Tips on donating old Apple TV & crashing movies?
Anyone have tips on how to prepare an old Apple TV for donation?
I am having this probelm with a 1st generation Apple TV that I was copying content onto that I was going to donate to our kid's school (old kid movies they no longer watch). We've moved on to an ATV2.
After much troubleshooting and playing each movie to verify it works I've come to the following issues:
Handbrake Movies encoded using ap Apple TV 2 or Apple TV 3 preset crash on Apple TV 1 hardware. My Handbrake movies I encoded using the Apple TV 1 preset seem to work fine. This was done when we convertd our DVD collection to iTune movies using Handbrake.
Other users running into an Apple TV play a movie or video with audio, but only black video or getting a message:
The Apple TV is not responding.
Check that any firewall software running on this computer has been set to allow communication on port 3689.
It then gives you a cancel or more info button that links to: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1447?viewlocale=en_US
Should take a look at the movies they are trying to playback. 1st Generation Apple TVs can't use the higer frame rate and larger than 720p frame size found in Handbrakes newer presets.
After I reset the Apple TV (hold the menu button and the - button together for several seconds, choose restart and reselect my language I scroll down my list of movies and uncheck the offending title.
Anyone else running into this?
Anyone have tips on how to setup an Apple TV for donation (just going to play at a school's extended care with probably no network access).
I don't know of any method for transferring legal ownership of a purchased iTunes movie over to the device so that the school legally owns it (my kids no longer watch those movies), but I'd love to hear any tips of others who've donated their Apple TV and what they did to prepare it with content.
thanks,
Stephen 🙂
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