Slingbox + AppleTV + iPhone?

I was in line waiting for an iPhone and I saw someone watching TV using Apple's WiFi and streaming it from his home Slingbox. I was wondering if this is possible for the iPhone? Most importantly, is EDGE fast enough for it?

Agreed. Huge slingbox user on PC. Ive been emailing their support since Feb about coming out with Slingmobile for iPhone. Join the cause...http://us.slingmedia.com/page/contactsupport

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Slingbox on Iphone

Can I connect my Iphone to my tv via a component or composite Apple AV cable and be able to watch from my slingbox App?

Agreed. Huge slingbox user on PC. Ive been emailing their support since Feb about coming out with Slingmobile for iPhone. Join the cause...http://us.slingmedia.com/page/contactsupport

AppleTV + iPhone randomly stops playing music.

My dad bought a appletv a few days ago and i set it up in his living room, about 40 feet from the wireless router, and it has 4 bars in the wireless settings menu. Everything is working fine, except when playing music to the appletv over airplay, it will randomly stop for 1 second, and automatically resume. Sometimes it will stop, and even disconnect him from the appletv completely, and he will have to go in and start streaming to it again.
Now, i have an iPhone too, and mine works fine. No pausing or disconnecting at all. I have the latest iOS, and my dad had i think 4.3 or something. So I updated him, thinking that would fix the problem, and at first it seemed it had, but after 5 or so songs, it was still randomly pausing for 1 second, then it would start right back up again.
This was happening in both Pandora and local music on the iPhone.
And again, mine works fine 4G verizon, it was his iPhone 4G AT&T that was having the problem.
Any ideas?

I had this issue when using music over iCloud / iTunes Match. I downloaded the songs to the iPhone and problem solved

Anyone tried to use slingbox with iphone

I wanted to get a slingbox, but with so few options on the iphone I was wondering if anyone got it to work?

I wanted to get a slingbox, but with so few options
on the iphone I was wondering if anyone got it to
work?
There is no Slingbox client for the iPhone (yet?), so it does not work as of now. Sorry.
Check out http://www.slingplayer.com for supported clients.

ITunes organize home movies including mobile format with AppleTV & iPhone?

I use both AppleTV and iPhone to watch and play home movies. I currently organize my home movies under TV Shows and then organize each movie by year. For example - I may have 6 home movies under "Home Movies 2008" and 7 movies under "Home Movies 2009." iTunes organizes the home movies like it would TV Shows so I can see how many movies I have under each heading.
What is the best way to organize movies that are formatted to play on my iPhone? I may have the same name for a movie in 720p and iPhone format. Anyone currently organizing a successful way when utilizing AppleTV and iPhone? Recommendations?

maybe you and apple disagree when something is hd
apple sd movies are around 853x480 pixels

Appletv & iPhone movies

hi, I'm in the process of transfering my 100 + DVD collection, from DVD to mp4. Before I get to involved in this process, I have a question. For the future I would like to get an appletv for my intire movie collection, will the quality of mp4 be good? I know it looks pretty good on iPhone. Bottom line, I don't want have to repeat the process for h.264. Any suggestions. I like the file size of mp4.

If you are moving/converting your movies from store bought DVD's then you are breaking an encryption and will not get support from these Apple Discussion Groups as it is a violation of the Terms of Service.
If these are purchased from the iTS then you can use the 'Advanced' drop-down menu for conversion options.
MJ

Wi-Fi on AppleTV, iPhones, iPad, working fine. iMac not connecting to any Network. HELP!?

Hello,
I'm working on OSX Version 10.9.4. Recently, I started using Time Warner Cable for internet. All other devices work fine with the Wi-Fi. iMac was originally connected to our wi-fi network and ran fine. Periodically, the wi-fi would loose a connection on the Mac whenever the computer would go to sleep, or the screen saver would come on. I'd simply restart the computer and the connection would come back. Now, nothing. Even clicking on the wi-fi network doesn't do a thing. All of the other devices are working fine, so I'm sure it's not the wi-fi itself. Just not sure what to trouble shoot on the computer.
I've renewed the DHCP Lease, that doesn't work. I've deleted the wi-fi and tried to create a new location. Not sure if I did that correctly, but that didn't work either.
I've looked around these boards, but I thought I'd write my own question to see if maybe someone has had this particular issue. Can you help me out?
Thanks.

