When turning on refresh rate switching in Plex, all videos are remuxed (audio & video). Videos with AAC still direct play, but any with AC3 or EAC3 audio are remuxed. + + + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DETAILS: I have a 2nd gen FireTV Cube as client, and Win10 machine as server. Dire…

Thank you for the link. On reviewing that thread, I don’t think these are related issues. The FireTV issue I’m encountering happens with all videos, not just Dolby Vision. It’s just that the forced remuxing makes Dolby Vision especially problematic because it drops the DoVi layer in the remux. I…

@OttoKerner any chance you can comment on this? I’m not sure what the proper way is to report a bug to the Plex team.

I’ve just noticed the exact same issue with my Fire TV cube as well. I’m sure it was working fine previously so assume it broke in a recent update. As soon as you turn off refresh rate switching, it will happily play with Direct play again. I’ve tried with the fire tv cube plugged direct into my …

Plex Refresh Rate Switching forces Remux / Transcode on FireTV

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Volts December 15, 2021, 6:29pm 2

I recall something that sounds roughly ~similar with the Shield. When Refresh Rate switching was enabled, the player couldn’t probe the Dolby Vision capabilities of the new resolution.

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Plex Refresh Rate Switching forces Remux / Transcode on FireTV

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