Universal Media Server 2.5.0 Released With Support For New Renderers!

Universal Media Server 2.5.0 has been released featuring a wealth of changes. Most notably, there's support added for 4 new renderers. If you're the owner of a Netgear NeoTV, Telstra T-Box, Yamaha RX-3900 or a Blackberry Playbook (via KalemSoft Media Player), then you'll be able to get your media streaming fix, away from the computer. Here's the changelog:

• General:
  
  • Updated layout on the Transcoding Settings tab
  • Improved aspect ratio handling on Panasonic and Sony TVs
  • Enabled ASS/SSA subtitle support on Linux by default
  • Now compiled with Java 7
  • Optimized code for Java 7
  • The installer only tells Windows to run UMS at startup on new installs or if the user has specified it in UMS
  • Added RTMP support to FFmpeg Web Video engine
  • Fixed fontconfig support on OS X
  • FFmpeg can transcode to x264 with the renderer option TranscodeVideo=H264TSAC3
  • FFmpeg supports video muxing
  • Made muxing more reliable
  • Improved audio sync in FFmpeg
  • Improved FFmpeg buffering
  • Bandwidth limit is more accurate with FFmpeg
• Renderers:
  
  • Added support for KalemSoft Media Player on BlackBerry PlayBook devices
  • Added support for Netgear NeoTV
  • Added support for Telstra T-Box
  • Added support for Yamaha RX-3900
  • Improved support for Sony Blu-ray players
• Languages:
  
  • Made languages more consistent with eachother
  • Updated Russian translation (thanks, Tianuchka!)
  • Changed default audio/subtitles language priority for English users, which:
    
    • Disables subtitles when audio is English, otherwise look for English subtitles, prioritizing external before internal subtitles
  • Added language flags for Arabic, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian, Serbian and Vietnamese
• External Components:
  
  • Updated FFmpeg for Windows and Linux to SB8, which:
    
    • Increases x264 encoding speed
  • Updated InterFrame to 2.5.0, which:
    
    • Improves scene-change detection
    • Minimizes artifacts
  • Updated Java Runtime Environment automatic downloader for Windows to 7u17, which:
    
    • Fixes serious security holes
  • Updated MediaInfo for Windows to 0.7.62
    
    

You can download the latest version of Universal Media Server below. The installation remains the same. Delete the 'UMS.conf' file if upgrading from a version prior to 1.5.0.

Download: Universal Media Server 2.5.0 [Windows | Linux | OSX]

Source: Universal Media Server

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