Support for AAC 7.1?

[THX723]

Would it be possible to have an option to transcode to AAC 7.1, instead of the default AAC 5.1?

[darknebular]

YES, there is a possibility to do that, but I left it at 5.1 to avoid consuming more CPU from our small NAS.

Synology do not have a powerful CPU and doing that type of transcoding is not efficient.

Also, many movies are in 5.1 (a large majority), transcoding it to 7.1 in those cases would be a useless waste of CPU resources and the two extra audio channels would not really be used in the real world.

Regards.

[THX723]

Yes, I do agree. Still would be really cool to allow a 3rd 'expert' option for those with higher powered CPUs. I've got a collection of movies encoded as 7.1 TrueHD.

Thanks for your development work btw.

[darknebular]

If I get some free time, I will look at creating an option to leave the audio codecs intact, I think it would be good this way due to CPU resource issues and you can have 7.1, the problem would be if your player does not support that format.

Regards.