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Hi, I'm new at the forum, sorry for my english, I'll do my best to explain myself.
I have a Sony Bravia 50W805B, the TV can handle mp4 and mkv files fine, the subtitles are the problem. If I stream mkv files from my notebook to the TV it works fine, but it won't show the subs unless they're inside the mkvs, so I have to use the mkvmerge to put srt subtitles inside every file I want to stream. I want to avoid this work, plus I like the UMS subtitles more because you can change size, colour, etc.
Now, transcoding seems to be the only way to get what I want. In fact, if I enable subtitles in UMS, transcoding is automatic. The problem is that UMS transcodes my mkv files into mpeg, and the quality loss is noticeable. I've played with the settings, selected maximum quality in mpeg and no loss in h264, but the result is the same. The only thing I want is UMS to burn the subs in the mkv and serve the file in the same format, mkv or mp4, without lossing quality, the TV can take it. Is there a way to do this?

There should be no noticeable quality loss with those settings. Can you please provide logs?

SubJunk wrote:There should be no noticeable quality loss with those settings. Can you please provide logs?

Thanx for answering. I'm really sorry for asking this, but how can I get logs?
Also, I've noticed that when I chose tsmuxer my video files are AVC and not mpeg. Does tsmuxer gives you better quality than ffmpeg? My old Core 2 Duo can't handle transcoding with tsmuxer, the file won't even start. I'm asking because I'll be upgrading my hardware soon and I want to know if this engine will give me better results than ffmpeg.
Thanx again.

No problem, instructions for making logs are in the Problem Reporting Guidelines up the top
tsMuxeR does not transcode, we use it to serve AVC streams to renderers. Both FFmpeg and MEncoder should give the same quality, which is visually lossless at the default settings. I'll be able to tell more from the logs.