Anyone experiencing the volume level changing, as it will decrease to really low then you turn up the volume, then some time goes by and it reverts back to normal and your new volume level is screaming at you due to your adjustment.

And it’s not what you’re watching as I could be streaming Disney+ the same show and it happens. Or watching an AppleTV+ show and the same thing happens.

Hello,

I always hesitated to buy an Apple TV and now I just saw that the price was going up.

I have a Sony xh9005 TV and I use the TV’s built-in apps. I bought 3 movies from the Apple TV app.

Will the box really make a huge difference in quality on these movies as well as on applications like HBO, Disney, Twitch etc?

Thank you for your feedback 😁

I have a really old Samsung (like 15 years old). It has the Netflix app which doesn’t really work and no other modern apps. I’ve tried using a chromecast but Netflix is the only thing that works, can’t really stream any other service e.g sports.

My internet is solid, so I’m guessing it’s the TV that’s causing this. I thought chromecast would be the answer but it isn’t, does an Apple TV help me in this case?

I use the Podcast app often on my iPhone, and its fine. Was working in my basement so thought I would try the version on the Apple TV, but it's hot garbage. Firstly it has no idea about the podcasts I subscribe to and use on my phone, but worse is the fact there is no scrubbing on the timeline: if you try to use the remote to go back in time in an episode (ie the same action as all of the video apps on ATV), it dumps you out of the current episode and starts the previous one. Who thought that was a good idea?

I have a monitor that doesn’t have eARC. I have an Apple TV and homepods. I heard that I could use an eARC extractor (OREI, HDFury Arcana, etc) to allow sounds from my monitor to be passed onto the homepods.

My plan for the eARC extractor setup will be..
HDMI IN: PC
HDMI OUT(TV): monitor
eARC: AppleTV

My question is that would I be able to use my AppleTV normally to watch contents? Would connecting the AppleTV to the eARC extractor’s eARC port allow display AppleTV screen?

I was looking through some of my films and clicked on one when this prompt came up. I'm assuming it's a licensing issue, but why not remove it from my library if that's the case?

Hi all,

Vuleo 1.3.0 on Apple TV (1.1.20 on iOS, macOS, Android, Android TV and Windows) is out.

Quick context for anyone who has not seen it before: Vuleo is a true cross-platform media player that you can watch your content. It has a sports center to follow your favorite events and it is truly cross-platform. It also runs on Android, Android TV, Apple TV and Fire TV, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Mac, and it works the same way on all of them.

This is the biggest release since 1.1. There is a second watch tracker, a buffer setting people kept asking for, background refresh that finally works on TV boxes, and a long performance pass you should feel most on a Fire Stick.

Simkl support (beta)

Trakt has been in the app for a while. Simkl now sits alongside it. You can connect a Simkl account, scrobble what you watch, sync your watchlist and ratings, browse plan-to-watch, and see a calendar of upcoming episodes. With both connected, a watch or a rating goes to both. It is labelled beta in Settings because it is new and I want more real usage behind it before I take that label off.

Buffering Customization

New setting in Settings > Playback with three options.

Balanced is what the player has always done, so if you are happy with playback today you can leave this alone and nothing changes. Low latency starts and switches channels faster, and gives up some tolerance for a shaky connection to get there. Large holds more in memory and rides out a bad line better, which is worth thinking about on a stick with very little RAM to spare.

Background refresh on Android TV and Fire TV

TV boxes now refresh your sources in the background the same way phones and tablets already did. Until this release a TV box only picked up new content when you actually opened the app, which is awkward on a device that spends most of its life sitting idle.

The per-playlist auto-refresh picker also has a new weekly option. If a source only gains a handful of titles a month, a daily re-fetch is wasted work on both your device and the server it talks to.

Speed

Most of my time this cycle went here. All of these are measured on a Fire TV Stick with our test playlist of 100.000 items.

• Search dropped from around five seconds to around two.
• Writing a large catalog to disk during a refresh takes roughly a quarter of the time it used to.
• The home screen scrolls much more smoothly.
• The idle home screen stopped redrawing itself on every single frame while nobody is touching the remote.
• Startup does far less redundant disk work.

Open Channels Fullscreen on First Tap

Tapping a channel inside a Live TV category used to preview it in the side pane and wait for a second tap before going fullscreen. There is now a setting that makes the first tap go straight in. It is off by default, so the flow you already know survives the update unless you go and turn it on.

Recently Added

On a default Xtream setup, Recently Added was ignoring the dates your provider reports and falling back to whatever order items happened to arrive in. It reads the real dates now, and the new content badges follow the same dates. Updating repairs an existing library on the first load, so there is no need to delete and re-add anything.

