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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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OS: Win Mac Linux
File size: 157MB
Old versions
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Latest version

15.3.0 / 15.4.0 Patreon (January 11, 2026)



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Download Universal Media Server 15.3.0 Windows 64-bit  157MB  Win64 Win

Download Universal Media Server 15.3.0 Mac Intel 64-bit  210MB  Mac64 Mac

Download Universal Media Server 15.3.0 Mac Silicon ARM 64-bit  204MB  MacARM64 Mac

Download Universal Media Server 15.3.0 Linux 64-bit  203MB  Linux64 Linux




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Download Universal Media Server 15.4.0 Patreon Windows 64-bit  Win64 Win




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Download Universal Media Server old versions Archive Archive



Software License

Free software/Donationware (Free and open source code but latest versions requires donation/subscription)



Supported operating systems

Windows Win Mac OS Mac Linux Linux




Version history / Release notes / Changelog / What's New


15.4.0 Patreon

We have switched the default Docker operating system from Alpine Linux to Ubuntu, which fixes memory and stability problems. If you want to continue to use Alpine Linux, you can change to the universalmediaserver/ums-alpine repository.

We have also done a lot of improvements to LG TV support, with native Dolby Vision support on 2022+ models (as long as you update to WebOS 25), better TV detection, and fixed support for DTS on 2025 models, since LG has unfortunately stopped supporting DTS again after only supporting it in 2023-2024 models :/

There are a bunch of other important bugfixes for all devices which we know people have been patiently waiting for, and some more interface improvements to the web player.

Thanks to everyone who reported their bugs, and also those who helped fix them. We had a great amount of community help with this release, which in the current software climate we are even more grateful for than ever!

This release is available via our Patreon page, and will be available here when the next release happens.

Changes
General
Switched the default Docker operating system from Alpine Linux to Ubuntu, which fixes memory and stability problems. If you want to continue to use Alpine Linux, you can change to the universalmediaserver/ums-alpine repository
Changed Edit button to an icon on the web player
Added a tooltip to the "Media info" button on the web player
Fixed menu item saying "mark contents unplayed" instead of "mark unplayed" on videos
Fixed fully played status for files on web player
Fixed breadcrumb dropdown not showing for files on web player (#5909)
Fixed inaccessible files that are still shared being removed from local database (#5356)
Fixed being unable to assign user to group on mobile (#5800) (thanks, @rtivital and @rilrom!)
Fixed files marked as fully played despite "Monitor played status" being disabled (#5828) (thanks, @dheerajmuppalla!)
Fixed AudioAddict stability and recovery from network timeouts
Fixed "recommended" being written as "recommanded" in the Windows installer (thanks, @colinvh!)
Media players
Added native support for Dolby Vision in MKV files on LG TVs from 2022 onwards
Improved detection of 2023-2025 LG TVs
Fixed support for DTS and DTS-HD on 2025+ LG TVs
Translation updates via Crowdin
Bulgarian (42%) (thanks, ScarletZero06!)
Czech (100%)
Dutch (43%) (thanks, Leander Torres Falcato Simoes and SSS-Idee-en-Raad!)
Finnish (70%) (thanks, Esko Gardner!)
French (100%) (thanks, Fredo1650!)
Hungarian (89%) (thanks, efi99!)
Korean (100%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
Polish (70%) (thanks, Karol Szastok and Michu!)
Russian (96%) (thanks, and vanapro1)
Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)
Dependencies
Replaced imageio-webp plugin with twelvemonkeys imageio-webp
Bump @mantine/core from 8.3.9 to 8.3.11 (#5911)
Bump @mantine/dropzone from 8.3.9 to 8.3.11 (#5911)
Bump @mantine/form from 8.3.9 to 8.3.11 (#5911)
Bump @mantine/hooks from 8.3.9 to 8.3.11 (#5911)
Bump @mantine/modals from 8.3.9 to 8.3.11 (#5911)
Bump @mantine/notifications from 8.3.9 to 8.3.11 (#5911)
Bump @mantine/notifications from 8.3.9 to 8.3.11 (#5911)
Bump @tabler/icons-react from 3.35.0 to 3.36.1 (#5943, #5946)
Bump @vitejs/plugin-react from 5.1.1 to 5.1.2 (#5931)
Bump actions/cache from 4 to 5 (#5916)
Bump actions/upload-artifact from 5 to 6 (#5917)
Bump ch.qos.logback:logback-classic from 1.5.21 to 1.5.23 (#5910, #5930)
Bump ch.qos.logback:logback-core from 1.5.21 to 1.5.23 (#5910, #5930)
Bump com.github.eirslett:frontend-maven-plugin from 1.15.4 to 2.0.0 (#5932)
Bump com.github.oshi:oshi-core from 6.9.1 to 6.9.2 (#5933)
Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 12.2.0 to 12.3.0 (#5913)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-batik from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-bmp from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-core from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-hdr from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-icns from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-iff from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-jpeg from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-metadata from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-pcx from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-pict from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-pnm from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-psd from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-sgi from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-tga from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-tiff from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 (#5944)
Bump de.sfuhrm:chromecast-java-api-v2 from 0.12.18 to 0.12.19 (#5935)
Bump eslint-plugin-react-hooks from 5.2.0 to 7.0.1
Bump eslint-plugin-react-refresh from 0.4.24 to 0.4.26 (#5927)
Bump eslint from 9.39.1 to 9.39.2 (#5914)
Bump FFmpeg to 8.0.1
Bump org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin from 3.6.2 to 3.6.3 (#5934)
Bump org.jsoup:jsoup from 1.21.2 to 1.22.1 (#5948)
Bump react-dom from 19.2.1 to 19.2.3 (#5912)
Bump react-router-dom from 7.10.1 to 7.11.0 (#5928)
Bump react from 19.2.1 to 19.2.3 (#5912)
Bump typescript-eslint from 8.48.0 to 8.51.0 (#5915, #5942, #5947)
Bump vite from 7.2.2 to 7.3.0 (#5929)

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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




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