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Using VLC, click on the "start playlist" button then select "Universal Plug N Play" in the left menu.
You server should appear with the name you have set.

for security purposes, you should not allow the access to the service outside your network.

try and set up a VPN instead.

I do not own an LG TV but just drop my hypothesis: the issue might be your wifi connection.
At least, what UMS has calculated at one moment.
Try to remove that limit by setting "automatic_maximum_bitrate = false" in UMS.conf file and see if the video is still transcoding.

I don't know how to investigate more but it is related to dxcore.dll.

Did that happen after some Windows update ?

Maybe look at the event viewer log to get more information about the crash.

This is spot on.

In UMS.conf file: Optionnally, one can add (unit is Mb/s): Thank you.

Hi,

One of my video files has these following attributes:
- Overall bit rate: 24.7 Mb/s
- Format: DTS XLL.

Because of the audio codec not supported, it is transcoded. Very good.

The issue is that UMS estimates the network speed as 19 Mb/s (whereas my tv set displays 100/130 Mb/s; I can actually ...

Hi,

You could write StreamExtensions = * in your renderer configuration file.

You could try ReadyMedia . Its purpose is simply to stream medias. No extra capabilities. It is very lightweight (it only needs 1 CPU, 50MB of RAM, <1GB of storage). One drawback is you have to restart it to detect new ...

Hello,

They are all collected in ums.jar . Unless, you plan to build the software yourself (or decompile/recompile), you can not add your custom image with the predefined ones.

But you can probably set the RendererIcon parameter in your renderer configuration file with the absolute path leading to ...

- set KeepAspectRatio and KeepAspectRatioTranscoding to default otherwise videos are being transcoded when the device is able to play it
- add mp4 codec for avi and mp4 formats