Release Notes - 1.9.2

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Published: Tuesday, 08 May 2018 20:26

• reload the profiles when Start Server is clicked in the Console; ticket #1004
• profiles in user-profiles.xml are detected with higher priority than those in profiles.xml; ticket #1022
• better register playback progress events from MediaBrowser; ticket #966

• fixed MediaBrowser playback on Internet Explorer 11; ticket #1048
• fixed MediaBrowser failing to close the player window on iOS; ticket #1048
• PS4 now plays FLAC audio natively
• fixed parsing user rating with decimal comma character; ticket #1055
• fixed library stopping being updated after 24 hours; ticket #1054

Release Notes - 1.9

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Published: Sunday, 23 July 2017 16:21

• MediaBrowser now used HTML5 video renderer, instead of Flash; ticket #952
• enabled giving Renderers user-friendly names; ticket #970
• enhance trakt.tv XBMC episode tracking; ticket #983
• added User Rating browsing category; ticket #387
• use Unknown for video metadata entities only when the Descriptive metadata is used for the Shared folder; ticket #976
• All Music (and other virtual categories) are now possible to be turned-off; ticket #980
• added Edit context menu to the Console input fields; ticket #924
• users can now store their profiles in user-profiles.xml file; ticket #766
• added new Roku profiles; ticket #994

• fixed retrieving genres on mySQL engine; ticket #997
• fixed folder share browsing in the Console to properly deal with ampersands in the folder name; ticket #978
• correctly detect character encoding of playlist files; ticket #985
• fix multi-track audio transcoding; ticket #986
• fixed detection and displaying of Hebrew subtitles
• fixed type in serviio.hdThumbnailResolution system property; ticket #1006
• fixed subtitles not delivered completely for some renderers; ticket #956

• updated FFmpeg to 3.2.4
• updated Java to 1.8.0_131

Release Notes - 1.9.1

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Published: Thursday, 15 February 2018 21:45

• ignore .@__thumb QNAP folders; ticket #1021
• upgrade to TheTVDB.com API v2; ticket #945
• enabled native 4k H264 playback in MediaBrowser on Desktop
• added support for idx/sub bitmap subtitles; ticket #1035
• added support for 'forced' external subtitle files; ticket #1034
• added support audio HLS files; ticket #857
• added Samsung M series profile; ticket #1037

• fixed passing clientId and start parameters to CDS when playing HLS content; ticket #1018
• fixed parsing video rating for some Locales; ticket #1020
• detect subtitle files immediately when they are added; ticket #1024
• increase timeout for playing HLS videos in MediaBrowser; ticket #1023
• fixed adding online sources with URL ending with a colon; ticket #1011
• show relevant cover image when browsing artists and other roles; ticket #1029
• fixed removing multiple shared folders at the same time; ticket #1036
• fixed duplicates being left in the library after editing shared folder path; ticket #1045
• fixed audio playback in MediaBrowser on iOS devices; ticket #1031

• updated Java to 1.8.0_162

Release Notes - 1.8

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Published: Friday, 09 December 2016 19:00

• detect start and stop of a file playback and include notifications in the Console; ticket #898
• track your video collection and playback progress using Trakt.tv integration; ticket #594
• display the item being played per Renderer in the Console; ticket #965
• added support for multiple genres per media file; ticket #268
• setting a poller mechanism per shared folder; ticket #902
• added /profiles endpoint to the CDS API; ticket #953
• added setting to prefer multichannel audio tracks during video delivery; ticket #961
• added support for eac3 audio; ticket #969
• added support for native playback of H265 in MpegTS where supported; ticket #971

• fixed Folders browsing category sorting to be case insensitive; ticket #932
• add BOM mark to extracted UTF-8 subtitles to fix displaying them on some devices; ticket #880
• fixed folder names with & getting truncated in MediaBrowser; ticket #948