dustbin
December 14, 2024, 2:23am
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According to the error, I think it has to do with the eac3 audio codec w/ Atmos metadata. I have DV/HDR10 files w/ TrueHD and they play fine. Files w/ standard eac3 5.1 audio plays fine as well.
Files w/ eac3 + Atmos fail to play on both my Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel Tablet.
This is a known issue on the main Plex app, but the workaround there is to go into settings and disable support for EAC3 (which still doesn’t really solve the issue as it forces a transcode, and requires users to really know what they’re doing).
See: https://forums.plex.tv/t/pixel-8-pro-repots-eac3-is-Supported-but-eac3-content-fails-to-play
I was hoping this would be fixed on the new app but it’s actually worse. The problem on the new app is that such a workaround doesn’t exist aside from dis…
This was an issue on the public app earlier this year:
I wonder why EAC3-JOC isn’t like DTS-HD where if a client can’t play HD or DTS:X but can play basic DTS it just ignores the extra audio data and plays DTS Core. Why can’t EAC3-JOC just drop the Atmos metadata and play simple EAC3 on devices that don’t support Atmos? Then there is no need to transcode anything. DTS has done this for years so it cant be difficult. Dolby seem a bit backwards here. True HD should have had an AC3 core to fall back on too and doesn’t.
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