I have a Roku 2 and a rather new Ultra; both are experiencing the same issues. I will, however, re-connect my Serviio machine and see if I can alter the Roku profile there. However, would this makes any difference if my Serviio does NO transcoding? I use Handbrake to convert all my media to either mp4 or m4v with no greater than 160kb AAC audio. If there are subtitles, Handbrake burns them in for me. In other words: Serviio is a "dumb playback unit" (and I mean no offense!
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I agree that Roku's business plan has the RMP very low down on its "things to do" list (if it appears there at all) as they don't
directly earn any income from it. But that leaves those of us who wish to play media locally (and that includes direct USB connection for those players that have such a port) without a
reliable way to play it; that causes us to consider "other than Roku" when it's time to buy another device...or, in this particular instance, having to find a media server with a Roku channel/app designed specifically for it. The Emby server can actually pick up a Serviio server on the network and use its (Emby's) DLNA ability to "forward" it through the Emby server. Of course, it still requires Emby's Roku app.
I'm glad to know that you are an RMP beta-tester; perhaps you might pass along my dissatisfaction with the player and ask the dev to simply do a google search to find the history of issues with that app (as in
the REW, Play/Pause, FF buttons stop working and "richer" (1080p) media playback being problematic). These issues go back at least two years. Now, I will say that some earlier version of the RMP app worked perfectly but I don't know which one and Roku doesn't give me any sort of option to revert to older versions (and I can understand why they would see such a "feature" as a support nightmare).
I don't stream any media larger than 1080 so even my old Roku 2 has been fine (though slower to load) up to this latest RMP issue.
I may keep the Serviio server running and check it periodically if I see the RMP has been updated. If it starts working properly again, I'll disable updates on the Roku!
Thanks for listening!
Barry