Server Version#: 4.108.0 on Asustor NAS platform
Player Version#: 8.22 on Apple TV 4
Apple TV Model A1625 - 32GB
TV OS 16.6
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Member FDIC
I see that the question has been asked in past years with no response that I can find. So I’m bringing this to the top of the pile again.
Say you have a video playlist of just trailers. Full trailers with AC-3 6 channel sound, to be fair. The Player buffers the first item in the playlist, plays it, then once it’s finished playing it, goes back and buffers the second trailer, plays it, and repeats until the playlist is finished.
Now, the Apple TV 4 has enough memory in it to choke a horse. Don’t know if this is Plex’s doing, or Apple’s, but why doesn’t Plex go into the playlist and grab as much as it figures that it can export to the Apple TV 4 in one go, transcode it’s little heart out, and ship it in a big batch to the Apple TV4 all at once to be played uninterrupted? If there’s more than will fit, go do a second batch once enough of the first batch of content is finished and outta there. Why is it so necessary that everybody see the “I’m buffering” spinning wheel of death between each and every small title? How incredibly annoying. Yes, I realize that transcoding takes up CPU time. But not every bit of it. Can’t be. Especially if it only has small chunks to process.
Looking forward to reading that I have the engineering all wrong, and why that’s so impossible. Honest, I’m thick-skinned enough to handle that, so lemme have it. Thanks.
