Version 6.8.0 released

[SubJunk]

General:

You can download it from the front page.

It improves the first time wizard, fixes Java 9 support on Windows, improves CoverArtArchive integration, improves 4k support, and more!


Changes since 6.7.4:

• General:
  • Added shared folder selection to the wizard
  • Improved matching of results from CoverArtArchive
  • Improved text in the wizard
  • Fixed detection of Java Runtime Environment 9 on Windows
  • Fixed charset handling during subtitle conversions
  • Fixed video not always transcoding when encoded audio passthrough is used
  • Fixed an exception if the renderer replied to GetProtocolInfo but didn't include sink
  • Formatting in UMS.conf
  • Various bug fixes
• Languages:
  • Added Bengali translation (empty for now, please contribute to it on Crowdin!)
  • Improved support for Japanese characters
• Renderers:
  • Added 4k support to VLC for iOS
  • Added support for sending 4k MP4 videos to PS4 natively

Compatibility notes:

These releases work on all versions of Java 7 onwards.
The Windows releases work on Windows Vista onwards. We are working on supporting older versions.

[boss]

Can you advise if UMS V6.8.0 supports newer "mediainfo" than 0.7.97

Thanks

[pipin]

Thanks for the work guys. Will try this and the 7er Rc later.

Just a quick question. Can someone enlighten me, since which version the plugin handling was reworked?

[erick diangilis]

hi subjunk thanks for the release i've tested a little bit on the standard ps4 and it's seems to be working fine and i also thanks for the support to the newer java versions.
i'm currently using java 10 early access 37 and for my suprise it worked.


thanks again to you and the team happy new year.

[valib]

Can you advise if UMS V6.8.0 supports newer "mediainfo" than 0.7.97

Thanks

No MediaInfo version higher that 0.7.97 in not supported in this release.

[boss]

Thanks for the info.

[J_345]

still doesn't work with java 8+ but java 7 works fine not sure if it something on my end but if i let UMS install the java it always does java 7 so i know ums want that version not sure why and i always get alerts to update my java on laptop

[erick diangilis]

thats wierd cause it Works fine for me with java 10 early acess. as you can see on my log below.


Build: d4e30cd0a (2018-01-04)
13:04:20 INFO Java: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 10-ea (64-bit) by Oracle Corporation
13:04:20 INFO OS: Windows 10 64-bit 10.0
13:04:20 INFO Maximum JVM Memory: 768 MiB
13:04:20 INFO Language: Portuguese (Brazil)

the ums log show the exacly java version im using now and doesn't required me any other below this like 9,8 or even7.
before on the 6.4.0 i had to stuck with 8 to use 10 now i don t need anymore on both ums rc72 and 6.8.0.

[valib]

still doesn't work with java 8+ but java 7 works fine not sure if it something on my end but if i let UMS install the java it always does java 7 so i know ums want that version not sure why and i always get alerts to update my java on laptop

Sorry as you not provide information on which OS you are running the UMS and you not send the log than your statement is useless.

[robertc99]

Heres an update for the fetch conf

Supported = f:mp4 v:divx|h264|mp4|xvid a:ac3|mp3|aac-lc|he-aac m:video/mp4
Supported = f:mkv v:divx|h264|mp4|xvid a:ac3|mp3|aac-lc|he-aac m:video/x-matroska