Most of my library is in h264 with either AAC or AC3 encoding and I recently got a device that isn’t capable of playing AC3 natively, and thus PLEX Is now attempting to transcode it when playing through that device. I’d rather just go ahead and recode everything for AAC but I can’t find an easy way to summarize what codecs my files are using, and trying to go through each one individually is a lot of tedium I’d be happy to avoid. Is there a better way to do this other than one by one or just bulk converting everything, even the stuff that doesn’t need it?
For this type of task I would use the following plug-in:
It allows you to export your media to a CSV/excel file at various information levels. With that type of file you can then sort by audio codec and see which files are using AC3.
Inside the web manager I don’t know of any easy way to check multiple files for audio codec type, besides the plug and chug method of checking them all one by one. (Definitely, not a fan of that method)
An audio transcode isn’t the worst thing that could happen. Enable Direct Stream in the app and let Plex transcode an audio stream. Even a scrappy server can do those… Probably.
