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Serviio is developed by Petr Nejedly, who currently lives in London and works as a freelance Scala consultant.
Serviio uses some open-source libraries without which it would not have been possible. We would like to thank all the people who contributed to them.
Release Notes - 1.2.1
- 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
Release Notes - 1.3
- updated MediaBrowser to work on iOS devices (Pro only)
- added Search to CDS API; ticket #607 (Pro only)
- added thumbnails for folders to CDS API (Pro only); ticket #588
- added default Access Group setting for renderers (Pro only); ticket #590
- removed the watermark from MediaBrowser player (Pro only)
- added the option to disable access to all new renderers by default
- added thumbnails for folders; ticket #271
- added support for higher resolution thumbnails; ticket #634
- fixed re-invoking transcoding command when previous attempt fails due to a temporary condition; ticket #578
- fixed delivering hardsubs for files including '&' on Windows
- fixed MP3 year metadata extraction for ID3 v2.3 tags TIME value
- removed system tray icon on OSX, all the options are now present on the Serviio-Console dock icon
- added the option to transcode to H264
- added the option to transcode to HLS (Http Live Streaming); ticket #560
- added Audio -> Albums browsing category; ticket #367
- keeping metadata (incl. cover art) when trancsoding to mp3; ticket #650
- added Release year browsing category for videos; ticket #609
- added support for VTT subtitles
- added support for MOV text subtitles
- added serviio.onlineContentTimeout system property to control timeout for checking online content availability
- added 'Last Listened' and 'Random Albums' audio categories; ticket #542
- profile ID max. length increased to 20 characters
- updated WebResource plugin logic when handling items that expire immediately; ticket #626
- album tracks are now sorted by disc number, where available; ticket #486
- it is possible to provide character encoding of subtitle files when using hardsubs; ticket #643
- updated series sorting; ticket #511
- added multi CPU support to thumbnail generation; ticket #464
- it's now possible to retrieve online thumbnails with a specific user agent; ticket #659
- added ServiioLink support in the console; ticket #541
- added detection of the server waking up from sleep; ticket #192
- added feed parsing re-try mechanism; ticket #639
- changed episode title formatting in Titles view; ticket #676
- implemented support for Artists audio category on XBox 360; ticket #605
- it is now possible to filter out Series data from some browsing categories; ticket #610
- added support for import/export of online resources; ticket #494
- image resolutions are now configurable in profile; ticket #640
- added support for mp2 audio files; ticket #679
- added support for wavpack audio files; ticket #647
- added profile for Philips NP Streamium; ticket #629
- added support for Musepack and Monkey's audio files; ticket #370
- updated series metadata search for file names including release year
- updated the way profile is passed in CDS API
- updated themoviedb.org adaptor to use API v3; ticket #663
- fixed DAR enforcement for anamorphic files
- fixed finding external subtitles files when no language is preferred; ticket #658
- fixed bound IP address reassignment when DHCP server cannot be reached; ticket #661
- fixed invoking FFmpeg if Serviio is installed on a path including dodgy characters (Windows)
- reverted back AAC transcoding on some Bravia profiles
- fixed "Can't assign requested address" on OSX with Java 1.6.0_45 and higher
- fixed Windows firewall rules being duplicated when reinstalling (without uninstalling first)
- updated Apache Derby to 10.10.1.1
- updated FFmpeg to N-54096-ge41bf19
Release Notes - 1.3.1
- added profile for Yamaha BD-A1020; ticket #695
- added profile for Roku (via Chaneru)
- added log warning if the server and the console are not the same version
- adding new files to library uses less CPU and IO resources
- uploading license will make immediate effect without the need to restart the console
- fixed Pro evaluation period duration
- fixed subtitles for WDTV live
- fixed HLS transcoding for files with no audio
- fixed extraction of some online resources that include quotes in the URL
- fixed hardsubs on Linux and OSX
- updated Lucene to 4.4.0
Release Notes - 1.4.1
- MediaBrowser player window now displays the context of the playlist items; ticket #745 (Pro only)
- MediaBrowser playlist is scrollable using arrow keys; ticket #752 (Pro only)
- added a profile for Toshiba REGZA 2012-
- updated iOS profile to transcode less files (requires iPad2 at least); ticket #753
- new XBMC-style thumbnail naming is now supported (filename-thumb.jpg, filename-poster.jpg); ticket #758
- if album artist is missing, use artist value instead; ticket #747
- license checking thread now runs once a day not to wake NASes too often; ticket #739
- added support for MySql queries; ticket #750
- added MediaFormatProfiles for video files with DTS and DTS-HD audio
- added support for transcoding DTS-HD MA audio; ticket #710
- added profile for Roku
- updated profiles for Viera devices; ticket #765
- added profile for Sony BDP 2013 models
- fixed the FlowPlayer logo occasionally appearing in MediaBrowser (Pro only)
- fixed random MediaBrowser bugs (incl. playback in Firefox); ticket #737 (Pro only)
- fixed the Play All button for Images in MediaBrowser (Pro only)
- fixed year and rating not being updated in the MediaBrowser player window after a new item has been selected in the queue (Pro only)
- fixed passing email-address-like credentials via feed URL
- fixed 500 error in MediaBrowser when a different error message is expected; ticket #742
- fixed parsing of WPL playlists with unsupported BOM
- search index for online feeds is now updated also for cached items; ticket #744
- fixed browsing error for see-through categories; ticket #756
- added code that deals with invalid XML from Swisscenter; ticket #754
- fixed adding tracks to albums when the album name or the artist name is very long; ticket #755
- fixed detecting default embedded subtitles track; ticket #763
- ignores invalid DISCNUMBER audio metadata values; ticket #767
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