2010-09-22, 17:47
so, i bought a crystal HD off ebay about five months ago to follow all the crystal updates for apple tv. things have progressed nicely! i know we are very close to finishing Dharma up, but i have some issues with my crystal HD.
1) i have hundreds of 720p and 1080p .mkv bluray rips as my main collection. i cannot get them to play perfectly smooth yet. for example: i have a 13gb copy of a movie that plays perfectly smooth for about 5-10 minutes and then stutters badly for about 5 seconds and then catches up with itself. it then plays smoothly again for another 5-10 minutes and repeats the process. i have tried streaming the file over ethernet via SMB connection as well as putting it on a hard drive and running it straight through the apple tv (wanted to make sure it wasn't a network issue) and the same thing happens. my big question is: does anyone have an appletv crystal HD setup that chews through 1080p content flawlessly?
2) is there any way to figure out what version of crystal HD card i have? would it matter?
1) i have hundreds of 720p and 1080p .mkv bluray rips as my main collection. i cannot get them to play perfectly smooth yet. for example: i have a 13gb copy of a movie that plays perfectly smooth for about 5-10 minutes and then stutters badly for about 5 seconds and then catches up with itself. it then plays smoothly again for another 5-10 minutes and repeats the process. i have tried streaming the file over ethernet via SMB connection as well as putting it on a hard drive and running it straight through the apple tv (wanted to make sure it wasn't a network issue) and the same thing happens. my big question is: does anyone have an appletv crystal HD setup that chews through 1080p content flawlessly?
2) is there any way to figure out what version of crystal HD card i have? would it matter?