# Apple Player Update Beta Testing - Archive

**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/apple-player-update-beta-testing-archive/908656
**Category:** Player Betas
**Tags:** apple-tv, ios-legacy, apple-tv-beta, ios-beta
**Created:** [March 15, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/apple-player-update-beta-testing-archive/908656 "2024-03-15T15:18:08Z")
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### Author: ![Tion1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Tion1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Tion1)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/apple-player-update-beta-testing-archive/908656/34 "2024-03-19T18:54:59Z")

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> [@Apple Player Update Beta Testing](https://forums.plex.tv/t/apple-player-update-beta-testing/872121/38):
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> **One Big Update:**
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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! 👍

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