Pixel 8 Pro reports EAC3 is supported, but EAC3 content fails to play

[Gavin-Ashford]

From the HEVC Encoding forum preview thread, here:

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@staknhalo I ran into some issues using 8-bit only devices with our current transcoder. My next big task is going to be updating our transcoder to a much newer ffmpeg (and make it much easier to update in the future). After the update is complete I will re-visit the issue and see if the issues go away.

@chris_decker08 mentions that there are plans to Soon (™) work on an ffmpeg update, which I’m hoping will be what @BigWheel references above, and will improve this situation (I’m also following that for the possibility of Apollo Lake/8bit HEVC encoding)