03-15-2018, 05:23 PM
I have been toying with the idea of ripping all my legally owned movies to allow for network playback to my devices, primarily the ATV4, so I had already used MakeMKV to get a few DVDs on a new 4TB external USB drive. With the passing of Stephen Hawking yesterday I thought it was time to watch The Theory of Everything, which I had ripped just earlier this week. Great movie by the way, some of the shots seemed a little low-budget but that was clearly the intent.
For anyone not familiar with Plex, it's an easy way to access media on any computer in your network on another device. I downloaded and installed the server app to the MBP which I have the media HD attached to, then downloaded the client app on the ATV4. Got it up and running in just a couple minutes.
Only issue was the Plex server was trying to index everything on the MBP as well, which bogged down the transcoder feeding the movie to the ATV4. Once I cancelled those other processes it worked fine. I suppose transcoding the .mkv files to an mp4 format might help, but I'd rather not reduce the quality any more than necessary for now.
I can now see great value in ripping the rest of my movies (not a huge amount, maybe 100?) versus having to pull the case down and load it up in the Blu-Ray player, waiting for menus etc... Nobody got time for that! Will need to test a blu-ray rip to see how well that performs next.
For anyone not familiar with Plex, it's an easy way to access media on any computer in your network on another device. I downloaded and installed the server app to the MBP which I have the media HD attached to, then downloaded the client app on the ATV4. Got it up and running in just a couple minutes.
Only issue was the Plex server was trying to index everything on the MBP as well, which bogged down the transcoder feeding the movie to the ATV4. Once I cancelled those other processes it worked fine. I suppose transcoding the .mkv files to an mp4 format might help, but I'd rather not reduce the quality any more than necessary for now.
I can now see great value in ripping the rest of my movies (not a huge amount, maybe 100?) versus having to pull the case down and load it up in the Blu-Ray player, waiting for menus etc... Nobody got time for that! Will need to test a blu-ray rip to see how well that performs next.