FAQ
- Why is the video skipping or dropping frames?
- Usually, this means hardware acceleration is failing, forcing your CPU to decode a 4K HEVC file, which it isn't fast enough to do. Press
Iduring playback to check if hwdec is active. If it says "Software", refer to our hardware guide to fix your driver setup. - Why is the volume so low compared to YouTube?
- Movies are mixed with high dynamic range (explosions are loud, whispers are quiet). YouTube heavily compresses audio to make everything uniformly loud. UMedia plays the raw audio exactly as mixed. If you want it compressed like YouTube, you can enable Dynamic Range Compression (DRC) by adding
af=drcto your config. - How do I cast to my Chromecast/Smart TV?
- UMedia is fundamentally a local media player. Casting protocols (like Google Cast or AirPlay) usually require transcoding the video on the fly and ruin the exact frame-pacing and lossless audio UMedia is built for. Connect your PC directly to your TV via HDMI.
- Where is the configuration file located?
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- Windows:
%APPDATA%\umedia\umedia.conf - macOS/Linux:
~/.config/umedia/umedia.conf
- Windows: