TwonkyMedia Server 5.1.1 back to 1.02

TwonkyMedia Server 5.1.1 back to 1.02

 

TwonkyMedia Server 5.1.1

New Features

  • WMDRM support for Win32 is back

  • Added support for the following client devices

    • Lacie LaCinema HD

    • Orange Music Player 

    • Denon S-302

    • Denon AVR-4308

    • Netgear EVA 2000

    • Sagem My Web Tuner 500

    • Sagem My Dual Radio 700

    • Samsung TV

    • Kodak EX-811 (detected, but issues with the navigation)

Changes

  • Improved file scanner performance

  • Improved cgi-jpegscale performance

  • Added support ImportResource for DLNA uploads

  • Added support for pause/resume for videos on Samsung TVs

  • Eliminated WMP11 dependency caused by WMDRM support

  • No admin rights needed for tray app anymore (no elevation required on VISTA and Win7)

  • Playlist management with TMM is back

  • Updated MPEG2 and MP4 parser to enable more DLNA profiles

  • Server passes again the CTT tool

Bug fixes

  • fixed: Heavy CPU usage when adding or deleting media files

  • fixed: On PS3 the date for pictures does not include time information

  • fixed: Cross site scripting vulnerability

  • fixed: Some MPEG2 profiles are not correctly identified

  • fixed: Playlist not syncing properly after DB rebuild

  • fixed: Rebuilding DB deletes all TMM created playlists

  • fixed: folder.jpg is case sensitive on Linux

  • fixed: album art for movies is no longer shown

  • fixed: console on MacOS is spammed by "OS does not support evented filesystem" messages

  • fixed: Transcoded files are not being cleaned up after original file is removed

  • fixed: Metadata is not preserved when upgrading TMM

TwonkyMedia Server 5.1

New Features

  • support for removable media

  • support for background transcoding

  • support for view configuration per client device

  • Win7 compliance (when running on other systems like NAS, the server is detected correctly by Win7 systems)

Changes

  • database now based on SQLiteoverall performance improvements

Known issues

  • WMDRM for Win32 not supported in this release

  • on some systems the removable media checkmark may result in trying to share removed/no existing drives

  • TMS config application needs to be allowed every time on start-up on VISTA and Win7 systems

  • some screens of the TMS installer do not show in Japanese

  • MediaFusion plugin leaves a zombie process on Linux (but will be removed on next MF plugin start)

  • some contents can not be played on web browse UI as the Browser does not have the right plugin for playback available

  • Picasaweb support is experimental and may not show content all the time

  • no thumbnail support for D-Link DSM 520


TwonkyMedia Server 5.0

  • new database structure with less memory usage

  • server-side user-playlist support

  • new transcoding architecture

Changes

  • new database structure with less memory usage

  • on Windows Server is always installed as system service

Bug fixes

  • client adaptation for players which crash on X_MS_MediaReceiverRegistrar:RegisterDevice

  • client adaptation for Philips NP2x00 search added

  • inotify follows symbolic links, if followlinks=1

  • fixed search

  • mem leak fixes

  • fixed some parts on user created playlists

  • fixed enable/disable of content dirs

  • correctly recognizes ID3V2.4 compliant tags

  • fixed mp4 parser

  • fixed DLNA_QoS for non-DLNA-1.5 clients

  • fixed html tags and entities in language files

  • fixed SSDP messages for multi-homed server

  • fixed different handling of AVI for PS3

  • fixed discovery of Roku player

  • fixed DeviceDescription for DLNA 1.0 compliant devices which can not handle 1.5 servers

  • added duration field for FLACfixed problems with very big content files, duration is now calculated correctly

Known issues

  • deleting the last item in a playlist removes the playlist

  • Tray application only in English

  • 5.0.x has no support for Internet Radio

  • some JPEG pictures cause problems on Metadata extraction

  • JPEGs are not upscaled, very small JPEGs can not be shown on some devices

TwonkyMedia Server 4.4.4

New Features

  • Added support for the following client devices

    • Denon AVR 3808 

    • LT-H90

    • PC-P1LAN

    • PC-P4LAN

Changes

  • all containers under Folder navigation are now of type 'object.container.storageFolder'

  • clients are now enabled/disabled based on MAC addresses

  • using the friendly name instead of TwonkyMedia on the RSS pages

  • added support for file types: *.m2p, *.m2v, *.mp2t, *.mp2p, *.mpg2

Bug fixes

  • fixed matching filenames in playlists

  • fixed endless loop when unplugging network cable

  • fixed streaming avi and divx files to XBOX 360

  • fixed broken English translation for "album"

