Thanks for the tests. So you believe the media you have that does not play on DLNA on the Sony, requires the libeac3_decoder.so codec file. I will pass this info on. What was the media info for the file tested?
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 2 h 2 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 spf)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 560 MiB (7%)
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Thatās fairly unpleasant. If I didnāt have backups, this testing would have resulted in permanent breakage. Unfortunately, seems I canāt test anymore tonight, as both 1.5.7 and 1.7.3 are now failing to download any codecs whatsoever. Perhaps somethingās going on with CDN right now?
I tried 1.5.7. It only works with files that can be direct streamed to the Sony Blu-ray player (and they seem to work fine). It does not work with files that need remuxing. Those files work fine with 1.1.4.
That wonāt be sufficient, as Plex stopped serving codec files for that version. So unless this has them bundled somehow, which official packages donāt seem to have, one cannot have a successful fresh install of 1.1.4
Itās really annoying. I updated to test and now Iām stuck!
Iām having good luck with MP4 container, H.264 and AAC codecs (note: āweb optimizedā MP4s). Plex reports ādirect playā when I stream one of these files, so it is transferring the file to the Blu-ray player directly with no additional processing.
Iāve sort of given up on this ever being fixed and I am remuxing my MKV files to MP4 so that I can continue to use the current version of Plex.
So now well over 6 months has passed. The community has found the issue, yet we are still waiting for an acknowledgement that this is being looked at properly.
