From d91a099c9e04cb39d1b8e387dba0b44dde64342d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nyanmisaka <nst799610810@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:10:57 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] allow transcoding 8ch(7.1 layout) in aac

---
 MediaBrowser.Controller/MediaEncoding/EncodingHelper.cs | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Controller/MediaEncoding/EncodingHelper.cs b/MediaBrowser.Controller/MediaEncoding/EncodingHelper.cs
index 1074f876c7..1ae896df0f 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Controller/MediaEncoding/EncodingHelper.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Controller/MediaEncoding/EncodingHelper.cs
@@ -1545,6 +1545,11 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.MediaEncoding
                 // libmp3lame currently only supports two channel output
                 transcoderChannelLimit = 2;
             }
+            else if (codec.IndexOf("aac", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != -1)
+            {
+                // aac is able to handle 8ch(7.1 layout)
+                transcoderChannelLimit = 8;
+            }
             else
             {
                 // If we don't have any media info then limit it to 6 to prevent encoding errors due to asking for too many channels