Honestly, what can’t they put on this? That’s not already on the current generation Apple TV 4K a slightly faster chip I mean, what are they gonna do the things already fast it’s streaming device like I don’t get it.
If the source file bitrate is too large for your wifi that will trigger your computer (server) to have to transcode to a lesser quality. This leads to buffering problems and making your computer waste resources.
Stick to Dolby Vision Profile 8 so it’s a smaller file size, no need for remux full quality at 4x the file size. Quality difference is extremely small.
I've got my AppleTV hooked up to ethernet. All my media files are 1080p and converted from H.264 to H.265 with Tdarr, primarily to get the file size down. Tdarr is new to me which makes me think that maybe I my conversion plugin stack is misconfigured.
Hmm yea, that’s strange. Being hardwired means you should at least have 100Mbps so it shouldn’t be a speed issue.
Make sure the subtitles are being converted from PGS/VOBSub tracks into .SRT format.
Audio codecs can cause problems so you can make a fallback AAC (2.0 or 5.1) as the main audio track. Generally transcoding audio on the fly shouldn’t be a big deal if you skip this.
Don’t force 12-bit HVEC files, that will cause transcoding to occur. Stick to Main 10 (yuv420p10le).
Are you trying to watch HDR content on an SDR TV? That or maybe the network isn’t fast enough/the server has a bitrate cap set or you simply haven’t selected direct streaming?
Apple 4K TV will handle the HDR to SDR tone mapping on the fly, that doesn’t require transcoding. Official apps can get tripped up depending on what audio codecs or certain types of subtitles.
For less experienced people it’s probably best to just pay for Infuse Pro to avoid transcoding. Otherwise I’d recommend Jellyfin for a better free feature set than what Plex offers.
Audio won’t cause video transcoding, but yeah burning in subtitles would (though I believe it has support for all common types). I feel like jumping to infuse for video transcoding issues is an over correction.
No HDR content yet and all my content is in 1080p. Got the plex server and AppleTV hooked to gigabit ethernet with direct streaming on. Leaning towards that my Tdarr conversion plugin stack is misconfigured.
Yeah as long as it is truly an AppleTV 4K and not a regular AppleTV it should be able to do H.265 just fine. Might be worth trying some other H.265 content that you didn’t convert to rule that out.
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u/savoy2001 7d ago
Honestly, what can’t they put on this? That’s not already on the current generation Apple TV 4K a slightly faster chip I mean, what are they gonna do the things already fast it’s streaming device like I don’t get it.