Server Version#: 1.24.4.5081 Player Version#: 8.24.0.28407 The latest Android update: [image] Plex for Android Announcements Plex for Android 8.24.0 Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store . NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which mea…

I’m also having this issue and it’s making me crazy. It now transcodes to OPUS 2.0 instead of AC3 5.1. Let’s hope a fix is on the way soon.

Same here… :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

I contacted one of the Android TV devs here and sent him my logs. He checked the logs and he thinks he found the problem. He will let me know when a fix has been made. So they are working on it.

Great to hear it’s getting looked at, I have the same problem, AAC 5.1 transcoding to OPUS… Quite unfortunate for us optical users…

I’m hopeful that this gets fixed soon. It was a rough weekend trying to figure out what we could watch on Plex that wouldn’t error out. Wife acceptance factor was quite low this weekend.

Update: the fix is coming to the Beta of the Android app tomorrow!

APK to solve the recent regression in behaviour for optical passthrough: Arm64: https://artifacts.plex.tv/android-experimental/8.30.0.30570-2fdee5e9/PlexForAndroid-8.30.0.30570-2fdee5e9-Arm64v8aGooglePlayStdExo.apk Will be released this week into beta (hopefully tomorrow).

I can confirm that this APK fixed my issues. Thanks.

So this APK works for me with TrueHD. I am confused though if I have both optical AC3 and DTS enabled (I have an old vanila DTS and AC3 receiver. If I play TrueHD, it transcodes to AC3 now just fine. If I play DTS-HD it says: [image] The receiver indicates Dolby Digital and no sound comes o…

This one does not install to Chromecast with Google TV. Am i doing something wrong or it should be a different architecture?

How to choose transcode audio targets (Audio transcoding to Opus rather than AC3)

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FordGuy61 February 7, 2022, 2:24am 146

They have most likely been superseded by the latest beta release.

From the last test build post, six days ago:

Latest beta release, 3 days ago:

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How to choose transcode audio targets (Audio transcoding to Opus rather than AC3)

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