Live TV Playback Issues

[codechurn 9]

I currently have the following settings on my Roku Playback options:

• Allow Direct Streaming: No
• Limit to 30fps: No
• Allow HVEC at 60fps: No

I frequently run across channels that will just refuse to play on the Roku app, but work just fine in the Web Browser on my phone and/or computer. The scenario on the Roku is typically that the channel will just drop me at a blank screen and never start playing.

Any thoughts how I can make these channels work on the Roku? I've tried fiddling with the various playback and I just can't make it work.  

Below are log from an attempt to stream the same channel from the Roku app:

ffmpeg-transcode-91ddc8c1-3219-43cb-839d-1a6dd04aa294_1.txt ffmpeg-transcode-14ed54f8-c65c-48b0-9c25-cd16d9e356a2_1.txt

Edited January 2 by codechurn

[speechles 2060]

Apologies for the issue. Same problem as the thread above. We have a solution it just isn't implemented yet. We are working on it.

[codechurn 9]

Looking forward to the fix. Let me know if I can test or help in any way.

[codechurn 9]

Just checking in on this. Is there a planned release date? Should I give up on Roku and go to a different platform?

[Luke 42154]

@speechles

[speechles 2060]

@LukeThe issue is the audio is using ADTS which the Roku does not support and will reject without error. In other words it can hang the player. We need to detect this. It does not produce an error. It can/will/does hang the player when fed this as input.

MediaInfo display the audio stream as AAC Main.

 

Emby display it as HE-AAC

The Roku natively supports HE-AAC, but it doesn't support AAC Main. Emby is not giving enough information about the audio stream for us to properly detect this on the Roku side of things.

I've made an issue #1756 on the Roku tracker on GitHub. I've tried to get help on this, because at this point we can transcode all HE-AAC which would incorrectly transcode audio that could directly play. Instead I would rather have Emby display the correct tagging for the audio stream so that we could properly build a capabilities profile to make this work correctly. I need your help, Luke. Please help. Thanks.

Edited 54 minutes ago by speechles