Universal Media Server 15.6.0

Universal Media Server delivers a stable, DLNA-compliant UPnP media server with wide codec support and zero-config streaming.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Jun 8, 2026 23:00 EDT 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 15.6.0 changelog:

General

Added Discogs integration for audio metadata and UPnP
Added new options for DNS resolution handling (thanks, @henry701 Henrique Campos!)
Added a loading indicator to the Shared Content area on the web settings (#6037)
Improved detection of sample videos
Improved stability of speed test (thanks, @henry701 Henrique Campos!)
Fixed support for servers with no Internet access (#6047) (thanks, @henry701 Henrique Campos!)
Fixed wrong Linux yt-dlp binary being packaged (#6011) (thanks, @Pro-pra!)
Fixed API lookups happening for TV series when episode lookup fails, even if the series metadata is already in the local database (#6080)
Fixed JDK being used in Docker image instead of JRE (#6089) (thanks, @mvanhorn Matt Van Horn!)
Fixed editing a video feed on the web settings erases the URL (#6046) (thanks, @serinekjo kjo!)
Fixed docs for FFmpeg GPU support (thanks, @Harshit-dell Harshit Kumar Sahu!)