Serviio - free DLNA media server for Windows, Mac and Linux

Media Streaming Server

Release Notes - 0.5

  • added per-IP renderer profile management; ticket#127
  • added new functionality for configuring browsing categories; ticket #26
  • added support for Swisscenter video metadata; ticket #79
  • added support for XBMC video metadata; ticket #165
  • added support for .mts files; ticket #170
  • added support for .vdr files
  • added support for M2TS files with AVC video and DTS audio; ticket #180
  • added support for M2TS files with VC1 video and AC3 audio; ticket #197
  • added support for M2TS files with AVC video and MP2 audio; ticket #211
  • added support for M2TS files with MPEG4 part 2 video; ticket #206
  • added support for PNG image files
  • added support for GIF image files
  • added support for FLV files; ticket #129
  • added support for M4A (MP4/AAC) audio files; ticket #185
  • added support for DVR-MS files; ticket #218
  • displays file names instead of metadata title in Folders browsing category; ticket #138
  • it's now possible to transcode using mp2 as a target audio codec; ticket #177
  • added profile for Panasonic Viera incl. support for subtitles; ticket #176
  • added availability to browse files as they are being added (in a case of a large batch); ticket #199
  • added Audio Random browsing category; ticket #190
  • added possibility to retrieve online metadata in a preferred language; ticket #32
  • added possibility to force library refresh from the tray icon; ticket #207
  • added possibility to turn off scanning for new/updated files per a shared folder; ticket #157
  • added possibility to turn off searching for updates of files that are already shared; ticket #118
  • updated PS3 profile to be able to play AVI with H264 video
  • added start/stop Serviio service into the Start menu (Windows); ticket #214
  • browsing audio by music artists is now sorted by their first letter for easier navigation; ticket #106
  • added aBitrate attribute to video transcoding element in profiles.xml used to override default audio bitrate for transcoding; ticket #201
  • added Toshiba Rezga profile; ticket #195
  • console supports translations; ticket #171
  • browsing categories menu supports translations; ticket #172
  • added EU/US Sony BDP profiles; ticket #208
  • added forceVTranscoding attribute to video transcoding element in profiles.xml used to disable video stream muxing and forcing it to always re-encode; ticket #239
  • added more episodic file name parsing; ticket #247

 

  • fixed adding media items into library when an associated person record is incomplete; ticket #169
  • fixed automatic IP detection, skips VMWare adapters; ticket #175
  • enabled dash characters in a folder name to be used during online metadata retrieval (for series/movies that contain dashes in their name)
  • implemented workaround for thetvdb.com sending gzip files instead of XML
  • fixed displaying of library refresh interval; ticket #189
  • enabled adding symbolic links (Linux, OSX) to the library; ticket #194
  • fixed starting console on OSes that don't support system tray; ticket #191
  • episodic metadata search now supports brackets in the file names; ticket #36
  • increased time available for video thumbnail generation to 160 sec.; ticket #200
  • fixed storing very long music album titles; ticket #209
  • fixed transcoding videos with multi-channel aac audio stream; ticket #203
  • fixed Linux detection for FreeBSD; ticket #222
  • fixed log file not rolling over properly; ticket #220
  • fixed accidental removing of items from library after clicking Save on the Library tab; ticket #233

 

  • updated Apache Derby to version 1.6.2.1
  • updated Restlet to version 2.0.4
  • updated FFmpeg to rev. 26303
  • updated Log4j to version 2.1.16