- #Play a video screensaver apple tv how to#
- #Play a video screensaver apple tv movie#
- #Play a video screensaver apple tv 720p#
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#Play a video screensaver apple tv how to#
I promise to make a video or a very detailed guide on how to do this "for Dummies" like myself, so that we can spread the word.Owners of the 4th generation Apple TV would be familiar with Aerial, a screensaver that showcases various cities around the world from an elevated position. I'm sure many more are interested on this feature and would love to learn how to get the most out of their Apple TV. Please be as specific and descriptive as possible. What am I supposed to use this for?Ħ) Where should I host the video files at? Can I use any cloud service like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive? If not, then what kind of server should be used.
#Play a video screensaver apple tv code#
Can I just erase the code and leave only those that I need?ģ) What is the "id" on the code, how do I get it for my own videos? Is it needed in order to be fetched by the Apple TV?Ĥ) What about the accessibilityLabel? Is this required? Can I omit it? Delete it? Or simply replace it with my own label?ĥ) Same thing with the timeOfDay. json file there are a bunch of video files, but I might not be hosting the same amount, for now, most likely it will be just a couple, perhaps in the future I could host many more. json file? Where can I host this file on Apache or Windows IIS?Ģ) On the. "id" : "D388F00A-5A32-4431-A95C-38BF7FF7268D",ġ) Can you give examples on to how to configure the server on how to serve that. json file I have no clue on the following marked on bold: On the other hand I understand that my own videos have to be. json file on a server and type in the address of where I have it hosted in the URL at the Channel mode in the Apple TV. json file and understand that I have to my modified. I don't know how to actually accomplish the last part and was wondering if you could elaborate.īased on another post on stackoverflow I have downloaded the. If you enable the "Channel" mode, there will be a config URL that you can use to feed info for the screensavers. Inside of the Demo Mode settings, you are presented with 3 options Off, Apple Store, and Channel. Go to Settings > General and then click Play/Pause button 4 times on the Apple TV Remote until you get to the settings to Demo mode. With an Apple TV 4th Generation hooked up and running. I'm reaching out to you for help regarding the possibility of streaming my own videos instead of the Aerial videos as a screensaver in the Apple TV.Īs far as I've been doing my research online, I understand that the process is as follows:
#Play a video screensaver apple tv movie#
Problem solved: movie files need to have file name extension. Can I somehow force the Apple TV to reload the screensavers URL? Are there any size / quality limitations on what movie files it will play? Can the locally stored / cached movies be erased to force a download of the new movies? Is there a way to get some feedback from the Apple TV as to whether it has fetched the latest JSON file? The Apple TV has been on permanently, so would have had ample time to download the new movies, and the movies have been available (and play fine on the iPad, or MBP, using the URLs from the JSON file. My version of the JSON file is located here:, you can compare this with Apple's own version here:, I think the syntax is OK in mine.
#Play a video screensaver apple tv 720p#
I have both 1080p versions (about 600MB per movie) and 720p versions (about 70MB per movie) available. But I changed the URL since then, and the Apple TV for several days has not downloaded any of the new movies. This worked one time for me and one of my own movies was downloaded.
This enters a store/channel mode, which allows when selecting channel mode to specify the URL where to fetch the movies from via an intermediary JSON file describing the download URLs. For that you have to go into settings, move to about, while on about, click Play/Pause 4 times. On the 4th gen Apple TV you can select a custom json file URL to load screensaver movies other than the apple ones.
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