You can avoid steps 3 and 4 below if you don't need subtitles.ģ. At minimum, make sure you select the 5.1 audio channel. Use MakeMKV to rip your 4K movie without the subtitles.Ģ. In addition, PGS subtitles (the ones that are built into the disc), are images and not text. I found the issue is using the TrueHD 7.1 audio channel was forcing Plex to transcode instead of Direct Stream. Transcoding will always be a problem, so you need to get it to Direct Stream. Everything that's wired is on a gigabit wired connection otherwise it's on 802.11ac wireless AppleTV 4Ks connected to all my televisions Mac Pro Late 2013 (the cylinder) as my Plex Server I wanted to play original quality regardless of bitrate. And I didn't want to convert using Handbrake or Plex. I didn't want to install additional applications as I believed it should have worked as is. It's like the one time I can remember that I've been glad Fry's default M/O is to buy pallet loads of years old components to save money.įor 4K lossless playback on Plex with an AppleTV 4K, there was alot of trial and error to get it to work. My other goal of filling my bedroom with as many UHD friendly drives as I can put on the credit card is damn near close to being reached. So I suppose my goal is to just park a hard drive next to the home theater system and play back mkv files and open a roadside stand selling used discs. Right now I'm stuck at the flac profile part, OK I'm not stuck, but my Sony "hi res" audio enabled devices tell me basically to fuck off when presented with the the 7.1 surround track, it's not that they can't play an mkv file, or a flac audio file but the combination of the two ain't working so far. Since I'm still quite new with the UHD blu ray ripping, well OK ripping of any media, I've not quite figured out the makemkv program but eventually will learn.
I've been playing back these huge mkv files with the VLC player which will happily stream to my Sony TVs, Sound Bars, whatever Android device happens to be listening.