Whenevever Plex transcodes the audio it constantly cuts in and out

I’ve really been tearing my hair out with this issue. Right now Plex is making me very mad :frowning:

PMS is on a dedicated Ryzen 1700x based PC and streams to Plex Player on AppleTV. Video transcoding works fine, and if the audio is passed through it works fine as well.

However if the audio is transcoded by Plex then things are far from fine. Every few seconds there will be at tiny hiccup of the audio. It is only for a fraction of a second but noticeable all the same, especially given that it does it every few seconds.

Furthermore, when the video gets within a minute or so of completion, the audio will cut out completely for a second or two, then come back real quiet for a few seconds, then cut out again for a few seconds, then come back at normal volume.

I don’t know if the two issues are related or not but they seem to always occur when the audio is being transcoded and not when it is passed through.

Seen lots of similar issues reported while searching but have not found any answers. Seems like this might be a larger problem of Plex never fixed?