Universal Media Server

Universal Media Server, based on PS3 Media Server, is a DLNA compliant media server for sharing your video, audio files and streams.

Universal Media Server allows you to stream virtually any type of video or audio file to a DLNA compatible devices, transcoding the media formats that isn't natively supported by your device.

Supported devices include the iPad, iPhone, Yamaha receivers, DirectTV, Panasonic TVs, Sony Blu-ray players and more ...

• Release Date: Jan 14, 2021
• Download(s):
  UMS-10.0.0.exe
  UMS-10.0.0.dmg
  UMS-10.0.0-x86_64.tgz
• DLNA browsing:
  • When browsing a TV show in the Media Library, all videos across all seasons are visible.
  • There are two new folders within the Movies and TV Shows folders - Filter by Progress and Filter by Information.
  • Filter by Progress contains the Watched and Unwatched folders which used to sit within the Videos folder in the Media Library
  • Filter by Information lets you filter the videos by a new rich metadata set (actors, genres, country, director, genre, IMDb rating, release date).
  • Alongside that is a similar folder Filter by Information which lets you filter the videos by API metadata (actors, genres, etc.)
  • New folders Recently Added, Recently Played, In Progress and Most Played are in the Media Library
  Web interface:
  • Added breadcrumbs at the top of each page
  • When in the TV Shows area of the Media Library, the TV shows themselves are shown as thumbnails, with covers from the API
  • When browsing a TV show, a movie, or a TV episode, any API metadata is displayed along with a large cover image, including actors, awards, classification, country, directors, genres, plot, ratings, year, and total seasons.
  • On those pages above, the colors on the pages are based on the cover image
  • Clicking on an individual actor, country, director, genre, or start year, takes you to a list of other media that matches that metadata
  • The last few items in the Recently Added, Recently Played, In Progress and Most Played folders are displayed on the front page
  • Each TV show and movie has an IMDb icon and direct link if one is found
  • Folder and media covers are shown
  • Fixed bugs with the Back button
  • Version has moved to the settings menu
  • Minor design updates
  General:
  • API is enabled even without filename prettifying
  • Failed API lookups are debounced by 1 week to avoid network spam
  • Changed prettified season/episode number formatting from Series - 101 - Episode to Series S01E01 - Episode
  • Fixed some bugs with prettifying to support more files
  • Added support for audio playlist thumbnails (thanks, sf666!)
  • Playlist folders are correctly identified via UPnP (thanks, sf666!)
  • Fixed automatic file watching
  Renderers:
  • Improved support for Sony Bluray UBP-X800M2 (thanks, thechrisgregory!)
  • Fixed UPnP pushing via Panasonic TVs and Samsung Q9 TVs
  Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Czech (100%)
  • Danish (100%)
  • English (United Kingdom) (32%)
  • Finnish (100%)
  • Greek (91%)
  • French (100%)
  • Japanese (99%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazilian) (100%)
  • Romanian (99%)
  • Serbian (99%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  Dependency updates:
  • Bump jQuery from 1.12.0 to 3.5.1
  • Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.1.4 to 4.2.0
  • Bump video.js from 7.2.3 to 7.10.1