This video app is professional on fast transcoding and tweaking 4K videos to Plex with MP4 format in 30fps for playback on Shield TV without quality loss. Brorsoft Video Converter is the tool you can apply to achieve the goal. Generally, it can work without issues.Īlternatively, if you stick with Plex to stream 4K movies to Shield TV, you’d better convert and tweak 4K 60fps videos to a more friendly format.

To solve this dilemma, you need to take a little up front time and do some tricks.įirst, you can try copy your 4K files to a USB stick and play them from Shield without Plex. Actually, Plex doesn’t support 60fps at 4K resolutions. Quoted from Reddit forum, we found some people got troubles when playing 4K on Shield TV via Plex. Is it just because the network is slow? or the Shield can't keep up?' ' I have a video from my iPhone X that is in 4k60 and it doesn't even play on Shield, or stutters, or freezes. why is it giving me trouble? Any setting I should tweak or change? I'm debating whether to just use the Shield for watching and just get a NAS to host & transcode the Plex content instead but I really want it to be last resort because of the pricing.How to Play 4K Movie on Shield TV via Plex Directly I thought the Shield was advertised as a good enough Plex server to use by 1 person. But obviously I want a low power setup to use for the TV. I ensured that the file is fine by playing it on PC with mpv (great player!) and have had absolutely zero issues. I have the Plex Pass so hardware transcoding should work. It says on the activity feed that it's transcoding with HW (I believe that just means hardware accelerated encoding) and it just lags like crazy. It is horribly slow, and Plex crashes if I pause for more than a few seconds.

Started watching another show which had ASS subtitles and the Plex player says it has to transcode because of the subtitles (PGS wasn't available from the content I downloaded).

I was mostly using it to watch anime (I just get content from nyaa), got a Samsung T7 SSD to externally plug to the Shield. It's up to date and I have Plex & Plex Media Server configured. Got a Shield TV Pro the other day, the most recent model.

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