Best Plex player device? My LG E7 isnt upto it due to LG saving of 50p on a 100 Mbps Ethernet socket

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OK, I noticed on some larger (higher rate) files Plex on my LG TV suffers in two ways:-
1) Because LG decided to save 50p fitting a 100 Mbps ethernet connector instead of a 1000 MBps connector, on a premium cost TV, at times Plex stutters simply due to the data rate.
2) ARC from the TV to the Amp does not support True HD or Atmos etc. Only upto 5.1 so transcoding takes place.


So, what is the best/simplest unit I can run Plex on to plug into my amp over an HDMI lead to give me top quality 4H HDR video, with pass through on?

I thought there'd be a Roku candidate for example, but there isn't?
 
Android option is the nvidia Shield. Apple option ATV4K with the infuse app as the plex client.
 
I had the same issue with my C8 and I got an Apple TV 4K. It was my first apple device and it's been great with infuse it steams everything with zero issues, plus the Apple TV store had pretty good deals on 4k films I'm building up quite a collection now. I don't bother using the built in Netflix or Amazon apps on the TV now just the apple tv.
 
Warranty_V0id said:
I had the same issue with my C8 and I got an Apple TV 4K. It was my first apple device and it's been great with infuse it steams everything with zero issues, plus the Apple TV store had pretty good deals on 4k films I'm building up quite a collection now. I don't bother using the built in Netflix or Amazon apps on the TV now just the apple tv.
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So Infuse connects straight onto Plex? And gives a nice friendly interface like Plex?

And the Apple TV 4K is happy with HDR and will passthru audio to the amp?

ps: See it does Dolby Vision!
 
I just have infuse looking at a network share on my NAS, it orders all the films, gets meta data and thumb nails ect. It doesn't need Plex to transcode it's powerful enough to do it all it's self. I've no idea about passthru as I haven't got an amp. I was really against apple products but the TV 4k has really impressed me.
 
Warranty_V0id said:
I just have infuse looking at a network share on my NAS, it orders all the films, gets meta data and thumb nails ect. It doesn't need Plex to transcode it's powerful enough to do it all it's self. I've no idea about passthru as I haven't got an amp. I was really against apple products but the TV 4k has really impressed me.
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So if I do a standard windows share my route Plex media folder from my server PC the Apple TV will then build up its own index from it?
 
Shield will pass through HD audio formats to your amp but does have some 4k issues. I don't have a 4k tv so just going by what I've read online, best look at the nvidia forums.

I believe the Apple TV won't pass through HD audio out of the box, needs infuse to convert to lossless PCM.

There is no perfect one box solution I'm afraid.
 
Yeah Infuse works as a native Plex client. The tvOS Plex client isn’t great.

If you’re not keen on Apple, then shield is probably a good shout.
 
but, as @hornetstinger said , you could get an android box for half the price with 5.1 pass through, and use plex app in kodi,
albeit without drm needed for 4k netflix / amazon.
as a a bonus, the android box will play interlaced mpeg2 streams from tv tuner cards too, without software transcode.


The sony tv's too , with the 2018 processor, have the same limitation, their dual band a/c wireless is faster than ethernet socket.
the hypothesis, in earlier threads, is that they design the hardware to match typical streaming bitrates,
if you had a legal iso of a 4k disc, not sure any tv's will play that even locally on a sd/usb connection, they 'just' go up to 60Mb/s, or so. ?
 
I know you mentioned Roku early on, have you considering the Streaming Stick+. It's about £50.
 
I have an LG B7 play 4k rips via Plex without any issues.

I used get the message that my network connection wasn't fast enough. But it actually turned out to be the HDD was the bottle neck. If was trying to write to at the same time as reading from it.
 
I had stuttering issues on my b8 with 4k HDR files. To fix, I just need to remove the subtitles tracks and Atmos audio file and it all plays fine for me.
 
barmyllama said:
I have an LG B7 play 4k rips via Plex without any issues.

I used get the message that my network connection wasn't fast enough. But it actually turned out to be the HDD was the bottle neck. If was trying to write to at the same time as reading from it.
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What size files roughly? 20-30GB files are fine for me...

It's when we get into the realm os 50GB that I get problems. And indeed, if I look at the Plex information in the status panel, I can see for example their data rate is listed as >100mbps, which of course is more than the TV can handle, which I guess is the issue!
 
Chris1712 said:
Use the Wi-Fi? Pretty sure the E7 has AC so should be fine, I use AC on my shield and it’s perfectly happy with 4K remux
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Tried - Didn't help (even on dedicated 5ghz). Might be poor wifi from 12ft away through a double wall?
 
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