# Universal Media Server Help

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.

### IMPORTANT: This documentation is not maintained anymore.

See our online Knowledge Base instead.

This documentation is being kept here because it might still contain useful information, even though a lot of it is outdated.

Over time, the useful parts will be migrated to our maintained Knowledge Base, support.universalmediaserver.com, and then this old documentation will be removed.

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