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i have with playing a movie over a LAN media server it will not play a MKV it show up not with the right format of the video when it shows that it can play MKV file on there web site with the Roku Ultra it shows that it will play a MKV with USB media but on the web site it don't tell about any fire type if you play a movie over a LAN network by VLC
boogernose wrote:I like VLC as well. I've used it for many many years. It is open source and has more bells and whistles than I'll ever need,
You need to take this to the VLC Developers directly.
https://www.videolan.org/contact.html
I'd like to see VLC on roku too, but meanwhile I'd recommend using Plex for playing media over your LAN since it will transcode formats as necessary for different devices, or using Handbrake on a computer to convert to compatible formats.