Samsung TV and Yamaha soundbar

Plex Players Smart TVs
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Hi all,

I know there’s an issue with Samsung smart TVs and DTS playback, but was hoping someone can help me.

I have PMS running on a dedicated (fairly decent PC) Ethernet connection to Samsung TV running Plex client. I have the audio coming from a Yamaha YSP 2200 soundbar.

What’s the best way to get better than 2 channel audio from my DTS media? Can I ask plex to auto transcode this stuff? From my limited knowledge transcoding audio is much less CPU heavy than video. I have very little Dolby audio, so I wouldn’t have to switch very often.

I read the sticky about Samsung and DTS and think I understand, but that post is over 3 years old so was wondering if it’s still relevant?

P.S. if anyone here knows about such things, do you think I should get a more up-to-date soundbar? Something like the YAS 209 for example?

Kind regards,
Dom

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If your Sammy is 2018+, then sadly they don’t support DTS anymore :frowning:

As such, all I can recommend, is to use a player that supports it, and connect that to both your soundbar and your TV, like Roku or NVIDIA SHIELD - The Best Streaming Media Device

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Can I not force Plex to transcode to Dolby? Or is that a silly question?

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Sadly not, but you could do it manually

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Ok, I might have to try that then. Can you tell me roughly how long it takes to convert an ‘average’ movie? (How long is a piece of string?)

Also, will that give me an extra audio track on the mkv file I can select in the app, or will it create another mkv file? The second is obviously a bit of a pain due to file space etc

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I’ll create a new file, where 1st audio track would be Dolby Surround, and second DTS.
As such, your Sammy will use the 1st track. And can be configured to not save the DTS track if needed

No such thing, so simply try it

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Thanks for your quick replies, I really appreciate it. I’ve tried that converter, but it can’t download the plugins needed for some reason.

I’m not sure if this is relevant or not, but on the PMS dashboard, under audio it’s showing this when I play a movie.

Audio

English (DTS 5.1)

AAC—Transcode

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Maybe I’m looking at this the wrong way round. I’m trying all this to get Plex to work properly on my Samsung TV. If I had a better client, I wouldn’t need to. Are the Nvidia shields still highly though of, or are there alternatives now that will play any codecs?

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A Shield is fine

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