diff --git a/src/video.js b/src/video.js
index 2854880..c21481c 100644
--- a/src/video.js
+++ b/src/video.js
@@ -582,12 +582,14 @@ function video( channelService, fillerDB, db, programmingService, activeChannelS
         let sessionId = StreamCount++;
         let audioOnly = ("true" == req.query.audioOnly);
 
-        if (
-               (ffmpegSettings.enableFFMPEGTranscoding === true)
+        let transcodingEnabled = (ffmpegSettings.enableFFMPEGTranscoding === true)
             && (ffmpegSettings.normalizeVideoCodec === true)
             && (ffmpegSettings.normalizeAudioCodec === true)
             && (ffmpegSettings.normalizeResolution === true)
-            && (ffmpegSettings.normalizeAudio === true)
+            && (ffmpegSettings.normalizeAudio === true);
+
+        if (
+               transcodingEnabled
             && (audioOnly !== true) /* loading screen is pointless in audio mode (also for some reason it makes it fail when codec is aac, and I can't figure out why) */
             && (stepNumber == 0)
         ) {
@@ -598,13 +600,17 @@ function video( channelService, fillerDB, db, programmingService, activeChannelS
         if (stepNumber == 0) {
             data += `file 'http://localhost:${process.env.PORT}/stream?channel=${channelNum}&first=1&session=${sessionId}&audioOnly=${audioOnly}'\n`
 
-            data += `file 'http://localhost:${process.env.PORT}/stream?channel=${channelNum}&between=1&session=${sessionId}&audioOnly=${audioOnly}'\n`;
+            if (transcodingEnabled && (audioOnly !== true)) {
+                data += `file 'http://localhost:${process.env.PORT}/stream?channel=${channelNum}&between=1&session=${sessionId}&audioOnly=${audioOnly}'\n`;
+            }
             remaining--;
         }
 
         for (var i = 0; i < remaining; i++) {
             data += `file 'http://localhost:${process.env.PORT}/stream?channel=${channelNum}&session=${sessionId}&audioOnly=${audioOnly}'\n`
-            data += `file 'http://localhost:${process.env.PORT}/stream?channel=${channelNum}&between=1&session=${sessionId}&audioOnly=${audioOnly}'\n`
+            if (transcodingEnabled && (audioOnly !== true) ) {
+                data += `file 'http://localhost:${process.env.PORT}/stream?channel=${channelNum}&between=1&session=${sessionId}&audioOnly=${audioOnly}'\n`
+            }
         }
 
         res.send(data)