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Universal Media Server. A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(s) Media Server
- tempusr 4y agoHow, or why is this an advantage compared to Plex?
- pathartl 4y agoThe only plus I can see is a focus on DLNA might make DLNA not _strictly_ garbage. In reality if you don't want to use Plex and don't need to rely on DLNA, there's other options out there like Jellyfin or Emby.
- donkeydoug 4y agoJellyfin is great... client apps for roku & ios plus a web interface cover all my devices. Minimal setup, just run it from a docker container. Has been super stable for me for a few years now. https://jellyfin.org/ https://jellyfin.org/
- Eduard 4y agoDLNA is HTTP-without-S only, by specification. Jellyfin, HTTPS, and DLNA don't work, unfortunately: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/68279#issuecomment-1168746122 https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/68279#issuecom...
- deanc 4y agoJellyfin has had “coming soon” next to Samsung and LG tvs for over 2-3 years. Not much use without native apps considering how awful the built in browsers are.
- death916 4y agoYa this is what keeps me off jellyfin. Not having a good xbox or native tv app means its basically useless unless you use roku or something.
- raffraffraff 4y agoI found it awful, on a Raspberry pi 4. Scanning through 2TB of movies on a NAS (gbit nic) took days. No visible indication of progress or where it's stuck. When it's done and there's a load of stuff missing, there's no clear way to find out what it ignored and why, so all you can do it manually go through every movie that it didn't find (easier said than done). I fought with it for 2 weeks and dumped it for Kodi and a direct attached 4tb hdd. Kodi finished the scan super quick and just works.
- s_ting765 4y agoNo sign in required for starters.
- colordrops 4y agoPlex is not open source and spies on you.
- snoopy_telex 4y ago> spies on you Can you provide info to back this claim up please?
- endorphine 4y agohttps://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/ https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/ Not parent but yeah, that's spying in my book.
- mavhc 4y agoWhich parts specifically?
- colordrops 4y agoThe whole thing. Did you even read it?
- IntelMiner 4y agoThat's a non-answer
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoLiterally the whole thing, other than the bullshit at the beginning about how deeply they care about your privacy, is about information they collect about you. That's what a privacy policy is.
- mavhc 4y agoSo this part? Profile Information. You may provide us with profile information such as your e-mail address, username, a profile image, and password when you create an account, or when you edit your account information. You may also provide us with your payment information when you sign-up for a paid service. OMG, they're...storing the login info you gave them
- bityard 4y agohttps://www.universalmediaserver.com/comparison/ https://www.universalmediaserver.com/comparison/
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoI used to use this to make media available to a PlayStation 3. It can do on-the-fly conversion for codecs that aren't supported by the client, though I think Plex can do that kind of thing too. Nowadays, I use TinyMediaManager to tag all my film and series and make them available to a Raspberry Pi running Kodi/Libreelec. I also tried using JellyFin as there's a good Kodi plugin for that, but prefer giving the Kodi box direct access to the files - seems to work better for keeping its library up to date.
- proxysna 4y agoI'd would say that this is a simpler alternative for a smaller or less powerfull pc's.
- rabbitofdeath 4y agoThis may be worth a look - I've been using minidlna for probably 10 years and nothing has been as simple as that!
- ttctciyf 4y agoAnyone know a good FLOSS basic / lightweight solution for an underpowered machine to serve streaming audio and video to local LAN browser clients with no (or optional) frills such as no db, no running off to download album covers, and so on?
- jeffreygoesto 4y agoFor music only, I am using mpd with upnpmpdcli on a RasPi (zeroW) and control it over BubbleUPnP from my phone. No video solution unfortunately.
- floren 4y agompd plays music through the audio device of the system running mpd, though, right? It doesn't stream, unless there's some configuration I missed... I've been using it locally for years and it's fine at that use-case.
- dwater 4y agoI recently switched from Volumio to Logitech Media Server for playing audio over a couple raspberry pis and like how simple it is. It's GPL and if you install the Material Skin add on it looks nice enough. Volumio was too complex for something that just streams audio files.
- hnlmorg 4y agompd is a server. You can get native client that connect to it locally but you can also get web frontends too. https://www.musicpd.org/clients/ https://www.musicpd.org/clients/ > MPD is designed around a client/server architecture, where the clients and server (MPD is the server) interact over a network. Thus, running MPD is only half of the equation. To use MPD, you need to install a MPD client (aka MPD interface).
- floren 4y agoCorrect. I run mpd on my desktop machine, then connect to it from a client either running on my desktop (https://github.com/floren/Ampd https://github.com/floren/Ampd) or on my phone or my laptop. However, regardless of where my client is executing, the music comes out of the speakers attached to my desktop. If there's a way to stream music from the server to the client, I am not aware of it.
