Re:Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
by sjwright on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:56PM
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Have you tried turning “match frame rate” on?
Re:Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
by charrondev on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:07PM
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I had tried it a while back stopped because anytime you go into or out of video streaming it would black out the whole screen for a second or two before starting to buffer the content. It’s particularly annoying if trying to search for a particular episode of something.
That’s probably the ticket for it though. I find the lack of audio pass through to be the more annoying piece though. I have a machine that costs significantly more than the Apple TV and has knowledge of all of the attached speakers to do that decoding.
Re:Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
by thirdsun on Saturday September 05, 2020 @08:32AM
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> I had tried it a while back stopped because anytime you go into or out of video streaming it would black out the whole screen for a second or two before starting to buffer the content. It’s particularly annoying if trying to search for a particular episode of something.
That‘s the correct behavior though and not specific to the Apple TV. Any device that actually does switch and match the content’s frame rate will cause the output display to resync/adjust with a short black screen. The alternative of not adjusting frame rate is much worse and it’s such an underrated problem in video playback in my opinion. The Apple TV handles this better than most devices.
I wish it would just give the direct output to the TV and receiver (video audio). No idea why they the need to process it all on device.