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Guest asrequested
Posted

You can't play anything that has AC3?

Posted

You can't play anything that has AC3?

 

I think he is just saying that one video he linked to won't play.

horstepipe
Posted (edited)

yep, this is a codec video for Emby cinema mode which should play after the trailers when the movie's audio codec is ac3.

The other ones (DTS and DTS-HD MA work fine.

 

Could this be because the mentioned file's audio codec is Dolby TrueHD? The codec intro files for DTS and DTS-HD MA both are DTS (normal, no HD). So maybe Emby can't handle HD audio formats in browser/can't transcode them?

Edited by horstepipe
Happy2Play
Posted

It works in Chrome, get a video error in Firefox, and just a stuck black screen in Edge.

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horstepipe
Posted (edited)

Thanks for testing

 

@@Luke is this a limitation of Firefox?

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horstepipe
Posted (edited)

what kind of file is it?

General
Unique ID                                : 250906706768705264533034335177883391925 (0xBCC2DFBD3DC8840CA5F24BEB8A3E17B5)
Complete name                            : Z:\Cinemavision\emby\audio\ac3.mkv
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 4 / Version 2
File size                                : 28.6 MiB
Duration                                 : 25 s 25 ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 9 594 kb/s
Encoded date                             : UTC 2016-09-15 13:14:57
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v9.4.2 ('So High') 64bit
Writing library                          : libebml v1.3.4 + libmatroska v1.4.5

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : Baseline@L1.3
Format settings, CABAC                   : No
Format settings, ReFrames                : 1 frame
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 24 s 984 ms
Bit rate                                 : 5 583 kb/s
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 23.976 (23976/1000) FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.112
Stream size                              : 16.6 MiB (58%)
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : TrueHD
Codec ID                                 : A_TRUEHD
Duration                                 : 25 s 25 ms
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 3 950 kb/s
Maximum bit rate                         : 5 562 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 8 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, Back: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 96.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 2 400.000 FPS (40 spf)
Compression mode                         : Lossless
Stream size                              : 11.8 MiB (41%)
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

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horstepipe
Posted (edited)

Enabled Cinema mode in Emby.

Copied the linked ac3.mkv into the in Emby specified codec videos folder.

Started a movie with ac3 audio in Firefox.

Trailers work fine, but when it Comes to the codec intro I'm getting the error you can see below.

 

http://imgur.com/a/C2cpm

 

 

ps: again, I'm not able to upload images directly here, although I only use 10 of 40 MB for attachments.

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horstepipe
Posted

Can you try another file?

with truehd audio codec?

I'm not sure if I have another one, but I'm gonna look for it.

Guest asrequested
Posted

Please excuse my lack of understanding, but what is the advantage of using the 'Codec Intro', as opposed to the 'Custom Intro' ?

horstepipe
Posted (edited)

Please excuse my lack of understanding, but what is the advantage of using the 'Codec Intro', as opposed to the 'Custom Intro' ?

If you have specified codec intros you get intros matching the movie's audio codec.

So for Dolby you get Dolby intros, for DTS you get DTS intros which you can download here:

 

http://www.demo-world.eu/2d-demo-trailers-hd/

 

Custom intro is a random video file from the specified folder.

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Guest asrequested
Posted (edited)

Ok, so I've been playing around with this. I now understand what it is...AWESOME! I love it. Any chance of a distinction being made between TrueHD and Atmos? Not all TrueHD is Atmos, but all Atmos is TrueHD. Atmos is an extension of TrueHD.

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Guest asrequested
Posted

I can confirm that Edge won't play a TrueHD file. The file is also encoded with Atmos. I can't find one with just TrueHD. You can get the file I'm using, here

 

 

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Posted

Can you provide a sample file? does it play in other browsers? thanks.

Guest asrequested
Posted (edited)

Can you provide a sample file? does it play in other browsers? thanks.

 

There's a link to the file I used in my last post. I don't have firefox installed, but it plays in chrome. I just tested this dts-x file, and it won't play in Chrome or Edge

 

Update:

 

After a library scan, the dts-x will play in chrome, and will start to play in Edge but freezes

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Happy2Play
Posted

The file is post #1 reproduces the errors OP sees.  Doesn't work in Edge (just a black screen), Firefox produces the Video Error, and Chrome works fine.

Guest asrequested
Posted

And it would appear that LAV doesn't support dts-X, yet. But that's an issue for another thread.

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