HiRes Movies and aTV 'pausing'

[williedigital]

try syncing

if you sync the movie to the appletv hard drive and get the network out of the picture, does it still stutter?

 

[Omne666]

No...no hacked aTVs.....played with ATVFlash a year ago, but it just didnt take with me. Personally that is.

I use MakeMKV to get the BRay to disc as a mkv, then either HB or MKVTools to take it down to 720p specs and m4v. The HB setting I got off here somewhere....
mixed-refs=1:b-adapt=2:b-pyramid=none:trellis=0:weightp=0:
vbv-maxrate=5500:vbv-bufsize=5500

And like I said, Im toying with the constant quality setting. Just trying to max the files to the best result for the aTV. ReRipping a file now using constant quality of 18, as the 15 like I said was rejected outright by the aTV like you mentioned.

BTW: does it make a difference B&W or Colour films with these settings?

 

[Omne666]

if you sync the movie to the appletv hard drive and get the network out of the picture, does it still stutter?

No...all the HD files work then...as long as they dont exceed aTVs maximum alowances. In which case the aTV completely rejects it...even to Sync it.

Yeah....I know....its not the Drobo as the Internal drive gave the same result, therefore it has to lay between the aTV and the Server iMac. And as I have multiple aTVs setup, and they all produce the same result, its either the cable from the iMac to the switch box, or the switch box itself. I cant see 4 separate cables all being an issue.

* Im really hoping its the switch box (though new) as the cable from the iMac to the switch box is one of those that I may find it extremely difficult to replace.

 

[WiiDSmoker]

No...all the HD files work then...as long as they dont exceed aTVs maximum alowances. In which case the aTV completely rejects it...even to Sync it.

Yeah....I know....its not the Drobo as the Internal drive gave the same result, therefore it has to lay between the aTV and the Server iMac. And as I have multiple aTVs setup, and they all produce the same result, its either the cable from the iMac to the switch box, or the switch box itself. I cant see 4 separate cables all being an issue.

* Im really hoping its the switch box (though new) as the cable from the iMac to the switch box is one of those that I may find it extremely difficult to replace.

So I was right in the initial posting

 

[Omne666]

Yep...you got it first time

Looks Like it!

Especially as the movie that started this whole discussion was well below the aTVs maximum allowance.

As a side issue....TV sizes...like their width by height, in modern plasma & LCD versions, are they all a standard proportion?? like width x height ratio is the same on a 32" as to a 50"??

Why I ask is I hate seeing black bars on the top and bottom of movies and was wondering if anyone considers cropping the sides of movies enough to fill the screen (without distortion) to be out right blasphemous??

I just hate the black bars.

 

[NightStorm]

No...no hacked aTVs.....played with ATVFlash a year ago, but it just didnt take with me. Personally that is.

I use MakeMKV to get the BRay to disc as a mkv, then either HB or MKVTools to take it down to 720p specs and m4v. The HB setting I got off here somewhere....
mixed-refs=1:b-adapt=2:b-pyramid=none:trellis=0:weightp=0:
vbv-maxrate=5500:vbv-bufsize=5500

And like I said, Im toying with the constant quality setting. Just trying to max the files to the best result for the aTV. ReRipping a file now using constant quality of 18, as the 15 like I said was rejected outright by the aTV like you mentioned.

BTW: does it make a difference B&W or Colour films with these settings?

Sorrry, I didn't realize MKVTools could remux into a mp4/m4v container. Anyways, enabling CABAC on a HD encode and attempting to stream has been known to cause problems. Dynaflash syncs all of his content, which is why the advanced string you posted works for him (and you) when you sync. For streaming, most people will use the start with the AppleTV preset (which uses less efficient CAVLC) and adjust the dimensions to 720p.

I'm really hoping streaming performance is greatly improved in the AppleTV v2 as I'd love to use the high profile preset (or a tweaked version of it) for all of my encodes since it should work on all of my devices.

 

[Omne666]

Damn....is that right? I have like 110Gb of HD movies so far...I wont be able to Sync many more. SO back to the std Apple TV settings then, adjusting the size accordingly on a per movie basis.

Still....looks like I have an issue in the network somewhere. Gotta run a cable from the aTV to the iMac and see if it clears the problem. The from the iMac to the switch box. (I really hope its not that cable )