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Whenever I try to play video files my TV does not support natively, if I play then using ffmpeg or mencoder transcoding, the video and audio play correctly for about a second (or a little less), then the video restarts from the beginning, while the audio continues playing normally. Thus, the video ...

Thank you very much for your kind reply and suggested config. I much appreciate it. Unfortunately, I get the exact same problem as before.

Any idea why TranscodeVideo = WMV works, but TranscodeVideo = MPEG.* all fail?

I have some of my video DVDs stored on my server in the form of a VIDEO_TS directory which contains the various files ({VIDEO_TS,VTS_nn_m}.{IFO,VOB,BUP}). I've used DVD Player.app to play these on my Mac in the past, and they seamlessly play as a single video.

When I make these files available to ...

I am using UMS version 7.3.0.

I have created the attached profile file for the Samsung KU6000 TVs, based on this TV's documentation from Samsung.

I can successfully:
- view any video & audio that does not have to be transcoded (perfectly, even for very high bit rate files); and,
- view any video ...

Is information available anywhere as to what the maximum supported version is on each respective version of Mac OS X (or alternatively what the minimum required Mac OS X version is for each UMS version)? E.g. what's the last version that will run on Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, etc.?