Just to clear up some confusion I'm seeing from commenters: If you are playing in home to a device that can playback the HEVC content there's no need to transcode and your HDR video will remain intact. I do this all the time with my Shield and 4k Blu Rays stored on my NAS. This video is an explanation of what happens when you try to transcode that content when you're outside the house or trying to play it back on something that is not capable of HEVC playback.
AWESOME videos! this has been INCREDIBLY helpful, what settings do you use to convert DVDs and Blurays (assuming handbrake) to get optimal quality (my dvd converts show up as 480p on shield plex sever). and to be clear, 2019 Shield Pro supports H.265 no conversion?
Thanks. What are the reason(s) why you use the Shield, if your 218+ NAS can handle it (ie. watching at your home TV with no transcoding required)? Also, will my 216J (w/ only Armada38x CPU) be enough for direct playing of 4k content to Sony 4k TV (X85J)? Just seeing if we'd still need the Shield. Thanks.
Thanks for that hardware transcoding clarification. I thought I know how it works, but I never noticed that Plex shows the hardware acceleration state for both de- and encoding separately
That tone mapping issue is a huge killer. I've had to make a separate library in Plex just for 4K Blu-rays, and put a SDR version of the movie in my main library for transcoding. Wasting space on my server!
Woooow, you did such an amazing job explaining and articulating the technical steps of 4k HEVC and PLEX. I've been watching so many videos trying to understand things, many videos later, I was still really confused by what tech veterans were saying on Reddit and RUclips. Been running my PLEX server on an a Laptop with an i7 6th gen, been able to play 4k locally just fine, but every six months or so, the multiple HDDs i have hooked up to it would go through some handshake issue had wipe, loosing 20 TB of movie/shows every time. After watching this video, I can gladly say I have pulled the trigger and purchased the Synology DS1520+ with a few 12TB HDDs. Im so excited to finally have a reliable server for my media. I should have enough room to keep those favorite movies in 4k HEVC and 1080. Once its all set up, this will be a huge relief off my mind (when the next time the drives are going to wipe and i lose everything). Thank you very much for this video
@@LonSeidman the only clients I use are my Nvidia shield tv pro and my phone. Forcing Direct Play on a local or remote connection will be helpful so I don't need to transcode anything. Thanks
This was good information, but what I didn't hear a definitive statement on was whether I should use my synology server as the plex server, or simply store media on it and use the shield pro as the plex server itself?
@@lakorai2 honestly windows is a fuckin mess with hdr but it has gotten better than mac os that needs apple based screens to support it. i have a gaming machine also and I've gotten blue screens when trying to play games and movies in hdr. i think android and the game consoles have shown much better support than either os but a lot of stuff in hdr really isn't even hdr.. hdrs roll out has been an overall mess.
Love this video. I've encoded some of my anime Blu-rays in 10 bit HEVC to save space and was getting stuttering if the subtitles caused transcoding. I know understand it is a limitation of my Synology 216++ and its Braswell chip.
Great video as always. If I run plex on my shield and it transcodes 4K, will it still suffer that color wash? TIA. I have 2 Shields. One for the living room and one for the theater.
How do you rip your 4k movies? I use MakeMKV for my blurays but am not sure about my 4ks...also do you use handbrake at all and if so what are your preferred settings? Thanks!
You need to have a compatible optical drive. It also may need to have the firmware rolled back which can be complicated. I have an LG BH16NS40 which had firmware version 1.03 on it. This prevents the ripping of 4k bluray. I had to rollback my firmware to version 1.02 which was done using DVDFAB which is paid software. I can now use MakeMKV for 4k bluray rips. It's costly on the drive space side of things. I just ripped 1917 and the file size is nearly 65gb.
Lon just a suggestion, can you make a video on how to migrate a plex server and library to a new setup. I want to move off my NAS and onto a ryzen build but don't know where to begin.
What we would all really like to see is hdr tone mapping. I gotta say though I’m more than a bit worried that the more likely scenario after seeing what Plex did with the pc platform is that the few remaining clients that support hdr or even basic surround sound might be losing those capabilities in the future. I certainly have not seen fully capable Plex clients increase. Speaking of that maybe we’ll get lucky and with the new coming hdmi 2.1 standard along with Earc Plex will spend a few dollars making Plex apps for smart TVs that all support 4K hdr and HD audio like true hd etc. But again that really does require them to do some investing. Does it not seem crazy to anyone else that we have to buy a $200 Nvidia Shield because our $1,000 TVs have terrible Plex apps?
