Hi all, For users in the Xbox Insiders programme we have a new feature available to test in the Xbox Plex app, audio passthrough support! Currently this is limited to users in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring but please keep an eye out on news.xbox.com for when Audio Passthrough support is available to u…

@Moussa When is the update with audio passthrough going to roll out to ALL users?

[image] aididhaiqal: soundbar Is the Xbox plugged into the sound bar? If not does both the tv and sound bar have e-arc? Regular arc does not support truehd pass through. Neither does optical.

Yep, Xbox is connected directly to Soundbar. What funny is I played around more yesterday and managed to get TrueHD for H264 + TrueHD in MKV but failed to get TrueHD in HEVC + TrueHD in MKV format.

maybe try a newer hdmi 2.1 certified cable? also, there are some compatibility issues between xbox and some AVR/soundbars. https://www.google.com/search?q=xbox+series+x+hdmi+issues

Not sure if this is the case since the Xbox is capable to do TrueHD just fine. It seems to only fails to do so when video is HEVC (MKV Container) and Plex transcode TrueHD to AAC

Figure out why it is transcoding. [image] [INFO] Plex, 4k, transcoding, and you - aka the rules of 4k Tips, Tricks & How-Tos NOTE: for 2022 – Plex has come a long way since this FAQ was originally written, HW transcoding has become more available and more stable, and tone…

Thanks for the link, I did read it over multiple time but I see no reason for my setup to not support TrueHD when using HEVC video in MKV container

Did you check the log for the info specified in how to find why something is transcoding? Only the logs will help you figure it out.

[Screenshot 2021-05-25 at 1.04.09 PM] Based on the log, It shows that there is no Direct Play for hevc. On another entry of the log, it also says that it being encoded to MP4 container which doesn’t support TrueHD. That explains why it got encoded to AAC instead. However the question now is, the x…

The update is available to all users. For the public release we’ve removed the passthrough setting, and it’s now automatically enabled if passthrough is available. Users who were on the Insider preview release should find themselves migrated back to the public release soon, if they haven’t been alre…

Audio Passthrough support on Xbox beta

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TeknoJunky May 25, 2021, 3:52am 81

Figure out why it is transcoding.

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Audio Passthrough support on Xbox beta

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