Apple TV and .mov files

Hello, I have used submerge in order to merge my movies with SRT files. The output is then a MOV file. Until just a few weeks ago, this worked just fine with my ATV. But my recent merges trough submerge have been declined by my ATV, it says that it does not support the file type.
Can someone please help?

This will probably be best done in submerge, I don't use it so I don't know what settings there are, but you need to be exporting to h264.
The issue with the file as it stands is that the tv won't support DivX. (additionally, and I don't know if it will be a problem for you but the audio appears to only be AC3, which is fine if you are connected to a home theatre but if not you won't hear anything)
It would appear that all submerge has done is taken the original file wrapped it in the .mov container and added the text as an image.
Again because I don't use submerge I'm not sure, but it may be the case that all submerge does is exactly that, wrap the original file in a .mov container and add an image. It may then be the case that the files that worked for you before were simply of a different format before you started.
I'll see if I can find anything out about export options in submerge for you.

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