Release Notes - 1.3.1

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Published: Friday, 22 March 2013 15:37

• 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 - 1.2

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Published: Friday, 01 March 2013 19:22

• added support for burned-in (hardsubs) subtitles; ticket #316
• added support for .ass, .ssa (SSA/ASS) subtitles; ticket #63
• added support for .sub (MicroDVD) subtitles; ticket #246
• added support for .txt subtitles (must be one of the supported types); ticket #248
• added support for .smi (SAMI) subtitles
• added support for subtitles embedded in video files (e.g. MKV); ticket #16
• server can be bound to a particular network card, rather than an IP address; ticket #510
• added support for playing RealVideo files natively
• added OGG/FLAC audio support to Viera 2010 profile
• fourCC and ftyp transcoding matching in now case insensitive
• added transcoding matcher for constrained baseline H264 profile
• chroma subsampling is now stored for online images as well
• removed support for matching episode file names in format SSEE
• added profile for Vizio TV
• added databaseUpdateId field to /application REST resources; ticket #621
• removed personal data from CDS /application resource; ticket #620
• added router port mapping for accessing MediaBrowser and CDS API from the Internet (Pro only); ticket #546
• added X-Serviio-ClientId HTTP header and clientId URL parameter for identifying CDS clients (Pro only); ticket #622
• added External address field for easier setup in client CDS applications; ticket #630
• added external port mapping check button
• added support for local video thumbnails in the form of video_name.tbn and video_name.thm; ticket #517 and #474
• added system property to control periodical check for new or updated plugins; ticket #619
• added getExtractItemsTimeout() method to WebResourceUrlExtractor enabling plugins control the item list extraction timeout; ticket #618
• multicast advertising only happens on one NIC now
• profile parsing on the application startup is now much faster

• fixed storing local audio cover image (folder.jpg)
• fixed retrieving Genre ID3v2.4 tag from MP3 files
• fixed support for transcoded images on some Samsung devices
• removed hard coded 'http://' inside media-browser.js; ticket #624
• keeps file size up-to-date in library; ticket #601
• fixed storing online plugins in the cache; ticket #636
• fixed feed item values storage when expiresImmediately=true in the online plugins; ticket #637
• cache is cleaned when transcoding is turned on/off; ticket #583
• fixed seeking in MediaBrowser

• updated FFmpeg to 1.1.1
• updated LAME MP3 encoder to 3.99.5
• updated libRTMP to latest source

Release Notes - 1.4.1

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Published: Friday, 22 March 2013 15:37

• 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

Release Notes - 1.1

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Published: Wednesday, 19 December 2012 17:04

• added seeking support to MediaBrowser and CDS API; ticket #563 (Pro only)
• added continuous playback to MediaBrowser (Pro only)
• added support for creating playlists within MediaBrowser (Pro only)
• added support for RAW image formats; ticket #137
• improved time based seeking precision
• added m2ts target video container for transcoding to BD-like container (m2ts with timestamps), should help when subtitles out of sync during transcoding; ticket #150
• skipping 'series' file path element when retrieving episodic metadata from file name; ticket #572
• updated XBMC extractor to support files generated by Media Center Master; ticket #531
• finds AlbumArt.jpg as a local cover art for audio files
• increased technical metadata retrieval durability for online streams; ticket #573
• added the possibility to transcode videos based on the FourCC code of the video codec; ticket #567
• updated H264 level-based transcoding decisions; ticket #584
• enabled using hidden local cover art files (e.g. folder.jpg); ticket #533
• added support for transcoding RealVideo files; ticket #250
• it is now possible to change ordering of online resources; ticket #423
• number of items in dynamic categories (Last Added, Last Viewed) is now configurable; ticket #357
• enable turning off image thumbnail generation; ticket #552
• updated AAC audio container detection via FFmpeg and added MP4 -> MP3 transcoding for online audio streams; ticket #550
• added REST resource for retrieving details of installed plugins; ticket #564
• added context menu for the Console text fields (cut/copy/paste)
• enhanced online item id management, so that the id is new for each feed refresh; ticket #544
• HTTP status code is now part of the REST API response status line; ticket #591
• added automatic CPU detection for transcoding
• removed the possibility to add renderers manually in the Console
• enabled changing renderer name via the API
• added profiles for more Sony devices; ticket #595

• fixed adding files multiple times on Turkish localizations
• fixed online audio problems with 2011 Sony Bravia profile
• fixed the priority local cover files are applied
• fixed MP3 ID3 tag handling to properly merge v1 and v2
• fixed remuxing live streams in mpegts container; ticket #566
• fixed DAR handling for files transcoding to FLV
• fixed the service crashing with "An internal error occurred (error code 7)" on Windows'; ticket #419
• fixed the Windows installer, it now makes sure the target directory ends with /Serviio to avoid the Uninstaller removing unwanted files; ticket #589

• added Apache commons-lang to the dependencies