2009 TVersity wishlist + RC7 is out
January 19th, 2009 | Published in Uncategorized | 67 Comments
Seventh release candidate is out with more bug fixes. We think we are getting really close to our first non beta release, which is our biggest milestone ever and so we wanted to take the opportunity and share some of our future plans for TVersity.
In 2009 we have three main goals:
- Embed TVersity in a hardware home server appliance(s). Initially it will probably be Windows Home Server based and later on Linux based (maybe even Open Solaris with ZFS). These devices will be more powerful than a typical NAS (to allow real time transcoding up to DVD quality), probably as powerful as a low end PC, but with a much lower power consumption. Intel dual core Atom seems like a good fit, thoughts and suggestions by the community are welcome.
- Add many more Internet content sources, Hulu is first on our list. Already works in the lab and will be released soon in our 1.5 beta.
- Keep supporting new and interesting devices that have a massive consumer following. Maybe the new TechCrunch tablet will be a good fit???
This is it, please share with us your feedback as well as your 2009 TVersity wish list. Our product roadmap is very dynamic, and since the connected home space is evolving very quickly we are going to adapt as often as necessary.
January 19th, 2009 at 5:17 pm (#)
The continued and expanded ability to use through XBMC would be great!
January 19th, 2009 at 5:28 pm (#)
Glad to hear you’re still thinking about a Linux version.
Users outside of the USA can’t access Hulu, but it sounds like you’ve got some exciting things planned for TVersity!
January 19th, 2009 at 7:18 pm (#)
Try to adapt to the fact that a small program called “PS3 Media Server” is stealing your show!
Forget feature creep - finally make this software stable and ready for primetime!
January 19th, 2009 at 8:33 pm (#)
I’ll add another vote for a Linux version. I haven’t been able to find anything on Linux that has the features and works as well as TVersity on Windows.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:21 am (#)
I’m glad you are thinking windows home server as I’m movimg to that shortly and see TVersity as a great fit to move all my media and stream from the home server.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:42 am (#)
I agree with BURRITO78. There are still many problems with the PS3 to fix.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:16 am (#)
I would love better subtitles integration, by direct sub file reading, instead of transcoding.
Better videocast subscription support. I’ve tried TVersity to aggregate my favourite RSS video channels to watch them through a Wii/Opera and it was a nightmare.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:54 am (#)
Just more support for a Linux version really.
I’ve had to stop using TVersity because of it, though I remain interested in it’s development (I’d be interested to know your release criteria for 1.0 stable, 7 release candidates seems very excessive) - I’ve paid for Twonky to satisfy my Linux host requirement.
I’d be interesting in helping develop/test a Linux build - your approach to transcoding is very well implemented, and quite the ‘killer feature’ in this space, at least for now.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:43 pm (#)
Great Work.
But i have a question.
When become it possible to stream a compleet VIDEO_TS folder with all the .vob file at ones including sound and sub files ?
Then tversity would be perfect.
Thanks in Regards,
G.Tijsma
January 20th, 2009 at 2:14 pm (#)
I would love to see Pandora supported. This would make my day. I could cancel my satellite radio. :0)
January 20th, 2009 at 6:08 pm (#)
I agree to team up with the PS3.
Yes, there are still a few quirks going on, but for me, it’s the best Media server out of the 4 I’ve tried.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:10 pm (#)
Preliminary (multiple) tuner card support would be greatly appreciated!
January 20th, 2009 at 11:52 pm (#)
Stop trying to do new things. Make sure what TVersity currently does is stable enough.
Fix some documentation for example, get XBOX360 to work well, and loads of other shit like helping your current users out on the forum.
January 21st, 2009 at 7:03 am (#)
Personally I think the people nagging about stability and new features sound VERY ungrateful for software that took SO much work to get to this stage, so many resources, so much time and money, and yet we get it for free. Looking a gift horse in the mouth are we? I agree, you have the option to pay for one, but for those of us in countries with horrid exchange rates, software like this is heaven sent.
