I did this way before having my own streaming service.
Just to close the loop, there are many shows I have that were extracted from DVDs and backed up as single episode MPEG files. I can easily create MKV's of my TV series without needing to convert. I can play MKV's through the Apple 4K TV when I originally thought I couldn't.
Whether I now understand the what's and why's is not really important. What I wasn't realizing is that my Plex client was likely acting as that third option. As for the google searches saying Apple 4k TV does not support MKV unless you 1) convert to MP4, 2) stream from a Mac, or 3) use a player that supports MKV. While I can play MKV files from Windows, my Synology server doesn't find an app that can and the ARM processor in the server can't convert. I believe the Synology server error is that while I'm connected to the server from my Window's box, I'm actually running off the server, not my Windows box. Now that I see I can, I think I can better understand what was confusing me from before. Combine that with the Synology error I received above and confusion from Google searches saying MKV files would need to be converted to play on Apple TV, all led me to believe it was a lost cause. When I tried to play them, they actually played fine.Īll I can think is that back in the Spring when I moved from DS Video to Plex and from a Fire 4K Stick to an Apple 4k TV and worked my way through configuring everything, that there was a time I couldn't play MKV files. When trying to play them directly from the Synology server using my computer, I received the Plex Error "This server is not powerful enough to convert video." When I went to the HT and checked the Plex settings, they were as Greg said they should be. So, I converted some MPG files into MKV containers and loaded them on the Synology server.
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