Today On-the-fly transcoding has become a must have feature for end users, and even Microsoft is doing some of that on Windows 7 - a great validation of our approach. Last year we made the first release of our Pro edition, with the intention to enable access to premium web content including movies and full TV episodes. The big promise of this approach was the use of a full blown web browser running on your PC but displaying web content on your TV. Ultimately we want to let you access any website on TV with this technology, today we are taking another step in that direction by letting you access any video site based on Flash.
If you have been a TVersity user long enough, chances are that you were looking for a simple way to access your media on the go - after all this is one of the promises of TVersity. We are pleased to announce the availability of the TVersity Media Server 1.
We are glad to announce the availability of the TVersity media server Pro 1. This release is all about relaxing the system requirements for premium content this includes Hulu, BBC iPlayer, and all the other supported premium content sites.
Also, the installation wizard will detect whether Flash for firefox is installed, and will prompt the user to do the installation when necessary. This is the culmination of an almost 5 year effort, to bridge the world of Internet Video with the TV. Seventh release candidate is out with more bug fixes.
We think we are getting really close to our first non beta release, which is our biggest milestone ever and so we wanted to take the opportunity and share some of our future plans for TVersity. In we have three main goals: Embed TVersity in a hardware home server appliance s. We are pleased to announce availability of our sixth 1. This is a bug fix release with minor enhancements and performance improvements.
All Sony PS3 users should upgrade immediately since this release fixes a serious bug related to photos. Other device users are encouraged to upgrade as well at their earliest convenience. Your feedback in the next couple of days will determine whether we can make an official 1. A few weeks ago we got an email from James Leenheer, who wrote a review about TVersity in tripletags. There are many online sources out there offering live video coverage of the election day, many of which can be watched via TVersity on your networked devices game consoles, mobiles, etc.
For your convenience we are listing below a few live streams from the CNN, if you have other streams please comment to this post and if they are indeed compatible with TVersity we will add them to this post for the benefit of all. The forth release candidate is here with support for PS3 firmware 2. As many of you probably know YouTube has been improving the quality of its videos and at the same time made its content available in H.
Up to this release TVersity would take by default low quality videos even when higher quality was available. In this version we bring you support for raw digital camera images, a slightly easier menu navigation on devices, new formats, new devices and of-course some bug fixes and other minor improvements. It turns out that the show producer is a fan of TVersity and is using it to watch podcasts on the It was particularly interesting because Dan is an educator and cares about podcasts of that nature.
We have been hard at work fixing some issues with RC1 and adding album art support and today we bring you TVersity 1. Album art support relies on JPEG files conforming to certain naming conventions that are present in the same folder as music tracks. Today Amazon S3 went down at around pm eastern and ever since it is not possible to download the TVersity software. We are delighted to announce the general availability of the first release candidate of our 1. Please note that this is a release candidate and not a final release, meaning that we need your feedback in order to fix issues and turn this into a final release as fast as possible.
We will post full release notes shortly, in the meantime in case you missed it, this release is all about user interface and usability, but it also includes many bug fixes and other minor and major improvements to the transcoding engine, media library, auto discovery by devices, and much more.
A few months ago we posted some screenshots of our new user interface. It has been awfully quiet ever since on our blog since we were hard at work implementing the new interface as well as many other improvements. This upcoming release is major for us, we will finally hit 1. In the meantime, we wanted to give you a little something to look at, while we finalize our work. It is with great pleasure that we announce the availability of the TVersity 1-click subscription button on viewmy. Adding new live Internet channels to TVersity has never been easier now that viewmy.
Assuming TVersity is installed on that PC, this will open your TVersity application and add that channel to it all you need to do is confirm that you have TVersity and then when it opens confirm the addition of the channel. We are re-doing our user interface and wanted to share some screenshots and get some feedback early on. Before I get to that, some of you may have noticed that we recently upgraded our icons.
These icons were sent to us by Dylan Wreggelsworth, a graphic designer and the founder of Trifold Designs. He did it of his own initiative and it happened at a time where we were looking to get some professional design work put into our software and our website yes, finally….
We have been asked many times over the course of the last two years for Windows Mobile support and so it is with great pleasure that we announce that Windows Mobile support for music is here via our partner LobsterTunes. LobsterTunes is a very unique MP3 player, it can connect to your TVersity server while you are away from home without requiring any firewall customization.
