downloading Universal Media Server 13.5.0

Fixed some Android-based renderers being incorrectly detected as Pigasus.Fixed using MPEG-2 DLNA.ORG_PN value for H.265 videos.Fixed deferring to tsMuxeR when video codec is not supported.Fixed incorrect DLNA.ORG_PN values for transcoded video.Fixed broken language parsing for locale-specific variants, like 'en (US)' or 'fr (CA)'.

Faster playback start and seeking via tsMuxeR.

System tray icon indicates when an update is available (thanks, Ty Lovejoy!).

This release is available via our Patreon page, and will be available here when the next release happens. Verdict:Ī powerful media server which is exceptionally easy to set up and configure.This release changes the system tray icon when there is an update and fixes a lot of bugs, including for Samsung and Android-based devices. You can also discover other devices from the server and browse their media, for example, the videos on an iPad.Īs with anything else network-related, there's plenty of scope for problems, but fortunately, you get a lot of setup and troubleshooting documentation to help figure them out.

Other systems on your network can then access them via port 9001 on your computer's IP address (just enter an address like 192.168.1.x:9001 in your web browser). Once it's up and running, all you really need to do is set up folders you'd like to share: music, pictures, whatever. When there are setup steps to consider, they're fairly straightforward: choose the speed of your network, do you want to hide the advanced settings, and so on. Universal Media Server installs and configures them itself. The program is powered by assorted other open-source applications - FFmpeg, MEncoder, tsMuxeR, MediaInfo, OpenSubtitles - but you don't need to have any of these beforehand. Supported devices include Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) and PlayStation 4 (PS4), Microsoft Xbox One and 360, many TVs (Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Vizio, LG, Philips, Sharp), smart phones (iPhone, Android, etc.), Blu-ray players, and more. Universal Media Server is a Java-based server which can stream video, audio or pictures to any DLNA device.

Downloading Universal Media Server 13.5.0