With Apple supporting Spatial Audio with iOS 14 and AirPods Pro, I would hope that Plex would also support this feature for its iOS apps. Control Spatial Audio and head tracking Turn on or off the immersive Spatial Audio surround sound experience available on AirPods 3, AirPods Pro, an…

I think it’s not direct playing as much codecs as the new player (so you maybe get more stuff to transcode on server side) and fewer options of showing subtitles.

The newer player has improvements related to subtitles, especially the ability to adjust offsets. It has better seeking & thumbnails, and audio stream selection during playback. I don’t use the DVR but I think it also supports (or improves) playback of live TV. In the past I think they’ve said the …

So let’s hope they can implement spatial audio for the new player (since i use a lot of the subtitle functionalities). But using the old player is a decent workaround.

Maybe something I’m doing (or not doing) but spatial audio does not work at all in plex on ios 14 for me (in either the old or new player). Tried on both the ipad pro and Iphone XS. Works great with the native apple content purchased via Itunes (Mission Impossible 5 with Dolby Atmos is fantastic). B…

Be sure to use custom iOS profile xml on your server which enables Plex to stream multi channel to iPhone. Without the profile Plex will transcode it to stereo and you will not have spatial audio.

Do you have any info on how to do that? [image] AgentMax: Be sure to use custom iOS profile xml on your server

Create a folder in your Plex data folder called Profiles. Create a file and Insert this code into the file and name it iOS.xml. Save the file in the created Profile folder. Restart your server. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Client name="iOS">  <!-- This pr…

Just to confirm if using PMS on macOS this folder would be /Users/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/ right? The folder that contains Codecs, Crash Reports, Diagnostics, Plug-ins, Updates etc?

Thank you @AgentMax ! It works! I can confirm this as well: [image] info_danny-s.com: on macOS this folder would be /Users/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/ right?

Ah yes it works - obviously with EAC-3 or AC-3 content. Just imagine if we could steam DTS-HD and Dolby HD and convert.

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petercockroach September 22, 2020, 6:01pm 14

Do you have any info on how to do that?

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