For those that are familiar with Hamachi and Yoics, LobsterTunes includes their functionality built in so you do not need to do any network configuration to have access to TVersity on the go from your Windows Mobile device. TVersity 0. A new optional menu hierarchy for folders only. These last two features are the two most sought after features in our forums and so we are delighted to finally deliver.
You may have also noticed our new logo, we are in the process or redoing our GUI and website as well so please stay tuned. With these new firmwares it is now possible to fast forward, rewind and skip within transcoded media with both the Xbox and the Sony PS3. While advanced users are able to set up a VPN, the rest of us need easier methods and so it is with great pleasure that we announce the availability of YOICS with built-in support for TVersity.
We are happy to announce the availability of the TVersity Media Server version 0. With his new release we bring you increased security when accessing your media library remotely, customizable menus and better support for the Sony PS3 firmware 2. In both cases xxx. You can now access your entire media collection in the home and on the go from your iPhone however in each of these cases a different IP address is needed and you may need to establish a port forwarding in order to access it on the go.
We are glad to announce the availability of the TVersity Media Server 0. In this release we are fixing many issues and adding a new Radio directory by our partner radiotime.
If you always wanted to add your home and Internet content of choice to TVersity via a single button click, this release is setting the stage for that. We are happy to announce full support for the Sony PS3 firmware 1. Make a Lag Switch.
Remote Play On-The-Go. Downloading PS3 Game Saves. How to install your game saves. Set up media servers for your PS3. View Playstation store on PC. Do your PS2 games look too jaggy on the PS3? Here's a semi-fix PS3 3. PS3 Slim. What you need 1. Tversity 2. Tversity PS3 Patch 3. FFdshow version Instructions 1.
Please note that this patch cannot be applied on top of older versions and is designed for 0. Stop media sharing in TVersity via the advanced menu or the tray icon 2. Apply the Tversity PS3 patch 1. Start sharing and try accessing your audio, video and photos from the PS3 3. Install FFDshow revision uninstall any old versions before installing this 4.
Once you have done all the above, go to your windows firewall and in exceptions allow Mediaserver. Streaming time baby 1. Support for RSS 0. With this new functionality it is now possible to add to the media library:.
Image feeds such as the ones provided by flickr look for the RSS 2. Video Feeds such as the ones provided by Yahoo! Audio and video playlist feeds such as the ones provided by Webjay look for the podcast RSS icon at the top of a playlist page and add this URL to the library. Some sample audio and video feeds are now distributed with TVersity and will be updated automatically from time to time with new content submitted by TVersity users. This feature is still experimental but it already allows feeds with FLV enclosures such as the ones from Reuters to work as long as the enclosures were already downloaded.
M3U and PLS files can now include any media and not just audio. They can even includes a mix of audio, images and video file both local and remote. Fixed incompatibility issues with firmware 1. The media server is no longer refreshing the library each time it is started, except the first time it is executed after a new install.
The default refresh policy is now configured to be once a day at midnight and it is now possible to control the start time of the refresh and not just the time interval between refresh sessions. More sophisticated refresh policies can be accomplished by using a third party scheduler such as the task manager in Windows in conjunction with the now up-to-date MShare utility. Content Guides - the content guides were updated and fixed to make them compatible with some media hubs that could not handle them.
Some MOV video files that were wrongly identified as audio only and therefore were transcoded to an audio format are now properly detected as video files. Sharing a folder and one of its subfolders will now index the items under both folders and not just under the first one that was shared. Sharing playlists prior to the folders from which the playlists items originated will no longer result in the items appearing only under the playlists.
Indexing by folders now places all the containers at the top and then the items, this makes navigation easier as items and containers are not mixed.
The export and import is now incremental meaning that one can import into a non empty media library and the imported data will be merged into the library. Added the TVersity logo and icons thank you Frode for your excellent work and for all the time invested in creating these for us. Installer - upgrading to version 0. Please be sure to uninstall only version 0.
Support for additional media hubs - added a profile for the Pinnacle showcenter Please note that directshow filters that can handle these formats are required for this feature to work check the FAQ for links to such filters. Added support for Karaoke. After sharing such files, look for them in the video section of your media library and not in the audio section. XML escaping issues in file and folder pathnames that prevented proper sharing of these pathnames were eliminated.
GUI can be run from the start menu, the desktop shortcut icon or inside any browser. The new GUI allows one to easily change the server configuration and has detailed description of each possible configuration option and its implications. It also allows one to totally shut off the transcoding, or to have it always run, to have it run only when needed this is the default and recommended setting. GUI has many new sharing related features that are not supported from the command line, this includes:.
