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Can I force DTS trancoding only without dropping to 2.0ch? - Deleted User - 2023-10-11
I am unable to locate a setting to force transcode a specific codec, DTS*, to something lossless with the same channel count.
Server - 10.8.11 (Debian Hosting a Ubuntu Docker from lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest)
Client - Android TV 0.15.12
I would be happy to go to EAC3 or TrueHD since those work properly on my device but I would rather not go all the way down to AAC 2.0
Is this currently possible in JF?
Thanks in advance.
RE: Can I force DTS trancoding only without dropping to 2.0ch? - TheDreadPirate - 2023-10-11
I have never seen my JF server transcode audio to anything but AAC 2.0. I think there are some Android TV settings regarding DTS passthrough. Check that passthrough is enabled.
RE: Can I force DTS trancoding only without dropping to 2.0ch? - Deleted User - 2023-10-11
thanks
yes, there are a couple settings for it
audio output - direct or downmix to stereo
the latter gives aac 2.0, the former does what it's supposed to and sends it directly to the OS
second setting is 'bitstream DTS audio'
the issue i have is that FireOS is broken so enabling Direct on DTS* causes video freezing, this is not the case with TrueHD or EAC3
there is no change with Bitstream on or off
i compared to a different device with Android 11 and it plays DTS fine, thats where i decided it was FireOS
(the unrelated problem with that device is that it will not support dolby vision profile 7 so the android tv app will just report and error and fail)
so, what i thought might be an option is to transcode DTS to this client but i don't want to lose surround
RE: Can I force DTS trancoding only without dropping to 2.0ch? - Deleted User - 2023-10-11
never mind
there is already a feature request - https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/issues/2432
and a PR - https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/pull/3110
thanks any way