Just curious if HDR is supported by plex? I’m in the market for a bluray drive to rip my 4k HDR discs and just wanted to know if plex supported it? I do have an nvidia shield on one TV that supports 4k HDR and my other TV is an LG OLED which supports both HDR10 and Dolby Vision.
Also, any recommendations for bluray drives for ripping these movies?
I answered my own question. I found a sample online and plex did play it with HDR. Though I see when it comes to 4k plex is very picky about formatting. Only mp4 and 8-bit?
@archer75 said:
Though I see when it comes to 4k plex is very picky about formatting. Only mp4 and 8-bit?
Not Plex, but the embedded player software of your device. Plex only uses this and doesn’t bring an own player engine with it.
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@OttoKerner said:
@archer75 said:
Though I see when it comes to 4k plex is very picky about formatting. Only mp4 and 8-bit?Not Plex, but the embedded player software of your device. Plex only uses this and doesn’t bring an own player engine with it.
It’s on the plex page as what they only support.
Container: MP4
Resolution: 3840x2160 or smaller
Video Encoding: HEVC (H.265)
Video Frame Rate: 30fps
Video Bit Depth: 8
4K content not matching the above properties will be transcoded to 1080p. Transcoding 4K content is a very intensive process and will require a powerful computer running Plex Media Server.
Other players may have additional requirements beyond that. But plex itself is limited to those settings. My devices have support beyond that.
Trying to understand the MP4 requirement and not MKV or why it matters? I have devices that support 10 bit video depth and 60fps as well.
I also have a 2016 HDR capable LG and i am running Plex Media Player Preview on a Windows 10 Machine all connected with HDMI 2.0 cables and a 2.0b HDMI port on the card. I cannot for the life of me get the TV to recognise the HDR of the video, it just plays “standard”. I am missing something here as the same video plays HDR when loaded onto a USB stick?
@pottypotsworth said:
I also have a 2016 HDR capable LG and i am running Plex Media Player Preview on a Windows 10 Machine all connected with HDMI 2.0 cables and a 2.0b HDMI port on the card. I cannot for the life of me get the TV to recognise the HDR of the video, it just plays “standard”. I am missing something here as the same video plays HDR when loaded onto a USB stick?
No you are not crazy, I have a Windows 10 gamign machine with a Titan Pascal and can play two steam games that just got HDR support with no problem. The Samsung notifies me when the game is in HDR. I can also play MKV’s with Dolby Atmos support and it works well.
After seeing this post I downloaded two mp4’s with HDR support and upon playing them they work fine but there is no notification that the player is using the metadata and their is no notification from the Samsung. The samples I have have vibrant colors, maybe my HDR samples are bad?
I got them from here: http://kodi.wiki/view/Samples
@pottypotsworth said:
I also have a 2016 HDR capable LG and i am running Plex Media Player Preview on a Windows 10 Machine all connected with HDMI 2.0 cables and a 2.0b HDMI port on the card. I cannot for the life of me get the TV to recognise the HDR of the video, it just plays “standard”. I am missing something here as the same video plays HDR when loaded onto a USB stick?
See my above post. To play through plex they have to be encoded in the format plex supports. I have downloaded HDR samples in the proper format and they worked fine via plex.
@archer75 said:
@pottypotsworth said:
I also have a 2016 HDR capable LG and i am running Plex Media Player Preview on a Windows 10 Machine all connected with HDMI 2.0 cables and a 2.0b HDMI port on the card. I cannot for the life of me get the TV to recognise the HDR of the video, it just plays “standard”. I am missing something here as the same video plays HDR when loaded onto a USB stick?See my above post. To play through plex they have to be encoded in the format plex supports. I have downloaded HDR samples in the proper format and they worked fine via plex.
Do you happen to have a link to a HDR file in this correct format? I am using PMP and it 100% does not transcode the HDR test files i have used, it just doesn’t send the HDR metadata to the TV.
Thanks
I didn’t bookmark but I “think” this was it http://hdrsamples.com/life-of-pi-4k-uhd-hdr-sample-footage/
@archer75 said:
I didn’t bookmark but I “think” this was it hdrsamples.com - This website is for sale! - hdrsamples Resources and Information.
