Channels & viewing

[profnobu]

Has this been fixed yet? If not, that's ridiculous. Its been several months since ive even bothered to use roku, planning on buying another device during Black Friday. 

[emichael0]

Nope, it has not. I would strongly recommend against buying a Roku device, unless you like unskippable, unrevertable updates that break your device and don't get fixed for over a year. Get a chromecast stick instead.

[martinex57]

At this point, I don't even know if they're working on it.  The problem isn't enough to completely scare me off but it does cast doubt.

[Avrution]

I think the only hope is the next major OS revision, though I doubt that will fix anything.  I have resigned myself to just converting everything - though I really wish that even converted fixed the issue when streaming over the network versus being forced to use USB

[ect5150]

Roku OS 10.5 was announced a while ago, but I haven't seen it made available to any device I own (so, I'm assuming it hasn't been released).  Hopefully, this fixes issues.

I personally don't have that many video files on my network, but I just converted my audio to OGG format.  OGG is every bit as good as AAC at higher bitrates (so, it's comparable to AAC-LC).  I setup a batch script to covert all audio and just let it run until it was done (audio encoding is relatively fast, so it didn't take too long).

That fixed the issue for me... but as other's have said, letting a problem like this persist is just a large incentive to go to a competing device.

[Nat2021]

I just got the update last night (10.5.0) and tested an MKV file that was stuttering, sound breaking up etc and it seems to have solved the issue SO FAR....if anyone else has the update please let me know if it has sorted out this ongoing sound issue, thanks. Nathan.

[keen]

I got 10.5 a few weeks ago on the express 4k+ that I use for dev work - but I haven't actually tested around this enough to confirm it's fixed.  my premier+ hasnt had the fix yet.  

I've found a ton of other random issues with AAC on roku10 - including times where AAC works perfectly fine (when plex remuxes 2.0 AAC that drops out on direct play, it plays perfect - it's remuxing into a ts container and sending via hls in that case.  but the same audio track in directplay (http, mkv) drops out.

then there's the multichannel AAC problem (the roku always plays it as 2.0).and not aac, but the exp4k+ wont play EAC3 at all when it's plugged into my 2 channel test TV, but plays eac3 fine when plugged into my 7.1 home theater..... (10.0 and 10.5 did that)

[keen]

Got 10.5 (the "official" one with the splash screen) on all of my devices the other day.   In initial testing, it seems to have solved my AAC/HE-AAC 2.0 dropout issues on directplayed mkv containers.   Enough so that I removed my "force transcode" workaround in my custom rarflix build.

AAC/HE-AAC multichannel still only has 2.0 playback (not specifically related to this thread, but the other AAC problem I've been seeing.)

[Avrution]

Still not fixed on streamed files, re-encoded or not.

[emichael0]

Seems to be fixed for me as well. First time having a fully working Roku TV in 1.5 years.