That is, Serviio plainly has devoted considerable work to make the Roku device(s) work for their native formats.
PS3 MEDIA SERVER ROKU CODE
The UMS forum posts on the Roku renderer file(s) seem to indicate that UMS transcoding is required to get a video file to play on the Roku Media Player, at least in some cases.Įvidently, Serviio obtained access to the Roku device(s) and developed Serviio code to support the Roku Media Player (among other renderer(s) on the various Roku devices). However, note that Serviio's underlying profile.xml file contains considerable Roku device support code, as noted below.) (I use the generic DLNA profile on Serviio for the Roku device. So, the difference between UMS and Serviio appears to be that UMS reportedly has not done development/testing specifically for the Roku device(s), whereas Serviio evidently has done so.
This is all done using the Roku Media Player application (channel). It is evident that Serviio is not transcoding the files: the playback begins virtually immediately the screen output appears identical and both fast forward and rewind work as expected (whereas the Roku MP normally does not support FF and Rewind for transcoded files). That is, I am able to play the untranscoded video files using Serviio, using Serviio's default renderer file. PLEASE NOTE THAT, WHEN USING SERVIIO AS THE DLNA SERVER, MY ROKU DEVICE WORKS AS EXPECTED FOR UNTRANSCODED VIDEO FILES: I have tried the default renderer as well as various UMS renderers for Roku, all with the same result for (untranscoded) video files. (Note, however, that audio files work fine, and that all files/folders show up fine in the Roku Media Player GUI.) I do not want transcoding, so it is disabled.
The problem that I continue to encounter with UMS for Roku (Premier+) apparently is the same as that reported by various other users: perpetual display of "retrieving." when attempting to play (untranscoded) video files. One problem appears to be with native (untranscoded) video file playback, i.e., for files having formats that the Roku device supports. That is, a number of users have reported problems with video playback using Roku's Media Player application (channel) using UMS, and continue to do so. This is not "really wierd," at least based on prior posts regarding Roku renderers on the UMS forum.
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