  • fixed exif parser problem with XTitle and XKeywords

  • broken jpegscaler replaced

  • fixed duration for B-MP2PS_N-86.mpg, B-MP2PS_P-11.mpg, B-MP2PS_P-106.mpg

  • fixed response for TIMESEEKRANGE (all upper case, as requested by Intel tools!) to 200 OK

  • fixed response for range requests where start is bigger than end to HTTP_BAD_REQUEST (from HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE)

  • fixed that Internet Radio playlists are no longer available after a server restart

  • fixed wav support for DLNA clients

  • added channels 2 and frequency 44100 as default for lpcm content

Known issues

  • When picture rescaler is disabled and images do not have an embedded thumbnails the Playstation 3 needs a long time to show thumbnails. In such a case the PS3 retrieves the whole image and downscales it by itself. On large images or when system  resources are low the PS3 is not able to show more thumbnails.

  • Playstation 3 is unable to recognize some MP3 files which contain ID3v2-tags at the beginning of the media file

TwonkyMedia Server 4.4.3.1

  • DivX and WMV support for PS3 (4.4.3.1)

  • AAC support for PS3!

  • Time information for pictures on PS3

  • added Album Artist and Album Art for OGG and FLAC

  • added rss feed support for all content types. Start with http://127.0.0.1:9000/rss/feed

  • enhanced generated rss XML feed by more properties

  • added webnodes seeting to .ini file to define which content nodes are accesible through the web interface. Default setting is MPV for all content types. e.g. set webnodes=P for sharing pictures only through the web interface.

  • new supported clients

    • HP MediaSmart TV

    • Philips WAS7000

    • Zyxel DMA-1000

    • OXX Alto music player

    • Ziova DMP

    • Loewe Connect TV

    • TA music player

    • Denon AVR-3808

Changes

  • upload can now be enabled/disabled through the uploadenabled flag

  • different directories for upload for music/picture/video can be set now

  • revised EXIF parser for pictures which extracts date information and thumbnails

  • added apl file extension for AAC files

  • album art is now scaled to JPEG_TN (DLNA) 160x160

  • enhanced performance of JPEG scanner

  • on rpc/rescan all files in the given content directories will be scanned again, not just 'new' files

  • configpage URL is changed to http://127.0.0.1:9000/configpage

 

Bug fixes

  • fixed duration info for AVI files

  • fixed WMA album artist now also used as artist - if artist is missing

  • fixed that VISTA goes to power safe mode while streaming

  • made sure that bye bye message of server is send before a new alive message is send

  • added new command line parameter -D to daemonize twonkymedia

  • fixed broken iTunes import

  • fixed thumbnails for Loewe Connect

  • remove cache of transcoded content on database rebuild to free up used disk space

  • fixed playlist update problem

  • fixed problem that playlist are not removed from database

  • fixed DSM-320 DivX streaming problem

  • fixed WPL playlists containing special characters

  • fixed sort of picture folders on webbrowse interface

  • fixed album art for m4b files

  • speed improvements on Exif parser

  • use WAV file name notation always to fill in missing metadata

    • note: as WAV files do not carry metadata please use a naming schema like genre_artist_album_tracknumber_title.wav 

  • bind with reuse option to port 1900

Known issues

  • if the server runs on a system with multiple NICs it disappears from time to time from the PS3

    • fix: you need to set the IP address of one NIC in the server configuration

  • on some systems SMS style navigation with Philips clients seems not to work (this can not be reproduced in our environment)

  • we list up to 25 radio stations per genre. it may be less if duplicate stations occur

  • removable and network drives are not supported

  • Zyxel DMA-1000 only supports very few Shoutcast radio stations

  • PS3 does not support any Shoutcast radio stations

  • Opera and Mozilla can not play back Shoutcast radio station (need QuickTime plug-in) 

  • can not support video thumbnails on XBOX360 and WMV, as these break divx playback

TwonkyMedia Server 4.4.2

Bug fixes

  • thumbnails URLs are now offered after original URLs, so that simple clients which take just the first URL display full size images

