The solution was to re-encode the entire movie into a very simple format that Plex was happy to serve over DLNA to the Media Player app.
Luckily, the Xbox One Media Player app does exactly this. Unfortunately it seems impossible to disable transcoding in Plex, the best you can do is watch from a DLNA device that Plex can't identify. If I wanted to watch a 1080p version of my bluray rips, I'd encode them that way in the first place. Transcoding is completely annoying to me. The upshot of this is that I will never use the Plex app on any device. If you have subtitles embedded in your file as a stream, that gets transcoded down to 1080p. If you have 7.1 DTS or Dolby HD audio, your entire video file gets transcoded down to 1080p. And yup, I found out it was.Īnother issue is that the list of content types Plex supports on Xbox One is really limited. Meanwhile nothing in the client UI tells you this process is occuring, you have to check the UI on the server to see if its transcoding. The result is that Plex transcodes your content all the way down to 1080p, which at first made me think I'd wasted my money on all this expensive gear, because the video looked exactly the same as before. The issue with this is that the Xbox does not support 4K h264 video 4K must be encoded in HEVC. However, it only transcodes to h264 video. If it detects that your playback device does not support the content you are playing, it will transcode it. Plex does a good job of making it unclear exactly what content you are getting on your TV. I later discovered this was due to Plex transcoding my content. However in the Plex app content would play just fine. The first is that via the Media Player app, HDR content would result in a black screen, a green screen or a "Codec Not Supported" error. The Problemsīecause my TV does not support HDR, a few different issues occurred. I decided I hate using this after some experimenting, and I'll explain why later. On the Xbox I normally use the DLNA option in the Media Player app, but I have also experimented with using the official Plex Xbox One app. I serve my files via Plex from a local server, over gigibit ethernet.
The exact model is a Dish TV NZ 55" UHD TV. I bought it at a very steep discount, and while its a great simple 4K UHD TV, it does not support 10 bit HDR video. My problem is my televsion does not support 10 bit HDR video.
After a lot of trial and error I think I've worked out the situation of 4K media on Xbox One, and how to get your library ready to handle it. I was pretty dissapointed when I discovered none of it worked very well for me at all. In anticipation of my shiny new Xbox One X showing up I began buying and ripping 4K UHD Bluray disks, so my Plex media server would have some content on it that could take advantage of my new hardware.
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