This request is really two interrelated items regarding audio codec/quality selection for movies and TV shows. 1. Enable all clients to be able to automagically select the correct audio track based on the type of hardware and codec support reported by the device, like what the Roku and PMP do. 2. …

+1 - absolutely mad that plex doesn’t do this automatically…

I’m currently using the Xplay app on my LG 65B9 since I had issues with the normal Plex app buffering non stop. After reading and learning a lot about it, I learned what the issues were. Right now I’m settled with Xplay on my LG, but my brother recently got a new Samsung tv (SAMSUNG QE75Q70T 2020) w…

I couldn’t agree more on this. Some files can be played while transcoding the audio and direct streaming the video but for others Plex just decides to transcode both stupidly!

Please just add this already…

any update on this? Have aac stereo and aac 5.1 on most movies and tv shows. Would like to set default to aac 5.1 instead of having to change everytime.

Yep this should be a thing… Won’t hold my breath though, this suggestion is already 1 year and a half old with nothing to show for it.

I echo what everyone says here. I wish I could select which codecs to AVOID on a per client basis. This way I can tell my android TV client to avoid True HD, so this way it just selects the best codec while avoiding that. For example some of my remuxes have DTS HD and True HD, for some reason True …

Hello everyone, I recently got into the tablet area and purchased a Galaxy Tab S7 Plus which has wide support for audio and video codecs including Dolby Atmos / TrueHD however the Plex app says it’s unsupported and forces my 4K movies that have those codecs to transcode. However, if I play the movi…

Plex Devs where are you? How is this request being ignored? If not possible just please chime in..

Automatically Set Preferred/Default Audio For Videos (audio format/codec) // mod: option to override

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mshoward82 January 4, 2021, 1:36am 20

Waiting for this…

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Automatically Set Preferred/Default Audio For Videos (audio format/codec) // mod: option to override

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