Samsung S8 won’t play AC3/DTS audio in a video


Is it possible to play movies with AC3 or DTS audio on Galaxy S8? If you are having issues watching videos with AC3/DTS codec on Samsung S8, you may wish to read this post. It presents how to fix the problem step by step.

How can I play video with AC3/DTS audio on Galaxy S8?
“Hi Guys, I’ve got some movies that have AC3 or DTS audio. When I play them on my Galaxy S8, the video plays smoothly, but it shows audio format is not supported. I tried both the stock video player and MX player, and there’s no sound from those videos. How can I play these videos on my S8? Can anyone help please? Thanks.”
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This is probably because the media players that you use on your S8 don’t support AC3 and DTS codec. In this situation, we would recommend converting them to a format that is suitable for playing on S8, such as H.264 and AAC encoded MP4 format.

How to convert videos with AC3/DTS audio for playing on S8?

Here’s what you need
HD Video Converter
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Step 1: Run HD Video Converter as the best Galaxy S8 Video Converter. Click ‘Add File’ button to load source files that you want to convert. You can add multiple files into it at a time to do batch conversion.
play video with AC3/DTS audio on Galaxy S8

Step 2: Select output format for Galaxy S8
From ‘Profile’ list, navigate to ‘Samsung’ and opt ‘Samsung Galaxy S7 (*.mp4)’ as target format. This profile is suitable for both S7 and S8.
play video with AC3/DTS audio on Galaxy S8

Step 3: Custom video and audio settings
If necessary, you can click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profiles Settings’ panel to modify video and audio settings like video encoder, resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio encoder, sample rate, audio bit rate, and audio channels. 3D settings are also available.

Step 4: Click ‘convert’ to start format conversion
As soon as the conversion is complete, you can click ‘Open Folder’ button to get the exported H.264 AAC MP4 files for playing on your Samsung S8 with optimal performance, no audio incompatible issues will happen again.

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