4K - Chromecast Ultra Q's

[aldriglikvid 4]

Hi! 

I'm slowly updating my system to 4K and I'm pretty excited about it. I have some questions regarding compatibility. 

I'm satisfied with my Chromecast Ultra + Emby setup. 

1) Is it correctly understood that CCU is unable to receive a H265 in a .MKV container without transcoding? 

       https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media

2) There was an "old saying" that transcoding 4K to fit a chromecast was way to cumbersome for most systems.

I've been out-of-the-loop for a couple of years. Let's say I have a : 4K H265 / DTS-HD @ 70GB file 

  and I want to make it watchable at my CCU + Emby. What needs transcoding? Everything?

My setup: 

AMD Ryzen 2600X / Nvidia 2600RTX / 32GB Ram 

Wifi that've benched to ~40mb/s via file transfer sustainable 

 

Thanks! :) 

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, yes chromecast ultra supports hevc in mkv, so in most cases it won't need conversion.