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Frys has ATV3's on sale right now for $79....gotta pickup and 1 is the limit. Good deal if you are near one. http://www.frys.com/product/7021051;jsessionid=+nLYtzYTtSnrpi8CooRh5w__.node4?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
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Is there any way to normalize the volume? Watching Drive on Netflix and the dialog is quiet but the engine noises, etc, is deafening. I turned on "sound check" and it didn't do a thing.
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Dec 28, 2012 20:29
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please respond posted:Is there any way to normalize the volume? Watching Drive on Netflix and the dialog is quiet but the engine noises, etc, is deafening. I turned on "sound check" and it didn't do a thing. Are you listening to it in stereo or surround? What kind of TV do you have?
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Dec 28, 2012 22:18
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Suqit posted:Are you listening to it in stereo or surround? What kind of TV do you have? Just coming out the TV speakers. I don't own a TV it wasn't mine, but its some Sony thing. The sound was loud, startling.
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Dec 29, 2012 01:38
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It's a 5.1 mix playing thru stereo speakers. The dialog should be coming from the center speaker but that's not happening because you don't have one. You can probably tell the atv to play as stereo but I don't have one so can't comment.
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Dec 29, 2012 02:57
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Laserface posted:It's a 5.1 mix playing thru stereo speakers. The dialog should be coming from the center speaker but that's not happening because you don't have one. You can probably tell the atv to play as stereo but I don't have one so can't comment. Nope, not true. The audio track on the home release of Drive is just hosed. Same goes for Captain America and a few other recent releases. The only way I've found to fix this is to watch them on a loving computer with a compressor program (or VLC, as it can do it on it's own) balancing stuff out. It's a really lovely trend in home releases, and needs to be fixed.
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Dec 29, 2012 04:46
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Has anyone had to deal with watching 25fps content on a US Apple TV? I currently have a bunch of videos that were recorded at 25fps, and when I try to watch them they're a juddery mess. So far I've tried changing the video output setting to 50hz (which seems to work well, but is a huge pain and pretty user unfriendly), and attempting to re-encode the videos to 29.97fps using Handbrake (with mixed results). These are the only two solutions I've been able to come up with, and I'm not really happy with either - hopefully there's a solution I haven't thought of yet.
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Jan 1, 2013 02:58
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Anyone having issues with their aTV outputting 5.1 surround sound? Everything was fine until one of the last updates and my aTVs are downmixing all my surround channels to stereo.
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Jan 3, 2013 21:16
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Is it set to 5.1 in settings?
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Jan 3, 2013 21:41
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As in forced Dolby Digital, yup. Edit: well poo poo, it's working again. Maybe a reset was needed. Probably a gremlin. Thwomp fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jan 4, 2013 |
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Jan 4, 2013 01:23
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I got an ATV for Christmas and I want to import videos into iTunes. Are there any good Windows programs for adding metadata, cover art, etc?
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Jan 5, 2013 05:43
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MetaX is worth the $10 in my opinion, but there is free trial to try it. Use Handbrake to covert to m4v; there's a ATV3 profile out of the box. Every now and again it fails or only converts a portion, but 90% of the time it works. Can hardcode subs too, so check subscene to get the "foreign language parts only" subtitles if you don't have them.
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Jan 5, 2013 06:00
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The Aphasian posted:Use Handbrake to covert to m4v; there's a ATV3 profile out of the box. Every now and again it fails or only converts a portion, but 90% of the time it works. Can hardcode subs too, so check subscene to get the "foreign language parts only" subtitles if you don't have them.
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Jan 5, 2013 06:03
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Handbrake will reencode the video, which isn't ideal if it's already h.264. Assuming you're getting x264-encoded files in an MKV container, you just something to remux the content into an Apple TV-friendly container and maybe reencode a DTS audio track to AAC. I can't speak for Windows solutions, but I'm sure they exist. MkvToMp4 does the job on windows most of the time - changing the container and re-encoding the audio if needed. It occasionally works with other files as well (I've had it work with AVI files encoded as XViD and MP3) edit: poo poo, missed the part about metadata and coverart - no idea for that sorry mate. Thwomp posted:Actually, mkvtomp4 will add all the metadata too. It'll also check if iTunes has the movie and pull all the iTunes metadata and art. Well poo poo, didn't know that. Cheers. KRILLIN IN THE NAME fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Jan 7, 2013 |
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Jan 5, 2013 21:35
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goku i won't do what u tell me
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KRILLIN IN THE NAME posted:MkvToMp4 does the job on windows most of the time - changing the container and re-encoding the audio if needed. It occasionally works with other files as well (I've had it work with AVI files encoded as XViD and MP3) Actually, mkvtomp4 will add all the metadata too. It'll also check if iTunes has the movie and pull all the iTunes metadata and art. I actually just used handbrake because mkvtomp4 couldn't successfully convert some file. Then I ran mkvtomp4 to add all the metadata. It only took 2 minutes to run through so both programs can be useful.
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Jan 6, 2013 01:50
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The Aphasian posted:MetaX is worth the $10 in my opinion, but there is free trial to try it. Thanks, I think I'll give MetaX a try.
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Jan 6, 2013 07:26
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Anyone know why when watching Tv shows on netflix, it doesn't go to the next episode right after the current one finishes? On my xbox it would say "10 seconds till next episode starts" and just auto play it.
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Jan 7, 2013 02:37
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=appletv+netflix+auto+play+next+episode&l=1
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Jan 7, 2013 02:47
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If you're going to make a snarky answer like that it might help if the resultant website doesn't say it doesn't work on the Apple TV.
