Plex on Windows 10 - 4k HDR content

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Hi There,

I’ve looked many placed, but been hard to find solid information. Currently at home, i just upgraded my receiver from a 4k one to a 4k HDR one. Confimed via Windows 10 that i CAN turn on HDR mode. However, watching things via Plex Media Player seems washed out. With or without HDR on, it doesn’t match the quality of playing directly via my SOny TV.

Does Plex support 4k HDR content in any form?

Reason i am doing this is because via PC, i get the receiver’s full functionality, ie. trueHD etc… etc… however, when i do it via Sony that unfortunately is missing. Also if the video is too large, even with my gigabit connection, it hiccups (without transcoding)

Any advise would be appreciated. IF for example Plex apps, both media player nad the new windows one can’t do 4k HDR, then i have no reason to keep that receiver and can return it.

Thanks.

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Plex does not support HDR passthrough on Windows.
The only way on Windows is using Kodi(the DSPlayer version) with PFK(Plex for Kodi) or PKC(PlexKodiConnect) instead.

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Does that work well by chance Rosystain? and is it somewhat of an easy install?

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Check Kodi Matrix or DSPlayer

Both of them are unofficial builds.

If you are familiar with LAV+madVR, then DSPlayer is your best choice.
If not, Kodi Martix is easier.

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Hey Rosystain, thanks again for your help. Tried the Kodi Matrix, however, for some reason it doesn’t seem to have the same list of repository downloads that the normal kodi has. So no plex, and when i tried to download the plex zip manually had no success.

Lav+MadVR is totally new to me, but wondering if maybe that should be my course of action. Could use some more help and advise. Anything you can do would be appreciated.

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Kodi DSPlayer – DirectShow Player for Windows may help you.

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Hey there!

Went with this, and the 17.6 64bit build. Everything working, only issue I’m facing is resuming movies. They always start from the beginning, any suggestions at all?? Looked everywhere with no success.

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FYI, using Kodi isn’t the only way to get 4kHDR content on Windows 10. I use MPC-BE, MadVR, and LAVFilters and all HDR content plays back perfectly for me (even HDR YouTube videos).

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Hi Aaronth07,

Thanks for getting back. I bet it does work beautifully, but essentially, i want to be able to use my Plex server for content, without having to re-organize things. Ergo, why i am going the Lav Filters, MadVR, Kodi and Plex router. Yet the resume function is still problematic.

Maybe i will try your method.

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I have been using 17.7 x64 version of Kodi DS player with plexkodiconnect.

Kodi DSPlayer 17.7

Works perfectly. I use Kodi to play and for the GUI, but plex manages the content. Took some fiddling, but it does hdr passthrough as well as bitstream all hd audio.

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what did you fiddle with exactly? I installed dsplayer 17.7 and PKC and i still only get sdr on windows 10

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Firstly you have to follow the instructions very carefully form the DSPlayer website in terms of what filters are being used by Kodi and DS player. I.e. ensuring firstly it is using the DS player and not internal player.

Secondly, once running a movie you have to open the MadVR control panel (from the taskbar notification area), and enable HDR passthrough in MadVR under the display settings I believe (this is what is doing the passthrough specifically).

Once I did this it has worked. Note: I have not touched the HDR settings in windows itself (i.e. Windows is running in SDR).).

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