No, I have an Airport Extreme (802.11n) router. Word from people I’ve talked to, though, is that is works just as well over 802.11g. 802.11b is supposed to be a bit sketchy.
I will say that even on 802.11n, syncing stuff over to the Apple TV’s hard drive is pretty slow. When you’re used to dealing with an iPod over Firewire or USB 2.0, even 802.11n is really pokey. But, that’s just for syncing, and it’s really only painful on the initial sync. Once you’re syncing incrementally, It’s not so bad.
I download a lot of stuff off BitTorrent and similar, usually as XviD .avi files. I use the awesome VisualHub (shareware) to convert them to H.264 and then store them in iTunes. I’ve been doing this for a long time. I started doing it so that the videos worked on my iPod, but the same process works great for the Apple TV, too. It is an extra step, and it would be nice if the Apple TV played XviD .avi files directly, but in the end it’s not that much hassle and doesn’t take that long to convert (usually 15 minutes or so per hour of TV on my Core Duo iMac).
001 // Brian Ford // 03.23.2007 // 11:31 AM
And, for the record:
You’re using an older airport card, right?
002 // Jeff Croft // 03.23.2007 // 11:38 AM
No, I have an Airport Extreme (802.11n) router. Word from people I’ve talked to, though, is that is works just as well over 802.11g. 802.11b is supposed to be a bit sketchy.
I will say that even on 802.11n, syncing stuff over to the Apple TV’s hard drive is pretty slow. When you’re used to dealing with an iPod over Firewire or USB 2.0, even 802.11n is really pokey. But, that’s just for syncing, and it’s really only painful on the initial sync. Once you’re syncing incrementally, It’s not so bad.
003 // Grant Blakeman // 03.24.2007 // 2:38 PM
Have you had much experience adding video that you didn’t download through the iTMS - does that integrate well with Apple-TV?
I generally don’t add video to iTunes b/c it’s just so much easier to open it up in quicktime, but if I was using Apple-TV…
004 // Jeff Croft // 03.24.2007 // 3:49 PM
I download a lot of stuff off BitTorrent and similar, usually as XviD .avi files. I use the awesome VisualHub (shareware) to convert them to H.264 and then store them in iTunes. I’ve been doing this for a long time. I started doing it so that the videos worked on my iPod, but the same process works great for the Apple TV, too. It is an extra step, and it would be nice if the Apple TV played XviD .avi files directly, but in the end it’s not that much hassle and doesn’t take that long to convert (usually 15 minutes or so per hour of TV on my Core Duo iMac).