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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 - 0.5
- 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 - 0.5.1
- 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 - 0.4.2
- 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
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