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I have an episode; it doesn’t play natively on my Chromecast Ultra. (I’m running Plex on a Raspberry Pi, which definitely lacks the juice for real-time transcoding.) So I made an ‘Optimized for TV’ version, and that still doesn’t play natively. From my Plex Media Server.log:
Jun 22, 2020 23:49:22.830 [0x659f7450] INFO - [Chromecast] [MDE] Finished analysis of Optimized for TV (mp4, h264, aac, 40, main)
Jun 22, 2020 23:49:22.830 [0x659f7450] WARN - [Chromecast] [MDE] Invalid profile property; channels: 6 > 2
Jun 22, 2020 23:49:22.830 [0x659f7450] WARN - [Chromecast] [MDE] Invalid profile property; bitrate: 2134 > 2000
Jun 22, 2020 23:49:22.830 [0x659f7450] WARN - [Chromecast] [MDE] Invalid profile property; bitrate: 2134 > 2000
Jun 22, 2020 23:49:22.831 [0x659f7450] INFO - [Chromecast] [MDE] Starting analysis of Optimized for TV (mp4, h264, aac, 40, main)
Jun 22, 2020 23:49:22.848 [0x659f7450] INFO - [Chromecast] [MDE] Augmented profile: { “directPlay”: { “mp4”: { “mimeType”: “video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E"”, “video”: { “codecs”: { “h264”: { “maxLevel”: 42 }, “hevc”: { “maxBitDepth”: 10, “maxFrameRate”: 60 }, “vp9”: { “maxBitDepth”: 10, “maxFrameRate”: 60 } }, “maxWidth”: 1920, “maxHeight”: 1080, “maxBitDepth”: 8, “maxFrameRate”: 60, “maxBitrate”: 2000, “maxVideoResolution”: “720” }, “audio”: { “codecs”: { “aac”: { “maxSamplingRate”: 48000, “maxChannels”: 2 }, “mp3”: {} } } }, “mkv”: { “mimeType”: “video/webm”, “video”: { “codecs”: { “h264”: { “maxLevel”: 42 }, “vp8”: {}, “hevc”: { “maxBitDepth”: 10, “maxFrameRate”: 60 }, “vp9”: { “maxBitDepth”: 10, “maxFrameRate”: 60 } }, “maxWidth”: 1920, “maxHeight”: 1080, “maxBitDepth”: 8, “maxFrameRate”: 60, “maxBitrate”: 2000, “maxVideoResolution”: “720” }, “audio”: { “codecs”: { “aac”: { “maxSamplingRate”: 48000, “maxChannels”: 2 }, “mp3”: {}, “vorbis”: {} } } }, “mpegts”: { “protocol”: “hls”, “video”: { “maxWidth”: 1920, “maxHeight”: 1080, “maxBitDepth”: 8, “maxFrameRate”: 60, “maxBitrate”: 2000, “maxVideoResolution”: “720” } } }, “directStream”: { “video”: { “maxWidth”: 1920, “maxHeight”: 1080, “maxBitDepth”: 8, “maxFrameRate”: 60, “codecs”: { “h264”: { “maxLevel”: 42 }, “hevc”: { “maxBitDepth”: 10, “maxFrameRate”: 60 }, “vp9”: { “maxBitDepth”: 10, “maxFrameRate”: 60 } }, “maxBitrate”: 2000, “maxVideoResolution”: “720” }, “audio”: { “codecs”: { “aac”: { “maxSamplingRate”: 48000, “maxChannels”: 2 }, “mp3”: {}, “opus”: {}, “vorbis”: {} }, “maxChannels”: 6 } } }
I can manually encode new versions to get around this, but given how common Chromecasts are, maybe ‘Optimized for TV’ should support them directly, or there should be an ‘Optimized for Chromecast’ option which reduces audio down to two channels. I’m especially befuddled because this has worked just fine with other files in the past, and the Chromecast Ultra should support considerably higher bitrates than 2000k.
