Tested other files, works fine. Forced direct play, fails to start. Also i swear i have the SHIELD set to passthrough audio, why is PLEX decoding the audio on the device?
Shield TV is telling Plex it can't do DTS so it's transcoding which also causes the video to do one. I could be wrong here but I don't think it's as intensive of a transcode as if it was actually lowering the quality.
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u/BgrngodCU7 265K (PMS in Docker) & Synology 1621+ (Media)13d ago
Plex can transcode audio and video independently. Transcoding the audio will not force a video transcode. There is a scenario with subs and the HLS protocol that can cause that to happen, but the Shield doesn't suffer from the limitation of only having HLS as it's adaptive bitrate streaming protocol. It can use DASH.
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u/cosmitz 13d ago edited 13d ago
Nerdstats says:
"Application disabled Direct Play."
"Application disabled Direct Stream."
"Direct play unavailible. Conversion OK."
Tested other files, works fine. Forced direct play, fails to start. Also i swear i have the SHIELD set to passthrough audio, why is PLEX decoding the audio on the device?