AVI to Quicktime + Hacked ATV compatibility option => no sound when played in ATV

[Dado]

I am evaluating iFlicks to see whether AVI to Quicktime (flatten)
conversion with the Hacked ATV options makes mov files that can be
played on ATV v3.0.1 + ATV Flash-installed Perian. Everything seems to
work fine, the movie plays just fine... the only problem is that there
is no audio playback.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Dado

[Jendrik Bertram]

Which language did you set your language option on the apple tv to?

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[Dave Higgins]

I had the same kind of thing happen. Files that originally had AC3
audio would not play. I ended up re-patching my ATV. I used ATVUSB-
Creator to get Software Menu installed in order to get NitoTV
installed in order to run Smart Update (with proper recovery.dmg and
10.4.9 update dmg in place). After that, with Perian freshly installed
and remembering to change the language setting from Default to English
in [Settings / Audio & Video / Audio Language], all is well.

So, make sure you have that setting changed.

On Dec 30 2009, 6:43 am, Jendrik Bertram <jend...@iflicksapp.com>
wrote:

[Balki]

I have the same issue -only one second of sound and then the video
keeps playing but muted- for every movie I have converted with iFlicks
(flatten and with the option of Making it compatible with Hacked Apple
TV on).
They work fine on iTunes, but not on the ATV. I have changed the Audio
Language settings to English but it still doesn't work (not sure if
this is an issue, but my ATV general language is Spanish, though I've
tried to change it to English as well just to check if the issue was
fixed).
These are my versions:
.Apple TV=3.0.2
.ATV Flash 4.1.1
.iFlicks 1.2.1 (683)

Any idea?
Thanks in advance.

[Jendrik Bertram]

Does the same thing happen if you set your Apple TV audio language to Spanish?

[Balki]

Yes, exactly the same.
Now I've discovered that if the movie is with AC3 sound, when I play
it in the ATV and check the languages that I can play it with (keeping
the "play" button pressed while watching it) theres something
different: there are 2 languages, "English" -selected by default- and
"English (Sourround)"
The point is that ONLY when I choose "English (surround)" the audio
comes back!!

These are my cases:
-Movie in Stereo: 2 "English" languages appear, the 2 are checked at
the same time and I get NO sound
-Movie in Dual (Spanish/English), Stereo: 3 "English" languages
appear, the 3 are checked, and I get NO sound
-Movie in AC3: 2 languages, "English" -checked by default with no
audio- and "English (surround)". If I choose "English (surround)" I
GET audio!!

I hope this helps to find out what's happening.

Thanks.

[Jendrik Bertram]

On 09.04.2010, at 20:20, Balki wrote:

> Yes, exactly the same.
> Now I've discovered that if the movie is with AC3 sound, when I play
> it in the ATV and check the languages that I can play it with (keeping
> the "play" button pressed while watching it) theres something
> different: there are 2 languages, "English" -selected by default- and
> "English (Sourround)"
> The point is that ONLY when I choose "English (surround)" the audio
> comes back!!

The "English" track might be the one created by iFlicks for the first second or so. This track is needed, so that iTunes is convinced that it can play the video on the Apple TV. Somehow the Apple TV doesn't seem to jump to the correct track (surround) after the first one has ended.

As the name of this suggests, this is only a "hack" which might not work all the time and break if Apple updates iTunes or the Apple TV (this has happened before). I strongly suggest to encode the videos for Apple TV, to prevent those problems.