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 …

[image] DoubLL: But when I try to play Oldboy (2003) Plex always transcodes the video and removes Dolby Vision, even if I select “Original” quality. Can I turn this off somehow? Sure. Just turn off the subtitles.

Yes, that seems to work. [image]

[image] DoubLL: 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 and then chose SRT subtitles, is that correct? AC3 is a supported audio format on LG. It is dir…

some additional links you might find informative. dolby vision discussion [image] What's the status of Dolby Vision + Atmos on Plex? (re: LG WebOS, Nvidia Shield, Apple TV) General Discussions I’ve been using Plex for many years and have a decent 1080p Blu-ray library but…

[image] nx6: AC3 is a supported audio format on LG I’m not sure why, but AC3 only seems to work for stereo tracks (the original screenshot was playing the director’s commentary). If I chose a AC3 5.1 track it transcodes to AAC. [image] [image] TeknoJunky: some additional links you might…

Plex forces transcode on Dolby Vision?

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TeknoJunky January 20, 2021, 7:56pm 6

some additional links you might find informative.

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Plex forces transcode on Dolby Vision?

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