Some overall concerns expressed by the user community here and in other forums: New UI/UX buries user content behind more menu pages meaning it takes more clicks to access content that required less clicks in the current app. New Playback Interface feels very “Non-Apple” and moves away from the tv…

Tried pretty extensively and anything with a TrueHD track is just giving me a black screen and playback doesn’t start serverside. Meanwhile everything else at least plays, even if all DV profiles seem to not work. First gen Appletv 4k.

Are you using an AppleTV HD or 4K?

Hello Plex Team, I recently tested the beta version of the updated Plex app on Apple TV, and I noticed a couple of significant changes that I wanted to provide feedback on. Firstly, the removal of the reflective focus effect when navigating between items is, in my opinion, a major regression compa…

Thanks yeah it seems to be unable to transcode only audio

Force it to truehd…it will transcode the video Gen 2 Apple TV 4k

Choppy framerate when direct playing a MKV H.264 1080p file with a 14mbps bitrate. Will further test different formats and bitrates when able. Playback of the same file using Infuse does not have any framerate issues.

I’m not able to replicate this. TrueHD audio does transcode to Opus, but video is direct streaming for me. Is your content mkv or mp4? [Screenshot 2025-01-22 at 7.56.29 PM]

Same here. I don’t have the Live TV tab at the top at all.

Out of curiosity, do you have any tabs at the top? ie Home, Libraries, On Demand, Discover? Or are none of the tabs visible? [tvOS-Search-scaled]

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Johnnyboyo January 23, 2025, 1:28am 39

You can’t tap while on the scrobbler bar to show what time your playback session will end.

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