

The application also features a web interface for easy use if your destination doesn't support DLNA, and it also works with subtitles and subtitle files too. This produces streams that automatically give you the maximum available sound and video quality you can get.

It has nice stack of features, including the ability to undertake on the fly bitrate adjustment that adapts to your home network. If you want to stream your media to virtually any DLNA-compatible device around your home, then UMS is the way forward. Universal Media Server can automatically disable subtitles for each streaming video, it comes with support for AviSynth and iTunes and offers you extendable functionality via plugins.UMS is powered by MEncoder, FFmpeg, tsMuxeR, AviSynth, MediaInfo and more, which combine to offer support for a wide range of different media formats. There’s also a dedicated tab for shared files and folders where you can easily manage them. In the main window, you can see all detected media renderers as well as information about current and max bitrate. Since the transcoding process is handled by the application, muxing and format conversion aren’t needed. The program automatically detects connected devices and starts the transfer with no setup needed. Universal Media Server has built-in support for a variety of output devices, thus it can interact with lots of different clients such as Xbox 360, Playstation 3 but also Sony and Samsung TVs.

It works just like a UPnP media server that lets you share media files over a dedicated server but without the extensive setup. You have full control over video transcoding and networking settings. A customizable media server supporting DLNA certified devicesīased on the old PS3 Media Server, Universal Media Server is a versatile media server that lets you stream media content to the Internet or any DLNA capable device.
