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Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server. It was originally based on PS3 Media Server by shagrath. UMS was started by SubJunk, an official developer of PMS, in order to ensure greater stability and file-compatibility. Universal Media Server supports all major operating systems, with versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The program streams or transcodes video, audio and image formats with little or no configuration. It is powered by FFmpeg, MEncoder, tsMuxeR, MediaInfo and more, which combine to offer support for a wide range of media formats. NOTE! Early Releases requires a Patreon subscription.
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Download Universal Media Server 10.20.0 Windows 164MB Win
Download Universal Media Server 10.20.0 Mac 160MB Mac
Download Universal Media Server 10.20.0 Linux 64-bit 134MB Linux64
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Download Universal Media Server 11.0.0-a1 Beta Windows 165MB Win
Download Universal Media Server 11.0.0-a1 Beta Mac 165MB Mac
Download Universal Media Server 11.0.0-a1 Beta Linux 165MB Linux
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Version 11.0.0-a1 released
General:
This release adds more rich data like logos and backgrounds to TV series, movies and episodes in the web interface, improves device detection, video playback and seeking, improves API metadata matching, and more!
Changes compared to v10:
General:
Uses image backgrounds and logos for movies, TV series and episodes on the web interface
Web interface switches between dark and light themes in Media Library based on background images
Automatic quality adjustment on web interface, with optional manual settings
Improved video forward-backward positioning in videos via the web video player
Improved web interface design
Improved web video player design
Improved API metadata matches for TV series
Added HLS video option which may improve support for transcoding via some renderers like Philips TVs
Log splitting/zipping (#2608)
Implemented network state scanner
Show the addresses of servers on the Status tab (#2372)
Allow to set the log level of FFmpeg in its engine settings in the desktop UI (#2677)
Increased maximum memory limit on macOS to match Windows
Fixed Restart server when network interface becomes available (#2615)
Fixed Network Interface not found (#1485)
Fixed GetProtocolInfo not being recieved (#2338)
Fixed Font scaling issues on some elements of the GUI for some users (#2549)
Fixed UMS doesn't free DLNA ports after closing (#739)
Fixed Service wrapper for Windows doesn't work with 64 bit JVM (#767)
Fixed Deinstallation does not remove autostart entry for wrapper.exe (#2343)
Fixed Attempt to remove medias.lock on install/startup (#2838)
Fixed Media Library no longer populated and startup scan slowness (#2826)
Fixed Could not open the default web browser: The BROWSE action is not supported on the current platform! (#2725)
Renderers:
Samsung 2021 TVs use HLS transcoding
Dependencies:
Added x64 windows service wrapper
Fixed support for latest Maven versions
Replaced Cling with JUPnP
Bump checkstyle from 9.3 to 10.2
Bump JRE from 8u332 to 17.0.3
Bump Video.js from 7.13.3 to 7.19.2
10.21.0.1 released for Patreon subscribers
General:
This release improves TV series metadata, improves transcoding quality and speed, and fixes so very many bugs!
Changes since 10.20.0:
General:
Improved API matches for TV series
Language improvements (thanks, NCAA!)
Fixed database not recovering from serialization changes (#2874)
Fixed custom renderer configurations not being loaded (#2917)
Fixed MEncoder and MPlayer on Docker (thanks, Jille Timmermans!) (#2922)
Fixed config being overwritten when UMS closes (#2875)
Fixed setting directory as fully played when folder names are similar
Fixed peakaboo in status bar during scans
Fixed database upgrade bugs
Translation updates via Crowdin:
German (100%) (thanks, pipin!)
Portuguese (100%) (thanks, RPargana!)
Dependencies:
Bump FFmpeg to latest
Bump h2 from 2.1.210 to 2.1.212
Bump icu4j from 70.1 to 71.1
Bump JRE from 8u322 to 8u332
Bump maven-antrun-plugin from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0
Bump maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.3.2 to 3.4.0
Bump maven-site-plugin from 3.11.0 to 3.12.0
Bump MediaInfo from 21.09 to 22.03
Bump oshi-core from 6.1.5 to 6.1.6
Bump surefire-version from 3.0.0-M5 to 3.0.0-M6
General:
This release adds more rich data like logos and backgrounds to TV series, movies and episodes in the web interface, improves device detection, video playback and seeking, improves API metadata matching, and more!
