I’ve got some jpg files that I’ve contained within a DNG file. Strange I know, but oddly Plex renders the image very blurry. The image is crisp when viewed in Windows Explorer for example. I believe Plex is showing the embedded thumbnail instead of the actual image. Any thoughts?
It seems Plex is unable to display the Jpeg preview. It displays it as if it contains no Jpeg preview, the dimensions are exactly the same.
It’s very frustrating I’m really trying to find a way around it. It only happens if you’ve once converted the file to dng lossy compression. Non lossy compression displays the Jpeg preview fine. But once it’s been converted to lossy even once, there’s no going back. Unfortunately I did this to my entire library and I’m now stuffed.
The only reason I converted my lossy JPGs to DNG is so all images in my library were in a single consistent container format (those images I took before I started to shoot raw). Lightroom and Windows and other third party viewers render the files fine. What I could do is use Lightroom to export only the lossy DNGs that contain my original JPG files to JPG, then expose those to the Plex library. The lossless DNGs are fine, and Plex renders these ok. This may be a way to workaround this Plex quirk, for perhaps what is a rare use case of the DNG container format. Thanks for your reply. Really helps to know someone has experienced this.
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