On May 7, 2012, at 12:19 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> Jared Earle spake on Friday 04-May-2012@12:13:37
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Handbrake is a good way of doing this, but if the files you have are mkvs 
> with x264 or h.264 video in them I've found Subler to be a superior solution.
> 
> <http://code.google.com/p/subler/>
> 
> I've moved over 400 video files to iTunes to make them available to Apple TV, 
> and most of them only took 2-3 minutes to 'convert' and add all the 
> appropriate metadata as well.
> 
> If all you want to do is play video on the Apple TV though, and you have 
> another iOS devices, Air Video is the best and simplest solution.


Airvideo is working very well for me. But I do like the idea of converting all 
the files to an iTunes compatible format for ease of use and no on the fly 
conversion. So I'll look into subler. 
I also think it might be fun to look into the whole jailbreak option.
I'll do some googling. See what I find.
Thank you!
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