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<blockquote data-quote="Nethfel" data-source="post: 1235943" data-attributes="member: 89124"><p>But, cache isn't playability, just means how much it's been able to cache and/or scale to attempt to play - also unless you did a fixed bitrate, it may have not gotten to content that was the max bit rate, or max for any length of time. </p><p></p><p>And, yes, I'll agree I made a mistake in words there - it will play 1080p content at a low enough bitrate at 720p, but it won't play it at 1080p which is what I was intending to reference.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which, since I have a samsung 67", I do fall into that range - if I had a 40" or lower I wouldn't even be making a fuss or worrying about it at all. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Although this is normally true, I have seen some that haven't been nearly as well encoded as others.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I want to do that for some things (actually I want to do that for my satellite first - get rid of our sat and get season passes), but w/ only a 3 meg link, it takes forever to download a video and I've had it download, go watch something else while it was downloading (from my iTunes) then go back to watch the downloading movie and it had to start over again which makes it hard to just rent movies on the ATV itself for us. </p><p></p><p>I suppose it would be possible to rent on the computer then feed it to the ATV2, I know that you have to "transfer" the license from the iTunes computer to the ATV2, but I don't know if it would then have to start the entire download procedure over again, and I haven't wanted to try...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Depends on how you define streaming. But, what I was doing over WiFi was when I had mostly 2-15 Mbps content from a network share. Anything higher then that I stored locally on my mini. Eventually I ran cat5e over to that portion of the house and with a gigabit network, I was able to place my high bitrate movies on the network share (I found it easier to deal with a wired network in the living room that way since I have several devices that needed network access in once single place - and it left more bandwidth on the wifi for things like my iPhone, laptop, iPad, etc.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hmm, that's interesting - I wonder why BSG was giving such grief - unless it was your WiFi (what is it anyway? G? N?) since as you mentioned you had no problems with the mini with direct storage...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nethfel, post: 1235943, member: 89124"] But, cache isn't playability, just means how much it's been able to cache and/or scale to attempt to play - also unless you did a fixed bitrate, it may have not gotten to content that was the max bit rate, or max for any length of time. And, yes, I'll agree I made a mistake in words there - it will play 1080p content at a low enough bitrate at 720p, but it won't play it at 1080p which is what I was intending to reference. Which, since I have a samsung 67", I do fall into that range - if I had a 40" or lower I wouldn't even be making a fuss or worrying about it at all. Although this is normally true, I have seen some that haven't been nearly as well encoded as others. I want to do that for some things (actually I want to do that for my satellite first - get rid of our sat and get season passes), but w/ only a 3 meg link, it takes forever to download a video and I've had it download, go watch something else while it was downloading (from my iTunes) then go back to watch the downloading movie and it had to start over again which makes it hard to just rent movies on the ATV itself for us. I suppose it would be possible to rent on the computer then feed it to the ATV2, I know that you have to "transfer" the license from the iTunes computer to the ATV2, but I don't know if it would then have to start the entire download procedure over again, and I haven't wanted to try... Depends on how you define streaming. But, what I was doing over WiFi was when I had mostly 2-15 Mbps content from a network share. Anything higher then that I stored locally on my mini. Eventually I ran cat5e over to that portion of the house and with a gigabit network, I was able to place my high bitrate movies on the network share (I found it easier to deal with a wired network in the living room that way since I have several devices that needed network access in once single place - and it left more bandwidth on the wifi for things like my iPhone, laptop, iPad, etc.) Hmm, that's interesting - I wonder why BSG was giving such grief - unless it was your WiFi (what is it anyway? G? N?) since as you mentioned you had no problems with the mini with direct storage... [/QUOTE]
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