Will the official roku app ever work with the HDHR prime?
If not, ate there alternatives that might work with upnp/dlna?
Screen share from phone or iPad works but that seems like a sort of ridiculous round about way to get playback on roku.
Roku and Prime
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Re: Roku and Prime
Roku is a terrible platform for tv content, it can be fine for internet content. The mpeg2 decoder is one of the worse around and many older boxes don't even support the audio standards used for tv.
The reason why such isn't supported for the prime, but may work, is cable systems often encode the mpeg2 in ways roku can't handle while there are just a couple of ota stations that encode the same way. On some cable systems there might not be a single channel that works. Add in DRM which the roku can't support for cable it's a combination that can't really be supported. Many systems have gone to h.264 which has a much better chance at working but drm may still be an issue for many.
An android/Google tv solution would be much better with a prime (fire tv devices would also be better but will only work with unprotected content)
The reason why such isn't supported for the prime, but may work, is cable systems often encode the mpeg2 in ways roku can't handle while there are just a couple of ota stations that encode the same way. On some cable systems there might not be a single channel that works. Add in DRM which the roku can't support for cable it's a combination that can't really be supported. Many systems have gone to h.264 which has a much better chance at working but drm may still be an issue for many.
An android/Google tv solution would be much better with a prime (fire tv devices would also be better but will only work with unprotected content)
Re: Roku and Prime
That's all good info, but on my setup my
- roku ultra
Plays hdhr streams through plex with direct stream mode or whatever they call it. Pretty sure that means the hdhr app could as well, unless I'm missing something here.
- roku ultra
Plays hdhr streams through plex with direct stream mode or whatever they call it. Pretty sure that means the hdhr app could as well, unless I'm missing something here.
Re: Roku and Prime
Some cable providers include additional data on the data stream that contains the tables that tell the receiver where to find the audio and video data associated with a particular channel. This is a perfectly valid thing to do, and the correct behavior for the parser is to look at the identifier in each table and simply ignore any tables that it doesn't understand and just look at the ones it does understand. Roku doesn't do this and it just fails if it encounters something it doesn't understand. Plex takes the audio and video data from the HDHomeRun and generates a new data stream for the tables, so it works. HDHomeRun PRIME can't do it at its level because it has to work with that stream unmodified in order for the CableCARD to actually decrypt things.