Release Notes - 0.6
- Details
- Published: Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:01
- added streaming of online feeds; ticket #83
- added plugins for YouTube, GameTrailers.com, BBC iPlayer; ticket #136, #13
- resumes playback (10) seconds before last viewed frame; ticket #318
- added support for AAC (LATM syntax) audio track codec; ticket #320
- added browsing music by album artist; ticket #309
- added browsing music by composer; ticket #278
- improved parsing of file names in the form of 'movie, the.avi'; ticket #296
- logs online metadata lookup failures; ticket #294
- added support for FLAC audio codec in video files; ticket #329
- added support for VORBIS audio codec in video files; ticket #281
- updated H264 level handling and updated Samsung profiles to transcode unsupported H264 levels; ticket #332
- updated PS3 profile; ticket #336
- added support for HD AVC/AC3 videos in MP4 container; ticket #317
- added profiles for WDTV Live and LaCie LaCinema Media Players
- it is no longer needed to use -Dserviio.remoteHost on the server side when setting up remote console
- optimized local thumbnail extraction; ticket #349
- added 'ping' resource to the REST API; ticket #356
- added transcoding config for MKV with VC1 for Samsung profiles; ticket #361
- updated Toshiba REGZA profile; ticket #195
- updated Sony Bravia profile to support better browsing integration; ticket #334
- added support for OGG video container and Theora video codec; ticket #363
- added support for VC1/DTS in MPEG2TS container; ticket #376
- added profile for Manta WiFi centre; ticket #346
- added profile for Pure Flow devices; ticket #378
- added support for TrueHD audio codec in video files; ticket #337
- added JSON support to the REST API (thanks to kairoh); ticket #351
- added support for DV video codec; ticket #244
- added support for 3gp files; ticket #319
- updated profile detection to work better with dynamically assigned IP addresses; ticket #343
- enhanced library status monitoring; ticket #99
- added possibility to force audio sample rate for transcoding (aSamplerate); ticket #302
- added headless mode setting to the server component startup scripts; ticket #335
- added metadata extractor for MyMovies files (mymovies.xml); ticket #78
- Windows service installation is now optional in installer; ticket #173
- Windows service now runs under a proper user; ticket #391
- added support for HD MP4 videos with MP3 audio; ticket #398
- added Sharp Aquos profile; ticket #400
- fixed the case where there can be more stored renderers with the same IP address; ticket #291
- fixed error during retrieving XBox video thumbnails; ticket #326
- fixed start-up problems with certain OS locale settings; ticket #341
- added optimizations for persons retrieval; ticket #340
- fixed browsing for some devices that request unlimited number or results; ticket #350
- supports file names with Unicode characters (Chinese, Greek, etc); ticket #266
- added support for Java 7; ticket #379
- fixed displaying categories on LG devices; ticket #360
- weird frame rates default to 23.97; ticket #308
- fixed disabled access to the server on some (e.g. Denon) devices; ticket #348
- fixed playback for Popcorn Hour devices; ticket #339
- updated Restlet to 2.0.9
- updated Apache Derby to 10.8.1.2
- updated FFmpeg to rev. 8bc3a4807e2da36f458e7784c3d390dbd19899a5
Release Notes - 0.5.2
- Details
- Published: Sunday, 27 March 2011 17:44
- added mov/mjpeg/lpcm transcode configuration to Samsung B profile; ticket #304
- added support for thumbnails on XBox 360; ticket #311
- supports subtitles menu on Samsung C series; ticket #270
- integrates with Audio/Video/Image TV folders on Samsung C series
- added Norwegian, Romanian and Bulgarian translation
- added support for Samsung D series devices
- updated Danish translation
- fixed MKV with AAC transcoding; ticket #300
- fixed resource URL encoding problems for some renderers; ticket #305
- fixed retrieving .sub files which has not been fully implemented; ticket #303
- fixed Bookmarks on Samsung C series
- fixed handling of dodgy images, they will be added to library and not cause the indexing process to halt now
Release Notes - 0.5.1
- Details
- Published: Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:20
- implemented audio files transcoding; ticket #228
- added support for FLAC files; ticket #205
- added support for OGG files
- H264 profile/level is now extracted from H264 videos and transcoding matcher has been updated to support transcoding of files with certain profile/level; ticket#225
- folder.jpg now used for local video poster; ticket #258
- added setable socket buffer size; ticket #162
- added setable advertisement duration (-Dserviio.advertisementDuration); ticket #253
- added advertiseService operation to the REST interface; ticket #256
- renamed LPCM audio codec in profiles definition to 'lpcm'
- added FLV transcode settings for Samsung C series; ticket #267
- if search for hidden files is disabled hidden folders are skipped as well; ticket #237
- added option to retrieve original (non translated) movie name from online sources; ticket #263
- added Hungarian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), Catalan and Danish translation
- added support for AVI with mjpeg to Samsung profiles; ticket #273
- merged Sony BDP profiles into one which supports multiple regions; ticket #243
- enabled profile detection by http headers and upnp search simultaneously (Samsung C series BDP); ticket #262
- added support for WTV files; ticket #249
- implemented bookmark functionality for Samsung C series devices; ticket #234
- enabled forcing stereo downmixing per profile; ticket #277
- added wmapro as available transcode matcher audio codec; ticket #178
- increased max. refresh interval to 4 digits (9999); ticket #254
