I purchased, setup and installed a Raspberry Pi B +just over a year ago and used the latest version of Rasplex on and used a Plex server setup on my main PC to stream films/series across my powerline ethernet.
Recently I purchased a 4K tv and so used the home videos section of the serve to stream them to the Rasplex. This worked successfully with some automatic transcoding. The video was slightly jumpy in places but no complaints.
I decided to upgrade my version of the Rasplex firmware for stability in the hopes it would play smoother. However after installing the latest version, using my PC and a usb to SD card convertor, the 4K videos now all come out fuzzy green with no actual picture and very jumpy sound.
Any true 4k video would have to be transcoded as that resolution is not supported by Rasplex, have you looked at your sever logs? what version of PMS are you running?
@NedtheNerd said:
Any true 4k video would have to be transcoded as that resolution is not supported by Rasplex, have you looked at your sever logs? what version of PMS are you running?
Regards
Sorry to keep dredging up old threads, but with the release of 4K bluray coming in March I’m trying to prepare. Is 4K still unsupported? I’ve read the release notes on 1.0.1 and didn’t see any mention of 4K support
As Ned mentioned before, native 4K support is not possible on the RPi1 or 2, it has to be transcoded. Apparently the transcoding uses an incorrect setting for 4K video (which I assume is encoded using H.265?) which causes RasPlex to have trouble with the resulting stream.
@KnightOrc said:
As Ned mentioned before, native 4K support is not possible on the RPi1 or 2, it has to be transcoded. Apparently the transcoding uses an incorrect setting for 4K video (which I assume is encoded using H.265?) which causes RasPlex to have trouble with the resulting stream.
Yes, I’ll encode 4K with H.265 via handbrake. So it’s not possible with Rasplex currently? Or it’s a hardware limitation and the Pi cannot and will not ever be able to handle 4K?
Current RPi’s will never support 4K, this is $30 hardware after all! But it outshines other ‘boxes’ with Direct Play hardware decoding and codec support.
IMHO, 4K is a bit like 3D, a hyped novelty, and from testing several TV’s only brings any benefit once you go over 55inch screen size and then it’s almost negligible, but I can understand people wanting the latest tech, used to be like that myself!
