What's the big deal about DTS on IOS?

[vdatanet 1586]

1 minute ago, neik said:

Did I get this right that everything with DTS doesn't direct play on iOS?

Yes

[neik 870]

2 minutes ago, vdatanet said:

Yes

Does it at least downmix to stereo?

[vdatanet 1586]

Just now, neik said:

Does it at least downmix to stereo?

No, transcoded to AC3

[neik 870]

1 hour ago, vdatanet said:

No, transcoded to AC3

@Luke, how are people supposed to use DTS audio & graphical subs (e.g. vobsubs, pgssubs) when not even downmixing is available?
Do the restrictions (apparently some licensing issue) also apply to downmixing stuff? If not, can this be implemented please?
IMO this stereo is enough for iPhone, Apple TV is a different story though...

[Luke 40079]

More options are certainly possible. Thanks for the feedback.

[neik 870]

An option like that is crucial to be able to use graphical subs otherwise it will require a lot of transcoding and burning in - which is not feasible for a lot of people, me including.
While you are at it, imo this should also be added to Emby for Android if it is needed.

Look at what ebr did with the AndroidTV app, there it is working amazingly good since the last release.
We users have the option to select:

1. Direct play everything and downmix non-compatible audio to stereo or
2. Convert non-compatible audio (e.g. DTS-HD, TrueHD) to AC3

This is exactly how all apps should look like otherwise those with graphical subs are screwed, one way or another.

So, please consider this and not only "in the future"...

Edited June 15, 2021 by neik

[vdatanet 1586]

8 minutes ago, neik said:

An option like that is crucial to be able to use graphical subs otherwise it will require a lot of transcoding and burning in - which is not feasible for a lot of people, me including.
While you are at it, imo this should also be added to Emby for Android if it is needed.

Look at what ebr did with the AndroidTV app, there it is working amazingly good since the last release.
We users have the option to select:

1. Direct play everything and downmix non-compatible audio to stereo or
2. Convert non-compatible audio (e.g. DTS-HD, TrueHD) to AC3

This is exactly how all apps should look like otherwise those with graphical subs are screwed, one way or another.

So, please consider this and not only "in the future"...

Add this option:

3. Decode everything DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD... to LPCM on supported systems like Plex and Infuse do

Remuxing HEVC content usually leads to this:

 

Edited June 15, 2021 by vdatanet

[horstepipe 377]

4 hours ago, vdatanet said:

3. Decode everything DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD... to LPCM on supported systems like Plex and Infuse do

Plex also does this client side?

[vdatanet 1586]

1 minute ago, horstepipe said:

Plex also does this client side?

Yes, with Legacy player disabled (MPV player enabled)

[horstepipe 377]

2 minutes ago, vdatanet said:

Yes, with Legacy player disabled (MPV player enabled)

okay then it's time to finally try it out I guess. Does framerate switching on tvos work there, too?

[vdatanet 1586]

15 minutes ago, horstepipe said:

okay then it's time to finally try it out I guess. Does framerate switching on tvos work there, too?

Yes, but the truth is that since Infuse added support for Emby I stopped using Plex for good.

[horstepipe 377]

9 minutes ago, vdatanet said:

Yes, but the truth is that since Infuse added support for Emby I stopped using Plex for good.

may I ask why? What were your main reasons? Infuse is okay but it hasn't a chance against the emby gui.

Edited June 15, 2021 by horstepipe

[vdatanet 1586]

11 minutes ago, horstepipe said:

may I ask why? What were your main reasons? Infuse is okay but it hasn't a chance against the emby gui.

Because I like Emby more than Plex, and Infuse is enough to make up for the shortcomings of the Emby app for Apple TV. Also I use Emby for Android TV and the application is much better than Plex.

[neik 870]

Just tried to play a movie with DTS on a iPhone with Emby 2.0.8 a couple of days ago and it still remuxed.
Any chance we can get a downmix to stereo capability fairly soon in order to improve direct play capabilities?

Edit:
I thought you added DTS support to MacOS in the past couple of months but I couldn't find any post about it. Was it really added or is my memory simply failing? 

Edited September 2, 2021 by neik

[Luke 40079]

On 9/2/2021 at 2:30 PM, neik said:

I thought you added DTS support to MacOS in the past couple of months but I couldn't find any post about it. Was it really added or is my memory simply failing? 

Yes but you have to use the downloaded build from our website, not from the store.

[neik 870]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

Yes but you have to use the downloaded build from our website, not from the store.

So, you are one step further by having DTS already available in the Apple ecosystem.
Will this also make it to iOS and AppleTV?

[Luke 40079]

13 minutes ago, neik said:

So, you are one step further by having DTS already available in the Apple ecosystem.
Will this also make it to iOS and AppleTV?

There's no way to sideload these apps so that depends on our ability to get it into the store. We'll see what the future holds. Hopefully we will.

[horstepipe 377]

7 hours ago, Luke said:

There's no way to sideload these apps so that depends on our ability to get it into the store. We'll see what the future holds. Hopefully we will.

On MacOS, is it downmix to stereo or real support for DTS? What about DTS-HD?

Edited September 6, 2021 by horstepipe

[neik 870]

8 hours ago, Luke said:

There's no way to sideload these apps so that depends on our ability to get it into the store. We'll see what the future holds. Hopefully we will.

What about downmix to stereo, is this also dependent on proper DTS support or can this be implemented without it?
On the iPhones or iPads proper Dolby sound isn't that important and downmixing would allow extended direct play functionality and also better usability of graphical subs.

3 minutes ago, horstepipe said:

On MacOS, is it downmix to stereo or real support for DTS? What about DTS-HD?

IIRC it's proper DTS support but I cannot the posts anymore..

[horstepipe 377]

I don’t give up to ask

is it meanwhile on the horizon downmixing dts to Stereo on iPad side?

[Luke 40079]

On 11/23/2021 at 11:19 AM, horstepipe said:

I don’t give up to ask

is it meanwhile on the horizon downmixing dts to Stereo on iPad side?

It's something we'll continue to keep re-evaluating. Thanks.

[neik 870]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

It's something we'll continue to keep re-evaluating. Thanks.

So, you are basically telling all those with an iOS device to sit tight while they are not able to direct play any content with DTS which basically means no graphical subs on every iOS device (except burning them in, which is not viable for most out here).

Really, Luke? We are almost in 2022 and you can't downmix stuff to stereo on iOS?!

You guys keep playing with optical "improvements" on server/apps but this is basic technical stuff which should get way more priority IMO...

[neik 870]

On 11/29/2021 at 6:48 AM, Luke said:

It's something we'll continue to keep re-evaluating. Thanks.

6 months later: How is the status?

[Luke 40079]

12 hours ago, neik said:

6 months later: How is the status?

It's the same for iOS, but if you use macOS then we have a sideload build available on our website which can direct play just about everything.

[Luke 40079]

Please try Emby for iOS 2.1.9 once available. Thanks.