This release adds a new feature we're excited about which is Live Subtitles, so instead of having to download subtitles and put them in your folders, now you can do it all automatically! It also sets better subtitle defaults, adds H.264 transcoding support to MEncoder, improves stability and speed and more!
Changes since 2.5.2:
General:
Added "Live Subtitles" which means you can select subtitles from the Internet via your device. It can be enable on the Navigation/Share Settings page.
Improved layout of the Navigation/Share Settings page
Implemented default subtitle preferences, to use them:
Either use the "Clean Install" option on Windows or put "eng,off;*,eng;*,und" into the "Audio/subtitles language priority" box in the "Subtitles settings" tab on the Transcoding Settings page
Fixed DTS muxing with FFmpeg
Added new "precoder" functionality, useful for plugin developers
Added h.264 encoding support to MEncoder (when renderers specify it)
Languages:
Updated Czech translation
Updated English settings labels
Updated Simplified Chinese translation (thanks, lovenemesis!)
External Components:
Updated h2 database to 1.3.171, which:
Increases speed
Improves JDK 7 compatibility
Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows SB52, which:
Improves audio sync
Improves DVD support
Supports filenames with uncommon characters
Fixes memory leaks
Improves sync with Real videos
Fixes a crash
Updated Netty to 3.6.3, which:
Makes browsing more stableGeneral:
Transcoding quality automatically adjusts for content and network speed by default, allowing wireless users an easier experience
Added the New Media folder, which contains unwatched media
Added the Recently Played folder, which contains watched media
Added the ability to resume videos after closing the program, for details on its use see the tooltip on the Navigation tab
Added support for muxing (losslessly streaming) more files with tsMuxeR by default
Added support for sending subtitle streams (without transcoding) to more devices
Added more information to our debug logs
Added internal subtitle support to FFmpeg
Added subtitle seeking support to FFmpeg
Added subtitle styling (fontconfig) support to FFmpeg
Added "Prettify filenames" feature, for details on its use see the tooltip on the Navigation tab
Added configuration wizard to simplify common things like network configuration
Added an option to hide/show advanced options, hopefully making things less confusing/daunting for most users
Added VLC video transcoding (thanks, LordQuackstar!)
Added new options to iTunes library browsing: Browse by Artist, Album and Genre
Added manual configuration option (hide_subs_info) to hide subtitle info from filenames while browsing
Added checkboxes to enable/disable renderers
Added tooltips to several options to make them clearer
Added H.264 transcoding quality option
Enabled support for cover files in virtual folders (thanks, D-Kalck!)
Improved video transcoding quality by default
Improved audio transcoding quality in FFmpeg by default
A more helpful error is displayed when something is using the UMS HTTP port
Made some custom MEncoder options safer to use
Improved file compatibility for mod2 videos
Improved support for iTunes compilations
Made video playback more stable
FFmpeg starts faster
Improved speed of list population
Audio files are added to the transcode folder
Chapter folders are hidden if the video duration is less than the chapter length
Improved file compatibility detection for H.264 muxing
Renamed a lot of configuration variables
Removed the obsolete MPlayerAudio, MPlayerWebAudio and MPlayerWebVideoDump engines
Improved memory defaults on Windows
The "Clean Install" option on Windows removes the program directory
The server logo displays on more renderers
A status message is displayed while UMS is checking the MPlayer font cache
MPlayer/MEncoder is no longer included in the Linux builds
Added renderer config option DisableMencoderNoskip
Made the use of acodec in CustomMencoderOptions safer
Videos work when tsMuxeR is the only engine enabled
Code optimizations to run faster
Fixed duplicate entries in DVD/playlist/feed folders
Fixed FFmpeg web videos on Linux and OS X
Fixed external ASS/SSA support (Thanks, skeptical!)
Fixed FFmpeg muxing on non-PS3 renderers
Fixed use of custom Java Heapsize (Thanks, OptimusPrime!)
Fixed streaming radio timing out after 1:45:32
Fixed MEncoder subtitle support when the font name contains a space
Fixed startup issue on OS X
Fixed RAW image transcoding and support 28 additional RAW file extensions
Fixed incorrect server IP address when starting UMS by launching UMS.exe or UMS.bat
Fixed and improved support for virtual folders
Fixed conflicts between some renderer config options
Fixed tsMuxeR video detection bug
Fixed x264 transcoding with MEncoder
Fixed a rare startup bug
Fixed layout issues
Fixed memory leaks
Fixed various bugs
Renderers:
Added support for LG 42LA644V TVs (thanks, khmelnov.roman)
Added profile for Samsung D7000 TVs
Added support for Samsung mobiles (Galaxy S3, S4, Note, Note 2, and Note 3)
Added support for Panasonic TX-L32V10E TVs
Added thumbnail support to Samsung 2012 ES and EH models (thanks, dmitche3!)
