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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 - 1.9
- 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 - 1.8
- 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
Release Notes - 1.7.1
- 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
Release Notes - 1.7
- 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
- fixed transcoded playback on Samsung devices; ticket #939
- fixed https for iOS and other HLS-consuming devices; ticket #943
- improved h265 transcoding for Sony profiles; ticket #937
- updated FFmpeg to 3.0.2
- updated JRE to 1.8.0_91
On the Go
Access your files anywhere with Pro edition. Use MediaBrowser or one of the Apps to enjoy your content over the Internet.
Control with your voice
You can control Serviio just with your voice and Alexa device. Simply say what you want to watch and let the magic begin.