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But it won't play Matroska/Ogg/AVI, will it? This is my concern, I have a ton of stuff in non-MP4 formats.

• abritinthebay 11y ago
  Correct - though this is mostly due to there being little/poor hardware support for those formats. Natively the Apple TV (currently, don't know the new model) supports H.264, MPEG4, and MJPEG - all of which are trivially supported by actual chipsets. Matroska/Ogg/Avi aren't as well supported (or well used, tbh.. other than Avi which is a container anyhow)
• lukifer 11y ago
  It's a little roundabout, but I use AirVideo HD [1] with a separate iOS device to get around this. My media server recompresses content to MP4 in realtime, which then bounces to the AppleTV via AirPlay, which all works seamlessly for being so janky. Assuming Apple isn't too tight-fisted with TV app approval (which remains to be seen), I imagine the AirVideo folks will pull off a better version of the same thing using a native app. [1]: http://www.inmethod.com/airvideohd/index.html http://www.inmethod.com/airvideohd/index.html
• rsynnott 11y ago
  Apps like vlc and mxplayer for iOS play Matroska, Ogg, and most of the codecs that lurk within avi files, and will presumably be ported to this new AppleTV pretty quickly.
• dv35z 11y ago
  Correct - seems to really only prefer mp4. About half of my library is not compatible. Fortunately a re-download isn't so bad, especially if it's an opportunity to get a higher resolution version (that's the optimist in me speaking). There are other VLC-like players available, but the drawback is the video must stream from your iOS device rather than the NAS.