The issue you are describing has nothing to do with the plex app on the TVs. That is all related to whether the TV supports the codecs you are trying to direct play or not. If the TV doesn't support either the video or audio codecs of the file you're playing, it will force the plex Server to transcode to something it does support and understand. This behaviour has nothing to do with the app, but the client you are using.
Nvidia shield is a great server for me. Luckily, most of my content is streamed locally in HEVC and no transcoding is required. I love having the NAS for files connected to the shield to run plex. I have a terramaster nas and although their support is very prompt and friendly, their apps often fall behind Synology.
Hi lon, something still not clear to me. Will the nvdia shield play HDR(fancy color) on my TV if the server hosted plex on has a gemini lake cpu(h265 but no HDR support on it). I was to use nvdia as player and gemini lake nas as server.
Upgraded to dual e5-2680v3 xeons on a Supermicro dual socket LGA 2011-3 motherboard. Going to see if this with VMWare esxi 6.7 and a bunch of cores allocated will be enough for proper transcoding. In esxi you have to use a nVidia Quadro p2000 to properly transcode in esxi and do pcie video passthrough.
Is there a video where you transcode 4k to 4k? Like by adding subtitles or using a codex your tv doesn't support? Because you keep showing transcodes to 720p (mobile) which has a low bitrate. Please show us how nvidia shield holds up when you trancode locally in 4k.
Not sure if this has been covered in a video before, but I'd be curious if you have any tips about getting the most out of Handbrake, especially for 4k HEVC videos. For anything less than 4k, I convert it to the h264 MKV formats. For 4k videos I can convert them to h265 format which gets listed by Plex as "2.7k" for external streaming and that only the raw rip of the movie shows up with a 4k HEVC label in Plex. Is there a better way to handle 4k videos. The raw files are like 50+ GB which I would prefer to not keep around if I could avoid it. The raw rip files for 1080p movies is ~30GB but I don't believe much, if anything, is lost converting them to 1080 h264 ~1-3 GB size. I've been meaning to research this at some point but if you're looking for video ideas, doing more in-depth on video formats and Handbrake could be interesting.
I am quite a newbie in this plex/nas area. Currently, I am using plex app on my old Samsung smart TV to play movies from my PR4100. Would it make the picture/sound quality better if I were to get a Nvidia Shield TV? (non-pro version)
In the three cases you reviewed, you were running a Plex server on each of the platforms (WD, Synology, and Shield). Was the movie being stored on the same storage for all three? If so, what was the storage used?
That chart perfectly explains why my Synology 916+ can't play back 4K HEVC files. :( Guess it's time to get a new NAS. Or would an Nvidia Shield be able to play those files fine, even though they're hosted on my Synology 916+ NAS?
Hey just a quick question on transcoding and the Roku. For whatever reason the plex client on my roku has the hardest time playing embedded subtitles. Movies like Avatar where you have to select the subtitle stream cause it to buffer and error out, any suggestions?
Question: Would you prefer a Pi or a NAS to house and stream in home your Movie files? If a NAS, what would be the recommendations? Thank you for the great resources and info!
Hey there Nate. I see that your comment was left with no response. I would suggest a NAS. It's really up to your preference, but the data redundancy is better than PI. I ran Plex on a Pi 4 4GB for a solid few months, but without redundancy, it's not worth it, especially if a NAS can kill the storage and server all in one go. You can also get WD or Seagate NAS drives, maybe even WD Gold, but only in a NAS. I do recommend Gold drives if you are serious about your data and want to run 24/7, especially if you are running uncompressed MKV or MP4/M4V files because those will cause the drives to read significantly more data during their usage.
@@NateLockett I have a f2-220. Terramaster software is clunky but it’s an affordable unit that I’ve had for a solid 2 years running 24/7. I don’t cate much that it can’t do HEVC since my shield does it, but you’ll probably spend at least 300-400 if you want to use it as a Plex server. Probably more frankly.
Switching color spaces during transcoding is difficult to do correctly. Digital TV, blue-ray, uses Color Space: REC. 709. REC. 709 is 8-bit. UHD HDR uses Color Space REC.2020 and can be 10-bit or 12-bit. Color Space: DCI-P3 is used for motion picture film as is what you see in theaters. Must 4K tv's will try to reach some percentage of DCI-P3. A 1080P tv will only support REC>. 709. I do not believe there is currently any tv that support REC. 2020.
