I’ve seen a lot of similar posts but none with any real solutions, plus I seem to have an additional wrinkle. I’m trying to watch a particular 4k movie on a Roku Ultra. The video stream as reported by Plex is 4K (HEVC Main 10 HDR. The audio is EAC3 5.1. Direct Play is set to auto, with quality s…

Remote Logging is only accessible by the devs, I can’t see them. From your PMS logs I see that tone-mapping has been triggered. Does your TV support HDR?

Unnecessarily transcoding video when audio needs transcoding

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TeknoJunky January 4, 2021, 10:40pm 12

you may or may not find some additional useful info @ Plex, 4k, transcoding, and you

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Unnecessarily transcoding video when audio needs transcoding

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