Twonky SDK 8.1.1

Twonky Server

Improvements

  • MKV scanner uses the creation file time for dc:date if other values are not found in the metadata
  • added device adaptation for OPPO BDP-103
  • embedded albumart is extracted from OGG files
  • improved performance for toggling the "available for aggregation" setting

Bug fixes

  • CDS:CreateReference for user created playlists wrongly increased the number of items
  • CDS:Destroy Object of non-existing playlist entry did not return an error code
  • client-db was not saved to disk when server in sleep mode is shutdown
  • container album art for embedded PNG returned converted JPEG
  • fixed a bug in bitrate parsing for ALAC files
  • fixed an issue with empty user created playlists
  • fixed invalid buffer access when parsing JPGs with GPS coordinates
  • fixed profile-matching for DLNA MCVT test tool due to changed bitrate-unit
  • ituneslib ini parameter was not set on MacOS when ini file was deleted
  • original license status is no longer overwritten when entering trial-expired condition
  • queue exported playlists could not be uploaded
  • renaming a media item was not always recognized by the server (only after explicit rescan)
  • rpc/rescan did produce a number of additional threads that are not needed
  • some foreign servers had been automatically set to enabled in aggregation servers list

Known issues

  • LG TV Series 6 does not displays video subtitle of a video when advancing automatically to the video in a queue
  • audiobooks cannot be aggregated
  • duration calculation of MPEG2TS files is not accurate if timeseek generation is disabled
  • media item can be duplicated following a change in its metadata
  • mp4 thumbnail generation is broken
  • UPnP inspector gets confused when Twonky Server provides multiple artist tags with different roles
  • error in Mac OS logs for filedb-delete is actually only a warning; operation is not impacted
  • occasionally, Twonky license key input results in "invalid key" on Linux systems
    • workaround: remove the appdata folder and try again
  • thumbnails of some rotated images do not show up correctly in webUI
  • sometimes webUI with Opera does not show any thumbnails

QA information

CTT 2.0.3.9

MCVT 3.0.3.8

UCTT 2.0.63

LPTT 2.0.29

 

 

Twonky Client Components

New Features

  • DIAL support and related APIs

Improvements

  • added option no-proxy to bypass proxy in tm_dmrcp_create_metadata()
  • added start and count parameters to RSS renderer list
  • login to/logout from multi-user Twonky Server now generates a server update event
  • relaxed Apple TV discovery to search now every 30s instead of every second to reduce power consumption
  • tm_ldmr_set_name automatically reannounces new name
  • added API for providing upload progress [Android and iOS only]
  • added API for rescanning renderers

Bug Fixes

  • fixed beaming to Windows Media Player on Windows 10
  • fixed queue offloading to other queue handler for 3rd party DMRs
  • fixed skip on Samsung TV C series
  • fixed skip while paused on Apple TV 2nd Gen in web UI
  • fixed that LDMR with customer UDN is treated as 3rd party DMR by remote clients
  • fixed that a lost event was sent to own app if network access to local DMR was disabled
  • the audiobook position is no longer overwritten if resume from previous position fails
  • fixed handling of HTTP error codes from DTCP activation server [TSDK premium only]
  • fixed application ID handling for DTCP activation [TSDK premium only]
  • fixed issue where DTCP upload handler is not registered in DTCP initialization [TSDK premium only]
  • fixed an issue where querying sort capabilities from NMCServerContext may lead to a crash [iOS only]

Known Issues

  • LG TV Series 6 does not displays video subtitle of a video when advancing automatically to the video in a queue
  • Roku does not support seek for music
  • SDK allows to beam media items with unsupported DLNA profiles as it only matches mime types
  • Twonky Server interferes AirTunes playback with Denon AVR-4311, as workaround disabling AppleTV support with disable_dmr_plugins=1 solves this
  • beaming media from Mediatomb to Samsung TV D series does not work
  • multi-user content cannot be beamed to remote Twonky renderer
  • changes in twonky-startup.txt does not have any effect if application is upgraded in place on iOS
  • cannot beam multiple items to Xbox One

 

 

Twonky Ref App 

Twonky Ref App Android

New Features

  • added DIAL support to discover Fire TV

Bug Fixes

  • fixed 'Retry' option that did not work when user re-tried to download a downloading-failed content

Known Issues

  • local renderer setting remains disabled after setting it private in general settings on Android
  • local video is shown with wrong aspect ratio
  • user cannot resume to play the content after sleep
  • volume cannot be controlled when content is beamed to Samsung TV
  • DTCP content playback stops when user performs seek
  • DTCP content playback stops when user resumes paused playback
  • deleted SSO account does not expire in secondary device without restart
  • pause does not work when beaming DLNA content to Sony TV
  • seeking forward to the end of the song stops playback on Apple TV

Twonky Ref App iOS

New Features

  • added DIAL support to discover Fire TV

Known Issues

  • 'Shuffle' and 'Repeat' icons available when image slideshow is beamed
  • DMR control shows black screen while playback continues when leaving video view and coming back to it
  • DNLA content duration doesn't update correctly
  • DTCP content playback stops when user performs seek
  • DTCP content playback stops when user resumes paused playback
  • app crashes when it downloads a content after sleep
  • app freezes if user taps [Select All] and [Clear Queue] continuously
  • deleted SSO account does not expire in secondary device without restart
  • pause does not work when beaming DLNA content to Sony TV
  • removing account will not remove online items from queue list
  • seeking forward to the end of the song stops playback on Apple TV
  • shuffle doesn't work with Facebook content
  • shuffle is not working when beaming content from DLNA server
  • state restoration is broken in iOS 8.3
  • when iPhone goes to sleep queue list gets cleared
  • wrong status for download after app resumes

 

 

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