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Fairly new to home video distribution, but learning as I go. A little bit about my setup: (Home NAS, work in progress) WD 2TB HDD via USB3 to ASUS AC68 router. Real NAS to built/installed soon. In the meantime, movies are a hodgepodge of old/older/new rips residing on WD USB3 HDD. All new rips are made using makemkv keeping DD5.1 then encoded using handbrake high preset and optimized for web checked. The resulting m4v file contains H264, AC3 (6 channel) and AAC (2 channel) passthrough for maximum compatibility, portability, etc Router connects to 1gb switch for distro throughout house. WiFi is available, but all testing is conducted via 1gb ethernet, though some clients are only fast (100mb) ethernet. I have recently been experimenting, trying to determine a good 'all-around' software solution. I understand there's no magic bullet, just trying different things to see what works. I have installed XBMC, Plex, MBS (MB3 release branch) on a middling laptop running an A4 APU (5400 I believe). Here's my immediate question/concern/issue: I have multiple videos described above (m4v container, H264 video, AC3/AAC audio) that play without transcode to a Sony BDP-S5100 via DLNA off of the ASUS router. If I play the same files from MBS via DLNA on the same Sony BD, there's tons of blockiness, stuttering etc. I'm fairly certain this is due to trancoding. Leading to 2 questions: 1. It looks like you are implementing 'better' DLNA support to avoid trancoding when it isn't needed. I believe that would fix this issue. Am I correct? 2. Why would the simple fact of trancoding these simple encoded files cause the result to look so awful? Thanks and sorry for the long post. Just wanted to include as much relevant detail as I could. EDITED: Release branch of MBS NOT dev branch