ATV3 - reencode to get rid of transcoding?

[mazedk]

hi guys

 

A couple of dorm friends and I have a server running on which we run plex to our appletv's.

 

Basically we'v run into the annoying issue of transcoding here during the winter. It seems that our appletv's need to have mp3/m4v content, but most our stuff is mkv.

 

I have been googleing some, and can find various posts about the issue, but cant seem to find a clear solution.

 

What I would like to end up with, would be to have the 720p content we have, with the .srt subs run without being transcoded when played on our atv3's.. - maybe even the possibility to add multiple audio tracks in cartoons aswell?

 

is this possible?

 

I'v been doing some tests in ffmpeg and in handbrake, but I cannot seem to get things working all at once.

 

Thanks in advance for your time.

 

Happy holidays.

[roidy]

Assuming your mkv’s are h264 with AC3 audio, which most files are, then I use this https://github.com/mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator/

It’s a bunch of scripts designed for use with Sickbeard and SABNZBD but it also has a “Manual” script.

You can just run:-

python manual.py -i name_of_file.mkv

And it will remux the file to an apple friendly format with both AC3 and AAC audio that plays on the aTV. Read the documentation to see how to handle subtitles.