Tagging: Each shared URL can have a set of tags associated with it. These tags allow one to organize the URLs such that one can easily browse all the URLs that have a certain tag associated with them.
Tags can be hierarchical, this is done by using a dot to separate the different hierarchy levels. This make them a true generalization of folders as one can create an arbitrary hierarchy just like with folders but any item can have many tags associated with it, while with folders any item can reside only in one folder. As far as we know TVersity is the first to ever come up with the notion of hierarchical tags and to implement it, so remember when everyone else adopts it, you saw it here first.
Selective folder sharing: When sharing a folder one can decide if to share any subset of audio, video, images. Later on one can turn on and off each one of these and the server will quickly update the media library to reflect this change.
Safe library reset: Resetting the media libraray from the GUI is different from the command line in that it keeps all the shares intact and just reconstructs the library.
The command line opertion is still available but it should probably be used only in very extreme situations,as it deletes the exisitng media library and creates an empty one instead losing all the existing shares and therefore requiring the user to manually re-enter them.
The tagging will also make it possible to browse public URLs by tags and search them by keywords. Any share, including files and folders, can now be given a name. As far as files and folders are concerned, this name is currently used only in the GUI to refer to this share. Containers in the media library that used to have items in them but no longer do are now deleted from the library.
This means that if, for example, the last song from a certain genre was removed from the library and now this particular genre has no child items, then at that point this genre will be removed.
The sorting of audio and video URLs is now by their name and not as it was before by the order in which they were added, this should make it easier to find the URLs you are looking for as long as you properly name them. The sorting of items by creation date is now descending and not ascending as before, meaning that the newset stuff will always be at the top. Added support for OGM, the new Divx file extension from version 6 Divx has its own file extension and it is not longer using the AVI extension and the file extension M2v.
Windows Installer - the installer now supports upgrading from a previous release, so users of V0. In fact this is the only way to have your audio and video URLs copied over to the new installation so that you will not need to re-enter them manually. Please be advised that unistalling V0. Sharing Winamp playlists that have items with absolute path names but without the drive letter now works. Updated the Roku Soundbrdige profile such that WAV files provided by the server will be recognized correctly and accepted by the Soundbridge.
This also fixes issues with the transcoding of audio files such as WMA lossless with the Soundbridge. The WAV file generated by the media server when transcoding from some other format is now more compatible and works with additional media hubs such as the Roku Soundbridge.
Also unlike before it plays in Windows Media Player. The delay between trasncoded audio files had been reduced from seconds to less than 1 second. Future releases will simply download the files if no transcoding is necessary and will serve these files to the media hub as they are being downloaded.
Some video files such as RMVB were not correctly handled in terms of their mime types and for that reason were not played by some media hubs, this issue is now fixed. Fixed some issues related to running as a Windows service that resulted in a hanging computer after a reboot only in some rare cases. Fixed the periodic rebuffering problem with the Philips Streamiums over wireless it was every seconds and over a wired connection it was every seconds. Modified the media server behavior with the Roku Soundbridge to transcode WMA lossless audio files since the Soundridge does not natively support this format.
The media library refresh interval has been increased from 30 minutes to 8 hours. This is to avoid too much network traffic for users that have many network shares, which are slower to refresh and therefore with the previous setting the media server could always be refreshing.
Users that need to refresh more often can modify config. The corruption of the media library as a result of MShare and the Media Server modifying it simultaneously has been fixed.
Please refer to the FAQ to learn more about temporary error messages that can be displayed when running MShare when the media server is synchronizing the media library. In any case it is safe now to do so, in the worst case one of them will output an error message requesting the user to try again since the media library is locked. The errors in shutting down the media server service while it is refreshing the media libraries have been eliminated. The media library has been rewritten and is no longer an XML file residing in memory during runtime, but rather a lightweight database residing on the disk.
This means that ProgrammingGuide. Users that added online content to this file manually should backup their additions prior to installing this version and read about the new features of MShare designed to allow them to do the same with much less effort. The memory consumption of the media server no longer depends on the size of the media library and is now much smaller.
The media library is designed to handle , items and more; Sharing is much faster and browsing is as fast as before. The media server is now showing the shared media as it is shared and it is no longer necessary to wait until the sharing of potentially very large folders is complete before browsing the items.
