Serviio is transcoding m2ts and I don't need it to

I have shut off transcoding via the console, but it's still transcoding my m2ts files.

I have a heavily butchered PS3 profile I've been adjusting and as far as I can tell, I have commented out all the mpegts items in the transcoding sections, but yet it still transcodes.

I wouldn't care, but I'm having some severe difficulty getting a few of my blu-rays to rip into an avi that doesn't have audio out of sync. I've spent many many hours trying various things trying to get the file to rip into an avi container that my TV handles natively, but to no avail, the files always end up with the audio out of sync on my PC (via vlc, gom, WMP12, KMPlayer) and my TV. So, I figured I'd deal with the obscenely large m2ts files for my problem discs since when I play those directly using GOM, the audio syncs. But, when I try to view them on my TV, serviio is transcoding them to mpg which has the audio out of sync again.

I can post up my profile if that will help anyone help sort this out for me.

My TV is a VIZIO M701d‑A3R. It supports the following only over DLNA:


I tried using device spy to see if there was some other format/output my TV could handle natively, but it doesn't see my TV and I can't find my TV on the dlna.org site either. So, I'm stuck with the image above that Vizio emailed me a few weeks ago when I started this.

What's odd, is that I find nowhere in my profile anything with container m2ts, just a bunch of references for mpegts.

Some of my blu-rays (so far, have only done 6 or 7 of the 50 I have) have the mp2ts files all broken up and not in any discernible sequence... figured I'd circle back to dealing with the problem discs later if I get my audio sync within the avi figured out. I've done over 200 of my DVD's and compared to blu-ray, those were pretty easy to find apps to convert and pretty fast to do so. Just wish I could deal with avi's larger than 4G to get a better bitrate... that's a whole other issue.

This is the info from MediaInfo for one of the files I'm having issue with, from what I see, the file contains codecs my TV can handle:
General
ID : 0 (0x0)
Complete name : G:\Movies\avi\i\I_AM_LEGEND_MT2S_BR.m2ts
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 15.2 GiB
Duration : 1h 40mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 21.7 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 48.0 Mbps

Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : VC-1
Format profile : Advanced@L3
Codec ID : 234
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate : 18.6 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.375
Stream size : 13.1 GiB (86%)

Audio #1
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 460 MiB (3%)

Audio #2
ID : 4353 (0x1101)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : TrueHD / AC-3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Muxing mode : Stream extension
Codec ID : 131
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate mode : Variable / Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 3 366 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 460 MiB (3%)

Audio #3
ID : 4354 (0x1102)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 322 MiB (2%)

Audio #4
ID : 4355 (0x1103)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 322 MiB (2%)

Text #1
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Duration : 1h 40mn
Delay relative to video : 6s 464ms

Text #2
ID : 4609 (0x1201)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Duration : 1h 40mn
Delay relative to video : 7s 299ms

Text #3
ID : 4610 (0x1202)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Duration : 1h 40mn
Delay relative to video : 6s 631ms

Text #4
ID : 4611 (0x1203)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144

Text #5
ID : 4612 (0x1204)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144

[Illico]

Do you enable subtitles in serviio console?

No, I have both subtitles and transcoding shut off via the console.

This is in my profile though, maybe I should comment it out?
<HardSubsTranscoding>
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" maxVBitrate="17000" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384" DAR="16:9" />
</HardSubsTranscoding>

I bought new blu-ray players (sony bdp-s5100) and they handle mp4's which don't seem to have the 4G file limit that the AVI's have had. I watched a couple movies today as mp4's with the xvid codec that I ripped at 6MB (6GB+ files) that looked great and played just fine. They can't seem to handle the h264 codec in an avi natively over DLNA as it transcoded those that I already ripped.

[zip]

So when you disable transcoding in the console, does the file play?

Sorry I didn't get back. I didn't try. Since the new BR players handle mp4's, I'm reencoding my blu-ray's to that container instead. The 4GB size limit of avi's just was too low of quality for blu-ray. 3Mb-4Mb for DVD is ok, but 5Mb-6Mb for blu-ray looks pretty good. Also, it allows me to skip one conversion. As it was, with blu-ray discs, I was ripping to mp4 with software I bought, then converting to avi using another conversion program. The software I bought wouldn't convert directly to AVI with an audio codec that my TV could play.

So, using the blu-ray players does a few things for me. Supports H264/AAC in an mp4 container, allows me to do one rip/convert only, takes the work off my $2500 TV, has a faster/better front end to use serviio with and for some reason, the sound comes out better defined 6 channel.