January 21st, 2009 at 7:31 am (#)
how about adding netflix…..and have tversity be able to work from behind a proxy and recognized by the xbox360 & PS3…adding hulu is huge step. The reason I mention this, this would be a huge + as we have alot of users that live overseas and cannot take advantage of these services………then again if it is possible let me know how as I am a nob at this.
Another great addition would be the ability to view a snapshot of the video and the name. and album art support. either way thanks and excellent job thus far
January 21st, 2009 at 10:36 pm (#)
Anyone having stability issues, i.e. TVersity crashing, is welcome to send us a problem description with logs to info@tversity.com. There has not been a single such email in the past that was not fixed within a very short period of time. As far as we know TVersity is rock solid and definitely more stable than the average Windows software.
Now, we are aware of the fact that MKV support in TVersity is limited (especially when it comes to MKV with subtitles which we do not support at all), so if that is what you are referring to, this is not a stability issue, it is a new feature request. If it is something else, please provide more details, otherwise your criticism is non constructive, it is in fact destructive.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:15 pm (#)
I would really love to see the PS3 support improved. Many users really struggle with having the PS3 “find” the TVersity server. I also use PlayOn and PlayOn is found instantly everytime. TVersity sometimes does not show, sometimes requires multiple restarts and always takes a long time to be found.
Other than that I do like your product but it gets very frustrating that every time I go to use it I can’t use it without jumping through hoops.
Thanks,
RA
January 25th, 2009 at 9:17 am (#)
A port to Linux PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE………
January 25th, 2009 at 10:41 pm (#)
My top request would have been Hulu, but it’s great to hear it is on its way. I’ll be very happy to see that released. The only other thing I would like to see is for TVersity to handle rtsp streams.
That being said, TVersity is a great product. Thank you very much for all your hard work.
January 26th, 2009 at 12:28 am (#)
Ignore my last comment about rtsp; I see that it does support them, and apparently I’m doing something wrong.
Anyway, great work!
January 28th, 2009 at 10:29 am (#)
And where might we find these logs?
The same place we find support?
Nowhere?
January 28th, 2009 at 10:15 pm (#)
Some guidelines for reporting problems and attaching logs are at:
http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=357
January 30th, 2009 at 10:31 am (#)
Hey I still have this problem and I never got a reply about it:
http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13566
Seems like a couple of people are having trouble with SP3 installed on XP. Really I'd be happy if it bloody worked which is why I wonder why I get this error in comparison to others who seem to have success with it. e.g. A very small amount of AVI's will play while alot of other AVI's won't.
Another think I would like to see is a better method for organising our media since the current methods (e.g. tagging only) drives me nuts.
So better stability and an improving it so it's more likely to work without problems as well as better media organisation are on the top of my wishlist.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:22 pm (#)
RC7 is working well on my home network - thanks for all the hard work you’ve put in to it.
Also, FYI the transcoding works well on my Athlon XP 2400 with 2GB RAM running Server 2008
A note about Server 2008 - the only way I can get the mediaserver.exe to run is to call it at the commandline with the -debug option. Otherwise it just dies.
Feature request:
- TV tuner support! Just streaming live TV, not recording (although that’d be cool, I imagine other apps can do it and dump to the library that tversity will read)
- Streaming video to Nokia N95
Thanks
February 4th, 2009 at 12:28 am (#)
Make it work with UAC turned on.
Make it possible to use both tversity and the media extender for the xbox 360 .
Either the software should work so that both the required services for the xbox 360 to work as a media center extender as well as tversity can be on at the same time, or allow tveristy to work under the xbox media center extender which is the best option.
Earlier versions did allow this (both xbox media extender and tversity) and it’s been a backward step for xbox 360 owners from that point.
This would make a great bit of software that currently involves a lot of mucking around to have box the xbox 360 stream live TV and function as a PVR, and play other media a truely must have.
