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VLC Media Player transformed my multimedia experience. VLC Media Player review: The Good and Bad.I've seen a lot of praise for IINA here, so I'm going to try that. I've used it sometimes on various Macs I've owned, but I've started to have some serious issues with it on my MacBook Pro (M2) - both the current Apple Silicon and Universal builds of VLC have started having problems playing videos for me. As for VLC, I've never used it on my AppleTV. Once I got Plex set up (not the easiest task, and I'm sure I still have things that could be tweaked a little, it really is a complex piece of software) and tried it out for a while, I cancelled my subscription for Infuse (which was up for renewal soon - it's great software, but overpriced for what it is) and switched to Plex. As far as VLC, Plex, and Infuse are concerned - I was a long-time Infuse user, but I finally decided to try Plex, in part because of its library-sharing features. The AppleTV's onboard storage is intended for apps and cache if you start putting very many media files on there you'll fill it up quickly, and anyway tvOS will delete those files when it runs low on space for apps and cache. I thought I'd throw my $0.02 in here about this issue. The Apple TV itself is a poor storage location as movies can easily eat up TBs of space. The ideal way to store your movies is on a media server such as a NAS, in the cloud (if you have money to burn), or on a hard drive with remote access. If you're not an audiophile and don't care about snazzy menus, VLC is a respectable free player. Pretty much every Blu-Ray Disc uses DTS audio and perhaps some modern DVDs. That's why most of the other alternatives aren't free. VLC won't play DTS audio, it needs to be AC3, which means you have to re-encode (aka downgrade the audio). Now if you are a power movie type, it's not for you, because it will not playback certain audio formats since they are licensed, nor does it give you a fancy movie synopsis or the ability to use playlists (speaking of the Apple TV app version regarding playlists). If all you want to do is click on a movie and just watch it, it does the job. There are several ways to view movies using the VLC player app on Apple TV. I much prefer using Plex or Infuse to browse through all of the 4K movies that I bought during the Black Friday deals. mkv files (if they will play - could not test) for 4K movies can run ~90 GB each so I could download 1 movie on a 128 GB Apple TV.Īfter several hours of work I came to the conclusion that VLC downloading to the Apple TV is way too much work. In my case downloading makes no sense since my. The largest app I have only takes ~500 Mb and adding them all up comes to less than 2 GB.ĭon't understand why you want to go through all of this hassle - uploading to Apple TV, dealing with out of space problems when Apple doesn't provide you with the tools to tell where space is being used, deleting the files when you are done then starting everything all over again. As far as I can tell there is no way to figure out where the storage is being used. Unsuccessful as my storage was full (57GB of 59GB). Spent an hour or so trying to download a file.

You have to have installed VLC on the Apple TV and have it listening for it to work. Entering the Apple TV URL in a browser didn't work - dropped connection.

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