AppleTV HD video playback

[comexbackkid]

Postbreak, nice setup. My AppleTV right now streams video from my external HD to XBMC, but the hard drive has to be connected to my computer, it's a macbook pro. what's your setup where you're using a network drive? I tried but it doesn't work right, I'm using one of the newer Airport Extreme base stations. Thanks man

[postbreak]

Do you have it modified with XBMC and is NitoTV installed? You need them both to setup an AFP share. Check into awkwardTV's wiki for how to do so.

[hinestroza88]

Postbreak, can you tell me what program you used to change the resolution and the bitrate? And for play HD Video i need to change the original HDD for a new one 5400rpm?

[TheMrverma]

Questions...

1) Whats the resolution of the video?

2) Whats the bitrate of the video?

3) How big(MB) is the video?

4) You say you upgraded the HDD. Did the video work well when you streamed it off the network... before your upgraded?

[postbreak]

The video is 1056x592 at 4.3GBs, and 6000kbps bit rate. It looks exactly like the source of 1024x720 with over 10,000kbps.

The hard drive was upgraded to 100GB but mostly for the 5400rpm instead of the 4200rpm it ships with. The UI is much snappier with the new hard drive.

I can stream the HD video over N to a networked hard drive just fine with no slow down. The only pain is converting the video.

[skaterose]

that looks sort of cool

[jeffwads]

dude, just get a WD TV unit for $120.

[postbreak]

I paid $10 more for something that has wireless N, includes boxee so I can watch Hulu and other internet TV, and has a nice gui.