In my experience if you do anything challenging at all, like turn on file encryption or having hundreds to thousands of files in a folder, they choke and have very poor file serving performance. Those have just barely enough CPU and memory to get out of their own way. The other possibility I can think of only applies if you have one of the cheaper, lower-end Synology NAS units. Doing this should work, but the drawback is that much more disk space will be used because you have two copies of every title, and you're not getting the full quality of the original file when you are playing back the transcoded file. Your Mac Mini is capable of this because it doesn't have to keep up with real time playback-it will just take however long it takes. 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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