Hello, When I play a video that is AV1 with a TrueHD track, and the playback device does not support TrueHD, Plex will transcode the video to h.264 and then it will transcode the audio to another format such as opus or flac. The server won’t just transcode the audio only and direct play the video (…

AV1 with TrueHD track transcoding issues

happytaz June 3, 2023, 10:27pm 2

AV1 can only Direct Play currently. A Plex employee has confirmed that AV1 doesn’t work with Direct Streaming:

@anon18523487
Any updates on getting AV1 Direct Streaming working?

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