Thanks for the info, what a useless, PITA setting
Update: My understanding of this setting was all wrong, I thought it would generally help but it often makes Audio specially terrible. Since I become aware of it forcing Transcoding, having a wet Sunday viewing a great variety of content, it’s my belief and recommendation to leave it Off . Thanks @Volts
Can you please include a buffer setting like you have for PC. Allow for timed buffer. Some internet connections while fast, are not stable enough to stream smoothly and quality has to be turned down completely to account for the instability of the connection (Starlink). If there was a setting to have a TIME buffer, the issue would go away completely and quality could be resumed to full.
A lot of my issues regarding my early files appear to have gone away after automatically adjust quality was ticked off; gonna have to see who ticked that one in the house. AV1 still forcibly transcodes in the plex app, but since most of it’s 1080p content I’m a little less concerned. Infuse continues to play the content as direct play (I believe for them the content is software decoded on the apple tv itself). Would eventually like to transition to all AV1, but I suspect we will have to wait for an AppleTV that has hardware decode support. Going to test a little bit more today and see if anything changes.
Your positivity is profound
It’s already here. A17 supports hardware accelerated AV1 playback. There’s rumour of another Apple TV being released soon with the same SOC. Waiting for that myself…
AV1 works good on the 2022 AppleTV. Still it’s not a widely used codec, so unsure why you would be pushing so hard that way.
It’s becoming adopted pretty quickly actually, and will only become more mainstream in the next couple of years. Even on unsupported platforms software decoding isn’t as taxing as others from times past.
True; works pretty well on my 15 Pro Max currently. I believe M3 has decode support as well too. Crossing fingers for the new model in June or Fall this year.
Don’t know if it matters or not but ffmpeg 7 just dropped: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-7.0-Released
demuxing, decoding, filtering, encoding, and muxing in the ffmpeg CLI now all run in parallel
Could be a helpful performance improvement?
Important AArch64 optimizations for HEVC
With Apple Silicon being Arm-based, might this be relevant for tvOS and iOS users?
I signed up for the beta about a week ago. I am just wondering how long it usually takes to get a beta-version? Would love to see if I can now playback my 4K HDR files on my AppleTV 4K…
Hello everyone,
Do we have an estimated date for the stable release of the fix?
Thank you 
I don’t think you’re going to get an ETA on any official release. At this point most of us are just waiting for the next beta build which will (hopefully) include HDR/banding fixes.
There was only ever one beta release as far as I am aware and then normal beta channel releases superseded it.
Does this mean we should be on the regular beta release channel or switch back to a production version? I only have access to this beta.
You can be on whatever you want.
There has only been one, singular Metal API beta. It had major image quality regressions. The dev is working on it…
I’m curious to try as well, although in my case I’m not sure my stuttering is heat related. Most of the time playback is great. But I see immediate, extreme stuttering if these events occur:
[2021 Apple TV 4K btw]
resolution/workaround:
So in my experience it feels more like a software issue rather than heat buildup/dissipation, but I could be wrong. I’ve tried looking around but have seen only one or two other people mention stuttering in relation to sleep mode.
Questions, network connection . WiFi or Ethernet? Server Intel or Apple silicon? Cheers
questions for me? everything is ethernet, server is intel, unraid docker if it matters. I have no other streaming issues at all, only in this specific scenario.
this also happens in both my living room with the Apple TV directly connected to an LG TV, as well as my basement with the Apple TV connected to a Denon Receiver.
Hi, I’m not suggesting this maybe the issue but does your router have network diagnostics? If so, check if there are any RX or TX errors. That may suggest a Router out of it deeps, cabling issue or faulty patch leads. Recently I updated my router, even though it seems to work ok, yet was ISP hardware (Not so good). In my case the older Router was just not up to the increased network traffic that life troughs at us in 2024. Be it larger files or more devices using the network. I would be doing some testing. I see your interested in the Beta testing, as a tester I am impressed with the issues resolved.
Now on another tangent, I do use a HDHomeRun and I found turning off the Plex Channels for Live TV on the ATV had a dramatic improvement watching and navigating Terrestrial TV content.
Good luck tracking down your issue