TwonkyMedia Server 4.4.1

Changes

  • support for webbrowse-js addon 

  • support for XP/VISTA power safe modes

Bug fixes


- fix for Noxon 2 detection, now also ignores wrong Noxon 2 sort criteria 
- for MP3 ID3 tags which are using ASCII tags:
support for codepage ini file setting
use 932 for ShiftJIIS
use 936 for GBK (Chinese)
use -1 to disable all conversions and stick to ASCII
- path to app directory and ini file is now stored in the registry during setup
this should fix the problem that license keys from the service version of the
server are not found by the interactice one and vice versa
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TwonkyMedia\AppDir]
"dir"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\user\\Application Data\\TwonkyMedia"
- if installed as service the twonkymedia icon now just launches the web config pages
and not an additional server
- support for mts and m2ts files
- ignore PNG album art in MP3 files
- accept large MP3 headers
fixed DSM-320 video problem (it requested a subtitle and got the whole video,
which caused either stuttering playback or hangups)
- Philips TV identified now by user agent header: Philips-Software-WebClient
needs to disable picture scaling

Known issues


- if using network drives on Windows please set scan time to 0 or positive values,
event based scanning will not work here!

TwonkyMedia Server 4.4

New Features

+ PS3 support (MP3,WMA,JPG,MPEG1,MPEG2,some MPEG4), no Internet Radio possible
+ Intel MAC support
+ replaced javascript mediabrowser by generated HTML pages (webbrowse)
+ new remote access via web browser

Changes

o added duration for most mpeg files, this enables the PS3 to FF/REW
o improved mpeg parser
o on Windows now use Application Data folder for database and other app data, should no
longer require to start as Admin on VISTA now

Bug fixes


fixed mp3 parser for UTF-8 char codes
- sort criteria for playlists fixed
- artist removed from default sort criteria
- date removed from default sort criteria
fixed device description
fixed default extension for video playlists
fixed m4v mime type
fixed randomize playlists
fixed duration for mp3 with large headers

on remote access setup:
set dyndns in .ini file to http://myhome.dyndns.org:9100 
set httpremoteport in .ini file to 9100
forward 9100 on the firewall to the server
use http://myhome.dynfns.org:9100/webbrowse to access content
you should also set username and pwd on the config pages for secure access
you may use stunnel as well to protect the access even more...

 

TwonkyMedia Server 4.3

New Features


+ XBOX 360 features: folder browse on videos, mpeg4 and aac support, resume on videos
+ revised CD Key handling and trial version
+ support for Nokia N95 with upload

Changes

o changed default sort to: +upnp:artist,+upnp:album,+upnp:originalTrackNumber,+dc:date,+dc:title
o added mime type conversion to client DB file
o added time stamp to windows log file
o enhanced debug output on file scanning and playlist reading
o fixed enableweb=3, needs DYNDNS setting as well
o TwonkyMusic is discontinued from 4.3 on

Bug fixes


fixed library update message on MCW770
- search now delivers all titles with same name if these are from separate artists

 

TwonkyMedia Server 4.2

New Features


+ client device security (enable/disable server access per client)
+ web configuration pages can now be secured by username/password
+ enable/disable folder shares without removing them completely
+ simpler setup (pre-select most common used navigation trees)
+ support for .wmv video streaming for XBOX360
+ support for WMP11 on VISTA
+ added subtitle support for Philips streamium clients
+ added subtitle property to video objects pv:subtitlefile
+ revised client database (no longer single settings for each client needed)
+ support for Album Art files created by WMP
+ new revised database with faster scan times
+ revised file scanning
+ improved mpeg4 metadata scanner
+ additional content formats
+ additional clients supported

 

Changes


o changed Winamp support - just set the path to the installed Winamp
media library where the playlists and the m3u8 files are located as
part of the shared diectories, e.g. 
C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins\ml

 

Bug fixes


- re-scaling for pictures is now proportional
fixed album sort order for Netgear EVA 700
fixed file system eventing
- a number of layout fixes for the Media Browser
fixed file scanner terminating on files with a date before 1970
fixed that the uri cache is growing and does not re-use existing uris
fixed upper/lowercase problems with playlist handling on Windows
fixed wpl scanner crashing on invalid wpl files
fixed handle leak on thread creation under windows
fixed manual registration of trial version
- removed non working Internet Radio for Yamaha which can do this native
fixed several playlist problems

Known issues


- directories containing single quotes (') can not be selected on the web config pages for sharing
- no FF for MPEG videos on DMS-320
- Linux users with a Netgear MP101 need to use the the 'Netgear MP101 RTP' client setting. 
To apply this setting the server needs to be restarted. 
- VISTA setup:
if there is an error message on setup please set User Access Control to off
- MediaBrowser playback depends heavily on Browser setup and installed plugins
- WMP11 will sometimes first download a video before starting playback, this
depends on the codec. Best format for streaming video with WMP11 is WMV.

