transcoding 24/96 FLAC to 16/44 PCM

Can we downsample on transcode for music? If so what are the xml profile options to do it?
Currently neither of my devices sony bdp580/pana vt30 will play 24/96 FLAC as it says unsupported. I can however play 16/24 flac which gets transcoded to pcm
Can i force all higher sampled media to a lower bit depth.
Currently neither of my devices sony bdp580/pana vt30 will play 24/96 FLAC as it says unsupported. I can however play 16/24 flac which gets transcoded to pcm
Can i force all higher sampled media to a lower bit depth.