I bought a Synology NAS based on a lot of RUclips videos (not yours Lon) to run a Plex server and I would say that I was very disappointed with the transcoding ability on my mid range NAS. So, In my opinion, if you are planning purchasing a Plex server that needs transcoding, I would stay away from low powered NAS servers as your Plex server. Build a PC or spend $$$ on a NAS with a capable CPU.
I have the DS918+. Transcoding HEVC 1080p with DTSHD and ATMOS tracks work fine for me. I don't have many 4k rips because HDR tone mapping doesn't look right, like he mentioned in the video.
I am in the camp that transcoding 4K is inefficient and probably shouldn't be done. It might be better off just dealing with the extra storage cost by having a regular Bluray Rip if transcoding is necessary in your home.
Can you do some test with "desktop" CPUs/GPU cards? I use my homeserver for many other tasks appart from plex media server, so I would love to see how different components behave on HW decoding. Some AMD 3000 vs Intel quick sync and some quaddro cards... maybe ading an old one like de p400 and see if it can handle it, insted of the more expensive p2000, to see if that low TDP GPU can help a new modern AMD chip... Imagine that, AMD 3700x 65W TDP 8 CPU 16 threads as a home server, bound with a low tdp quaddro... you could have a home server with minimum power consumption that could handle so many things... I want to upgrade but I would love to see what makes more sense! :D please help! haha
Transcoding should always be the *last* resort. But I hate that seems to be be the norm in Plex. The hours I've spent getting direct play and/or stream to work... 🤤
Plex is not ready to tell everyone there basically isn’t an efficient method to tone map for real-time transcoding no matter how powerful your hardware is.
Stoped using Plex because no stood support on fire TV and no Plex app on Xbox. I can't trust Plex to provide me a app on all formats that I a fully paid for on each platform. Goodbye plex
Why are you transcoding on a home network ? It should be set to direct play and the Nas and shield Plex app will play that no issues what so ever. Have a 1gb network and 1gb Ethernet speed with cat6A and never have any of this issue
I was thinking the same thing. I bought the shield last year and gave up on the setup process as using the Nvidia shield as a server and player was a nightmare! I'm wondering if it actually works now and will play 4k h264 direct play and not transcoding which is basically pointless.
Plex forcing this transcoding is really getting on my nerves. Especially for live TV. Many of us are using older and/or low power systems for a server making the feature unusable and transcoding locally is redundant. We want control back for HOW our media is shared. Been using Plex for many years but I'm about to start all over and switch to Emby.
I think that it was to demo for those that are doing it outside of their home. A lot of people have limited upload speed. I need to transcode if I'm over at a friends house since 12mbps isn't close to enough as what I can get locally. Luckily, hardware transcoding OTF exists in plex, and if your server supports it, this is exactly why there was a demo. It was also to show how efficient the process is depending on your hardware capabilities.
@@gerry4585 No it to also support HW encoding across many device and has better DVR because there it more option M3U Tuner and Analogue and part I love the most my OTA and Capture recording are toss under the Movie and TV Show Library
That's not really an option if you want to watch your media on more than one device, have more than one person accessing it, have more than one device accessing it simultaneously, or want to watch it outside of your home network. All those things are the reason people use a NAS for serving media.
I watch 4K mkvs ripped from my UHD Blu-ray’s via streaming and I never end up transcoding on my shield TV. It is the one STB that out does even a dedicated HTPC when it comes to Plex and 4K HDR playback. And I m using a wireless mesh network on top if that. Not sure why you’re claiming streaming is an issue.
@@TimTringleJr you lose bit rate ass hole I prefer full bit rate via a raw file. Hope this clears things up. You cannot beat a movie for audio and video quality plugged directly into a usb source. Try just plugging it into the tv or 4k bluray player.
Just to clear up some confusion I'm seeing from commenters: If you are playing in home to a device that can playback the HEVC content there's no need to transcode and your HDR video will remain intact. I do this all the time with my Shield and 4k Blu Rays stored on my NAS. This video is an explanation of what happens when you try to transcode that content when you're outside the house or trying to play it back on something that is not capable of HEVC playback.
