New Apple TV - Jailbroken: now with a Flash browser, Last.fm, and Plex

[Russic]

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.

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.

[silentsim]

Originally Posted by Russic

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.

and some scripts to automate everything :P

[Russic]

Originally Posted by silentsim

and some scripts to automate everything :P

Ya if you want to take things to the next level, silentsim will help you get to a place where you don't even need to lift a finger to convert files.

[silentsim]

Plex for aTV (2) has recieved some major updates. Now has scrubbing as well as resume...hehe.

[MickMcGeough]

Originally Posted by silentsim

Plex for aTV (2) has recieved some major updates. Now has scrubbing as well as resume...hehe.

Woohoo!

Looking forward to Plex development so I can ditch my XBMC box once and for all.

[silentsim]

Originally Posted by MickMcGeough

Woohoo!

Looking forward to Plex development so I can ditch my XBMC box once and for all.

FireCore (makers of atvFLash) have a video showing a mkv file being played natively. They have got codecs to work. It hasn't been released into the beta yet but it looks promising.

I prefer that over Plex since transcoding isn't necessary then.

But development seems to be going well.

However, with iFlicks any mkv i'd still run through iFlicks..metadata is awesome

[HotHotHeat]

So I downloaded iFlicks from the Mac App Store. Had a .avi file that was an episode of Californication that I wanted to convert into an AppleTV friendly file. Added it to iFlicks, chose my desired settings, pressed start. The converted video file was added to iTunes but is a blank white screen with no audio . . . I sure hope I'm doing something wrong, otherwise that was a massive waste of $25. Any help??

[CKPThunder]

Originally Posted by Russic

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.

This sounds easy enough. Is iFlicks the only app I need if I want to get a dvd from disc to ATV?

[silentsim]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

So I downloaded iFlicks from the Mac App Store. Had a .avi file that was an episode of Californication that I wanted to convert into an AppleTV friendly file. Added it to iFlicks, chose my desired settings, pressed start. The converted video file was added to iTunes but is a blank white screen with no audio . . . I sure hope I'm doing something wrong, otherwise that was a massive waste of $25. Any help??

Download Perian.
http://www.perian.org/

It is needed for these converts from xvid codec.

once its installed close and open iflicks and re-run your convert

[silentsim]

Originally Posted by CKPThunder

This sounds easy enough. Is iFlicks the only app I need if I want to get a dvd from disc to ATV?

Won't do DVD directly, use handbrake from DVD then iFlicks for the metadata/add to iTunes.

Handbrake is free.

[HotHotHeat]

Rumours out this morning on all three new iOS devices. Most exciting for me is AppleTV v.2011 will have 1080p output.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/14/e...-apple-tv-and/

[silentsim]

BREAKING
XBMC has been ported to AppleTV gen2...apparently plays 1080p pretty decently (occasional stuttering)...

and its not a pre-release..ITS OUT!
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title...l_XBMC_on_ATV2

[MickMcGeough]

Originally Posted by silentsim

BREAKING
XBMC has been ported to AppleTV gen2...apparently plays 1080p pretty decently (occasional stuttering)...

and its not a pre-release..ITS OUT!
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title...l_XBMC_on_ATV2

Beat me to it!

Here's the endgadget gallery/video:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/20/x...-new-apple-tv/

Gonna try this out ASAP.

[silentsim]

Originally Posted by MickMcGeough

Beat me to it!

Here's the endgadget gallery/video:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/20/x...-new-apple-tv/

Gonna try this out ASAP.

Pretty easy install with SSH. Got it running. Works well.

[MickMcGeough]

Originally Posted by silentsim

Pretty easy install with SSH. Got it running. Works well.

What jailbreak method did you use? Seas0nPass?

[silentsim]

Originally Posted by MickMcGeough

What jailbreak method did you use? Seas0nPass?

Im on untethered 4.0 with PwnageTool.
I tested Seas0npass on the newest OS and it is decent- but I refuse to use tethered.

XBMC works fine on 4.0

[MickMcGeough]

Originally Posted by silentsim

Im on untethered 4.0 with PwnageTool.
I tested Seas0npass on the newest OS and it is decent- but I refuse to use tethered.

XBMC works fine on 4.0

Hmm, I'm already updated and I haven't saved my old SHSH blobs (or whatever it is that you have to do).

I believe it only has to be tethered during the initial startup, I'll check it out soon.

[silentsim]

Originally Posted by MickMcGeough

Hmm, I'm already updated and I haven't saved my old SHSH blobs (or whatever it is that you have to do).

I believe it only has to be tethered during the initial startup, I'll check it out soon.

Yes. Only when you boot it up.

[FanIn80]

Using pwnagetool, what size are you guys making your root partitions?

[silentsim]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

Using pwnagetool, what size are you guys making your root partitions?

use basic mode, not advanced. just create the ipsw.

if your running 4.2 (tethered) use seasonpass, it's better.