Changes compared to v10:
General:
Uses image backgrounds and logos for movies, TV series and episodes on the web interface
Web interface switches between dark and light themes in Media Library based on background images
Automatic quality adjustment on web interface, with optional manual settings
Improved video forward-backward positioning in videos via the web video player
Improved web interface design
Improved web video player design
Improved API metadata matches for TV series
Added HLS video option which may improve support for transcoding via some renderers like Philips TVs
Log splitting/zipping (#2608)
Implemented network state scanner
Show the addresses of servers on the Status tab (#2372)
Allow to set the log level of FFmpeg in its engine settings in the desktop UI (#2677)
Increased maximum memory limit on macOS to match Windows
Fixed Restart server when network interface becomes available (#2615)
Fixed Network Interface not found (#1485)
Fixed GetProtocolInfo not being recieved (#2338)
Fixed Font scaling issues on some elements of the GUI for some users (#2549)
Fixed UMS doesn't free DLNA ports after closing (#739)
Fixed Service wrapper for Windows doesn't work with 64 bit JVM (#767)
Fixed Deinstallation does not remove autostart entry for wrapper.exe (#2343)
Fixed Attempt to remove medias.lock on install/startup (#2838)
Fixed Media Library no longer populated and startup scan slowness (#2826)
Fixed Could not open the default web browser: The BROWSE action is not supported on the current platform! (#2725)
Renderers:
Samsung 2021 TVs use HLS transcoding
Dependencies:
Added x64 windows service wrapper
Fixed support for latest Maven versions
Replaced Cling with JUPnP
Bump checkstyle from 9.3 to 10.2
Bump JRE from 8u332 to 17.0.3
Bump Video.js from 7.13.3 to 7.19.2
10.21.0.1 released for Patreon subscribers
General:
This release improves TV series metadata, improves transcoding quality and speed, and fixes so very many bugs!
Changes since 10.20.0:
General:
Improved API matches for TV series
Language improvements (thanks, NCAA!)
Fixed database not recovering from serialization changes (#2874)
Fixed custom renderer configurations not being loaded (#2917)
Fixed MEncoder and MPlayer on Docker (thanks, Jille Timmermans!) (#2922)
Fixed config being overwritten when UMS closes (#2875)
Fixed setting directory as fully played when folder names are similar
Fixed peakaboo in status bar during scans
Fixed database upgrade bugs
Translation updates via Crowdin:
German (100%) (thanks, pipin!)
Portuguese (100%) (thanks, RPargana!)
Dependencies:
Bump FFmpeg to latest
Bump h2 from 2.1.210 to 2.1.212
Bump icu4j from 70.1 to 71.1
Bump JRE from 8u322 to 8u332
Bump maven-antrun-plugin from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0
Bump maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.3.2 to 3.4.0
Bump maven-site-plugin from 3.11.0 to 3.12.0
Bump MediaInfo from 21.09 to 22.03
Bump oshi-core from 6.1.5 to 6.1.6
Bump surefire-version from 3.0.0-M5 to 3.0.0-M6
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Rating by Andrew on
Jan 31, 2022 Version: 10.15
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
The new version is really bad, I can no longer watch movies I have on my computer through my ps4. I uninstalled and went back to version 9.8.0.
Review by Ayla on
Sep 6, 2020 Version: 9.8.1
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10
Functionality: 4/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 4/10
Rating by Nixio on
Apr 23, 2020 Version: 9.4.2
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 9/10
Rating by tsMuxer on
Apr 26, 2017 Version: 6.6.0
OS: Linux Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
The newest version has a bug where it won't play any files with a srt subtitle,gives an error message saying file not found.
Review by johns0 on
Mar 26, 2015 Version: 5.1.0
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
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