Added support for Bravia W series TVs
Improved support for KalemSoft Media Player on BlackBerry PlayBook
Updated support for Bravia W series TVs (thanks, flux131)
Updated Samsung AllShare logo
Updated notes on Philips PFL (thanks, ler0y!)
Xbox 360 supports 5.1 audio
Faster transcoding on Xbox 360
Improved DirecTV support
Updated DirecTV image
Improved PS3 support
Enabled text-wrapping for long names on Sony Blu-ray players
Languages:
Added English (UK) to the list of languages
Updated Czech translation
Updated Dutch translation (thanks, Leroy!)
Updated French translation
Updated Spanish translation (thanks, AlfredoRamos and uman2k!)
External Components:
Updated Apache Commons Codec to 1.8
Updated Checkstyle to 2.10
Updated Cobertura Maven Plugin to 2.5.2
Updated FFmpeg on all operating systems, which:
Improves ASS/SSA subtitle support
Improves handling of aspect ratios, even when muxing
Fixes multithreaded MPEG-4 decoding
Added multithreading to ALAC decoding
Speeds up JPEG decoding
Fixes and improves MP3, AAC and DTS decoding stability
Fixes memory leaks
Fixes channel mapping with surround AAC audio
Improves H.264 and VC-1 support
Improves Vorbis support
Improves Matroska support
Improves MPEG-TS muxing
Updated FindBugs Maven Plugin to 2.5.2
Updated Gson to 2.2.4
Updated H2 Database Engine to 1.3.173
Updated Java Runtime Environment automatic downloader for Windows to 7u45, which improves security
Updated JBoss APIviz to 1.3.2
Updated jgoodies-forms to 1.6.0
Updated jgoodies-looks to 2.5.2
Updated JUnit to 4.11
Updated Logback to 1.0.13
Updated Maven Cobertura Plugin to 2.6
Updated Maven Doxia Docbook Simple Plugin to 1.4
Updated Maven Git Commit ID Plugin to 2.1.5, which improves stability
Updated Maven IDEA Plugin to 2.2.1
Updated Maven Javadoc Plugin to 2.9.1, which:
Makes it more threadsafe
Improves security
Updated Maven Project Info Reports to 2.7
Updated Maven Source Plugin to 2.2.1
Updated Maven Surefire to 2.16 which:
Fixes problems with character encodings
Updated MediaInfo for Windows to 0.7.64, which:
Adds H.265 (HEVC) support
Fixed some crashes with .mov files
Improved AVI support
Added HEVC/H.265 in MKV support
Added Dolby E support
Improved AVI, MKV, MPEG-TS, QuickTime, RMVB, MPEG-4, AAC, AVC, AC-3 and DTS support
Faster MPEG-TS analysis
Updated Netty to 3.6.6
Updated PMD Maven Plugin to 3.0.1
Updated slf4j to 1.7.5
Updated Thumbnailator to 0.4.5, which:
Fixes memory errors with the latest Java Runtimes
Fixes use of Exif orientation
Updated tsMuxeR for Windows to 2.0.6b, which:
Improves muxing speed
Improves stream standards compatibility
Fixes E-AC3 support
Adds support for DTS-express audio
Updated xmlwise to 1.2.11Changes since 3.0.0:
General:
Added new "Random" sorting option (thanks, etrunko!)
Added support for sending subtitles (losslessly) to renderers via closed captioning
Added option to clear all monitored files
Added support for picture-based subtitles (like VobSub) in FFmpeg
Added whitelist option for advanced users
Added support for automatically muxing WEB-DL files on all operating systems by default
Added automatic tsMuxeR muxing via FFmpeg
Added tooltips to more settings
Improved video compatibility when transcoding to H.264 via MEncoder or FFmpeg
Increased speed of FFmpeg transcoding by default by ~25% in some cases
Disabled AviSynth/MEncoder by default
Fixed subtitle character conversion in FFmpeg
Fixed the configuration option to disable multithreading with FFmpeg engines
Fixed the New Media folder not adhering to the empty folder setting
Fixed the broken FFmpeg binary on Linux
Renderers:
Added support for Sony STR-DA5800ES (thanks, AYColumbia!)
Added support for sending SubRip and MicroDVD subtitles to Panasonic TVs
Added support for sending SubRip subtitles to WD TV Live
Added support for sending SubRip subtitles to Xbox Media Center
Improved thumbnail support on Sony Bravia TVs
Languages:
Updated Italian translation (thanks, nocciola82!)
Updated Spanish translation (thanks, AlfredoRamos!)