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Encoding home videos for IPhone, AppleTV and IPod Touch

Hi Folks,
I'm on latest version of Compressor and FCP.
Objective: to encode home video transfers to a format that is suitable for AppleTV, IPhone and Ipod Touch - in an efficient manner (this is key)
99% of the videos would be VHS and camcorder tapes in SD format.
I mentioned efficient manner b/c I tried running and Iphone encode through the presets in Compressor for a 2 hour VHS transfer - nothing fancy, just 12 chapters. I'm on my 2009 quad mac pro with 8 GBs RAM.
The estimator through the 'share' feature said it was going to take over 3 hours before I quit. The other reason I quit is b/c it won't be compatible with AppleTV.
I created DVDs for my client so I tried handbrake using the video_Ts folder and it created an IPhone/IPod Touch file no problem - only 40 minutes. Not bad. I tried the Universal preset and QT gives me an error that the finalized file isn't compatible.
I guess my question is: does it matter quality wise, if I run through Handbrake vs compressor? For this particular client, there are 12 hours worth of videos to compress.
I know about setting up a cluster on my mac pro, but everytime I try more than 1 file in a batch, the subsequent files fail. I can't even set a cluster up with my 2006 mac pro either - yes, I've had discussions with FCP support staff and have tickets. It's a bug
So, any thoughts? 3 hours (at a minimum) seems awfully long to compress.
Of course, I would be charging my client for these videos, but at that length of time, I'm not sure what a feasible cost would be for both sides.
Cheers,
keebler

If you are send out self contained movies to be processed in Compressor with Standard Presets (no adjustment to frame controls) you should be getting decent speed. If you want I can try encoding a two hour DV clip. How far did the encoding get before you stopped it? The estimates are not necessarily accurate at the beginning.
Also if you can get the Clusters working (disregarding the size of the batches for a moment) should help with speed. I run into limits of around 20 per batch so make multiple batches. Not the most optimal way, but could be worth it to get them all going. Set them up for overnight and it should be done in the AM.
Creating off the Video_TS folder is compressing compressed material, so it could (should) reduce quality when compared to encoding original source material, though based on the quality of the source it may be more academic...
I would try to get the Compressor end working myself. (Ignore using share, just open Compressor and put movies into it.)

Why can't I download anything from app store or itunes on my iphone, appletv, or mac mini?

Just says waiting on all my devices. AppleTV, iPhone 4s, and mac mini.

HI Ryan ...
Try turning off your router for a few minutes then turn it back on.

Iphone and appletv sync photos using itunes from a Network Drive; times out

I have a brand new Imac and a synology network drive. The network drive contains all my photos.
When I sync my various idevices (appletv, iphone, ipad) using itunes and specify a folder on the network drive. after a few hours or next day, when I plug a device to sync with itunes, i get a msg saying the folder can't be found.
It appears that the network connection times out.
How can I stop this from happenning ?

Hi!
could it be related to https://discussions.apple.com/message/13376559?searchText=Sync%20Photos%20from%2 0Synol#13376559 ?
Did you resolve your problem in the mean time?

IPhone 3G and HDTV

I am looking to hook my iPhone up to my HDTV. My question is is there any other better options out there than the Apple component A/V cable and universal dock? Thanks for any ideas you can provide!
-Lisa

Hey Lisa,
The only option that would be better for your HDTV is an Apple TV
http://www.apple.com/appletv/
iPhone compatible videos are a lower resolution because of the size of the iPhones screen, so you wouldn't really need a better cable than the Apple Component AV Cable. http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
With the Apple TV you can send very high quality audio and video over very good connectors.
http://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html
-Jason

My wife and I want to sync/share videos

My wife and each have a computer, + iPhone + iPad + AppleTV of course. We'd like to share videos, but we are finding it next to impossible. If I have a movie on my system, I can sync it to AppleTV, but she can't sync her movies. Most of these are either rips of DVDs she has (Friends episodes) or lots of home movies I've created, or home movies she's done of our son. The problem is that she creates a movie, and she can't sync it, which means she needs to send it to me, and then I need to sync it, which is just twenty steps too much, as we now have a bunch of copies of the movie. Couple this with music, pictures, and everything else. Then, we have to deal with moving them to the iPad if we want to bring it with us.
We have the AppleTV, which we though would be a nice central hub of media that we could save to, and take from, but apparently you can't do this by default. AppleTV is for one person homes?
So, here is what we'd like to do, easily.
My wife and I have media we'd like to play on our TV at times via AppleTV. We'd also like to be able to put this media on our iPhones/iPad and take it with us. How can we do this? It's really simple what we want, and we can't fathom how it can be difficult at all to do this, when we can easily share a video with friends and family on Facebook.

