This make the whole transcoding, "play anywhere" pretty useless, making plex and emby mostly a media organizer, instead of a media streamer.Īs long as you aren't burning subtitles in, then Emby shouldn't have to transcode to the shield - it will direct stream everything - 4K / HDR etc etc. It looks like no media streamer currently supports 4K transcoding flawlessly, so we have to use special hardware/software (shield+kodi+emby_plugin) on the client side. Should I give up using 4K currently on Emby, or there is any combination of server/client who works with 4K HDR media? I understand this could be a solution, maybe even an HTPC, but this make all the Emby/Plex "play anywhere" proposal useless.
I ve read the Nvidia Shield could play any 4K movies, but has problems with HDR. This is not always possible, because the Samsung Emby App has a bug in selecting soundtrack.Īll the movies plays smoothly with VLC in my notebook, accessing the very same network media, connected through wifi, so I believe there is no issue with network or the NAS
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In these situations, the movie is direct played on TV. Sometimes, I can play certain movies, if I use the Samsung TV, select no subtitles, 5.1 soundtrack, and it has a lower bitrate. There is not a single 4K files who plays flawlessly with Emby. Media stored in a NFS shared drive in a Synology DS Sonos Beam (which doesnt play a lot of sound formats, but it seems this is not a issue with my movies) Chrome Browser in a 4K display notebook It turns out Emby share the same problems for 4K media. I was a Plex user for years, but its lack of support for 4K started to bother me. I have been testing Emby Server for a couple of months.
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