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		mholt on June 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Universal Media Server. A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(s) M... How does this compare to Jellyfin? It is oddly missing from their Comparisons page: https://www.universalmediaserver.com/comparison/

proxysna on June 28, 2022 | [–]

IMO a simpler alternative for anemic nuc's and older pc's. Love it's small footprint and how relatively hands-off it is.

mr_toad on June 29, 2022 | [–]

What’s the transcoding experience like? UMS is pretty good at on the fly transcoding of video for older devices like the PS3.

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