Category: Universal Media Server

This release lets you set your own server name, increases seeking accuracy and audio sync when using FFmpeg, and increases video compatibility for many videos including 3D (SBS and OU).

For more details and the download link, please see the official website.

Changes since 3.1.2.1:

• General:
  
  • Added font cache generation for FFmpeg on startup
  • Added the ability for users to set their own server name
  • Added example virtual folders file in the profile directory
  • The virtual folders file is now loaded from the profile directory instead of the installation directory
  • Made seeking more accurate with FFmpeg
  • When FFmpeg muxes, it always uses tsMuxeR
  • Improved compatibility with videos with unusual colorspaces
  • Improved compatibility when transcoding to H.264 via FFmpeg
  • Improved compatibility with video with HE-AAC audio
  • Improved compatibility when using tsMuxeR via FFmpeg
  • Improved compatibility with high-resolution videos such as 3D-SBS and 3D-OU
  • Fixed resume files causing a startup crash
  • Fixed some settings causing a crash
  • Fixed bug with FFmpeg subtitles
• Languages:
  
  • Updated Spanish translation (thanks, AlfredoRamos!)
• External Components:
  
  • Updated FFmpeg to builds from 2013-11-27, which:
    
    • Adds support for HEVC (H.265)
    • Improves seeking accuracy
    • Improves AV sync
    • Fixes memory leaks
    • Optimizes AC-3 decoding
    • Improves support for 60FPS videos
    • Improves AVI support
    • Silences meaningless errors
    • Improves DTS support
    • Supports seeking to non-keyframes in Matroska files
    • Improves AC-3 support
    • Fixes support for rare MP4 videos

This release fixes a video compatibility bug affecting some users.

For more details and the download link, please see the official website.

Changes since 3.1.2:

• General:
  
  • Fixed a video compatibility bug affecting some users

This release fixes video compatibility bugs, improves stability when using the resume feature, has minor GUI improvements and other bug fixes.

For more details and the download link, please see the official website.

Changes since 3.1.1:

• General:
  
  • Added tooltips to more options
  • Changed the appearance of tooltips
  • Removed the ability to set both FFmpeg muxing options at the same time in the GUI
  • Minor GUI improvements
  • Made the resume feature more stable
  • Fixed video compatibility bugs
  • Fixed FFmpeg on Linux systems which do not have FFmpeg installed

For more details and the download link, please see the official website.

Changes since 3.0.0-b1:

• General:
  
  • Added new "Random" sorting option (thanks, etrunko!)
  • Added support for sending subtitles (losslessly) to renderers via closed captioning
  • Added option to clear all monitored files
  • Added support for picture-based subtitles (like VobSub) in FFmpeg
  • Added whitelist option for advanced users
  • Added support for automatically muxing WEB-DL files on all operating systems by default
  • Added automatic tsMuxeR muxing via FFmpeg
  • Added tooltips to more settings
  • Improved video compatibility when transcoding to H.264 via MEncoder or FFmpeg
  • Increased speed of FFmpeg transcoding by default by ~25% in some cases
  • Disabled AviSynth/MEncoder by default
  • Fixed subtitle character conversion in FFmpeg
  • Fixed the configuration option to disable multithreading with FFmpeg engines
  • Fixed the New Media folder not adhering to the empty folder setting
  • Fixed the broken FFmpeg binary on Linux
• Renderers:
  
  • Added support for Sony STR-DA5800ES (thanks, AYColumbia!)
  • Added support for sending SubRip and MicroDVD subtitles to Panasonic TVs
  • Added support for sending SubRip subtitles to WD TV Live
  • Added support for sending SubRip subtitles to Xbox Media Center
  • Improved thumbnail support on Sony Bravia TVs
• Languages:
  
  • Updated Italian translation (thanks, nocciola82!)
  • Updated Spanish translation (thanks, AlfredoRamos!)
• External Components:
  
  • Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows to SB53, which:
    
    • Adds support for HEVC (H.265)
    • Adds support for 4k AVC (H.264)
    • Supports seeking to non-keyframes in Matroska files
    • Improves seeking accuracy
    • Improves H.264 encoding quality in fade-heavy clips
    • Improves bitrate calculation
    • Improves ASS/SSA subtitle support
    • Improves support for some DVDs
    • Improves support for 60FPS videos
    • Improves DTS support
    • Improves AVI support
    • Increases speed
    • Fixes a crash when trying to play a DVD from different region than currently set in the DVD drive
    • Fixes memory leaks
    • Fixes multithreaded decoding
    • Fixes bugs
  • Updated tsMuxeR for Linux and OS X to 2.2.3b, which:
    
    • Adds support for DTS-HD elementary stream with extra DTSHD headers
    • Improves muxing speed
    • Improves stream standards compatibility
    • Fixes E-AC3 support
    • Adds support for DTS-express audio
    • Reduces bandwidth
  • Updated tsMuxeR for Windows to 2.2.3b, which:
    
    • Adds support for DTS-HD elementary stream with extra DTSHD headers
    • Reduces bandwidth

For more details and the download link, please see the official website.

