Is it because Mac mini is not powerful enough to handle these 4K files or it is due to the limitation of ATV 4K? The movie bitrate is between 30-70 most of the time.Īny help or suggestion is appreciated. A loaded 6,1 is still worth good money, whereas a 3-year-old Dell Optiplex SFF with an i7 will only be a few hundred dollars. Rather, it would make a fantastic Plex media server or file server using. Youd be be better off cashing in on the 6,1 and getting a cheap ex-corp Windows machine as a Plex server. I’m trying to figure out what caused the problem. This Mac mini has an 8th-gen 3.6GHz Intel Core i3 Quad-Core processor, 8GB of 2666 MHz DDR4 RAM, and a 256GB PCIe SSD. 1 ive just ordered a 16gb ram m1 mac mini to replace my 2018 i5, 64gb ram model. Purchased Infuse 6 pro online and it worked at first, but start to buffer every 1-2 minutes.Ĭurrently, The ATV 4K is connected via Ethernet with the Plex server and the Plex server is currently running on the Mac mini and those 4K movies are stored at one external USB 3.0 HD connected directly to the Mac mini.

Then I searched online and found that Infuse can direct play 4K content without transcoding. Recently I got a 2018 Mac mini (i3 base version, 799$) and hoped it can handle 4K file playback.įirst I tried to use Plex itself for playback but for most files, Plex always transcode them which is quite CPU intensive and cannot handle more than 3 streams simultaneously. Newbie here and have some playback issue on 4K movie playback.

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