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…

I’m not running custom client profiles for Apple TVs anymore. I’m able to direct play mov_text subs and srt subs. Also, if transcoding a file with mov_text subs enabled, it just burns them in.

Oh okay no problems. Yeah direct play for mov_text and srt are perfect for me. But when transcoding nothing appears. Probably if I remove my custom profile it would burn in too.

For giggles I put on the old player, and with the old player srt subs are converted to webvtt, but they play fine.

Yeah I’ve found the same. I’ll try mess around with my client profile and might be better to leave it blank and have mov_text burn in for now. Also @Craig_Holliday while testing this morning I found sometimes I had to force close the app on Apple TV when changing settings. Eg. Enabled the new aud…

Just testet the latest beta. With both new options on/off the audio is off sync around 100 ms. No way to change in rhe Plex App. Test with Apple TV 4K. 1+3 Gen. Doesnt matter if h264/h265, hdr or sdr. Apple TV 3Gen hooked directly to my HISENSE 65U7NQ, which is hooked too my HW-w600c (eARC). All HDM…

I know it’s super tricky with all the variables, tricky. Updated, set new experimental video and audio engine on. First tested with TrueHD (no atmos but I don’t expect it with a TrueHD stream), audio is definitely not synced. I even tried the AC3, still audio sync broken. Video ID …

You should only have to turn on Match Dynamic Range but dklein just said below that tvOS 16 was no switching the dynamic range if Match Framerate was off. Match Framerate shouldn’t matter with how our player works right now but it seems like there may be a bug. All to say, if you see issues you ma…

Put it on my list to check MPEGTS and PiP. :+1:

Yes things should be loading faster in general. It is more of a side affect of simplifying the player and building exclusively for Apple devices but it is a nice benefit.

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TheLivingBubba December 3, 2024, 2:18pm 840

Tried 8.44, playback doesn’t work, live tv doesn’t work. Logs attached.
apple-tvlogging.zip (1.4 MB)

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