# Choose the number of processor cores that should be used for transcoding. Set the number of CPU cores for Universal Media Server to use # CPU threads to use when enabled for engine If you want to use imdb info set this parameter, note that it becomes true automatically if you enable prettify use_imdb_info = trueīy default Universal Media Server will scan your system for media, if you'd rather specify folders then set your media folders as a comma separated values list folders = /home/htpcguides/TV, /mnt/usbstorage/Movies You can also remove the releasegroup and quality by enabling prettify prettify_filenames = true You can also change the sorting method which can help make TV shows and/or music show up correctly # GUI selector generates a numeric indicator according to the following. Open the UMS configuration file nano /opt/UMS/UMS.confĬhange the GUI setting so Universal Media Server doesn't open a gui since we're running it headless minimized = trueĬhoose the port of Universal Media Server port = 9001 You can initiate a scan for new media from this location Configure Universal Media Server

You can access the headless Universal Media Server on the default port 9001 Start Universal Media Server service sudo service ums start Tell Ubuntu to start Universal Media Server on boots sudo update-rc.d ums defaults

Make the Universal Media Server init.d script executable sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/ums Sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer -yĪutodownload using this rather hacky bash script, if it fails then you can replace $UMSURL with the latest download link from Sourceforge UMSURL=$(wget -q -O - | grep UMS | awk -F '' ''

Sudo apt-key adv -keyserver hkp://:80 -recv-keys EEA14886 Install Java on Ubuntu first, accept the license echo 'deb trusty main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt//webupd8team-java.listĮcho 'deb-src trusty main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt//webupd8team-java.list

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