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.
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.
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.
Yeah, I'm gonna look into Amazon's fire stick. I have over 800 files, most of which use 5.1 audio. I think what you mean by stereo would be 2.1. No way am I going to re-encode all of those.
Roku needs to get to work on this though, this is just stupid.
