Streaming videos
 

Having spent a fortune on one of Samsung's new smart TVs, I'm having trouble trying to stream videos/movies from my Macbook pro. I've tried Air Parrot which is supposed to mirror image your screen. It doesn't. It's so slow and jerky that it's impossible to watch a movie. I've tried TVMOBiLi which is similar along with Serviio which won't even open. As I have some mkv movies which produce proper 1080 HD quality I would love to find a DLNA source that will stream these files without problems.

My wifi runs at 7mbps on o2 broadband which isn't too bad. The only reliable way to do it is via itunes and apple tv, but they don't run mkv files.

Any help would be much appreciated.

You can install the ATVFlash software at Firecore.com - easy to install, works great, allows you to watch MKV, AVi, MP4, etc through your apple TV. it's $29.95 and currently for the Apple TV 2nd Gen (3rd gen in the works).

The other option is to Jailbreak your Apple TV (only available for 1st and 2nd Gen at the moment - 3rd in the pipeline) and install XBMC.

Hope this helps

Thanks, Mixture, nice helpful reply. I'll wait a bit and then look at the 200 reasons!

Thanks DrRedHead. To use ATVFlash you need to jailbreak the box. I guess I'll give that a try first.

itunes migration/consolidation?
 

Sorry if this is an oft repeated question in here, I havent had much joy on apples help section, or in store with a definitive answer that filled me with positivity.

current set up: Iphone synced to creaky laptop, three kids ipods synced to my work laptop all with separate itunes accounts, keeps the kids stuff separate, but annoying when they all want to buy the same app, and you end up paying three times, and also if all of us want the same CD having to upload it four times.

just treated myself to a MAC to replace creaky laptop. I now as a minimum, want to copy my itunes for my phone from the laptop to the Mac, my research so far seems to suggest this is relatively easy via a hard drive. the more taxing question which i cant get an answer to, is do I copy over the three kids accounts and keep them separate, or is this the perfect opportunity to consolidate all our accounts, music and apps etc and have them live in one place, does this become a major issue when different people run different devices. if for example I buy a game on a universal itunes account, can you play it at the same time on two devices, so many questions, advice and help appreciated on here :ok:

Do these help from?

Sharing iTunes & iCloud Accounts in a Family

Consolidating apps to a single iTunes Store account

Using Multiple iTunes Libraries on One Computer

No 4G for the iPhone 5 in UK except for T-Mobile and Orange; and that includes after the auctions next year and for the freseeable future.....

The iPhone 5′s limited UK 4G LTE support set to freeze out Vodafone and O2

That won't stop the iPhone 5 selling like proverbial hotcakes though. Besides the same problem exists for all LTE equipped phones.

The iPhone 5 will still work on the 3G networks as far as I know, and to be honest, for 95% of what you use the iPhone for, 3G will be just fine.

One has Little Snitch running in the background and of late it has flagged loads of connection attempts from the good people at Apple in the form of 3-courier.push.apple.com, whereas before never... They are of course a myriad of other numbers before the 'courier' part and they seem to want Port 5223 mostly. As far as I can ascertain they might be software related, but am curious to know what ? Any clever clogs care to enlighten me ?


SHJ

It's to do with push notifications. Have you recently started to use them? FaceTime, too. There's a list of commonly-used ports by Apple here.

Thanks for that link Mr Macster :ok: Apart from FaceTime, which I added a month ago, but rarely use and is almost never on I'm a simple soul and don't have any of the others. Might it have been added unknowingly in an update or security patch recently ?

Just had a think and the FaceTime was added in May, so that wouldn't account for the many push notices in the last month.


SHJ

Yesterday I helped my landlady upgrade her Macbook Pro from OS X 10.4 (Tiger) to 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Yes, I know, but that's the latest her hardware can support ... and kudos to Apple for making the process mostly painless. Install from DVD (£14 from Apple UK) to 10.6.3, then another GB download for 10.6.8. Most of the process required no intervention from me.

The only hiccup was in upgrading Microsoft Office 2008, which (for some unknown reason) was sitting at the root (/) and not under Applications. Finder wouldn't let me move it, just copy it, so I ended up using a UNIX "sudo mv" command in Terminal just to get it done quickly. After that, no problems applying the latest updates, and it's all working fine.

I could live with a Mac ... but I'd spend so much time in the Terminal that I may as well stick to Linux ... :8

Security questions...?
 

Hey folks,

I just searched for this and nowt came up, so here goes:

I just tried to install Google Chrome on my iPad and it came up with the old 'increase your level of security and select 3 questions and their answers' thing. Previousy, I have completely ignored it because I have a password that no-one is likely to figure out and I'm never going to forget it.

This time, though, it wouldn't let me install the app And it is insisting that I do this questions thing. So I thought OK, the usuall rubbish - mother's maiden name etc. But no. They want really personal stuff, like my first film in the cinema, my dog's name, best friend at primary school.... What the hell??

Is it normal for them to ask for such personal information?? Sounds more like a phishing scam - or at least, if THEIR security gets compromised, phishing scams could be directed to me more easily (and the rest of the population).

I have to say, I haven't completed the procedure, and won't - at least until I learn more about it.

Does anyone else have experience with this?

Cheers

Roastie

rather sounds to me like you are confusing simply installing the browser, with actually creating / logging into a Google online account.

Of course Google are going to ask such questions: with their desire to know as much profiling information about you as they can obtain, their questions can only become more and more intrusive.

My advice? Ditch Chrome. The only reason it exists is to give Google a better data collection platform.

Thanks for your reply, but you have completely misunderstood.

It is the appstore that is asking for this, not chrome - i can't even install that..

I understand about Google wanting more profiling information.
Now I'm saying that Apple want it too.

I googled the subject and found the following...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0

Cheers

Roastie

This history behind this goes back a few months I think. I can't recall that exact details, but someone somewhere managed to get a hold of a number of Apple ID account details, through some rather nasty code that managed to get through the Apple App Store censors. Apple decided to implement some further security measures, akin to those for online banking, whereby in addition to account ID and password (like Account number and PIN), you provide some answers to a series of questions that only you are likely to know all the answers to. So in the event your Apple account is compromised, it will be easier for you as the real account holder to get control back. Bearing in mind that the Apple ID account usually has access to your credit card details, and therefore carries a similar financial risk to handing someone your bank card and PIN details.

R04stb33f

(a) You do realise you do not have to give the true answers to these questions, do you not ? As long as you recall the correct answers, that is all that matters. Because it is highly likely that as a private individual, your sole interaction with Apple will be electronic, all you need to do is to be able to feed the machine the right answers in order to get the output you want.

(b) It is NOT profiling. MacBoero has the answer. A while back, there were regrettably a whole series of fraudulent transactions undertaken by unscrupulous individuals on the Apple iTunes store service. Apple swiftly took action to put in place mechanisms to prevent future occurrences.

Any comments on IOs6?


Mutt

ITV & BBC both reporting glitches with the maps eg Luton in South Devon, Stratford Upon Avon as a hospital. No shops in the Bull Ring Birmingham.

BBC News - Apple promises maps app will 'improve'

Not sure about the rest of the world!