Well that’s an easy choice for me for so many reasons! I always steer well clear of ALL Apple devices, and so far have found that a Windows PC with PMP is more likely to direct play almost all content over and above any other device that I have read about or used so far.
And now I’ve just realized that this thread is specifically about the AppleTV, and not other players! lol - So I’ll shut up now 
Windows has a huge list of drawbacks, so there’s always that 
Its ok because embedded PMP is my primary device and works perfectly for all content except for 4K HEVC HDR10.
4K is definitely on my list of things to burn my money on, but to get there, I need to replace…
And all of that is gonna hurt! lol.
Nite all
K…well…circling back to my original post…Plex still needs to address the stuttering issue and bringing back passthrough.
Before HDR life was so simple.
I used to love embedded PMP.
For now there is no one single ultimate player. I use embedded PMP for all content except for 4K—Emby for Shield or Infuse 6 Pro for iOS/tvOS.
I think that would rely on Apple sadly.
I actually found reading this quite alarming.
So whilst at work I pinged Radarr to add a movie. When I just got home I loaded up Infuse and sure enough the movie wasn’t there in recently added.
Not good until I noticed Plex hadn’t even picked it up for some reason.
As soon as I scanned the library and Plex saw it, it appeared in recently added on Infuse within three seconds.
I just now added another movie and got Plex to scan the moment the file had only partially started to download to my server. Again within a couple of seconds it just appeared in Infuse with no interaction from me.
Am I misunderstanding what you’re saying? I’m pretty happy with a few seconds delay.
Anyway further to my earlier comment about MrMC it just loaded straight away on the new box. I quickly checked scrubbing and it seems they it’s about as fluid as Infuse. However on the movies Skyscaper (plenty of dark scenes) in several places the thumbnails just seemed pointless. They were so washed out or low res it was impossible to distinguish scenes.
Granted it was an HDR movie but in Infuse they were far clearer and brighter.
Anyway more testing soon.
In Infuse you have to tell it to scan, it’s not automatically going to scan except when you first open Infuse and once every hour I believe. It also depends on the size of your library. Mines… A little big.
Ok I will monitor that so thanks for the heads up.
My library is 85TB though so not particularly small.
EDIT… Something is very different on our systems then. Plex picked up a TV show episode and from a cold boot Infuse scanned and picked up that episode.
Then I just grabbed another movie and once it had completed downloading (it took about 4 minutes) Plex scanned it and Infuse updated real time. All the time the refresh button at the top right stays idle and I’m certainly not pressing it at all.
I have just done the same at 15 minute intervals (to eliminate any chance of it coinciding with the hourly refresh) with another 3 films and each time they are appearing real time within a few seconds of Plex seeing them.
I’m going to change this, I’d put MrMC over Plex for the simple fact that Plex’s enhanced player doesn’t do live video well, i.e. watching the NCAA Championship Game and it was jerky and things with a scroll bar are jerky. Channels was way better, but MrMC playback is better than Plex.
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