jasonlotito wrote:
First, yes, I'm aware of AppleTV's syncing problem. Streaming seems like a good solution for part of the problem, though that still leaves the problem of syncing to other devices: iPad/iPhone.
Streaming is great actually as it gets over the 160GB drive limitation in AppleTV (actually most of mine are 40GB AppleTVs, and I just stream things to them).
Downside is you need iTunes running as AppleTV cannot access files directly, as all data moves to it /from it via iTunes (except AppleTV's internet intercations).
The Home Sharing seems like an interesting solution. I'll explore that.
It should allow you to play/access media on different computers via iTunes but I don't think it will allow you to sync to iPhone/iPad/AppleTV from another user's library. Someone who regularly uses it will be able to clarify.
The network storage thing is also interesting. With so many devices, it might be a good idea to centralize all the stuff.
That's the idea - to centralize stuff on the network and allow multi-user access.
So, basically, we could setup a network storage device as a library separated from our own local stuff.
You wouldn't actually set the itunes library up on the network storage (you could in theory thoufgh), just use it as storage accessible to an itunes library on a computer.
Media known to the iTunes database can be stored in the actual iTunes media folder, or on any attached internal/external drives or network drives.
The setting I mentioned in iTunes determines what happens when you add a new file to iTunes - either a copy is made in teh iTunes media folder, or the itunes database just remembers it's current location without copying - so long as the location is accessible eg network/usb drive you could then sync to a device like AppleTV/iPad etc without having a copy in your itunes media folder.
We could then sync to AppleTV, iPhone, iPad, etc? And from what I remember, we could also sync to the devices what we want via the syncing control panel.
In theory yes.
If this is true, I like this idea. We could do our own personal stuff on our computer, prepare everything, and then save it to a central library we could still access. Then, sync our devices from that one central repository.
This to me seems the logical option.
Could you recommend an easy to use, large, network capable storage device that could be used for such a system?
I don't have one myself (we have several computers but I tend to handle all the media on my Mac Pro with lots of attached internal/USB/FW drives), but you have numerous options including Time Capsule from Apple that goes up to 2TB - be sure to check user reviews for these devices at places like Amazon to get a heads up on any potential issues.
The only issue with network storage is that of it being potentially (usually) slower than directly attached drives/internal drives, but this will depend on your actual network setup/speed/connection types and whether or not there's lots of concurrent traffic. Even a slow network will sync but if it's very slow streaming might not be as smooth as it might be.

How to use iMac as remotely accessible home media server

First time poster, and thanks in advance for any help that any of you might be able to provide. -- Josh
I have a mid-2007 iMac, several AppleTVs and Apple mobile devices, and a 2014 Macbook Pro coming at the end of the week (more detailed info below). I have a roughly 1 TB library of movies, which are currently housed in an external hard drive attached to the iMac. When I'm on my home network, I'm able to stream all the movies to all of the AppleTVs, iPhones, and iPads, using iTunes and home sharing, with almost no problem. But, my family would like to access our movie library remotely, when at the airport, visiting family, etc.
I've researched various options, and am having a hard time parsing through some of the more technical information and figuring out what setup would work best. It seems to me that although I can't use my iMac as a second display for the new MacbookPro because of technical limitations on the iMac, I might still be able to use the iMac as a remotely accessible home media server. Running Plex on the iMac has been suggested, but I keep hearing conflicting information on whether the AppleTVs are compatible with Plex, and I've had trouble successfully forwarding ports several years ago when I played with Plex briefly. iTunes/home sharing is just so easy in terms of setup and reliability between Apple devices, in my experience. I looked into buying an AirPort Time Capsule, since I was looking into upgrading my router to support 802.11ac anyway (advice on that too?), but was told that neither the Time Capsule drive nor any drive attached to it would be remotely accessible. Back to my Mac seems like it might work for me to access my library remotely when using the MacbookPro, but not any of the mobile devices (which are more important to the kids), and I'm not sure what advantage a NAS drive would have over using the iMac (although this is where it starts getting a bit technical for me). Looked at OSX Server also, but not sure how that would interface with whatever additional components I need to get.
Thank you in advance for any help. I'm sure people have figured out a way to access their media libraries remotely, but for some reason I can't find a straight answer on how. I've included additional technical details about my setup below. Thanks again!!
iMac, 20-in, Mid 2007, 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, OS X 10.9.4, 250 GB storage
Macbook Pro w. Retina, 13-in, 2014, 2.6 GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3L SDRAM, 128 GB PCle-based Flash Storage
Iomega HDD, 2 TB
Netgear N600 Wireless Dual Band Router, Model No. WNDR3400v2
AppleTV, 3rd generation (x3)
iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, iPad (2nd gen), iPad mini w. Retina

Not really recommended to do what you want as the perfomance will be undesirable and make the experience lousy at best. If you have content you want to watch remotely then simply copy it to a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro and then bring one of the AppleTV's with you. Then you can stream directly from the MBA or MBP to the AppleTV on a remote TV. We did this on our last vacation, loaded a bunch of movies on my MBA, threw one of the ATV's in the suitcase and when we got to our hotel simply connected it using the hotels Wi-Fi and connected the ATV via HDMI to the TV and we were in business.

