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Hi:

Since 4.0.0 (and beyond) I no longer have the option to play MKV files (I use MKV exclusively), only mencoder is available. 3.6.x works as expected.

I've created a new UMS.conf file based on the one packaged with 4.0.3 and still no joy.

Anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions? debug log ...

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Cheers!

Please provide a copy of your debug.log from immediately following the attempt to play a file producing this issue as well as your UMS.conf.

Thanks!

You can you your own binaries to no severe or ill affect, you just need to state the explicit path to them in UMS.conf (though I noted mplayer in UMS 2.4.2 seems to be hard-coded to look in "./" and will not accept path statements).

Cheers

OK, I must be missing something, but I for the life of me am unable to change the paths of certain binaries such as mecoder, mplayer, ffmpeg. I want to assess performance of my own compiled versions vs UMS versions now included (2.4.2). I've tried using explicit paths to my binaries such as ...

@ExSport: Any update to the IMDB code forthcoming? As noted, seems something has changed on the IMDB side to "break" genre and rating.

What does debug show (always best to attach to your posts when you need help)...

To run headless, you will need to create an init script and "install" it as a "service" according to your distro...have a look here for a previous discussion on init scripts. Within that script you can state conf/profile path...have a look here for more info on path.

Set anything with "tsmuxer" in the setting name to false. Also, does the file work with FFmpeg (assumes v1.4.0; set hide_transcode_folder = false; hide_enginenames = false; look for the ffmpeg option inside #transcode folder of file to be played). Of course restart UMS after any UMS.conf changes ...

Ensure you have tsMuxeR (typically $UMS_HOME/Linux/tsMuxeR) or disable via UMS.conf Cheers