What's new in Universal Media Server 3.6.3
Jun 19, 2014
- General:
- Added and improved documentation for more renderer options to PS3.conf (CustomFFmpegOptions, OverrideFFmpegVideoFilter and KeepAspectRatio)
- Added support for configuring whether UMS can run just one or multiple instances
- Made the renderer setting KeepAspectRatio more reliable
- Renamed the renderer option OverrideVideoFilter to OverrideFFmpegVideoFilter
- Fixed incorrect aspect ratios being cached
- Fixed thumbnail seek position
- Fixed bugs with FFmpeg subtitle styles
- Renderers:
- Added support for nPlayer, skifta and TwonkyBeam on portable Apple devices (thanks, MattDetroit!)
- Added support for LG LM620 TVs (thanks, michal-sapsa!)
- Added support for Sony Bravia W7 series TVs (thanks, shtirlic!)
- Improved support for DirecTV HR
- Improved support for OPPO devices
- Improved support for Panasonic TVs
- Improved support for Samsung mobile devices
- Languages:
- Updated Czech translation
- Updated Spanish translation (thanks, AlfredoRamos!)
- External Components:
- Updated Apache commons-lang to 3.3.2, which:
- Fixes bugs
- Updated Logback to 1.1.2, which:
- Fixes bugs
- Updated Maven FindBugs Plugin to 2.5.4
- Updated Maven Git Commit ID Plugin to 2.1.9
- Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows to SB55, which:
- Fixes DTS-ES to AC-3 transcoding
- Updated Netty to 3.9.1, which:
- Fixes bugs
- Updated slf4j to 1.7.7
New in Universal Media Server 4.0.0 Alpha 1 (Jun 19, 2014)
- General:
- Added a web interface, available at localhost:9001
- Added a new transcoding option to allow H.264 video with AAC audio
- Added documentation for more renderer options to PS3.conf (CustomFFmpegOptions and OverrideVideoFilter)
- Added support for configuring whether UMS can run just one or multiple instances
- Changed the names of transcoding options in renderer config files for clarity
- Output surround audio (AC-3) instead of stereo (MP2) when using VLC (needs testing)
- Enabled subtitles in VLC (thanks, tdcosta100!)
- Made FFmpeg the default transcoding engine
- Improved the TextWrap function, which makes filenames fit better on certain renderers
- Fixed padding in FFmpeg for DVD video resolution
- Renderers:
- Added support for Google Chromecast
- Added support for nPlayer, skifta and TwonkyBeam on portable Apple devices (thanks, MattDetroit!)
- Added support for LG LM620 TVs (thanks, michal-sapsa!)
- Added support for Sony Bravia W7 series TVs (thanks, shtirlic!)
- Improved support for OPPO devices
- Improved support for Panasonic TX-L32V10E TVs
- Languages:
- Updated Spanish translation (thanks, AlfredoRamos!)
- External Components:
- Updated Apache commons-lang to 3.3.2, which:
- Fixes bugs
- Updated Logback to 1.1.2, which:
- Fixes bugs
- Updated Maven Git Commit ID Plugin to 2.1.9
- Updated Netty to 3.9.1, which:
- Fixes bugs
- Updated slf4j to 1.7.7
New in Universal Media Server 3.6.1 (May 16, 2014)
- General:
- Made resuming more intuitive
- Fixed the aspect ratio of thumbnails by default (thanks, tdcosta100!)
- Fixed the buffer going nuts after automatic subtitle conversion (thanks, tdcosta100!)
- Fixed support for URLs in playlists
- Fixed error with thumbnails of resume files (thanks, tdcosta100!)
- Fixed the user interface when hiding advanced options
- Languages:
- Made more strings translatable
- Updated Czech translation
- Updated Russian translation (thanks, Tianuchka!)
- External Components:
- Updated FFmpeg to builds from 2014-05-05, which:
- Improves support for many containers and codecs
- Fixes bugs
- Updated h2database to 1.3.176, which:
- Improves stability
- Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows to SB57, which:
- Adds AAC encoding support
- Improves H.265 support
- Improves support for many containers and codecs
- Improves speed
- Fixes bugs
New in Universal Media Server 3.5.0 (Mar 28, 2014)
- General:
- Added a reminder at the end of the configuration wizard about optionally setting shared folders
- Added an option to run the configuration wizard on the next program start
- Added the ability to specify folders to ignore (folders_ignored in UMS.conf)
- Made the program icon look better in some situations (added more resolutions)
- Expanded filename prettifying
- Fixed OpenSubtitles support
- Improved stability of packing debug files
- Improved readme file
- Improved speed
- Cleaned some renderer configs
- Increased the safety of using -ac, -ab and -c:a in the CustomFFmpegOptions string in renderer configs
- Renderers:
- Improved support for DirecTV and Samsung phones when using FFmpeg
- Languages:
- Updated English
- External Components:
- Updated h2database to 1.3.175, which:
- Improves stability
- Updated Logback to 1.1.1
- Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows to SB56, which:
- Improves DVD support
- Fixes encoding sometimes finishing too soon
- Improves stability
- Improves support for the following video codecs: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
- Improves support for the following audio codecs: DTS
- Improves support for the following containers: Matroska, MOV, OGG
- Adds x265 encoding support
- Improves audio sync
- MPEG-4 adheres more strictly to spec limits
- Updated Netty to 3.9.0, which:
- Improves speed
- Fixes bugs
- Updated slf4j to 1.7.6, which:
- Improves stability
New in Universal Media Server 3.2.0 (Dec 3, 2013)
- 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