Version 9.3.0 released

[SubJunk]

General:

This release adds support for new devices, fixes subtitles being transcoded needlessly, improved support for more files, and more!

We have been on a mission this month to resolve issues on our GitHub tracker, and we have resolved over 11% of them this month. Thanks to one of our newest project members polygirl for the massive help in getting us more organized.

We will continue the work in the coming months along with our larger goals which include more rich metadata and remote media access.

Lastly we have been hard at work on release automation so that we can do more frequent releases, so expect to see the time between releases get shorter very soon.

If you are interested in helping us develop UMS, we have easy stories to get started on on our GitHub repository, just head on over and we can point you in the right direction.

Download:

You can download it from the front page, our other official mirrors, or install it via Docker with:

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docker pull universalmediaserver/ums

Changes since 9.2.0

• General:
  • Added support for devices that require MRR authorization, like Denon AVR devices (thanks, sc3141)
  • Added support for symlinks in the folder selector
  • Fixed subtitles being transcoded unnecessarily
  • Fixed compiling on new OpenJDK versions
  • Improved support for audio files
  • Improved parsing of uncommon files
  • Fixed attempting to add empty files
  • Added some regression testing for our use of FFmpeg and MediaInfo
• Dependencies:
  • Updated JRE to 1.8.241

Notes:

• The Windows releases work on Windows Vista onwards.

[Darth Ed]

The Mac disk image wouldn't mount. The Finder and hdiutil report the error "no mountable file systems". Disk Utility reports "The image does not have a checksum so can not be verified." This is the file downloaded from fosshub.com that you get when you click on the download link at the universalmediaserver.com front page. The file size is 89456640 bytes, which is clearly wrong.

When I relaunched 9.2.0, it informed me of the new version in a dialog. I clicked the "Download" button in the dialog box, and it downloaded a Mac disk image with the file size 186952011 bytes. I'm not sure where it was downloaded from, but that one worked. (And whoa! Hallelujah! It's code-signed!)

[nouse]

With this version, a number of *.ass subtitles, which i want to be transcoded by UMS, are not recognized. Within both my TV sets (Samsung E and Samsung MU), the files are listed with an {Unknown Subtitles} -tag, and the files are played without subs, e.g.:

TRACE 2020-03-05 00:36:58.220 [HTTPv2 Request Worker 21] net.pms.dlna.DLNAResource This video has external subtitles that must be transcoded
DEBUG 2020-03-05 00:36:58.220 [HTTPv2 Request Worker 21] net.pms.dlna.DLNAResource Final verdict: "FileX[720p.h265.mini].mp4" will be streamed
TRACE 2020-03-05 00:36:58.221 [HTTPv2 Request Worker 21] net.pms.formats.FormatFactory Matched format ASS to "xyz.ass"
TRACE 2020-03-05 00:36:58.225 [HTTPv2 Request Worker 21] net.pms.dlna.DLNAResource Subtitles "xyz.ass" aren't valid for streaming to [TV] Samsung 8 Series

[andrewbarton]

The Mac disk image wouldn't mount. The Finder and hdiutil report the error "no mountable file systems". Disk Utility reports "The image does not have a checksum so can not be verified." This is the file downloaded from fosshub.com that you get when you click on the download link at the universalmediaserver.com front page. The file size is 89456640 bytes, which is clearly wrong.

When I relaunched 9.2.0, it informed me of the new version in a dialog. I clicked the "Download" button in the dialog box, and it downloaded a Mac disk image with the file size 186952011 bytes. I'm not sure where it was downloaded from, but that one worked. (And whoa! Hallelujah! It's code-signed!)

I had the same problem as you and your solution worked perfectly.

[SubJunk]

Sorry for the trouble with the installers/packages, there was a mistake and it propagated to mirrors. That should have been fixed now on our official sources.