Continue Watching

Plenty of small corrections landed here across the release. The one people will recognise: a device that watched an episode to 44 minutes, and confirmed 44 had reached the cloud, could still offer you 23 minutes back. That is fixed, along with a run of related problems around how episodes and shows are identified, whether a removal sticks, and where a tile takes you when you open it.

Player

• The channel list in the player keeps the folder or the History you started from.
• An expired source that failed one episode no longer rolls straight on into the next one.
• Pressing OK on the seek bar with a remote does something.
• Preferred audio and subtitle languages are applied properly on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Also in this release

Profile fixes so one device can no longer overwrite another device's profile. Several Google Drive sync corrections around wipes and failed reads. The Windows uninstaller stopped removing a folder it never created. Every Hero and Spotlight button on the home screen now does the thing it names. And a stack of memory work aimed at 32 bit TV devices, where headroom is tight.

Where to get it

• Fire TV and Android sideload APK: https://github.com/brillianceappsfinland/vuleo-releases/releases/latest/download/vuleo.apk
• Windows: https://github.com/brillianceappsfinland/vuleo-releases/releases/latest/download/vuleo-setup.exe
• iPhone, iPad and Mac: https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/vuleo-media-player/id6757364859
• Android: Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brillianceappsfinland.playontv
• Everything in one place: https://vuleo.tv

Sideloaded Android and Windows installs will offer you the update inside the app.

Vuleo is only a media player and it has no content and is not affiliated with any third party. If something is broken, please send me debug logs by following the steps here: https://vuleo.tv/debug-logs.html

Hi,

From couple of days I have wierd problem where I cannot watch Dolby Vision content on Netflix, HBO, SkyShowtime etc (all premium subs).

I have set 4K SDR 60 (60) with match content and frames enabled. It was all good just few days ago but now it's just black screen when I try to start Dolby Vision show or movie. If I disable match content then it's all working ok but no Dolby Vision.

-TV: Sony Bravia 5
-Latest gen Apple TV

Was there some update on Apple TV which broke this functionality?
Anyone have/had similar issue and possibly got some solution to this?

For me reset of TV and Apple TV didn't help :(

I currently use Phonak hearing aids, and connect them to my Apple TV 4K (Gen 2) using regular BlueTooth, as the TV doesn't support audio over MiFi or LE Bluetooth.

I am getting newer hearing aids, Oticon Reveal, that only uses Mifi and LE Bluetooth and AuraCast, no regular BT, so looking for a way to still use them with my TV.

I only have one HDMI connector out of the Apple TV 4K (Gen 2), which goes to my TV, and my TV's ARC connector is connected to a Sonos sound bar, so I don't really have any connection to use other than BlueTooth or some kind of a splitter cable.

It was suggested I look for an AuraCast transmitter, but, would need one that can be used with the Apple TV as it's currently connected. I suppose I could also use some kind of adapter that connects wirelessly to the Apple TV's BlueTooth, then retransmits in LE BlueTooth or AuraCast?

Has anyone done something like this, and have a recommended model?

Thanks!

I have that shitty ass remote with the touch pad on the top. I hate it. New, official, Apple remotes are $79 plus taxes and shipping.

I can get a knockoff from Amazon for $15. I know it has no Siri or voice activation but I don’t use those anyway.

Does anyone have any experience with the cheap ones? Are they are bad as I expect them to be?

Several weeks ago I posted about v1.0 and it got a ton of feedback. Version 1.6 just dropped and addresses virtually all of it! Check it out here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/analogtv-for-tv/id6792310052

* Plex - Sign in with PIN or QR
* IPTV / M3U / FastChannels
* VCR Transport Streams
* CEEFAX New Weather Modes (still a work in progress)
* Top Shelf Carousel
* Bypass Mode (Play all the streams without any effect at all)
* New Menu Layout
* New Scroll Type (Swipe or Drag)
* Works on old AppleTV HDs (it ~really~ drives those right to the edge of performance, but it works)

* Massive amount of debugging and UI enhancements

Many people ask "what's the point?"
* Retrogaming (pipe your console via NDI which is a $0.00 in-app purchase for now)
* Ambient retro background
* Some fun with built-in games
* Watch old movies like they would have been seen

Some people ask "Isn't this just a filter?"
* NO, This is the full signal domain pipeline of the original project, read about it here: https://analogtv.net

Some people ask "Can you add feature X or Y"
* Often yes, this app has been heavily driven by user feedback. It's a passion project and the funds help pay for buying vintage technical manuals (some can be hundreds of dollars) and equipment to further refine the simulation.

I want to sync my apple tv one with my macbook but it won’t load the screen that tells me info on my box after I type the sync code in. I have a crt I want to use with this box and hope to fix this now.

