Samsung KU6000 Series 6 4k Playback issue

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Nadahar
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Re: Samsung KU6000 Series 6 4k Playback issue

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rowdyruffbrick wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2018 2:29 am Is this file affecting the playback of the 4k files?
That's quite likely, as the audio codec used has very little support. It might be that FFmpeg and other transcoding engines can't handle it properly.
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Re: Samsung KU6000 Series 6 4k Playback issue

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Nadahar wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2018 3:37 am
rowdyruffbrick wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2018 2:29 am Is this file affecting the playback of the 4k files?
That's quite likely, as the audio codec used has very little support. It might be that FFmpeg and other transcoding engines can't handle it properly.
I've deleted the file since I dont actually watch it anymore, but the problem still persists. Could it be my computer is incapable of handling the streaming process?
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Re: Samsung KU6000 Series 6 4k Playback issue

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When UMS is going to transcode 4K video is impossible to do it on the fly with processor Core i5-760. Only when streaming video as it is it could work.
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Re: Samsung KU6000 Series 6 4k Playback issue

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valib wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2018 10:13 pm When UMS is going to transcode 4K video is impossible to do it on the fly with processor Core i5-760. Only when streaming video as it is it could work.
Okay so lets say all I want to do is stream the video without any transcoding, how do I get about this? Just to test it out of course. Again my apologies for my lack of knowledge in this field.
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Re: Samsung KU6000 Series 6 4k Playback issue

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You can only stream the movie if your renderer supports receiving the file via UPnP AV/DLNA. If your renderer configuration is correct, UMS will always stream the file if possible. Transcoding is done when the file can't be streamed.

That means that the only things you can do to avoid transcoding is either to update your renderer configuration so that UMS knows what format/codecs your renderer can play, or that you convert the file (using Handbrake for example) into a format that your renderer does support.
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Re: Samsung KU6000 Series 6 4k Playback issue

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Nadahar wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:31 am You can only stream the movie if your renderer supports receiving the file via UPnP AV/DLNA. If your renderer configuration is correct, UMS will always stream the file if possible. Transcoding is done when the file can't be streamed.

That means that the only things you can do to avoid transcoding is either to update your renderer configuration so that UMS knows what format/codecs your renderer can play, or that you convert the file (using Handbrake for example) into a format that your renderer does support.
I see. Okay so how would i know if a video is being transcoded or streamed directly?
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Re: Samsung KU6000 Series 6 4k Playback issue

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If you turn on "Show Engine name" on the Navigation/Share tab (and restart UMN), you will see "[FFmpeg]", "[MEncoder]" etc added the video names if they are being transcoded. Videos without any such tag are streamed.
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