| 27 Mar 2007 02:26 am |
Entree Rep: 0 Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 6 OFFLINE | The guide includes:
1. News about Apple TV
2. How to Convert Video /DVD to Apple TV (For Win)?
3. How to Convert Video/DVD to Apple TV (For Mac)
4. Specific information about Apple TV.
News about Apple TV
It is really a long time since Steve Jobs indicated that Apple was going to release Apple TV. In January, he said users would have to wait a bit before trying out the Apple TV for themselves and the device would be available in February. Until Mid-March, there is still no Apple TV. But fortunately, Apple Release the Apple TV Now, and you can get your Apple TV after 3-5 business days once you order it.
Capable of storing up to 50 hours of movies and TV shows, 9,000 songs, or 25,000 pictures, according to the specs provided by Apple, it will be great experience that different from the normal TV. You can buy movies or songs from iTunes store and transfer them to Apple TV; or just find a ripper/converter to help you convert your DVD/Video to Apple TV. Now a lot of software providers have found the opportunity and provided software like this kind for Apple TV, such as: DVD-ripper-copy.com, iPod-Soft.com, Mp4Converter.net, and the peripheral are also provided. Maybe a new sales upsurge will come forth after the release of Apple TV.
Tools we need:
Apple TV Suite, Learn more here
How to Get Video to Apple TV (For Win)?
1. Launch ¡®Video to iPod Converter¡¯,
a) Click ¡°Load Video Files¡± to load files to the task list.
b) Or right click on the blank area in the center of the main interface to import video files from your hard disk.
2. Set the settings
Just select the output format, the option and the video effect.
You can right click the video files and click ¡®Params setting¡¯ to open the option windows. (The same as ¡°Effect¡± This function let you set different options to different tasks.
For example, you set the conversion format for the first video as Mpeg, and you can set another video as H.264. So you can import several files at one time and set the suitable option for each task and then leave for any other thing. It¡¯s really great, I love it.
3. Start Conversion
After all the things done, click the ¡®start¡¯ button to start the conversion.
How to Get DVD to Apple TV (For Win)
Step1.Import DVD files
1) Rip your DVD files from DVD-ROM drive by clicking ¡°Load DVD Files¡±.
Many friends ask me how to copy movies form DVDs to pc. This process calls ¡®Rip¡¯. Additional, ripping copyright protected DVD is illegal. This software helps you rip DVDs automatically. You needn¡¯t know how to break the CSS protect. I really love this function.
2) Or Load .ifo files from your hard disk by clicking ¡°Load ifo Files¡±.
3) Or right click on the blank area in the center of the main interface to import video files from your hard disk or DVD-ROM drive.
Step2: select subtitle, audio and output format
1) Regular DVD movie usually has several subtitles, like English, French, German, etc. You can select anyone according to your need.
2) Select Audio it the same as select Subtitle.
3) Format: this software can convert DVD to MP4 format which are fit for iPod player, it also can extract audio track from DVD and save as MP3 or M4A format which are fit for any other MP3 player.
Step3: Start Conversion
After all the things done, click the ¡®start¡¯ button to start the conversion.
How to convert video to Apple TV (for Mac)?
The Using of Apple TV Video Converter (Mac) is as simple as the two above, just click the ¡°Add¡± button to add files, set the video/audio bit rate, set the frame rate and so on, then press the encode button, every thing will be done automatically.
How to Rip DVD to Apple TV (for Mac)?
The DVD to Apple TV Converter provides several default Apple TV video profiles, which you can use converting your DVD to Apple TV Video MP4 formats. The profiles will help you get the video you like such as minimal size video, high quality video, etc. It also has many settings you can customize, for example, convert DVD to Apple TV mp4 video by custom file size through setting video bitrate, rip DVD¡¯s any titles or chapters, select target subtitle and audio track. You can get adjustable video what you want to play on your television through Apple TV.
Specific Information about Apple TV
For well connecting with TV, Apple sets a series of ports and interfaces, such as HDMI, Component video, Analog RCA stereo audio, Optical audio, 0/100BASE-T Ethernet, USB 2.0, 802.11n wireless networking, also a receiver that works with included Apple Remote. All of these ports and interfaces are added to Apple TV for displaying the same content on up to 5 terminal, make the whole family could experience in different way; the interface of Apple TV is elaborately designed to make it easy to use, even a kid will know how to control.
Apple TV perhaps is also a casual gaming device! We found some gaming strings in iTunes 7.1, like ¡°iTunes could not sync the game¡¯^1¡± to Apple TV ¡®^2¡¯ because ¡ ¡°, Maybe the gaming industry will bring a new incoming of Apple. Now the only question is who will take charge in the game development, Apple or the third party? However, it is also said that you won’t play games on Apple TV.
