I have an Apple TV & displays perfect to my sony 60 TV.. I purchased a Mac Mini to add some more functionality but now all video's lag. I have a new Mac Mini with 4g or ram.. Please help with ideas. THANKS
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Apple TV vs Mac Mini - problems
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Are they the same exact videos or are you running Apple TV optimized videos on the Apple TV and huge 1080p videos on the Mini?
What are you using as a video player on the Mini? VLC? Plex?
Make sure you are using a good application such as glitch44 stated. Install VLC and Plex. Then use either to play your files. They support a wide range of codecs. Once you use plex it can get quite addicting customizing its settings and skins. This program really makes your HTPC come to life. If you have your files connected through a network folder see if your transfer speeds are the bottleneck.
Where do you store your videos? Are they on the mini hard drive? Are they on an external? If so, how is the external connected? Are they on a network drive? If so, where is that drive and how is it connected?
Then answer the other questions:
Are you using Plex, VLC, or something else?
Are you using the same movies you had encoded for the ATV or did you encode your movies again once you moved from the ATV to the Mini?
Then answer the other questions:
Are you using Plex, VLC, or something else?
Are you using the same movies you had encoded for the ATV or did you encode your movies again once you moved from the ATV to the Mini?
If you're using Front Row, there are serious video lag problems with > 480i content with Snow Leopard on any Mini, including the new ones- http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2132473&start=0&tstart=0
The only fix (for Front Row) as far as I can see is to drop back to Leopard, but you can't do that with a new Mini. Other apps like plex and VLC will work fine.
I had this problem when I bought a new TV - SL worked fine with my old SD TV, but any high definition video in Front Row (and even DVDs) was unplayable. I reverted to Leopard, mainly because my wife just got used to using Front Row and I didn't feel like going through another long training session.
The only fix (for Front Row) as far as I can see is to drop back to Leopard, but you can't do that with a new Mini. Other apps like plex and VLC will work fine.
I had this problem when I bought a new TV - SL worked fine with my old SD TV, but any high definition video in Front Row (and even DVDs) was unplayable. I reverted to Leopard, mainly because my wife just got used to using Front Row and I didn't feel like going through another long training session.
I am using quicktime to play back the video. If I stream video from my notebook to the apple tv(same file) it plays fine. Connection is at 1080p. If I put the same file on the Macmini the file will lag a bit and then catch up and then lag some more. The Macmini is connect at 1080p to my television. If I connect my macbook pro to the TV it will play the same video just fine.
to update the thread the video is better with 1080i. I am getting a lot less lag. Just do not understand why I can use 1080p with appletv & macbook pro but not the mini.