How OSMC handles a "4K" file

Feature Requests
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A couple days ago I tried to display what I’ll call a “Quad HD” sometimes known as a “4K” file on a Sony “4K” TV. If the file is on a USB stick the TV displays it just fine on a USB port. If the same USB stick is plugged into my Raspberry Pi running an updated version of OSMC it clearly cannot be displayed on the same TV through the HDMI port. Where are we at on passing such a file through a Raspberry Pi OSMC to a 4K TV? “4K” being widely interpreted.

Here’s the ffmpeg information on the file:

Duration: 00:06:25.26, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 20289 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 3840x2160 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 20026 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : VideoHandler
Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 256 kb/s (default)

Thanks

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We are hardware limited. No OSMC supported hardware handles 4k. Though a future version of the Vero may support 4K, I don’t even think Kodi handles 4k.

If you are expecting the data to be passed to the TV for decode, such as audio passthrough does, then you definitely want to ask Kodi, as OSMC would have no bearing on such a function.

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The Raspberry Pi does not support 4K playback. This cannot be remedied by a software update.

4K content is quite limited at the moment.

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sam_nazarko said:

The Raspberry Pi does not support 4K playback.
This cannot be remedied by a software update.

Thank you that’s kinda what I expected.
Cross fingers for support in future generations
of the Pi. I’m quite honestly willing to wait
for that to happen before I invest in a “4K” TV

4K content is quite limited at the moment.

Ya, in reality there’s very little, if any, “Ultra HD Premium” content
out there yet. 3840x2160, REC 2020, Wide Dynamic Range. I’ve not
seen any downloadable files yet. My little exercise here was
to find out where the OSMC/Pi is at now.

Ref: http://www.uhdalliance.org/

Thanks again