Changes since 2.6.5:

• General:
  
  • Transcoding quality automatically adjusts for content and network speed by default, allowing wireless users an easier experience
  • Added the New Media folder, which contains unwatched media
  • Added the Recently Played folder, which contains watched media
  • Added the ability to resume videos after closing the program, for details on its use see the tooltip on the Navigation tab
  • Added support for muxing (losslessly streaming) more files with tsMuxeR by default
  • Added support for sending subtitle streams (without transcoding) to more devices
  • Added more information to our debug logs
  • Added internal subtitle support to FFmpeg
  • Added subtitle seeking support to FFmpeg
  • Added subtitle styling (fontconfig) support to FFmpeg
  • Added "Prettify filenames" feature, for details on its use see the tooltip on the Navigation tab
  • Added configuration wizard to simplify common things like network configuration
  • Added an option to hide/show advanced options, hopefully making things less confusing/daunting for most users
  • Added VLC video transcoding (thanks, LordQuackstar!)
  • Added new options to iTunes library browsing: Browse by Artist, Album and Genre
  • Added manual configuration option (hide_subs_info) to hide subtitle info from filenames while browsing
  • Added checkboxes to enable/disable renderers
  • Added tooltips to several options to make them clearer
  • Added H.264 transcoding quality option
  • Enabled support for cover files in virtual folders (thanks, D-Kalck!)
  • Improved video transcoding quality by default
  • Improved audio transcoding quality in FFmpeg by default
  • A more helpful error is displayed when something is using the UMS HTTP port
  • Made some custom MEncoder options safer to use
  • Improved file compatibility for mod2 videos
  • Improved support for iTunes compilations
  • Made video playback more stable
  • FFmpeg starts faster
  • Improved speed of list population
  • Audio files are added to the transcode folder
  • Chapter folders are hidden if the video duration is less than the chapter length
  • Improved file compatibility detection for H.264 muxing
  • Renamed a lot of configuration variables
  • Removed the obsolete MPlayerAudio, MPlayerWebAudio and MPlayerWebVideoDump engines
  • Improved memory defaults on Windows
  • The "Clean Install" option on Windows removes the program directory
  • The server logo displays on more renderers
  • A status message is displayed while UMS is checking the MPlayer font cache
  • MPlayer/MEncoder is no longer included in the Linux builds
  • Added renderer config option DisableMencoderNoskip
  • Made the use of acodec in CustomMencoderOptions safer
  • Videos work when tsMuxeR is the only engine enabled
  • Code optimizations to run faster
  • Fixed duplicate entries in DVD/playlist/feed folders
  • Fixed FFmpeg web videos on Linux and OS X
  • Fixed external ASS/SSA support (Thanks, skeptical!)
  • Fixed FFmpeg muxing on non-PS3 renderers
  • Fixed use of custom Java Heapsize (Thanks, OptimusPrime!)
  • Fixed streaming radio timing out after 1:45:32
  • Fixed MEncoder subtitle support when the font name contains a space
  • Fixed startup issue on OS X
  • Fixed RAW image transcoding and support 28 additional RAW file extensions
  • Fixed incorrect server IP address when starting UMS by launching UMS.exe or UMS.bat
  • Fixed and improved support for virtual folders
  • Fixed conflicts between some renderer config options
  • Fixed tsMuxeR video detection bug
  • Fixed x264 transcoding with MEncoder
  • Fixed a rare startup bug
  • Fixed layout issues
  • Fixed memory leaks
  • Fixed various bugs
• Renderers:
  
  • Added support for LG 42LA644V TVs (thanks, khmelnov.roman)
  • Added profile for Samsung D7000 TVs
  • Added support for Samsung mobiles (Galaxy S3, S4, Note, Note 2, and Note 3)
  • Added support for Panasonic TX-L32V10E TVs
  • Added thumbnail support to Samsung 2012 ES and EH models (thanks, dmitche3!)
  • Added support for Bravia W series TVs
  • Improved support for KalemSoft Media Player on BlackBerry PlayBook
  • Updated support for Bravia W series TVs (thanks, flux131)
  • Updated Samsung AllShare logo
  • Updated notes on Philips PFL (thanks, ler0y!)
  • Xbox 360 supports 5.1 audio
  • Faster transcoding on Xbox 360
  • Improved DirecTV support
  • Updated DirecTV image
  • Improved PS3 support
  • Enabled text-wrapping for long names on Sony Blu-ray players
• Languages:
  
