I’m looking for a new TV. I prefer a Samsung QLED Q70, Q80 or Q90 or Q9F.
I need to know how well direct play is working on Plex app on these Samsung TVs from 2019 or 2018. Currently I have an LG Uh9500, which supports direct play on any files, but only when I use the main audio stream and without subtitles. In any other case it needs to be transcoded. I dont need other audio streams and subtitles, so its not a problem. I’m just afraid that the Samsung TV can handle these worse then my current TV. Can someone tell me your expereience with driect play in general? What up with 4k and HDR movies? Also I need to know if these TVs giving me a message when switching in HDR mode.
I have lots of Samsung TV’s, Q70r, Q90r etc etc, before 4.19.2 release it worked perfectly, only transcoding the audio as the TV doesn’t support DTS. Assuming they fix that, for me Plex on Samsung is a superb experience. 4k movies stream no problem, again direct play on video only transcoding the audio.
The TV doesn’t show a logo when in HDR mode but if you use the quick settings on the remote, your see the logo change to HDR or HDR+ etc.
I’m not talking about DTS being fixed, I talking about direct play, on this release it is now transcoding H264 files with DTS Audio, when it should only transcode the audio, not the video.
If the mkv files has an audio format the TV can play, ac3, pcm etc, then it direct plays audio and video. If it has a DTS audio track it use to transcode the audio and direct play the video, this is what has bugged on the latest release.
Quick settings are on the home button, where you select apps, scroll along and you can access a selection of tv settings, on the picture option your see what mode the tv is in.
thx a lot. Are you satisfied with the sustained brightness of the Q70 and the local dimming compared with the Q90? Because Q90 is mich more expensive here.
I think the Q70 is an excellent TV, local dimming isn’t as good, but the native contrast is excellent, biggest difference is viewing angle, Q90 much better. Q70 touch on the red side, once cal’d superb.
Personally value for money I think the Q70 is a much better bet.
Currently looking at buying the Q70. What is the status of playing files with DTS? Does it only transcode the audio when playing files with subtitles as well? Or is it still transcoding video when playing DTS audio with subtitles? @karlos227@Scott190489
The transcoding was fixed, only transcodes the audio now when playing DTS, as for subtitles, I can’t say I watch any with them on. I can do a test for you, any particular film or language you want me to try.
The language doesn’t really matter as it would be the same with all of then. If you would like to try that would be great. If your able to try both HEVC and H264 files with DTS audio and srt subtitles on that would be awesome
You shoud know that this Samsung models comes with a 100mb nic. So, I have to connect the TV via WIFI AC technology.
It works fine with 1080 BR remuxes and 4K rips but with ‘fat’ 4K remuxes(70-80Gb weight and 80-85mb of average birtrate) I’am experimenting stuttering and lag on direct play scenarios.
WIFI AC should manage without problems 300-400mb(the Tv is near to the router and PMS has 1000mb wired connection to the router.
You can avoid transcoding caused by subtitles by changing the burn subtitle option (in player video settings) to ‘only image formats’ - as long as the sub file is srt
