Twonky Server 8.0.0

Based on 7.2.5

New features

Improvements

• TLS
  • TLS-extensions (RFC 4366) for CVP-2
  • certificates issued by CyberTrust are accepted
  • improved version-handling of different TLS versions
  • support for X509 certificates with EC-DSA
• VidiPath
  • AVC_MP4_MP_SD profile support added
  • DASH_AVC_MP4_HD and DASH_AVC_TS_HD_ISO profiles supported
  • improved RUIHSRC to offer only existing playspeed values
• MPEG_DASH over DTCP
• MPEG_DASH over RUIHS
• string pool performance improved
• device adaption can now handle different aspect ratio requirements from different devices
• improved WD TV photo browsing performance when convert is not installed
• improved robustness and mem usage of persistent views
• sanity checks for INI file settings of Twonky Server are now done before Twonky Server is started or initialized
• scale mode can now be specified by client as part of JPEG URLs
• thumbnail generation tool for mp4 videos now available on Mac
• timeseek support for
  • AAC_ADTS_320 and AAC_ISO_320 added
  • AVC_MP4_MP_SD and AVC_MP4_HP_HD added
• unused pv:crosslink properties have been remove to reduce memory consumption and improve performance
• improved CMS:GetProtocolInfo to create the ProtocolInfo dynamically based on the shared content.
• location of 'mediaserver.pid' is now configurable on Linux.
• webUI: renderer controller now supports seek

Bug fixes

• fixed music playback for AppleTV
• removed confidential information from logging for multi user mode
• missing HW-AES initialization added to fix hardware AES support
• Mac Uninstall does now remove the "Twonky Library"
• added DTCP_ prefix for non-mpeg files
• added missing childcounts to XML
• always enable time-seek for MPEG_TS_JP_T to pass CTT
• cleanup db/watch files after share folder removed
• first change of settings on Mac no longer requires restart
• fixed DTCP-IP MPEG streaming, frame-alignment can be no longer beyond content-size
• fixed aspect ratio in Album Art extractor/generator
• fixed content-length for DTCP playspeed file
• fixed offset calculation for negative playspeed values
• fixed playspeed support with DTCP
• fixed proxy module not properly shutting down
• fixed that Twonky Server did not restart the ssdp thread after changes to the ini file
• fixed that Twonky Server terminated with a critical error when deactivating the upload feature with an rpc call
• fixed timeseek for audio required for RUIHSRC
• fixed wrong DLNA profile for O-AVC_MP4_HP_HD-07
• if secure_folder could not be created the server terminates now properly
• video thumbnails do now honor the aspect ratio of the video
• views-cache is cleared during database-rebuild
• webUI is now able to display All Photos when more than 30000 photos are shared

Known issues

• auto update of Device DB requires a server restart
• nested folders can cause issues with multi-user setup
• sometimes webUI with Opera does not show any thumbnails
• thumbnails of rotated images do not show up correctly in webUI
• upgrading the server on Windows creates database files in the root directory