Alright here’s the issue I have: I’ve got a bunch of surround albums encoded in “eAC3” for Dolby Atmos support, and in an m4a container. When I try to stream them to my Apple TV I cannot get the Surround output to work over HDMI - I have to use Optical, and it doesn’t quite sound right.
The Plex status shows audio as EAC3 (5.1) and direct play.
Now here’s the thing: if I take those files, convert them to FLAC, and run those through Plex, the 5.1 works perfectly fine. But that also makes the file sizes much larger, and would require manually transcoding lots of files.
Is there a way to simply force Plex or the Apple TV to do the transcode on the fly?
Also, quick edit: standard AAC (as opposed to eAC3) files exhibit the same problem, but WAV works fine. So if there was a way to transcode AAC/eAC3 to PCM on the fly that SHOULD in theory fix the problem.
One more edit: Just tested the PS4 app, and it forces the files to be transcoded to AAC and plays them back properly in surround. So, again, if there’s a way to force the Apple TV client to do this, I think my problems would be solved.
