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I’m trying to watch a UHD Video (Venom) on my Roku, which is directly wired into a gigabit switch, and Tautulli is reporting that its transcoding 4K HEVC down to 1080p … I have the Roku set to play the original quality (with no restrictions on the Plex side) … but it both gets transcoded down to 1080p and also dies after only a few minutes, saying “Your server was not powerful enough to convert the video for smooth playback” … first, the audacity (LOL), second – I should have enough power to raise the Titanic with this thing … I don’t understand whats going on.
Plex is installed on an M.2 Gen4 SSD, and the Venom file is also living on an M.2 Gen4 SSD (separate disk).
It looks like PGS subs are enabled. The Roku cannot natively render image based subs, so a video conversion is required to burn them in. You can either disable the subtitles or find another variant, like SRT subs.
The same issue with subs turned off. Additionally, it still craps out just a few minutes in saying “the server wasn’t fast enough to convert for smooth playback”. I have hardware acceleration checked and a GPU meant for freaking space travel … any idea why I would still get a message like that?!
Well, the first thing that jumps out at me is the video bitrate. This movie is 60+ and the Roku says it supports no higher than 40.
What bitrate technically specifies something as 4K? I mean, I know 2160p, but if you get something at that resolution and 12MB/s – is it really a 4K movie?
