![]() ![]() For the price, that thing ought to have a Plex player built-in.Īnd yeah, I bought the $150 ATV with the ethernet port. We have an actual MadVR device between the audio processor and the projector, so it takes care of the HDR tone mapping for us with ease. And I really don't want to get into that. The most problematic of those is Dolby Vision. Maybe it’s not the network and it’s the AppleTV? Would upgrading to gthe latest gen3, or even some other device entirely, be a thing to do to avoid needing to transcode? Unfortunately the NAS that is the Plex server isn’t powerful enough to transcode the movies in real time.Īs a side note, transcoding UHDs is a lot more complicated than a standard blu-ray because of the various HDR formats. And also, most of all, it seems I care that I can actually stream them without lag! What I care about is saving my time of having to transcode a few hundred 4k UHD movies. What do y’all recommend for a transcoding target? I don’t really care about saving space. I’m sure it’s just the sheer number of bits being shoved through the network. Playback works but it’s a little laggy and the audio is out of sync. Both the Plex server and the appletv are connected at gigabit. mkv files are served up via a Plex sever, streaming to a (first gen) AppleTV 4k (Plex player app installed) over a wired, gigabit network. I just into my 4k UHD collection tonight. I only got the Apple TV as all other members of family are into the apple eco-system and we found buying 4K movies on Apple TV 4K was cheaper than buying the equivalent in either SD or HD on Google Play Movies.I’ve been ripping DVDs for the past few weeks with makemkv and it’s been nice. Plus it allows to use profiles and restrictions on what media each user can access and play. Plex is my backup for when other family members want to watch as is easier for them to use, plus its available on all our TV’s, laptops, tablets, mobile phones as it works across all formats, windows, linux, android, ios. On my android shield tv, I prefer to use Kodi as this will play all my media on my server without any transcoding, with full passthrough of all audio formats, for other sources I use Netflix, Amazon and Google Movies. I am waiting to see if the new player will improve anything, once available for everybody, but no HiRes audio is a no go to me. I tried few times to use Plex on my ATV but the experience was really much inferior. And then I use it if I’d like to watch something (ripped at 1080p otherwise forget it with my CPU) in my kitchen’s Fire TV. I use it mostly for automatically downloading the subtitles (via a plugin) since the connection in Infuse with OpenSubtitles was driving me mad in the past. Personally I have a Plex server alive in my MacBook Pro. I may have forgotten something, but those should be the most important for both. Skipping back and forth was usually immediate the few times I have run it in my Apple TV It actually seems to perform better at streaming.Compatibility with at most any TV Box or mobile device in the house.Obviously Plex has its own merits as well: The license works with all Apple devices for your Apple ID - Although I suppose the Plex pass does the same for all devices.When a relevant bug is reported it gets fixed usually in the next release. HiRes to LPCM audio support - Plex is stuck at DD+ I believe (and it had some horrible bugs in the past - scratching or no audio at all).You can download the subtitles while watching You can switch audio track and subtitles on the fly (but that must have been added in Plex new player I suppose)ģa.You don’t need to run a second server as for Plex (especially useful if your library is stored in a NAS).With Plex (in both Android TV and ATV) I spent hours if not days (in total) watching a spinning gear, eventually getting a transcoding (or else) error at the end. ![]() It plays all HEVC 4K HDR files I give it in input (.mkv.Well, there are various benefits using Infuse: So what would the benefits of running Infuse instead of Plex on the Apple TV 4K ![]()
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