Feature request: 6k content

[penx]

Any chance of sourcing and supporting some 6k content? I have seen people mention the Apple TV aerial videos were shot in 6k, though I haven't been able to find URLs for this content myself. Perhaps some of the community videos are available in 6k?

"In this case, it's over LAX in a helicopter, shot in 6K" https://www.quora.com/What-airport-is-shown-in-the-Apple-TV-screensaver

and some comments on https://www.quora.com/How-were-the-Apple-TV-4-screen-savers-created

[glouel]

Hey @penx

In terms of handling those formats, I'd be happy to add those options if they were available from any source. There's already a pretty robust fallback mechanism in Aerial should a source not be available in your favorite format (a video not available in 4K HDR will fallback to 4K HEVC etc, all the way down to 1080p for that handful of very old tvOS 10 "only" videos). So adding some new formats is pretty easy.

For Apple stuff obviously, we depend on Apple making those available and having a reason to. So that's probably not gonna happen soon barring some miracle, like a surprise Apple TV 8K. I stopped holding my breath even for just an updated Apple TV 4K so, not expecting that any time soon.

Side note, they may have obscured/changed stuff a bit in tvOS 14 too. I'm not 100% sure, I did notice yesterday while doing a large swiping right session in the tvOS screensaver (after a false "new video" alert from a friend !) that either Apple downloads WAY more videos that the settings implied, or they started streaming those videos (which would be new). As of right now we still don't have the manifest url for the tvOS 14 videos (they slightly tweaked some descriptions and added categories, but no new video).

For the current community stuff I'll ask but if I recall correctly, the master footage was shot in 4K. Should the opportunity of a new format arise though, will gladly add them.