Blu-ray MKV Playback, DNLA server/client?

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I've spent the entire day going in circles, I have a QNAP TS-453A still boxed whilst I figure out if it's really what I need - I could send it back for refund. I also have 12 TB NAS drive.

I want to digitize my bluray collection at 100% quality.

I want to serve it through my AVR with 7.1.4 surround sound (true hd/atmos where applicable).

I have a "4k" projector with which to serve it up on a 2.35:1 screen.

I have ripped Wonder Woman with True HD, and using Plex Media Player on my Windows 10 PC I have managed to get Atmos working.

I understand that the QNAP may not be able to run Plex satifactorily, I was looking to have it run DLNA.

Using the plex dlna server for the following...

Oppo-203 - Works but does not support truehd/atmos through streaming
PS4 Pro - Same as above
Kodi - Could not get Atmos/TrueHD to work and after configuring it to use the DLNA it crashed 95% of the times it loaded.

So far only Plex seems to provide a solution, I'm not sure the NAS drive could run it. I could use Plex server on the PC, NAS for storage and Plex Media Player on PC - but surely there is a better way.
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Managed to get Kodi to ouput Atmos, had to go into advanced to get the options.
 
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hornetstinger said:
No experience with plex, but can't you just rip your bluray discs to your NAS, then use a media streamer to directly play from the shared directories? Rather than using plex as a service which probably is a overhead for NAS low speed CPU's. What happens when you use a PC to play the encoded videos over your LAN? Does it keep up?

50GB per movie is crazy though.

tbh I'd probably shrink the movies, or just get the BD disc out. Use the NAS for music storage, or 720p/1080p movies, because that 12GB will go pretty quickly with 100% rips.
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What 'media streamer' ? it'd be good to have a solution I can control with harmony.
Will consider the Nvidia Shield, will borrow a friend's to try it out.

PC has been fine playing off a usb hard drive full quality with atmos, will see if the LAN makes a difference.

it's about 30gb per film so far.
12TB and that's 1 out of 4 drive bays - it's about 400 films per bay, 1600 films if 48TB.
 
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The 12TB seagate hard drive was a dud, 'abnormal' smart status. It smelled funny too, white perfume powder substance on it. :( try again tomorrow
 
I'm only using makeMKV, and I have 2-300 blurays to rip. Each one takes about 45-60 minutes - because of riplock @ 2.2x speed! :(

My PC is a beast and in the same vicinity as all my home theatre stuff, so can always be used for this kind of stuff - except it has no hard drive space - two ssds and that's it.
 
Whichever I get it needs true HD atmos support.

I will see how everything else goes first, can always look further a field after, thanks
 
jpaul said:
Although the rip worked with plex MP on a Win10, that may not qualify it for being correctly packaged for the oppo/ps4/kodi scenarios, if you look on the web maybe able to pick up some sample encodes validated by other folks ?

Also, if you are ripping for a 4k projector it probably does hevc/h265, so you maybe able to get a better compression than the h264 you probably used.
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Research has told me oppo and ps4 don't support true HD atmos over dlna streaming.

I hoped makemkv was 100% of bluray, is it not? Bah I didn't want to make compromises for not using the discs
 
xs2man said:
I built my server in a regular PC case, so have space for expansion. Do you not have any free HDD slots in your case? Or SATA ports on your motherboard for further disk expansion?

But if your PC is so close to the HT set-up, why not just play it off that? I often just watch content straight from my server rather than via Plex on the Xbox One (which sits right next to the PC in the cinema room).
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My two SSD drives, since I have a water pump where the HDD cage would normally go.

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With a PC there are so many variables to getting things setup right, I don't want to have to spend time on faff if I can help it.

A bit like when the PC Atmos option is greyed out unless I perhaps turn the AVR off and on, or say the magic words.
 
I had so many problems getting the QNAP NAS box to work over 24hours - turns out chrome doesn't show half the options in it's web interface, configuring it from scratch with firefox and it's much better...
 
I can now confirm - this QNAP TS-453A NAS with Plex Media Server installed, and the Nvidia Shield - are doing exactly what I want. Serving 30gb+ MKV with True HD (atmos) surround where applicable.

6 down, 300 to go.
 
jpaul said:
Even though the oppo-203 does not not do streamed dtshd, have you experimented to see if it may upscale the blu-ray 1080 better, for your 4k projector, than the projector itself ?
or the PQ looks identical.

(in my case, I have found Panasonic TV upscaling is better than humax boxes, and previosuly looked a bit at the MPC/MADVR add-on to do on the fly s/w upscale - but do not really have the cpu horsepower for that)
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:) I hope the difference is negligible.. OHNO another spanner in the works! I will try it out.
 
james.miller said:
You could have done that without plexd installed, but then you dont get the pretty front end lol.

Hope you got round that riplock issue lol
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ordered another bluray drive, external one - pioneer - comes with 'quiet' mode enabled but you can turn on performance in the software - should be faster :) maybe i can even have two drives running at once.. probably
 
nicknack35 said:
You run your MKV through popcorn and it changes the Audio without touching the video you can add and remove the Audio you want so its comp for the device its playing on
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I'm already playing the 'original' video, plex is not compressing it - which is my intended use. I'm also getting the best audio the bluray could provide, true HD atmos being top drawer
 
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