Serviio

I have the TV listed in the subject line. The available profiles don't show this model.

It seems to work if I choose the Samsung NU profile. Does that seem like the right one to use?

Do I need to enable transcoding? If serviio detects from the profile that the TV supports a format, will it serve the video without transcoding even if transcoding is enabled?

Thank you.

Profiles are only created when someone takes the time to determine what the TV supports. I happened to create the NU profile when I bought one of those sets, but I ended up giving it to my daughter as I was unimpressed with its HDR quality.

The NU profile is the latest profile created for a Samsung TV. If everything appears to work well with your TV, then by all means continue using it.

If transcoding is disabled in the Serviio console, then Serviio will not transcode even if the media requires it to play correctly. One example would be a media file that is in a supported container, and has a supported video codec, but the audio codec isn't supported by the TV. In that case, the video would display but there would be no sound, since the sound would need transcoding into a supported codec. For me, that would be almost all of my ripped Blu Ray discs, since they almost all have a lossless audio codec that a TV is unlikely to support. If your TV and your AVR both support eARC, then that wouldn't be necessary as the lossless audio should be passed to the AVR for processing. If you leave transcoding enabled, Serviio still does not transcode unless the media contents triggers one of the options contained in the profile in use. Again, media with lossless audio would trigger audio only transcoding if the video and container are both supported by the TV.

The exception to the transcoding disabled setting is if you also select to burn in captions. Since this requires transcoding to burn the captions into the video stream, it overrides the disabled setting.

@2atc98092:

Thank you very much for the thorough answer!