http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/ Engadget Comments for How-To: play DivX and Xvid on your Apple TV http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
Keep in mind: Apple is in business to make money, not to make you happy with supporting formats they have nothing to do with. So, if you want an Apple TV, then go get one and start hacking. If you don't, then go get another solution and quit trolling...]]>Apr 10th 2007 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/]]>Apr 10th 2007 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
I don't see why it wouldn't work, but I can't update the post unless I can test it.]]>Apr 10th 2007 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/147048D8-D8B7-45E7-9A97-3CD5B4C2B75A.html

No hacks required.

Way to spread some FUD, though, Engadget.]]>Apr 10th 2007 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
Sure Dolby 5.1 is still surround sound, circa 2000. We like our surround sound channels to be discrete.]]>Apr 10th 2007 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/]]>Apr 10th 2007 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
Apple makes gorgeous hardware and very slick software, but their forcing you to do things as they want you to do them is very tired and old, and keeps me from being very serious about most of their product offerings.

And by the way, if you think including Dvix and Xvid support would only increase demand very slightly in this unit, you're crazy.]]>Apr 10th 2007 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
same problem with microsoft and their wmv format. please don't tell me you have never complained about this before...]]>Apr 10th 2007 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/I...dont...understand.]]>Apr 12th 2007 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/pro-logic was 4.0 if memory serves...

great tutorial BTW
Stu]]>Apr 10th 2007 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/x264 - http://developer.berlios.de/projects/x264qtcodec/
matroska (mkv) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/matroskaqt/]]>Apr 10th 2007 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/What is the difference between the x264 codec and the h.264 codec already supported?]]>Apr 10th 2007 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/in version 1.0, perian will support matroska and handle x264 much better, as i heard it's not far around the corner]]>Apr 10th 2007 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
1080p is really choppy as is 720p MPEG-2.]]>Apr 10th 2007 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
"The two biggest Apple TV limitations are the lack of codec support (like XviD, DivX, etc.) and not even having the ability to do basic surround sound like Dolby Digital 5.1. These issues were resolved almost immediately after the Apple TV was released"

i believe you always taught me issues are not resolved by hacks. until the provider fixes the problem, it doesn't count.]]>Apr 10th 2007 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
Sony/Playstation doesn't, M$/Xbox doesn't, and Apple doesn't...
]]>Apr 10th 2007 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
At $40-$80 for this player, it is an inexpensive alternative to the appleTV if you just want to play your DVDs and downloaded/ripped content.]]>Jul 9th 2007 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
In fact how about something along these lines, to prevent having to open the unit....

1) create a bootable USB key with Linux that is bootable by the apple tv (this has already been done).
2) ensure the linux kernel has HFS+ support
3) run a script that copies the nessesary files from the USB key to the apple tv and configures the apple tv to launch sshd on boot.

This USB image could be made available for download, so even people without a Mac or Linux machine can use it, as long as they can write the image to a suitably sized USB key.]]>Apr 10th 2007 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
It can't be that far off.

Until then, i'm fine with my iTunes store purchases, and have plenty of hard drive space to encode my DVD seasons in h.264 (which takes no longer than encoding to XviD)
]]>Apr 10th 2007 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Patchstick . It's still a work in progress, but it does pretty much what you described.]]>Apr 10th 2007 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/DPLII added independent surrounds for 5-ch, and IIx adds a single back-surround for 6-ch. None of them have an LFE or ".1" channel.

So, you can call it "surround sound" or you can call it "ProLogic" but you can't call it "5.1" or anything-".1" at all...
]]>Apr 10th 2007 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
It's really easy to integrate in support for DivX and xVid when your company isn't in the business of trying to convince the major studios to provide you with video content for your online store. Because of the iTunes store Apple has to walk a fine line between keeping the customers happy by enabling as many features as possible on the device, while at the same time trying to keep the content producers happy by trying to limit the priacy happening on the devices. DVD is so entrenched that it is easy for Phillips and Toshiba to add in DivX playback without the DVD Forum getting all over them, but Apple's digital distribution is still in its infancy, so they have to be really careful about hwta piracy-enabling features they are going to support on their devices.]]>Apr 10th 2007 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
one thing I would not do with apple products is void a warranty - as a mac user I have come to use my warranties for their computers and ipods quite a few times... I will wait a few months to see if there are any common failures with the device until I purchase one or even think about voiding its warranty and hacking one.. ]]>Apr 10th 2007 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 10th 2007 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
So, anyone have any experience with this utility and could it be useful? ]]>Apr 10th 2007 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
http://castcluster.blogspot.com/]]>Apr 11th 2007 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 12th 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 12th 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.appletvbbs.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

Thanks again!]]>Apr 12th 2007 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 13th 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/
If I wanted to hack the hell out of something I buy before it's useful, I'd get linux and do it myself.]]>Apr 13th 2007 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/Apr 14th 2007 1:22AM