Which solution is best for you?
I suppose it really depends on your use case…
If your home server’s upload bandwidth or CPU are limited, the separate libraries approach should be the way to go. Same if you want to avoid overloading your server with transcoding demands from sharing.
If none of the above apply, there should be no reasons not to keep them in a combined overall library.
Put them in a separate library so there is no confusion. This was you can share the 4K lib only with people who can direct play them.
separate.
and unless you have 100+ meg upload, remote users wouldn’t be able to direct play them anyway.
Keep separate 4k libraries for movies and if you have any 4k tv shows.
Don’t share the 4k libraries with remote users.
Yes if you want to support non-4k users or clients that means you may need 2 copies of the same thing kept in separate libraries.
It is a little extra hassle, and a little more space used, but if you are collecting 4k media and you are worried about extra hassle or extra space, maybe you shouldn’t be collecting 4k in the first place, eh?
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I bundle all mine together,
On my LAN I get the full 4k. Remote users can still watch them, plex will just dumb them down.
If you are going to dumb them down to 1080p, whats the point!!!
Another thing is if those files are HDR.
Last I checked tone mapping isn’t a mainstream thing in Plex yet. So you will have someone transcoding a 4K HDR file and apart from the stress on the server the playback will look washed out.
Another reason for a separate library.
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^ What @Xhaka said…
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