If you can make both things work I would not hesitate to spend money on it. As long as the price was reasonable.
Great job guys, but it’s still not the perfect solution.
February 5th, 2009 at 12:16 pm (#)
I would like to see an option to ‘pre’-transcode media before playing.
Select a file, tell it to transcode so you don’t have to start to watch it to force transcoding and just just stream it when you do want to watch it. Would be very handy with HD .mkv files.
February 6th, 2009 at 4:11 pm (#)
BBC iPlayer support?
February 7th, 2009 at 12:48 am (#)
Could you please make tversity able to display album art when playing back through an xbox 360?
Somehow get tversity to read the meta tag info on the mp3 file. That would be awesome.
I also like the idea of having the ability to record tv.
Keep up the good work
February 7th, 2009 at 1:57 pm (#)
How about support for some of the UK based services like, BBC iPlayer, itv player, 4OD (Channel 4 on demand), channel 5, etc?
Keep up the good work.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:03 am (#)
To finally have a Twonky competitor in the NAS world would be SOOOOO NICE. Is there still not a single NAS producer out there who embeds TVersity…?
February 11th, 2009 at 5:06 pm (#)
I second (or is it 99th) for support for Netflix watch now, and Hulu. I currently have 2 programs serving media on my server to my PS3: Tversity for all my media, and PlayOn for Netflix and Hulu. I would love to reduce it back to one program…
Oh, and Pandora would be icing on the cake… When can I pay you guys $20 - $30 for a retail product that include these?
February 13th, 2009 at 4:12 pm (#)
Ability to play MKV files would be a bonus!
February 15th, 2009 at 2:36 pm (#)
@ande: it DOES play MKV files, I just watched some anime I had sitting on my PC and it works fine, although I was unable to select between dual audio or subtitles.
February 19th, 2009 at 6:31 pm (#)
I would love to see support for Adobe Photoshop Elements. I’ve spent what seems like a lifetime tagging tens of thousands of photos and I have no good way of viewing them through TVersity. I believe the catalog is a MS Access database…
February 27th, 2009 at 2:09 pm (#)
Microsoft Media Center DVR files (dvr.ms) would be a much appreciated addition. Right now I’m using Tversity, PlayOn, and PS3 media center just to get everything I need. Having only one would be great.
February 27th, 2009 at 9:52 pm (#)
I suppose that it support for the SHN format would be nice. While FLAC is better, I have almost a TB of shows - and it would be a pain. The Shorten codec causes TVersity to crash (I even built a second server because I thought I had made a mistake).
Netflix would be nice, but that as TVersity is not as closed a platform as the Xbox360, that might be a pipe-dream.
I will second the streaming from VIDEO_TS files. I certainly have enough legal content in that format (again a hassle to convert…)
I’ll have to say that I doubt the Atom could keep up with Transcoding HD video (even 720p) — so while it might fly today - it wouldn’t have much life out the gate (I have an Atom-based netbook, and while I like it — it is because of the portability, not the power)
February 28th, 2009 at 10:55 pm (#)
I would like to be able to set Transcoder settings based upon the client.
My PSP, Wii, Dlink Media Player, etc. can all watch at different resolutions. So they need individual settings.
March 4th, 2009 at 7:34 am (#)
I am one of the foolish who bought a Samsung TV thinking it was DLNA compliant out of the box. I am actually in Seoul Korea the home of Samsung and two techs so far said:
#1 - PC Share Manager Not working (network drives)…the problem must be your computers and I wasn’t really trained on this…sorry
#2 - Same problem (DLNA PC Share Manager) not working network drives…Well John most people just just watch TV on it…I dont really know much more.
THESE ARE SAMSUNG EMPLOYEES.
