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If I have a 4K movie on my local network that VLC (running on a Sony tv running android tv) will it be able to play the video in full 4K? Or am I better off attaching a USB to the tv and having vlc play it from there? Or is there no difference?

That will depend on speed of network. But tbh I don't think would make much difference.

I have a Sony KD55X8507C connected to a gigabyte router via a cable. VLC can play 4K videos shared over SMB. Sometimes you can notice stutters. Once a subtitle is enabled, the stutters become much more frequent.

I have a Sony KD55X8507C connected to a gigabyte router via a cable. VLC can play 4K videos shared over SMB. Sometimes you can notice stutters. Once a subtitle is enabled, the stutters become much more frequent.

I just tried streaming the fifth element via SMB (90GB) and it was unplayable with excessive stuttering/stopping/vlc twirling symbol. 850d with everything hard wired.

Will try from a harddrive connected directly to the tv next.

Edit: hateful 8 4K (40Gb) played just fine over the network. weird both are same codec H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)