from the last year lot of TV brand not support any more DTS(also passthrough) , it’s very nice to be have a transcoding DTS 5.1 to E-ac3/DD+ 5.1 (1664kbps) instead AAC without big diffirence of audio quality. ffmpeg support E-ac3 encoding with small CPU load. Thanks

My tv doesn’t support DTS either. There’s a license cost. it’s the point of request

[image] ovimax: can be implemented with ffmpeg? That’s what Plex’s transcoder is based on.

That’s what Plex’s transcoder is based on. So why is not support? There are licence or software limitation for EAC3 Transcoding? thanks.

It is supported. If it’s not working for you, then something in your system does not support EAC3 or is not telling the Plex app that it is supported so Plex Media Server doesn’t use it. If you need assistance looking into this, turn on the option in the Plex app for the Smart TV to send logs to y…

i talk about Transcoding DTS to Eac3. Why plex use AAC e not Eac3 for trascoding?

Mine TV LG E8 and support EAC3 without any issues. It’s very nice to be have a simple setting into audio menu on LG TV app: Transcoding DTS to: transcoding AAC. [ ] Force transcoding to AC3 5.1 (640kpps) [ ] Force transcoding to EAC3 5.1 (740kpps) [ ] Force transcoding to EAC3 5.1 (1644kp…

In the Plex app on the TV, there is a setting to send logging info to your server. Please enable that, play the file again, and get me a new PMS log .

ERROR - Unable to find client profile for device; platform=webOS, platformVersion=4.3.0, device=webOS 4.3.0, model=OLED55E8PLA Plex Media Server Logs_2021-05-14_09-14-15.zip (150.5 KB)

Your logs show that you are playing DTS HD-MA 7.1. PMS cannot transcode 7.1 channel of DTS, only the core DTS 5.1 portion, so the best you can get is 5.1 channels. Your TV reports it supports 5.1 channels for AAC, AC3, and EAC3. For 5.1 channels, there is no noticeable quality using any of these …

Transcode DTS to EAC3 for Smart TV LG

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It does if your the Plex app can identify that your TV supports it. If in your case PMS is using AAC, something told it EAC3 wasn’t supported. That’s why I need to logs to see what is going on.

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Transcode DTS to EAC3 for Smart TV LG

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