Can Plex transcode EVERYTHING (audio and video) and feed it to a dumb TV in MPEG-2 TS?
Really simple DLNA question which I can not find the answer to - anywhere.
My TV only supports this format (Panasonic Viera TH-P50VT20A).
I haven’t had much experience with Plex’s use of DLNA, but I don’t think Plex gets involved in transcoding on-demand when it provides the files via DLNA. You need a client on the TV’s end that tells the server what the TV is capable of playing, in order to request a video of a particular quality.
Fire TV sticks from Amazon can have a client installed on them and are pretty capable. As long as your TV has an HDMI port, you’d by able to use Plex on that.
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Plex will transcode, sometimes, for DLNA, sometimes. I don’t know what the rubric is.
The oldschool XML capability profiles refer to DLNA. I don’t know if there’s any ability to customize them. I don’t know how a random device would fit into it. It’s probably possible!
But like, I totally agree. Buy something. Fire and Roku sticks are good and cheap. The Walmart onn boxes are cheap.
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Thanks for the responses.
As this is really just a spare TV used mostly for DVB-T, I can not justify spending/adding anything to it.
When I noticed Plex on the menu via DLNA and the speed and simplicity it operates at, it sparked my mind;
if someone familiar with editing the custom profiles (there is already a Panasonic Viera 3D TV profile for newer models) which would force Plex to transcode all formats since Plex can already do this when playing non-supported video to other devices.
I am sure its possible, the question is if there is anyone who reads this forum who could modify the DLNA settings in PMS and/or the profiles to achieve this…
I own one of these for an older 1080P TV and it works really well. Only $20 and it is actually receiving Android TV updates (and actually runs real Android TV).
If you do change your mind on this point, I can recommend the Onn streaming box if all you need is something basic and compatible.
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Try to play something from the TV.
Then share server logs here.
We can make some guesses about Profile XML changes.
I’m in Australia we don’t have Walmart here but really I’d like to avoid adding devices to the TV if DLNA could work.
there may be varying info in logs as I was testing different profiles.
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