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[rbjtech 5284]

On a 70" screen, I would personally not want to compress 4K at all.  The cost of an 8Tb HDD vs all the grief/time/effort and quality loss is just not worth the grief imo.

It's a bit like buying a Ferrari, then filling it with cheap petrol, keeping it under 2000 revs and using it to go to the supermarket - if you have a 70" 4K screen, then give it the best image you can !

 

Edited September 25, 2020 by rbjtech

[Happy2Play 9780]

At the same time this high bitrate media is not optimized for ethernet and was design to be delivered via HDMI.  This is why no service that provides 4K, provides media at no higher then 25Mb bitrate.

Edited September 25, 2020 by Happy2Play

[Carlo 4561]

9 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

At the same time this high bitrate media is not optimized for ethernet and was design to be delivered via HDMI.  This is why no service that provides 4K, provides media at no higher then 25Mb bitrate.

Yes, and when you watch the same movie through one of these services vs from a pure rip there is usually a difference that's obvious.  It's not the same to me.

[Happy2Play 9780]

2 minutes ago, cayars said:

Yes, and when you watch the same movie through one of these services vs from a pure rip there is usually a difference that's obvious.  It's not the same to me.

Also most devices/client will have set bitrate limits so pure 4K across ethernet will/could always be a issue.

[kirshman 1]

On 9/25/2020 at 1:44 PM, cayars said:

For example I have a 4K library and only share it with members in my house and they know only to use it on the property (house, garage, work shop, pond area, screen porch, etc). For these 4K movies it's all about QUALITY and they are pure rips with no conversions done at all.

Now in my normal movie library I'll have 1080p versions that have ran through the scripts and have been compressed, have 2 channel AAC audio ADDED when needed and produce files that will pay back on any device (as long a bitrate not exceeded).

So 4K is for in house viewing where quality trumps size and bitrate doesn't matter.  Normal library is designed for good quality 1080 that will direct play anywhere.

 

Just out of curiosity what are you using as your emby server?

[kirshman 1]

Thanks everyone for the help!!

[Carlo 4561]

1 hour ago, kirshman said:

Just out of curiosity what are you using as your emby server?

Dell i7 server.

[MyronAub 13]

On 25/09/2020 at 21:50, Happy2Play said:

Also most devices/client will have set bitrate limits so pure 4K across ethernet will/could always be a issue.

Just for reference, when I first updated my system to 4K, I had no end of problems trying to get Emby to play 4K media, with stuttering and dropout issues etc. 

In my case I eventually tracked the problem down to an old 100Mb switch that was in the middle of my otherwise Gigabit network route between the movie room and server room.

So the moral and recommendation from me would be to ensure your ethernet network is 100% Gigabit between the Emby server and client.