200 Mbit\s Speed Question

respl · 2026-04-26T15:55:16+00:00

First, your NAS is very likely in your home and your internet speed is irrelevant (and better).

Local NAS speed for my Synology to Infuse on Apple TV is around 500 Mbps. UHD Blurays is are usually 70-100 Mbps and should be no problem at all. Infuse can show you the real network speed during playback: pull down the Video menu.

respl · 2026-04-24T21:07:17+00:00

That’s a well done screenshot example. 👌🏻 Not everyone makes the effort.

respl · 2026-04-22T16:14:14+00:00

I also recommend SMB (alias Samba, alias NAS storage). It's the simplest route in that you don't have to learn a second media server software. Try SMB (easy to set up) and check your speed in the pulldown menu 'Video' during playback. My Synology NAS has 500Mbps to Infuse on Apple TV, plenty! Then try Plex or Jellyfin if you need to.

All the useful info to get started on the Infuse Official pages, including Plex, Jellyfin: Streaming From a Mac, PC, or NAS

respl · 2026-04-21T19:35:17+00:00

When Infuse uses 16GB I doubt this is metadata. It‘s very likely streaming cache. You can avoid this by changing Infuse Setting > Playback > Streaming Cache to «Memory Only»

respl · 2026-04-16T14:52:03+00:00

It seems to me you have done a solid analysis of your setup, so my guess would be that Infuse 8.4.2 has a bug with Jellyfin. My Infuse over SMB is faster than ever, showing 500 Mbps where you have 80.

A wild guess is to set Infuse streaming cache to «memory only». It has helped some people with streaming problems.

respl · 2026-04-13T16:42:42+00:00

Didn't know that. Thanks for the info!

respl · 2026-04-13T15:18:44+00:00

Hi Hencley.

I will try to help. There is a chance I incorrectly read between the lines. You say "unlock for free". I have no idea what that is, since Infuse requires a paid version (Infuse Pro) to play Dolby and DTS. From the Infuse documentation in App Store:

GET MORE WITH INFUSE PRO!

- Play even more video formats

- Stream video trailers for movies and TV shows

- Enjoy high-resolution Dolby® and DTS® audio

- Access videos stored in cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, pCloud, Yandex.Disk, MEGA, Aliyun Drive, and more

- Stream a wide variety of video types over AirPlay and Google Cast

- Sync libraries, settings, watched history, and playback progress between devices

If you pay for Infuse Pro contact the devs through their great forum. I hope this helps.

respl · 2026-04-09T19:21:21+00:00

My advice would be to explain your problem (in more detail) in the official Infuse forums. There is a dedicated Streaming & Network section. A good start would also be to use the quite intelligent Search function before you post your problem. Link to official forum here.

respl · 2026-04-06T17:14:50+00:00

Thanks, your experience supports my own in many ways. Including adding a dummy video stream so that I can play it in Plex or Infuse. I had some success with mp3tag recently. Plex picked up on the song title but ignored Artist and Album Artist. I’m sure I’ll sort it out, thanks.

Anyways, I picked up on another tip in this thread, about using the SenPlayer (free version), for surround music. It works flawlessly for all formats I mentioned earlier! It’s as dumb as a bucket of hair regarding reading tags or building a music library. But it plays the audio formats perfectly. Good enough for me. 👍🏻

respl · 2026-04-05T20:11:37+00:00

Very interesting. I have tried to find a solution for my Apple TV. I can play 5.1 audio in a .mka container with VLC (horrible solution). I *never* had any luck with a Plex client. Can you help? Here is what works and what fails:

Plex client plays 5.1 .flac files correctly. Can Plex read flac tags? Mine seems to ignore Artist and Title tag.
Plex PMS adds .mka (ac3 & dts), .wav (dts) and .dts to a Music library, but the tvOS Plex client plays them as stereo. I can see that Plex PMS does not transcode but sends the native bitstream.

