2012-02-21, 09:31
somebody explain this to me like i'm retarded. when i purchase a movie on itunes it plays in HD on my apple tv 2 perfectly. but any file from my computer that i attempt to play in HD with xbmc on my apple tv 2 works like shit. it constantly stops and has to catch up.
there has to be some more elegant way of knowing which files are going to play, and which video parameters are needed (does my video need this bitrate or that?) than spending 3 hours handbraking a file only to find out it still doesn't work.
where do i begin? it is my network? are my video files not in the correct frames per second (for example)? again, there has to be some more elegant solution than trial and error. isn't there a way with xbmc, that i know a file will playback correctly without constantly trying this and that?
i barely know how to make this whole thing work, in fact i don't even know how to do that. in the last couple weeks i've learned how to jailbreak, ssh, install repositories from zip files, etc...all things i never knew about before, so if this sounds unappreciated to all you xbmc devs, i'd just like you to know i have an incredible amount of respect for your talents. i'm well aware that i'm not contributing much. i'm just saying: i don't know a whole lot other than just how to get xbmc on my atv2, and playing my videos does not work. i thought that was the whole point of xbmc for apple tv? why is it so hard? how do i get this figured? am i missing something? i probably am. :confused2:
i feel like i can put all the effort i want in this and still won't find anything, because i am simply looking in the wrong place, and i need a "no, like this dumbass!"
if anybody wants i made a pastebin site and all my pastebin posts are related to xbmc HD playback issues.
http://pastebin.com/u/qrlos
there has to be some more elegant way of knowing which files are going to play, and which video parameters are needed (does my video need this bitrate or that?) than spending 3 hours handbraking a file only to find out it still doesn't work.
where do i begin? it is my network? are my video files not in the correct frames per second (for example)? again, there has to be some more elegant solution than trial and error. isn't there a way with xbmc, that i know a file will playback correctly without constantly trying this and that?
i barely know how to make this whole thing work, in fact i don't even know how to do that. in the last couple weeks i've learned how to jailbreak, ssh, install repositories from zip files, etc...all things i never knew about before, so if this sounds unappreciated to all you xbmc devs, i'd just like you to know i have an incredible amount of respect for your talents. i'm well aware that i'm not contributing much. i'm just saying: i don't know a whole lot other than just how to get xbmc on my atv2, and playing my videos does not work. i thought that was the whole point of xbmc for apple tv? why is it so hard? how do i get this figured? am i missing something? i probably am. :confused2:
i feel like i can put all the effort i want in this and still won't find anything, because i am simply looking in the wrong place, and i need a "no, like this dumbass!"
if anybody wants i made a pastebin site and all my pastebin posts are related to xbmc HD playback issues.
http://pastebin.com/u/qrlos