Buffering issues - atv2 - wired

g-off Wrote:ATV1 != ATV2

The broadcom card is a commercial product that is well documented.

We are pretty lucky that it can do h264 at all. It is only through the hard work of the devs (Davilla et al) that they managed to reverse engineer the hardware decoding API as far as they have. Potentially the hardware has all the goodies to do other formats but Apple in their typically Apple way have gone all out to keep it a secret from evil people who try to sully the perfection of their products.

To be fair, it's not that they've gone out of their way to keep this info secret.. there's just no motivation for them to document and publish it.

You mean much in the same way they don't actively try and stop people from jailbreaking their devices or even opening them up? (Pentalobe - i'm looking at you!)

Do you see any video players on IOS devices that can use the graphics hardware legitimately for non-apple approved content? There is no access through the SDK. People would pay the Appstore and apple handsomely for that capability.

There is a saying that you should never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. I don't think there are too many stupid people at Apple.

Not that this has anything to do with the thread at hand

Actually, there is a way to access hw decoding with a pure iOS app... BUT the only content that will play is mov videos that have been encoded to Apple spec. All others need not apply. It's a very high level API, the player. You pass it an URL and it handles everything else.

g-off Wrote:You mean much in the same way they don't actively try and stop people from jailbreaking their devices or even opening them up? (Pentalobe - i'm looking at you!)

Do you see any video players on IOS devices that can use the graphics hardware legitimately for non-apple approved content? There is no access through the SDK. People would pay the Appstore and apple handsomely for that capability.

There is a saying that you should never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. I don't think there are too many stupid people at Apple.

Not that this has anything to do with the thread at hand

They patch jailbreak exploits because they are also security exploits. Jailbreaking also makes it painfully easy to pirate App Store software. Just because Apple doesn't go out of their way to support the hackers and DIY'ers doesn't mean they are acting maliciously. They sell a product that is intended to do certain things. They don't have to support us just because we want to mod these things to go beyond that.

Now, if they acted like Sony, and went after jailbreak devs and sued them, and websites that published the jailbreak methods and software, I could see your point. So far Apple has not been unreasonable in their actions regarding jailbreaking.

No fair bringing Sony into it. That is like saying Mugabe is not as bad as Pol Pot.

I will say that Apple has done plenty to piss me off, and I certainly don't always agree with the way they go about iOS :)

Change the DNS on the ATV2 to .8.8.8.8

Settings>General>Network>Configure TCP/IP>Manually
Change DNS Address to 008 008 008 008

stormwasher Wrote:Change the DNS on the ATV2 to .8.8.8.8

Settings>General>Network>Configure TCP/IP>Manually
Change DNS Address to 008 008 008 008

Which will do nothing for local network file access...

My buffering issue was resolved by doing the below:

Configure Audio Output in XBMC > System > Settings > System to use Optical/Coax, even if you are using HDMI. If this fixes your buffering issue, please let us know on the forums.
Set to 16-bit audio, Apple TV > Settings > Audio & Video > Audio Output and set it to "16 bit".
Turn off thumbnails, XBMC > Settings > Video > File and deselect 'generate thumbnails'.
Disable playback sync, XBMC > Settings > Video > Playback > turn off "Sync playback to display". <-- This one fixed my issue.


the above i found on xbmc wiki ios specific FAQ

nero12 Wrote:My buffering issue was resolved by doing the below:

Configure Audio Output in XBMC > System > Settings > System to use Optical/Coax, even if you are using HDMI. If this fixes your buffering issue, please let us know on the forums.
Set to 16-bit audio, Apple TV > Settings > Audio & Video > Audio Output and set it to "16 bit".
Turn off thumbnails, XBMC > Settings > Video > File and deselect 'generate thumbnails'.
Disable playback sync, XBMC > Settings > Video > Playback > turn off "Sync playback to display". <-- This one fixed my issue.


the above i found on xbmc wiki ios specific FAQ

Thanks. But it didn't solve my problem. I changed everything except "generate thumbnails" since I couldn't find it.

Did my fileinfo help? Do I need to provide something else? Is it possible to donate money to fix this issue?