[chisss]

Hey guys,

I'm new to the ATV XBMC and I got it installed and everything, got it set up with the SMB connection to my windows machine, it picked up all the movies that I had on that share and when I go to play it goes into a black screen, and immediately goes back out to the main ATV menu. I have .mpg .mkv movies in there and they all do the same.
I installed the NitoTV update as well and no change.

I can't even get to the movie to turn the subtitles off. Any ideas?

I'm running 4.2.1(2100) iOS

[hpman247]

Hey guys,

I'm new to the ATV XBMC and I got it installed and everything, got it set up with the SMB connection to my windows machine, it picked up all the movies that I had on that share and when I go to play it goes into a black screen, and immediately goes back out to the main ATV menu. I have .mpg .mkv movies in there and they all do the same.
I installed the NitoTV update as well and no change.

I can't even get to the movie to turn the subtitles off. Any ideas?

I'm running 4.2.1(2100) iOS

Did you turn off auto updates via NitoTV?

[chisss]

updateBeGone? yes.

[hpman247]

updateBeGone? yes.

Can you download media info, go to view>text, and copy/paste that info for one of the MKVs into http://www.pastebin.com and post the link here

[chisss]

sorry for the ignorance but are you talking about in the windows machine directly on the file? or are you talking about within XBMC? because I don't see any view in the movie list

[hpman247]

No I mean to download this program http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download on you windows machine. Drag your MKV into it, do what I said above view>text, then copypaste that info into pastebin.com and place the link here for us to see

[chisss]

http://pastebin.com/gSC4uYpF

[hpman247]

Maybe someone else can chime in. I don't really see any problems there. Maybe because it's a .ts file? I'm not sure tho.

You can try muxing it into a mkv. Download MKVToolNix and use MKvMerge to mux it into a .mkv. Then maybe it will play?

[chisss]

i have .mkv files as well.. here is the link:

http://pastebin.com/yX6T44vP

[davilla]

read faq, see note about hardware acceleration, use nighties. problem solved.

[chisss]

I just did and the files play but I now get buffering every 5 seconds.
Running on a wireless N network at 300Mbps (is the ATV2 wireless N? )

[Memphiz]

yes it is - but wireless is an unpredictable medium ... try an ethernet cable and check if buffering is still there then.