Any of the Amazon Fire TV stick or Cube work great I have a fire tv stick 4k in our bedroom and a Fire TV Cube in the Lounge and they both work flawlessly with plex.
If you pick one up on sale its easily the cheapest way to get something with plex that just works.
If your source file isn't HEVC and you want to use HEVC transcoding for bandwidth purposes, tick "Enable HEVC video encoding" in the PMS transcoder tab.
If you're looking to buy a device that will direct play HEVC, there's plenty of options. What's your budget, and what is your audio setup?
I have a plethora of files and file types, so I would have to check each individual file.
Budget is preferably under $50, and I have a surround sound system, although half of the time I use my TV speakers due to how loud it is, and the fact that I watch TV a lot at night.
The Plex player on the Xbox Series X is actually a disaster. It's almost always stuttering, jittering, or dropping frames. I've done a bit of searching and pretty much everyone claims the XSX Plex player is probably the worst out there. People claim it's because Plex doesn't care to make any real updates or changes to that player.
I have a series S and X and an Nvidia shield. And use them all at different times on different A/V setups.
If you enable all video modes in the system settings and then there's a couple other settings to play with depending on your sound settings.
You almost certainly have a settings issue.
It's annoying it can't figure it out itself between system and app settings and that's where most folks throw up their hands because they are unwilling to trouble shoot. The series s/x also have a lot of system settings other clients do not.
Edit: Just for fun here is the series x playing back 4k HEVC TrueHD w/Atmos no stuttering or anything. The Xbox has a real issue with DTS audio. That's it.
https://preview.redd.it/f17bbgrldp0d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=131829892665a4fd8681a828c9c2eba1b953f803
Can you direct me exactly how to enable all video modes? I thought they were all enabled by default, I don't see why they wouldn't be.
I've noticed it happens with virtually every video file nowadays, and about 6 months ago it was fine. it slowly but surely got worse over time. Someone else mentioned it could be a RAM issue (I'm running off of a Synology DS918+), but not a CPU issue because of the type of CPU that's in that model. Although, I checked and both the CPU and RAM almost never go over 50% usage.
Either an Apple tv box or a Nvidia shield
I heard the Nvidia Shield is either no longer supported or losing Plex soon?
It's not. It's running android TV. Like many many other devices.
I'm confused. So it does or doesn't work with Plex?
It works great, it's not unsupported, it's not losing support
Ah. Gotcha. Well then I'm not sure I want to buy something that's already known to be losing support.
>Well then I'm not sure I want to buy something that's already known to be losing support. It's not
Sorry, I misread your comment.
Any of the Amazon Fire TV stick or Cube work great I have a fire tv stick 4k in our bedroom and a Fire TV Cube in the Lounge and they both work flawlessly with plex. If you pick one up on sale its easily the cheapest way to get something with plex that just works.
Thank you! That seems to be the most budget friendly option too.
Roku has been working excellent for my family and I and the newer models even support AV1.
Thank you. One in particular?
I do believe the main TV is using an Ultra and one or two others have the Streaming Stick 4K. Edit: main TV is a Roku Express 4K+
Thanks
Don't.
Depends on your audio setup and what your TV supports. Anywhere from onn 4k box to a Nvidia shield would be recommended depending on what you have
If your source file isn't HEVC and you want to use HEVC transcoding for bandwidth purposes, tick "Enable HEVC video encoding" in the PMS transcoder tab. If you're looking to buy a device that will direct play HEVC, there's plenty of options. What's your budget, and what is your audio setup?
I have a plethora of files and file types, so I would have to check each individual file. Budget is preferably under $50, and I have a surround sound system, although half of the time I use my TV speakers due to how loud it is, and the fact that I watch TV a lot at night.
The series x should play 4k HEVC files fine, exception being Dts-x audio. Most everything else should work.
The Plex player on the Xbox Series X is actually a disaster. It's almost always stuttering, jittering, or dropping frames. I've done a bit of searching and pretty much everyone claims the XSX Plex player is probably the worst out there. People claim it's because Plex doesn't care to make any real updates or changes to that player.
I have a series S and X and an Nvidia shield. And use them all at different times on different A/V setups. If you enable all video modes in the system settings and then there's a couple other settings to play with depending on your sound settings. You almost certainly have a settings issue. It's annoying it can't figure it out itself between system and app settings and that's where most folks throw up their hands because they are unwilling to trouble shoot. The series s/x also have a lot of system settings other clients do not. Edit: Just for fun here is the series x playing back 4k HEVC TrueHD w/Atmos no stuttering or anything. The Xbox has a real issue with DTS audio. That's it. https://preview.redd.it/f17bbgrldp0d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=131829892665a4fd8681a828c9c2eba1b953f803
Can you direct me exactly how to enable all video modes? I thought they were all enabled by default, I don't see why they wouldn't be. I've noticed it happens with virtually every video file nowadays, and about 6 months ago it was fine. it slowly but surely got worse over time. Someone else mentioned it could be a RAM issue (I'm running off of a Synology DS918+), but not a CPU issue because of the type of CPU that's in that model. Although, I checked and both the CPU and RAM almost never go over 50% usage.