
By interacting with most Digital Living Network Alliance compatible machines, media servers are able to stream content on a wide variety of devices such as laptops, consoles, tablets, and phones all connected to the same network. Like most media servers, Universal Media Server is based on pre-existing software, specifically- the PS3 Media Server. It can be difficult to set up at home, but it will give you lots of great features entirely free of charge. But many of these kinds of programs only let you do enough streaming to whet your appetite before slamming you into a pay wall before letting you access premium features. Using a home media server for streaming multimedia files over all the devices in your home network can be fun and convenient when it works. Important: Please visit this page to compare Universal Media Server with other popular media servers. Trademark Note 3: Google and the Google logo are registered trademarks of Google Inc. Trademark Note 2: Mac and OS X are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. Trademark Note 1: Microsoft®, Windows® and other product names are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. UMS runs on most popular operating systems such as Microsoft® Windows®, Mac® OS X® and Linux.

The program makes use of FFmpeg, MEncoder, tsMuxeR, MediaInfo, OpenSubtitles and other tools which offers a great support for most popular media formats.

This project was started by SubJunk, an official PMS developer that aims to create one of the best media server product. Universal Media Server (also known as UMS) is a free DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server based on the popular PS3 Media Server.
