Can Apple TV play wmv, ppt or view Photoshop Bridge slideshows?

I am considering purchasing Apple TV. I am hoping that I can replace the HDMI cable from my MacBook Pro to my HD TV with the Apple TV setup. Now I view wmv and ppt files playing on my MacBook on my HD TV and Adobe Bridge slideshows. That is in addition to NetFlix and movies.
My motivation to purchase Apple TV is to view MLB.com games on my HD TV which I can not reliably do when I choose the fill screen option in the MLB media player. If I do so do I would like to not have to use my present HDMI cable any longer.

No, it plays none of those formats.

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why can't i play .wmv file in quicktime even after i download codec from windows? can anyone help me wit this please!!!!!

Have you done the obvious things to try to fix it: quit Quicktime then start it back up again, log out then back in, reboot.
Edit: Just read one of your later posts. If VLC won't play it, this is unrelated to Quicktime and Flip4Mac. Are you sure these wmv files are okay?

Can apple tv play ...

can apple tv play an h.264 movie with:
( a little more than 5Mbps bitrate(but less than 5.5),
high profile, which can be played with QT on Mac OS X without any 3rd party add-ons,
and subtitles (QT and iTunes can recognize the subtitle track, as a 'subtitle')
)?

A DVD converted into iTunes and run at maximum bitrate on the AppleTV will look pretty much the same as it being played in your DVD player. No increase in resolution. The AppleTV will not upscale the image like a high-end receiver or specific DVD player would.

Can Apple TV play videos on TV from NAS Drive?

I have a problem playing transferred home movies on a flat screen tv through the “TV Out” feature of my Iphone 4.
I have captured about a TB worth of various home movie videos from VHS tape to my PC hard drive. I then converted these AVI files to M4V to play on Iphone & Itunes. I then copied these M4V video files to a Western Digital “My Book Live” NAS Drive which allows me to view any video using my Iphone, via a WD app, without using Iphone internal memory.
The problem is that I cannot play these videos through “TV Out” on my Iphone when connected to a flat screen TV. Apple techs told me that TV Out is only good with videos recorded from Iphone and stored in the internal memory of Iphone.
So my questions are:
1- Can I access my NAS drive (which has all videos stored) and play those videos on flat screen TV using Apple TV and Air Play?
2- Does Apple TV only play videos stored on the internal memory of Apple products (Iphone, Ipad, Itunes) or will Apple TV mirrior my NAS Drive videos, via Iphone app, onto the TV?
Any advice is greatly appreciated .
Sincerely,
Don S.

Hello affiatati7 (and all others working with a WD MyBook Live Duo NAS)
Good news; you can access Movie files directly from a NAS without using iTunes.
Well, at least I can...
I have a WD MyBook Live Duo NAS. I also have an iPad/iPhone app for to access this NAS (WD 2go Pro).
From my iPad I connect with the NAS, select a movie to play, and stream it to my Apple TV (I think the WD app uses the standard iOS videoplayer, so streaming to AppleTV is supported).
That's all there is to it.
The movies stored on the WD Nas are in .m4v format (MP4) and placed in a share that is capable of streaming (DLNA). Most modern NAS devices let you set up one or more 'shares' for streaming.
I keep my iTunes Library only for music and apps, and is not stored on my NAS.
So I play movies without iTunes and from my NAS.
I don't know how all this technically works, but it works. I can even use the Apple TV remote-control to pause and play the movie, without using the iPad again.
Maybe you should check if your NAS has an accompanying App for smartphone and/or tablet, and trie it out.
p.s.: In my situation it only works with my iPad. I've tried my iPhone, but the WD App crashes as soon as I try to play a movie.

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Just getting started with Apple Tv ...
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- can it play .flv files directly without conversion?
- can it play a saved .img image dvd files on the drive? - what if you mounted the image first?
- can it play other formats like.wmv?
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revDAVE wrote:
- can it play .mov & .flv files?
no
- can it play .flv files directly without conversion?
no
- can it play a saved .img image dvd files on the drive? - what if you mounted the image first?
no
- can it play other formats like.wmv?
no

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Hi
I have Elgato ( eye tv ) and there is a setting to export the files to several variations for iPods etc and they get saved as .MP4. Have not played arround enough to see the quality difference from their iPod and AppleTV setting - the file was only slightly larger for the AppleTV - play and see
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I have been getting some confusing messages about exactly what Apple TV can play.
If the file - music, film, whatever - has been downloaded by whatever source to my iMac can this be streamed to my Apple TV? If I have downloaded a DVD or CD to my iMac can this be watched on Apple TV?
Are there any limitations to this? If, for example, some of my music has been purchased through iTunes UK and some through Canada will this cause any issues?

Oh I may stand corrected. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090215033647292 Looks like you need to put some elbow grease in to make it work though. Does anyone know for sure if the Mac Mini or the Mac Pro for that matter can do 5.1 output. I'm reading mixed things. Some peps say you need a special sound card...other say it can be corrected with third party software. I just remember when I first got my 2007 Mac Pro the first thing I did was hook up the optical cable to my Yamaha receiver and was bummed to not hear 5.1 from dvd's or quicktime movies with ac3 encodings.

Lots of video formats, can Apple TV play them?

Considering buying an Apple TV, I'm trying to learn what it can & can't do. In addition to the seasons of shows I'd be buying from iTunes, and other services such as Netflix & Hulu Plus, I have tons of video files kept in an external drive. They're in every format you can think of... AVI, MP4, MKV, FLV & all the rest. What would I do to view these? Would I be able to add these to my iTunes library and view them that way?
Still trying to wrap my head around this, any advice will be greatly appreciated.

You'd need to convert them to a supported format.
Video formats supported
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Audio formats supported
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Photo formats
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I have one iMac with content in my iTunes from two different Apple IDs. All of this content is perfectly accessible on my computer. Before I ran the most recent software upgrade on my Apple TV 2, I was able to access all of this content (from both Apple IDs) through Home Sharing. Now it shows me all of the content, but skips over any of the songs that were purchased with one of the Apple IDs. It doesn't show an error message--it just won't play the songs. Is there any way around this? I haven't seen a thread that directly relates to this--most threads I have seen discuss two separate computers, each with different Apple IDs. Any help would be much appreciated.

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Hi folks. I'm thinking about buying an Apple TV to stream video files from my Windows iTunes instance. Does the Apple TV support any uncompressed video formats? Like MKV?? Thanks.

Mpeg2 is still a very highly compressed format.
There are a couple of basics relating to compression that you might wish to consider. The aspects of compression discussed hereinafter are not necessarily technically correct but are an analogy to help you understand a little about compression.
Firstly as Jon points out earlier, uncompressed video is essentially for editing and would never be used for delivery, compression of some data will make no difference to quality at all as some of the data that forms an uncompressed file is redundant anyway.
A very simple example of this would be a blue screen. Every pixel on that screen is blue and every frame of that video is the same as the first, an uncompressed video would record data about every pixel for every frame, you can see how much space can be saved if you were able to provide data for just one pixel and tell the device to simply replicate it for every pixel in every frame. (There are about 23,000,000 pixels in each second of 720p video).
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