Notfast 7 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I just saw the improvement on non audio Chromecast to directly play flac without transcoding :-) I just have to ask, will it do 5.1 flac without transcoding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 are you referring to audio or video files with flac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notfast 7 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Share Posted February 2, 2016 Video files with 5.1 flac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Ok. If you can provide a sample file then I'll see if i can get it working. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notfast 7 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Share Posted February 2, 2016 Thank you. I'll upload you one when I get off work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notfast 7 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Share Posted February 2, 2016 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3316850/6ch_flac/6ch_flac_16bit.mkv Logs from cast to chromecast and android playback - both transcoded. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3316850/6ch_flac/server-63589968000.txt https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3316850/6ch_flac/transcode-fefb8894-fb66-43d7-85f6-c1f164ed6359.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I will test chromecast but android should already be able to direct play that. if anything it probably transcoded due to the bitrate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Ok, I tested on chromecast, but I'm sorry to report the file does not play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Having said that though, when transcoding the video is stream copying and the audio is converted to ac3 (or mp3/aac), so you're still getting surround sound which i think is very good still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notfast 7 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Share Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) Having said that though, when transcoding the video is stream copying and the audio is converted to ac3 (or mp3/aac), so you're still getting surround sound which i think is very good still. Yes, forgot add that my surround receiver said it was reciving digital 5.1, and all speakers played as they should - with transcoding. It takes alot less cpu to do audio only :-) Edit: it takes less then 1% cpu on my E3-1260l (quad core 2.4Ghz) to playback that clip on chromecast with video stream copy and audio transcoding/converting. :-) So one should not have any problems streaming to a lots of chromecats even on a lesser cpu. Edited February 2, 2016 by Notfast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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