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put.io does have some interesting features in my opinion. One of them being that it will convert any video to mp4 which I can then stream directly to my Apple T
by silvertab 13y ago
put.io does have some interesting features in my opinion. One of them being that it will convert any video to mp4 which I can then stream directly to my Apple TV.
They also allow for external subtitle tracks to be added and again, it works with the Apple TV (something that other alternatives were never able to do).
Also, judging by the percentage of torrents I add on put.io that are instantly completed, I guess they have a sizeable user-base... That wasn't always the case with the seedboxes I've tried before (I'd say more than 90% of the torrents I add on put.io are completed, converted, and instantly streamable to the Apple TV)
- cfontes 13y agoWhat kinds of "Videos" are we talking about here? Is it ok to download these """Videos""" there? Because it doesn't look like it is.
- mcantelon 13y agoWhat do you mean by """""Videos"""""?
- datashaman 13y agoI'm picturing some manic air-quoting here.
- shitlord 13y agoUsing all five fingers!
- berberous 13y agoHow do you stream to an Apple TV? Are you just AirPlay mirroring from you laptop's browser?
- joshmlewis 13y agoThrough iTunes or I use an app called Beamer which lets you beam any kind of video file super easily.
- silvertab 13y agoI just visit put.io from my iPhone or iPad and from there I stream the video and send it to the Apple TV via Airplay. There's also a couple of free 3rd party native iOS apps that let you connect to your put.io account, and stream the videos, but they're not really necessary. Never had much luck with AirPlay mirroring with my Macbook Air, it's always laggy in my experience. So yeah, you do need either an iPad or iPhone to do it, however Put.io has a Roku app if you have one of these.
- ninkendo 13y agoIf you use Plex (and you really should:) https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect PlexConnect is a simple DNS server that rewrites requests to trailers.apple.com to your local machine (where a daemon is running that responds to requests from your Apple TV.) It then takes the place of the "Trailers" app, and requires only that you change your AppleTV DNS server config to your own machine, and that you install their SSL certificate in your AppleTV's certificate store. You can edit your AppleTV's certificate store with an Apple-developed program called Apple Configurator (in the OSX App Store for free) so at least it doesn't requires anything like jailbreaking.
- girvo 13y agoUh, holy crap??? That's amazing. I hadn't even thought of trying something like that. That's brilliant and ingenious. At this point I'd just resigned myself to transcoding where needed (usually just need to change the container, which takes one ffmpeg command, and about 2 minutes for a one hour video) and let iTunes handle everything, but I have a major soft spot for Plex and miss using it. That's just phenomenal. gushing.stop();
- silvertab 13y agoAnother interesting option is Beamer[1]. Bought it a while ago and I have nothing but good things to say about it... Just drag any video on it and stream it to your AppleTV in seconds. [1] http://beamer-app.com/ http://beamer-app.com/