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Originally Posted by Burninator
So I am thinking I will be picking up an Apple TV in the near future. I know it has it's limitations, but for the price, easy of use, UI, ability to buy content on it, I think it's the best option out there. But in the mean time I am digitizing all of my DVD's. I am using DVD Shrink to rip them onto my computer and Handbrake to encode them into the Apple TV video format.
Do you Apple TV users have any tips or hints to setting up your media for the Apple TV? What is a good resolution for the album art? For both movies and music. My album art looks good on my iPhone, but I am sure it will look different on my big screen. I've tried searching for the resolution that Apple TV uses for it's art, but I can't find anything. Anything else I should do ahead to time to make everything look and work seamlessly?
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If the limitations get to you, there is a product called
aTV Flash that'll let you view movies straight off of a rip, in addition to other file formats. It will also let you read media off of an external HD. I stayed away from it just because I like having all my media in a format that is readable by my wife's iPod Touch, my iPhone and my future iPad. If it interests you though it might be worth a look.
As for album art I have found
Get Video Artwork to be invaluable. Most movies have several versions (including itunes versions). Anytime I can't find it there I find it at
cdcovers.cc. cdcovers is pretty extensive. They'll have every dvd cover you can think of ... sometimes 10 versions from different regions around the world. The only problem is they are all hi res and they include the back page of the dvd, so I often used took screen grabs.
I find on my big screen an image around 500 pixels in height or width tends to look quite nice. You don't need it to be a huge file at all, but a little thumbnail will display poorly.
I'm extra excited that I have all my media properly labeled with covers after seeing the iPad display screen this morning:
