What is everyone else hosting? What am I missing?
I use Radarr and Sonarr containers with the Sickbeard MP4 Automator built in, and run some post-processing scripts in both Radarr and Sonarr to get everything in M4V (Apple household).
Does Tdarr essentially do the same thing?
It can. I’m actually using it to transcode from h.264 to h.265. But yes, you can also transcode to different formats, codecs, audio etc. I just started using it, but It seems pretty flexible and extensible