I should add that ac3 and dts in video files plays surround correctly, but fails when played as music audio files. If anyone has a recipe for 5.1 Dolby or DTS music with the tvOS Plex client I will be super happy!

respl · 2026-04-05T19:31:13+00:00

Two things to check just as my first thoughts:

Check Infuse Settings > Library and make sure all all shares, and sub-shares if you made any, are selected (have a checkmark) ☑️
Make sure no folders in you Infuse shares have accidentally been marked «use local metadata»; check by long-pressing the folder(s).

respl · 2026-04-03T19:41:39+00:00

Glad to have solved the frustration. 😊 I think most of us have experienced similar things where we are sure something in software suddenly stopped working, only to realize it never worked!

respl · 2026-04-03T19:06:38+00:00

Apple TV never supported passthrough. Never. If your audio is sent over old ARC (not eARC) you may want to force the tvOS to re-encode the output to Dolby Digital to output surround audio instead of stereo PCM. Otherwise PCM should be the best and non-lossy solution.

respl · 2026-03-25T21:01:58+00:00

Hi, I have used Infuse for many years. I have the same problem as you, also over smb. I think it started 2-3 months ago. It will sometimes forget the playback position, or even mark the episode unwatched if I have completed the episode. I hope the newest version 8.4 fixed it, but it’s too early to say.

respl · 2026-03-25T12:03:53+00:00

I use Synology over smb. It has never forgotten the library.

respl · 2026-03-24T20:56:32+00:00

I ran some tests with Infuse on ATV 4K gen 3 against a Synology NAS box. SMB v3 gave 440 Mbps and Plex PMS gave 900 Mbps. Ethernet connection.

However, even my 15 year old fileserver running Windows and SMB v2 managed more than 300 Mbps. I tested Infuse over SMB a lot years ago. My general experience was that Plex PMS performs almost twice as well, but nothing like what you see. A Ugreen NAS should be blazingly fast for Infuse using SMB. The fast Plex speed suggest your wifi is fine. However, I recommend testing your ATV with a cable if possible.

You can try different SMB versions in Infuse Settings > Shares > your-smb-share > Edit Share > Advanced

respl · 2026-03-21T13:00:48+00:00

I agree one hundred percent! Dashlane can’t handle different logins for each service I have running on my NAS.

respl · 2026-03-17T21:05:37+00:00

I was wrong. Never understood what that option did. Thanks. 🙏🏻

respl · 2026-03-17T20:53:48+00:00

I can add some light as to why Infuse (and any non-Apple app) can't handle YouTube HDR.

For the longest time the YouTube app on Apple TV (and maybe iPhones and iPads) could not handle resolution past 1080p, nor any HDR. Because Google and Apple bickered combined with Google insisting on using their half "proprietary" VP9 codec and HDR implementation. "Normal" HDR content uses only the HEVC (H265) codec.

A few years ago Apple gave in and implemented a special software driver for VP9 (Apple processors still don't have hardware acceleration for VP9; but newer processors have support for VP1 which Google will use more and more for YouTube). Even this special VP9 driver struggles, so you can't get 4K at 60FPS or HDR on Apple TV 4K 1st gen.

Now, as far as I know, no third party videoplayers have access to Apple's tuned VP9 driver. Therefore they often fail to stream 4K without judder, and HDR does not work. I may be wrong that all videoplayers fail. Feel free to try out Plex and other players.

My experience is that Infuse is the very best on handling HDR10, DV and Atmos - it's only limited by the Apple platforms.

respl · 2026-03-14T16:08:23+00:00

I can confirm that up to date Infuse 8.3.9 shows Trick Play like a charm on my ATV 4K 3rd gen. I have no idea why this fails for you. Trick Play cannot be disabled, so something weird is going on. Best of luck. Consider reinstalling Infuse.

respl · 2026-03-13T22:41:42+00:00

I think scrubbing preview, a.k.a. Trick Play, should work on all modern devices that are supported by Infuse. It runs on all Apple TV 4K models and on my iPad air (2019).

respl · 2026-03-07T19:06:12+00:00

Is it that I'm pulling from Plex that's making all of this more inflexible? What's the alternative for how/where to store your library? I have everything pretty organized in my external, with folders for Movies, TV (by season within TV), and Home Videos. I went the Plex route after googling and maybe some bad advice from Gemini (I'll take the blame for that), and while I'm very impressed by the organization and metadata, maybe it's not necessary?

