![]() Especially useful if you want to enjoy iOS devices. So, you got dozens of movies? Or hundreds? What choices you make now can determine what your library looks like, and how you play your growing movie collection, into the future. Rather than being indiscriminate when collecting, zero in on the type you want.īut then, I started early, with this process of higher-quality encoding uniformity, and observing a real-name naming convention (cleaning up the long crappy titles) and have hundreds of movies, it's a hobby. I advocate the idea of having command of your movie collection, instead of it having command of you. And my newer Apple TV is straight, not jailbroken, because the non-jailbroken one is more stable. But XBMC and Boxee are sort of amateurish and buggy, in my experience, so I don't use this very often, I end up having better results with my Handbrake encodes, in H264. It can be satisfying, and useful, to reencode your movie collection, using Handbrake, for example, or a similar encoding utility, into a format that's well-suited to what you want to do, and consistent.Įxample: I have an Apple TV that's jailbroken, and can play a variety of formats. Just stack 'em up, and encode them to suit your player. And if you have more than one mac (one you can employ as a work horse) it's an even easier process. You can encode them using Handbrake, to suit your chosen player type. And you're stuck with having to let that drive the rest of your decisions.īut if you only have a dozen or two movies, you have more options. ![]() If you have a hundred movies, then you're probably right, you need a Swiss-Army-Knife approach to playing them, it's too time consuming to reformat the files. Better than XViD, or AVI, for example, which I find a nuisance. There's often plenty of choices, so it's easy to find H264, and often the quality is higher. ![]() But, when I collect torrents (among other sources for media) I generally don't do it in an indiscriminate way, downloading whatever's there in whatever format it's uploaded in, I prefer to look for H264.AAC. reencode it so it's a uniform format, compatible with your chosen media player? ![]() "American Masters: Woody Allen Documentary"ī. clean up the name, so that you're watching a movie, rather than a "computer file", change it back to a normal title, like this? Initially i was interested in the roku channels but now that i see whats listed - not so much.Īppletv might work but it doesn't look like a reliable jailbreak exists for iOS 5.ĭo you simply leave these untouched, and accept any torrented movie file regardless of its format, then leave it in your folder as ![]()
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