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How do i get good quality dvd rips to apple tv?
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So i have tried to a few different ways to rip dvds and put them on my apple tv. I have used handbrake, mac the ripper, and visual hub. when i try to watch them the quality is horrible. they are extremely pixelated and almost unwatchable. does anyone have a step by step of how to get better quality rips? It seems like it should be able to be done with those three pieces of software.
Thanks for any help.
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2.2 i7 MacBook Pro 8GB Ram 1TB HD
16 GB iPhone 4
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Handbrake offers some guidance on settings in its wiki.
You should use the AppleTV preset, and you're good to go.
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What settings did you use in HandBrake?
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set the default encoder to Apple TV
select 2500 for your resolution rate gives a 2 hrs movie about 2 gigs anything higher would be overkill and high cost in storage media.
set your audio rate I use 160 but you can go higher
make sure chapters is checked
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New Handbrake today.
Video quality
The x264 project has really come into its own this year, and HandBrake 0.9.3 integrates the latest improvements to the H.264 encoding library. Picture quality has enhanced dramatically through the use of psychovisual rate distortion and adaptive quantization, and there have been significant speed optimizations.
Now works with non-dvd media, too.
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Yeah, I grabbed the updated version today. Looks great, although my video rip/conversion needs are very slim after installing Perian on my Apple TV.
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Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 
...my video rip/conversion needs are very slim after installing Perian on my Apple TV.
Does that only work with files *on* the tv or can you stream other formats? (I only stream to mine.)
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Originally Posted by AKcrab
Does that only work with files *on* the tv or can you stream other formats? (I only stream to mine.)
Not sure. After installing Perian, I created a Movies directory on the ATV and used ATVFiles to point to it and see the files I copy there.
While researching your question I came across this post, which mentions that you can create a link to a Mac and use ATVFiles to view movies and play them even when they're not on the ATV.
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Streaming works, in theory.
However, getting your ATV to be able to mount AFP shares from your Mac is a major undertaking, to say the least. I have tried many times, never succeeded. You have the best chance if your ATV has the original 1.1 version software on its backup partition. Otherwise, the ATV is missing essential files, and even copying them from a 10.4.9 install seems to be working only in some cases.
You can, however, stream from SMB mounted shares using Boxee or XBMC. It works fairly well.
I don't bother to copy files directly to the ATV, I stream 100%.
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