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Media Casting - NO Dolby, DTS, Bluray, DVDs, or files in Movie Folder- downgrades all 5.1 to 2ch?
BJ1200 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Feb 10, 2012 13:31 Messages: 28 Offline
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Can anyone get sound (Dolby or AC3) for a movie that you cast to a ROKU3 device? I was just getting ready to upgrade from 14U to 16U. Then read the support tutorial for Media Casting which has links at the bottom about "supported media formats". No mention of Dolby or DTS. It's just crap like MP3, WAV, Monkey's Audio, etc.

Even worse, the media format pages list a few NOTES at the very bottom.
#1 - No casting of Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, movie folders, and ISO files
#4 - 5.1 channel audio or above is downmixed to 2 channel during media casting.

So what exactly is the purpose of media casting, for cell phone videos or something? Most of us have PDVD because of our Bluray and DVD movies, many stored on a NAS, which are either DTS or Dolby.

Like the marketing says..."Playback any video, audio or photo format on your big screen TV through a Roku, Apple TV or Chromecast device". Yes, I left out the phrase "supported by PowerDVD".

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Hicham_B [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Jun 09, 2015 04:02 Messages: 1347 Offline
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Hi BJ1200,

Please contact directly our support team for this purpose.
We offer a support both via email and phone.
http://www.cyberlink.com/support/contact-support.jsp

Best regards
Hicham Technical support:
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BJ12 [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Arizon USA Joined: Aug 11, 2011 13:40 Messages: 16 Offline
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I don't need support, just want to know what Cyberlink's developers intended use of Casting? In a perfect world, what would someone use this for?
Hicham_B [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Jun 09, 2015 04:02 Messages: 1347 Offline
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Hi BJ12,

You can cast every file in the library except protected contents like Blurays...

Greetings
Hicham Technical support:
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