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Well I'm not giving up just yet :) I've made some edits to the code so it will give me more debug info and stop crashing at that point, so now I just have to wait for the code to be compiled for OS X because I can't do it myself. I'm requesting glebb, the guy who does our official OS X builds, to he...

Our lead developer SubJunk has been officially added to the MPlayer/MEncoder development team, after having submitted patches and bug reports to them for over a year. Since UMS uses MPlayer and MEncoder for most things by default, this is very promising for future improvements to UMS. It creates a l...

Great, I think I've fixed the issue now. The (hopefully) fixed version is here.

OK, great. Please go into your installation directory and open logback.xml. Near the bottom is:
Please change it to:
And then make a new debug package. This should give me the information I need

You're welcome
Please try the previous version of UMS to see if it works with that, you can get it here

The video codec detection in UMS isn't working for that file, because UMS has some code that says "if the video is mpeg2video then don't add lavdopts fast", and your video is mpeg2video. It seems like it's just a VOB file/s taken from a DVD and remuxed into MKV, is that right? Can you post...

Next ones to try: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Universal Media Server\win32\mencoder.exe" -ss 0 "C:\Users\GuardianX\Videos\Dvd backups\NEEDS RENAMED\Shrek.mkv" -msglevel statusline=2 -oac copy -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg2:muxrate=500000:vbuf_size=1194:abuf_size=64 -ovc lavc -channe...

OK so we have narrowed it down. Let's try these ones: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Universal Media Server\win32\mencoder.exe" -ss 0 "C:\Users\GuardianX\Videos\Dvd backups\NEEDS RENAMED\Shrek.mkv" -msglevel statusline=2 -oac copy -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg2:muxrate=500000:vbuf_size...

Interesting, looks like a MEncoder bug. Can you try this one? "C:\Program Files (x86)\Universal Media Server\win32\mencoder.exe" -ss 0 "C:\Users\GuardianX\Videos\Dvd backups\NEEDS RENAMED\Shrek.mkv" -oac copy -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg2:muxrate=500000:vbuf_size=1194:abuf_size...

The only reason I can see for blocky output would be that your TV isn't upscaling it; if you have an HD TV then this source video (which is only 720x480) may not have enough pixels to look good on the TV. If you want to test the quality of the file being sent to the TV, you can open CMD, go to a new...