Release notes

Release Notes - 1.9.1

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

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

fixed subtitles being cut short; ticket #956
fixed metadata caching for online content
music tracks are now sorted alphabetically in the virtual All music folder for artists and album artists; ticket #955
fixed subtitles UTF-8 encoding on some devices
better notification when authentication to OpenSubtitles.org fails

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

added support for audio track selection / preference in both, DLNA and CDS (Pro only) mode; ticket #235
added the ability to switch audio track of video files to MediaBrowser (Pro only); ticket #942
added support for automatic subtitle download from opensubtitles.org; ticket #632;
added a setting to fall-back to the 'default' embedded subtitle if there is not language match; ticket #730
added an option to include user rating in videos' titles; ticket #401
libshine integration now supported for audio files as well; ticket #623
added support for HW accelerated H264 encoder (a user-provided FFmpeg with QSV support); ticket #930
added styling options for text-based hard subs; ticket #853
show album artist name when browsing Albums in MediaBrowser (Pro only); ticket #895
image management made more memory efficient; ticket #935
added a system property to specify the max. resolution of HD thumbnails; ticket #861
subtitles character encoding can now be automatically guessed; ticket #872
use HLS FFmpeg muxer for AppleHttp transcoding; ticket #927
added All Music browsing categories for Artists and Album Artists; ticket #697
added Media Center Master metadata extractor; ticket #904
added Favourite Series browsing category; ticket #897
added support for WAV files; ticket #314
added support for WMA Lossless; ticket #314
added support for Apple Lossless (ALAC); ticket #314