TVersity Media Server stelt je in staat om over het netwerk audio en video te sturen naar dlna-apparatuur, zoals televisies en dvd-spelers met netwerkmogelijkheden. Ook is het mogelijk om media op bijvoorbeeld een Nintendo Wii, Apple iPhone of Sony PSP te bekijken. Een overzicht met alle ondersteunde apparaten is op deze pagina te vinden. De ontwikkelaars hebben een aantal dagen geleden versie 1.6 uitgebracht die zowel in een standaard als een pro-smaak is verschenen. De laatste kan voor een kleine dertig dollar of euro worden aangeschaft. De bijbehorende lijst met veranderingen ziet er als volgt uit:
Version 1.6:
Pro editionAll editions
- Playing premium content no longer requires Stereo-Mix and the sound is no longer heard on the PC running TVersity.
- Off-screen browser was giving up on playback too soon when the video was buffering.
Version 1.5:
- Indexing many MP4 files no longer results in memory leaks (and ultimately a crash).
- Upgrade to Sqlite 3.6.14 to eliminate rare cases of library db corruption.
- SSDP discovery did not work on machines with long host names (11 or more characters).
Pro editionAll editions
- Added support for premium content (full list of supported websites is here) via an off-screen web browser coupled with live audio capture.
- Support audio drift compensation to keep audio and video in synch when sound card/driver are not providing samples at the expected frequency (by default this is is disabled, can be enabled via Settings -> Transcoder.)
- GUI has new section under the settings tab for entering user accounts. Users can enter credentials for some premium content sites so that off-screen browser will login to their account. This is required for certain sites to access certain content, and to have other account settings apply (e.g. By logging in, Hulu users can access R rated content, higher quality video, subtitles, resume where they left of and so on.)
- Accept RSS and Atom feeds without media enclosures as long as they link to a video page that the off-screen browser can render. This expands the range of content one can subscribe to considerably. Some sites that are supported that way are Hulu, BBC, Joost, Comedy Central, Marvel, NFL, ESPN and so more.
- Off screen browser can click play on behalf of users for video pages that require it.
- Support for HTTP relay server to allows remote access to media library behind firewall. The server side service is not yet launched so one cannot use this feature as of right now (test accounts are available upon request.)
- Move list of media sources to a separate database (admin.db), this way one can add/update/delete media sources during an ongoing library refresh, without getting errors or long delays.
- Simplify the default media library menu structure and fix some minor bugs in indexing.
- Custom media source url fields (like username, tag and search query for sites like Google video, YouTube, Hulu, etc.) are now correctly populated when opening them for edit.
- WMV encoding via ffmpeg was broken and now works again. When enabled, this makes transcoding for 360 faster and less resource intensive.
- Modify the Blackberry profile to issue a maximum file size of 30MB (even when the file is bigger). This seems the maximum AT&T allows over EDGE. Also, add opera mini as a user agent for the Blackberry.
- Modify DIRECTV profiles to accept only MPEG2 video and MPEG1 Layer II or III audio. This solves issues with VCD videos and with DVD with AC3/DTS sound.
- Numerous minor bug fixes and fix some not so minor but very rare concurrecny issues.
