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Scott30's avatar
Scott30
Reel Rookie
2 years ago

No audio plays from MP4 in Roku Media Player when streaming from DLNA server

I have a Roku tv stick, and am trying to use the Roku media player to connect to my windows 10 computer as a DLNA server in order to play mp4 videos from my computer on my tv. The video plays, and everything looks ok, however, audio will not play for the majority of my mp4s - some of them DO work, however, most of them don't. All MP4s were encoded using AAC audio, which should be supported, however, no matter what I try, I cannot get this to work.

Has anyone else had any luck solving this problem? Is Roku working on an update to fix the media player?

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  • andyross's avatar
    andyross
    Roku Guru
    2 years ago

    Roku has more or less abandoned the Roku Media Player. They are more focused on Internet streaming. I don't know if maybe Plex might work.

    • Scott30's avatar
      Scott30
      Reel Rookie
      2 years ago

      I was afraid of that. Plex isn't the way I want to go, I don't want to have my files going through their servers. At this point, I may as well find another dlna reciever - I know that Amazon fire sticks do the kob if I get the right app on them. I kight try that.

      I wish Roku wiuld update their media player though.

      • renojim's avatar
        renojim
        Community Streaming Expert
        2 years ago

        Scott30, AAC audio should work, but I believe only mono/stereo AAC is supported.  It's been a while, so I may be misremembering things.  I've said it before, if playing your own media is important to you, there's much better alternatives.  I sincerely doubt that Roku will ever add features to their media player that aren't required by the big players in the streaming game (i.e., Netflix).  You either adapt/re-encode your media to something that's supported, use on-the-fly transcoding, or look elsewhere for a streaming device.