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…

Looks like it has an API and it works with basically any surround format so i’m not sure why they can’t add support to the app.

Other apps like Disney+ use this function! I hope than Plex is able to use this function.

You have to set it to use the “old player” in preferences which is actually the standard iOS player. Then you will have Spatial Audio even without PiP.

That’s interesting - so basically it doesn’t really look like apps need to specifically program for this API - it just needs to send the right “sort” of DD or DTS signal? The new player is obviously doing something different with the audio that maybe the devs can now change to support SA.

As far as I understand the new Plex player does not use the iOS “engine” to playback the video. So there is no spatial audio if you use the new player (hopefully only because the API is not yet implemented). The old player = iOS standard video player does not need any modification to play It back (…

Do you know if the older player has disadvantages on iOS?

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.

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mrCrumbSnatcher September 18, 2020, 9:26pm 4

It seems when you view the movie in PIP mode, spatial audio kicks in.

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