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renojim
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Re: No sound playing many videos with Roku Media Player.

@dheav, do you have one of the "Volume modes" enabled?  You won't get any sound if you do and the video doesn't contain a stereo audio track.

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Rothman
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Re: No sound playing many videos with Roku Media Player.

Appears Roku is not playing DTS only Audio Tracks, such as this spec from MediaTab

===================== Audio =====================
Id : 2
Format : DTS
Format info : Digital Theater Systems
Formatprofile : MA / Core
Mode : 16
Formatsettings, Endianness : Big
Codec Id : A9
Duration (ms) : 2h 1mn
Bit rate mode : Variable / Constant
Bit rate : Unknown / 1 509 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 2 088 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 2 088 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Frame rate : 93.750 fps (512 spf)
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless / Lossy
Stream size : 1.77 GB (10%)
Title : Stereo
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atc98092
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Re: No sound playing many videos with Roku Media Player.

@Rothman Roku only supports DTS audio if it's a) in the MKV container and b) you are connected to an AVR via HDMI and the AVR supports DTS. In this case it is passed through to the AVR. But if the DTS is in another container, officially DTS isn't supported, although I have had success playing it from TS/M2TS containers. 

One other comment about the info you posted. That audio track is DTS Master Audio, which Roku does not support. It is lossless audio, and Roku does not support any lossless audio codecs. A Roku will pass LPCM, but it's unlikely you have any lossless audio in LPCM.

In theory, the lossy DTS core audio track should still be sent to an AVR connected via HDMI, again only from a MKV container. But that has always been hit or miss with my movies, so I instead have my DLNA server transcode the audio to Dolby Digital. But there's no way to listen to lossless audio through a Roku device. 

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Rothman
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Re: No sound playing many videos with Roku Media Player.

Cool - thanks for the knowledge.   I code everything in mp4 so looks like I'll recode my blu-rays into AC-3 & stop doing DTS passthru. Just CPU time 🙂

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Tunester
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Re: No sound playing many videos with Roku Media Player.

Mediainfo is no longer free.

 

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atc98092
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Re: No sound playing many videos with Roku Media Player.


@Tunester wrote:

Mediainfo is no longer free.


Sure it is. https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo No cost. 

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