So the latest upgrade enabled the ability to enable true bitstream output of the audio, although it is a 1st party app so I am not sure if this is available for 3rd party developers ( or if Plex even maintains the Xbox app)?
As of now I find the Xbox One app largely unusable because it can hardly Direct Stream any high quality material, seeing as most HD material is either DTS(-MA) or TrueHD these days… Apparently it is not possible to transcode only the audio either(?), which means that I can not use my NAS as a Plex server…
@SirHaxalot said:
So the latest upgrade enabled the ability to enable true bitstream output of the audio, although it is a 1st party app so I am not sure if this is available for 3rd party developers ( or if Plex even maintains the Xbox app)?
Currently, that option is only available for blu ray discs. So Plex cannot take advantage of that option yet.
As of now I find the Xbox One app largely unusable because it can hardly Direct Stream any high quality material, seeing as most HD material is either DTS(-MA) or TrueHD these days… Apparently it is not possible to transcode only the audio either(?), which means that I can not use my NAS as a Plex server…
It is very possible to transcode only the audio if that is all that is needed and your server supports it. There is also the possibility of including a second audio track that is in a more compatible format with most devices. Typically, I will include an AAC 2-channel track when I remux my blu rays so that I can have direct playback for devices that do not support HD audio. Once HD Audio support becomes more common then not supporting it I might look at removing those extra tracks, but until then the extra track does help quite a bit if the only thing triggering a transcode is audio.
