)
- easily set up favorites (a couple of video folders off my NAS through upnp)
- playback of mp4, m4v, mov, mkv formats seems solid - quick start, responsive ff and rew, etc.
- however, it does not play "raw" formats such as mts, m2t, m2ts, ts, the kinds that your camcorder will record. The app either hangs or simply crashes back to the home screen.
As it looks right now, it does not seem to be a one stop solution to all my needs. Strangely, my Panasonic TV's built in media player, although atrocious in terms of UI, plays every kind of video file I throw at it. I was hoping Infuse would be a replacement for that. Maybe it will be with some more work.
Also installed the inFuse beta on my ATV4 last night. Very good UI and playback. Recognized my NAS boxes and Mac on my network without issues. Played everything I tried to last night. Metadata tagging works well and I only had to fix some tags for my movies. Tagging of TV shows was a little harder, but the same as with the iOS app. I think it's more to do with my filenames rather than with inFuse. So far the best and most polished local video streaming app I've used on ATV4. This may finally let me retire my old WDTV Live, which constantly overheats and freezes. It may also get me to buy another ATV4 for my bedroom!
I have to agree with eneisch. The reason I bought the ATV4 was the promise of an InFuse app to watch video stored on my NAS.
I am beta testing both InFuse and NAStify and I must say that, so far, InFuse is leaps and bounds ahead in UI and UX....but it's always good to have competition.
I too have a WD TV Live (SMP version) that I've been using for years - and putting up with its quirks - since it seemed to be the best thing out there to play files directly from a NAS without a server needed (looking at you Plex). When InFuse is released I'll be taking the WD out of my home theater and replacing it with the ATV4.
I am beta testing both InFuse and NAStify and I must say that, so far, InFuse is leaps and bounds ahead in UI and UX....but it's always good to have competition.
I too have a WD TV Live (SMP version) that I've been using for years - and putting up with its quirks - since it seemed to be the best thing out there to play files directly from a NAS without a server needed (looking at you Plex). When InFuse is released I'll be taking the WD out of my home theater and replacing it with the ATV4.
