Comments on: iTunes 7.3 lets you stream photos to your Apple TV

By: klaus deckner

klaus deckner — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:40:14 +0000

Hello,
how can I transfer my photos from my computer on my apple-tv?
Thank You K.D.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:32:10 +0000

If anyone just wants the ability to easily stream music from itunes on your laptop to your surround sound receiver just use an Airport express. It wont do video just music from itunes. It also functions as a print server, wireless router or wireless router extender. I paid for a top of the line HP wireless printer and could have just hooked up any usb ethernet printer to this airport express. I use my Xbox 360 and Windows media connect for wireless photo and video sharing from my Viao to my entertainment center. You select media folders to share and use your xbox to view photos and watch videos wireless. It works very well for photo slideshows but I have not tried it for video yet.

By: Johan

Johan — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:12:51 +0000

YouTube content conversion is work in progress. They start with h.264 content from “the end” (the newest videos) and work through the material until they reach “the beginning”.

By: jcs

jcs — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:48:42 +0000

I too am less and less impressed with my AppleTV every day. Like felercarnaysay, I have tons of pictures organized by date and I do not use iPhoto. The photo sync feature is completely unreliable and streaming is not an option w/o iPhoto. The box at this point is just an overpriced MP3 player for iTunes on my TV’s speakers. I can’t even take advantage of the 160GB HDD for my music and photo collection and I really do not care to use it for video. I will likely return it and argue to not have to pay the “return fee” because the product is inherently defective as it does not do all what it is advertised to do.

Agree as well the YouTube feature is anemic — I can’t search for content I know is there.

By: felercarbnaysay

felercarbnaysay — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:09:17 +0000

I’m becoming less and less impressed with my AppleTV every day…

First that useless YouTube feature and still no decent support for photos or internet radio.
I have over 16,000 photos organized by year/month in directories. Still no way to browse photos with AppleTV All my music and photos are on the same server. I’d like to be able to
stream photos and keep music on the AppleTV hard drive. As far as I can tell, that’s imposible. And no, I don’t use iPhoto. I really don’t want to migrate 16,000 photos over to iPhoto.

By: Sheen

Sheen — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:37:42 +0000

The actual fix is:

https://forum.awkwardtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=313#p1752

In other words, replace iPhotoAccess.framework with the new one from software update 1.1.

By: Sheen

Sheen — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:17:31 +0000

OK, I’ve finally gotten it to work.

First off, a brief rundown of what my issue was. I did the “safe update” patch as opposed to the regular software 1.1 update. This is because I didn’t want to redo all my hacks (such as SSH, ATVFiles, etc.) Everything worked well until I want to take advantage of photo streaming in iTunes 7.3. I got iTunes 7.3 to set for photo streaming. But, Apple TV refused to to recognize this feature.

The Fix?

https://forum.awkwardtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=315

We need to replace iPhotoAccess.framework from the update 1.1.

The “safe update” I am talking about is
https://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/June_20_2007_Patch_%28aka_the_YouTube_Patch%29

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:37:09 +0000

I am still trying to stream photos and unable to do it. However, I have a problem that comes before that: How do I load the photos to iTunes? Should I see a “Photos” item in my library, such as I see mUsic, Movies, etc…I have tried a number of ways; adding folder, adding files, importing, etc…but nothing seems to create a Photos folder in my library nor do my photos load anywhere in iTunes. Tks for the help.

By: Johan

Johan — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:36:10 +0000

The main problem with streaming of photos is that you try it on the computer that’s SYNCRONIZING photos. Turn syncronizing OFF and start all over with STREAMING to the same computer. The settings will appear…like magic.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:36:58 +0000

Make sure in iPhoto you have sharing enabled just as in iTunes 🙂