- billsix 4y agoI tried building it from source a year ago on multiple tagged releases and it failed to build. Been using minidlna instead, which I’ve been pleased with.
- proxysna 4y agoi'd would recommend using a prebuilt docker image or rebuilding it to fit your needs. For my setup i am maintaining my own image with tini init system and some minor added scripts.
- Simon_O_Rourke 4y agoThis is something I've been trying to settle on for ages. I'm planning on putting a spare raspberry pi to work as a lightweight media center. Was thinking of Kodi or something similar, but this might be a better fit.
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- SilverBirch 4y agoI've been using this for a while to play movies from my laptop on my xbox and it's basically good, the one thing that trips up (probably unavoidably) is seeking through media that is being transcoded. Other than that it basically does the job fine.
- night-rider 4y agoI am skeptical of any locally hosted media streaming setup, since I once got a NAS device hacked about a decade ago. Checked the logs and there was shady connections in it. Not sure what vuln they were using, but all my media was exposed to the public facing Internet, which was embarrassing. Now I just pass files into VLC and watch them at my leisure. Secure NAS is a hard problem, and there’s plenty of articles over the years that talk about NAS systems getting hacked. Even though vendors claim the devices will be secure, there’s no way of knowing, and once it can talk to the public facing Internet, assume all the contents are up for grabs.
- antsar 4y agoWhy not use a VPN to access your home network, rather than directly exposing the NAS? Many routers have an L2TP or similar server built-in.
- mavhc 4y agoWhy did you let it talk to the public facing internet?
- mr_toad 4y ago> Now I just pass files into VLC and watch them at my leisure. VLC doesn’t work on a PlayStation, or your average TV. UMS will stream video to just about any device.
- yboris 4y agoNot for streaming, but for browsing your local videos, I created an MIT Open Source app Video Hub App -- shows screenshots from videos (as you hover over each video). May be useful if you have lots of videos on your computer (or external hard drives / NAS). https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
- gitowiec 4y agoI use it to host my movies collection. Recently it got updated to version 11 and they fixed DPI scaling in Windows 10 (at last I can see UMS GUI in proper size!). Best results I get turning off all transcoding which makes client Bubble UPNP work much better
- UberFly 4y agoI tried on many occasions to get Universal Media Server to work on a local Win10Ent file/vm/kodi server. Could never get it working. Tried JellyFin and it worked extremely well from the get-go. UMS is probably good but I found it frustrating.
- mholt 4y agoHow does this compare to Jellyfin? It is oddly missing from their Comparisons page: https://www.universalmediaserver.com/comparison/ https://www.universalmediaserver.com/comparison/
- codepoet80 4y agoI love this -- any chance of getting a backward compatible playback page on the web server? I can browse content on my old devices, but HTML5 video player isn't supported. It would be cool to fall back to something simpler (like a redirect to the file)
- post_break 4y agoDoes it have an AppleTV app? If not that's a no go for me.
- proxysna 4y agoYou can use it with VLC or LocalCast for appletv, as UMS is has working DLNA, but i have no recent experience with appletv so can't guarantee that it will work.
- sendfoods 4y agoInfuse is great on AppleTV to stream any DLNA source.
- stock_toaster 4y agoInfuse is also great for jellyfin too!
- mr_toad 4y agoUMS runs on the server not the renderer.
- mavhc 4y agoIt says it plays DVD images, but no details on how/how well
- technick 4y agoThe comparison of this product to plex is awful sus. They claim plex doesn't automatically transcode or change bitrates, and lacks maximum network bandwidth settings. This is misinformation, Plex does all of those things.
- ungawatkt 4y agoI was confused on that too. It does have "?" for some of those things, not that they say what a question mark is, I read that as untested. Also, I'm not entirely sure what they mean for subtitles, but Plex supports burned in(to the video itself) subtitles, though you end up back in transcode land for that and it took alot of CPU power last time I tried [1]. Plus "instant browsing" is I guess accurate but a weird comparison point, Plex needs to scan files once and periodically scan for updates. They may mean more specific things for all those things Plex "can't" do, but I can't tell from just the comparison page. Plex has plenty of issues, no need to make up more. [1] A quote from their page on subtitles: Other formats such as VOBSUB, PGS, etc. may work on some Plex apps but not all. For the majority of apps, both VOBSUB and PGS subtitles will require the video to be transcoded to “burn in” the subtitles for streaming.
- anacrolix 4y agobetter throw my small but popular implementation into the fray: https://github.com/anacrolix/dms https://github.com/anacrolix/dms
- raffraffraff 4y agoI want a command line dlna server that takes a file, capture device or stdin and streams it to a dlna rendered. Now. Please.