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Ok, so I've fixed it, playback works through UMS and I did not have to transcode videos in advanced. But I did a lot of things about the same time and I don't know what changes exactly did the trick. But here's a summary.

First, in the config file I changed these following lines:

DefaultVBVBufSize ...

Ok, while I haven't made progress with using UMS to correctly playback these troublesome mkv videos to my TV, I have confirmed that if I use VLC to convert these videos using encoding profile titled "Video for MPEG4 1080p TV/device", which if you open up shows the encapsulation method as MP4/MOV ...

I double checked that conf and I think I put the search string in the wrong section :oops: try this one, just delete the old one.

Well the good news is this config file was grabbed automatically after restarting UMS, but the bad news is there's still no change in the problem. I haven't tried ...

Just copy the conf file to C:\Program Files (x86)\Universal Media Server\renderers and restart UMS, in theory that should make UMS use that conf for your TV.
You will have to delete the custom "[TV]SamsungLED32-0f7f49.conf" from C:\ProgramData\UMS\renderers that you made otherwise UMS will only ...

Give this one a try, it was originally the Samsung-H4500.conf but I altered it to match yours. Hopefully it should work better as all the existing ones for the H series are very similar.

I might see if I can do a generic one for the H series that can replace the model specific ones.


Hi ...

Hello, this is my first post here so hopefully I don't break any rules by mistake.

I just set up an older Samsung TV in my bedroom my wifes mother gave to us. It's a UN32H5203 running the latest available firmware, version 1220 (release May 29, 2020). Prior to this I was mostly using UMS to share ...