I installed the beta onto my Apple TV 4th gen, but the playback for h.265 HEVC videos only plays audio with a black screen when using direct play and no transcoding. Does the playback only work with very specific HEVC codec settings?
mine only works in a mp4 or m4v file, blank screen on mkv files
@Breimann said:
I installed the beta onto my Apple TV 4th gen, but the playback for h.265 HEVC videos only plays audio with a black screen when using direct play and no transcoding. Does the playback only work with very specific HEVC codec settings?
Yes, right now we only Play 4K h.264 mp4/m4v files. This fix implies some changes server side, that are on top of the priority list (currently working on it).
I used the ffmpeg command below on my files. It copies the video and audio streams but changes over the video tag to hvc1. This resolved my issue.
ffmpeg -i InputFile -vcodec copy -acodec copy tag:v hvc1 -f mp4 OutputFile
