Infuse vs Plex

[HDFan]

All audio from the audio tracks of DTS HD MA, DTS:X, TrueHD, translates to Dolby Digital. With loss of sound quality.

My receiver sees DTS-MA when played via an NVidia Shield. The Dolby Digital recoding is an Apple TV "feature" unfortunately. Infuse may have a workaround, but see my comments below.

Although I also wish to hear the original DTS-MA it is a contentious point as to how many people can actually tell the difference. See the heated discussions about "lossless" audio and those who insist that people that 256 Kbps is quite sufficient.

Dolby Vision 8.1 and 8.4 profiles. Playback ISO images and the structure of BluRay/DVDs. Licensed Dolby/DTS audio decoders. All of the above is not available in Plex. And this is a very important functionality.

I'll accept your statement about profiles at face value. I have had no issues with any of my 600 or so MKV's not playing Dolby Vision (when available) via Plex so why is this relevant? I did read the reference about the profiles but it does not say why I should care.

As for Blu-Ray Extras they are handled quite nicely by Plex "featurettes". Have no interest in preserving the structure of the original Blu-Ray. I want to manage the various supplemental videos on a disk so have no interest in .iso files.

Don't undertand the point about DTS decoders.

Assuming your statement about DTS-MA in Infuse went to verify in Infuse my Apple TV. Failed.

1. Infuse main menu took forever to populate
2. Tried to play a movie and just got spinning gear

Likely a setup issue but almost never have that issue with Plex.

3. In Plex for "Bumble Bee" I can ~17 subtitle choices and ~16 audio tracks on the main film page. Didn't see those choices in Infuse.

4. In Plex I use my scanned movie covers to serve as the movie thumbnail as it allows me to see the resolution, edition, whether there is a digital copy, and the back cover of the slipcase. Helps me identify the content source.

Some of these issues might be due to my inexperience with the app.

I am in the process of upscaling my DVDs to 1080p via Topaz. [It makes a big difference in video quality]. Simple thing to do with help from Plex. Sorting my Movies by bitrate allows me to quickly identify them. Don't know of a way to do that in Infuse.

We care about different things in our video player.

 

[Axl2023]

My receiver sees DTS-MA when played via an NVidia Shield. The Dolby Digital recoding is an Apple TV "feature" unfortunately. Infuse may have a workaround, but see my comments below.

Although I also wish to hear the original DTS-MA it is a contentious point as to how many people can actually tell the difference. See the heated discussions about "lossless" audio and those who insist that people that 256 Kbps is quite sufficient.

No. Infuse has built-in audio decoders from Dolby and DTS. They decompose the DTS HD MA audio tracks into channels and transmit them to the receiver. At the same time, there is no loss of quality. There are no built-in licensed audio decoders in Plex. That's a fact. Plex uses the algorithm built into tvOS to compress the audio track in Dolby Digital 5.1. And at the same time, there is a loss of sound quality. There is no loss of sound quality in infuse.

So read more about Dolby Vision 8 in Plex. And then you'll see that Plex from DV 8 takes metadata from the HDR layer, not from the DV layer. As a result, you are not watching in Dolby Vision, but in HDR. But on the TV, Plex pulls up the Dolby Vision bar. This is a hoax. If that's okay with you, fine. I want to see real Dolby Vision, not HDR. This is also an indisputable fact.

As for the ISO, the BluRay structure. We are not talking about your personal or anyone else's preferences here. We are comparing the functionality of Plex and the functionality of infuse as a video player. And if infuse makes it possible to reproduce anything. Whatever is offered to him, he will understand everything and reproduce everything. This is not the case with Plex.

Everything I've written about is not my personal opinion. These are irrefutable reliable facts known to everyone. The fact is that Plex can't. Therefore, there is no need to build your own personal assumptions and try to challenge anything.

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[Axl2023]

Don't undertand the point about DTS decoders.

Exactly. Do not underestimate the importance of having a DTS audio decoder in infuse.