  • Added English (UK) to the list of languages
  • Updated Czech translation
  • Updated Dutch translation (thanks, Leroy!)
  • Updated French translation
  • Updated Spanish translation (thanks, AlfredoRamos and uman2k!)
• External Components:
  
  • Updated Apache Commons Codec to 1.8
  • Updated Checkstyle to 2.10
  • Updated Cobertura Maven Plugin to 2.5.2
  • Updated FFmpeg on all operating systems, which:
    
    • Improves ASS/SSA subtitle support
    • Improves handling of aspect ratios, even when muxing
    • Fixes multithreaded MPEG-4 decoding
    • Added multithreading to ALAC decoding
    • Speeds up JPEG decoding
    • Fixes and improves MP3, AAC and DTS decoding stability
    • Fixes memory leaks
    • Fixes channel mapping with surround AAC audio
    • Improves H.264 and VC-1 support
    • Improves Vorbis support
    • Improves Matroska support
    • Improves MPEG-TS muxing
  • Updated FindBugs Maven Plugin to 2.5.2
  • Updated Gson to 2.2.4
  • Updated H2 Database Engine to 1.3.173
  • Updated Java Runtime Environment automatic downloader for Windows to 7u45, which:
    
    • Improves security
  • Updated JBoss APIviz to 1.3.2
  • Updated jgoodies-forms to 1.6.0
  • Updated jgoodies-looks to 2.5.2
  • Updated JUnit to 4.11
  • Updated Logback to 1.0.13
  • Updated Maven Cobertura Plugin to 2.6
  • Updated Maven Doxia Docbook Simple Plugin to 1.4
  • Updated Maven Git Commit ID Plugin to 2.1.5, which:
    
    • Improves stability
  • Updated Maven IDEA Plugin to 2.2.1
  • Updated Maven Javadoc Plugin to 2.9.1, which:
    
    • Makes it more threadsafe
    • Improves security
  • Updated Maven Project Info Reports to 2.7
  • Updated Maven Source Plugin to 2.2.1
  • Updated Maven Surefire to 2.16
    
    • Fixes problems with character encodings
  • Updated MediaInfo for Windows to 0.7.64, which:
    
    • Adds H.265 (HEVC) support
    • Fixed some crashes with .mov files
    • Improved AVI support
    • Added HEVC/H.265 in MKV support
    • Added Dolby E support
    • Improved AVI, MKV, MPEG-TS, QuickTime, RMVB, MPEG-4, AAC, AVC, AC-3 and DTS support
    • Faster MPEG-TS analysis
  • Updated Netty to 3.6.6
  • Updated PMD Maven Plugin to 3.0.1
  • Updated slf4j to 1.7.5
  • Updated Thumbnailator to 0.4.5, which:
    
    • Fixes memory errors with the latest Java Runtimes
    • Fixes use of Exif orientation
  • Updated tsMuxeR for Windows to 2.0.6b, which:
    
    • Improves muxing speed
    • Improves stream standards compatibility
    • Fixes E-AC3 support
    • Adds support for DTS-express audio
  • Updated xmlwise to 1.2.11

Changes since 3.0.0-b1:

• General:
  
  • Added support for muxing (losslessly streaming) more files with tsMuxeR by default
  • Added support for sending subtitle streams (without transcoding) to more devices
  • Added more information to our debug logs
  • The "Clean Install" option on Windows removes the program directory
  • The server logo displays on more renderers
  • The wizard defaults to "no" for DTS streaming by default for compatibility
  • A status message is displayed while UMS is checking the MPlayer font cache
  • MPlayer/MEncoder is no longer included in the Linux builds
  • Fixed FFmpeg web videos on Linux and OS X
  • Added renderer config option DisableMencoderNoskip
  • Made the use of acodec in CustomMencoderOptions safer
  • Videos work when tsMuxeR is the only engine enabled
  • Fixed a bug where VLC would include unwanted subtitles
  • Fixed MIME types in some situations
  • Fixed (hopefully) a duration/seeking bug
  • Fixed the video resuming feature
  • Code optimizations to run faster
• Renderers:
  
  • Added support for LG 42LA644V TVs (thanks, khmelnov.roman)
  • Added support for Samsung mobiles (Galaxy S3, S4, Note, Note 2, and Note 3)
  • Added support for Panasonic TX-L32V10E TVs
  • Updated notes on Philips PFL (thanks, ler0y!)
  • Updated support for Bravia W series TVs (thanks, flux131)
  • Updated Samsung AllShare logo
• Languages:
  
  • Updated Czech translation
  • Updated Spanish translation (thanks, AlfredoRamos!)
• External Components:
  
  • Updated Java Runtime Environment automatic downloader for Windows to 7u45, which:
    
    • Improves security
  • Updated tsMuxeR for Windows to 2.0.6b, which:
    
    • Improves muxing speed
    • Improves stream standards compatibility
    • Fixes E-AC3 support
    • Adds support for DTS-express audio

For more details and the download link, please see the official website.

