Would it be possible to now or in the future have a hls direct type setting that only transcodes the audio? I have lots of movies that use DTS but when using tivimate with hls direct the DTS audio does not work. Thoughts?

This used to be possible with a feature in ETV called HLS Hybrid, though it has been removed. There have been requests to bring something along those lines back for audio codecs, as you mention, and for loudness normalization. I'm definitely open to making it possible again.

Then I will turn this into a feature request. Thank you.

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