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How to set up UMS web interface?
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 2:55 am
by xcglkjsg5twp3oj
There is no useful documentation about this that can be found anywhere online. Anyone has instructions to do this?
I found this:
https://bitbucket.org/ntrp/ums-web-interface/wiki/Home
But it's most likely outdated since my version of UMS (latest) doesn't have a plugins folder.
Re: How to set up UMS web interface?
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 2:59 am
by Nadahar
There is no setup - just use it (use the leftmost button on top of the GUI to get the address).
Re: How to set up UMS web interface?
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 2:59 am
by xcglkjsg5twp3oj
Got it - thanks again
Re: How to set up UMS web interface?
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 3:05 am
by xcglkjsg5twp3oj
I tried it - it doesn't work.
https://imgur.com/VrIdnLs
I only have ESET Internet Security - I completely disabled the antivirus and firewall and it still doesn't work.
How do I make it work?
Re: How to set up UMS web interface?
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 3:07 am
by Nadahar
This can't be the address you got from pushing the button? It's supposed to include a port number as far as I know, something like :9000 after the IP.
Re: How to set up UMS web interface?
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 4:52 am
by xcglkjsg5twp3oj
Ok, so I finally got it. It was
http://192.168.0.15:9001/
However, once the playback is started, there is no progress bar or any way to skip back or forward within the film.
https://imgur.com/GQs5qb1
Can this be fixed?
Re: How to set up UMS web interface?
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 6:02 am
by Nadahar
Seeking is only possible on the web interface if the file doesn't have to be transcoded. This is for technical reasons, the people that makes the browsers (Chrome, Firefox etc) don't think that time-based seeking is important so they don't support it. Only byte-based seeking is supported by the browsers, and that is only possible to do on an already existing file. When you transcode you generate the stream as you go, so there's no "zero reference" to the start of the stream from which you can make a relative reference.
So, in short, seeking is only possible for the very few formats that happens to be natively supported by the browsers, which is limited to basic MP4 (H264, AAC-LC) files without subtitles or some basic WEBM (VP6-7, Vorbis) files. In short, most videos you'll want to play isn't natively supported by the browser, and thus seeking isn't possible. Yeah, I know, it kind of makes it useless unless you wish to see something from the very start to the end in one go.