3d/4k

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Now I’ve searched but all the results are years old.

Starting with 3d… from the faq and other stuff i’ve read, Plex can do 3d. So I took the 3d disc, ripped it to mkv, loaded it up in plex, but it’s shown in 2d. Does that mean I don’t have to rip the bluray copy and the 3d copy? Like if I don’t put the projector in 3d mode, it’ll just play it in 2d mode?

I’ve also read that plex can do 4k. Tried to rip 4k, but it didn’t read the disc. I’m guessing I’m going to need a new bluray drive. If i got a new drive, is there any current problems with ripping 4k to mkv? If not, from my understanding, I just load it up in plex and between plex and the tv, they handle the other stuff.

Thanks for any insight into this.

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PMS itself can’t do anything with 3D. This falls to each player for now. The Samsung client understands -ou and -sbs (e.g movie-sbs.mkv) to identify 3D. PMS itself simply sends the stream.

4K ripping is straight forward. You mux the BDMV playlist into an MKV, keeping those streams you want. A good tool for this is MakeMKV or Mkvmerge

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@ChuckPa said:
PMS itself can’t do anything with 3D. This falls to each player for now. The Samsung client understands -ou and -sbs (e.g movie-sbs.mkv) to identify 3D. PMS itself simply sends the stream.

4K ripping is straight forward. You mux the BDMV playlist into an MKV, keeping those streams you want. A good tool for this is MakeMKV or Mkvmerge

Any idea if I were to just always rip the 3d version and if the player isn’t 3d it’ll just play the movie as 2d? That way I don’t have to have 2 mkv rips.

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If the player doesn’t understand 3D and you can’t manually enable 3D mode on the TV, you’ll have two images.