I use what ever I think best for the job to convert the AV file to iTUNES/AT2 compatible, ie 1 Video, 2 ACC 3 AC. I use HB or MDRP to get the media onto an external drive hooked to my MAC PRO. Also didnt want anyone else fooling with it just to stream a movie to someplace. I went to this because I did not want the computer running when ever I want AV entertainment. howeverįor over a year now I have been using a very simple system to stream to my AT2. No contest about the quality of a BR disc. ![]() The lack of what I understand is true server support in the apple ecosystem has stopped me to date from taking the plunge to move to apple computer products, however I'd be interested how people in the apple ecosystem manage really large amounts of date i.e 15TB and bigger. Also my Boxee Box can also access everything on the server so that is an added bonus. When I update my desktop next I'll use the current one as a standalone iTunes/media server and stick it out of sight and just remote in when I need to do anything and that will then be the perfect solution as I can use "Remote" on my iPhone/iPad to access the iTunes library and airserver to access the desktop if I don't want to use windows remote access on my laptop. The big downside to the apple tv, as heya said, is the fact that itunes must be left on constantly in order for the appletv to access it. It does help though to have a good router or preferably a wired ethernet connection between your devices - I have the ASUS RT-N66U wifi router which has dual 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz up to 450Mbps concurrent on each band and is easily the best router I've had, especially wifi streaming to the ATV3 over 5GHz. ![]() to my apple tv's including large bluray rips exceeing 20gig. I have none/minimal delay streaming movies etc. This way I'm not constrained by hard drive space on the PC (currently have 5TB left and ability still to add more storage) and iTunes works really well accessing the files on the server. ![]() I currently use a windows home server setup which has approx 22TB storage and use my Destop PC (i7 processor with 24gig Ram) with iTunes running to access all the info on it.
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