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Hope i'm not replying where i shouldn't be but i think i have the same problem (I get all the audio except dialogue). When I play a movie through Web Browser on a Windows 10 PC with Stereo Speakers connected, i can only hear the Surround Speakers in the Movie, no voice dialog. Windows understands I have stereo speakers, not surround sound. Other web browser streaming services are fine. When i play on my phone via the app, i can hear everything fine. So its like a mixdown isn't happening when i'm using the Web Browser, and the centre channel isn't being fed into the left and right speakers. Sounds like the same/Similar issue to what was being discussed here and i'm not finding much on the forums regarding the problem. Was there ever a fix for this?

I convert my stuff to vp9/opus for quite a while now. So far one of the components always had trouble with opus, so the emby server always said "device can not playback audio as transcode reason", so it converted the file and everything was peachy. Then, I do not know exactly what happened, but I guess some update on either your firetv app, firetv itself or even a firmeware upgrade in my reciever (what seems the most unlikely thing) and now I have trouble getting decent sound out of my setup because my reciever seems to not understand that it is getting a 5.1/7.1 sound and mixes it down (the wrong way) to stereo. As you can see from attachment 01, the result is a screwed up 2.1, resulting in me still hearing background voices (I guess the left, right and surround channels), but not the center one, so basically no conversations. If I press the "i have problem seeing stuff" in the settings, emby switches to transcoding and the sound is back as it should (receiver displaying getting DD+) and all channels light up. Although the subtitles are screwed now, fast forwarding and beeing no longer sync (but I guess thats a different problem and I will make a seperate post for this). If I playback the file on another TV setup where I only have stereo I do not get the problem obviously because some clever step realises there are no 6 nor 8 speakers and mixes it down to 2 correctly. What strikes me as odd and totally wrong is the fact on the screenshot, that my reciever thinks it gets a 7.1 STEREO PCM stream (which does not make any sense, I know). Can you make any sense into this? If you need debug logs I would appreciate some pointers as in how to get them off the firetv, as it is quite a while I push/pulled something from an android device and my swiss cheese brain has trouble remembering how to do so :-)

OPUS 5.1 audio exhibits an odd issue. I get all the audio except dialogue. So you hear sirens, gun shots, birds, etc., but there is no dialogue to be heard when people are speaking. It is not like all the audio goes away when someone is talking, you still hear all the background audio. It is rather humorous actually to watch a show like that. Playback correction resolves the issue. The problem is only seen with AFTV client. Smartphone client, web app, and theater all play the audio perfectly. I did re-encode one file to use AAC 5.1 for Audio and that resolved the issue, but this is a TV show. Unless anyone else has a suggestion, I have to re-encode 60+ files so that my main playback device works as it should (I don't want to have to enable playback correction every time I watch an episode). Anyone else run into this? Here is the original file information from the web app for the affected show: