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Universal Media Server 2.0.0 released

November 1, 2012 / / 0 Comments


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

Changes since 1.6.0:

  • General:
    • Design facelift
    • Added support for more file archive formats (7-Zip, gzip and tar)
    • Improved DVD and ISO support
    • Fixed ASS/SSA subtitle position when using overscan compensation
    • Fixed a rare bug where videos played at half-speed
    • Updated JRE auto-download to 7u9 (latest)
    • Admin permissions notifications work on Windows 8 (before they only worked on 7 and Vista)
    • Fixed the FFmpeg Audio engine
    • Updated English settings/descriptions
    • Made some log messages more descriptive
    • MEncoder’s "A/V sync alternative method" option is applied correctly again
    • Fixed error while loading iPhoto library
    • Updated many program dependencies to benefit from many bugfixes
    • Fixed bug where disabled engines would be picked
    • Updated links on the Help page
    • Made renderer config layouts more synchronised
    • Added a button to uninstall the Windows service
    • Removed fontconfig from MEncoder for Mac OSX for improved subs compatibility
    • Made names in the transcode folder shorter by removing redundant information
    • The user preference to hide file extensions is applied to the transcode folder subfolder names
  • External components:
    • Updated MPlayer/MEncoder to SB42, which:
      • Runs faster
      • Improves audio/video sync
      • Faster handling of ASS/SSA subtitles
      • Improves DVD support
    • Updated FFmpeg to SB3, which:
      • Fixes memory leaks
      • Fixes other bugs
    • Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.61, which:
      • Fixes MKV framerate detection bug
      • Fixes E-AC-3 duration detection bug
      • More reliable DTS bitrate detection
    • Updated Java Service Wrapper to 3.5.15, which:
      • Improves Windows permissions handling
  • Renderers:
    • Added support for Sony Bravia HX800 TVs (thanks, lelin!)
    • Enabled streaming more file formats to Android devices
    • Improved DivX support on Panasonic devices (thanks, ExSport!)
  • Plugin Management:
    • Created new "Plugin Management" tab
    • Added button to edit the plugin credential file
    • Improved plugin installation process
    • Added button to reload available plugin list
    • Updated author column of plugin installer to include maintainers
    • Added "version" column to plugin installer
  • Languages:
    • Turkish flag added for the transcode folder
    • Updated settings labels for all languages

FFmpeg SB8 (Updated 5 March 2013)

October 30, 2012 / / 6 Comments

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Introduction:

These are the builds of FFmpeg used by Universal Media Server.
I started using the Zeranoe builds, which are awesome, but I wanted to apply some patches so here we are 🙂

Download:

SVN:

http://spirton.com/svn/FFmpeg-SB/

Older Downloads:

SB7
SB5
SB4
SB3

Changelog:

2013-03-05 – SB8

  • Updated x264 to c832fe9 (r2274)

2013-02-15 – SB7

  • Adds RTMP support

2013-02-04 – SB6

  • Adds external subtitle support

2013-01-24 – SB5

  • Synchronised with r49224 (4a52eec), which:
    • Improves AC-3 audio buffering
    • Fixes memory leaks
    • Fixes a bug which detected transport streams as finished when they weren’t
    • Improved MPEG-PS encoding
    • Made error codes more meaningful
    • Improves Matroska (MKV) support
    • Improves threading
    • Optimized AC-3 decoding
  • Updated fontconfig to 2.10.91, which
    • Fixes memory leaks
    • Makes it threadsafe
  • Updated x264 to r2230
  • Updated GMP to 5.1.0
  • Updated opus to 1.0.2

2012-12-05 – SB4

  • Synchronised with r47442 (03847eb), which:
    • Supports more rare avi files
    • Improves support for demuxing DTS-HD
    • Improves opus support
    • Improves GCC compatibility when compiled with MinGW
    • Improves URL-handling
    • Fixes dozens of memory leaks
    • Improves audio sync for some AVI files using MP3 audio
    • Fixes parsing of old lossless H.264 profile
    • Improves FPS detection
    • Improved sync for interlaced video
    • Corrected blu-ray bitrate calculation
    • Supports WAV metadata
    • Automatically sets VBV buffer size for MPEG-1, 2 and 4 when none is specified
    • Allows mid-stream channel layout change for flac audio
    • Supports 24-bit flac encoding
    • Improves audio sync when seeking
    • Improves support for some CPU-optimisations
    • Fixed a lot of bugs with the implementation of h264
  • Updated x264 to r2230

2012-10-30 – SB3

  • First public release
  • Built from r44967 (82db8ee)

MPlayer & MEncoder SB42 released

October 30, 2012 / / 0 Comments

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For more details and the download link, please see the main post.

