Universal Media Server 1.40 Linux 2017-02-07

• Many improvements to FFmpeg, from audio sync to file-support to stability
• Updated MPlayer and MEncoder for Windows to SB36, which:
• Supports a lot more file formats and colour-spaces
• Improves audio/video sync, especially with PAL (25FPS) videos
• Added FFmpeg multithreading option
• Updated FFmpeg for OS X to 57d5a224
• Added a GUI config editor for those who like to edit manually
• Improved audio/video sync when using MEncoder
• Improved audio channel detection
• Fixed support for some plugins
• Added support for TX3G (MPEG-4 Timed Text) subtitles
• Added support for WebM videos downloaded from YouTube
• Fixed DV video detection
• Fixed “Definitely disable subtitles” option with ASS/SSA subtitles
• Fixed default audio/subtitle priority options
• Fixed running on headless servers
• Windows 7 and Vista users are reminded to run as administrator before attempting to automatically update
• Fixed multithreading bug with MEncoder on Linux
• Made layout more consistent

In the forthcoming 1.4.0 release a new framework for distributing/installing plugins is added to UMS. The feature is meant to ease the burden on how to install plugins as well as the burden of distributing them. In the future plugins can be released via this website and rated etc.
This is a rather big new feature so there might be some issues with it, so please report any problems found with it.
So how does it work?
As a user you’ll find a Download and Install Plugins button in the General Configuration tab. Click on it and a list of available plugins will be presented to you. The rating system is currently disabled so all plugins will have a rating of “–”. Select one or more plugins you want to install and press the Install button. Now the selected plugins will be installed and started.
Plugin developers should read the description in the Developer section.