Globally disable transcoding

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Atalantia
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Globally disable transcoding

Post by Atalantia »

Hello,
how do I globally disable transcoding? I made a conf file for every device that contains:

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Device = 192.168.0.12
disable_transcode_for_extensions = mp4,m4v,mkv,avi,mpg,mpeg
But do I need that for each device? Can I do?:

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Device = 192.168.0.12 192.168.0.13 192.168.0.14 
or:

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Device = 192.168.0.12,192.168.0.13,192.168.0.14 
Nadahar
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Re: Globally disable transcoding

Post by Nadahar »

There's a setting in the global configuration to do this: https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... #L649-L656

That said, this should only be used for troubleshooting or similar, the whole idea of "disabling transcoding" is a logical fallacy. Transcoding is only used when the renderer cannot otherwise play the media. That means that disabling transcoding is the same as "disabling playback" of said media. I doubt that's what you're after.

What is normally the real problem is that the renderer is configured wrong, so that UMS think it has to transcode when it doesn't. The fix is to correct the configuration, not disable transcoding.
Atalantia
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Re: Globally disable transcoding

Post by Atalantia »

Thanks for answering. I'll look at little bit closer. Maybe I can disable all the conf file I made.
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