We are happy to announce the availability of the TVersity Media Server version 0.9.11.2. With his new release we bring you increased security when accessing your media library remotely, customizable menus and better support for the Sony PS3 firmware 2.0.

For a full list of changes please visit:
http://tversity.com/support/releasenotes/

Or to download the new release please visit:
http://tversity.com/download/

This release features support for Windows Media Center and for Media Center compatible solutions like Active-TV.

It also improves the DirecTV HR20 support and includes many bug fixes and other enhancements.

For a more detailed list of changes please go to:
http://tversity.com/support/releasenotes/

To download the new version please go to:
http://tversity.com/download/

We are thrilled to announce our latest release featuring support for the Apple iPhone.

To see this new functionality in action, point Safari on the iPhone to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:41952/iphone. When using an EDGE connection use http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:41952/iphone/edge. In both cases xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the machine running TVersity.

You can now access your entire media collection in the home and on the go from your iPhone however in each of these cases a different IP address is needed and you may need to establish a port forwarding in order to access it on the go.

Please be advised that when video transcoding is needed, the iPhone cannot start playback until the entire conversion is completed, this is a restriction of the MP4/MOV/3GPP containers when streamed over HTTP (and since the iPhone does not support RTSP/RTP there is no way around it at the moment).

In addition to this we have many bug fixes in this and the previous release, including one security fix and hence we encourage all to upgrade.

For more information about this release please visit:
http://tversity.com/support/releasenotes/

To download it now please visit:
http://tversity.com/download/

We are glad to announce the availability of the TVersity Media Server 0.9.10.5. In this release we are fixing many issues and adding a new Radio directory by our partner radiotime.com. We are also adding new features for Sony PS3 owners and Microsoft Xbox 360 owners.

If you always wanted to add your home and Internet content of choice to TVersity via a single button click, this release is setting the stage for that. We now support a one click addition of content to TVersity from third party content sites and also via the Windows explorer. The former is intended for Internet content and the latter is for your home content.

This release is also adding new version alerts, so from now on you will be notified about new releases when running the TVersity user interface.

The full release notes are available at:
http://tversity.com/support/releasenotes/

You can download the new version at:
http://tversity.com/download/

As always we are looking forward for your feedback!

We are happy to announce full support for the Sony PS3 firmware 1.8 and the Xbox 360 spring update.

As you probably know, shortly after we made our previous major release, both Microsoft and Sony issued major updates for their game consoles, making them an even better multimedia gateways. In order to best serve our users, we issued patches overnight that supported the new functionality of those firmware updates, however these patches were only partial solutions. This release brings full support for the new functionality of the PS3 and the 360 and the ability to properly serve them both at the same time (the two patches were conflicting in certain aspects, these conflicts haven been removed).

The main benefits of this release are:

• Internet radio now works on the PS3. First playback attempt is likely to fail with an “Access to the media server has been denied” message (or “unsupported data” message), this is because the PS3 does not wait long enough for the data to be fetched over the Internet. After this failure, wait a few seconds and try playing this same station again. Assuming a connection to that station was possible, there won’t be an error message, however the actual playback may take up to two minutes and more to start since the PS3 requires about 1 MB of data before it initiates playback.
• Internet video and transcoded content starts playing faster on the PS3 than it used to (saving about 5 seconds).
• Library refresh is now reflected on the PS3 and on any other device that checks the media server for updates (leaving a folder that has updates and then going back to it is required in order to see the changes).
• Issues with green bars or distorted colors when playing via PS3 were resolved.
• TVersity can now produce for the 360, WMV7 or WMV8 or WMV9 or MSMPEG4V3 once can switch between them by seting the wmProfile variable in config.xml to one of wmv7, wmv8, wmv9, mp43.
• TVersity can now encode to WMV in two methods, the first is via directshow (which always existed and still is the default) and the second is via ffmpeg. While for now only wmv8 can be produced via ffmpeg, it is slightly faster than directshow and hence it may prove beneficial in certain cases.
• Fix image browsing for the DirectTV HR20.
• Do not block every URL with two consecutive dot characters, but rather check if the canonical path is shared or not and based on this determine if to allow ot deny access to it. This solves some playlist related playback issues.
• The TVersity service is now starting more reliably during a reboot, waiting, if necessary, for the networking to finish initializing, instead of quitting if it is not already initialized when Tversity is started.

Full release note are available here.

Download the latest release here.

Update
We just updated this release with a fix to the pause after ~30 seconds of playback problem. The version for this quick fix release is 0.9.10.3a. It is recommended that all users upgrade.

As you may know Sony has released yesterday a new firmware update for the Playstation 3 which added support for UPnP AV / DLNA.

We are glad to announce that we already have a patch that takes advantage of this new functionality allowing playback of almost any audio and video files on the PS3, including Divx/Xvid and many other audio and video formats.

This patch also allows playback of some Internet radio/TV channels, albeit it is still somewhat limited in this area. A revised patch that can play all the channels TVersity can typically handle with other devices is coming soon.

You can download the patch at:
http://download.tversity.com/SonyPS3-180PatchV2.zip

To apply it please follow the steps below:

• Make sure you have TVersity version 0.9.10.2 installed, otherwise install it. Please note that this patch cannot be applied on top of older versions and is designed for 0.9.10.2 ONLY.
• Stop media sharing in TVersity (via the advanced menu or the tray icon)
• Unzip the patch file and copy its content over to the TVersity installation folder (by default it is \Program Files\TVersity\Media Server)
• Start sharing and try accessing your audio, video and photos from the PS3

As always, feel free to share with us your feedback at our support forums.