Reference:
AppleInsider: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2549
Apple official: http://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html
Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/a...lay-games-too/
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| | 28 Mar 2007 11:27 pm |
Entree Rep: 0Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 6 OFFLINE | - moderated. Discussion of hacking is not permitted -
there is tutorials all over the internet
Moderated 30 Mar 2007 02:24 am by Etain | | | 29 Mar 2007 04:19 am |
Entree Rep: 0Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 1 OFFLINE | Thanks a lot ,i need it too.
I have the same question, Okay thanks
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Wannabe Rep: 0Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 63 OFFLINE | Apple TV Review
Apple’s answer to the digital media adapter is finally here.
The Apple TV is essentially a stationary, networked iPod that lets you enjoy all of your iTunes digital media (video, audio, and photos) on the wide-screen HDTV and sound system in your living room — rather than the confined screens of your video iPod or your PC.
The good news is the $300 Apple TV largely succeeds in bringing iPod-like simplicity and elegance to TV-based network media devices. The bad news is its narrow iTunes-only compatibility severely limits the quantity — and quality — of the video content you can enjoy on your TV.
The good: Sleek external design and elegant user interface; simple, streamlined setup; streams music and video files purchased from the iTunes Store; capable of HD video output; includes state-of-the-art 802.11n wireless networking while maintaining backwards compatibility with older Wi-Fi and wired networks; smooth, hiccup-free streaming.
The Apple TV itself is a tiny silver square with rounded corners measuring 7.7 inches per side and just 1.1 inches high. That’s far smaller than most standard DVD players and stereo equipment; like the similarly sized Mac Mini or Nintendo Wii, the Apple TV will fit just about anywhere.
The Apple TV is much smaller than a standard DVD player
Last edited 30 Mar 2007 10:55 pm by runningtiger | | | 30 Mar 2007 10:57 pm |
Wannabe Rep: 0Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 63 OFFLINE | It also sports a minimalist aesthetic that’s classic Apple — the front panel has only a power light and the remote sensor. There are absolutely no buttons, nor is there a front-panel display.
Connectivity
The Apple TV has a decent set of network and A/V jacks crammed onto its backside, but it’s by no means comprehensive. There are two video output options: component (red, green, blue) and HDMI. If you connect to a TV or an A/V receiver via HDMI, that single cable will handle video and audio
Streaming performance
We used two Windows PCs to stream content to the Apple TV — an old Dell laptop (with an 802.11g Wi-Fi card) and a Dell desktop on a wired network connection. Both were connected to a Belkin N1 router, to which the Apple TV also was connected wirelessly.
Video quality
Unfortunately, the excellent streaming performance is offset by a drawback that’s more the fault of iTunes than Apple TV: generally disappointing video quality.
Movies and TV shows in iTunes are currently available in what Apple calls “near-DVD quality” — a maximum of 640x480. Perhaps “bad analog cable quality” would be more descriptive — all of the videos were quite soft, lacking the sort of fine detail we’ve come to expect from well-mastered DVDs.
| | | 30 Mar 2007 10:58 pm |
Wannabe Rep: 0Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 63 OFFLINE | iTunes only
To be clear, none of the video quality problems are necessarily the fault of the Apple TV.
It’s the movies and TV shows that you’re buying at the iTunes Store that are falling down. Even with the higher resolution (they were formerly optimized for 320x240), iTunes videos are still optimized for the small screen and the storage capacity of the iPod.
Anything already encoded in the MPEG-4 or H.264 formats is generally good to go. But that leaves a lot of AVI, WMV, DivX, and Xvid files on many people’s hard drives with nowhere to go.
Apple’s own Quicktime Pro ($30) offers an Apple TV-friendly conversion preset and plenty of third-party software is already or will soon be available, but to use it to get those other formats into iTunes requires a lot of transcoding.
Here I would like to mention Apple TV Video Converter for Windows ,which is a multifunctional tool to put almost all audio and video files onto Apple TV, which due to its tremendous power to convert all popular video and audio formats, such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, , WAV, AC3, MP3 to Apple TV supported video or audio formats including MP4, M4A, MP3 etc, u can get it on
http://www.mp4converter.net/appletv-video-converter-win.html
| | | 30 Mar 2007 11:00 pm |
Wannabe Rep: 0Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 63 OFFLINE | Conclusion
The easy setup, iTunes compatibility, and iPod-like interface and design is probably more than enough to make the Apple TV a slam dunk for consumers who are already faithful devotees of all things Mac and iPod.
And there’s no denying that its design and video streaming performance bests similar network media products we’ve seen to date.
| | | 10 Jul 2007 06:00 am |
Entree Rep: 0Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 4 OFFLINE | what if you want to play movies, TV shows, movie trailers, podcasts, photos, and YouTube videos from your computer on your TV? In 40GB and new 160GB models starting at $299, Apple TV brings iTunes and more to the big screen.
www.mp4-converter.net/apple-tv-converter/
| | | 05 Sep 2007 05:11 am |
martinandlisa Guest | I dont need apple tv.
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