Changelog:

  • Rolled back to r35226 until the bugs caused by FFmpeg’s planar audio changes are fixed
  • Rolled back FFmpeg to r44967 (82db8ee) (pre-planar)
  • Updated libass to 0.10.1
  • Added SDL 1.2.15
  • Changed from shared to static pthreads
  • Stripped executables for smaller filesize
  • Disabled vidix support (don’t think anyone is using it? Let me know if you want it)

MPlayer & MEncoder SB40 released

October 8, 2012 / / 0 Comments

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For more details and the download link, please see the main post.

This release also marks the first release via Google Code which should give people better download speeds.

Changelog (since SB38):

  • Synchronised with r35234, which:
    • Makes ASS/SSA load faster
    • Fixes redirection for proxy URLs
    • Adds support for planar audio formats
  • Updated FFmpeg to r45123 (537ef8b)
  • Updated GCC to 4.6.3
  • Updated GMP to 5.0.5
  • Updated MPFR to 3.1.1
  • Updated libpng to 1.5.13
  • Updated libbluray to 0.2.3
  • Synchronised internal libdvdcss to r255
  • Added libopus 1.0.1

X-Men trading cards image manipulation

September 24, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Well today I did some quick manipulation of a scan of 3 trading cards I found on the net and I think it turned out pretty well so I’m sharing it 🙂

I could have spent more time on it and made it more perfect but as it is it’s a lot better than the version floating around. I used to collect these cards as a boy along with the ’95 and ’96 series, so this image is very cool for me.

So I started out with the original image which is this:

It’s already amazing just because of the art style and printing quality. However some things aren’t lining up, partly because of the printing process – when cards are printed and cut they are usually not exactly lined up, so you miss things on the edges, making it very hard to find 3 cards that line up perfectly. With Photoshop (or a similar program) we can fix some of that.

First, I cut the image into 3 layers so I can vertically resize and move the 3 cards to get them lining up better.

After doing that, Cyclops and his laser were no longer lined up, which seems to be the main goal the original scanner had in mind (and it’s a good idea, too), so I isolated Cyclops’ head and laser and resized them very slightly to line up. I then did a similar thing on the left side.

Next I isolated some parts of the background and resized/rotated them to fit better.

Then I got rid of some artifacts on the joins between the cards using the Clone Stamp tool.

Then I used the Levels tool to make the blacks closer to black and the whites closer to white, to bring it closer to what the artist drew, instead of seeing it as interpreted by the scanner with its light-pollution.

Lastly I cropped the edges which had become uneven from the initial lining up.

The end result:

Like I said at the start, I could have spent more time manipulating all the joins to make it perfect, but this is good enough and maybe this is a useful resource for someone to show how to do quick manipulations.

MPlayer & MEncoder SB38 released

September 19, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Please see the main post here

Changelog:

  • Synchronised with r35203, which:
    • Enables more CPU optimisations
    • Improves audio sync
    • Tried to fix very occasional freezing issue
  • Updated FFmpeg to r44583 (8d07742), which:
    • Improves audio/video sync
  • Updated GCC to 4.7.0
  • Updated x264 to r2216

Universal Media Server 1.5.0 released

September 6, 2012 / / 2 Comments


You can get it from its website here.

Changelog:

  • General:
    • Made videos adhere more exactly to the maximum bandwidth limit
    • Updated MPlayer/MEncoder to SB37, changelog: https://www.spirton.com/mplayer-mencoder-sb37-released/
    • Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.60, changelog: http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/Log
    • Files are now sorted alphanuerically by default, e.g. Episode 2 before Episode 10
    • #–TRANSCODE–# folder name is localized
    • Cleaned up FFmpeg and MEncoder commands
    • Use automatic enabling of multithreading with FFmpeg and FFmpeg/AviSynth engines
    • Many improvements to UMS.conf and how it responds to updates, it is recommended to delete your old one
    • Only use tsMuxeR to compensate for MEncoder ignoring audio delay when A/V sync alternative method is enabled (which it is by default)
    • Fixed bugs in plugin installer
    • Automatic encoding detection of non UTF-8 external subtitles for Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages (leave "Subtitles codepage" option blank)
    • Improved handling of UTF-8 external subtitles
    • Prevented image distortion on some DLNA clients with "Keep AC-3 track" option enabled
    • Don’t show entries for disabled engines in #–TRANSCODE–# folder
    • Allow Traces tab panel to auto-scroll (thanks, LordQuackstar!)
    • Replaced ImageMagick with Thumbnailator for thumbnail generation
    • Fixed FFmpeg engine’s handling of unsupported custom options (thanks, ajamess)
    • Fixed FFmpeg command line arguments used by tsMuxeR video
    • Fixed DNLA 2114 errors when scanning non-readable subfolders with "hide empty folders" enabled
    • Linux tarball: fix "cannot find tsMuxeR" error
    • Fixed numerous small bugs

    Renderers:

    • Added Sony SMP-N100
    • Added Yamaha RX-A1010 (thanks, merelin)
    • Deprecated misnamed TranscodeVideo profile MPEGAC3: use MPEGPSAC3 instead
    • Documented and cleaned up TranscodeVideo and TranscodeAudio profiles

    FFmpeg:

    • Updated FFmpeg to a366bea (20120827)
    • Follow the maximum bandwidth setting
    • Mux AC3 instead of transcoding it
    • Use better commands

    MEncoder:

    • Disabled AC-3 remux if audio track has delay, which improves audio sync
    • Disabled DTS and LPCM remuxing if tsMuxeR engine is unavailable

    Languages:

    • Updated Bulgarian translation (thanks, JORDITO)
    • Updated Dutch translation (thanks, leroy)
    • Updated Russian
    • Updated English settings labels

MPlayer & MEncoder SB37 released

August 31, 2012 / / 1 Comment

Please see the main post here

Changelog:

  • Synchronised with r35130, which:
    • Improves SubRip handling
    • Supports more formats
    • Fixed streaming delay in some situations
  • Updated FFmpeg to r44030 (438b86fed47d766b5af30cd1c379d15aa4cf4e57), which:
    • Improves audio/video sync
    • Better support for double-PAL and double-NTSC framerates
    • Fixed memory leaks/corruption
    • Improved subtitle timing when seeking
    • Fixes AC3 bug
    • Improved support for bitmap subtitles
  • Updated x264 to r2208
  • Updated fontconfig to 2.10.1, which:
    • Fixes a font type
    • Respects user’s previous configurations more
    • Fixes memory leaks
    • Supports older versions of Windows
    • Fixes cache aging

Universal Media Server 1.4.0 released

July 18, 2012 / / 3 Comments


You can get it from its website here.

Changelog:

  • General:
    • Many improvements to FFmpeg, from audio sync to file-support to stability
    • Updated MPlayer and MEncoder for Windows to SB36, which:
      • Supports a lot more file formats and colour-spaces
      • Improves audio/video sync, especially with PAL (25FPS) videos
    • Added FFmpeg multithreading option
    • Updated FFmpeg for OS X to 57d5a224
    • Added a GUI config editor for those who like to edit manually
    • Improved audio/video sync when using MEncoder
    • Improved audio channel detection
    • Fixed support for some plugins
    • Added support for TX3G (MPEG-4 Timed Text) subtitles
    • Added support for WebM videos downloaded from YouTube
    • Fixed DV video detection
    • Fixed "Definitely disable subtitles" option with ASS/SSA subtitles
    • Fixed default audio/subtitle priority options
    • Fixed running on headless servers
    • Windows 7 and Vista users are reminded to run as administrator before attempting to automatically update
    • Fixed multithreading bug with MEncoder on Linux
    • Made layout more consistent
  • Plugin Installer:
    • Added Plugin Installer which lets you automatically browse plugins and install them, see this page for details: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=152
  • Web:
    • Added new default web video engine: FFMpeg Web Video
    • Updated WEB.conf with working default video streams
    • Added support for new web protocols: mmsh:// and mmst://
    • Added The Onion to the default video feeds
  • Languages:
    • Updated Simplified Chinese (thanks, lovenemesis!)
    • Updated Czech (thanks, valib!)
    • Updated English
    • Added image for Hebrew subtitle choosing

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