UMS was started by SubJunk, an official developer of PMS, in order to ensure greater stability and file-compatibility.

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Universal Media Server supports all major operating systems, with versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The program streams or transcodes many different media formats with little or no configuration. It is powered by MEncoder, FFmpeg, tsMuxeR, AviSynth, MediaInfo, VLC and more, which combine to offer support for a wide range of media formats.

Supported Devices:

  • AC Ryan PlayOn!HD
  • Apple iPhone
  • Asus O!Play
  • Brite-view CinemaTube
  • DirecTV HR
  • Freebox HD
  • LG Smart TV Upgrader
  • LG TVs
  • Nokia N900
  • Panasonic TVs
  • Philips Net TV
  • Philips Streamium
  • Popcorn Hour
  • Samsung TVs
  • Sharp TVs
  • Sony TVs
  • Sony PlayStation 3
  • Vizio Smart TVs
  • XBMC Media Center
  • Yamaha A/V receivers
  • Apple iPad
  • Apple iPod
  • Boxee
  • D-Link DSM
  • Freecom MusicPal
  • Google Android
  • Microsoft Xbox 360
  • OPPO Blu-ray players
  • Philips Aurea
  • Philips PFL
  • Pioneer Kuro
  • Realtek media players
  • Samsung smart phones
  • Showtime
  • Sony Blu-ray players
  • Sony A/V receivers
  • Sony Network Media Players
  • Western Digital WD TV Live
  • Xtreamer

What's New

General

  • System tray icon indicates when an update is available (thanks, Ty Lovejoy!)
  • Faster playback start and seeking via tsMuxeR
  • Fixed broken language parsing for locale-specific variants, like "en (US)" or "fr (CA)"
  • Fixed incorrect DLNA.ORG_PN values for transcoded video
  • Fixed deferring to tsMuxeR when video codec is not supported
  • Fixed settings changes not saving
  • Fixed using MPEG-2 DLNA.ORG_PN value for H.265 videos
  • Fixed some Android-based renderers being incorrectly detected as Pigasus
  • Fixed order of results in Media Library when sorted by date (thanks for reporting, stnnzp!)
  • Fixed migration of IP Filter settings from v12 (thanks, dytlzl!)
  • Fixed UPnP search responses
  • Fixed Live Subtitles folder showing in front page of web player (#3669) (thanks, Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar!)

Renderers

  • Fixed video support on some Samsung TVs (thanks, Fredo1650!)

Dependencies

  • lock file maintenance
  • update actions/checkout action to v4
  • update dependency @testing-library/jest-dom to v6.1.4
  • update dependency @testing-library/user-event to v14.5.1
  • update dependency @types/jest to v29.5.6
  • update dependency @types/lodash to v4.14.200
  • update dependency @types/node to v18.18.6
  • update dependency @types/react to v18.2.22
  • update dependency @types/react-color to v3.0.9
  • update dependency @types/videojs-hls-quality-selector to v1.1.2
  • update dependency axios to v1.5.1
  • update dependency com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind to v2.15.3
  • update dependency com.github.eirslett:frontend-maven-plugin to v1.14.0
  • update dependency com.github.oshi:oshi-core to v6.4.6
  • update dependency com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle to v10.12.4
  • update dependency com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-impl to v4.0.4
  • update dependency commons-io:commons-io to v2.14.0
  • update dependency eslint to v8.51.0
  • update dependency org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin to v3.4.1
  • update dependency org.slf4j:slf4j-api to v2.0.9
  • update dependency react-router-dom to v6.16.0
  • update mantine monorepo packages to v6.0.21
  • update react monorepo
  • Update tsMuxeR to 2023-09-20-01-52-31
  • update typescript-eslint monorepo to v6.7.5
  • update yarn to v3.6.4