Open zynine- opened 7 years ago
No audio playback when streaming using Windows 10 Appstore Plex client with a Linux-based Plex Media Server. (Tested on Ubuntu 16.10, PMS 1.5.3)
Audio not encoded to AAC properly on Linux-based Plex Media Server.
Force Plex Media Server to transcode to MP3.
Modify the Windows 10 Desktop.xml file, located in the usr\lib\plexmediaserver\Resources\Profile folder to remove aac transcoding:
Windows 10 Desktop.xml
usr\lib\plexmediaserver\Resources\Profile
<VideoProfile protocol="hls" container="mpegts" codec="h264" audioCodec="aac,ac3,eac3,mp3" context="streaming" />
to
<VideoProfile protocol="hls" container="mpegts" codec="h264" audioCodec="ac3,eac3,mp3" context="streaming" />
Restart PMS.
Test on Windows 10 Appstore Plex client on PMS 1.5.3 (Ubuntu 16.10) by zynine
Symptoms:
No audio playback when streaming using Windows 10 Appstore Plex client with a Linux-based Plex Media Server. (Tested on Ubuntu 16.10, PMS 1.5.3)
Cause:
Audio not encoded to AAC properly on Linux-based Plex Media Server.
Resolution:
Force Plex Media Server to transcode to MP3.
Modify the
Windows 10 Desktop.xmlfile, located in theusr\lib\plexmediaserver\Resources\Profilefolder to remove aac transcoding:<VideoProfile protocol="hls" container="mpegts" codec="h264" audioCodec="aac,ac3,eac3,mp3" context="streaming" />to
<VideoProfile protocol="hls" container="mpegts" codec="h264" audioCodec="ac3,eac3,mp3" context="streaming" />Restart PMS.
Test on Windows 10 Appstore Plex client on PMS 1.5.3 (Ubuntu 16.10) by zynine
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