This also means that it is no longer required to restart the media server after a share process, and that stopping a share process in the middle is not an issue since it can be continued from the same point at a later time. The library item names are no longer a concatenation of the title tag, track tag, album tag and artist tag but are rather just the title tag and if this tag is missing then the file name without its extension is used.
When accessing the media library by folders, the items can now be sorted by the file name and not by their title tag it depends on the value of the sortFolderByFileName attribute from config. This means that users that have a folder structure that includes a folder for each album and inside this folder their files are named such that the track number appears first, will have their album items sorted by the track number.
Please note that changing the value of the sortFolderByFileName attribute affects only shares done from that moment and on. Previous shares remain unaltered, so this decision need to be done prior to sharing. Users that do not wish the media server to capitalize the ID3 tags and apply other similar manipulations designed to make the tags more readbale and consistent can now turn this off by setting the value of the prettyTags attribute from config.
Please note that changing the value of this attribute affects only shares done from that moment and on. Previous shares remain unaltered. When the media library is refreshed it will automatically remove items that corresponded to previous content of removable drives and will add items that correspond to current content of these drives.
In addition to adding new shares, the MShare utility can now be used to list these shares, update all of them in one operation or remove one of the shares. You can type MShare -H for a complete description of the new command line options that were added. Since the media library is not an editable XML file, it is no longer possible to add new online content in the same undocumented method used so far. Please check the FAQ for list of filters and links to their locations on the Web.
Real and Quicktime streaming from the Internet is not yet supported. Added thousands of radio stations from around the world accesible by genre, region or language.
The WMA streams are transocded on the fly to MP3 and therefore should work on all media hubs, the MP3 streams, being already in MP3 format, are provided as is to the media hub. While in theory this should work well with all media hubs, in practice some media hubs are not able to play some of the streams.
This is due to limitations in accepting MP3 streams from the Internet as opposed to accepting them from the media server, which is on the local network. Future releases will include alternative sources for movie trailers. Added the ministry of sound TV and radio stations the TV seems to be working on and off, when in doubt check their web site and see if it works from there. The media cache area is no longer growing indefinitely but is now contained within certain configurable minimum and maximum sizes.
Indexing a music track that has the same value for the artist and album tags is now done properly. The capitalization of text extracted from tags is done now better letter appearing after parenthesis are also capitalized. Sharing of network pathnames is improved and is now more compatible performance over network shares still needs to be improved. There is now a file called version.
You can even play the audio track of your video files or of online video channels on them. The media server has been made more portable across media hubs and is likely to work now with others that are noit mentioned above as well. Choosing the type of media hubs with which the media server need to interact is done during installation.
ManiaTV has now a Kbps stream it seems to be still experimental on their side so the old stream of Kbps was kept. The top viral videos and the top short films from ifilm were added some of these are for adults only so please be forewarned. Many of the ifilm trailers were updated from kbps to kbps, and hundreds of new trailers were added. Some examples of the kind of elements that can be configured follow. The type of media hub with which the server is supposed to interact is now configurable.
Currently there cannot be more than one type of media hub in the configuration file but there can be multiple instances of that media hub on the network of-course different types od media hubs that are compatible with one another to a certain degree may work fine by choosing one of the types. In the future the server will be able to interact with different types of media hubs simultaneously and to detect their type automatically.
The media server can now be configured to transcode audio to WAV so that the quality of lossless formats will be maintained, this is now the default behavior for the DLink DSM with which the media server is now also capable of automatically detecting WMA lossless files and transcode them, but refrain from transcoding lossy WMAs. The connection speed of the media server to the media hubs can now be defined in the configuration file such that the bitrate of transcoded media will be adapted accordingly allowing smooth playback over any speed home network even Wireless B.
Moreover the media server can be configured to downsample high bitrate media files that can theoretically be played natively by the media hub but in practice their playback stutters due to their bitrate being too high for the network, again resulting in smooth playback. Many transcoding related parameters are now configurable, e. Another example is switching the transcoding between two modes, the first mode is optimized for speed by using faster compression schemes and the second is optimized for quality by using slower compressions schemes that can produce a better quality within a given bitrate.
This allows for a trade-off between quality, speed and bitrate which translates to disk space and network speed. The maximum time period for time shifting live media can now be configured, the default is still 30 minutes.
Fixed MShare to properly handle foreign charcaters used in playlist entries and convert them to UTF-8 as required by the UPNP standard, and to properly handle playlists entries that start with a slash character by prefixing them with the drive in which the playlist file itself resides. Fixed the link to the indie movie Star Wars Revelations. The high-res version of this movie is now available for viewing on your TV screen. Fixed transcoding of media files with 8 bits audio samples solves the problem reported by users with certain MJPEG files.
