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I'm currently using Windows Media Player for watching DVDs. Unfortunately if I close the player, I lose my position. My main requirement is that I want a player that will remember my position, even if I restart the computer or accidentally eject the DVD.
I recommend media player classic which is available with klite codec package almost every day (I've not used it with dvd though) and it's one of the best media player applications I've ever used. This nice application can remember almost everything include
Before I switched on Linux, I used VLC and BSplayer. Both are good media players but since you seem to have issues with VLC you may try BSplayer.Bsplayer has a free and paid version. Paid version is quite expensive (29.90 EUR for a new licence at the moment and 19.90 EUR if renewing a licence). In BSplayer, for seeing DVD menus, you will need a paid version, free version recognises only .vob files and does not read DVD menus.
I've recently started using Roku Media Player to stream music from a UPnP server built into my router. This works OK but RMP is somewhat lacking in features. For instance, it would be nice to see the time elapsed and remaining in the current track. Are there any other channels that can connect directly to the UPnP server without having to run something like Plex on another computer?
I only know of one other functional DLNA player for Roku devices (other than RMP), and that is Chaneru. However, I don't think development has continued with it. I do know that when I was using it before RMP was released, it was extremely slow to use. I don't think it has much improvement in the video playback. Chaneru also offers its own server product, so perhaps it works better with that. Plex and Emby player channels cannot connect to DLNA servers, only their own server products (their servers do offer a DLNA output, but the players won't see the DLNA side).
That said, RMP does show time elapsed and time remaining if you pause the playback. I tested this with both video and music. Yeah, not convenient to pause playback to see those numbers. But they are there.
EDIT: I just reinstalled Chaneru and at least on my Ultra 4800 the channel won't even load. As I mentioned, I don't think development has continued with this channel, so RMP may be the only channel option left for DLNA playback.
I've used Emby, but if I'm not mistaken it requires the Emby server running on a PC to take content from the DLNA server and send it to the Emby Roku channel. Plex seems to work the same way. I'd like to avoid having to run a PC just to stream music. RMP can directly access a DLNA server, so I was hoping there were other channels that could do the same thing.
Thanks for the suggestion. I installed Chaneru, but all it does is show a splash screen and return to the home screen. Not a big surprise that an 8-year-old app doesn't work. I'm sure I'll get used to RMP eventually.
Thanks for the info. I have a SSD containing my movies connected to the back of my Roku streambar via USB and use the RMP to access it. Seeing as I have over 700 films the RMP is torturous, but I really don't want to have another computer running 24/7 just to access my film library. Always open to suggestions here.
On a whim I plugged my USB directly into my Samsung smart tv, lo and behold! it recognized my USB and it has a media player (SMP.) The SMP is better than the RMP, but not by much. One nice touch is that the SMP shows my mp4 files in two horizontal lines, sorted alphabetically, with images from the files. It gives some basic data such as file name, type and size, but there is no sort or search function.
I suspect that every smart tv with a USB input also has a media player, though it may be primitive. The next time I need to buy a tv I will bring along a thumb drive with some media files to see if the tv will play the files.
Yes, virtually any "smart" TV will recognize an attached USB drive. I have Samsung sets, and I don't think their player is as good looking as RMP. There's zero metadata (assuming your media has that available) and it is just as limited for audio codecs and captions as RMP is. But if it plays your media better than RMP, that's all that matters until Roku gets their head out of the sand and puts some effort back into RMP.
Honestly what the **bleep** is wrong with them leaving such gaping hole in the development side of these apps?! I don't know what the company makes as far as profits but seriously get your **bleep**ing act together you could hire live 5 people who were great developers and they probably could churn out a product or an improved version of this app. What the **bleep** do you guys do at Roku headquarters?! You are honestly asking for a competitor to come do it better, and I'd jump ship in a **bleep**ing second. Your search sucks, app store garbage, no internet browsing capabilities, you guys are like the tivo or streaming I can't wait for somebody to put you guys in your place you lazy sacks of **bleep**. Rant done.
I have a lot of media on a Windows 10 media streaming server that I want to be able to stream. I want to install within Roku a streaming app that works will with a server. This means the app needs to "understand" directories, be able to move through a directory structure so I can find and play the right episode of whatever series I am watching, display at least medium length file names, etc.
The Emby Roku app has a much better interface and UI than Roku Media Player and also has better media support. The Roku Media Player cannot transcode your media to a format the Roku can handle. Your Emby server can convert any media not compatible to a compatible format on-the-fly to your Roku.
An Emby/Roku will play DTS or DTS+. The limitation is not with Emby, but the Roku. For example, you can have the DTS-HD MA set as the default in Emby. When performing playback through the Roku, it will convert it to DTS or DTS+ as that is the best it presently supports. I haven't seen any DLNA playback devices that do better and most, not as well, in my limited experience. I'm going to speculate it is a transmission bandwidth issue. Not even a BD player will playback DTS-HD MA though a coaxial or optical interface, only HDMI.
When I add a selection to my library from a DVD or BD, I add all the english language audio tracks. There is usually a high end track, such as DTS-HD MA, other surround tracks with less sophisticated encoding, and commentary tracks. Audio is a drop in the bucket in terms of storage space, compared to video. On playback, I select the best audio track the Roku can decode without conversion.
You would need a decent audio board, like a PicoAudio.
But that requires a a TinyPico ESP32 development board too, because ESP boards do not have. A standard for pinouts.
Then you would have to do some coding to make libraries to link to ESPhome, before you can start to tinker with the ESPhome setup.
There is nothing special about the Muse Proto other than a screw terminal instead of using just the pins and then a onboard speaker.
The rest of the board is just the traditional ESP32 dev board with no extra DAC or anything else.
The output here is pretty bad and only mono. Nowhere near the typical 24bit / 96Khz the PicoAudio provides and even further from the 24bit / 192Khz the HifiBerry cards provide for a raspi.
The Nest is also an interesting option! Thanks for that idea.
I wonder if this is working pure locally, or always using Google/clouds to play sound, even if the sound originates from a local resource?
After some fiddling got it working: ESP32 S2 with Max98357.
Programming of the ESP succeeded with esptool.py. Had to do some triggering of programming mode with the buttons (hold O, then push and release RST, then release O button.) After first programming, the Wifi OTA works fine.
First sound was distorted, but after resampling the used MP3 files to 32kHz (used Audacity) sound is good! Also, TTS works fine if using a decent speaker, of course.
Nice Gerben. I am looking for a relative simple solution to create a speaker for my alarm and maybe as a media player when the alarm is not necessary.
It would be nice if you could share in more detail which components you used. For instance, the MAX98357 are available in several models, like DFRobot or one of Aliexpress. And hopefully a Wemos ESP module will also work!
I have excellent sound quality with these components at the level of hifi systems.
max98357a - is high quality digital D-class aplifier. You need to pay attention to the circuitry and you will get a great result with it.
I've had the same issue in the past with Dahua systems. Their tech support was useless sending us documents on how to export instead of addressing and trying to understand the actual issue.
The only workaround we have seen is what you mentioned using VLC.