Recent update is causing AAC to be unsupported and transcoding on Sony A95L android tv client

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Server Version#: Version 1.32.7.7621
Player Version#: Plex for Android 10.5.0.4928-beta

Hello I believe I have been running into a similar issue as:

Recently I have been noticing playback issues when running content I haven’t had issues before. I found that I was converting AAC 5.1 to OPUS 5.1 on content that previously did not need to be transcoded. I have a sony a95l with android/google tv with a surround system passed through HDMI eARC. I tried experimenting with the passthrough options to try to get a fix but I only triggered Plex to convert AAC to EAC3 instead of OPUS. I eventually tried downloading the latest beta with no luck. I believe this might have started happening with the 10.4.0 release.

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Can you provide the android logs so we can see why it thinks it needs to transcode.

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Attached is the log. I had trouble saving it to my files since I am on my phone. Time I initiated the AAC playback should be on 12-2 around 23:06. Hope this helps.

logging.txt (4.4 MB)

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As an update I was still seeing this. I ended up “disabling” Audio passthrough (from HDMI) and it stopped transcoding. I assumed that I needed to have HDMI passthrough enabled, but I guess I was wrong, my bad.

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