2017 NVIDIA SHIELD TV Plex Crashing or Stuttering with some UHD Blu-Ray MKVs

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EE_Tech117
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2017 NVIDIA SHIELD TV Plex Crashing or Stuttering with some UHD Blu-Ray MKVs

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I'm using a NVIDIA SHIELD TV as both the Plex server and player to playback some makemkv rips of UHD blu-ray discs and I'm having issues. I don't know if it's the MKV or the media server/player. The Hobbit Extended cuts and Fellowship of the Ring all make Plex crash after playing just fine for a few minutes.

Has anybody else had issues with this? Any ideas on how best to debug the problem and ensure the MKV files are solid? TIA
NeuroDawg
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Re: 2017 NVIDIA SHIELD TV Plex Crashing or Stuttering with some UHD Blu-Ray MKVs

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The Plex player sucked on the Shield tube. At least it did for me (2019 ver) until the latest system update from Nvidia. I had to switch to using Kodi+Plex add-on for 4K content, which worked fine.

The EN 9 that Nvidia released yesterday appears to have fixed the issues, and a brief trial of playing movies that were previously a problem shows they play ok now.
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