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Containers shouldn't affect transcoding at all, might mean re-muxing but I'd guess based on what i remember for older apple tvs that pretty much only MPEG-TS an
by simcop2387 11y ago
Containers shouldn't affect transcoding at all, might mean re-muxing but I'd guess based on what i remember for older apple tvs that pretty much only MPEG-TS and mp4 are supported as containers, and it has to use HLS for streaming.
Codec wise I wouldn't be surprised if it was only H264, H265, VP8, and MPEG2/4.
I'd give 50/50 on the MPEG2 support though, might be there just because the hardware had it and to ease releases from the DVD era.
- msbarnett 11y agoI'd be very surprised if VP8 were supported at all -- nothing else from Apple supports it. It will almost certainly have to be transcoded for the AppleTV.
- simcop2387 11y agoIt's one thing I'm not sure about, given that youtube loves to use it as part of webm.
- johansch 11y agoIt can't stream (not transcode/repackage) mkv/h264 etc? No thanks.
- simcop2387 11y agoI don't know for certain. I'm speculating based off previous apple products.
- gigq 11y agoPlex has a feature called Direct Stream that supports this use case: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250387-Streaming-Media-Direct-Play-and-Direct-Stream https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250387-Streamin...
- johansch 11y agoAddendum: It can stream mkv/h264 without transcoding quite well. I'm really enjoying Plex on my new Apple TV!