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Containers shouldn't affect transcoding at all, might mean re-muxing but I'd guess based on what i remember for older apple tvs that pretty much only MPEG-TS and mp4 are supported as containers, and it has to use HLS for streaming.

Codec wise I wouldn't be surprised if it was only H264, H265, VP8, and MPEG2/4.

I'd give 50/50 on the MPEG2 support though, might be there just because the hardware had it and to ease releases from the DVD era.




I'd be very surprised if VP8 were supported at all -- nothing else from Apple supports it.

It will almost certainly have to be transcoded for the AppleTV.


It's one thing I'm not sure about, given that youtube loves to use it as part of webm.


It can't stream (not transcode/repackage) mkv/h264 etc? No thanks.


Plex has a feature called Direct Stream that supports this use case:

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250387-Streamin...


Addendum: It can stream mkv/h264 without transcoding quite well. I'm really enjoying Plex on my new Apple TV!


I don't know for certain. I'm speculating based off previous apple products.




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