2012-06-04, 18:40
Hi guys, nice forum.
After 9 months of using my standard ATV2 I took the plunge and JB'd it today. I installed XBMC which was the main reason I went for a jailbreak.
I have a ATV2 downstairs and an Xbox 360 upstairs (both wired to the network). Both of them stream HD movies from a 2TB WD MyBookLive, but I was sick of converting films to both MP4 and WMV so they could be played in both rooms. This is why I went for XBMC on the ATV. I figured that I would only need to store movies in WMV format and so I needn't convert to MP4 or waste disc space with two formats.
However, having successfully installed XBMC I have discovered that it is useless at playing my HD WMV movies. The picture is so jerky that the video isn't watchable.
I have a few questions:
Is this symptomatic of 1080p WMV playback through XMBC?
If so, is there any solution?
If this will never work, is there any other benefit to keeping XMBC (and the jailbreak)? (Because I'd quite like my remote and remote HD functionality back.)
Your advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
After 9 months of using my standard ATV2 I took the plunge and JB'd it today. I installed XBMC which was the main reason I went for a jailbreak.
I have a ATV2 downstairs and an Xbox 360 upstairs (both wired to the network). Both of them stream HD movies from a 2TB WD MyBookLive, but I was sick of converting films to both MP4 and WMV so they could be played in both rooms. This is why I went for XBMC on the ATV. I figured that I would only need to store movies in WMV format and so I needn't convert to MP4 or waste disc space with two formats.
However, having successfully installed XBMC I have discovered that it is useless at playing my HD WMV movies. The picture is so jerky that the video isn't watchable.
I have a few questions:
Is this symptomatic of 1080p WMV playback through XMBC?
If so, is there any solution?
If this will never work, is there any other benefit to keeping XMBC (and the jailbreak)? (Because I'd quite like my remote and remote HD functionality back.)
Your advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.