Twonky Server 8.4.1

Twonky Server 8.4.1

New Features

  • 360° image (jpg) and video (mp4) support

  • 64 Bit Linux support

Improvements

  • added support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec in MP4 audio tracks for Samsung TV H series and later

Bug fixes

  • fixed crash when opening a dialog box about a missing license [Mac only]

  • fixed multiple loading of the ini file if an unsupported language was configured

  • fixed playback to AppleTV 2nd and 3rd gen

  • fixed start failure when user path contains Umlauts or non-ASCII characters [Windows only]

  • fixed that AVI was sent to Apple TV as that made it hang

  • fixed that devices get an access denied if they are manually enabled in case auto-enable of new devices is turned off

  • fixed that devices with 3 device description entries in the device db are not properly identified

  • fixed that start menu entry was only created for user installing the server [Windows only]

Known issues

  • "My Russound" app does not show the correct album art when used with Twonky Server

  • UPnP inspector gets confused when Twonky Server provides multiple artist tags with different roles

  • audiobooks can not be aggregated by other Twonky Servers

  • beaming media from Mediatomb to Samsung TV D series does not work

  • duration calculation of MPEG2TS files is not accurate if timeseek generation is disabled

  • error in Mac OS logs for filedb-delete is actually only a warning; operation is not impacted

  • thumbnails of some rotated images do not show up correctly in webUI

  • updating from 7.x to 8.x with preserve settings leaves some files in c:\

  •  "Try Again" button in the web UI to re-check if the EMail has been verified, does not work if the email has been verified on another device. Workaround: restart the server

  • new translation strings are missing for Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean

  • playback to AppleTV 4th gen with tvOS 10.2 or later is not supported

QA information

CTT 2.0.4.4

MCVT 3.0.3.9

UCTT 2.0.72

LPTT 2.0.37