Comments on: Installing Divx, Xvid and WMV on Apple TV Take 2

By: happyboybaby

happyboybaby — Wed, 23 May 2012 06:42:00 +0000

i just find a step by step guide on how
to convert 1080p video in MKV, AVI, Xvid, Divx, MP4, FLV, WMV, WTV,
WebM, AVCHD, MXF, MVI, VOB, F4V, BIK, RMVB and MPEG to Apple TV
supported format at https://www.bigasoft.com/articles/convert-1080p-video-to-play-on-apple-tv.html

Then it is just easy to play MKV, AVI, WTV, WMV, FLV, WebM, AVCHD, MPG, DivX, MXF, and VOB etc on Apple TV/Apple TV 2/Apple TV 3

By: Parky

Parky — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:22:29 +0000

Hi, can you help me?
i have atv 2.2 whit boxee, before i had a atv 1.1 whit nito tv and ssh open, but after update maybe the ssh is closed. how i can open ssh connection

thanks

By: Alvarito

Alvarito — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:51:11 +0000

Dan,

You can add metadata for any source recognized by Quicktime.
You open up the movie with Quicktime, and in File -> Save as… choose “referenced movie” (sorry, I really don’t know how is the correct option, I’ve a Spanish MacOS). This new file is about 2 to 4Mb… now you can export this file to iTunes and add any metadata in that file.

This file is like a soft link to the actually movie file.

Bye.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:12:51 +0000

Is there any way of making ATV play .MKV files, as in x264 encoded movies? It would be fantastic being able to play some HD content on ATV…

Marcus

By: Josh Peters

Josh Peters — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:51:57 +0000

@Michael, what you posted was a standard SSH prompt when you first connect to a new host that is not in your “known_hosts” file. Had you said “yes” instead of “no” you would likely have connected a-ok to the AppleTV.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:48:54 +0000

I’m trying to install the updates and get the following error message. I installed the Patchstick on the AppleTV and it looked ok. Any ideas?

The authenticity of host ‘appletv.local (fe80::217:f2ff:fefa:50d7%en0)’ can’t be established.
RSA1 key fingerprint is b8:b2:58:cf:48:c3:49:ce:0b:a4:ba:1d:e2:2a:3a:6d.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? no

I also tried using the ip Address

ssh: Error resolving hostname 192.168.0.195.local: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
lost connection

I’m running Leopard not Tiger.

Thanks

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:56:25 +0000

Is there anyway to add metadata like descriptions, year, cover art/poster art for the XVID files and have the Apple TV recognize it?

The only way I’ve been able to add any of that content is by exporting moveis for Apple TV with Quicktime and that is very slow and much larger files….

Thanks!

By: jimmy

jimmy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:12:00 +0000

So, does this play in Quicktime with the original TV/Movies in the original UI, or is this for Mplayer in NitoTV?

By: Glenn Burns

Glenn Burns — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:30:42 +0000

I agree, enabling the SSH for ATV does sound like the hardest part and therefore makes this Hack, to a simple guy like me, pretty scary and not worth trying.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:13:00 +0000

What the hell is ssh?