Version history for TVersity

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Changes from v0.9.11.3 to v0.9.11.4

• Transcoding:
• Transcoding configuration can now be done on the file/folder/url level, in which case it wil supersede the system wide settings.
• Customizable Menus:
• It is now possible to set the menus to be organized by folders only, this is in additon to the default menu organization and the custom one.
• Devices:
• Turn off transcoding of AVI/DIVX (version 4 or higher) for the Sony PS3 (Divx3 is still transcoded) since firmware 2.1 can play them natively.
• AVI/Divx that do not play natively can still be manually configured to be transcoded. This for examples solves the PS3 problem with Divx files larger than 2 Gb.
• Bug Fixes:
• Do not register a Windows shell context menu command for files (since it gets invoked when double clicking on file types that have no other handlers). The context menu command for folders is still kept since it has no undesirable side effects.

Changes from v0.9.11.2 to v0.9.11.3

• Support for Xbox 360 2007 Fall update, Divx/Xvid can play natively.
• Support fast-forward, rewind and skipping with Xbox 360 while transcoding, within the portion of the media that was already transcoded.
• Include all the patches for the Sony PS3 firmware verison 2, including support for WMA lossless and FLAC.
• Revert HR20 profile to use PCM audio since many users do not have a firmware with WAV support, and add two new profiles for HR20 with WAV support and for HR20 with MP3 support to be set manually by users that have an adequate firmware.
• Support fast forward and rewind within transcoded media with PS3 firmware 2.
• Add experimental support for Windows Mobile - downloading and streaming audio is now supported with Windows Mobile 5.0 or higher, only MSIE and WMP are required.

Changes from v0.9.10.8 to v0.9.11.2

• Security
• Remote access to the media library is now by default disabled.
• Authentication can be turned on and off for each server directory (both virtual and physical) via config.xml. By default remote access to all directories requires authentication when enabled and is rejected otherwise..
• When enabling remote access to the library via the GUI, a user name and password must be set or else authentication will fail when attempting to access the media library from outside the LAN.
• The web based user interface was moved from the root directory to the /admin directory and the root directory is now equivalent to the /lib directory.
• Note that authentication does not work in conjunction with the Sony PSP RSS reader and must be turned off (by editing config.xml) if remote streaming to this device is desirable.
• Media Library
• Customizable menu hierarchy
• Multiple menu hierarchies can be created and co-exist. In the free version of TVersity this is limited to one custom hierarchy in addition to the default hierarchy.
• Each new media source (file, folder, URLs, RSS feeds, etc.) can have a custom menu location.
• Users can switch between the default TVersity menus and their custom menus; This will immediately affect all devices, with the exception of devices that impose a rigid hierarchy (like the Xbox 360) or devices that require Audio/Photo/Video to be at the root of the hierarchy (like the DSM 320).
• Users can customize the indexing of the default and the custom hierarchy, adding or removing indexes as they see fit. This is done by editing config.xml and not via the GUI.
• File and folders can be tagged now just like URLs and RSS feeds. With folders their entire content will be accessible via the tag (including playlists).
• Devices
• Fix premature playback termination with firmware 2.0 of the Sony PS3.
• Any Internet audio can now be played on the DirecTV HR20 and no special configuration changes are needed.
• The ActiveTV profile was removed since ActiveTV does not represent any one type of device, furthermore since ActiveTV software has built in support for transcoding, TVersity never transcodes for ActiveTV devices.
• iPhone playback page is now more consistent in its look and feel with the rest of the UI.
• iPhone UI has an about button.
• Nokia N800 RSS reader is now correctly identified.
• Bug fixes and more
• Sample content distributed with TVersity was reduced to YouTube feeds and G4TV podcasts, this will minimize the refresh time and bandwidth consumption upon installation.
• Fix a rare crash in media library refresh.
• The content directory dc:title property is now populated with a valid value as per the UPnP A/V standard.
• Two consecutive dot characters in tags and menu entries are treated as an escaped dot character.
• Fix the markup in RSS feeds generated by TVersity.
• Move to SQLite 3.5.1.

