Completely disable transcoding

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AdamBomb
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Completely disable transcoding

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Im trying to view movies on my smart tv and UMS keeps renaming them to mpg and it won't play them, I've tried disabling all the transcoding engines in UMS and it still renames all my videos to .mpg
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Re: Completely disable transcoding

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Re: Completely disable transcoding

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In the next version (6.5.2) it will be possible to disable transcoding completely by setting this in UMS.conf:

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disable_transcoding = true
Disabling of transcoding per extension has also been fixed.

That probably won't fix your problem though, as transcoding is needed to play anything your TV can't play natively. A proper renderer configuration file is probably what is needed.
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