Lon,Can you test the power consumption of the Nvidia Shield 2019 PRO? Thanks
AWESOME videos! this has been INCREDIBLY helpful, what settings do you use to convert DVDs and Blurays (assuming handbrake) to get optimal quality (my dvd converts show up as 480p on shield plex sever). and to be clear, 2019 Shield Pro supports H.265 no conversion?
How many 4k streams is the Nvidia shield tv 2017 and 2019 Pro capable?
Thanks. What are the reason(s) why you use the Shield, if your 218+ NAS can handle it (ie. watching at your home TV with no transcoding required)?
Also, will my 216J (w/ only Armada38x CPU) be enough for direct playing of 4k content to Sony 4k TV (X85J)? Just seeing if we'd still need the Shield. Thanks.
I can't believe you did that while your wife was trying to watch something. You're a braver man than I.
Lon, thanks for the video. I enjoyed watching your live session and seeing your process on shooting these videos. I appreciate all your hard work.
Lon, you’re my go to guy for tech info. Always articulate, concise and informative. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for that hardware transcoding clarification. I thought I know how it works, but I never noticed that Plex shows the hardware acceleration state for both de- and encoding separately
Always informative, concise, and complete... Thanks Lon
That tone mapping issue is a huge killer. I've had to make a separate library in Plex just for 4K Blu-rays, and put a SDR version of the movie in my main library for transcoding. Wasting space on my server!
Unless you have a data cap just delete the 4k content and redownload when Plex actually fixes the issues
Woooow, you did such an amazing job explaining and articulating the technical steps of 4k HEVC and PLEX. I've been watching so many videos trying to understand things, many videos later, I was still really confused by what tech veterans were saying on Reddit and RUclips. Been running my PLEX server on an a Laptop with an i7 6th gen, been able to play 4k locally just fine, but every six months or so, the multiple HDDs i have hooked up to it would go through some handshake issue had wipe, loosing 20 TB of movie/shows every time. After watching this video, I can gladly say I have pulled the trigger and purchased the Synology DS1520+ with a few 12TB HDDs. Im so excited to finally have a reliable server for my media. I should have enough room to keep those favorite movies in 4k HEVC and 1080. Once its all set up, this will be a huge relief off my mind (when the next time the drives are going to wipe and i lose everything). Thank you very much for this video
The one hiccup might be the color grading if you have to go from hdr to sdr but otherwise I think this will help manage things better for you !
@@LonSeidman the only clients I use are my Nvidia shield tv pro and my phone. Forcing Direct Play on a local or remote connection will be helpful so I don't need to transcode anything. Thanks
Nice to e-meet you Lon.
Huge help for my home network improvement!! Thanks always.
Thanks for the video... you made a complicated topic much more clear.
This was good information, but what I didn't hear a definitive statement on was whether I should use my synology server as the plex server, or simply store media on it and use the shield pro as the plex server itself?
If I have a shield pro as a plex server and a shield pro as a plex client on another TV, which one will be doing the transcoding/decoding/encoding?
Wish Plex would add tone mapping, I have HDR screens but Mac OS can't display HDR on either of them
MacOS STILL doesnt support HDR.
Windows added support 5 years ago and 3 years ago Dolby Vision was added.
@@lakorai2 honestly windows is a fuckin mess with hdr but it has gotten better than mac os that needs apple based screens to support it. i have a gaming machine also and I've gotten blue screens when trying to play games and movies in hdr. i think android and the game consoles have shown much better support than either os but a lot of stuff in hdr really isn't even hdr.. hdrs roll out has been an overall mess.
Love this video. I've encoded some of my anime Blu-rays in 10 bit HEVC to save space and was getting stuttering if the subtitles caused transcoding. I know understand it is a limitation of my Synology 216++ and its Braswell chip.
A G 10bit hevc is too much for a 216.
Very informative ,Thank you. From the UK
Great video as always. If I run plex on my shield and it transcodes 4K, will it still suffer that color wash? TIA. I have 2 Shields. One for the living room and one for the theater.
How do you rip your 4k movies? I use MakeMKV for my blurays but am not sure about my 4ks...also do you use handbrake at all and if so what are your preferred settings? Thanks!
You need to have a compatible optical drive. It also may need to have the firmware rolled back which can be complicated. I have an LG BH16NS40 which had firmware version 1.03 on it. This prevents the ripping of 4k bluray. I had to rollback my firmware to version 1.02 which was done using DVDFAB which is paid software. I can now use MakeMKV for 4k bluray rips. It's costly on the drive space side of things. I just ripped 1917 and the file size is nearly 65gb.