Changes from v0.9.10.6 to v0.9.10.7

• Apple iPhone Support
• Point Safari on the iPhone to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:41952/iphone to see this in action. When using an EDGE connection use http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:41952/iphone/edge. In both cases xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the machine running TVersity.
• You can access your home media collection in the home and on the go 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.
• When video transcoding is needed the iPhone cannot start playback until the entire conversion is completed, this is a restriction of the MP4/MOV/3GPP containers when streamed over HTTP (and since the iPhone does not support RTSP/RTP there is no way around it at the moment).
• Bug fixes and more
• Transcoding of audio formats (such as FLAC and OGG) to PCM (for Xbox 360 and DirectTV HR20) was broken in one of the previous release and is now fixed.
• The iPod/iTunes profile now creates MP4 videos that are compatible with the iPod. This is unlike the MPEG1/2 which was previously used and with which iTunes needed to do another conversion before copying it to the iPod.
• Fix rare crashes occurring when stopping the sharing service while some files are being downloaded in the background.
• Fix a rare hanging during media library construction when reading AVI files with certain pecularities in their header.

Changes from v0.9.10.5 to v0.9.10.6

• Bug fixes and more
• Fix security hole allowing access to URLs of the form:
• http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:41952/nessus\..\..\..\..\..\..\windows\win.ini
• Fixed infinite loop when reading tags from certain large MP4 files.
• Fixed a rare crash during media library refresh related to background downloads (more specifically related to DNS cache management issues by CURL).
• The transcoder can now gracefully recover from an occasional corrupted time stamp when decoding media and produce a valid transcoding result.
• Fixed problem with new version notification where it was repeatedly displayed in some rare cases.
• The shell menu extension for sharing files and folders no longer fails for files and folders that have the & or = characters in their name.

Changes from v0.9.10.3 to v0.9.10.5

• User Interface
• One click "Add to TVersity" from third party websites via a new button; Partner websites can use this new button with media URLs and RSS / OPML / ATOM / RDF feeds to allow their users to add content to TVersity in one click. We will soon announce the first batch of content sites that will add this button. Here is an example button that adds a G4TV RSS feed:
• One click sharing via TVersity from Windows explorer; Right click on any file or folder and you will now find a “Share via TVersity” option.
• Automatic Updates; The UI now issues an alert message when a new version is available and provides a direct link for downloading it.
• Reading of AVI tags can now be turned on/off.
• There is a new variable allowing one to define the maximum number of items per RSS feed TVersity should process (the rest are ignored). This is important with feeds that keep their entire history, which in some cases can be thousands of items.
• Several different WMV versions are now supported when encoding video, all of which can be selected from the GUI. The versions are: MSMPEG4v3, WMV7, WMV8, and WMV9.
• There is an experimental support for encoding to WMV via ffmpeg instead of via Directshow.
• Content Guides and Media Library
• New radio directory by radiotime.com for music and talk radio (channels and shows) organized by genre
• TVersity now comes with the G4TV feeds added as a sample video feed.
• TVersity now supports OPML, this is one more format like RSS / ATOM / RDF (which were already supported) for importing metadata from third party websites.
• Accept files with m2t extension (MPEG2 transport stream).
• PS3 support
• MPEG2 produced by TVersity now works on the PS3, which gives the user an option between MPEG1 and MPEG2 (in the past only MPEG1 produced by TVersity worked on the PS3).
• The copy to PS3 hard drive feature now works when browsing via TVersity.
• Bug fixes and more
• Fix issues with playlists that have items with relative path and add support for absolute pathnames in playlists that have a UNC path (or are located on a network drive).
• The sharing service no longer exits when the user loggs off.
• Conversion of media for playback on some target device, via the flash interface now works again (was broken in the previous relaese but worked in earlier ones).
• Better handling of icecast URLs.
• Metacafe RSS feeds and URLs now work again.

