On May 4, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Jared Earle wrote: > On 4 May 2012, at 18:37, Jeffrey Hergan wrote: >> There must be a good way to share all of these various files and stream them >> to Apple TV > > Ok, the AppleTV doesn't play "QuickTime", it plays MP4. Adding a codec to the > Mac doesn't add the codec to the APple TV. What you need to do is transcode > the AVIs to MP4 or convert them using Handbrake. > > If you don't want to convert them, you are shit out of luck until they add > Apps to the AppleTV, or until you jailbreak it. > > --
Yeah, I get that. What I've seen are server type apps, with clients that run on the iPad. The server on my laptop. The server I guess converts them on the fly, so that the iPad can play them. And from the iPad, supposedly one can then send them to Apple TV. What I'm wondering is: has anyone used any of these apps? They all seem old, and the whole solution seems rather unelegant and clunky. But a friend just gave me a dual quad core AMD 2.3ghz pc, maxed with ram, and with 13 terrabytes of hard drives, with tons of HD movies. None in any Apple compatible format, or at least, not a format that iTunes will play. .mkv I think, and that sort of thing. So…rather than re-encode a thousand movies…lol. Seems it might be worth it to try another solution. Any thoughts? Thanks for your suggestions. Just wondering mainly if there is a server/client thing that someone has used or heard good things about. I saw something called Air Video... _______________________________________________ Osx-nutters mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters
