webbmeister 0 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I have my Fire Stick plugged directly into my soundbar which supports DolbyDigital and DTS. When I playback a video that has DTS format, this gets re-encoded to AC3 5.1. Is there any way of getting DTS passed directly to my soundbar, rather than going via a lossy re conversion. Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14936 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Hi. We'd need to look at a specific example. How to Report a Problem Please also follow the instructions to send a log from the app. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbmeister 0 Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Many thanks for quick response. Logs attached. ffmpeg-remux.txt Server Log.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14936 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Sorry, I was moving too fast this morning but thank you for including the logs. The Fire TV device does not support DTS so our app cannot do it at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbmeister 0 Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Ah I did wonder, I'm guessing this is probably a licencing issue & Amazon won't pay up. Is DTS > AC3 been converted with the highest possible bit-rate to minimize loss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14936 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Unfortunately, the Fire TV also only supports DD up to 384kb/s so that is what we convert to. If you can't hear the difference though, just enjoy . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbmeister 0 Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 Looking at the stats for Amazon Fire, it does support DD+, could this be a future option to allow for a higher bit rate re-code? Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14936 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I'm not sure that would increase its supported bitrate for the audio - just the format and number of channels. I know the codec itself supports higher bitrates but the device doesn't even handle the max bitrate capable for normal AC3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbmeister 0 Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 No worries. Thanks for the reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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