


#ITUNES METADATA MISSING FROM SUBLER 720P#
The AppleTV understands among others H.264 for video, AAC for stereo and AC3 for surround, 3GPP for subtitles, so if your file has DTS or AAC 6channel or no subtitles there is a few steps to do.ġ - Video track 720p or 1080p encoded with H.264Ģ - Audio track AAC 6 channel (5.1 surround)ģ - Audio track AAC 2 channel (Stereo ProLogic II)īut apple tv and my receiver don't understand 6 channel AAC so it uses the 2 channel track with prologic II mkv file is a container inside it has among others a Video track and a Audio track, for your Apple TV to understand the file you have to change it's container but not necessarly the contents. There are different paths depending on what is inside your mkv file. mkv (or mp4 or avi) and Quicktime/iTunes/AppleTV/iPad doesn't play it or there is no audio or not the audio you want.

We won't be reencoding de video (the audio maybe) so this will be a fast conversion process with no video quality loss and minimal loss in audio quality.Īll we will do is reencapsulate the video in a format that iTunes ecosystem understands (and reencode the audio if necessary).ġ - To follow this tutorial you will need Subler and for some portions Remux. This is a small Tutorial to do all of these things using freely available tools. Do you have files in Matroska Video (.mkv) and want to be able to use them without reconverting everything (many hours of processing time and quality loss) on your Mac, iPad or AppleTV?ĭo you want to have true 5.1 Surround Sound (Dolby Digital) on your AppleTV and it just seems not to work?ĭo you want subtitles and/or dual audio and nice covers and chapters displayed on iTunes, AppleTV or iPad?
