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UPnP Media Server for 2024: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices 📱💻📺
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External audio support #462

Open Kaned1as opened 5 years ago

Kaned1as commented 5 years ago

Hi, this issue is mostly a user story, not a bug.

I have MKV files that can be played nicely via Gerbera on PS4. Unfortunately PS4 can't play DTS sound, so I have to transcode them via ffmpeg to AC3 or to AAC. I can't modify original mkv files as they sometimes are 40-80 GiB large.

So, for file video.mkv I create an audio file called video.ac3, video.aac or video.mka.

But I don't see additional tracks in PS4 Media Player after transcoding. Does Gerbera recognize such files as external audio for a certain file? If yes, which extensions are supported?

whyman commented 5 years ago

We dont support that case currently, apart from for subtitles or artwork.

Kaned1as commented 5 years ago

@v00d00, does DLNA spec support this? What's needed to implement this feature?

whyman commented 5 years ago

In the newer UPnP-AV specs there is MULTI_STREAM support, but Ive yet to see any clients that will use it even if we did support it.