External Components:
Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows to SB53, which:
Adds support for HEVC (H.265)
Adds support for 4k AVC (H.264)
Supports seeking to non-keyframes in Matroska files
Improves seeking accuracy
Improves H.264 encoding quality in fade-heavy clips
Improves bitrate calculation
Improves ASS/SSA subtitle support
Improves support for some DVDs
Improves support for 60FPS videos
Improves DTS support
Improves AVI support
Increases speed
Fixes a crash when trying to play a DVD from different region than currently set in the DVD drive
Fixes memory leaks
Fixes multithreaded decoding
Fixes bugs
Updated tsMuxeR for Linux and OS X to 2.2.3b, which:
Adds support for DTS-HD elementary stream with extra DTSHD headers
Improves muxing speed
Improves stream standards compatibility
Fixes E-AC3 support
Adds support for DTS-express audio
Reduces bandwidth
Updated tsMuxeR for Windows to 2.2.3b, which:
Adds support for DTS-HD elementary stream with extra DTSHD headers
Reduces bandwidthChanges since 3.1.0:
General:
Sort renderers by name in the "Default renderer" option
Fixed a bug that caused unnecessary transcoding/muxing
Fixed subtitles not being transcoded when they should be
Fixed parsing of FFmpeg protocols
Fixed memory leaks
Optimized code
Renderers:
Improved video support on Panasonic TX-L32V10E TVs
Improved video support on PS3
Languages:
Updated Dutch translation (thanks, leroy!)
Updated Spanish translation (thanks, AlfredoRamos!)
External Components:
Updated h2database to 1.3.174, which:
Improves speed
Improves stability
Updated MediaInfo for Windows to 0.7.65, which:
Improves stabilityGeneral:
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
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 supportGeneral:
Added "Encoded Audio Passthrough" option for DTS and AC-3 audio
Added support for 3D MKV files (mk3d)
Made font cache creation over 50% faster on Windows
Font cache creation is done in the background
Expanded filename prettifying
Clicking "Check for updates" tells you when there are no updates
Image thumbnails are generated faster
Fixed FLAC support on some players
Removed broken entry from WEB.conf
Minor English language improvements
Renderers:
Improved support for the Vizio renderer
External Components:
Updated Commons Codec to 1.9
Updated Commons Configuration to 1.10
Updated FFmpeg to builds from 2014-01-05+, which:
Adds support for reading and setting stereoscopic (3D) metadata for MPEG-2, H.264 and H.265 streams
Improves AV sync, especially when outputting MPEG-TS
Improves support for the following audio codecs: AC-3, DTS
Improves support for the following video codecs: VP9, H.264, H.265
Improves AviSynth support
Improves Matroska support
Updated InterFrame to 2.5.1, which:
Improves quality
Improves GPU support
Fixes bugs
Updated JGoodies Forms to 1.7.2
Updated JGoodies Looks to 2.5.3
Updated JNA to 4.0.0, which:
Fixes bugs
Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows to SB55, which:
Adds Google VP9 support
Improves support for some DVDs
Speed improvements
Fixes memory leaks
Fixes a fontconfig bug
Improves support for the following containers: AVI, Matroska, MPEG-TS
Improves support for the following video codecs: H.264, H.265, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VC-1, VP8
Improves support for the following audio codecs: AAC, AC-3
Improves detection of 60FPS
Updated MediaInfo for Windows to 0.7.67, which:
Fixes bugs
Updated Netty to 3.9.0, which:
Improves speed
Fixes bugs
Updated Thumbnailator to 0.4.7 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 stabilityGeneral:
Use the Entertainment application category on OS X instead of Other
MPlayer thumbnail generation is disabled in the GUI if "Generate thumbnails" is unticked
Made Matroska container detection more reliable
Message dialogs display in the center of the program instead of the screen
The FFmpegAudio engine supports web audio
Valid MIME types are always sent to the renderer
Thumbnails of resume files are taken from the correct time (thanks, tdcosta100!)
The "Hide empty folders" option works for New Media folders (thanks, jpeyper!)
Improved support for transcoding to H.264 (thanks, tdcosta100!)
Improved detection of H.264 (thanks, tdcosta100!)
Improved speed
Fixed FFmpeg subtitles conversion (thanks, tdcosta100!)
Fixed the ability to stop scanning the library
Fixed the ability to resume videos with external subtitles
Fixed LPCM transcoding
Fixed renderer selection
Fixed timeseek detection (thanks, tdcosta100!)
Renderers:
Added support for Cambridge Audio Azur BD players (thanks, Triplefun!)
Added support for LG LA6200 TVs (thanks, douglasanpa!)
Added support for Sony Bravia BX305 TVs (thanks, douglasanpa!)
Added support for more sizes of LG LA644V TVs
Allow muxing of non-mod4 videos to Bravia TVs (thanks, tdcosta100!)
Languages:
Updated Czech translation
Updated Spanish translation (thanks, AlfredoRamos!)
External Components:
Updated Java Runtime Environment automatic downloader for Windows to 7u55, which:
Improves securityGeneral:
Made resuming more intuitive
Fixed the aspect ratio of thumbnails by default
Fixed the buffer going nuts after automatic subtitle conversion
Fixed support for URLs in playlists
Fixed error with thumbnails of resume files
Fixed the user interface when hiding advanced options
Languages:
Made more strings translatable
Updated Czech translation
Updated Russian translation
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