Thanks Dennis,

I understand you comments about not wanting to give everyone a profile editor, but it seems that there should be a capability for those with the skills to do more. Here is a suggestion: Create a feature in Mezzmo where a user could point to a sample file on his machine that he plans to access and choose a "save characteristics to profile" option. That way the actual important characteristics of that file type that you point out can be unique can be captured without the user knowiing much about it. He could then save those characteristics to a device profile and tell it what he wants it to do with that file type, such as stream without transcoding. If I had that feature now I could setup my file types in very little time. That has the added benefit for situations like my case where I had a profile that was working, then got a new camera that had a new format that also should not be transcoded. I could just add that new "signature" to my existing profile and be done and not lose the features of the existing profile that was working for other formats.

Do you have an explaination as to why when I choose the "turn off transcoding for all connected devices" otpion, that none of the files shared will appear any longer on the Bravia? I can explain further if you need more. I see Mezzemo, but when I open a folder on the Bravia it says the folder is empty.

OK, so I will take you up on your offer to help me learn how to modify a profile! :-) Here is the FFmpeg info from one of the mts files off the Canon camcorder:

ffmpeg version N-36036-ga40f43d, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Dec 22 2011 13:44:49 with gcc 4.6.2
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/media/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/dennis/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/dennis/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config --disable-w32threads
libavutil 51. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
libavcodec 53. 46. 1 / 53. 46. 1
libavformat 53. 27. 0 / 53. 27. 0
libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavfilter 2. 53. 0 / 2. 53. 0
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
[h264 @ 01a5a500] Increasing reorder buffer to 1
[mpegts @ 01959560] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5003333

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 59.94 (60000/1001) -> 59.94 (60000/1001)
Input #0, mpegts, from 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Pictures\Digital Photos\Test AVCHD\20120101143431.mts':
Duration: 00:01:24.09, start: 0.766967, bitrate: 6360 kb/s
Program 1
Stream #0:0[0x1011]: Video: h264 (High) (HDMV / 0x564D4448), yuv420p, 1440x1080 [SAR 4:3 DAR 16:9], 59.96 fps, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
Stream #0:1[0x1100]: Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 256 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: 40, 100
---> Frame rate: 59.96
---> Aspect ratio: 16:9


Now the camcorder can save files in three different "qualities" which I think is probably different bitrates. I think the Sony can play them all. What would the "container" look like in the profile to tell Mezzemo to stream without transcoding?

Below is what I think (correct me if wrong) is the container section from the profile you created for me a month ago that allows it to send mp4's direct without transcoding:

<avcontainer id="mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2" name="h264aac" encode="0" mimetype="video/mp4" dlnaprofile="MP4" supportschunked="0">
<video>
<format id="mpeg4" encode="0">
</format>
</video>
<video>
<format id="h264" encode="0">
</format>
</video>
<audio>
<format id="aac" encode="0">
</format>
</audio>
<audio>
<format id="mp3" encode="0">
</format>
</audio>
</avcontainer>

What changes would I need to make to this to make it send the mts files without transcoding, but still have them appear in the folder list and with thumbnails?

Thanks for your help.