I’ve been trying to find the easiest way to watch my favourite movies in the best quality possible, while still using my Apple TV for playback/color handling.

I ended up getting Infuse (an Apple TV media player that can play MKV/REMUX files from network or cloud storage).

I currently have MKV 4K Blu-ray REMUXes of 2–3 of my favourite movies, and once everything is set up, the experience is pretty much exactly what I want.

Initially I tried SMB from my Mac → Infuse, but I didn’t really like it. I had to keep my Mac running whenever I wanted to watch something, and even then I experienced some lag/buffering.

I then tried putting the files on Google Drive and connecting Google Drive to Infuse, and honestly I found this much simpler and more reliable.

The problem is the process of actually getting movies into my Drive.

Right now it basically goes:

Find movie → navigate download site/ads → download 50–80GB REMUX to Mac (2–3 hours) → upload it to Google Drive (another 2–2.5 hours) → finally watch through Infuse

It works, but doing this for every movie is becoming incredibly time-consuming.

My eventual goal is simple: open Infuse on my Apple TV, have a large library of my favourite movies with artwork/metadata, scroll through it, choose something and immediately start watching it in the highest quality available.

My absolute dream scenario would be some kind of legal paid service/account with a huge library of full-quality movie files already hosted remotely. It doesn’t necessarily have to be Google Drive. If there were a service where I could pay for access to the movies and simply connect the storage/library to Infuse and stream them, that would be amazing. Does anything like this actually exist?

If not, my second option would be buying movies/getting authorized REMUX-quality files elsewhere and finding a way to transfer them directly from the source to Google Drive, without routing 50–80GB through my Mac first.

Basically:

Source → Google Drive → Infuse

instead of:

Source → download to Mac → upload from Mac → Google Drive → Infuse

I’m completely fine paying for the movies, storage and/or a subscription. My priority is maximum video quality + convenience. I just want to eliminate the hours of downloading and re-uploading every movie.

Has anyone built a setup like this? What would you recommend?

I’ve been trying to find the easiest way to watch my favourite movies in the best quality possible, while still using my Apple TV for playback/color handling.

I ended up getting Infuse (an Apple TV media player that can play MKV/REMUX files from network or cloud storage).

I currently have MKV 4K Blu-ray REMUXes of 2–3 of my favourite movies, and once everything is set up, the experience is pretty much exactly what I want.

Initially I tried SMB from my Mac → Infuse, but I didn’t really like it. I had to keep my Mac running whenever I wanted to watch something, and even then I experienced some lag/buffering.

I then tried putting the files on Google Drive and connecting Google Drive to Infuse, and honestly I found this much simpler and more reliable.

The problem is the process of actually getting movies into my Drive.

Right now it basically goes:

Find movie → navigate download site/ads → download 50–80GB REMUX to Mac (2–3 hours) → upload it to Google Drive (another 2–2.5 hours) → finally watch through Infuse

It works, but doing this for every movie is becoming incredibly time-consuming.

My eventual goal is simple: open Infuse on my Apple TV, have a large library of my favourite movies with artwork/metadata, scroll through it, choose something and immediately start watching it in the highest quality available.

My absolute dream scenario would be some kind of legal paid service/account with a huge library of full-quality movie files already hosted remotely. It doesn’t necessarily have to be Google Drive. If there were a service where I could pay for access to the movies and simply connect the storage/library to Infuse and stream them, that would be amazing. Does anything like this actually exist?

If not, my second option would be buying movies/getting authorized REMUX-quality files elsewhere and finding a way to transfer them directly from the source to Google Drive, without routing 50–80GB through my Mac first.

Basically:

Source → Google Drive → Infuse

instead of:

Source → download to Mac → upload from Mac → Google Drive → Infuse

I’m completely fine paying for the movies, storage and/or a subscription. My priority is maximum video quality + convenience. I just want to eliminate the hours of downloading and re-uploading every movie.

Has anyone built a setup like this? What would you recommend?