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everyone one of those is available on the apple tv as an app. I have plex and emby set to use original for audio and video, but the audio is getting transcoded it looks like as the plex and emby players don't support trueHD I don't believe on the Apple TV. Only infuse will. I have no doubt this would play pretty well if I wasn't currently on WiFi on both the server side and the player side. I am swapping over all my rack network hardware to a different brand so all the hardwired stuff is currently offline, so I cannot test it over the wired network.

Well, it’s playing thru infuse, Emby and plex. see attached screenshots. Infuse is direct play only. And that seems to play it the best. I am playing this over Wi-Fi too. 802.11ac not even Wi-Fi 6. I do get some network buffers here and there. first two photos are info from plex. Second is Emby. Third is showing audio options in infuse. Apple TV 4K, hdr turned on. 4:2:2 streaming it off my 2018 Mac mini. Core i7 3.2 6 core. 32 fb ddr4 ram. 1 tb SSD.

I got the download to work. currently unzipping it.

unfortunately I keep having failures during the download which is a serious bummer as I'd really like to test this. Around 15Gb mark or so, its network failure connection lost. And when you restart it does not resume. It restarts from the beginning. I will keep trying, on attempt 3 now. My connection is spectrum 400 Mbps down.

downloading it now. I will try this later today. I have to run out for a bit.

I believe what I am looking to do is called direct play. My goal is to direct play the 1:1 rips to Apple TV.

No doubt. Ok.

I have tons to learn no doubt. I appreciate everyone chiming in so far. I am just going to cut and paste a post I just made on the makemkv forum. Maybe I wouldn’t even need a dune player. here is the post: Basically I am starting from scratch for the server. It’s a blank slate. Total budget for it up to about 4 grand I guess. I have a ton to learn. I’ve been spending the last two days researching about 8 hours a day. Thinking about 6-16 TB drives to start. Processor will either be a 12th i9 intel or Xeon processor. Long story short I want to stream this movie collection to Apple TV’s I have all over home. It’s become my main method for viewing everything. I want a nice looking interface. Something like kodi, infuse, Emby. Plex is so popular but gotta admit I’m not super huge on interface. I realizes most players have constraints. Apple TV, shield, roku, shield, etc. Most of the time this will be fine. I can live without atmos. That being said, I certain cases, I also want to be able to watch this movie collection with exact same quality and audio formats as if I was putting a physical disc in the UHD player. If I build this server as dual purpose, both with a large drive Array and a high end Nvidia GPU and use the hdmi out on the card, will I still see limitations like all the alternatives seem to have. Or can I actually play with hdr, Dolby vision, atmos, 3D, etc just like I was playing a disc in a disc player? If so then this is what I will do. From there, I can easily distribute the video stream into a 4k video matrix and then send it to every tv in the house. Not sure what app I would use for the front end player on the PC though to access the library in a nice looking fashion like infuse, etc. I also assume that for any situation that needed it, transcoding on the fly would be a breeze for a high end NVidia card? But then that leaves the question of streaming to the Apple TV’s. Do I need to transcode to a compressed version prior? Or can something like plex, Emby, infuse loaded on this server handle these uncompressed 1:1 rips on the fly and send it over the network? I am thinking I have to run windows for all this. Or maybe unraid with windows as a virtual machine. Man so maybe variables. Tons to learn and wrap my head around it all.

I greatly prefer the library style interface like infuse, Plex, etc. I like the built in trailers. Cast info. Ratings. Backgrounds and all that. So whichever route I go I want this to be the main style of viewing experience as long as I can get fairly good looking video that is on par or a tad better then a Netflix stream. For situations where I want to pull the highest quality video if I Need a second player like dune for that so be it. But I want to rip it all once, full uncompressed to have the highest quality version archived then transcode from there if I need to to play it thru infuse, Plex, whatever.

Hmmmm not sure. Perhaps this: https://www.stratospherix.com/products/filebrowsertv/

this would be awesome! I’m around Saturday Sunday and Monday to play with this. also I had no idea that dune had app functionality. That is great.

Interesting! I’ve been spending another entire day at work messing off lol and reading about this all and getting up to speed! learning learning. 🙂

thank you for the link. The AppleTV has become predominantly my go to device. It’s about the only thing I watch anymore and I have firesticks, roku, etc So for sake of convenience and one box to rule them all, it is easiest to just share the library of movies with the Apple TV and watch thru that. However, I am not opposed to a second player of some sort, for the times I want the real high quality video (uncompressed) and atmos audio etc. I have not done the research yet to see what areas the Apple TV 4K (latest verison) lacks when it comes to streaming these ripped 1:1 Blu-ray and UHD titles, along with the occasional 3D title. Maybe someone can shed some light on where the Apple TV solution fails.

to answer the discs question maybe I would go with larger discs (20 Tb etc) it all depends on costs. as for rackmount, yes I want rackmount. I do all things Smart Home for a living and install equipment racks 7 feet tall loaded with electronics on the regular. My own home has an equipment racks where my electronics reside. Amplifiers for whole home audio, video distribution matrix to all the TV’s, all my networking hardware, music server, control processor and much more.

Opentoe, awesome in depth post! I completely forgot about Dune players!! I remember then from years ago when I was looking to build a movie server but then never got around to it. I am going to have to give that a good hard look again. Out of curiosity have you given the new Apple TV 4K models a run for their money? Curious how well they do in comparison and what areas they struggle with. I spent hours and hours today looking at options for servers and learned a good bit already. But man tons more to learn. Just barely getting my toes wet. This streiger dynamics company builds some nice machines. Fair prices too it seems. Can get a well spec’d complete (minus the HdD drives) setup for less then a just the supermicro mostly bare chassis. I’ve narrowed down to three choices. The 3 rack unit supermicro, a Steiger 4U Pro or a silverstone g07. All three can handle my 2 - 5.25” opticals. The Steiger would be complete ready to go basically. For about 3k I could get a real nice machine. Looks nice. The other two are a raw chassis. The supermicro looks the worst (lacks that nice a/v look). But I love how all 8 bays are hot swap unlike the others. Easy access is nice. No front usb on it. Which I guess isn’t that big a deal. The silverstone has a real nice av look. Front usb type A and c port. I am gonna do a little more digging to see what other chassis I might be missing. Dell makes nothing rackmount with 5.25” bays. Bummer. I searched which processor is better Xeon or the i9 12th gen. Not really sure for this application of use and mainly ripping what the better processor choice is. More cores, or faster clock speed.