Universal Media Server 15.1.0

Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server. The program streams or transcodes many different media formats with little or no configuration.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Nov 2, 2025 02:22 EST with 0 comments

Universal Media Server

Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server. UMS was started by SubJunk, an official developer of PMS, in order to ensure greater stability and file-compatibility. The program streams or transcodes many different media formats with little or no configuration. It is powered by MEncoder, FFmpeg, tsMuxeR, AviSynth, MediaInfo and more, which combine to offer support for a wide range of media formats. Because it is written in Java, Universal Media Server supports all major operating systems, with versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

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Universal Media Server 15.1.0 changelog:

General

Added new Ubuntu Docker release which might improve stability, we will release both for a while until we get feedback from you
Added support for updating album art objects via UPnP
Improved stability of YouTube video playback
Improved performance, especially of the web interfaces
Fixed support for playlist files without headers (#5736) (thanks, @CyDragon80!)
Fixed notifying renderers of new files before we parsed them
Fixed videos sometimes not being parsed if they were added at the same time as 2 parent directories
Fixed web player errors
Fixed Recently Added folder missing videos
Fixed order of videos in the Unwatched variant of the Recently Added folder
Discontinued YouTube video support for Linux armhf (32-bit) release, because yt-dlp stopped supporting that architecture. You can still compile it for yourself.