Completed Audio transcoding to Dolby doesn't work, output is just ACC although "Enable AAC Transcoding to Dolby" is set true

[vdatanet 1549]

Decoder Panasonic sa-ht07 5.1 AAC input gets a stero PCM output.

 

Thanks

 

 

Edited January 22, 2016 by vdatanet

[vdatanet 1549]

What about not transcoding audio if supported? For example, when bandwidth is limited, plex transcodes video but audio not.

 

An option "Don't transcode audio if supported" would be nice.

Edited January 22, 2016 by vdatanet

[chessdragon136 677]

What about not transcoding audio if supported? For example, when bandwidth is limited, plex transcodes video but audio not.

 

An option "Don't transcode audio if supported" would be nice.

 

Generally this isn't done as it can cause sync issues, 

[cmcg 874]

Also how would you know "if supported"? Quite tricky.

Edited January 23, 2016 by cmcg

[CBers 6769]

Emby is still transcoding my DTS audio to AC3 in the Win10 app, and thought it was mentioned the Roku app also transcodes to AC3

I always thought AC3 was transcoded to AAC.

[FrostByte 5049]

Yes, the app converts everything to AAC expect in the case if original input is AAC you can tell it to convert it to AC3

Edited January 23, 2016 by FrostByte

[cmcg 874]

The fix for this issue is in the current beta 2.1.0d. Could you see if this fixes the issue please @@vdatanet

[vdatanet 1549]

Perfect!

 

Now AC3 is transcoded to AC3 instead of AAC

 

Thanks!

[CBers 6769]

Perfect!

 

Now AC3 is transcoded to AC3 instead of AAC

 

Thanks!

 

Under what circumstances ??

 

My Samsung TV is capable of direct playing AC3, so I'm a little confused.

[vdatanet 1549]

Under what circumstances ??

 

My Samsung TV is capable of direct playing AC3, so I'm a little confused.

 

 

Hi,

 

My bandwidth is limited to 10 Mbps, so when I access to remote server, I need to transcode the movie to lower bitrate. In previous versions, AC3 audio was transcoded to AAC, now AC3 audio is transcoded to AC3. My receiver can't decode multichannel AAC, only AC3. So this change is very good for me.

 

Thanks

Edited February 10, 2016 by vdatanet

[FrostByte 5049]

@CBers To put it simply the change just makes it so your default transcoding codec can now be AC3 instead of AAC if you have both the settings below set to True.  As it was before the only time the code behind the second setting executed was if the original file was AAC.  In all other cases the app used to transcode to AAC and ignore that second setting 

 

This may be good news for you if you still have that sound bar which doesn't play DTS.  You can now transcode DTS to AC3 if you wish 

 

Your AC3 files should be fine though, mine play without transcoding

 

 Enable Dolby Digital Playback: true​

Enable AAC Transcoding to Dolby: true

Edited February 10, 2016 by FrostByte

[CBers 6769]

Thanks Frosty

 

I don't want any transcoding.

 

Still don't know why the TV doesn't switch to Dolby when it receives AAC audio like it does for AC3.

[FrostByte 5049]

I don't want any transcoding.

 

 

Agree, I don't have anything that needs transcoding with my receiver, but have mine set to True now because I prefer AC3 over AAC if it ever does have to transcode and I don't encode anything with AAC either so I don't have to worry about that.

 

Would have preferred cmcg and chessdragon136 left that option the way it was and just added another option like "Default transcoding codec" with options "AAC" or "Dolby".  That way it would have solved both vdatanet's problem and allowed others who want our default transcoding codec to be Dolby without transcoding AAC to Dolby also if not needed.

Edited February 10, 2016 by FrostByte