I have an LG OLED C8 and I have an Nvidia Shield to play my content. I’m just testing some things to also add my family/friends to my server. At this moment I only use it for myself, using my own Full BluRay rips to play. As for streaming, this bitrate is to much.
I have started encoding some test videos to 6000kbp/s and they look fine when checking (good settings + slower encoding). As for the audio, I would like to use the Lossless format, the DTS-HD, not the Atmos since that’s TrueHD. I hoped that the PLEX client on the TV would just use the DTS core to play the audio, instead of that, it was transcoding it to another audio format… My question is why? If I plug-in a USB with the file my TV just takes the DTS core since it supports DTS.
My reason for asking this, is because I would like to keep the Lossless audio, but my friends/family don’t have a Nvidia Shield so they would use their Smart TV app which will maximise audio output to DTS. If I have to create different versions i.e. DTs-HD format/DTS format etc… then it still wont do… If I have to add AC3/DTS/DTS-HD (with AC3 as default so they can switch) then the size get’s bigger, but will it transcode still? (haven’t tested yet).
Every player has different abilities (CODECs it’ll support well). Like I know Xbox One’s have issues with DTS playback (has to transcode to AC3). I don’t think you can assume all TVs can playback lossless DTS-HD or whatever it is you’re aiming for.
I heard Atmos playback works from an Nvidia Shield, but Netflix can’t do Atmos playback (only on Xbox One). I’d actually sold my Shield because I couldn’t get Atmos working in Netflix and had assumed it was just broken everywhere (oh well).
Normally the system should try to transcode formats live, but not sure what capacity the Shield has for doing it quickly (like how many simultaneous streams it can do, and at what capacity…it is a low TDP part after all, not a high end Intel Desktop + super gaming GPU). I don’t even know if Android allows GPU transcoding to be honest (I’d hope so).
“Optimize” is the feature to precreate those other formats manually, and yes it will use up more disk space to save it off. Probably still uses more CPU to combine the video with other audio than just playing the native file too (hopefully not much).
I don’t assume all TV’s can playback Lossless DTS-HD. As for mine, it does play a video file with DTS-HD Audio, but it uses the Core @ 1509kbps to play DTS. My question about this, is why Plex doesn’t just take the Core of the DTS-HD, just like my TV does when I connect using USB?
I also have the Nvidia Shield and it plays Dolby Atmos in my movies just fine. It’s just that I’m encoding some movies and I want to use DTS-HD as audio format (I don’t have Atmos receiver, so TrueHD Atmos doesn’t come in handy for me at the moment). Since my Shield does play DTS-HD, I would like to encode movies with:
Video - H264 @ 6000kbps
Audio - Lossless DTS-HD format
Subtitles - SRT
I though that if I would use this, I can play the files fine on my Shield with the Lossless audio format, and friends/family who use the TV app, use the DTS core that’s inside DTS-HD. But somehow it’s just transcoding the file because it does not support DTS-HD, but that’s because of Plex, not the tv…
Yes. It supports DTS and when I plug-in the same movie where I extracted the core and added that, it plays fine. It’s just when the DTS-HD is trying to play, it wants to transcode, this while I just want it to use the core so I don’t need different versions of movies/series.
