Hi guys,
I'm no Plex master, or any kind of a tech geek, so please excuse me if any obviously dumb stuff follows.
I cant get my system to play 4K movie files. I have a 55" LG3D 4K UHD TV in my bedroom, but to be honest the TV and it's placement I don't think matter at all, as I cant even get 4K movie files to directly on the iMac with its 5k 27" Retina display. Plex tells me the system isn't powerful enough to play them. I cant get my head around what PMS needs to play 4K or what settings I need to use to enable these files to play.
The files I try to play are HVEC x265 10bit
I am running PMS on my iMac 5k (Late 2014)
Intel core i5 3,5 GHz
8GB Ram
AMD Radeon 59 M290X 2GB
My files are on 3 x 4TB WD My Cloud Nas drives and the router is a 3TB 2016 Apple Time Capsule via a Gigabit network switch, all connected with Cat 6 Gigabit cables.
I have another LG3D 55" TV in the living room, and 2 4th Gen Apple TVs on the network connected to the LG TVs plus and Xbox One and a printer. The Bedroom setup, Apple TV, LG TV and printer are all wireless via the Apple Time capsule. Also generally connected via wifi will be my iPad and iPhone . I include all this info just in case any of those things could possibly affect the issue, although as I said, as they don't even play via a browser on my iMac... I'm pretty sure the PMS setup and my iMac specs are the issue.
Now I know my iMac maybe getting old by now computer standards, it's just that it runs everything else I do so fast and so much better than anything else I've ever used I am mystified as to why its stuck on this issue?