I am running into a bit of difficulty playing back a test multichannel audio file on my Smart TV with Plex. The file is a FLAC, and definitely contains 6 channels of audio.
I manage Plex from my iMac, which is connected to my TV through my local network (the iMac and the TV are on different floors of the house, and not a wired connection). Other files that I have ripped from my Bluray/DVD-Vs play fine in surround (they are in MP4 format) - is this where I am going wrong? Despite changing some settings as advised here https://support.plex.tv/articles/audio-configuration/ the file is still listed as ‘Nothing to see here’
There are no known smart TVs which are able to play multi-channel audio files.
(i.e. files without a video track)
And even if you added a video track, just for the fun & giggles, it would probably not work because there are almost no smart TVs which would support flac audio inside of video files.
I see, thanks. It turns out that the (working) file I was referring to that does play surround is in fact, yes, a video file. I just have to work out how to attach my other sound file to a video (or something).
And even if you added a video track, just for the fun & giggles, it would probably not work because there are almost no smart TVs which would support flac audio inside of video files.
Look at the media info of the working file. It probably uses some other audio codec.
