Roku MHL Streaming Stick No 5.1/No Sound

[Cremby 0]

Hello,

 

I just started using Emby after trying Plex. I had very few issues with Plex but like some of the features of Emby so I wanted to try it before making a decision on which media server I will use long-term.

 

After performing a quick setup of Emby and connecting my Roku to my account, I've noticed that none of my videos streamed through Emby yield 5.1 sound. All are 2 channel (PCM on my AVR). The only setting that changed anything was the "Video Quality" setting in the Roku client. If I increase this from the default 3.2Mbps to 30Mbps or even 20Mbps, I get no sound at all. I had a major issue with Plex and my Sony Blu-ray player and 5.1 sound but no issues with Plex and Roku.

 

I've done a quick search and any similar issues I've found seem to be older issues. The videos in question are being transcoded. Will Emby transcode audio to 5.1 or does it automatically down convert to 2 channel? Is there any way to direct stream the audio while having transcoded video? Without knowing how things work, I feel I'm unable to ask the right questions. Hopefully the information I've provided can give us somewhere to start.

 

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

[speechles 2055]

http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/24151-Theme:-blue-neon-night

 

Try using the roku app in the link above. Read thru the thread to understand how it works.

 

http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/32641-very-unsatisfactory-play-of-ripped-dvds-through-roku3-with-emby/?p=312074

 

Use the thread above to see another user who had issues with surround and how this solved theirs.

 

 

 

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[Cremby 0]

Fixed. Thanks. I was in the process of doing this when you responded. I was happy to see I was on the right track.

 

However, I had to authorize the new client with a pin. When I go to emby.media/pin and enter my user credentials and pin I get the following message:

 

Invalid User Name or Password. Do you need to register?

 

It's super annoying. I'm entering the exact credentials I used to post on this forum. I had the issue the first time but I noticed that once I was logged in to that area I only had to enter the pin. I can't seem to get authenticated for that area though. I've bypassed the pin authentication with manual login on the Plex client for now.

Edited March 24, 2016 by cronby

[speechles 2055]

Yes. You need to register a username on the forum. After this you can use the emby connect/pin method.

 

You can bypass the pin method on emby too. Tell it you want to manually connect and it will walk you through the manual setup. After this it will remember the server it last connected to. It should be seamless from that point on.

 

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[ebr 16170]

Does your password for this forum have special characters in it like '#' or '!'?

[Cremby 0]

Does your password for this forum have special characters in it like '#' or '!'?

No. It's quite long though. I'm not sure if that matters or not. The first time I registered my Roku, I seemed to already be logged in to that area of the site, as indicated by my username in place of the username and password fields @ http://emby.media/pin.html. I thought my previous success was because my forum login was "passing through" to the media area. However, logging into the forum did nothing for me. I had also just confirmed my account using an e-mail link so that could have authenticated me. I gave up and just logged into the Roku directly using a local user. If you have any tips, I'd be willing to try it again.

[ebr 16170]

By "quite long" do you mean over 32 characters?

 

We discovered at one point that this board has a limit of 32 characters on the password but it is only enforced in some places.

[Cremby 0]

By "quite long" do you mean over 32 characters?

 

We discovered at one point that this board has a limit of 32 characters on the password but it is only enforced in some places.

No, it's not that long. I'm stumped. I tried again today and get the same error message. When I log in to https://app.emby.media/connectlogin.html?mode=welcome I see my server listed there so I know it's linked to my account. However, when I click the server I get the following:

 

Connection Failure

We're unable to connect to the selected server right now. Please ensure it is running and try again

 

I figured it's because I haven't set up any port forwarding. I thought I'd include the information in case the 2 issues are related.

Edited March 24, 2016 by Cremby

[ebr 16170]

I figured it's because I haven't set up any port forwarding. I thought I'd include the information in case the 2 issues are related.

 

Yes, that would be why.

[Cremby 0]

Yes, that would be why.

 

To clarify, are the issues related? Does http://emby.media/pin.html require external access to my server. If so, I'm not sure why it worked the first time.

 

Sorry for the confusion. I'm coming from Plex and the device authentication worked independent of external server access. It was tied to the user. Once I entered the pin for a given device, that device logged in with my Plex user and maintained the credentials until I manually signed out on the device. This persisted through device restarts.

[ebr 16170]

You are always accessing your own server so, yes, it needs to be externally available if you wish to access it externally.