nAudioChannels in transcoding logic

When determining my transcoding logic I would suggest that it would be nice to be able to test to see how many audio channels the source has to allow the optimum re-muxing - transcoding strategy.

For example I have a Dolby Digital amp that does not recognize AAC 5.1 but will play AAC 2.0 correctly . I would then be able to only transcode to AC3 when I have >2 channels to save CPU. This will also help with the AudioBit rate setting as i normally want 640k with 5.1 but this is crazy with 2.0 sources.

This might also be able to extend in the future to the support for DolbyHD >6 channel sources to selectively allow them to be remixed to 6 channels.

This is a really 1st class package I started with it on my PC then move it to a DS211 NAS. Thanks for all the work you have put in to this

Regards

Chris

+1

[patters]

This will also be useful for the Serviio's own MediaBrowser. You don't want to transcode all AAC to MP3 for FlowPlayer, only streams with more than 2 channels since FlowPlayer supports 2ch AAC.

Are there any known plans to implement this?