I do wish Plex would focus more on technical aspects of their ecosystem than features at this point.
I run a server for family, and use the Nvidia Shield as the client for pretty much any "nice" TV or sound system. This worked great for a couple years until a software regression made all 4k content have a 70% chance of locking up the Shield - which exists to this day.
There are other small annoying bugs like that that don't make much sense, things like transcoding being weirdly laggy (minutes) on a quite idle machine that I never fully tracked down.
I suppose writing this I am on the "bleeding edge" in that I expect to have "gold" 4k remux copies on-server, and then transcode down to whichever device is playing it.
The Plex Kodi plugin is a workaround for the above mentioned 4k "original quality" playback bug, but that is not a great option for most end-users.
I run a server for family, and use the Nvidia Shield as the client for pretty much any "nice" TV or sound system. This worked great for a couple years until a software regression made all 4k content have a 70% chance of locking up the Shield - which exists to this day.
There are other small annoying bugs like that that don't make much sense, things like transcoding being weirdly laggy (minutes) on a quite idle machine that I never fully tracked down.
I suppose writing this I am on the "bleeding edge" in that I expect to have "gold" 4k remux copies on-server, and then transcode down to whichever device is playing it.
The Plex Kodi plugin is a workaround for the above mentioned 4k "original quality" playback bug, but that is not a great option for most end-users.