IIRC, Plex can transcode ahead of time, making a copy that is compatible with your ATV. The problems with that are (A) your Mac Mini has insufficient CPU power to keep up with transcoding on the fly, (B) transcoding on-the-fly results in loss of picture quality (and often audio quality too)-it is optimized for speed instead of quality. If you set Plex to transcode on the fly, it will send a fully supported video format to the ATV. If you set Plex to original, your ATV is receiving the unsupported video format, and so ATV struggles to play it back without the benefit of hardware acceleration. It's not about bandwidth-heck, they are streaming over the Internet to your home, which is for most people way, WAY slower than gigabit Ethernet.Īlmost certainly your pirated content is in a format that is not supported by ATV's built-in hardware acceleration. The legitimate streaming sources all work because they are streaming content to the ATV in a format that is supported by ATV's hardware acceleration. Assuming your gigabit Ethernet network is working properly, bandwidth is not the problem.
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