Playback Issues with Harry Potter TrueMAX Editions

[Luke 42077]

Not necessarily. Vlc has software decoding fallbacks. Those other players probably do as well.

[Luke 42077]

But if you play it in vlc I would think it has info in the app to tell you how it's being decoded.

[Cjkeenan 6]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

But if you play it in vlc I would think it has info in the app to tell you how it's being decoded.

VLC

Video codec: MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265)

Audio Codec 1: DTS Audio

Audio Codec 2: FLAC

[Cjkeenan 6]

38 minutes ago, Luke said:

Not necessarily. Vlc has software decoding fallbacks. Those other players probably do as well.

I think you might be onto something, just player allows me to set it to ONLY use device decoders and when I do that, it won't play the truemax file at all, switch back to prefer device decoders and it works again.

 

I then played a file with the same codecs (no FLAC audio track though) that works fine in the internal emby player and confirmed it has the same codecs as the truemax as reported in VLC. When that new file is played in just player with the ONLY device decoders setting, it plays fine however.

 

So I wonder do you think it's a problem with the 8 channel FLAC audio track even though I am using the DTS-HD MA track and not the FLAC track?

[Cjkeenan 6]

8 minutes ago, Cjkeenan said:

I think you might be onto something, just player allows me to set it to ONLY use device decoders and when I do that, it won't play the truemax file at all, switch back to prefer device decoders and it works again.

 

I then played a file with the same codecs (no FLAC audio track though) that works fine in the internal emby player and confirmed it has the same codecs as the truemax as reported in VLC. When that new file is played in just player with the ONLY device decoders setting, it plays fine however.

 

So I wonder do you think it's a problem with the 8 channel FLAC audio track even though I am using the DTS-HD MA track and not the FLAC track?

Actually, nevermind, the 60 second clip I provided had the FLAC stripped out and it still has the issue. Something else is going on.

 

Did the logs I provided not have any clues as to why it is choosing to use ffmpeg?