Apple TV is a great gadget that delivers entertainment to your home audio/video system and TV but what about playing content from YouTube, your cell phone and other sources? Find out about the tools that can enable you to view a large variety of different content on your Apple TV.
HandBrake
Handbrake is an open-source tool for Mac OSX that allows the users of Apple TV to copy content from a DVD and convert it to a MPEG-4 file to play it on their Apple TV. The tool will not copy everything from the DVD; instead, it will copy selected video titles on a DVD as individual titles. For example, if there is a TV series on a DVD each episode will be copied individually as a separate file. Handbrake also enables you to select between alternate audio tracks, if you wish not to play default tracks recorded in the created video file.
Handbrake enables Apple TV owners to include all their favorite video content in a single interface of the TV. This is great because it will save you from searching the shelves for a particular TV series or movie on DVD.
Handbrake is a very simple and easy to use tool and you will also find links to user guides and documentation on the HandBrake website .
iSquint
iSquint is a free and simple tool for converting videos from the Internet into MPEG-4 format for Apple TV. iSquint is capable of converting a large number of formats including DiVx, DV, AVI and Windows Media files.
The tool has a very easy-to-use interface where you can simply drag and drop your video files into iSquint and it will convert and add them to your iTunes library. The conversion between formats can take some time, so be patient while iSquint does its work. iSquint is probably the best tool available that can convert a large variety of different file formats into something that can be read and played by the Apple TV. You can download this product from here.
Clone2Go
Clone2go is another great tool for converting videos to an Apple TV readable format. It lets you easily convert many different video files such as WMV, RM, DAT, 3GP, RMVB, AVI and FLV . Clone2Go also lets you customize the audio and video parameters like sample rate, frame rate, bit rate, etc.
You can also import a folder of video files or a list of files and select them for batch conversion. Its easy-to-use interface brings convenience to users and you will find it very easy to convert the video files, with only a few clicks. To download this software, visit Clone2Go website here.