Lossless Audio Playback on Samsung BD-C6900

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Currently you can only transcode audio files to LPCM and mp3. Hopefully will add transcoding to more formats as a part of https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... e-lossless

I'm just assuming, if you pack LPCM or another supported multichannel format into MKV, the player might finally play it as multichannel against all odds. IMHO,those odds are primarily fiscal driven, but presented by huge corporations as technical limitations, in particular via funding "3-d party independent" projects like DLNA.

Here is an interesting in-depth intro, showing how JRiver Server seems to stream multichannel LPCM and overcome other DLNA limitations (I didn't test it yet). Why is it all necessary? Because MP3 era is long gone, and multichannel lossless playback is not booked forever by laser disk makers.

Here is fresh citation from FFMpeg mailing list:

"What's the right command to transcode 5.1 Flac to 5.1 LPCM audio in ffmpeg?

FFmpeg does not support encoding Bluray PCM, patch welcome."

So, if Serviio uses FFMpeg for transcoding, it sounds impossible regardless of the device profile mod. It would be either Error Message, or garble file.

However, when multichannel Flac is transcoded by eac3to to LPCM, it plays OK on PC. I verified the transcoded file by importing it to Audacity, and it plays the same number of channels as original Flac with the original quality. The problem still is, when DLNA interface is used, only 2-channel LPCM file with extension .l16 plays correctly, since .l16 seems to be locked to 44100/16/2 by default. Any other LPCM media format with .l16 extension will be garbled, and any extension for LPCM file other than .l16 ignored by Samsung, if DLNA is used.