aTV Flash (black) Beta6 Now Available

Can't wait to get home and try it out!

It works super greatz from Holland!

Great....Im downloading now. But, no support for .srt subtitle?

Amazing,

Do not you think that the sale of this crap for $20 is cheating ? What is the reason to buy it if you can get Airplay Server, PLEX or XBMC with tons of better staff for FREE?

There is no 5.1 audio support, no way to choose audio stream, no way to choose subtitles, frequently crashing, overloads atv memory and etc - it is all about media player. Do you want to hear about browser and etc ??

Sorry guys for this kind of review, I understand that you trying to do good job, but $20, for software which will be finished and useful may be in a year, is insane.

It doesn't yet play .mpg, .mp4 and plays well in xbmc.

Nice work.
Subtile support and covers for tv shows then its perfect.

Works great!  Plays high def and other video quite nicely now.

Two things:

1) MKV subtitles no longer show

2) It would be nice to be able to remove the "File System" entry in My Files

perfect :-)

Anyone did some testing with mkv files in 720p or 1080p?

Saweet! Thanks so much for the added improvements, can't wait to install it!

I have just two suggestions that I think would be so awesome if you could include in the aTV Flash eventually. 1) You know the semi-transparent "Now Playing" tag that shows up in the bottom left when you play a song? I'd love for the option to always display that. It'd just be nice to always know what's playing and who the artist is, even when the screensaver is active. 2) I love air-playing music through the ATV during parties or just having some people over, but I also love iTunes' Visualizations. If you could include an option to play these Visualizations I think a lot of people would use that.

Thanks!

Any chance to have Netflix player to support captions? There is already supported in last version of Netflix for iPhone and iPad. Apple TV may be using older version of Netflix player which does not support captions.

If you got newer version of Netflix player for Apple TV, I will buy your software and share this news with many deaf friends who depends on captions.

Yes I know Apple iTunes supports it but too expensive to watch each movie. Netflix is much better ($8 a month for unlimited).

Can we plug a hard drive in the back and access it directly yet?
I'd pay $20 bucks for that alone.

Sorry, no srt dubtitles, no download.

Is is possible to incorporate VPN Connectivity?

Keeps rebooting whenever I play a video, this is worse than beta 5

Wishlist: spotify client :-)
They offer development libraries

If you don't like it, don't bitch and whinge. Exercise your prerogative don't buy it.

Many of us who have bought it are happy with our purchase (or will be once srt is implemented ;-).

What's $20 anyway!?

Saving more than a couple of hours of time over the life of my aTV is worth $20 alone. Installing and maintaining the other options is a bit of a pain... especially when something goes wrong. It takes time on FireCore's part to maintain these distributions and continually update their own offering.. time isn't free.

But that's certainly not the whole story.

• a) XBMC requires that you basically reboot the aTV everytime you enter/exit it.
• b) I prefer the simplified aTV interface and
• c) other options require another device to transcode/stream the media to the aTV. I have a NAS to stream my video and don't want to be required to have a pc running at all times that I want to watch video.

It's a great product and a good value. While it may not make sense for you, it does for a lot of us.

Well, aren't YOU the moron? No...I don't think the money these guys are charging is "cheating." What world do you live in? I've tried all those you name and none of them work as well as this. As for being useful, I use it every day to play files I can't play any other way without having to use another device like an iPad or my Macbook Pro.

excellent, you gus are great

It ain't gonna happen ever (well maybe if they bring out an ATV3). The ATV2 can only be recognised as a USB device; it doesn't have a USB host controller on board so it cannot therefore host other USB devices.

Works perfect with MKV.. would be good to have a option to change audio tracks and subtitles.. hope you're going to add in Beta7 :) Thanks guys

Indeed.

It is the New Sweetness. 4x3 corrected to 16x9. Which means films like 2001 look beautiful along with A Hard Day's Night and many more. Well done. Take the Holiday off.

Fantastic. Works smoothley here. 720p mkv - runs perfectley!

I am sorry, but I think you have a limited understanding of what they are developing. Your comments also show limited understanding of what can be done with Apple TV and sorry to say are plain irrelevant. You should think, read more, or talk to someone who is better educated on the topic before writing on a blog letting everyone see how confused you are.

Thanks James.....Keep going with the good work.....

Thanks. Great to see continued progress and simple updating supported through Beta5 interface. Very curious to see what happens when iOS-5 hits and Apple drops their maintenance update.  Fingers crossed you will not be set back much. :$

$ 20 here in Mexico is not so little, but it is not too much, and the truth is the money better spent, even though they have no application to 100%, at least I am happy to know that those who pay them are doing their best to give me a product that is worth much more. Thanks! well done! going well! sorry for my poor English.

Hi,

I'm going to ask a stupid question...

When will flash become a reality for aTV Flash? I would love to dial in hulu or for that matter any of the online tv/movie sources.

I'm sure you've heard this before...

Thanks guys!!!

I's second that! Spotify would be great for us Brits!

Keep up the great work :-)

Now can we fix Seas0nPass please.....

How is ISO support coming along? My entire DVD library is saved as images.

When will media player stream music from the nas server?

Thansk keep up the good work

Although I was happy with PLEX, I thought I'd try installing this new update. But it failed both Updating "Maintenance" as well as updating "Media Player" getting following message: 

"Installation Failed! E: Write error - write (28: No space left on device)

E: Can't mmap an empty file

E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened"

can't find any improvement.

each mkv file in media player is stuttering.

xbmc and mediaplayer can't handle iso files.

atvflash is not usable as a media player. hope next version will be better.

I have 2 Apple TV Blacks that I just updated to Beta 6, and both continue to crash/reboot every time I attempt to go into Media and Maintenance.  I have also installed the new software directly from my Mac instead of within maintenance on the Apple TV, and they both continue to crash.  Please help!

very glad to see the improvements. The playback of the DVDs are smoother. 

The only thing what I am missing is the support of 5.1 sound. Also the ability to switch between the audio tracks is what I need too. Hope it comes with the next update.

If I have missed this option, please let me know.

Thank You guys for your hard work. :)

If you've installed XBMC just add this "repo" and it will give you access to all major "Standard" Cable tv shows.... ABC, FOX, NBC, SPIKE, TNT, etc.... if you look around there is also a HULU plug-in floating around online for XBMC as well...

side note: get Cyber Duck to ssh into your Apple TV and drop ZIP file then you'll get/install zip from Apple TV... here is link to Video that explains how to install plugins to XBMC on Apple TV and also link for the repo that will give you tv channels... ENJOY.. =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYGIjbR6Jn4

http://code.google.com/p/bluecop-xbmc-repo/

I would love itunes visualizer!!!

After updating to Beta 6 i noticed that when playing an mkv file for 15-20 min straight, the video just stops and the ATV goes back to the main menu randomly.  Is anyone else seeing this?

Can't see any improvement, still hangs and freezes.

Good thing you posted the charts.lol