Hi everyone! We’ve been working hard on improving playback performance in our Apple TV client, namely when streaming high bitrate HDR content and/or using the latest 2022 (fanless) Apple TV. This is something that not only we’ve been investigating for some time, but that has been reported multiple…

Cool deal. Will this work provide any benefits to the iOS devices?

Yes, the player is used on both iOS and tvOS although we haven’t found any significant performance issues on the former.

The builds will have MPV/Metal mentioned in the release notes, and we’ll share the build number here as well when it’s made available.

[image] What's the status of Dolby Vision + Atmos on Plex? (re: LG WebOS, Nvidia Shield, Apple TV) General Discussions Bumping because of a new player for Apple TVs in the works. Is there any way that this new build could support 4K Dolby Vision (all profiles) and Dol…

If you let me know what your media looks like, specific profiles and any other defining features, I can run some tests on my side.

Hey y’all! I’ll be pushing out the builds and helping with feedback. First build should be out now: 8.34 (build 8096) Please check your emails for invites and the new build. Also check your spam folders and all that. Let us know if there are any issues!

First impressions from using this build this morning are that I’ve not noticed any stuttering so far on my ATV4K (2022). I’ll play more over the weekend. EAC3 Atmos is still miles out of sync on audio (and shows as Multi-in on the amp) which makes it unwatchable. I’m hoping that this will get addres…

I’m using a 2017 Apple TV and my first impressions are similar: the 4K videos that were previously unwatchable are now playing fine, that’s definitely an improvement. At the same time, different video types still have different A/V delays, so the delay needs to be readjusted between them. From what …

A great start with improvements in drop outs for my setup. Terrestrial TV via HDHomeRun in Australia mostly 1080i / Interlaced broadcasts. After 2hours of viewing no drop outs. So this maybe a fix, time will tell. As for file types I had an issue from my Movie Library. I have several 4K HEVC main …

I have tried a few files I had that would cause stutter happy to report 0 stutter on these files… ATV4K 3rd Gen inside a closed media cabinet

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