How to use iMac as remotely accessible media server

First time poster, and thanks in advance for any help that any of you might be able to provide. -- Josh
I have a mid-2007 iMac, several AppleTVs and Apple mobile devices, and a 2014 Macbook Pro coming at the end of the week (more detailed info below). I have a roughly 1 TB library of movies, which are currently housed in an external hard drive attached to the iMac. When I'm on my home network, I'm able to stream all the movies to all of the AppleTVs, iPhones, and iPads, using iTunes and home sharing, with almost no problem. But, my family would like to access our movie library remotely, when at the airport, visiting family, etc.
I've researched various options, and am having a hard time parsing through some of the more technical information and figuring out what setup would work best. It seems to me that although I can't use my iMac as a second display for the new MacbookPro because of technical limitations on the iMac, I might still be able to use the iMac as a remotely accessible home media server. Running Plex on the iMac has been suggested, but I keep hearing conflicting information on whether the AppleTVs are compatible with Plex, and I've had trouble successfully forwarding ports several years ago when I played with Plex briefly. iTunes/home sharing is just so easy in terms of setup and reliability between Apple devices, in my experience. I looked into buying an AirPort Time Capsule, since I was looking into upgrading my router to support 802.11ac anyway (advice on that too?), but was told that neither the Time Capsule drive nor any drive attached to it would be remotely accessible. Back to my Mac seems like it might work for me to access my library remotely when using the MacbookPro, but not any of the mobile devices (which are more important to the kids), and I'm not sure what advantage a NAS drive would have over using the iMac (although this is where it starts getting a bit technical for me). Looked at OSX Server also, but not sure how that would interface with whatever additional components I need to get.
Thank you in advance for any help. I'm sure people have figured out a way to access their media libraries remotely, but for some reason I can't find a straight answer on how. I've included additional technical details about my setup below. Thanks again!!
iMac, 20-in, Mid 2007, 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, OS X 10.9.4, 250 GB storage
Macbook Pro w. Retina, 13-in, 2014, 2.6 GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3L SDRAM, 128 GB PCle-based Flash Storage
Iomega HDD, 2 TB
Netgear N600 Wireless Dual Band Router, Model No. WNDR3400v2
AppleTV, 3rd generation (x3)
iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, iPad (2nd gen), iPad mini w. Retina

My apologies if this isn't quite on point. I hope it is of some use.
One problem that may arise is that many home internet connections have much less outbound bandwidth available than inbound, at least in the US. That is, while your internet connection probably supports receiving a movie in real time, it may not support sending one in real time.
Portable 1TB and 2TB disks are pretty affordable these days. A number even do wifi streaming to iPhones and iPads.

So, why can't we discuss "jailbreaks" on the forum?

This is something that bothers me in the iOS forums (iPad, AppleTV, iPhone, iPod touch), as any references to jailbreaks typically spawn the "do not discuss jailbreaking, as it voids the ToS of this forum".
The italicized part is what bothers me, because I cannot find any proof of this in the Apple ToS, and any link provided from the ToS, including Apple Legal. I am aware of the support article about 'unauthorized modifications', but that isn't part of ToS.
Am I wrong?
Obviously, jailbreaking is not a DRM issue since the exploits are already there.
If my memory serves me correctly, it was at one point forbidden to talk about 'jailbreaks' and other iOS mods, but I believe with the Feb. 18th, 2012 update, this has changed.
Hopefully one of you can help me.
Thanks ASC.

This is my interpretation, but the terms state:
Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise 'work around' digital rights management software or hardware.
Jailbreaking involves breaking Apple's rights management on iOS and hence will not be allowed in Apple's forums.
I can only guess as to what rationale the Hosts indeed use, but that quote would seem to provide sufficient justfication for such warnings and for the Hosts to remove offending posts, though the terms also say that Apple reserves the right to remove any post at any time for any reason so they do not require an explicit statement in the ToS on the subject.
Regards.

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