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Forget about xvid and mpeg4, all I had to do was overriding the audio codec parameter using CustomFFmpegOptions

Solution:
go to "renderer" folder and edit the config file of your device (in my case: renderer/Panasonic-Viera.conf)
add the following line: " CustomFFmpegOptions = -c:a ...

sorry for double post, but I did some further investigations

it seems that as long as the video is AVI, the codec is Xvid and the audio is MP3 Stereo, everything is fine and my TV doesn't need to transcode. If it's not Xvid/AVI, UMS starts to transcode and the audio gets converted to unwanted dolby ...

but as far as know you should be able to uncheck "keep DTS tracks" to do it if that option is working

I've tried that without any success. I can't tell you if the options are generally not working. The video that I currently try has "MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)" stereo like several other youtube vids ...

Hello,

short time ago I was using the Win7 Media Server that worked well but now after I switched to Win10, the internal media server doesn't properly transcode the video files anymore to be compatible with my TV. I tried Kodi and Plex as alternative but UMS seems to work better. But there's still ...