All audio formats reported as Dolby Digital

[griffindodd 18]

Running Emby on Nvidia Shield my receiver sees all inbound audio as DD 5.1 no matter the original format

My audio settings in Android are set to auto, but even manually choosing all Formats has no effect, and in Emby I have passthru enabled for all formats

my receiver is a Denon 6300h which supports a massive range of audio formats so it isn’t a limitation here

Edited August 10, 2024 by griffindodd

[pünktchen 1409]

Make sure Dolby Audio Processing is off under Nvidia Shield Settings > Device Preferences > Display & Sound > Advanced sound setttings > Dolby audio processing.

[griffindodd 18]

1 hour ago, pünktchen said:

Make sure Dolby Audio Processing is off under Nvidia Shield Settings > Device Preferences > Display & Sound > Advanced sound setttings > Dolby audio processing.

Thanks. I’m. Pretty sure it is but I will double check. 

[ebr 16169]

You can see in our stats that we are sending DTS-HD.  Something after us is converting it it appears.

[griffindodd 18]

This is weird. 
 

a totally different shield in another part of the house. Different AVR (Onkyo 9.2 NR797) but the same issue. I can’t figure out what is happening. 

[griffindodd 18]

Ok so I tried another movie which was also labeled as DTS-MA and that did pass thru. 

Something is happening with transcoding on certain files, it seems to be moving back and forward between direct stream and transcode in the stats for nerds reporting. I see it change as certain files play. Keeps saying ‘Unsupported Video Level’ as the conversion reason. 

Can I disable transcoding for the local network? I have no need for it. 

[Happy2Play 9780]

12 minutes ago, griffindodd said:

Keeps saying ‘Unsupported Video Level’ as the conversion reason. 

What app/client version?

[griffindodd 18]

Emby client is 2.1.15g

Server 4.8.8.0 on Ubuntu 

Storage is a synology NAS, everything hardwired on gigabit network. 

[Happy2Play 9780]

2 minutes ago, griffindodd said:

Emby client is 2.1.15g

Server 4.8.8.0 on Ubuntu 

Storage is a synology NAS, everything hardwired on gigabit network. 

Has a bug/typo mentioned in other topics.

You have to rollback or move forward to beta.

 

Edited August 11, 2024 by Happy2Play

[griffindodd 18]

29 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Has a bug/typo mentioned in other topics.

You have to rollback or move forward to beta.

 

Ahh ok. I'll sign up for beta and give that a try.
 

I tested with Emby for Android and the direct play with DTS worked perfectly on the same file I was using to test, however the Android app demands that I have Emby Premier to play files. 

Edited August 11, 2024 by griffindodd

[ebr 16169]

1 hour ago, griffindodd said:

I'll sign up for beta and give that a try.

The problem is you are already signed up for beta with Google.  What you need to do is sideload the updated beta or exit the beta in Google and go back to production.

beta release of the app

 

[griffindodd 18]

29 minutes ago, ebr said:

The problem is you are already signed up for beta with Google.  What you need to do is sideload the updated beta or exit the beta in Google and go back to production.

beta release of the app

 

Yep I sideloaded 2.1.16g and everything is working as it should now, thanks for all of the help.