I own an LG CX, which supports Dolby Vision, and recently started digitalizing 4k discs. So far they habe worked fine and HDR Content from Titles such as Planet Earth II looks fine. But when I try to play Oldboy (2003) Plex always transcodes the video and removes Dolby Vision, even if I select “Ori…

Oh wow, I would have never expected that to be the source of the problems. Edit: okay this is highly confusing to me. Now that I know that the subtitles are causing the issue I was able to find this thread which seems to imply that I need to convert the audio to a format witch can be direct played …

Plex forces transcode on Dolby Vision?

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TeknoJunky January 20, 2021, 7:56pm 6

some additional links you might find informative.

dolby vision discussion

general 4k info and background
Plex, 4k, transcoding, and you

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Plex forces transcode on Dolby Vision?

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