Chapter 6 of “Take Control of Apple TV” Available
The raison d’être of the Apple TV is to play movies and TV shows, and that’s where Josh Centers now turns his attention in our streamed ebook “Take Control of Apple TV.” Chapter 6, “Apple TV at the Movies,” looks at controlling video playback (I’m a little embarrassed at how much I learned from this section), buying and watching videos from the iTunes Store, and playing video stored in iTunes on your Mac. But where the chapter really makes its bones is in its step-by-step instructions for ripping your DVDs via HandBrake, adding metadata to the resulting files with iFlicks, and importing them into iTunes. Josh even covers merging multi-disc movies and ripping Blu-ray discs,
but beware that Blu-ray movies take a long time to rip and chew through hard drive space. Finally, he looks at two ways of storing all these massive files on an external disk, which is likely necessary for anyone with a small SSD.
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I've a number of movies I ripped long ago that I would like to have available to me in iTunes and then also be able to view them on AppleTv. How do i do that?
Your best bet would be to run them through iFlicks, which will perform any necessary conversions and add them to iTunes.
Thanks-I'll give it a try
I did download iFlicks as you suggested and even with Perian installed it still will not transfer my movie files, which are in the Video_TS format, to iTunes.
iFlicks appears to be simple enough, but I must not be doing something. Is there something else I need to do?
Oooh, OK, so you're working with direct DVD rips. First, you'll need to process those Video_TS folders with Handbrake, then run them through iFlicks.
If you say so-they were, for the most part, ripped years ago using the program (I think it was called) iRipper
so I'll do it again, as you suggest.
Thanks for the help (and if it, indeed, works you'll have more thanks to deal with! l,l,l)
Thanks. After some fumbling around I did make it work. (It wasn't quite obvious to me that I had to undo my Gatekeeper setup to allow it to download the program.) So tomorrow after/during the, supposed, heavy snowfall on the North East coast I'll have my work cut out for me.