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I have to admit the ATV Hacked is a Beautiful thing
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Hi Ryan,
please contact me via email or through the link in my signaure. I can help you with your hacking problem.
I'm also wondering about this -- I've heard that ATV can only play up to 480p MKV files, due to the hardware being not powerful enough? I don't have an ATV, but I'm looking at getting one (they're like $120 off eBay) to hook up to a 720p TV. I don't really care about 1080p, but if I'd have to downsample all the movies I have encoded as 720p MKVs, I might as well just get a mac mini to hook up to the TV.
Apple TV is not really a good friend to mkv files. You better re-encode them. I never got them to work properly on my ATV.
I find the hack totally useless. I plan on restoring my appleTV to stock firmware.
Sure, it can play mkv's; 3 frames worth before hanging! You can browse the net, but the interface sucks (remote or wired keyboard). Also the ability to attach mass storage is pointless to me as I like to have the media streamed, so others can access it also.
My two cents.
Sure, it can play mkv's; 3 frames worth before hanging! You can browse the net, but the interface sucks (remote or wired keyboard). Also the ability to attach mass storage is pointless to me as I like to have the media streamed, so others can access it also.
My two cents.
TV without hacking it?will hacking the apple TV allow me to stream divx movies from my iMac without re-encoding them and putting them into iTunes? Or will I have to put them locally on the hard drive?
Look, all of this 720p, 540p stuff is just a *part* of the equation. The options used in the h.264 video stream and the bitrate really play a larger role. 720P is just that. 1280 x 720 picture size. You could encode that size at 1000 kbps bitrate and with basically standard ipod h.264 options and the atv hardware could play it all day long at any framerate. It is an oversimplification to simply say that the atv "can only play up to 480p MKV files" . Its just not that simple. And frankly its apparent that alot of these mkv files are via bittorrent, etc where the average user has no idea how it was encoded. So, the resolution may have very little to do with it in the end.
On a stock atv (at least software wise) I regularly watch 720p mp4 content at 23.976 fps which, when encoded correctly is frankly quite awesome looking.
yes, you can do that and you don't need to put them on your atv.
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I certainly agree that a hacked ATV is a beautiful thing! I did cheat somewhat though, and purchased aTV flash. There is still a fair bit of tinkering to do, but nearly as much as is required if you are doing it all solo.
You can find them here, if anyone's interested: http://www.atvflash.com/
You can find them here, if anyone's interested: http://www.atvflash.com/