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schmitty

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schmitty

Hello,

 

Could audio codec detection be improved for Emby Server?

 

The below is Atmos MediaInfo taken from Minions:

Audio #1
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : MLP FBA 16-ch
Format/Info                              : Meridian Lossless Packing FBA with 16-channel presentation
Commercial name                          : Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos
Codec ID                                 : A_TRUEHD
Duration                                 : 1 h 30 min
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 5 262 kb/s
Maximum bit rate                         : 7 269 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 8 channels
Channel layout                           : L R C LFE Ls Rs Lb Rb
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 1 200.000 FPS (40 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossless
Stream size                              : 3.34 GiB (14%)
Title                                    : English - Dolby Atmos 7.1
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No
Number of dynamic objects                : 11
Bed channel count                        : 1 channel
Bed channel configuration                : LFE

When displayed in Emby, there is no mention of Dolby Atmos, only TRUEHD

 

 

 

The below is DTS-X MediaInfo taken from Despicable Me 3:

Audio #1
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : DTS XLL X
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Commercial name                          : DTS-HD Master Audio
Codec ID                                 : A_DTS
Duration                                 : 1 h 29 min
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 3 595 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 8 channels
Channel(s)_Original                      : Object Based
Channel layout                           : Object Based
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth                                : 24 bits
Stream size                              : 2.25 GiB (12%)
Title                                    : English - DTS-X 7.1
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

When displayed in Emby, there is no mention of DTS-X, only DTS

 

 

The below is DTS-HD MA MediaInfo taken from Forgetting Sarah Marshall:

Audio #1
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : DTS XLL
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Commercial name                          : DTS-HD Master Audio
Codec ID                                 : A_DTS
Duration                                 : 1 h 57 min
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 3 927 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel layout                           : C L R Ls Rs LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth                                : 24 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossless
Stream size                              : 3.23 GiB (16%)
Title                                    : DTS-HD MA 5.1 English
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

When displayed in Emby, there is no mention of DTS-HD MA, only DTS

 

 

Dolby Atmos, DTS-X and DTS-HD MA as well as other DTS codecs (eg. DTS-HD, DTS-HD HRA) need to be displayed correctly in the audio select drop-down menus. Not the core codec names DTS and TRUEHD.

 
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Hi, we do have auto-detection. That's just the information that we get from ffmpeg. Hopefully in a future update they'll provide more detail so that we can do that. Thanks.

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Guest asrequested

Part of the problem is that Atmos and DTS-X are metadata and not codecs. ffprobe doesn't report them, at this time.

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Not exactly. Since we end up relying on that media info with ffmpeg for transcoding, it's best if we use the same application for both transcoding and media info gathering.

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schmitty

Fair enough. I guess we just have to wait for ffmpeg to get their act together, and correctly report the metadata.

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TonioRoffo

This is quite different in Plex, for example.  Atmos & DTS-X not being detected, that's normal, that's embedded in the audio stream.  But Dolby TrueHD (Emby & Plex) and DTS-HD (Plex only) should be able to be detected in metadata, no?

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schmitty

I don’t know what ffmpeg’s issue is. Atmos is detected by MediaInfo as

 

Format: MPL FBA 16-ch

Format/Info: Meridian Lossless Packing FBA with 16-channel presentation

Commercial name: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos

Number of dynamic objects: 11

 

 

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This is quite different in Plex, for example.  Atmos & DTS-X not being detected, that's normal, that's embedded in the audio stream.  But Dolby TrueHD (Emby & Plex) and DTS-HD (Plex only) should be able to be detected in metadata, no?

 

We can already detect TrueHD and Dts-HD.

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