Lon just a suggestion, can you make a video on how to migrate a plex server and library to a new setup. I want to move off my NAS and onto a ryzen build but don't know where to begin.
What we would all really like to see is hdr tone mapping. I gotta say though I’m more than a bit worried that the more likely scenario after seeing what Plex did with the pc platform is that the few remaining clients that support hdr or even basic surround sound might be losing those capabilities in the future. I certainly have not seen fully capable Plex clients increase.
Speaking of that maybe we’ll get lucky and with the new coming hdmi 2.1 standard along with Earc Plex will spend a few dollars making Plex apps for smart TVs that all support 4K hdr and HD audio like true hd etc. But again that really does require them to do some investing.
Does it not seem crazy to anyone else that we have to buy a $200 Nvidia Shield because our $1,000 TVs have terrible Plex apps?
The issue you are describing has nothing to do with the plex app on the TVs.
That is all related to whether the TV supports the codecs you are trying to direct play or not. If the TV doesn't support either the video or audio codecs of the file you're playing, it will force the plex Server to transcode to something it does support and understand.
This behaviour has nothing to do with the app, but the client you are using.
Nvidia shield is a great server for me. Luckily, most of my content is streamed locally in HEVC and no transcoding is required. I love having the NAS for files connected to the shield to run plex. I have a terramaster nas and although their support is very prompt and friendly, their apps often fall behind Synology.
Thanks for details!!
I own a pr4100 and I make sure all my clients are set for Direct STream for 4K. Less hassle.
Great Video. thanks for this helpfull informations
Hi lon, something still not clear to me. Will the nvdia shield play HDR(fancy color) on my TV if the server hosted plex on has a gemini lake cpu(h265 but no HDR support on it). I was to use nvdia as player and gemini lake nas as server.
Upgraded to dual e5-2680v3 xeons on a Supermicro dual socket LGA 2011-3 motherboard. Going to see if this with VMWare esxi 6.7 and a bunch of cores allocated will be enough for proper transcoding. In esxi you have to use a nVidia Quadro p2000 to properly transcode in esxi and do pcie video passthrough.
Is there a video where you transcode 4k to 4k? Like by adding subtitles or using a codex your tv doesn't support? Because you keep showing transcodes to 720p (mobile) which has a low bitrate. Please show us how nvidia shield holds up when you trancode locally in 4k.
Not sure if this has been covered in a video before, but I'd be curious if you have any tips about getting the most out of Handbrake, especially for 4k HEVC videos. For anything less than 4k, I convert it to the h264 MKV formats. For 4k videos I can convert them to h265 format which gets listed by Plex as "2.7k" for external streaming and that only the raw rip of the movie shows up with a 4k HEVC label in Plex. Is there a better way to handle 4k videos. The raw files are like 50+ GB which I would prefer to not keep around if I could avoid it. The raw rip files for 1080p movies is ~30GB but I don't believe much, if anything, is lost converting them to 1080 h264 ~1-3 GB size. I've been meaning to research this at some point but if you're looking for video ideas, doing more in-depth on video formats and Handbrake could be interesting.
I am quite a newbie in this plex/nas area. Currently, I am using plex app on my old Samsung smart TV to play movies from my PR4100. Would it make the picture/sound quality better if I were to get a Nvidia Shield TV? (non-pro version)
In the three cases you reviewed, you were running a Plex server on each of the platforms (WD, Synology, and Shield). Was the movie being stored on the same storage for all three? If so, what was the storage used?
No I've used different things. The WD and Synology used their internal hard drives and I used an external SSD on the shield.
Lon do i need a plex pass to get hardware transcode on nvidia shield?
I don’t believe so
That chart perfectly explains why my Synology 916+ can't play back 4K HEVC files. :( Guess it's time to get a new NAS. Or would an Nvidia Shield be able to play those files fine, even though they're hosted on my Synology 916+ NAS?
Hey just a quick question on transcoding and the Roku. For whatever reason the plex client on my roku has the hardest time playing embedded subtitles. Movies like Avatar where you have to select the subtitle stream cause it to buffer and error out, any suggestions?
Question: Would you prefer a Pi or a NAS to house and stream in home your Movie files? If a NAS, what would be the recommendations? Thank you for the great resources and info!
