Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:38 pm by atc98092
I don't know what you mean by "Plex clone". Serviio is nothing like Plex, other than it has a web interface for video playback with Serviio Pro (MediaBrowser). Plex uses a proprietary method of feeding it's dedicated player apps, with DLNA support added after the fact. Serviio is a pure DLNA server, with no dedicated apps for TVs, media players or Blu ray players.
I can't say if you could use a profile from a newer version of Serviio, but I would have my doubts. 4K TVs were barely a thing when 1.5.2 came out in 2015. OK, maybe not barely, but there has been a large number of changes and improvements in Serviio in that time. For example, 1.5.2 was the last version that required you to install Java. Starting with 1.6 Java was embedded in the install, so you always have the correct version. No, you really can't run two different versions of Serviio on the same computer. They would both attempt to use the same ports, and that isn't permitted.
I have no doubt you could find a profile that works for you to watch your media and still have video and audio using the TV itself. Although Panasonic never impressed me with their DLNA implementation on an older set I had, maybe they've improved it. Looking up the specs for the TX-55GZ950, I see it's a 4K TV, with support for HDR10, HDR10+, HLG and Dolby Vision. As you may know, so far it's not possible to rip a UHD Blu ray and retain the DV information. HDR10, 10+ and HLG are no problem. You will likely run into issues trying to stream a ripped UHD disc, as they generally have bitrates in the range of 150 Mbps, which far exceeds the limits of Fast Ethernet. However, your TV does support 802.11ac, which is more than capable of streaming that level of bitrates.
Since your TV supports 4K, it should play H.265 video without a problem. As you noted, your TV doesn't support the lossless audio codecs. But no other TV does either, so that's not unexpected. Therefore, you need a profile that can transcode the audio, but leave the video untouched. I have the perfect profile, but you won't find it in that old version of Serviio.
If you would like to try a profile from the latest version of Serviio, you're most welcome to try. But honestly I don't know why you wouldn't just want to update it. I believe the profile that will do precisely what you want is the Roku 4K TV profile. As I said, it's not available in that old of a version of Serviio. And to try this profile, you'd have to add in all the Roku profiles, as they all inherit some settings from the basic Roku profile, which again you may or may not have, and it's absolutely not the current version of the profile. It also requires you to be comfortable working in the profiles.xml file, pasting the information in precisely the correct place, and being able to troubleshoot any issues you have.
However, I think you'd find it much simpler to install the latest version of Serviio. It has a much better console, and being web based you don't have to be sitting at your Serviio computer to make changes. If you aren't using MediaBrowser, there's nothing that even closely resembles Plex. MediaBrowser is only for playback. It doesn't have any of the configuration functions that you might be thinking of in Plex. As long as you still have the 1.5.2 install file, you can just remove your 2.0 install and reinstall 1.5.2. Yes, you have to set it up again, but honestly I can't see why you'd want to go back.
Dan
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