I never bothered with Plex because it just over-complicates everything (especially with the licensing stuff) and I never needed to use transcoding since my main targets are media player boxes running the likes of Kodi/MrMC. Is there anything else I can do?You could try installing Kodi or MrMC on your Google TV and just playing the file directly from a regular file share or DLNA media share (if you have them set up) - should totally work around any transcoding. So what can I do next? Put a graphics card in the server? If so, how good do I need? Given the prices of stuff these days, that's unlikely to be viable. I recently upgraded the server, which I was hoping would fix it, but it's gone from unplayable, to playing with sound, but dropping 4 frames in 5 or something like that. This is a step forward, but it's still a pain, but I don't know exactly what would fix it. I presume that that then works because it's simply streaming to the PC, the PC is able to play it fine and in 4k, then the transcoding effectively happens as part of the Casting process and that has access to a) a much faster PC and b) a pretty decent Graphics card. I can manually ask Plex to transcode in the background and play that when it's ready, but it's a pain as realistically that means watching whatever it was the next evening, but I realised I can open Plex on my PC and then Cast from there to the Chromecast. It generally works perfectly, but occasionally I end up with a download in a 4k format that's particularly big and it goes all stuttery because Plex is transcoding to 1080p on the fly. I've got a Server running Plex that I use with the latest Google Chromecast dongles, the one with the remote control and Google TV.
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