Works perfectly on ATV3 - But how to force 'Direct Play' ?

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Great project!

 

My setup:

- Plex mediaserver on debian

- PlexConnect on osx

- ATV3

 

- All works with the PlexConnect scrips.

 

However it's slow to update the list when you have alot of movies + it takes extra long time to start movie playback when it is set to transcode insted of direct play.

 

How to set it is force 'direct play´? 

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ok found it, in XMLConverter.py look for:

    args['directStream'] = '1'
    args['directPlay'] = '0'

then change to:

    args['directStream'] = '1'
    args['directPlay'] = '1'
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It’s also in the settings of the ATV Plexconnect interface.

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If you go into the setting in the UI you should be able to set the transcode level high enough that most content will direct play anyway.

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This thread has confused me about Direct Play. I thought that Plex will automatically Direct Play any MP4/M4V with an AAC audio file and the fast start atom enabled. So why is a Force Direct Play option needed? How can you force direct play if the file doesn’t meet these criteria? MKVs are direct streamed or transcoded (depending on their audio), AVIs are always transcoded, and MP4s are direct played (if optimized), or transcoded.

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I second that... This 'force Direct Play' option got me confused.

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>> So why is a Force Direct Play option needed?

Think of it mainly as a debugging feature. Compatible files will usually be played un-transcoded.

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