Hello all, first time poster and just recently got PLEX going on my xbox360 and Windows PC. I must prefice this with the fact that I'm coming from Windows Media Center -> xbox360 extender / Windows Media Player DLNA server -> xbox360 System video player. I've been exploring PLEX because I'm itching to move to Windows 8.1 and don't want to have to pay $100 for Windows 8.1 pro pack to get WMC. Plus Windows 10 is right around the corner and WMC has been completed removed in that version of Windows.
Moving on... My entire Movie library consists of blurays that I've ripped to WMV. Nearly all of the 235 movies I have are ripped to the following specs:
Video Stream:
15Mbps, 1080p, VC-1 (WMV3) Simple
Audio Stream:
440Kbps, 48KHz, 16bits, 5.1 channels, WMAPro
These movies play flawlessly in 5.1 surround on my xbox360 via either Windows Media Center or the System Video player and is the preferred format by xbox360's native video player.
With that said, why is plex transcoding my wmv's if the native player on the xbox is perfectly capable of playing this video format?
Not only that, but it appears i've lost 5.1 surround via plex. :'(
I'm not even opposed to forking over the cash for an XBox One if Plex is capable of direct streaming my WMV's, but this is a deal breaker if every player out there is going to require the Plex server to transcode my media.
