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Serviio is developed by Petr Nejedly, who currently lives in London and works as a freelance Java consultant.
Serviio uses some open-source libraries without which it would not have been possible. I would like to thank all the people who contributed to them.
Release Notes - 0.4.2
- 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)
Release Notes - 0.4
- added video 'on-the-fly' transcoding capabilities; issue #46
- added DB optimalization configuration for faster browsing
- updated profile detection mechanism to be able to interrogate any HTTP header and check its value against a regular expression
- enabled entering remote shared folders (when the console runs on a different machine than the server); issue #74
- enabled sharing images with resolution higher that 4096x4096; issue #25
- added support for MP4 with H264 and LPCM (e.g. Canon DSLR cameras' video format); issue #67
- added support for WMV files including WMA PRO 10 audio track; closes #76
- added link to serviio.org to About tab of the console; issue #84
- displays console window after console start on Linux and OSX; issue #77
- added more episodic file name patterns (see http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12); issue #36
- enabled sharing of root folders (e.g. c:\, d:\); issue #75
- added automatic image rotation based on EXIF metadata; issue #55
- added .mov extension for video files; issue #97
- added profile for Samsung A-series TVs; issue #88
- added profile for DirecTV DVR
- Windows installer now detects Java on 64-bit machines; issue #81
- possibility to provide FFmpeg location using ffmpeg.location system variable
- added support for MPEG2TS files with .tp extension; issue #89
- added system tray menu item to enable/disable automatic library updates; issue #102
- updated MP3 mime-type to fix playback on some devices; issue #66
- fixed specific AC-3 audio track detection; issue #80
- fixed audio track detection in a case of multiple tracks; issue #80
- fixed Linux console startup script; issue #64
- added more available memory (384MB) to handle transcoding of large images
- images are sorted by file name in folder view; issue #71
- fixed marking of viewed assets to be more generic and support more devices; issue #82
- fixed audio album art not showing on some devices; issue #69
- fixed locking of streamed files; issue #94
- browsing in the Folder category is now faster
- optimized library updating mechanism for speed and less CPU utilization; issue #72, #73
- updated FFmpeg to revision 23012, it also enables MP3 encoding (thanks to LAME MP3 Encoder)
- updated Apache Derby to version 10.5.3.0
Release Notes - 0.4.1
- added caching of library information for faster browsing experience; issue #86
- added profile for Samsung C-series devices
- added support for MJPEG video codec; issue #120
- added support for MPEG4 Microsoft variant (or DIV3); issue #117
- added possibility of not limiting image resolution to 4096x4096 if device supports it; issue #121
- added tool tip on shared folder name in console to enable distinguishing long entries; issue #122
- added subtitles support for LG BD players; issue #124
- added possibility to disable generation of thumbnails for local video files; issue #90
- added possiblity to turn off online metadata extraction for some folders; issue #114
- added option to select either Server, Console or both for Windows Installation; issue #47
- fixed remote console startup
- fixed storing music albums with long titles; issue #110
- fixed console in a case when system tray is not supported by the OS; issue #109
- bundled FFmpeg now works on OSX 10.5
- fixed storing corrupted fps value of some files; issue #112
- better management of metadata for files copied from DVD (Video_TS, VTS_, etc)
- thumbnail extraction is now avoided for unrecognized file to save CPU; issue #125
- fixed support for files with names including non-latin characters; issue #123
- fixed video playback stuttering (high CPU usage during playback)
- updated Apache Derby to version 10.6.1.0
Release Notes - 0.3.1
- added possibility to connect to the Serviio server from a remote console (using -Dserviio.corbaHost property)
- added support for ID3v22 cover art tag in MP3 files
- added support for parsing file names with DBRip in them
- added more file name patterns for series; issue #36
- episode numbers are now 2 digits (padded with 0 if needed) for proper sorting on some devices; issue #52
- added possibility to skip Java install if not found; issue #50
- added 'Last Watched' notifier on series' seasons and episodes; issue #53
- added possibility to add year to series name (useful when series name is not unique enough)
- streaming Music on XBox360 is now possible; issue #56
- fixed issue #39: Wait for Corba Naming service to start-up
- fixed issue #41: Missing response for malformed Subscribe message
- fixed issue #42: Wrong HTTP status codes
- fixed issue #49: Browsing Folders category is slow
- fixed 'Last Added' video category to show files that have been added to the library most recently
- upgraded JAudioTagger library to version 2.0.1
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