- title of parent for items from 'Display content only' categories is now optional; ticket #240
- in a case the console doesn't have server connection it exits only in certain cases; ticket #285
- DRM video files are skipped from being added to the library; ticket #287
- changed tray icon on OSX (thanks to nanovivid); ticket #288
- added DTS playback support for Panasonic profile; ticket #292
- fixed Random audio category to include tracks outside the first 100
- fixed stream mapping for streams numbered higher than 9; ticket #260
- fixed audio bitrate of transcoding jobs to only use valid values; ticket #257
- fixed searching for series that don't have English data on thetvdb.com; ticket #269
- fixed H264 detection for latest FFmpeg builds; ticket #272
- fixed FPS detection when FFmpeg reports 1k; ticket #274
- fixed XBox transcoding breaking other renderers; ticket #286
Release Notes - 0.5
- Details
- Published: Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:20
- added per-IP renderer profile management; ticket#127
- added new functionality for configuring browsing categories; ticket #26
- added support for Swisscenter video metadata; ticket #79
- added support for XBMC video metadata; ticket #165
- added support for .mts files; ticket #170
- added support for .vdr files
- added support for M2TS files with AVC video and DTS audio; ticket #180
- added support for M2TS files with VC1 video and AC3 audio; ticket #197
- added support for M2TS files with AVC video and MP2 audio; ticket #211
- added support for M2TS files with MPEG4 part 2 video; ticket #206
- added support for PNG image files
- added support for GIF image files
- added support for FLV files; ticket #129
- added support for M4A (MP4/AAC) audio files; ticket #185
- added support for DVR-MS files; ticket #218
- displays file names instead of metadata title in Folders browsing category; ticket #138
- it's now possible to transcode using mp2 as a target audio codec; ticket #177
- added profile for Panasonic Viera incl. support for subtitles; ticket #176
- added availability to browse files as they are being added (in a case of a large batch); ticket #199
- added Audio Random browsing category; ticket #190
- added possibility to retrieve online metadata in a preferred language; ticket #32
- added possibility to force library refresh from the tray icon; ticket #207
- added possibility to turn off scanning for new/updated files per a shared folder; ticket #157
- added possibility to turn off searching for updates of files that are already shared; ticket #118
- updated PS3 profile to be able to play AVI with H264 video
- added start/stop Serviio service into the Start menu (Windows); ticket #214
- browsing audio by music artists is now sorted by their first letter for easier navigation; ticket #106
- added aBitrate attribute to video transcoding element in profiles.xml used to override default audio bitrate for transcoding; ticket #201
- added Toshiba Rezga profile; ticket #195
- console supports translations; ticket #171
- browsing categories menu supports translations; ticket #172
- added EU/US Sony BDP profiles; ticket #208
- added forceVTranscoding attribute to video transcoding element in profiles.xml used to disable video stream muxing and forcing it to always re-encode; ticket #239
- added more episodic file name parsing; ticket #247
- fixed adding media items into library when an associated person record is incomplete; ticket #169
- fixed automatic IP detection, skips VMWare adapters; ticket #175
- enabled dash characters in a folder name to be used during online metadata retrieval (for series/movies that contain dashes in their name)
- implemented workaround for thetvdb.com sending gzip files instead of XML
- fixed displaying of library refresh interval; ticket #189
- enabled adding symbolic links (Linux, OSX) to the library; ticket #194
- fixed starting console on OSes that don't support system tray; ticket #191
- episodic metadata search now supports brackets in the file names; ticket #36
- increased time available for video thumbnail generation to 160 sec.; ticket #200
- fixed storing very long music album titles; ticket #209
- fixed transcoding videos with multi-channel aac audio stream; ticket #203
- fixed Linux detection for FreeBSD; ticket #222
- fixed log file not rolling over properly; ticket #220
- fixed accidental removing of items from library after clicking Save on the Library tab; ticket #233
- updated Apache Derby to version 1.6.2.1
- updated Restlet to version 2.0.4
- updated FFmpeg to rev. 26303
- updated Log4j to version 2.1.16
Release Notes - 0.4.2
- Details
- Published: Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:05
- Corba replaced with Restful services; issue #155
- added subtitles support for Samsung C series (TV, players); issue #126 (thanks to kairoh)
- added media format MPEG4_P2_MP4_SP_L6_AAC; issue #142
- added media format MPEG4_P2_MP4_NDSD
- updated TheMovieDB extractor to utilize new release year search functionality; issue #146
- added icon to Serviio UPnP device
- video files are now advertised for non EU (US, Korea) regions as well; issue #166
- added support for Mpeg2TS profile formats without timestamp or with zero/valid timestamp in their transport packet to support Sony Bravia TVs
- added profile for Sony Bluray players; issue #149
- added profile for Sony Bravia TV; issue #153 (thanks to Illico)
- now works properly with non-english OS locale settings; issue #131
- supports absolute URL for service endpoints; issue #152
- fixed storing very long item titles; issue #144
- fixed NullPointerException during movie metadata extraction; issue #135
- fixed closing DB operations before shutting down; issue #160
- fixed online metadata search for filenames with single word all in capitals (e.g. NCIS)