Hey there Nate. I see that your comment was left with no response. I would suggest a NAS. It's really up to your preference, but the data redundancy is better than PI. I ran Plex on a Pi 4 4GB for a solid few months, but without redundancy, it's not worth it, especially if a NAS can kill the storage and server all in one go. You can also get WD or Seagate NAS drives, maybe even WD Gold, but only in a NAS. I do recommend Gold drives if you are serious about your data and want to run 24/7, especially if you are running uncompressed MKV or MP4/M4V files because those will cause the drives to read significantly more data during their usage.
@@ethanlatimer1956 Thanks Ethan. What NAS would you recommend at this time?
@@NateLockett I have a f2-220. Terramaster software is clunky but it’s an affordable unit that I’ve had for a solid 2 years running 24/7. I don’t cate much that it can’t do HEVC since my shield does it, but you’ll probably spend at least 300-400 if you want to use it as a Plex server. Probably more frankly.
Does Shield support TrueHD and PGS subtitles to be direct played simultaneously?
Thanks Lon
How does the Synology work with EMBY? Can it direct stream x265/h265 files?
Could you review the new Shield feature in 8.1.1 "Channels DVR app can now store recorded content on NAS"
Switching color spaces during transcoding is difficult to do correctly. Digital TV, blue-ray, uses Color Space: REC. 709. REC. 709 is 8-bit. UHD HDR uses Color Space REC.2020 and can be 10-bit or 12-bit. Color Space: DCI-P3 is used for motion picture film as is what you see in theaters. Must 4K tv's will try to reach some percentage of DCI-P3. A 1080P tv will only support REC>. 709. I do not believe there is currently any tv that support REC. 2020.
I bought a Synology NAS based on a lot of RUclips videos (not yours Lon) to run a Plex server and I would say that I was very disappointed with the transcoding ability on my mid range NAS. So, In my opinion, if you are planning purchasing a Plex server that needs transcoding, I would stay away from low powered NAS servers as your Plex server. Build a PC or spend $$$ on a NAS with a capable CPU.
I have a DS1019+ (Synology) that can transcode 8 or 9 videos at once without issue.
DMV-P , I have the 918+, which has the same cpu as the 1019+, and that hasn’t been my experience.
I have the DS918+. Transcoding HEVC 1080p with DTSHD and ATMOS tracks work fine for me. I don't have many 4k rips because HDR tone mapping doesn't look right, like he mentioned in the video.
Bill Frost Do you have a Plex pass? Plex won’t do hardware encodes without one.
Mike Jorgensen yep
Can you please show how work synology DS Video with Nvidia Shield?
im using intel g5400 and cheap itx board, just for get the quicksync feature for plex transcode
Nas itself cant transcode ? Do you need shield or pc to stream or how it is ?
What's your encoding workflow? I've been having a hard time with HEVC encoding and have just left my 4k as mkv.
jcwhite22 Ripbot264 can do it.
how many 1080p transcodes will the WD PR2100 do at the same time?
Brian Gunderson 2
Is it plex that are sponsoring this video?
I am in the camp that transcoding 4K is inefficient and probably shouldn't be done. It might be better off just dealing with the extra storage cost by having a regular Bluray Rip if transcoding is necessary in your home.
can you compare nas devices and comper them to each other
Can you do some test with "desktop" CPUs/GPU cards? I use my homeserver for many other tasks appart from plex media server, so I would love to see how different components behave on HW decoding. Some AMD 3000 vs Intel quick sync and some quaddro cards... maybe ading an old one like de p400 and see if it can handle it, insted of the more expensive p2000, to see if that low TDP GPU can help a new modern AMD chip... Imagine that, AMD 3700x 65W TDP 8 CPU 16 threads as a home server, bound with a low tdp quaddro... you could have a home server with minimum power consumption that could handle so many things...
I want to upgrade but I would love to see what makes more sense! :D please help! haha
Hello I cant watch HEVC MAIN 10 on firestick any help please
My codename is Rangeley but it's not coming up in the wiki? Does anyone know?
Will my PS 4 Pro play 4K HDR via PLEX?
I'm having the same tone mapping issue on my internal playback on 4K screens.
