//EDIT 26th April 2021:
I still cant believe what I'm writing as I have given up hope. I guess cows are flying and hell is frozen over now.
With iOS 14.5 Apple has finally added integer frame rates such as 24.000 and 60.000.
The below behaviour does not apply anymore.
I recently got an ATV 4K and was watching the Netflix show DARK via Infuse when I noticed that there is some stutter.
After investigating it turns out that the new Apple TV 4K has no support for the integer framerates of 24.000 and 60.000, resulting in dropped frames every ~42 seconds (in the first case). This is due to:
Sure, 24.000 is not the norm as the vast majority of movies is filmed at 23.976 frames and 60.000 content is even more scarce. Still, its a no brainer for apple to implement it.
I looked through my movie collection which consists of 269 movies and it turns out that 4% of them are 24.000 fps.
Movies include American Pie (1999), Rambo (2008) and Rules of Engagement (2000).
I was extremely surprised to find this as every publication which reported on Apples new and awesome "match framerate" did not mention this. I also couldn't find this in any review.
A thread I created at infuse forum:
https://firecore.com/forum/topic/20111
Another thread at MrMC:
native 24p video files problem. - MrMC
So there is nothing Infuse, MrMC, Plex, etc can do about it as those framerates are just not available. Therefore, we need to make Apple aware of this problem here:
Feedback - Apple TV - Apple
I hope that they will add it in the future given enough people complain about it.
//edit1:
//edit2:
Link to Keenan's post: Apple TV 4K lacks support for 24.000 video
With the current beta of tvOS 14.5 Apple finally added support for integer frame rates.
Sources:
I still cant believe what I'm writing as I have given up hope. I guess cows are flying and hell is frozen over now.
With iOS 14.5 Apple has finally added integer frame rates such as 24.000 and 60.000.
The below behaviour does not apply anymore.
I recently got an ATV 4K and was watching the Netflix show DARK via Infuse when I noticed that there is some stutter.
After investigating it turns out that the new Apple TV 4K has no support for the integer framerates of 24.000 and 60.000, resulting in dropped frames every ~42 seconds (in the first case). This is due to:
- video with 24.000 fps gets outputted as 23.976
- video with 60.000 fps gets outputted as 59.94
Sure, 24.000 is not the norm as the vast majority of movies is filmed at 23.976 frames and 60.000 content is even more scarce. Still, its a no brainer for apple to implement it.
I looked through my movie collection which consists of 269 movies and it turns out that 4% of them are 24.000 fps.
Movies include American Pie (1999), Rambo (2008) and Rules of Engagement (2000).
I was extremely surprised to find this as every publication which reported on Apples new and awesome "match framerate" did not mention this. I also couldn't find this in any review.
A thread I created at infuse forum:
https://firecore.com/forum/topic/20111
Another thread at MrMC:
native 24p video files problem. - MrMC
So there is nothing Infuse, MrMC, Plex, etc can do about it as those framerates are just not available. Therefore, we need to make Apple aware of this problem here:
Feedback - Apple TV - Apple
I hope that they will add it in the future given enough people complain about it.
//edit1:
//edit2:
Link to Keenan's post: Apple TV 4K lacks support for 24.000 video
//edit3:
With the current beta of tvOS 14.5 Apple finally added support for integer frame rates.
Sources:
Apple TV tvOS public beta releases
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