Changes since 3.0.0-a5:

• General:
  
  • Added the New Media folder, which contains unwatched media
  • Added the Recently Played folder, which contains watched media
  • Added checkboxes to enable/disable renderers
  • Enabled support for cover files in virtual folders (thanks, D-Kalck!)
  • A more helpful error is displayed when something is using the UMS HTTP port
  • Improved calculation of subtitle font size in FFmpeg
  • Expanded filename prettifying
  • Made some custom MEncoder options safer to use
  • Improved file compatibility for mod2 videos
  • Fixed and improved support for virtual folders
  • Fixed conflicts between some renderer config options
  • Fixed tsMuxeR video detection bug
  • Fixed x264 transcoding with MEncoder
  • Fixed a rare startup bug
  • Fixed FFmpeg subtitles bug
  • Fixed a general subtitles bug (thanks, Skeptical!)
  • Fixed several minor bugs
  • Fixed plugin compatibility problems
• Renderers:
  
  • Improved DirecTV support
  • Updated DirecTV image
  • Improved PS3 support
  • Enabled text-wrapping for long names on Sony Blu-ray players
• External Components:
  
  • Updated H2 Database Engine to 1.3.173
  • Updated Maven Cobertura Plugin to 2.6
  • Updated Maven Doxia Docbook Simple Plugin to 1.4
  • Updated Maven Git Commit ID Plugin to 2.1.5, which:
    
    • Improves stability
  • Updated Maven IDEA Plugin to 2.2.1
  • Updated Maven Javadoc Plugin to 2.9.1, which:
    
    • Makes it more threadsafe
    • Improves security
  • Updated Maven Surefire Plugin to 2.16, which:
    
    • Fixes problems with character encodings

For more details and the download link, please see the official website.

Changes since 2.6.3:

• General:
  
  • Made the menu icon on OS X grayscale to fit with most other programs (thanks, Kefran!)
  • Made file list population faster
  • Added option to ignore certain renderer configurations
  • Improved file compatibility on all renderers
• Renderers:
  
  • Improved file compatibility on Sony Bravia TVs
  • Improved file compatibility on Samsung TVs
• Languages:
  
  • Updated English settings
  • Updated all language flags
  • Corrected Slovak language flag
  • Added language flags for Icelandic, Lithuanian and Slovenian

For more details and the download link, please see the official website.

Changes since 2.6.2:

• General:
  
  • Improved detection of renderers
  • Improved AAC/M4A support
• External Components:
  
  • Updated Apache commons-lang to 3.1
  • Updated thumbnailator to 0.4.3

For more details and the download link, please see the official website.

Changes since 2.6.0:

• General:
  
  • Added option to toggle H.264 remuxing in FFmpeg
  • Improved stability of Live Subtitles
  • Re-enabled WMP detection
  • Speed improvements
  • Fixed transcoding to Xbox via FFmpeg
  • Added support for WTV files
  • A-to-Z virtual folders support sorting options
  • Fixed a crash with rare MP3 files
• Renderers:
  
  • Improved Sony Blu-ray Player support (thanks, skeptical!)
  • Fixed exception on Android
  • Fixed stuttering issues with Bravia HX TVs
• Languages:
  
  • Updated Dutch translation (thanks, leroy!)
  • Updated Italian language (thanks, nocciola82!)
• External Components:
  
  • Updated FFmpeg for Linux to burek’s 2013-04-04 build, which:
    
    • Is compiled statically

For more details and the download link, please see the official website.

Changes since 2.5.2:

• General:
  
  • Added "Live Subtitles" which means you can select subtitles from the Internet via your device. It can be enable on the Navigation/Share Settings page.
  • Improved layout of the Navigation/Share Settings page
  • Implemented default subtitle preferences, to use them:
    
    • Either use the "Clean Install" option on Windows or put "eng,off;*,eng;*,und" into the "Audio/subtitles language priority" box in the "Subtitles settings" tab on the Transcoding Settings page
  • Fixed DTS muxing with FFmpeg
  • Added new "precoder" functionality, useful for plugin developers
  • Added h.264 encoding support to MEncoder (when renderers specify it)
• Languages:
  
  • Updated Czech translation
  • Updated English settings labels
  • Updated Simplified Chinese translation (thanks, lovenemesis!)
• External Components:
  
  • Updated h2 database to 1.3.171, which:
    
    • Increases speed
    • Improves JDK 7 compatibility
  • Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows SB52, which:
    
    • Improves audio sync
    • Improves DVD support
    • Supports filenames with uncommon characters
    • Fixes memory leaks
    • Improves sync with Real videos
    • Fixes a crash
  • Updated Netty to 3.6.3, which:
    
    • Makes browsing more stable