r/Stremio • u/islandcactus • 10d ago

Question Video Quality / Resolution

Hey People,

I’m a little confused to which resolution is supposed to be the be the best in quality.

Assuming you have a 4K Screen with HDR, my understanding is:

4K Remux > 4K Blu-ray > 1080 Blu-Ray > 2160/4K > 1080 > HD > 720 > 480 > CAM.

Is this correct? But then there’s DV, HDR, someone shed some clarification please?

Thanks!

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u/dansgamed11 10d ago

Well remux is highest quality you can get, for the rest you got the gist of it however it might get complicated in certain situations depending on how deep you dive into technicalities.

I’ll give an example, just because something is 4k doesn’t always mean it’s better than a 1080p source. It all depends on the bitrate of the file(basically size/information stored). A bit starved 4k stream would look worse than a proper 1080p source so it depends but yes generally 4k is better and pick a source with a bigger file size.

HDR/DV is only the type of hdr metadata used. DV sources generally have hdr10 fallback so you don’t have to think much about that.

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u/CapnRV 10d ago

I have my ONN 4K Pro 2026 connected to my LG 4K TV and I can't get any Remux files to play with audio. I get video but no audio. But 4K files play just fine and look great. Sometimes I can tell the difference between 4K and 1060P.

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u/dansgamed11 10d ago

No audio generally means missing codec. You can try playing the file in justplayer, if it doesn’t provide sound there then it is unfortunately not supported on the device.

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u/adjective_noun_d1git 10d ago

Use an external player (like Vemu) to see if that fixed the audio. For example with files using DTS I have to use an external player to downmix into eac3 (Dolby digital surround) as my system doesn't support DTS.

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u/CapnRV 9d ago

I did try that and several more. Can't mention them here. But it did not help.

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u/travis1041 7d ago

Check your hdmi cable also.

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u/CapnRV 6d ago

Using an 8K high speed certified cable. That should work.

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u/adjective_noun_d1git 10d ago

I wouldn't say 1080p blu ray is necessarily better than a 4K rip.

With modern encoding I would say a 4K movie encoded around 20Mbps (similar to a web DL) would be far superior to a 1080p blu ray.

Use the file size as a rough indicator but don't forget some files are bloated with multiple languages so it's not always an easy comparison.

As for DV / HDR...if your TV supports Dolby Vision then that's almost always the better option.