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Known issue. Atv2 is not powerful enough to handle the trans-coding(?).
I just convert them to mkv files.
Torrent sites are seeing the light though. More and more rips are encoded In a way that atv can handle without having to convert the files again yourself.
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jabba_29 Wrote:Known issue. Atv2 is not powerful enough to handle the trans-coding(?).
I just convert them to mkv files.
Torrent sites are seeing the light though. More and more rips are encoded In a way that atv can handle without having to convert the files again yourself.
Wrong. No transcoding goes on here (XBMC, on any platform, does not transcode anything). AVI is just a container, and the video is in h.264. It should work.
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mcpish
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yeah, I've noticed this problem long ago too. From my experience you need to use either the .mp4 or .mkv container with h264 encoded video to get smooth playback on AppleTV. In handbrake I transcode everything recorded from my MythTV box to .mp4 format, this works well on not only the AppleTV but also the PS3 and XBOX 360.
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It also depends on what YOU find acceptable as far as dropped frames/stuttering.
Some peeps just don't seem to bother.
I hate it, so almost exclusively use my ATV2 for music playback now.
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For price/performance ratio the apple tv is admirable. Sure it'd be nice to have more power but overall it's very serviceable. I'm personally hoping that aTV3G will have enough power to take on avi 720p.
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You're all wrong. This is a bug. AVI or MKV, it doesn't matter. The codec (h.264) matters, and it should play just fine on the ATV2.
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davilla
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I keep saying AVI is a crappy container, does not matter what's in it, it's still crap. Why do you ask... because avi encoders do stupid things like totally messing up pts so much that we cannot depends on it and force to dts when we detect an AVI.