Release Notes - 1.5.1

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Published: Monday, 23 February 2015 19:54

• added serviio.libraryPollerFrequency system property for controlling the timeout of POLLER frequency
• added serviio.forceLibraryPoller system property for forcing the usage of POLLER library scanner; ticket #849
• series can now be named with the IMDB ID as a search hint (as well as movies); ticket #839
• optimized embedded burned-in subtitles delivery so that it doesn't time out; ticket #838
• added support for series thumbnails with XBMC metadata source; ticket #764
• added the possibility to use alternative Java (to the bundled one) on Windows; ticket #842

• fixed OSX console not starting after upgrade from previous versions; ticket #840
• fixed parsing relative paths in ASX playlists
• optimised polling mechanism for shared folders on OSX / BSD, it now runs every 5 minutes by default as a POLLER; ticket #846
• fixed some audio files being restarted after the buffering has finished in MediaBrowser
• fixed burning in subtitles on Linux for file with apostrophy in the name; ticket #844
• fixed MediaBrowser player sliding on small screens

• updated bundled JRE to 1.8.0_31

Release Notes - 1.4

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Published: Friday, 20 December 2013 21:05

• a totally new MediaBrowser (Pro only)
• CDS /browse method now includes ETag header indicating if the response can be cached by the clients; ticket #714 (Pro only)
• subtitles character encoding setting is now used also when converting softsubs
• metadata flag (M) for shared folders now affects all types of descriptive metadata, not just online
• added support for transcoding 4-2-2 pixel format videos for playback on older player which only support 4-2-0; ticket #671, #709
• loggs stack trace when a plugin fails; ticket #728
• added support for some rare files to Sony BDP profiles; ticket #725
• extended caching online items for WebResource plugins to items that don't expire immediately
• added presentation category for MPAA movie rating; ticket #380
• added profile for Telenet Yelo TV
• added getOnlineFeedExpiryInterval() shared method for the plugins; ticket #735
• CDS search mechanism changed to give more accurate results; ticket #696
• added profile for Xbox One
• added profile for Sony 2013 TVs; ticket #724
• split Samsung C/D/E/F profile to C/D and E/F for more reliable support of online content on E/F series

• fixed retrieving thumbnails from ogg files
• fixed M3U8 manifest being cut off when the file has been transcoded fully (http1.1)
• fixed burned-in subtitles with apostrophy in filename for OSX/Linux
• fixed creation of thumbnails for images that need to be rotated
• added automatic image rotation to PS3 profile
• fixed duplicate renderer registering caused by some routers
• fixed FlowPlayer logo appearing in MediaBrowser in certain configurations
• added support for video thumbnails on Samsung F series
• removed using user-agent in FFmpeg commands if the protocol is not http(s); ticket #708
• updated stream URL validation, to allow multiple # characters; ticket #715
• fixed caching WebResource items when they are not valid; ticket #726

Release Notes - 1.5

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Published: Tuesday, 13 January 2015 22:29

• reworked the way files are indexed to the library; ticket #410
• changed the way removable drives are handled, incl. removing the 'Scan for file additions and updates' setting for shared folders; ticket #820
• requires Java 8 to run (Linux)
• bundles Java runtime with the Windows and OSX versions; ticket #666
• OSX installer starts Serviio on the system start-up as a service; ticket #290
• CDS API now returns movie / episode cast information in the ObjectMetadata mode (Pro only)
• video player in MediaBrowser now includes additional metadata and links to IMDB and TheMovieDb.org, where available (Pro only)
• MediaBrowser now uses the Presentation settings (Display and Disabled only) (Pro only)
• CDS API enables passing accessGroupId to browse and search requests (Pro only); ticket #788
• added serviio.cdsAnonymousAccess system property that enabled access to mediaBrowser without logging in
• live streams are now using less internet bandwidth for concurrent viewing (for the same profile and quality); ticket #673
• searching for updates to already shared files now uses the preferred setting in the console; ticket #775
• ignores @eadir folder from being indexed; ticket #774
• added the possibility to filter out videos based on Rating for Limited access groups; ticket #789
• added mjpeg container to transcoding matching
• stored shared folders must be exclusive, ie no duplicates are allowed; ticket #796
• ignore folders with a .nomedia file from adding to the library; ticket #582
• identify movie metadata by IMDB id in file names; ticket #668
• added support for .3g2 files; ticket #704
• updated audio transcoding matching to copy the audio stream when bitrate is the same; ticket #793
• added Recent Unwatched videos category; ticket #593
• added Last Added Albums audio category; ticket #716
• added transcoding matching for videos with multichannel audio; ticket #580
• added transcoding support for videos with speex audio streams; ticket #540
• added transcoding support for videos with H265 / HEVC video streams; ticket #772
• ability to turn-off chunked HTTP transport for a profile, where it is normally applicable; ticket #529
• updated Sony BDP profile not to transcode DTS audio; ticket #371
• filters out search categories that belong to disabled browsing categories
• added support for thumbnails for Online container resources; ticket #694
• updated XBox One profile with MKV support; ticket #827
• added profile for Raumfeld devices; ticket #814
• use HTML5 player for Android (Chrome) in MediaBrowser, incl. Chromecast support (Pro only); ticket #809
• updated Sony TV 2014 profile; ticket #812

• fixed displaying folders with ampersands in the title in MediaBrowser; ticket #770
• search for external subtitles file now properly ignores case when not using any preferred language; ticket #783
• fixed retrieving online content length when larger than 2GB; ticket #771
• fix streaming delay for some audio files; ticket #808
• fix Flowplayer logo appearing in MediaBrowser for some domains; ticket #835

• updated Restlet to 2.2.2
• updated Apache Derby to 10.11.1.1
• updated JAudioTagger to 2.2.2
• updated FFmpeg to the latest build (19/11/2014) from 2.4 branch (incl. --enable-libspeex)

Release Notes - 1.2.1

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Published: Friday, 22 March 2013 15:37

• Sony BDP 2010 model is not detected by default
• improved network discovery for the case of DHCP IP change while the server's running
• added the possibility to re-try online metadata retrieval in a case of the online source being unreachable; ticket #646
• improved FFmpeg failures logging; ticket #578
• added support for binding to NICs with multiple IP addresses
• added support for external subs in format filename.language_code.extension; ticket #651

• fixed transcoding settings not being saved; ticket #641
• fixed adding MKV files with many embedded subtitle tracks
• made bound IP address retrieval more robust
• fixed double subtitles (softsubs + hardsubs) being delivered in some cases
• fixed encoding hardsubs for file names including characters [] and ,
• release year of audio files is now included in the CDS responses properly