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Question for those of you reporting positive results streaming 1080p MKVs using aTV Flash (black): Is there a server-side component which is transcoding the video (a la Plex), or is it streaming the file as-is?
I haven't played a ton of movies on my XBMC ATV2 yet, but have had good results with DVD .ISO files and 720p MKV files. My straight Blu-ray ripped MKV files (20GB+) play, but not without issues. My latest test (Rango) pauses numerous times over SMB and, with my latest test, using an NFS server on my Acer Revo running XP. With Filezilla server, I can play the movie without pauses, but I get frequent video slowdowns/dropped frames (audio plays fine).
I just recently bought a new desktop (i7-2600) for the main purpose of downconverting my movies to a more ATV2-friendly format. With the rumors of an A5-based ATV (which I'm skeptical will happen this year), I am tempted to hold off a bit, as I'd prefer to keep my Blu-ray rips in 1080p format. But lately I've been thinking that I should just save myself the headache and use Handbrake to bring them down to 720p MP4 files that can play on a stock ATV2. Obviously, though, even with an i7-2600, I'm looking at quite a bit of time to encode all of my movies.
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To the original poster @johndo: I was having identical issues and though I am a bit late, would like to share my feedback as follows:
Setup: atv2 connected to cisco e4200 thru wifi. 500gb usb hdd connected to router. I am using eden v11. iOS 4.3.3.
Result: everything plays well except 1080p h.264 encoded 5.1 blue ray rips (north of 10gb a file). severe buffering (30 sec) after every say 2-3 mins of smooth playback. No stuttering.
Earlier today, kept the same setup and just put a normal Ethernet cable (no super-duper gigabit cable) between atv2 and router. I can confirm that it solved my problem.
Thanks to everyone for sharing their feedback since it led me to try the wired solution.
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The latest AppleTV2 software update must of done some serious optimisations playing back 1080p is perfect now through iTunes. Before the movies would drop frames all the time now its just silky smooth. I wonder what the point of the AppleTV3 is.
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1080p output (atv3) vs. 720p output (atv2) ... thats the only point...
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2012-03-09, 13:19
(This post was last modified: 2012-03-09, 13:26 by Chrisiooo.)
Hey there, with my setup, 1080p streaming runs perfect over my atv2, except that the little box downscale the content.
I use an Airport Extreme with a 3TB Hardrive hooked up. I stream over smb from my Airport Extreme in the Bedroom to my Airport Express in the Living-Room and the atv2 is connected over Lan to the Airport Express.
I use firmware 7.6 on both devices. 7.6.1 made my whole network too slow, don´t know why....:confused2:
Also I uses Firmware 4.3 on my atv.