It's definitely beta software, so YMMV.įrom what I can tell, the transcoding support is pretty simplistic. It should take around 30 seconds to buffer the transcoding, then start playing. Drag the file you want to play onto the droplet, and hit play.Select your AppleTV from the drop-down in the upper-left.It's not very well documented it looks like the latest versions use a built-in copy of ffmpeg for transcoding, but some of the resources around the web suggest that it may need VLC installed as well. It also handles transcoding the non-native files. It's a pretty basic program that sends a URL to the AppleTV that tells it to open a stream from your computer. It also means that aside from files the AppleTV natively supports, you're not getting bit-perfect renditions of the files, it's a lossy translation, but if you have a decently fast Mac, it should be pretty good. m4v), which means it may take a fair bit of CPU power on your Mac, especially for HD stuff.
It requires on-the-fly transcoding for formats the AppleTV doesn't support (essentially anything not. It's not using VLC (although it uses some of its components and should be able to open anything VLC can open), but it looks like there's a way to do this.
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