TVersity needs to support the Samsung Series TVs because Samsung obviously can’t handle it. Also, I am fighting with a network drive (Samsung XW-10) that won’t work in TVersity. My WDII works fine…
The PS3 is awesome for handling video and the pics viewer is very slick. It would be nice if TVersity could scroll like the IPOD or new Omnia phone, etc. Once you have all these files it would be nice to find them quickly. The PS3 w/TVersity is my setup but it would be nice to use the TV as it was intended…
March 4th, 2009 at 11:14 pm (#)
Getting it to work with the line-up of Samsung LCD TVs (I have a 750 Series) that are DLNA capable would be great. It’s a great TV with a lot of potential if it could use Tversity to serve its online content.
Thanks.
March 7th, 2009 at 4:56 pm (#)
Any chance the new Tversity will be able to stream h264 HD Files??
March 8th, 2009 at 1:09 am (#)
Being able to have a “play all” option for playing video. I have a Hard Drive video camera that creates seperate mpgs for each scene. I would like to play all of them in a given folder in the same fashion you can play all audio files in a folder.
March 8th, 2009 at 3:27 pm (#)
Support for photo tags would be great.
March 8th, 2009 at 6:07 pm (#)
I also add my vote for a Linux version. My Windows Desktop doesn’t stay on all the time, but my home linux server always does.
Hulu would also be a great add, as long as you add it to the linux version. I purchased PlayOn to get Hulu and Netflix streaming to my DLNA receiver (a PS3), but alas it’s just Windows. Need a Linux solution for that.
Otherwise, other than restarting the TVersity server once a week to keep it’s memory usage down, I very happy with TVersity for local media and transcoding.
I have been experimenting with FUPPES under Linux, but I haven’t really dove into the transcoding… we’ll see!
March 10th, 2009 at 2:00 pm (#)
Archos support, please!
March 13th, 2009 at 4:57 pm (#)
So I just have to say I was a bit late in upgrading to the Xbox 360. I’m not a big gammer, but all about my entertainment being digital. After I found out the media center functionality would not work with my Divx videos and other data from the family I was a bit po’d. So I did some searching and found TVersity. Had it up and running in about 5 minutes, now I love it. It convinced me to buy two more Xbox 360’s for the other rooms. Keep up the good work!!! Amazing stuff!
Regards,
Trevor Combs
Nashville, TN
March 16th, 2009 at 7:41 am (#)
Please add some more music player functionality. i use my Ipod for streaming music. handy would be a search and shuffle play function.
Good luck with this awesome program,
Richard,
Netherlands
March 24th, 2009 at 5:16 pm (#)
I’m loving the wishlist so far. If I could run TVersity on my opensolaris zfs server, it would remove my personal workstation from the mix & save on my power bill
Hulu would be a pretty sweet addition, too.
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:08 pm (#)
Here’s a few things I would love to see:
- Make the TVersity UI able to operate as a standalone UPnP client (control point) without the TVersity server. This would allow me to use TVserity’s nice UI to access my Windows Home Server as well as TVserity’s own server. I’m currently using XBMC for this but would love to eliminate it.
- Make the TVserity Server UI integrated into Windows Home server’s control panel (as a plug-in). This would allow me to operate TVersity from all of my networked PCs through the nice WHS interface.
- Add the ability to stream web cams from TVserity. This is desperately wanted functionality! If you could allow TVserity to operate with standard WDM driver based web cams, then I could operate a web cam from the machine that is running TVsersity and stream it to all the TVs in my house as well as remotely across the internet.
- Ability to cache pre-transcoded media.
April 5th, 2009 at 12:31 am (#)
Great Windows Home Server add on. This is one add on we need and have been waiting for.
April 5th, 2009 at 8:06 am (#)
I do love TVersity but could you make it work with the new Nokia 5800
April 6th, 2009 at 10:37 am (#)
Firstly, good work so far! I stream to xbox and only ever use the “folder” menu option. I wish there was a way to delete all the other menu lists to further stream line it.
