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Would love them to, especially when you look at apps like prime video, YouTube and YouTube tv, who insist on using their own players, that are not as good of an experience.
Besides, if you leave or turn off the atv with a video from YouTube onscreen, it will ~cock~block whatever you try to airplay later. That’s super annoying
The apps you've mentioned are simple web wrappers that display HTML5 content. If you go to youtube.com/tv you'll get the exact same web page that these streaming apps display. They do this because it's cheaper to maintain and you get the the exact same experience on every device. Not playing the devil's advocate here, just explaining why these apps are so bad and why I don't think this is going to change. In fact, Google did provide native apps on some plattforms and later replaced them with their low-quality HTML5 apps.
Dolby Digital on YouTube flashes black for a full second everytime I load a video or ad, it’s so infuriating
Change your AppleTV to 4k sdr, with matching on, and it won’t do that anymore. You’ll get a quick black flash when loading Dolby or hdr content, but there’s way more sdr content out there.
Any attempt to force the use of Apple's player would return the Apple TV to "pretty much useless" status when it comes to Plex. So, personally, I really don't want to see that.
as I said on /r/plex, this is why I pay for infuse with free plex account 🤷♂️
I can’t sacrifice the Plex UI and features. It was a harder choice when Apple TV’s Plex app transcoded everything but now it hardly ever does so Infuse holds no real benefit for me.
The tvOS Plex app currently has a massive stack of issues, including a critical one that overheats the third gen Apple TV 4K with high bitrate 4K remuxes to the point that it chokes on them and stop playing (I´m not joking!).
Infuse does not overheat it because it uses the Apple TV hardware acceleration for every aspect of their custom player (Metal), whereas Plex still uses Open GL for quite a lot.
My recommendation at this point is to use Infuse instead. Yeah, its not free, but it uses the Apple TV hardware and feature set to its full potential, and performs so much better.
Never ben an issue for me, and Infuse is far too ugly and lacking features for me to use it.