

I was leader of the team that wrote BitScream for Front Porch Digital, a realtime transcoder that could receive video in virtually any format & not only change the video format, but change the proprietary meta wrapper (say from Seachange to Pinnacle to Grass Valley to Avid, etc.). I know that every company has a separate metadata wrapper & that even something as simple as. I know that - I've been programming advanced digital video since I consulted to Intel in 1990.

Should I try a microSD in the Ultra instead? I don't see any reason to set up streaming from my phone or computer if Roku won't even play it from a thumb drive. Is there anything I'm missing in my configuration that I can change to allow Matroska to play natively on my Ultra from a thumb drive? It is in the list of supported formats. This plays fine, on the Roku, but conversion is slow & can sometimes end up running my quad cores at 100%, so I convert while I'm sleeping. mkv to Roku 3 Streaming Player MPEG-4 Movie (.mp4) mode. I'm currently converting all Matroska assets using freeware Any Video Converter configured to convert. I have the NCH Suite with Prism & Pixillion, but it is expired & I'm not doing any audio/video editing right now, so don't intend to renew for a while.

Spec on this site says the Roku Media Player supports Matroska (.mkv) video/audio assets, my most common format.