Secondly, transcoding HD Matroska (MPV/ x264 files) isn’t really practical on my p4 2.66mhz system. I have to transcode them using the free GOTSent program, then tversity just streams it as it’s already transcoded. I suppose this is more of a system issue, but better transcoding would be great.
Finally, updating the library after changes can be really slow, especially compared to WMP11.
Best thing about Tversity is the ability to stream blueray quality media through the xbox to my HD TV, but the whole program still “feels” like a beta.
I’ll gladly pay 25 to 50 dollars when everything is streamlined, neat and fast. Thanks.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:21 pm (#)
Hey guys,
Thank you for the great comments, please be advised that some of the feature requests we get are already in the product.
For example:
@dekes1, cache of pre-transcoded media (you may need to increase the cache area size which can be easily done via the GUI), Webcams (only via Windows Media MMS/RTSP).
@andygawg, you can change the menus to show only folders, from the settings tab -> Media Library.
TVersity is very feature rich, but it comes in a very simple package, which sometime can be misleading. Feel free to experiment with the advanced settings and you will see that while the program come pre-set with some main-stream choices, it can probably be configured for almost any particular need or preference.
Ronen
April 7th, 2009 at 6:31 am (#)
I know this is more of a forum thing but when I installed the RC11 version i got a “could not parse file” message so I went back to the old version. On the forum it said that it was an issue with .m3u playlist files. COuld you please make the new version not have this problem?
April 7th, 2009 at 10:37 pm (#)
We are not aware of any m3u issues, please post a full description in the forums.
April 8th, 2009 at 8:28 am (#)
http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12517. There are a few other threads about this but this was the most interesting. Thanks.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm (#)
Thanks, check our posts to that thread. I do not know if you are the original poster or not, but if you experience the same issue and can provide additional information as per our request in that thread, we will gladly fix this issue.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pm (#)
Hello again,
One question & one request this time.
Q: Soon I will be the proud owner of a an intel i7 system with a massive 12gb memory. Of course this has to use (due to 4gb mem. ceiling for x86systems) 64 bit op. I’ll use Vista home prem. 64x. Does TVersity work on 64bit systems or will I have to go back to the more limiting wmp11?
Req: An option to stop refresh without having to exit everything, or/and a message saying there is a problem with refreshing.
Thanks again. I’m enjoying your program.
Andy
April 9th, 2009 at 1:01 pm (#)
We do not offer a 64 bit version of TVersity yet, but we do run on Vista 64 bit as a 32bit application.
Yes an option to stop refresh is long overdue.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:41 pm (#)
As long as it runs that’s fine. A true 64 bit vs. would be nice, though!
April 12th, 2009 at 2:34 pm (#)
Windows Home Server & PS3 support; Real time transcoding on WHS. Looking forward to pro.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:47 pm (#)
UAC support is at the top of my wishlist.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:31 pm (#)
I have only one wish:
Please support Last.fm directly (not via proxy), including Skip/Love/Ban would be perfect.
Thanks for your great work so far.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:35 pm (#)
Support for MAC OS.
June 5th, 2009 at 7:24 am (#)
Hey guys,
Thanks for the awesome software
Just tested it out last night and it’s really great. The only thing on my wishlist for the next version would be subtitle support for the transcoder… something to the effect of it automatically detecting subtitles in an MKV container or an external subtitle file and muxing it into the transcode.
Either that, or passing it through externally so the media player on the other end (be it the media player on an xbox 360 or a suitable player on the PC at the other end) can handle it appropriately.
Amongst others, a legion of anime watchers would thank you for it
Keep up the great work, and thanks again for the great free software.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:19 am (#)
I have a Windows XP machine sitting on my (mostly) Linux based network. Even my routers run 3rd party linux-based firmware. The ONLY reason this Windows PC exists (and I’m just itching to whack an Ubuntu disk in the drive) is for TVersity. It is by far my most used application, both PLEASE release a Linux edition so I can stop with the anti-virus and windows updates all the time. Plus I’m sure TVersity would run so much faster on a Linux machine
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