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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > Plex Megathread: Your .ASS Is Getting Transcoded
 
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Congobongo
Feb 6, 2004
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FogHelmut posted:

I don't know if this is a plex issue or a chromecast issue - when I play things that have 5.1 audio, Plex only plays the 5.1 audio. I have no choice to use stereo instead. Why would I want stereo? Because Plex over Chromecast only sends the surround channels. I get none of the center channels. I could select stereo on my receiver, but that doesn't make a difference.

So I don't know if I'm locked into this because of Plex, or if its my setup. I do know that if I plug the Chromecast direct into my TV, Plex will play stereo. I don't know if its detecting that my receiver has surround and my TV doesn't. It seems that way.

I mean stereo isn't really important if the 5.1 actually worked.

Is there a setting in Plex that I can force some kind of audio to work?

I sort of have the same issue. My receiver is setup as a 2.1 with a center channel speaker. Over Chromecast it wants to play the 5.1 stream and the dialog audio is super quiet for me, if I use my PS3 I get the correct audio feed.

I've also noticed that my PS3 will have a higher quality feed from my PMS over Chromecast. I think this issue is because my PS3 is connected to my network over cat5.

Also anyone have issues of playing full episodes of Colbert and TDS? If I use the web client on a PC, full episodes show up but I can only play up to the first commercial break. On my handheld devices or consoles only segments of the show will appear.

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