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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 15.8.2 Windows 64-bit 165MB Win64
Download Universal Media Server 15.8.2 Mac Silicon ARM 64-bit 212MB MacARM64
Download Universal Media Server 15.8.2 Mac Intel 64-bit 218MB Mac64
Download Universal Media Server 15.8.2 Linux 64-bit 209MB Linux64
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15.9.0 Patreon
We have improved support for Sony and Philips TVs, improved how subtitles display, fixed resume video bugs, and more!
This has been the result of a lot of collaboration, and I'd like to thank first-time contributors @danielcamposramos, @Eyablg-ops, and @aik099 for code fixes, and Yaroslav Maikovych for taking our Ukrainian translation from 19% to 100%.
We're nearly ready for our first release of v16, and we're very excited to share it with you.
This release is available via our Patreon page, and will be available here when the next release happens.
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General
Enable media players to automatically detect when videos are 3D (thanks, Daniel Ramos!)
Improved size and position of subtitles hardcoded with FFmpeg
Added log level setting to web UI (#6212) (thanks, Eyaaa.blg!)
Fixed debugging in VS Code
Fixed endless retries when server is not connected to the internet
Fixed all compatible options not always visible in #--TRANSCODE--# folders
Fixed external subtitle track selection when hardcoding subtitles with FFmpeg
Fixed over 13 theoretical security vulnerabilities in dependencies
Only warm up fontconfig caches for engines that are active (thanks, Alex!)
Fixed long wait times and broken playback after seeking or playing Resume files (thanks, Alex!)
Fixed resume entries only working until program restarts
Media players
Improved support for Philips TVs (thanks, Alex!)
Improved support for Sony TVs from 2011 to current (thanks, Daniel Ramos!)
Translation updates via Crowdin
Ukrainian (99%) (thanks, Yaroslav Maikovych!)
Dependencies
Bump @playwright/test from 1.58.2 to 1.63.0 (#6367)
Bump com.github.eirslett:frontend-maven-plugin from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 (#6359)
Bump com.github.junrar:junrar from 7.6.0 to 7.6.1 (#6328)
Bump com.github.oshi:oshi-core from 7.4.2 to 7.6.1 (#6360)
Bump com.google.guava:guava from 33.6.0-jre to 33.7.1-jre (#6340)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-* from 3.14.0 to 3.15.2 (#6322, #6338, #6358)
Bump commons-codec:commons-codec from 1.22.0 to 1.22.1 (#6315)
Bump Java Runtime Environment from 17.0.19 to 17.0.20.1
Bump jna-version from 5.18.1 to 5.19.1 (#6316)
Bump js-yaml from 4.3.1 to 4.3.2 (#6318)
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin from 3.15.0 to 3.16.0 (#6314)
Bump org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin from 3.6.3 to 3.6.4 (#6361)
Bump org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-client from 12.1.12 to 12.1.13 (#6321)
Bump org.eclipse.jetty.ee10:jetty-ee10-servlet from 12.1.12 to 12.1.13 (#6321)
Bump org.eclipse.jetty.ee10.websocket:jetty-ee10-websocket-jakarta-server from 12.1.12 to 12.1.13 (#6321)
Bump org.eclipse.jetty.http2:jetty-http2-server from 12.1.12 to 12.1.13 (#6321)
Bump Vite from 7.3.5 to 7.3.6
Bump Yarn from 4.13.0 to 4.18.0
Bump all subdependencies
We have improved support for Sony and Philips TVs, improved how subtitles display, fixed resume video bugs, and more!
This has been the result of a lot of collaboration, and I'd like to thank first-time contributors @danielcamposramos, @Eyablg-ops, and @aik099 for code fixes, and Yaroslav Maikovych for taking our Ukrainian translation from 19% to 100%.
We're nearly ready for our first release of v16, and we're very excited to share it with you.
This release is available via our Patreon page, and will be available here when the next release happens.
Full changelog
General
Enable media players to automatically detect when videos are 3D (thanks, Daniel Ramos!)
Improved size and position of subtitles hardcoded with FFmpeg
Added log level setting to web UI (#6212) (thanks, Eyaaa.blg!)
Fixed debugging in VS Code
Fixed endless retries when server is not connected to the internet
Fixed all compatible options not always visible in #--TRANSCODE--# folders
Fixed external subtitle track selection when hardcoding subtitles with FFmpeg
Fixed over 13 theoretical security vulnerabilities in dependencies
Only warm up fontconfig caches for engines that are active (thanks, Alex!)
Fixed long wait times and broken playback after seeking or playing Resume files (thanks, Alex!)
Fixed resume entries only working until program restarts
Media players
Improved support for Philips TVs (thanks, Alex!)
Improved support for Sony TVs from 2011 to current (thanks, Daniel Ramos!)
Translation updates via Crowdin
Ukrainian (99%) (thanks, Yaroslav Maikovych!)
Dependencies
Bump @playwright/test from 1.58.2 to 1.63.0 (#6367)
Bump com.github.eirslett:frontend-maven-plugin from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 (#6359)
Bump com.github.junrar:junrar from 7.6.0 to 7.6.1 (#6328)
Bump com.github.oshi:oshi-core from 7.4.2 to 7.6.1 (#6360)
Bump com.google.guava:guava from 33.6.0-jre to 33.7.1-jre (#6340)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-* from 3.14.0 to 3.15.2 (#6322, #6338, #6358)
Bump commons-codec:commons-codec from 1.22.0 to 1.22.1 (#6315)
Bump Java Runtime Environment from 17.0.19 to 17.0.20.1
Bump jna-version from 5.18.1 to 5.19.1 (#6316)
Bump js-yaml from 4.3.1 to 4.3.2 (#6318)
Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin from 3.15.0 to 3.16.0 (#6314)
Bump org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin from 3.6.3 to 3.6.4 (#6361)
Bump org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-client from 12.1.12 to 12.1.13 (#6321)
Bump org.eclipse.jetty.ee10:jetty-ee10-servlet from 12.1.12 to 12.1.13 (#6321)
Bump org.eclipse.jetty.ee10.websocket:jetty-ee10-websocket-jakarta-server from 12.1.12 to 12.1.13 (#6321)
Bump org.eclipse.jetty.http2:jetty-http2-server from 12.1.12 to 12.1.13 (#6321)
Bump Vite from 7.3.5 to 7.3.6
Bump Yarn from 4.13.0 to 4.18.0
Bump all subdependencies
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Seems discontinued.
Review by ChickyBoom on
Mar 26, 2024 Version: 13.8.1 / 14.0 Beta / 13.9.0
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
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
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