I currently have Plex and Radarr. I only ever got 1080p content because that’s all my tv would do. Finally getting a nice new tv and would like to get a few 4K hdr movies to watch. Should I be looking for Bluray2160, Remux, or disk and what will Plex play?

  • Zebov@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    While I can’t directly help you, I do know that unless you have some insane rig, you’ll never be able to transcode 4k. Which means, the player is by far the most important.

    I haven’t messed with it in some time, but for awhile everyone basically only recommended an Nvidia shield because it seemed to direct stream nearly everything.

    • myogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Transcoding 4K isn’t as hard as you think. I used an i5-9500T and the iGPU could easily transcode ~80GB 4K Blu-ray rips at double real time speed. I’ve now switched to software transcoding on a 5800x and it also exceeds real time speed.