Hi all,
I’ve found a few old thread regarding this but nothing super up to date. So my question is I just got a new TV which is a 4K HDR OLED and was wondering if either of the XBOX consoles are now capable of playing 4k video files via plex, I’ve read there have been issues before.
IS there a fix which currently works or have the apps been updated to handle such files? What I’m looking g to stream is quite high bitrate HDR HEVC files.
Thanks in advance
No, they absolutely are not. Plex claims there is a bug in the Xbox that MS needs to fix so that they can play files without falling into transcoding. Unfortunately, even if you strip the troublesome audio codecs out and just leave AC3, you should get Direct Play but you’ll still have buffering issues.
The NVIDIA Shield is the only product on the market that I know of that plays nearly all 4K video and audio codecs without transcoding or buffering.
Does the Shield play the 4K files with HDR too?
Yep, I’m playing something HDR right now without issue, though I think (someone correct me if I’m wrong) it doesn’t support Dolby Vision, at least not yet. Other than that, I don’t think there is really much it doesn’t support. All the 4k files I’ve tested from my library are working without issue.
I’ve played 4K HDR content without issues. Pretty sure it wasn’t transcoded at all. I also bitstream out my audio though, so no transcoding for that (soundbar supports Dolby Atmos…oddly I often need to fix my Xbox One X’s settings for that audio output setting though).
I had an Nvidia Shield that I got rid of. Never could get audio output as anything other than DD 2.0. Even talked to their support (was no help…couldn’t do Dolby Vision as stated above, but HDR didn’t even work for me). This was with Netflix that always worked great on my Xbox. I gave up and had zero other uses for the box so…
I’m still facing the 4k hdr buffering issues on my Xbox X, been a constant nightmare since Plex started supporting 4k HDR through Plex and Xbox. It has never worked reliably, Plex blames MS and MS blames Plex and now Plex devs won;t even respond to the issues.
Been going on well over a year. As 4k HDR content becomes more available it just becomes more of an issue
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