# Universal Media Server Help

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Universal Media Server (UMS) is a DLNA compliant UPnP Media Server. Originally written to support the PlayStation 3, it has been expanded to support a range of other media renderers, including Xbox 360 and various televisions and media centers. Written in Java, it streams or transcodes many different media formats with minimum configuration from many platforms. It is supported by the MPlayer and FFmpeg packages.

More comprehensive information and guides can be found in the UMS Wiki.

## Contents

- Introduction
- Networking and technical basics
- Installation and basic configuration
- General configuration
- Navigation / Share settings
- Transcoding settings
- External applications
  - VLC media player
  - AviSynth
  - CoreAVC
- Command line arguments
- Useful links

## Donate

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## Current features

- Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No folder configuration or pre-parsing. All your folders are directly browsable by DLNA clients.
- Automatic folder contents refresh
- Real-time video transcoding of MKV/FLV/OGM/AVI etc.
- Direct streaming of DTS / DTS-HD core to the receiver
- Remux H.264/MPEG-2 video and all audio tracks to AC-3/DTS/LPCM in real time with tsMuxeR when H.264 is PS3/Level4.1 compliant
- Full seeking support when transcoding
- DVD ISOs images / VIDEO_TS Folder transcoder
- OGG/FLAC/MPC/APE audio transcoding
- Thumbnail generation for Videos
- You can choose with a virtual folder system your audio/subtitle language on the PS3!
- Simple streaming of formats PS3 natively supports: MP3/JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF, all kind of videos (AVI, MP4, TS, M2TS, MPEG)
- Display RAW camera thumbnails (Canon / Nikon, etc.)
- ZIP/RAR files as browsable folders
- Support for picture-based feeds, such as Flickr and Picasaweb
- Internet TV / Web Radio support with VLC, MEncoder or MPlayer
- Podcasts audio/ Video feeds support
- Basic Xbox360 support
- FLAC 96kHz/24bits/5.1 support
- Windows Only: AviSynth alternative transcoder support

## Credits

These instructions would not exist without the invaluable efforts of Otmanix and meskibob on the forums.

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