Method for telling viewer, another more appropriate audio stream exist

[HawkXP71 112]

Often, my media has multiple audio channels. One particular show has 4

As reported by emby, AAC 7.1, TrueHD 7.1, AC3 5.1, an AC3 5.1 commentary

The first stream, is AAC 7.1, however, if the player (Smart TV) cant decode 7.1, it transcodes the audio into AC3 5.1, which already exists.

It would be great if the user was notified of the transcoding and there is an available audio stream that would not require transcoding.  A possible user option that would be "automatically choose" the proper audio if it exists, would be great, but I could see the confusion if there were only 2 streams, one for normal audio and one for commentary. and it played the commentary.

A more "ideal" option, is for the client app to determine supported codecs upon startup, and "not show" or mark audio and video streams as "Transcoding required".  So if there is another version they could know before starting to play.

TIA
Scott

[Luke 42078]

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A more "ideal" option, is for the client app to determine supported codecs upon startup, and "not show" or mark audio and video streams as "Transcoding required".  So if there is another version they could know before starting to play.

Hi, yes the 4.8 server will take this into account a little bit better.

[HawkXP71 112]

Just now, Luke said:

Hi, yes the 4.8 server will take this into account a little bit better.

Thats great to know.  Thanks

[crusher11 1101]

5 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, yes the 4.8 server will take this into account a little bit better.

How, precisely? 

[rbjtech 5284]

9 hours ago, crusher11 said:

How, precisely? 

Yep, would be interested to know.

In the last Beta, 4.8 - it still uses the 'Default' as the primary choice and transcoded HD Audio to other streams when there was an AC3 or AAC track available.

I do however understand the predicament here - how does emby know that track is not a 'commentary' track - as it's rare to find the commentary being tagged as such.

I've gone with the route of putting the 'most compatible' track 1 as the Default now (usually AC3 or AAC 2.0) and putting the HD Audio tracks as 2nd, 3rd etc. (and removing the Default flag)   The file needs to be remuxed to do this (if you want the track order changed), but it will all but eliminate transcoding on the majority of devices.

[HawkXP71 112]

4 hours ago, rbjtech said:

Yep, would be interested to know.

In the last Beta, 4.8 - it still uses the 'Default' as the primary choice and transcoded HD Audio to other streams when there was an AC3 or AAC track available.

I do however understand the predicament here - how does emby know that track is not a 'commentary' track - as it's rare to find the commentary being tagged as such.

I've gone with the route of putting the 'most compatible' track 1 as the Default now (usually AC3 or AAC 2.0) and putting the HD Audio tracks as 2nd, 3rd etc. (and removing the Default flag)   The file needs to be remuxed to do this (if you want the track order changed), but it will all but eliminate transcoding on the majority of devices.

This is exactly what I have been doing.  

When I prep media for my server, I make sure audio track zero is aac 5.1, since 7.1 also often requires transcoding.