Please confirm:
- You playing the files and they are playing OK
or
- You playing the files and they are playing OK, then your monitor/TV displays a badge on screen to notify you that you are playing and HDR video source and its is recognized. Which means the your monitor/TV is using the HDR metadata.
I ask because I am using the same files you have posted and while they play fine and seem to saturated color they are not sending the metadata to my Samsung UN65KS9800. I can play them and it looks like someone turn the color up before posting, we need to confirm the source actually has the metadata and then the player needs to pass it on to the set and then it will work.
Please confirm if you are experiencing #1 or #2 above, thanks.
Life of Pi was very saturated. I was thinking it’s the nature of that movie and the sample. The TV does display the HDR icon. My TV is the LG65OLEDB6
OK strange, the sample is differently saturated for sure but I guess I am at a loss on how your HDR badge came up.
I am a plex pass user and am running the latest betas, I will do some testing over the weekend.
Thanks for confirming.
I’ve just tried that life of Pi test file (thanks for the link @archer75) using PMP on windows 10 and 100% no HDR.
Using it on the LG Plex App, 100% HDR, TV kicks in immediately.
So the LG Plex web app 100% detects HDR if the file is seemingly in the correct format.
Test was with my LG 65OLED E6.
@archer75 Can you confirm you have been getting this files to work in HDR ONLY through the LG/Shield TV Plex App?
@pottypotsworth said:
I’ve just tried that life of Pi test file (thanks for the link @archer75) using PMP on windows 10 and 100% no HDR.Using it on the LG Plex App, 100% HDR, TV kicks in immediately.
So the LG Plex web app 100% detects HDR if the file is seemingly in the correct format.
Test was with my LG 65OLED E6.
@archer75 Can you confirm you have been getting this files to work in HDR ONLY through the LG/Shield TV Plex App?
It’s through the LG app and the test samples do cause the HDR badge to appear on the tv. I don’t have my shield hooked up to this tv so I have not tested with the shield.
I have tried a rip of mad max 4k HDR in the proper format, through the LG plex app, and the tv never displayed HDR. So i’m wondering if something is lost during ripping that is necessary for HDR?
OK thanks for the confirmation about the TV app versus the windows 10 media player.
That is a shame a plex pass user can not get the HDR working with the media player. I will contact support to notify them.
OK just an update from the Samsung TV app, the version I used was last updated on 10/14/16.
When playing back the files I am getting the same over saturated colors and the HDR badge does not pop up when playing the video.
I am able to do this from Windows 10 using two different steam games, xbox one s for UHD bluray but Plex on Windows 10 or the Samsung TV Tizen app does not work. I am not sure why the difference with the LG set.
I have a 2016 SUHD 9800 series Samsung.
Please update the app Plex-Team!
I don’t know how many hours I’ve put in testing every possible formatt, TV settings after TV settings, Windows 10 HDR settings, Nvidia Display Color settings, over and over and over. My wife is so tired of it and just wants me to return the 4k HDR TV and be done with it.
I think I’m at the point with the lack of support from Plex, Kodi, Windows 10, and Nvidia that I’m retiring my Home Theatre PC. Plex doesn’t even support the Home Theatre version anymore. I’ve been using Open PHT and it loves to crash all the time. 4k HDR has killed the HTPC. I’m going back to the built in Android TV in my Sony x930e.
@Flook said:
I don’t know how many hours I’ve put in testing every possible formatt, TV settings after TV settings, Windows 10 HDR settings, Nvidia Display Color settings, over and over and over. My wife is so tired of it and just wants me to return the 4k HDR TV and be done with it.I think I’m at the point with the lack of support from Plex, Kodi, Windows 10, and Nvidia that I’m retiring my Home Theatre PC. Plex doesn’t even support the Home Theatre version anymore. I’ve been using Open PHT and it loves to crash all the time. 4k HDR has killed the HTPC. I’m going back to the built in Android TV in my Sony x930e.
Only free reliable way to play bit perfect hdr content for now is to use MPC HC with mad VR, that’s how I do it but I would love to see this feature come to PMP …
If you use X Play on LG TV it shows HDR logo and plays correctly, use this app until its supported by native plex app.