Transcoding should always be the *last* resort. But I hate that seems to be be the norm in Plex. The hours I've spent getting direct play and/or stream to work... 🤤
Hi there,
Mine is Synolog DS918+ and cannot trancode (hw) 4K HEVC
Tipi Hanipah without Plex subscription is available only sw transcode
Tipi Hanipah pat for the 200$ one time Plex pass. If not it only supports sw transcode
Plex is not ready to tell everyone there basically isn’t an efficient method to tone map for real-time transcoding no matter how powerful your hardware is.
Someone now if Plex Pass is needed on Nvidia shield to got HW transcoding ?
Ironically, if it was truly buffering it wouldn't be stuttering. Somehow along the way buffering lost its meaning.
Stoped using Plex because no stood support on fire TV and no Plex app on Xbox. I can't trust Plex to provide me a app on all formats that I a fully paid for on each platform. Goodbye plex
When tone mapping for transcodes?
My tone mapping doesn't work with direct play on my Samsung 55 inch 4K ... I've tried everything.
Which nvidia shield?
WIki Link?
Oops forgot to paste that in here you go : lon.tv/quicksyncwiki
As far as I know, no browser supports x265 HEVC, better install the PLEX app for Win10.
I think internet explorer supports it now, or at least there's a plugin that seems to extend to it.
n3710 is my school laptop( I mean parents buy it for me for my school stuff). It really suck and I secretly buy a pc.
nPlayer ... and that's it! 😉
Why are you transcoding on a home network ?
It should be set to direct play and the Nas and shield Plex app will play that no issues what so ever.
Have a 1gb network and 1gb Ethernet speed with cat6A and never have any of this issue
This is a demonstration
I was thinking the same thing. I bought the shield last year and gave up on the setup process as using the Nvidia shield as a server and player was a nightmare! I'm wondering if it actually works now and will play 4k h264 direct play and not transcoding which is basically pointless.
Plex forcing this transcoding is really getting on my nerves. Especially for live TV. Many of us are using older and/or low power systems for a server making the feature unusable and transcoding locally is redundant. We want control back for HOW our media is shared. Been using Plex for many years but I'm about to start all over and switch to Emby.
I think that it was to demo for those that are doing it outside of their home. A lot of people have limited upload speed. I need to transcode if I'm over at a friends house since 12mbps isn't close to enough as what I can get locally. Luckily, hardware transcoding OTF exists in plex, and if your server supports it, this is exactly why there was a demo. It was also to show how efficient the process is depending on your hardware capabilities.
Why is he playing on the browser and not plex player?
Victor Zsasz , I noticed that also. Chrome is an awful Plex media player.
Give Emby a shot
Emby is not a sponsor here, so NO :)
Doesn't emby buffer 4k movies then?
@@gerry4585 No it to also support HW encoding across many device and has better DVR because there it more option M3U Tuner and Analogue and part I love the most my OTA and Capture recording are toss under the Movie and TV Show Library
@@cbrcoder that has nothing to do with.
Can I run Plex server on my iPhone 6s? I have Internet.
No server option on iOS unfortunately
Linux kernel 5.3 and better support HDR!!! for Gemini Lake CPU (distrib: Ubuntu 1904, Linux Mint 19.3 Trica)
Does I am the only one that my shield plex server is at 99,9% offline for no reason ?
Lol. Their default windows software can only play stereo. Useless for movie watchers.
Just plug your HDD into your 4k TV or 4k bluray player or nvidia shield TV box. Dont waste your time with transcoding or streaming its wank
That's not really an option if you want to watch your media on more than one device, have more than one person accessing it, have more than one device accessing it simultaneously, or want to watch it outside of your home network. All those things are the reason people use a NAS for serving media.
You don't get the point?😨
The point of transcoding is watching away from home and when traveling.
I watch 4K mkvs ripped from my UHD Blu-ray’s via streaming and I never end up transcoding on my shield TV. It is the one STB that out does even a dedicated HTPC when it comes to Plex and 4K HDR playback. And I m using a wireless mesh network on top if that. Not sure why you’re claiming streaming is an issue.
@@TimTringleJr you lose bit rate ass hole I prefer full bit rate via a raw file. Hope this clears things up. You cannot beat a movie for audio and video quality plugged directly into a usb source. Try just plugging it into the tv or 4k bluray player.
L for picking garbage film...
Uno.. I mean First.
Linux kernel 5.3 and better support HDR!!! for Gemini Lake CPU (distrib: Ubuntu 1904, Linux Mint 19.3 Trica)