I have the same issue when not direct-playing.
Plex Server: Version 1.41.9.9961
Windows 11 Pro
iPhone 12 - iOS 18.5
When on cellular, live tv transcodes to opus & won’t play audio.
- Product Plex for iOS
- Player iPhone
- Quality Original (1.5 Mbps)
- Stream Transcode (Speed: 0.7)
- Container Converting (MPEGTS MPEGTS)
- Video Transcode (MPEG2VIDEO 1080i H264 (HW) SD)
- Audio Transcode (English - AC3 5.1 OPUS Stereo)
- Subtitle None
When on LAN/Local to Plex Server:
- Product Plex for iOS
- Player iPhone
- Quality Original (20.5 Mbps)
- Stream Transcode (Speed: 4.5)
- Container Converting (MPEGTS MPEGTS)
- Video Transcode (MPEG2VIDEO 1080i H264 (HW) 1080p)
- Audio Direct Stream (English - AC3 5.1)
- Subtitle None
Plex Media Server Logs_2025-07-24_16-55-12.zip (4.6 MB)