UMedia
UMedia

Supported Formats

UMedia relies on a custom fork of FFmpeg, giving it out-of-the-box support for virtually every media format ever created. No external codecs, DirectShow filters, or splitters are required.

Video Codecs

  • H.265
    HEVC / H.265

    Full 10-bit and 12-bit support. Hardware accelerated via NVDEC/QSV/VAAPI.

  • H.264
    AVC / H.264

    Including Hi10P (10-bit anime standard).

  • AV1
    AOMedia Video 1

    Hardware decoding on RTX 3000+ / RX 6000+ / Arc GPUs.

  • VP9
    Google VP9

    Profile 2 (HDR) fully supported.

  • ProRes
    Apple ProRes

    422, 422 HQ, 4444, and 4444 XQ playback.

Containers

  • .MKV
    Matroska

    Perfect parsing of ordered chapters, editions, and attachments.

  • .MP4
    MPEG-4 Part 14

    Dolby Vision profile parsing within MP4 containers.

  • .WEBM
    WebM

    Native support including VP8/VP9 and Opus/Vorbis.

  • .TS
    MPEG Transport Stream

    Robust handling of broadcast streams and Blu-ray rips.

Common Format Mistakes

Installing K-Lite or CCCP

Never install codec packs if you use UMedia. They manipulate the Windows registry to force older players to use specific DirectShow filters, which often causes conflicts, crashes, and degraded quality. UMedia ignores these entirely.

Relying on Windows Default Player

The default "Movies & TV" app requires you to purchase the HEVC extension for $0.99 from the Microsoft Store, and frequently fails to read MKV subtitles or FLAC audio tracks. UMedia provides all of this natively for free.