Apple TV playing HD

[Tonys]

Looking for a little help.
Ive got a few HD films is there a way to put them in to mp4 or another format that apple tv will play?
I use handbrake to get standard films into mp4 format.

Cheers guys

 

[H182]

Mate had one and he bodged some different software on instead of the apple thing, unsure how he did it though.

 

[Louism]

I i think they are quite hard to do due to the copyright protection, also get a blu ray HD failed

 

[Revels]

You can hack it fairly easily so it can play anything.

Otherwise, put them in .mov format and it should play them.

 

[Louism]

I just googled it, theres software for $49.99 but, i dont know if it works

 

[Revels]

You don't need to pay. It's easily accessible for free.

 

[Tom]

Set Handbrake to;

H.264

1280 by 720 pixels at 24 fps or 960 by 540 pixels at 30 fps

Thats the MAX it can do out of the box.

Or...

www.appletvhacks.net/

 

[Tonys]

Cheers.

I did have some software on it but couldnt get on with it. Since its upgraded its become so user friendly now so dont really wanna change anything on it.

Louism, what software you talking about?

So handbrake will convert a HD file? Fantastic if so.

 

[Tom]

Whats the source file?

 

[Tonys]

.VOB i believe
Or
.MKV

 

[Millsy]

i hacked mine and can play .avi and .h264 no problem, also enabled USB on it so i can have a HDD attached with all the movies/music stored on it.

oh and a firefox browser too iPlayer ftw