Edit
A revised version of the patch has been released due to issues with the original one.

Second Edit
Yet another version of the patch has been released fixing the green bars and distorted colors appearing with some transcoded videos.

Third Edit
Release 0.9.10.3 is now available with additional improvements and fixes for the PS3.

As you may know Microsoft has released today a new firmware update for the Xbox 360 and this broke compatibility with TVersity (only with videos, audio and images work as before).

We are glad to announce that we already have a patch that fixes this problem and also takes advantage of the new functionality of this spring update, letting you browse your video in a folder hierarchy instead of just a long flat list.

You can download the patch at:
http://download.tversity.com/Xbox360Spring2007Patch.zip

To apply it please follow the steps below:

• Make sure you have version 0.9.10.2 installed, otherwise install it. Please note that this patch cannot be applied on top of older versions and is designed for 0.9.10.2 ONLY.
• Stop media sharing (via the advanced menu or the tray icon)
• Unzip the patch file and copy its content over to the TVersity installation folder (by default it is \Program Files\TVersity\Media Server)
• Sart sharing and try accessing video from the 360

Thank you everyone for helping us test this. It will be great if people with a 360 from different regions in the world will test it since in the past we had cases where European boxes behaved different than American ones.

As always, feel free to share with us your feedback at our support forums.

Update:
A revised patch that also fixes some audio related issues introduced in the Spring update is now available at:
http://download.tversity.com/Xbox360Spring2007PatchV2.zip

Update:
Yet another revised patch that fixes the image viewing issues introduced in the previous patch is now available at:
http://download.tversity.com/Xbox360Spring2007PatchV3.zip

(Note: There is no need to apply all the patch, applying the latest one is enough)

We are happy to announce the availability of TVersity 0.9.10.2 featuring better support for the Nintendo Wii and the DirectTV HR20.

The Adobe Flash interface for the Wii and PS3 is now fully operational via cursor motion/clicks and it no longer requires the use of arrow keys. This change was made to better support the Nintendo Wii:

• There is a new “up one level” button that is always visible and is more accessible than the one in the toolbar.
• The scroll bars are larger and allow page scrolling in addition to single item scrolling.
• Playback controls are displayed once the cursor is moved to the bottom of the screen.

For the DirectTV HR20, images at resolution higher than 1920×1080 are now downsampled since this device cannot handle very high resolutions.

You can download this new release at:
http://download.tversity.com/Setup_0_9_10_2.exe

TVersity 0.9.10 is out, featuring support for the Sony Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, Nokia N800 and video transcoding for the Sony PSP. This new release has a new Adobe Flash based media library interface that allows audio and video streaming to any device that supports the flash runtime. While this interface was created specifically for the Sony Playstation 3 and for the Nintendo Wii, it can be used on many other devices and on computers of any operating system.

This new release has many additional improvements under the hood, designed to allow video/audio conversion to many new formats such as Divx, MPEG4, Flash Video and more (TVersity could convert these formats to MPEG1/2 before, however conversion to these formats is a new addition).

Wii owners, please note that due to inability to get a Nintendo Wii, support for this unit is experimental, however some users already report success in streaming both audio and video.

As always, we ask that you take the time to share with us your feedback and ideas for further improvement. This is now especially important as we approach our 1.0 release and wish to emerge out of beta status.

Download the new release at:
http://download.tversity.com/Setup_0_9_10_1.exe

Release notes are at:

http://tversity.com/support/releasenotes/

We are glad to announce the availability of the TVersity Media Server V0.9.9.2. This bug fix release also includes a few enhancements that are intended mainly for Xbox 360 users but may prove valuable for others as well.
Here are the main changes:

• Better support for YouTube RSS feeds
• Support for non Latin1 or UTF8 RSS feeds
• Add support for transcoding audio to PCM
• Eliminate display artifacts with the Xbox 360 by adjusting the video resolution when transcoding to WMV to allow upscaling to 720p or 1080p using integer multiplication
• Both 16:9 and 4:3 DVDs are now displayed correctly (we now take into account non square pixels and convert them to square ones)
• Lower CPU consumption when transcoding to WMV is now possible on fast machines when the “Disable decoding clock” on the transcoder section of the settings tab is turned off
• Added a new index for songs: “Release Year / Artist / Album”
• List under the “Song” folder of the Xbox 360 all audio URLs as well as all local audio files, this way it is no longer necessary to place URLs inside playlists to see them on the 360 menus
• Add support for long title strings, which are essentially titles that include the name of their parents. This is to allow users of the Xbox 360 to navigate their long list of videos. This feature is turned off by default since devices other than the Xbox 360 do not need it. When turning it on (from the settings tab in the GUI) one needs to reconstruct the media library for this to take effect
• Better compatibility with Windows Vista UAC
• Fix issues related to premature termination when transcoding to WMV (this should solve the famous termination problem with the Xbox 360)
• Add support for short URLs, this will allow devices that trim long URLs (like the Xbox 360 and the Sony PSP) to accept content from TVersity disregarding the length of the URL of that content

For a full list of changes please fo to:
http://tversity.com/whatsnew.html

You can download the new version here.