Also, if you install additional codecs on your AppleTV, you should be able to stream any videos to it when you use the option “Force compatibility with Enhanced AppleTV”. I haven’t tried that myself yet.

What I particularly like about VideoDrive, is hot folders. As soon as I download a new movie in a hot folder, VideoDrive is launched (even when not running in the background!) and it puts the video right in iTunes.

http://videodrive.your-talk.com/videodrive-issues-f3/not-retrieving-artwork-for-movies-no-error-just-no-artwork-t67.htm

Looks like it does support it. I’d be interested to see where it stores that info.

Brad that is exactly the same problem I have had recently and I have had no responses to my problem. I hope this new software does do that but either way if you find a way to do it please let met know.

Does Videodrive handle reference files or does it just convert them to MP4?

When I want to import a non-H264 video into iTunes, I had tried saving it as a reference movie, a .mov container that simply pointed to the non-H264 video file. This .mov file could be added to iTunes and the movie would play as expected inside iTunes.

I couldn’t seem to get metadata working proprely for that technique, though, in particular the “cover art” image. I’m curious if this program provides a way for that to work properly.

Although, it may be a limitation of the .mov file format, I’m not sure.

But do give VideoDrive a try first, as I suspect Perian is already packaged together with VideoDrive.

I recently got an AppleTV, and I’ve been converting old rips of movies to import into iTunes for access on the ATV. My video files are stored on an external hard drive. I tried saving them as reference movies before, but I could never get metadata to work properly.

Can this program import non-H264 movies into iTunes without conversion and with proper metadata?