Why is flac shown as Direct play on the server?
It is my understanding that Roku supports FLAC, so I am unsure as to why Emby is transcoding some FLAC files and creating duplicates of these transcodes. As you can see in the screenshots, the first tracks, excluding Counting Crows, are not doubled. The Cranberries jumps from track 15 to 18, in the transcode files, and Creed track 13 is not doubled. Creed and Cranberries were only played once. I added Counting Crows, the entire album to further test, and only played the first track. The track ha
So more testing, but using optional network paths, since it is stated as:
This makes no difference. FLAC is still converted to inferior sound quality (MP3). Also, I asked once before and the question was not addressed. Why are the files being converted twice? As you can see the timestamp, between the two logs, is a second apart. Conversion takes place before the file plays and happens for every FLAC file. So there is a 2-5 second gap between each track because it has to convert. Somet