Apple TV owners' thread. - Page 65

After spending the night ripping things apart in my PC and router, things are actually working well. Knock wood! Sheesh, all I ever wanted to do was get Airplay working with my iPhones and iPad. I love using them like little jukeboxes. It would be nice if the Netflix app had DD+ and 24fps but I also do serious movie watching on Blu-ray and have some of my favorite music on SACD and DVD-audio. I will say that the audio streamed from iTunes to the Apple TV's is better than I thought it would be and is perfectly enjoyable. The Amazon app would be a more than welcome addition to the box. It's on the damn iPhone!

That's why it's $99. That's why we do pre-purchase homework.

Nonsense.........nobody in the HTPC/Streaming market does true 24 fps. And as to HD audio, very few have systems capable of the extended dynamic range to discern only a very slight difference. The bitrate war has been fought and the dead are buried. Try not to resurrect it, as it's nothing more than a marketing tool like THX and all the other schemes.

wow, so much misinformation here it just hurts my head...

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You are wrong on both accounts, but I am glad you are enjoying not knowing the difference.

Don't get me wrong, I still like my Apple TVs (I have a three of them in use) for TV shows and occasionally rent/purchase movies from Apple. But I decided to remove the training wheels, going forward, for movies that I want to fully appreciate. My Pioneer BDP-62FD streams 24fps content served-up by Serviio (with no transcoding) and plays it back at the original framerate with the original HD audio (DTS-MA, Dolby TrueHD, et al.).

So, yeah... I did my *homework* before purchasing that device

Exactly! And for those who actually use Airplay with iPad and iDevices, ATV rocks. For more "serious" movies, go HTPC.

 

I'm confused as well.  The ATV only has an ethernet connection.  What do you mean go wireless?

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I understand why I was mistaken.  When I originally purchased and installed the ATV, and since I had an available ethernet port in my equipment rack, I used the hard-wired connection.  In the ATV menu, if an ethernet connection is detected, any reference to Wi-Fi is hidden.  Since I never saw any reference to Wi-Fi, I was unaware it had this capability as well.  Learned something new!

 

A special thanks to Gary J.  As he does throughout AVS, Gary never hesitates to take the extra time to craft a helpful and friendly response.

If you really want to be drawing upon historical references, we can do that.

Really?

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how-to-fix-the-apple-tv-5.1.1-ethernet-update-bug?utm_source=macobserver&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_everything

Yup, had that problem myself. It's not the first update they fudged and I'm sure it won't be the last, they're not infallible.

Starting to get fed up with my Apple TV 3, ever since I updated to the latest software I have been having nothing but issues. I mainly use my Apple TV to stream movies wirelessly that are on my Itunes. Lately I've either been getting errors when trying to stream or it's been taking forever for the move to start streaming. Somehow my Apple TV is not communicating with my wireless router. I have tried everything from resetting the router, to rebooting my computer, rebooting/restarting the Apple TV, opening up all Apple TV ports, etc and I cannot for the life of me get consistent streaming. Since updating to the latest software it has been very frustrating trying to watch my movies. Any suggestions? I am very close to just putting it up for sale and trying out the WD TV Live.

That's likely the problem even if you say it used to work, which you did not. Wireless can change like the weather.

Not the case, when I look in settings in my Apple TV it's saying WiFi is at full signal strength. Even hooked it up to Ethernet and still same issues.

Signal strength is one wi-fi indicator but if Ethernet is a problem next step is On Apple TV, choose Settings > General > Reset, and then click Restore.

Thanks, I'll try that, it's weird because somedays it works fine and some days it takes forever for it to buffer.

Can Apple TV read bd ISo and transcode and play high def audio from bluray via USB?

Nope

What does it do then? Lol

Perhaps you should investigate.

Is there no way to do transcoding to the Apple TV? I'm not talking about any soft jailbreak with XBMC and PLEX involved, got the Gen3 so that's out of the question, but is there no way to have a transcoding server transcoding MKV's into MP4's feed directly to the Apple TV running it's stock firmware / software?

Transcoding MKV containers with H.264 video files and Dolby Digital 5.1 AC3 audio tracks should be a simple task for any half decent server to do, and we've got loads of software capable of doing this without any loss in quality (PS3 Media Server for instance..) but none of these seems to be able to transcode to the Apple TV, why is that?


If transcoding is completely out of the question, what would be the optimum way to repack H.264 // AC-3 MKV's into MP4 without messing with any of the quality and A/V synchronization? I'm not talking about the cheapest solution, but the optimum solution which easy to use interface, providing good ID-tagging, album art while not messing with neither video or audio quality. And of course it must be able to convert DTS and other non supported audio tracks that might be packed into MKV's into AC-3 without completely messing up the surround channels and what not.

Does such a software even exists, or do one have to use these unintuitive free applications that's tend to always be able to mess up something, or simply crash midway while repacking a large MKV library into MP4.

Once again.

Air Video would require you to stream directly to a client on either a iPhone, iPad or iPod then you would be using AirPlay from one of those devices to your Apple TV.. That's no good solution, then I could just play the video using Movist on my MacBook and used AirPlay Mirroring directly but this includes noticeable compression to the video quality, a direct transcoding solution like PS3MediaServer should be able to provide you with no decrease in quality something which AirPlay certainly does.

Anybody know how to prevent a podcast from showing up on the AppleTV? I have a lot of them and it's a PITA to sort through the list.