I have a Chromecast Ultra, and I just recently bought a UHD TV with HDR 10. I was hoping to fully enjoy all of my new features, but when I started to play .mkv videos through Plex I noticed the colours were completely washed out.
Upon further investigation, it seems that I can’t Direct Play any of my HVEC files. They are all forced to transcode, and the video image becomes washed out. I even tried playing directly in the browser, Chrome, on my PC (side-by-side comparison with VLC player). Any transcoding removes the HDR and makes the video worse than if it was non-HDR. Playing the file in VLC on the same PC looks great and the colours are full.
Is there a configuration, or a file change, that will allow me to force Direct Play, or allow the HVEC files to be played without being destroyed by Plex Media Server?