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I have a couple of problems with UMS 5.1.1.1 which i have bundled up in this one report but can split out if required. I have not tried any other variants of 5.*

I have just installed 5.1.1 on a new clean windows 7 64bit build, previously used 4.2.1 on XP without issue. The UMS is as out of the box with the only real change being all engines installed and enabled

I have set my shared folders and they play fine on PS3, Web Browser and Android Rockplayer but on a couple of renderers I am getting unusual behaviour.

WMP and Samsung Android System Video Player

when trying to view the files through my default Android video player (Samsung Galaxy S5 on 5 lollipop) the renderer returns "no files have been found in this remote library" (WMP) and "After you have shared videos on the connected devices, they will be shown here" (Android). With WMP it is true of both remote machines and on the server itself. This is true of all videos, music and photos.

Microsoft XBOX360

While viewing the UMS menu through an XBOX360 System Video Player, only Photo directories are available (All Photos, By ISO, By Date, By Device) and all media present is showing as unplayable with none of the actual videos available.

This is not a firewall issue as I have allowed full access to both Java and UMS within the firewall as well as trying this with the firewall turned off. I have no AV installed on this machine yet besides Defender which comes as standard on post Vista MS OSs.

I have included my debug files which were taken from a period while accessing from WMP, Android, PS3 (Good result) then XBOX360 and an LG smart TV (good result)

I would also like to add that when trying to pass through Ginko DNLA player on Android to both Default System Player and Rockplayer2 (this works standalone but was doing this as a test), the file starts sharing but does not progress in the player. However this is a non standard setup and did it just out of curiosity.

A bit more info on my build.

Windows 7 Desktop 64bit ultimate (new build 14/04/2015)
All OS patches/updates installed as of 18:00 today (15/04/2015)
No third party security as of yet
8gb Ram on server 2gb allocated to UMS
Java 64bit 1.8.0.45 - 32bit also installed.
VideoLan 2.1.5 installed
Media Sharing turn off on server itself
1 other stand alone DNLA server on the network
3 windows 7 machines on the network sharing through default media sharing

On Xbox 360 if you go through one of the photo folders it should work like normal

As mentioned in the original post, most of the media in all folders on the xbox360 is actually pictures being presented as video and none of them are playable. Also, I have just discovered, no music files are showing on the 360 either, no content is showing under music player.

I have rolled back to 4.2.1 and will stay on such unless a need arises to upgrade or these issues are communicated as resolved. I can confirm that there is still no media in WMP or Android, but at least the XBoxs are navigable again.

The issue of xbox360 folders has been fully resolved in v5.1.3. The android and wmp problems persist but willing to live with them.