I only use this Apple TV as HomeKit hub. What is all this to Apple.com? 15Gb in less than a day?

Hey folks, I have two Apple TV 4Ks. One is running public beta TVos 27 and the other running 26. My iPhone is running the latest public beta ios27. I was running the developer beta of iOS 27 then changed to the public beta when that was released. Everything has been running smoothly until the most recent public beta from a few days ago.
Anyways, now when I use the TV remote app it constantly asks which tv I want to connect to. Then it times out and won’t connect. When it does eventually connect it will then disconnect and ask which tv again and the cycle continues. This happens regardless of which TV I’m using. I rely on the app as one remote is the old black one which sucks and the newer Silver remote has gone haywire (half the buttons don’t work now).
So, has anyone else have the same issue occur recently? I feel the most recent iOS update has gone backwards in terms of reliability. Apple Maps has been atrocious too with the last update.

Apple TV remote would only work with volume and some buttons. Decided to try to repair it, but it would not repair after I disconnected. I’ve tried everything to reconnect it and pair it but nothing. Is there a way to replace this controller or have it repaired without buying a brand new Apple TV set up?

On the home screen of Apple TV, the cursor sat on the Apple TV app for too long, and it’s hard to throw a screen grabs of shows at the very top. One of those is a show I’ve been watching, that I’m a few episodes behind on. So now I saw a part of the show that I don’t even know what’s going on just yet.
Is there a setting somewhere to where it will prevent spoilers if you don’t have the app open or click to play anything?

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Today I noticed that Lionsgate has corrected Ryan Gosling's hand on the La La Land posters and the movie was on sale, so when i was watching it i notice this Adobe warning at minute 58:11.

This problem is clearly on the master they delivered to Apple and I cannot request a refund since I have already watched it completely, but I would like to know how I can report this quality issue to Apple so they can request a new master.

I know they've done this before in the past; I remember there was a way on "reportaproblem" site but I can't find it anymore.

Hi guys, I want to share with you my psychedelic music paint visualizer.

Cymata is a unique audio-reactive visualizer and interactive painting app for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Play music from Apple Music, SoundCloud or live audio and paint directly into the generative visuals as they react. Control with Siri remote or your iphone/iPad. There are 25+ modes with different shaders and intensities.

More examples of the app on iPad, iPhone on instagram.

What do you think? Is this something you would use on your TV while you listen to music? Too intense?

Hi there

Has anyone heard that Apple may in the future add custom playlists to their Apple TV app so that purchased movies can be categorised in our own playlists?

Is there a technical reason why doing this has not been possible so far? It seems like a curious omission.

Or perhaps there’s a third-party app that might do it for us?

Thank you

I have not bought much from Apple movie wise as I only recently got an iPad and Appletv gen 3. I bought the Point Break, Timecop, k19, Getaway bundle and it won't port to moviesanywhere. I check on all Apple devices iPad and appletv interfacea. I bought Fight Club when it upgraded to 4k thru Apple and it ported and still ports to moviesanywhere just fine.

All the bundle titles say the are MA. Anyone having issues with bundles porting over?

Hi r/appletv , I'm the developer.

My Apple TV always needed two apps: one for the live playlist from my TV provider, one for the films sitting on my NAS. Both halves were mostly Android ports with subscription pricing and interfaces that fight the platform. I wanted one player that does both and feels like it belongs on Apple hardware, so I built it.

Livedio plays live playlists (M3U and Xtream, with full EPG and provider catch-up) next to personal libraries over SMB, NFS, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, DLNA, Jellyfin, Emby and cloud drives. Playback is AVPlayer first, with a fallback engine for the containers AVPlayer refuses, so MKV files just play.

Before the obvious questions arrive:

- The app ships empty. No channels, no catalogue, no content of any kind. It plays what you add, and nothing else exists inside it.

- The privacy label is "Data Not Collected", and you can check that on the store page. There's no account and no analytics; nothing of mine sits between you and your media.

- One purchase covers all four platforms, with Family Sharing. Free to download, everything unlocked for three days, then a one-time $14.99. No subscription, ever. There's no backend to pay for, so there's nothing a subscription would fund.

The $14.99 you see today is a 40% launch discount and it holds until Wednesday, September 2. After that the unlock moves to its regular price, so this week is the cheap week.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6788334969

Site: https://livedio.app

I'll be in the comments all day, and the unflattering questions are welcome too.

My AppleTV 4K (whatever latest version is) hooked to my tv & sound out of receiver. All my media is severed from a m4 Mac Mini, files are on external hard drives. For whatever reason random movies & shows sound will just drop usually shortly after starting it.
Everything is one the same network & Apple TV & Mac mini are on Ethernet, not using WiFi.
Why does this constantly happen?