TwonkyMedia Server 4.1


New Features


+ support for .mov and .tp files

 

Changes


o changed wording on update license information

Bug fixes


- Shoutcast scanner is no longer invoked every minute
fixed mem leak on Shoutcast import
- m4a scanner fixed
- installer for DS101g+ fixed
- on DSM-320 disabled picture rescale as this leads to bad quality

 

TwonkyMedia Server 4

 

new Features:
+ support for PSP, on http://serverip:9000/rss a PSP can now get feeds for all
local music and also for Shoutcast radio stations!
Note: the webpage supports all folders with a depth of one level only
+ support for file system eventing (Windows and inotify on Linux)
+ support for asian character sets
+ support for database plugins to import data from different sources
+ support for CGI and transcoder plugins
+ inbuild MediaBrowser
+ enhanced config pages (e.g. browse to content directory)
+ DLNA: support for create object and destroy object
+ support for Podcasts
+ support for Playlist folders
+ support for Composer and %COMPOSER macro
+ added cachedir and cachemaxsize params to set the cache location for transcoded files
+ support for embedded thumbnails from JPEG pictures (no scaling required here)
+ alpha group now supported for %PATH
+ support for VLC via special video playlists
+ new option powersavemode, set this to nnn minutes and the server will not access
the disk after nnn minutes of inactivity from client side
on sleep mode DB is flushed until a client needs it again (also saves memory now)
+ support for m4a metadata
+ new ini file option startupmb to enable/disable MediaBrowser as default page
set startupmb=1 to have MediaBrowser as default page
+ enhanced TG100 support
+ autodetection of TG100
+ Track Title display on Play All
+ Faster Track change on Play All
+ support for 3gp and mp4 audio 
+ support for 3gp video
+ support for m4a metadata
+ support for Philips SLA5520
+ support for YAMAHA Network Receiver
+ support for ACTIVY Media Player 150
+ support for KiSS DP-600
+ support for ATwavTAg tags: 
see http://www.nas-kan.org/detritus/audiotron.shtml#TOCMaker


Changes:
o MediaBrowser is new default page of server, configuration can be reached via
setup.hml
o enhanced support for iTunes (playlist folder, videos, podcasts)
o .ini file is now stored as UTF-16
o adaptable configuration pages (based on javascript)
o Shoutcast html files must be saved with the string "shoutcast-radio" in the name
o enhanced performance on browse and search actions
o better memory utilization
o default ini file name is now always twonkyvision-mediaserver.ini and
located in the same directory where the runtime is
o much faster server announcement on startup

 

TwonkyMedia Server 4.01

Bug fixes

- rescan time > 0 works now
- better handling on license info
- TG100 no longer detected as music only client

TwonkyMedia Server 4.0

Bug fixes

- thumbnails on D-Link are back
- increased stability on connection (mainly WLAN streaming)
fixed the problem that XBOX no longer displays pictures
fixed security leak on rpc calls / only allow remote calls on enableweb=2
fixed sort order on all tracks
fixed sort problem on PATH
fixed Shoutcast scanner for new Shoutcast web page format
fixed Adobe Photoshop import for more than 256 tags

 

Known issues


- usage of UNC notation in playlists may lead to playlists not showing up
- on some clients server disappears after 30 minutes, this is due to 
multicast problems in the network. Please set the option upnptimeout in
the .ini file here to 60000 
- language support on NAS must be either ASCII, UTF-8 or ISO8859-1 to
show up filenames correctly.
- media with '&' and '?' in the filename can not be transcoded or rescaled

TwonkyMedia Server 3.1

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new Features:
+ magic playlist resolver which can OS independent find files in playlists,
you no longer need to edit your playlists if you juts copy them to Linux or
on a NAS
+ iTunes database can also now be stored on a NAS and used on a PC with iTunes
and "served" in parallel by the Server on the NAS without modifications
+ Shoutcast radio station selection
Now it is very simple to have your favourite Shoutcast stations
available via TwonkyMedia. just go to http://www.shoutcast.com 
and search/select your favourite stations there. Save the
displayed web page somewhere under the content dirs of the
server (preferred solution is to have a special folder name
like "Shoutcast stations").
When saving the web page, make sure that the title contains 
somewhere the word "Shoutcast", e.g. name it 
"My Shoutcast rock songs.htm"On the next rescan the server will find this file and presentthe stations under Internet radio-> - Favourite Stations--> My Shoutcast rock songs + new event based API for rescans+ Internet Radio support for XBOX, Internet Radio playlists are now listed under playlists