The sheer f***ing irony of playing in a band called: “Pirate Radio”
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Is progress on this dead?
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Yes, (At least until the whole ATSC 3.0/DRM ■■■■ is solved???) (IMHO)
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I really don’t care about DRM and just wondering if we will ever have AC-4 sound on ATSC 3.0 broadcasts. They can’t do anything about DRM but hoping they figure out how to make their product ready for it in the future and allow us to use the non encrypted channels available to us now.
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The blockade to having AC-4 natively supported by Plex was last reported to be an issue with Dolby. This request might be better suited for Dolby’s forum. This thread has gone in this circle, endlessly. We have some options but asking Plex to forgo licensing or to pay for licensing when DRM will make it moot, is not a realistic option. It’s just barking up the wrong tree now.
These posts bury the real info in here with noise. For anyone just getting here:
There is a Docker container that will convert the AC-4 audio to a codec that Plex supports. A very practical option.
Emby seems to have skipped licensing and just added AC-4 support.
You can write your representatives about the ATSC3 standard, and there is info in this thread about other options to voice your opinion but it is buried by posts asking Plex when the feature is coming.
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Here is a different version of the docker container that I used to get the atsc 3.0 channels into my tuner. It works well for me and I now have reliable signals on all my locals.
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How much CPU and RAM does running this require? I’m running my Plex server on a Synology DS918+ with a Intel Celeron J3455 quad core 1.5 GHz processor and 8 GB RAM.
I don’t know the requirements but I am running it on a Synology DS224+ Intel Celeron J4125 18gb ram, and a direct stream adds about 5% to my cpu usage per stream, doesn’t change the ram usage. Every tuner you occupy it runs an instance of ffmpeg.
Wow! Plex now - finally, after four years - has unofficial support for AC-4 audio on ATSC 3.0 streams thanks to a Frankensteined combination of Emby’s ffmpeg binary along with an emulated HDHomeRun instance.
@TheLivingBubba THANK YOU for sharing this. I see it was shared earlier in the thread but I missed it back then…with 451 replies in here, it was easy to miss! I installed the (original, non-forked) project and it works great.
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Any chance someone could post some step-by-step instructions on how to implement this fix for those of us that aren’t software engineers?
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I may haven spoken too soon.
Yes, things work great with hdhr-ac4 unless you enable closed captions. Then the Roku and Android Plex clients choke hard. VLC has no problems however…
Plex Roku Client
Captions Off: Works fine.
Captions On: Works fine, but captions are just random characters.
Plex Google TV & Android Phone Clients
Captions Off: Works fine.
Captions On: Video won’t play at all. “An error occurred when attempting to play this video. Please check your connection and try again.”
Plex Media Player Linux Client:
Captions Off: Works fine.
Captions On: Works fine.
VLC
Captions Off: Works fine.
Captions On: Works fine.
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This works extremely well. I’m running this docker on Ubuntu with Plex on the same server, i5-7600, 16gig RAM and 512 SSD.
Has anybody tried the fork? https://github.com/whichken/hdhr-ac4 I’m thinking of trying this on a Qnap NASin a docker with Plex on it.
I implemented this on my QNAP NAS and it works great.
Thanks, will try it this weekend.
Any chance you can make a step by step for this? Never used GitHub and I’ve been trying for hours with no luck. My Plex is setup on unraid. Is this doable for me?
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Totally agree. Plex users shouldn’t have to put up with the Frankenstein solutions.
It is getting really hard to believe after three or more years that it is still a lawyer issue.
I have had this working through the AC-4 convertor for awhile now. I made a video about it on my channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRoafTEktQA
Oddly, today my HEVC recordings came in minus the sound. Odd.
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While work arounds are fine for some, a simple buy in for Dolby AC-4 support would help most. I have the 4K Flex and it works great on android and ok on Windows, Microsoft even made me pay for the AC-4 support but it was super simple. Window popped up and says Hey you need this and it costs a buck do you want it? That’s the solution
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