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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Home Movies on Apple TV
Date: 24 Aug 2015 01:04:17 GMT
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On 2015-08-23, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <d3sofaFjikgU1@mid.individual.net> 
>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-08-23, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>
>>> iTunes doesn't handle a lot of formats without additional work.
>
>> That hasn't been a problem at all for me.
>
> MKV containers, specifically. Since Apple's MOV can only contain a
> single subtitle track, it is a poor choice for some movies.

I encode all of my movies as MPEG-4 containers with H.264 encoding -
they multiple subtitle/CC tracks. There's absolutely no requirement to
use MOV containers with iTunes. 

I couldn't care less about MKV. If you do, iTunes clearly isn't for you.
BTW, nobody here is suggesting ever person on the planet should use
iTunes.

> iTunes also does not pickup additional files (for example, external
> sub files or even .nfo files containing extended data about the file).

Meh. Much better to have the movie and meta data self-contained within
one single file, IMO. Much easier to manage that way.

> iTunes also doesn't play AVI or WMV files, though these are less of a
> problem as time goes on. I still have a lot of DVD rips I would have
> to do again to get into iTunes, but I don't want to take that time
> since Plex plays them all just fine.

Yeah, see I never bought into Windows for media since it's always lagged
behind Mac OS; so I don't have any silly AVI and MWV files to deal with.
Sucks to be you! ; )

> Also, I have a lot of movie with mutliple audio tracks, something else
> that MOV is overly touchy about. One of my versions of Blade Runner
> has... I think 6 audio tracks.

You keep mentioning MOV as if it's the only thing iTunes supports. You
couldn't be more wrong.

> Works perfectly in Plex, not so much in iTunes.

The Plex UX sucks donkey ass. No thanks.

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