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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 ...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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