2024-09-04, 03:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-09-04, 03:14 PM by oopsmybad. Edited 1 time in total.)
Because I have a Synology NAS, I've been stuck running 10.8.11 for hardware transcoding. It's finally time to upgrade, but I'm not sure which direction I should go, specifically due to subtitles.
We have bedroom TVs, and in the interest of kindness, turn the volume way down and subtitles on when we're going to sleep. My brand new TCL TV runs Google TV. If I use Exoplayer with the Jellyfin app, the PGS subtitles work - but the other type have to be burned in, and that fails because of my current hardware limitions. If I use libVLC, all the subtitles play - but with 4K HDR movies, when the PGS subtitle changes, it causes momentary frame jitter, which is annyoing. And libVLC doesn't support Dolby Vision.
So, I think I have two options:
1) Buy hardware that can properly support burning subtitles, and keep using Exoplayer on the TCL's Google TV. I'm not sure what specifically that hardware would be. Would a 10th gen I5 with a UHD 620 suffice? It would have to be capable of burning subtitiles into 4K HDR/Dolby Vision movies.
--or--
2) Buy a cheaper N100 device (like a $159 Beelink), and upgrade the streaming players in the bedrooms to using $90 Roku Ultras. In the living room and family room, I have 2021 and 2022 model-year TCL Roku TVs, and they play all subtitle formats natively... so I assume the current stand-alone Roku Ultras would also work.
What do you think my best option is? Thanks in advance for any and all opinions!
We have bedroom TVs, and in the interest of kindness, turn the volume way down and subtitles on when we're going to sleep. My brand new TCL TV runs Google TV. If I use Exoplayer with the Jellyfin app, the PGS subtitles work - but the other type have to be burned in, and that fails because of my current hardware limitions. If I use libVLC, all the subtitles play - but with 4K HDR movies, when the PGS subtitle changes, it causes momentary frame jitter, which is annyoing. And libVLC doesn't support Dolby Vision.
So, I think I have two options:
1) Buy hardware that can properly support burning subtitles, and keep using Exoplayer on the TCL's Google TV. I'm not sure what specifically that hardware would be. Would a 10th gen I5 with a UHD 620 suffice? It would have to be capable of burning subtitiles into 4K HDR/Dolby Vision movies.
--or--
2) Buy a cheaper N100 device (like a $159 Beelink), and upgrade the streaming players in the bedrooms to using $90 Roku Ultras. In the living room and family room, I have 2021 and 2022 model-year TCL Roku TVs, and they play all subtitle formats natively... so I assume the current stand-alone Roku Ultras would also work.
What do you think my best option is? Thanks in advance for any and all opinions!