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Jan 7, 2013 10:04
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Choadmaster posted:If you're going to make a snarky answer like that it might help if the resultant website doesn't say it doesn't work on the Apple TV. LMGTFY was run into the ground and stopped being funny years ago, but I don't understand what you mean by this. The answer is that it doesn't work on Apple TV.
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Jan 7, 2013 12:41
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Diabolik900 posted:LMGTFY was run into the ground and stopped being funny years ago, but I don't understand what you mean by this. The answer is that it doesn't work on Apple TV. I was assuming that djbaseball24 was aware that this particular implementation doesn't work on Apple TV, given that he pointed out pretty much exactly what the article said: it's available on consoles but not ATV. It seemed to me he was hoping for ANY method that might work - there are plenty of times things are not officially supported but are still doable through some clever workaround, making a single article claiming no official support not particularly helpful. If there are no known workarounds to his issue, "there's no way to do that yet" is a reasonable answer to a reasonable question.
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Jan 7, 2013 19:01
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I didn't know you could hack the Netflix app on devices to provide additional functionality.
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Jan 7, 2013 19:28
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dutchbstrd posted:I didn't know you could hack the Netflix app on devices to provide additional functionality.
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Jan 7, 2013 19:45
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Is it a bug or a feature that my ATV3 can't airplay to multiple speakers like my macbook, iPad, etc. can?
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Jan 7, 2013 19:56
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FreakyZoid posted:Is it a bug or a feature that my ATV3 can't airplay to multiple speakers like my macbook, iPad, etc. can? I wasn't even aware that it could send audio to any speakers. I always considered it the receiver of the airplay content as opposed to the sender. vvvvv Ah, I did not know that! Legdiian fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Jan 7, 2013 |
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Jan 7, 2013 20:11
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Legdiian posted:I wasn't even aware that it could send audio to any speakers. I always considered it the receiver of the airplay content as opposed to the sender.
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Jan 7, 2013 20:13
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Minidust posted:The auto-play is an officially implemented function. It's just not on the ATV app. That's my point.
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Jan 7, 2013 20:21
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So if have an Apple TV 2 that I never plan to jailbreak I should just eBay it, buy an Apple TV 3 and pocket the £70-ish profit right?
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Jan 8, 2013 22:29
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Yes.
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Jan 8, 2013 22:54
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Thwomp posted:Actually, mkvtomp4 will add all the metadata too. It'll also check if iTunes has the movie and pull all the iTunes metadata and art. Thank you for this, I was doing a lot of the work manually and, well, that was just being stupid. e: Unrelated question for anyone... with Hulu Plus, is there a way to prevent shows in your favorites from adding episodes to the queue from past seasons/already watched? It's kind of annoying to have a show like South Park add 14 new episodes to the queue randomly. WHOOPS fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jan 10, 2013 |
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DangerKat posted:Thank you for this, I was doing a lot of the work manually and, well, that was just being stupid. I'm not sure exactly why Hulu Plus does that. I believe it has something to do with how they re-add/classify old episodes but I'm not positive. I do agree that it's really annoying.
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Raffles posted:So if have an Apple TV 2 that I never plan to jailbreak I should just eBay it, buy an Apple TV 3 and pocket the £70-ish profit right? Holy poo poo, I didn't realize they were worth so much. I knew they were worth a bit more than the 3, but not double. I saw your post and put mine up on amazon, sold for $199 basically instantly. Turned around and went to the Apple Store and bought a 3. Yay!
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Jan 10, 2013 19:29
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I sold my ATV2 for $170 about 3-4 months ago when the jailbreaking community had admitted that they weren't near a jailbreak anytime soon. The way I look at it, I got paid to upgrade to a 1080p ATV since I found that I almost never used the jailbroken part of the device.
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Jan 10, 2013 19:58
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I sold an Apple TV 1 for 85 bucks on eBay. Pretty sweet. I never jail broke it or anything (don't even know if you can). Seemed too good to be true.
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Jan 10, 2013 20:09
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Ok so I've got my ATV 2 ticking away on eBay, hopefully I'll make a tidy profit. The question is though, should I hold off in the ATV 3. It came last March and Apple seem to be moving everything to yearly update schedules. Have there been any rumblings of an Apple TV refresh this spring or is common wisdom pointing towards the next ATV being an actual TV set?
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Jan 14, 2013 12:12
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Honestly, I don't think anyone has a clue what to expect with Apple TV. It's never been on an annual update schedule like Apple's other products, and if anything it seems like they could be moving away from following such a regular schedule. There have been all kinds of TV rumors over the past year, but nothing solid. I wouldn't expect anything soon, but really no one knows at this point.
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Jan 14, 2013 13:17
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There's no obvious upgrades for the current Apple TV. They could treat it like the Airport Express... upgrade the wireless occasionally and then redo the case design every five years or so, while updating the software much more regularly.
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Jan 14, 2013 15:36
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It's a $99 box and hasn't been upgraded with a great amount of regularity. I wouldn't try to "time" this purchase. Just get one and enjoy the glory that is AirPlay.
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Raffles posted:Ok so I've got my ATV 2 ticking away on eBay, hopefully I'll make a tidy profit. The question is though, should I hold off in the ATV 3. It came last March and Apple seem to be moving everything to yearly update schedules. Have there been any rumblings of an Apple TV refresh this spring or is common wisdom pointing towards the next ATV being an actual TV set? AppleTV is definitely not a yearly update project, it's still considered a "hobby" by Apple in all respects. Apple TV (1st generation) January 8, 2007 Apple TV (2nd generation) September 1, 2010 Apple TV (3rd generation) March 7, 2012 I honestly don't see a refresh at all this year. The major revision for the 3rd gen was just pushing the resolution from 720p to 1080p and they're not going up any higher.
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Thanks for the info I guess I'll just pick up a 3rd gen box this weekend.
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