2025-01-18, 10:54 AM
Hi All
I'm looking at setting up a Jellyfin install and I have a bit of an odd question that try as I might I never seem to be able to answer for any media player / streamer systems.
If I have my TV / Monitor plugged into a PC running Linux (Debian most likely), my speakers plugged into the PCs sound card and I'm using that with the jellyfin client application what audio configurations can I run?
Most PCs these days come with a "7.1" sound card so can the jellyfin client "decode", say an AC3 or DTS, stream from an MKV file on the server, and send it as PCM to the sound card? I can find lots of references to the codecs supported but not the destination device. Those threads that I do seem to find always feel to involve an external decoder be that a sound bar or AV Receiver, and thus I can envisage a situation where the system knows how to pass the data about and mark an HDMI audio stream appropriately but can't actually decode it due to proprietary formats, licencing, copyright etc to send to the local speakers
I ask as I have a high channel count sound card on my system and thus spacial sound systems like Atmos and DTS:X would be easy and I could make use of the active studio monitors I have already. Whereas buying an AV receiver would involve a lot of doubling up and buying new speakers.
Thanks
I'm looking at setting up a Jellyfin install and I have a bit of an odd question that try as I might I never seem to be able to answer for any media player / streamer systems.
If I have my TV / Monitor plugged into a PC running Linux (Debian most likely), my speakers plugged into the PCs sound card and I'm using that with the jellyfin client application what audio configurations can I run?
Most PCs these days come with a "7.1" sound card so can the jellyfin client "decode", say an AC3 or DTS, stream from an MKV file on the server, and send it as PCM to the sound card? I can find lots of references to the codecs supported but not the destination device. Those threads that I do seem to find always feel to involve an external decoder be that a sound bar or AV Receiver, and thus I can envisage a situation where the system knows how to pass the data about and mark an HDMI audio stream appropriately but can't actually decode it due to proprietary formats, licencing, copyright etc to send to the local speakers
I ask as I have a high channel count sound card on my system and thus spacial sound systems like Atmos and DTS:X would be easy and I could make use of the active studio monitors I have already. Whereas buying an AV receiver would involve a lot of doubling up and buying new speakers.
Thanks