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As others have said the Apple TV gets you most of the way there—presumably you can do USB playback from the TV without connecting to the network?
by deergomoo 5y ago
As others have said the Apple TV gets you most of the way there—presumably you can do USB playback from the TV without connecting to the network?
- antihero 5y agoI can, shame it doesn't support MKV properly, though!
- dhritzkiv 5y agoThird party apps from the App Store, such as VLC, will play MKVs (and other formats) no problem. I used to re-encode MKVs to MP4s for playback on the AppleTV 3rd gen, but since getting the Apple TV 4K (2nd gen), I simply shuttle over the MKVs to VLC from the web interface.
- antihero 5y agoI'm interested - how do you transfer the 4K MKVs to the Apple TV?
- dhritzkiv 5y agoIn the VLC app on the Apple TV, you can open up the Network Sharing tab. It starts a local network server and is accessible via a webpage like http://living-room-apple-tv.local http://living-room-apple-tv.local. Then I simply drag-and-drop the files from my computer to the webpage. On the AppleTV, they'll be cached indefinitely (at least until storage is available, or you delete VLC). I use this to play one-off/occasional video files. You can also run a file server on your computer, and tell VLC where to access it over the network. I believe that VLC isn't the only app on the AppleTV that can play MKVs, but it's the one I use. In case you're wondering, the AppleTV is powerful enough to stream + transcode the MKV files on the fly. I've never had issues, at least with 1080p files. 4K should be fine, too.
- nikon 5y agoUse Plex