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! _______________________________________________ Osx-nutters mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters
