Hi I was having issues with native Emby on Apple TV so purchased infuse 6 pro. I have an nvidia shield attached to the same TV which plays the same file seamlessly. When looking on Emby it says infuse is direct playing (same as shield) but one buffers, one doesn’t. I have tried using WiFi and Eth…

Thanks for your replies everyone. I systematically tried each piece of the jigsaw until I found a solution. Unfortunately, emby was the issue. Trying Plex worked perfectly. Not sure where the incompatibility lies but I can be 100% certain I can watch buttery smooth streams locally again.

You don’t need to do it for the full file. Seems like something is majorly broken with your connection. You need 100+mbps for streaming. Try speed test for both WiFi and Ethernet. Maybe try different Ethernet cables. If your shield is working, how is it connected? Also try another file too

Thanks for shedding some light on the issue @munpip214 On WiFi its very similar speeds. The Ethernet lead is the one I used to used for shield but just switch it over once I got ATV. The shield is now on Wifi and still plays smooth Edit: Also for further information, trying other files yields si…

Is this 4K Apple TV or 4th gen?

Those speeds are pretty terrible if they’re accurate. I average about 400Mbps from wifi infuse to my synology NAS running emby. Is the device hosting emby connected via Ethernet or wifi?

What protocol are you using? SMB, FTP, DLNA, Etc If SMB what version? SMB1, 2, 3, Legacy? On the atv settings, under background app refresh if it’s on could you turn off all apps other than Infuse?

It’s a server connected via Ethernet to a mesh point @JarvisMeier

@munpip214 in hope it was a software bug I just updated to the next TVOS beta. No such luck. Just playing 1080 wandavision no problem at all. So weird.

Will try background refresh setting, with regard to the rest, I didnt knowingly set any I just signed in through Emby API @NC_Bullseye

4K HEVC HDR buffering constantly on Apple TV 4K

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NC_Bullseye February 19, 2021, 4:51pm 16

I’d hold off on any major changes at least until Infuse 6.6.X is released since the tvOS beta has introduced issues.

Infuse has some fixes to be more compatible with 14.5.

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