

Then there's many basic DLNA servers that handle the back end, and you use the Roku Media Player channel for playback. Emby offers a media server and has a Roku channel for playback. There are other media servers that can do the same. The reason Plex works is that it transcodes the audio to standard AC-3/Dolby Digital. Yeah, it's weird, it's back to the old media player. If the audio is DTS, it has to be in the MKV container and whatever plays your audio must support DTS. Yeah, they supposedly rolled back the update, but even though it looks like the old media player it has the same problems: no compatible media error, and search doesn't work at all. When you try to play a video and you don't hear anything, that means either the audio codec is unsupported by the Roku, or what you're feeding the file to (your TV, or an AVR/Soundbar handling the audio) doesn't support the codec. I believe there are a number of USB players for audio files, but not for video. Audio file types: AAC, MP3, WMA, WAV (PCM), AIFF, FLAC, ALAC, AC3, E-AC3 (this line mixes containers and codecs, and is specific to audio only files, not video).Video codecs: H.264/AVC, HEVC/H.265, VP9 (H.262/MPEG2 is supported by players built from 2016 and later, and all Roku TVs).
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There's no alternative video player that works with the USB port.
