So,
It has been 4 months from when I opened the thread and I have something new to add…
Well, I bought a LG OLED G1 65" in my work room, mostly to use with my PC / Consoles… Although of course Netflix/Plex are also in my mind with this TV…
And the results are not good at all…
I tried to play Loki S01E01 over network with horrible results…
Here is the media info:
Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L5.2@Main
HDR format : Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, dvhe.05.06, BL+RPU
Codec ID : dvhe
Codec ID/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding with Dolby Vision
Duration : 50 min 22 s
Bit rate : 21.6 Mb/s
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 2 160 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 24.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 (Type 0)
Bit depth : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.109
Stream size : 7.60 GiB (97%)
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1
Encoded date : UTC 2021-06-09 16:46:03
Tagged date : UTC 2021-06-09 16:47:10
Color range : Full
Codec configuration box : hvcC+dvcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : E-AC-3 JOC
Format/Info : Enhanced AC-3 with Joint Object Coding
Commercial name : Dolby Digital Plus with Dolby Atmos
Format settings : Dolby Surround EX
Codec ID : ec-3
Duration : 50 min 22 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 kb/s
Maximum bit rate : 811 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 277 MiB (3%)
Title : English
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Encoded date : UTC 2021-05-23 08:38:39
Tagged date : UTC 2021-06-09 16:47:10
Complexity index : Not present / 16
Number of dynamic objects : 15
Bed channel count : 1 channel
Bed channel configuration : LFE
I clipped subtitle section but that’s not important…
First of all player is a bit different from Android version. At first it seemed ok. Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos is detected by TV, it started great. Then about 3-4 minutes in, the audio started to stutter very badly and video/audio desynchronized… There was no transcoding and it was Direct Play.
I also bought an Apple TV 4K ( the new one that just came out ) to see how it handles… Unfortunately it didn’t detect Dolby Vision at all and there were greenish/reddish hues everywhere. Although it did play without audio problem. The only fault was Dolby Vision, which was of course without it it was unplayable at all…
So, I copied my files to a disk and played directly from there. There was almost no problem whatsoever other than the LG’s screen configuration which was stuck on Cinema or Cinema Home etc… I couldn’t use Filmmaker or other extended profiles at all. It was a bit dark but playback was without a hitch.
I connected my LG TV to my router which was beside my TV again… I tried wireless and wired. Again, I don’t know why TV manufacturers insist on 100mbps connection on cable. Is gigabit connection really hard to do on TVs?
So, it should be due to network right? Although plex didn’t show any loading animation or said the network speed is lousy. Only audio stuttered like hell.
BTW, I did check out Mythic Quest also:
Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L5@High
HDR format : Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, dvhe.05.06, BL+RPU
Codec ID : dvhe
Codec ID/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding with Dolby Vision
Duration : 25 min 0 s
Bit rate : 24.7 Mb/s
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 1 920 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.000
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.140
Stream size : 4.32 GiB (97%)
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1
Codec configuration box : hvcC+dvcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : E-AC-3 JOC
Format/Info : Enhanced AC-3 with Joint Object Coding
Commercial name : Dolby Digital Plus with Dolby Atmos
Codec ID : ec-3
Duration : 25 min 0 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 kb/s
Maximum bit rate : 811 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 137 MiB (3%)
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 2
Complexity index : Not present / 16
Number of dynamic objects : 15
Bed channel count : 1 channel
Bed channel configuration : LFE
This one played without any problem on Plex. As you can see the bitrate is higher than Loki, although it played perfectly.
