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What are the odds that this will support 1080p streaming with Plex? I've tried Plex on a Pi 3 using a Roku as a player with 1080p and it's a complete failure. Plex tries to encode everything even if native playback to the Roku is possible using the Roku media player.

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If encoding is required? Almost certainly won't work, it's just not powerful enough. But you should avoid reencoding if at all possible, and I imagine it will work if you can manage to disable it.

My plex isn't on a Pi but I do not have this issue with Roku Express as a player. Could be other factors like the video codec and direct stream is set on Roku.

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