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Aspirant

Feb 16, 2016

How I want to set up a nas / Will it work? (ReadyNas 316 / AppleTV 3 (NO PLEX)

Ok, I've seen no clear answer on the forms, youtube, or anywhere, I'm thinking of dropping the cash on a ReadyNAS 316 (Diskless) and 6x 6TB WD red drives, but before I do I simply want to know, does ...

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AlexPe

NETGEAR Expert

Feb 16, 2016

AWAgent,

While I've never created this setup, I believe this will work. The itunes media server on the ReadyNAS OS 6 machines does support mp4 video as shown in this article here.

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23071/~/how-do-i-set-up-an-itunes-streaming-server-on-my-readynas-os-6-storage-system%3F

So as long as the apple TV can discover the server, this configuration should work correctly. I cannot guarantee it but I believe it should work.

Alex

mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Feb 16, 2016

I don't believe our iTunes Server supports Home Sharing, so I don't think this would work.

Personally I use Plex and love it. I have the Plex App installed on the Apple TV 4 and it works great.

Whilst you can transcode using Plex, if Plex can direct play it will do this rather than transcode. You can configure your client to play the highest resolution possible. If the files are in the right format to direct play then as the quality of the video doesn't exceed the quality you've set it will direct play.

AWAgentX
Aspirant
Feb 16, 2016
Yeah, i'm reluctant to try plex again, I had all my files tagged with inbeded artwork and info and it changed a bunch of them last time I tried and took me ages to get it all fixed...
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Feb 16, 2016
  Well depending on the size of your library you could have two copies of the videos. One for use with Plex and one for not. More work, but it is doable.
  
  If you do change your mind about Plex and decide to use it, I would recommend getting the Apple TV 4.
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Feb 17, 2016
  AWAgentX wrote:
  
  Yeah, i'm reluctant to try plex again, I had all my files tagged with inbeded artwork and info and it changed a bunch of them last time I tried and took me ages to get it all fixed...
  
  I've seen it get confused and misclassify things, but I haven't seen it actually change the tags. You could of course set the files to read-only to prevent that.
  
  But checking the "advanced" box to use embedded tags and choosing the "personal media" agent seems to stop it from adding its own metadata.