AlbertNL 0 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Hi I have troubles with Audio pass-through on my Emby setup. I have Emby server running (latest version), and are using Emby Android TV on a Philips Android TV. My TV setup is on Multichannel Bypass, which means it shoud bypass the audiostream directly to my Denon AV Receiver. Inside Emby TV I have configured the audio stream to Auto, which should pass-through the audio stream also in the format of the movie. The Receiver as well as the TV are able to play-back DTS-HD MA, and AAC. But Emby won't pass-through DTS-HD and ACC formats. It doesn't playback when I turn off Audio transcoding in my account. It will only playback with Audio Transcoding on and in the Android App "Convert Unsupported Audio to Dolby Digital" is enabled. Strange enough, I run also a DLNA server in the network for devices without Emby support, and then my setup plays the DTS-HD and ACC audio formats in the movie without problems and the receiver is showing the right audio format! So this proves to me that my setup is able to play those audio formats! What can be the problem with this playback! Regards Albert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Hi. How is the receiver connected to the TV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertNL 0 Posted April 3, 2022 Author Share Posted April 3, 2022 Hi, it's connected with eARC HDMI. As mentioned, with another DNLA server the audio pass-through it's correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Hi, can we please look at an example of how it is playing? Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 Hi. Also, can you please play that item for a few seconds and then follow the instructions to send a log from the app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertNL 0 Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 (edited) Hi, Attached a Word document with my actions to test and reproduce the problem. Further I have send the log of Emby TV from the App to you (see also the Word document for time). I've also attached all log files from today for further analysis (with enabled debugging option on the server) Regards Edited April 5, 2022 by ebr Removed attachments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Hi. I believe the app is working properly. As you proved by disabling audio transcoding on your server, the TV does not support sending either multi-channel AAC nor DTS - at least not out of Android. The TV's internal player may support this but the Android system only reports support for DD and DD+. Therefore, we are converting to those formats when requested or mixing down locally when not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertNL 0 Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 Okay, thanks for the answer. I hoped Android TV was able to play back other formats. I'll search for more information PS Could you please remove the log files from this post? Regards Albert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredfickle 0 Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 I have a Sony 2015 model and it passes through DD.5.1 from the Emby app using the native player on the TV by spdif or arc from hdmi no problem. I have never been able to passthrough DTS on the app using either the TV or Shield although DTS HD and True dolby HD work perfect from my blu ray player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 Can you try updating to the latest version of the sideload build? https://emby.media/emby-for-android.html We've updated our embedded video player to the latest version. Let's see if it plays better with that. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinrh 174 Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 I know my Shield has trouble with AAC 5.1. It either downgrades to stereo or won't play at all, which then requires me to toggle on that 'convert to DD' switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertNL 0 Posted January 21, 2023 Author Share Posted January 21, 2023 I have the latest version, but what do you mean with sidebuild? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3293 Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 51 minutes ago, AlbertNL said: but what do you mean with sidebuild? Download the apk from above link and sideload it to your device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swehawk 7 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 On 1/18/2023 at 11:20 PM, Luke said: Can you try updating to the latest version of the sideload build? https://emby.media/emby-for-android.html We've updated our embedded video player to the latest version. Let's see if it plays better with that. Thanks ! The link points to Emby for Android, not Android TV! I'm having a similar problem, not getting Audio passthrough to work for DTS. My setup is a Xiaomi Mi Box 4 -> Yamaha AVR. No matter the settings in Emby, it always transcodes! I'm sure its the Emby player that is at fault because it works with the VLC-app. I have tested to use VLC as an external player in Emby, but that did not work either! Is there a beta build with the new player for Android-TV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 2 minutes ago, swehawk said: The link points to Emby for Android, not Android TV! I'm having a similar problem, not getting Audio passthrough to work for DTS. My setup is a Xiaomi Mi Box 4 -> Yamaha AVR. No matter the settings in Emby, it always transcodes! I'm sure its the Emby player that is at fault because it works with the VLC-app. I have tested to use VLC as an external player in Emby, but that did not work either! Is there a beta build with the new player for Android-TV? Hi, Emby for Android fully supports TV devices so that's why I asked you to try it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swehawk 7 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 1 minute ago, Luke said: Hi, Emby for Android fully supports TV devices so that's why I asked you to try it out. Ok, I thought they were separate builds! I will try it out then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertNL 0 Posted January 30, 2023 Author Share Posted January 30, 2023 On 1/21/2023 at 3:29 PM, GrimReaper said: Download the apk from above link and sideload it to your device. Was not able to try it yet. I hope to do this the coming week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swehawk 7 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 @Luke Hmmm..... just to be sure! I have a Xiaomi Mi Box 4 running Android-TV 9! Are you saying that the same apk will work for Android-devices (like android phones) as well as for devices running Android-TV ??? I´m wondering because they have different download pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 34 minutes ago, swehawk said: @Luke Hmmm..... just to be sure! I have a Xiaomi Mi Box 4 running Android-TV 9! Are you saying that the same apk will work for Android-devices (like android phones) as well as for devices running Android-TV ??? I´m wondering because they have different download pages. Yes it will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swehawk 7 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 Ok, I can confirm that DTS passthrough did work with that version I had one minute to verify since I dont have Premiere, but that was enough time to check that my AVR indicated DTS audio. Btw I didnt find any settings for DTS-passthrough, guess theyre not needed anymore? Hope you will be able to release a new version of the app for Android-TV soon! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 Yes it's a little bit ahead of the TV app in terms of video player updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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