Just thought I’d share my recent experiences using Plex to stream 4K HDR content. I picked up a Sony 65" OLED TV w/built-in Android TV over the weekend. I currently have it connected to my network via wi-fi (I don’t recall the speed but I recently purchased a new Asus router and it’s only a room a…

Hi STWallman , you’re really lucky having a symmetrical Gbit connection. Though I do agree on Plex handling 4K streams perfectly fine. Most of mine are low bitrate (also because of 24p frame rate, I believe 4K and 24p should never meet again…), but while buffering the first minute or so, I see some …

What kind of bitrates we talking about?

Most of the stuff I’ve got is between 40 and 60

Well, I have no way of seeing a Dolby Vision movie with the same i5 6500t, it doesn’t look smooth, they have microshocks. Wi-Fi connection 350 mbps up and down and it does not go well. By ethernet it only reaches 95mbps

But that’s not your internet cable’s fault I imagine, even rust can transmit faster than 95mbps. The 6500t is already rather old (and was not anywhere high end even back then) and nobody ever said handling 4K is easy, but that might look different on another device or even another player! …

Many of the ethernet adapters for a wired connection in TV’s are 100 mbps so theoretically WiFi is faster (although that’s assuming good WiFi, router nearby, etc.) You mention Dolby Vision - keep in mind that’s a totally different ballgame that requires the proper media file, hardware, apps, etc. …

@Super4Jet @Lazarus_Long Thanks for answering. Yes, I imagine that the pc lacks power to move that type of movies, if it is true that the demo plays them well but they do not occupy 60GB like the movies. Yes it is true that the post talks about 4k but imagine that using the same processor could h…

We probably should’ve opened a new thread for this, but let’s just assume this is part of the “experience” mentioned in the title. So, before I reused old MB/CPU/Ram combo, my PMS was running on a Pi3. The Pi is not powerful at all, it can barely handle playing back 1080p content, with barely meanin…

Thanks for answering. I understand that yes, that the pi3 is much less power. In plex server I put direct transmission but I do not remember finding in plex server of the tv the option of direct reproduction. The Tv is the Sony x900h that the panel is 4k 10 bits and it reproduces smoothly 4k, hd…

My recent experiences with 4K/HDR

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In my case only about 15-20 mbit/s, though I’ve heard “bursts [of 4k video] can exceed 100mbps”, but depending on where you get your 4k footage from and how you handle converting them you’d see around 40-50mbps lossy compression and about double~triple for lossless compression.

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