Apple Player Update Beta Testing - Archive

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@Craig_Holliday

One Big Update:

After reviewing the feedback over the weekend, we realized we had made a mistake. We have a feature flag that enables the MoltenVK/Metal renderer, but that feature flag was disabled.

This means the previous testing was only for the MPV update and not the new renderer, which has had some improvements but not to the extent we want.

That said, we have enabled the new renderer. You can now test with the same build to see if there are stutters, thermal throttling, playback failures, etc.

I should have some time later to test a bit more, but I just did some quick tests (with the same h264, 1080p, SDR, 23.976 files that were displaying the problem since version 8.18 of the app) and so far I couldn’t reproduce any of the usual stuttering on my 3rd gen ATV 4K. So it seems this new renderer is really making a difference. That’s very encouraging!