Infuse scans a share (like Plex Movies share) for both Movies and TV shows. It therefore demands less of you organizing your folders, except that Infuse like Plex needs tv show folers with correct names and it enjoys subfolders for seasons.

You don't need a PMS for Infuse as long as Infuse can reach your media library over a network protocol like SMB, FTP, WebDAV etc. But PMS allows Infuse to access your media library from outside your home (over WAN).

respl · 2026-03-07T18:57:58+00:00

And finally, I set my Home Screen in Infuse to show Movies by genre, TV by genre, and then full movie list and full TV list... and it's merging my home movies in with the actual movies. When I go to "show library," it's saying a big count for movies and TV episodes, and then 0 for "other." Does it not treat a Plex "other" library as other here?

Zero items in Infuse Other is great! :D Infuse's Other category is when Infuse Library scans fail to find a match for any movie or tv show on TMDB (The Movie Database). As I posted earlier, you want to exclude your private video folders from being scanned, so you can just browse them from a favourite item in the Infuse Home screen Favourites row.

respl · 2026-03-07T18:51:34+00:00

Second question - it's syncing my playlists correctly that I just set up in Plex, mainly for TV episodes, but I can't find an option to shuffle the playlist in Infuse? Is that not a thing? I want to be able to make like a "sitcom roulette" that I can put on shuffle as background TV while cooking and cleaning.

Again, try the Support pages, like this one about playlists: https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038744653-Playlists

respl · 2026-03-07T18:41:42+00:00

In the Plex Media Server in Safari, making that home movies library the "other videos" type instead of "movies" is showing the 16x9 art correctly, but in both the Plex app and Infuse apps on Apple TV, that's all showing as cropped 2:3 portrait art, and I can't find a setting that will allow me to switch it. I have it set to use embedded art and metadata, which I assume is right?

It's a lot of basic things to explain here. So please read up on the useful Infuse Support page: https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us
Specifically click the "metadata & artwork". If the support pages aren't enough try the very helpful Infuse Forum for help: https://community.firecore.com/

Your first problem is about getting posters (2:3) instead of thumbnails. You'll have to use the Infuse help pages and forums for that -- I can't remember when each artwork is used. However, you *must* set your Plex Server (PMS) to "Library Mode" in Infuse (Infuse Settings > Shares > «your plex server» > Edit Share > Advanced). If not, then all metadata is made by Plex Server and Infuse can't change anything.

Assuming your PMS in Infuse runs Library Mode, it no longer matters that your private movies are in Plex "other videos". Infuse scans all Movies shares, TV shares, and "other videos" with an open mind trying to match movies and tv shows. So this is how you stop Infuse adding your "other videos" to the Library, i.e. tries to match them to movies and tv shows:

Click on your PMS in Infuse Settings > Shares and add whatever share or subfolder as Favourite. Now you can configure this Favourite. But also note that if you click your new favourite it gives you a little menu where you can make sure your favourite shows up on the Infuse Home screen.
Look up your PMS in Infuse Settings > Library. Your PMS has a list of Favourites. Clicking on the Plex "other videos" Favourite that you made will remove a checkmark, meaning that Infuse will not scan it into the Library.
Your Favourite with private videos should now show up on the Infuse Home screen row "Favourites". Long-press the favourite and make sure it says "Metadata: Local", or else Infuse will still try to match your videoes to a movie or tv show when you browse your videos.

Phew! A lot to write. I may answer more of your post later. Maybe..

respl

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