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I finally got a chance to look at this again tonight (work has been crazy busy), and here's the status update:

- I downloaded a "typical" 4K 60fps variant of the same test video.
- Playing this video the first time plays automatically with no transcoding
- Attempting to resume after a short period ...

Did you try to configure "UMS.conf" to use ffmpeg which is included with UMS.
If not, it would be worth trying that just to check.

It would just be a matter of changing the line in "UMS.conf" from:
ffmpeg_path =
TO
ffmpeg_path = /opt/ums-14.10.1/linux/ffmpeg
** making sure that the "UMS.conf ...

Web player works, but seems to be using the ffmpeg HLS transcoding, so is using software transcoding on the CPU (FFMPEG HLS Video is reported in the logs, and consumes about 450% CPU during the process with 0% GPU), rendering via Firefox on Android (which is detected properly in UMS also).

I can ...

Legendary response @mik_s! I have updated the BubbleUPNP as you have suggested, but still have errors being reported. I've attached the config file for reference: Google-Android-BubbleUPnP-MXPlayer.conf

Unfortunately, still unable to play - error code 234, also the negative duration, which makes ...

Thanks all for the replies, and glad to see at least someone has it working. All hope is not lost! @boss Is your GPU Nvidia or AMD?

I couldn't put all the detail I had hoped into this reply as it kept being marked as spam frustratingly. The log files have it all though.

Have just gone through the ...

Hi everyone, new member but long-time UMS user here. I made the switch to Ubuntu more than a year ago, but have been having nothing but issues with UMS - mainly in relation to transcoding. What probably doesn't help, is it is a Nvidia RTX 4070 - and Nvidia has traditionally been against "Open ...