Changes from v0.9.10.2 to v0.9.10.3

• Support the Sony PS3 firmware 1.8 - From firmware 1.8 there is no need to use the Adobe Flash interface for the PS3 (it is still the only way to stream media to the Nintendo Wii). You can now access your entire audio, photo and video collection from the PS3 dashboard, including Internet Radio/TV, RSS feeds and more. The changes from the previously released patch are:
• Internet radio now works on the PS3. First playback attempt is likely to fail with an “Access to the media server has been denied” message (or “unsupported data” message), this is because the PS3 does not wait long enough for the data to be fetched over the Internet. After this failure, wait a few seconds and try playing this same station again. Assuming a connection to that station was possible, there won’t be an error message, however the actual playback may take up to two minutes and more to start since the PS3 requires about 1 MB of data before it initiates playback.
• Internet video and transcoded content starts playing faster than it used to (saving about 5 seconds).
• Library refresh is now reflected on the PS3 and on any other device that checks the media server for updates (leaving a folder that has updates and then going back to it is required in order to see the changes).
• When moving from one Internet video to another, previously the older video was not always terminated, this is now fixed.
• Issues with green bars or distorted colors when playing via PS3 were resolved.
• The TVersity icon is now shown by the Ps3.
• Support the Xbox 360 spring update This includes hierarchical video browsing and native playback of MPEG4 (including H.264 and AAC). Changes from the previously released patch are:
• TVersity can now produce WMV7 or WMV8 or WMV9 or MSMPEG4V3 once can switch between them by seting the wmProfile variable in config.xml to one of wmv7, wmv8, wmv9, mp43.
• TVersity can now encode to WMV in two methods, the first is via directshow (which always existed and still is the default) and the second is via ffmpeg. While for now only wmv8 can be produced via ffmpeg, it is slightly faster than directshow and hence it may prove beneficial in certain cases.
• Conversion to WMV of MJPEG with mono audio no longer fails.
• Improved Adobe flash library interface (for Nintendo Wii or any web browser with support for Flash 7 or higher)
• Solve the occasional interface locks during browsing.
• Add a download button that is more accessible and does not require any menu selection, but rather considers the currently selected profile.
• More reliably termintate previously played Internet streamed when moving to new ones.
• Stop playing current media when the GUI is minimized to the tray icon.
• Other fixes and improvements
• Reading tags from Avi files is now turned off by default. It can be turned on by setting the readAVITags variable in config.xml.
• The TVersity service is now starting more reliably during a reboot, waiting, if necessary, for the networking to finish initializing, instead of quitting if it is not already initialized when Tversity is started.
• Correctly detect some cases where transcoding is not needed, and were mistakenly transcoded in the past.
• Do not block every URL with two consecutive dot characters, but rather check if the canonical path is shared or not and based on this determine if to allow ot deny access to it. This solves some playlist related playback issues.
• The device selection menu in the settings tab of the GUI, has now a scrollbar.
• Fix image browsing for the DirectTV HR20.
• Faster response time when searching the media library.
• Fixed some crashes during library refresh.

Changes from v0.9.10.2 to v0.9.10.2 (Patch)

• A patch for hierarchical video browsing with the Xbox 360 2007 spring update

Changes from v0.9.10.1 to v0.9.10.2

• Better support for the Nintendo Wii
• The Adobe Flash interface for the Wii and PS3 is now fully operational via cursor motion/clicks and it no longer requires the use of arrow keys. This change was made to better support the Nintendo Wii. The main changes are:
• There is a new “up one level” button that is always visible and is more accessible than the one in the toolbar.
• The scroll bars are larger and allow page scrolling in addition to single item scrolling.
• Playback controls are displayed once the cursor is moved to the bottom of the screen.
• Better support for the DirectTV HR20
• Images at resolutions higher than 1920×1080 are now downsampled since this device cannot handle very high resolutions.

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