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Originally Posted by CKPThunder
I'm interested in this as well. What applications should I get to get videos into ATV format?
On a related note, if I have an external network hard drive with ATV compatible videos, can I leave them there and somehow get itunes to link to them without having to move the videos onto my computer which probably wouldn't have enough room to accomodate them? I hope I explained this correctly.
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As mentioned, iFlicks is the app the beat. It isn't free ($25 in the Mac App store, beta on the website), BUT it's fantastic. It's just a big gray box that you drag a file into. It finds all the information it can on the file, tags it properly, converts it to an apple tv friendly format, dumps it in your itunes and then deletes the original file (the last two steps are optional).
This is big for a couple of reasons. For starters any video that gets dropped into iTunes is categorized as a movie which is fine as long as you aren't dealing with tv shows. If you just convert 10 episodes of Dexter and dump them into iTunes the normal way, all 10 files end up in your movies area. You need to highlight them all, give them a show name, a season number and categorize it as a tv show. iFlicks does all this for you before they even get into iTunes along with the added bonus of adding extras like air date, actor names, show art etc. It's OUTSTANDING.