
I no longer have to worry about space since I can plan well ahead for that. Based on testings, below is the recommended settings in Handbrake for Plex. Well, to get Plex read videos like MKV, AVI, MP4, TiVo, H.265, MPG perfectly, you can turn to Handbrake to optimize the settings first. Still, I have over 2TB of media reasonably secure and all Macs are backed up via TM. Here we show you a guide on how to set best encoding settings in Handbrake to play with Plex. Cons are that the initial investment was high and that having my iTunes library on the Drobo means I can't do a time machine backup on that. Streaming movies has never been easier with Plex. Watch live TV and movies anywhere, from any device, with Plex. For those people who wish to get a smooth streaming experience of any 4K video with Plex on Apple TV 4K, it would be much ideal for you to convert the unsupported 4K video to Apple TV 4K plex app direct playback 4K H.265/H.264 with a third-party video conversion app. Pros were that I could grow the storage space as drives got cheaper, recycle old drives, have a safety net if drives fail and also use as a Time Machine backup. Stream movies and TV shows, plus 200+ channels of live TV, instantly, without a subscription. Transcode unsupported 4K video for Apple TV 4K Streaming via Plex. Then as the library got bigger, it was getting hard to store the media on an external drive and also back up. The rMBP should last a good few years and is definitely an improvement over the mini.įor storage space, I moved away from internal drives with the mini. Now I use a first gen rMBP (2012) that was retired when I got my touch bar MBP. The host mac has evolved from a G4 tower bought in the late 90s to a 2009 Mac mini. Initially just music, ripping all my CDs plus some vinyl. I have had a media server in several forms since iTunes first came into being.
