I have a number of 3D Blu Rays and have recently started purchasing 4K UHD discs. I have a 4K LG TV (75UH8500) that has the Plex app on it. Does Plex support these formats? Also, can someone recommend a blu ray ripping software/app that I can rip my 3D and 4K discs to a filetype that Plex supports, or suggest a way I can copy the files on these discs onto my server and then convert them to a filetype that Plex recognises? Thanks.
Plex Media Player automatically detects the resolution of your screen and draws the interface accordingly. The app also supports playback of 4K video files using the H.264 (AVC) codec in most containers, so long as your computer is powerful enough to decode it. Plex also supports 3D, however, note that there is nothing special that the Plex app can do to instruct the television that a specific video is 3D. You will need to enable the appropriate 3D viewing mode on the television yourself.
New to the world of PLEX but eager to try it out. Plan to install PLEX on a server (WSE2012 R2, dual Xenon CPUs, net 18TB RAIDED storage)) to serve media to five Smart TV clients (2, 4K UHD capable). 20% of movies are DVDs, 75% are Blu-rays, 5% and growing are 4K UHD discs. Looking for software to convert physical media into PLEX usable file format for quality streaming, concentrating on non 4K UHD discs first.
Thank you.
I have an LG 4k 65UH8500, plex plays 3D movies fine on it.
My desktop can’t read the 4K disc so I can’t rip them to the server. only issue is the library. when the 3D movie is put on the server, plex likes to combine the movies together. it takes some hair pulling to get them to separate. I plan to put the 4K in the regular movie section only separating the 3D ones.
Heavy I use Dvdfab to handle my ripping handles standard, Blu-ray, 3D, 4K.
Thanks for the response. Still evaluating choices in ripper software, will download trials and see how they go. Especially looking for good results on 4K discs.
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what are you using for a drive if I may ask
There is no way of doing a real rip of a 4k disc as of yet (AACS has not been cracked).
But yes plexsupports 4k and 3d, when I still had a 3Dtv I tagged my 3D movies with 3D so I could easily find them in plex (or just split the movies if you have both 2D and 3D and use another cover for the 3D version).
FYI
You should not expect to have 4K content and expect Plex to be able to transcode it to a lower resolution.
I recommend you keep you 4K content in a separate library and only allow users with 4K capable devices access.
Also keep a 1080p version around for all non 4K capable viewing.
You basically need to be sure you encode your 4K to a format that can be direct played by Plex.
That is… encode to.
mp4 / h.265 / ac3
Any deviation from that will most likely trigger transcoding and will bring PMS to its knees.
Also never use subtitles for 4K as that will also trigger transcoding.
@“mikep.howell”
Are you really able to rip 4K dvds with DVDFab???
DVDFab says they will not be supporting ripping of 4K discs the last I read…
I have a couple of movies I have unconverted to 4K with Dvdfab a resolution of 3840 x 2160. I know this is not true 4k! I have no player that can read a 4K disc, as of yet still looking…
I have noticed with plex because all my movies but one are mp4 /h.265 there is no transcoding locally and in some cases none remotely. I have a person who has a Roku 4 in another state and it direct plays.
I am still having problems with my library accepting different versions of the same movie. if you start watching a standard movie the 3D labeled movie will show up in continue watching at the same location as the regular.
My server transcodes 4k files fine, I keep all my stuff mixed together except my 3d. I have no issues with it. I’ve even tried to force the server to struggle by running multiple streams at once but it hasn’t had any issues.
