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Solution For Quiet Audio From Plex On Google Chromecast

So as things start I purchased a Google Chromecast, got home and set it all up, tested YouTube casting from my phone and everything was working fine, then tried cast in a movie with Plex and discovered that the audio was very quiet, and parts in movies where characters were talking were particularly quiet compared to the music and sound effects in the movie. I spent about an hour searching online and tweaking different settings to resolve the issue and then I discovered on a Plex forum that Plex has some built-in configuration files for different devices in XML format and one of those files is the configuration for Chromecast devices. Upon searching through what felt like 10 different threads on the Plex forums, I finally found a post that was quite helpful, it mentions that Google had removed 5.1 AAC support from the Chromecast, and upon a slight change to my Chromecast.xml config file removing the aac codec, the issue appears to be resolved and audio is noticeably louder. How ...

Google Cloud Functions Error: Forbidden

Google Cloud Functions seem to have changed recently and the change seems to be for security reasons, previously when I created new cloud functions they would deploy and just work, however now Google cloud functions require you to set permissions on who can invoke them, presumably so you don't accidentally deploy a private function publicly.

Add a Local Network Path as a Trusted Location in Microsoft Office

I recently started a new job at a small business and I discovered that whenever I opened a document from their local server, I would get the following message: Protected View - Be careful - files from the internet can contain viruses. Unless you need to edit, it's safer to stay in Protected View. [Enable Editing] This was getting very repetitive and annoying as I know the documents that I'm creating and saving on the local server are safe, so I did some investigating as to how to stop this from happening, ultimately the easiest way to stop this is by using Group Policy.

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