@daan said:
Continuing that line of thought, will the Plex server ever be smart enough to transcode text-based subtitle formats
Expect progress on this, yes.
@detz said:
There are some cool apps though so I’m excited for what’s to come. Bring on the Plex!
Shhhh, don’t jinx it. Still “In Review”.
@rolyreyes said:
lol, thanks for your answers. I’ll report back tomorrow (assuming Apple hits the approve button) on how eAC3 works on my setup. I look forward to it.
Yes, please report back. And please provide details on the hack to get this working. This is what I’m looking for before I buy the ATV4.
I can’t wait for this. I’m not buying the new ATV until Plex is available in the app store, then the Fire TV will go to a friend or family member.
For me, universal search would be nice, but I don’t see it as a killer feature I need. Just a solid native Plex app on ATV is what I want/need.
Let me slip this in since Elan is active in the thread; a bit off-topic… I only have one feature request: please add proper movie collections functionality. I’d love to have my collections stacked, as we see in XBMC/Kodi. Makes navigation much nicer, IMO. Beyond that, I’m astonished at how Plex does everything I need. It’s making me lazy; I used to painstakingly name all my media to a specific format. Plex doesn’t really care about the format of the filenames I throw at it - if it can find a title and a year, it’s happy and downloads metadata beautifully. So easy. I do occasionally look at my libraries and my OCD kicks in and have to fire up FileBot to clean it up, although that is totally unneccesary.
I am an insufferable Plex evangelist. I’ve turned dozens of people on to it, and I directly support my friends and family. This would not be something I’d want to do with Kodi - great product, and a settings-tweaker’s dream, but it’s not like Plex in that Plex just ■■■■■■■ works. Thank you, Plex team.
As someone who hasn’t purchased an Apple device since the 4th generation iPod Touch I find this thread fascinating to follow! Also impressed with how quickly an app was thrown together. I’m assuming large portions of the underlying iOS codebase could be re-purposed. Granted the UI is completely new…
So I guess I missed the bus on Plex transcoding audio to DD+ (eac3). What bitrate does it encode to?
My AppleTV is with courier for delivery now. Fingers crossed that app approval comes through today!
@slampman said:
I am an insufferable Plex evangelist. I’ve turned dozens of people on to it, and I directly support my friends and family. This would not be something I’d want to do with Kodi - great product, and a settings-tweaker’s dream, but it’s not like Plex in that Plex just ■■■■■■■ works. Thank you, Plex team.
First time poster, been a Plex Pass subscriber for 6 months, but just had to agree with this. So many people still want media devices which support Kodi, but I just ask why?
Seriously, Plex has made my media organisation and playback so much easier, and what’s better, is that it’s across so many devices, it’s unbelievable.
Glad to see Elan so active in here, and that it didn’t take long to throw together an ATV4 app 
Fingers crossed for Day 1 App final approval and congratulations.
Bought Plex Pass to show support.
My ATV4 is with local courier on delivery run and should be here (Tokyo) in an hour or two.
@slampman said:
Let me slip this in since Elan is active in the thread; a bit off-topic… I only have one feature request: please add proper movie collections functionality.
Thanks for the kind words, and acknowledged; we’ve done a bit of thinking about how to do this, but it’s slightly tricky. But know that we’re tracking internally.
@Balthazar2k4 said:
So I guess I missed the bus on Plex transcoding audio to DD+ (eac3). What bitrate does it encode to?
DD, no plus, as there is no encoder for it. It should be able to pass through (e)AC3 fine, though. I’m not sure what the bitrate of AC3 we target offhand, probably 640kbps or whatever it is.
My ATV4 is also with courier for delivery as I type this… Only reason I really bought it was for Plex… Really hoping it gets approved quickly…
Thanks to all the Plex guys for their hard work on getting this ready for day one.
Still in review. I think I’m personally DDoSing iTunesConnect with all the refreshes. (And yes, I know push notifications work.)
@elan said:
Still in review. I think I’m personally DDoSing iTunesConnect with all the refreshes. (And yes, I know push notifications work.)
You need a live feed of your screen on auto refresh, so we can just watch that instead of refreshing this page constantly waiting for your to say it got through. lol
My ATV4 is here so looking forward to the Plex app 
I don’t post on forums much but I can’t wait to see the Plex app out on an aTV. It is a match made in heaven. There are some things in life that are just meant to work together, this is one such example.
Great work guys, keep it up!
I haven’t been active in the Plex forums in the past, but I stumbled on this thread and it has satisfied almost all of my questions regarding Plex for Apple TV. Thanks everyone for asking awesome questions and thanks elan for keeping us up to date. Can’t wait to see what you have come up with.
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone from app review was active in this thread
Mine has arrived. Can’t hook it up til I get home from work though… Still hopeful…
I have mine working already with Simple X which seems to work ok but a few issues.
Still no Plex App. Hope it comes soon. Plex is the number 1 reason I purchased the new Apple TV.
Just picked up my new Apple TV in the new Dubai Apple Store! Fingers crossed the plex app will be out very soon!
@elan said:
DD, no plus, as there is no encoder for it. It should be able to pass through (e)AC3 fine, though. I’m not sure what the bitrate of AC3 we target offhand, probably 640kbps or whatever it is.
Aren’t you using ffmpeg on the backend to support transcoding? Because that definitely supports eAC3 encoding.
See: Encode/HighQualityAudio – FFmpeg
Don’t mean to be such a pest, I’d just like for the server to be able to give me the highest reasonable possible quality version of something when it does have to transcode. As of today, eAC3 is that for audio.
