2024-11-24, 04:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-11-24, 04:40 AM by AlternateWitness. Edited 2 times in total.)
Responding in case this thread comes up in other peoples searches for the problem.
It's been a few days, but I was able to do extensive testing on my Roku. Changing the transcoded codec worked for some movies, but not others. I noticed that movies with no audio also did not have any of the menu sounds when in the UI while the movie was playing, which lead me to believe it was a weird way the Roku itself handled transcoding the Audio. I use my TV speakers, and going into the Roku's audio settings I changed the preferred audio method from Dolby to Stereo, and that fixed my problem! There was no problem with Jellyfin.
I have no idea why that solved the issue, I assumed the Roku would automatically handle and transcode formats that aren't compatible with my speakers, or that it could play any format it accepted, but I guess that's not the case! I'm glad it was a simple solution though, this bugged me for... I guess I just accepted I couldn't watch certain movies on Roku for years.
It's been a few days, but I was able to do extensive testing on my Roku. Changing the transcoded codec worked for some movies, but not others. I noticed that movies with no audio also did not have any of the menu sounds when in the UI while the movie was playing, which lead me to believe it was a weird way the Roku itself handled transcoding the Audio. I use my TV speakers, and going into the Roku's audio settings I changed the preferred audio method from Dolby to Stereo, and that fixed my problem! There was no problem with Jellyfin.
I have no idea why that solved the issue, I assumed the Roku would automatically handle and transcode formats that aren't compatible with my speakers, or that it could play any format it accepted, but I guess that's not the case! I'm glad it was a simple solution though, this bugged me for... I guess I just accepted I couldn't watch certain movies on Roku for years.