Small Form Factor player which supports 4k and dts-hd/Dolby True

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Hello Guys!

Been googling for the last while and have been unable to determine what I need for the application we have.

We run a small custom home audio company here in Canada and most of our clients request plex in their homes. For the clients that have Theatres installed we need a plex player that will fit in their rack, support 4K and DTS-HD/Dolby True.

It seems that the INTEL NUC is a common solution I am just not sure how beefy the machine needs to be. We will be controlling the player with Control4.

I realize this has been asked numerous times and thank you all in advance for clearing this up for me.

Phad.

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@phaddie said:
Hello Guys!

Been googling for the last while and have been unable to determine what I need for the application we have.

We run a small custom home audio company here in Canada and most of our clients request plex in their homes. For the clients that have Theatres installed we need a plex player that will fit in their rack, support 4K and DTS-HD/Dolby True.

It seems that the INTEL NUC is a common solution I am just not sure how beefy the machine needs to be. We will be controlling the player with Control4.

I realize this has been asked numerous times and thank you all in advance for clearing this up for me.

Phad.
At the moment, we are in a lull in terms of a NUC that will properly handle 4K HEVC HDR properly under Linux. However if you want to use Windows, the Apollo Lake and Kaby Lake NUCs will fulfill those requirements with HW acceleration and deinterlacing. HD audio bitstreaming also functions fine under Windows with the aforementioned NUCs.

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EDIT - We need to be able to access the player from off site which seems to exclude the Nvidia Shield.

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@phaddie said:
EDIT - We need to be able to access the player from off site which seems to exclude the Nvidia Shield.

To do what? The Plex app on the Shield will auto-update itself.

And if this is going into a rack, do you really need something small? Have you thought about going with an actual rack-mounted computer?

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@MovieFan.Plex said:

@phaddie said:
EDIT - We need to be able to access the player from off site which seems to exclude the Nvidia Shield.

To do what? The Plex app on the Shield will auto-update itself.
Probably to manage other applications on the box and the OS itself. Sounds like these are high end clients that wants managed turn-key solutions.