Extended the name of transcoded files to characters solves the famouse replay of first transcoded media even when selecting other files.
Made the streaming of transcoded media more portable across media hubs users report this fix to allow the TVersity Media Server to successfully stream online content to the Philips Streamium.
Improve the ability of the server to handle links to online content that is temporarily unavailable. Screen Server 1. Version 3. Fix crash when indexing some MKV files with chapters. Some minor GUI fixes.
Bug fixes and minor improvements: Sharing media from Windows explorer now open the new GUI and not the old one. Hide the iTunes entry in the media source page of the GUI. Add context menus right click menus in the media sharing page of the GUI. Fix GUI issue in settings page where the refresh time could not be changed.
Uninstaller cleans some files that were previously left when uninstalling the software. Introduce an all new user interface, which is HTML5 based and significantly simplified. Add support for Chromecast: An all new, search centric, HTML5 interface is available for navigating the library and selecting media to play on the Chromecast. Play every format on Roku via on-the-fly transcoding to H. Many other bug fixes, including some rare crashes. Version 2. Eliminate the browser toolbar from all versions.
Many other bug fixes, including some crashes in edge cases. Add support for Canadian TV globaltv. Add support for einthusan. Fix MShare. Fix toolbar issues outside the US. Fix bug with license key validation and properly respect license key grace periods.
Other minor fixes. Fix audio missing issues with some web content when Flash Eliminate some rare visual artifacts for some web content. Fix auto centering of visible area around video player for some web content.
Add Crackle and Crackle authentication. Fix Hulu authentication. Better Win 8 support. Fix folder capitalization bug. Fix edge cases with regard to duplicate upnp:icon properties. Many other fixes for rare bugs and crashes. Avoid transcoding blu-ray movies with devices that support them. Improved support for transcoding Ogg Vorbis files. Restore support for RMVB.
Bug Fixes USB drives and network drives are no longer removed from the library after a reboot. PS3 no longer stops playing Hulu videos once the 2GB mark is reached.
Support additional Samsung TV models. Fix off-screen browser audio issues with Flash player version Various other minor fixes. Support WPL playlists. Video thumbnails are now generated for many formats.
Fix various tag extraction issues by moving to taglib 1. Fix rare crashes related to thread safety of ffmpeg.
Fix errors when manually setting the device to Xbox, this is now supported again. Version 1. Add device profiles for various Samsung TV models. Add user contributed device profile for Logitech Revue.
Add user contributed device profile for Windows Phone 7. Update user contributed device profile for LG BD Faster thumbnail generaion for photos. Run a CPU benchmark after installation to determine optimal transcoding settings for the system. Media library indexing gives priority to local files and folders over Internet content.
Prevent Windows from entering sleep mode when some media is streaming. Server can now gracefully shut down even when something is streaming. Fix video indexing by album and by genre.
Faster playback start for premium content and any content requiring the server side browser. Fix BBC iPlayer issues - it is now fully supported including age verification. Flash player plugin now bundled with installation wizard - no need to do a separate install. Monitor folders for changes and automatically reflect these changes in the media library. Monitor changes to network interfaces on the computer and handle those changes correctly.
Up to 7x faster indexation of photos. Deliver higher resolution album art when available. Simplify and improve the installation wizard: Eliminate the configuration wizard its functionality was merged into the installation wizard.
Make sure the user has admin rights. Remove firewall rules when uninstalling. Warn users when skipping installation of ffdshow or when unchecking the firewall checkbox. Fix some rare crashes as well as many additional minor bugs.
Restore YouTube support after changes to embedded video handling by YouTube. Other minor bug fixes based on end-user feedback for 1. Full support for the iPad. Faster playback start of premium content video. Do not show playback controls for Hulu. Various bug fixes. All editions Remove the Ask toolbar and Babylon, in preparation for offering a TVersity toolbar for spontaneous subscription to web content coming soon.
Add some user contributed device profiles to profiles. Transcoding of FLV with H is supported. Transcoding of videos in MPEG2 transport streams is supported. Move to ffmpeg 0. Various minor bug fixes. Fix rare audible artifacts after returning from commercial breaks in premium videos. All editions - Bug fixes and minor improvements Fix corrupted creation date for photos.
Improved Windows 7 support. Add support for flix. Fix some Windows manifest issue.
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