Hey all,

Got a soundbar that supports HDMI ARC or optical audio. Optical audio requires I control with its remote but I’d rather only use the TV remote but all of my videos are encoded AAC which HDMI ARC doesn’t support. Is there a way to do a device specific custom profile to transcode audio to DTS for example?

  • BlackmistEnglish
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    7 months ago

    AAC isn’t supported by any hardware as far as I know. Optical won’t pass that either.

    I use Kodi on the Android TV device to transcode it to Dolby Digital.

    • notfromhere@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Interesting. Can you tell me more about your setup? A Jellyfin server (does it need a plugin?) then TV is running Kodi client which connects to Jellyfin and your transcoding settings are configured on the Kodi client? Is that right or am I missing something?

      • BlackmistEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Jellyfin server running on PC

        Android TV box (nvidia shield pro) running Jellyfin Client, but configured to send the video to Kodi, which seems to have much higher support for the various formats.

        The Shield Pro is plugged into an AVR which is plugged into the TV.

        Kodi configured to pass through all formats for me, but you’d be limited to Dolby Digital and DTS. Oddly you need to leave Kodi in 2.0 mode to see an option to transcode AAC to Dolby Digital.

        • notfromhere@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Thanks for the write up. I am currently using a Roku TV with the Jellyfin client running on it. I’ll need to look into Kodi and sounds like I might need an AVR or set top box. It would be nice if these things (TVs, soundbars) were more open. Maybe we need an open source soundbar firmware, then I could permanently disable Alexa and maybe make use of it’s networking capabilities.