TVersity Media Server 1.0.0.4 RC3

The TVersity Media Server is a UPNP AV compliant media server that extends the functionality of UPNP media hubs to navigate, search, play and record, audio and video content from the Internet. It can also replace your existing UPNP media server and handle all the media located on your home network, including media formats that are not natively supported by your media receiver.
With TVersity your media hub will be able to play almost any media file you have and in the same time become the set top box of Internet Television/Radio.
TVersity Media Server is a tool that allows you navigate, search, play and record audio and video files from internet.
Additionally the TVersity Media Server lets you manage your Internet media URLs and essentially create your personalized lineup of channels, aka a personal programming guide (PEG).
Main features:
- Play Internet audio and video streams on your TV/Stereo, enter your own URLs or select from the bundled Audio and Video Guides - The media server streams media from the Internet and delivers it to media hubs via HTTP, the only protocol supported by those devices
- Play your ENTIRE media collection on your TV - Finally almost any content that plays in Windows Media Player can be played on any of the supported media hubs disregarding their codec limitations
- Automatic Real-time Seemless Transcoding - Let the Media Server automatically detect when a given media needs to be transcoded for playback on your media hub
- Very fast browsing of your media library with unprecedented speed for huge libraries (up to 100,000 items and more) - The Media Server has a very short response time, allowing faster browsing of your media library
- Easy to use Graphical User Interface - Control the media server locally or remotely by running the GUI as a web application (both MSIE and Firefox are supported)
- Support multiple media hubs simultaneously - Connect every room with a TV to the same media server
- Intuitive Navigation - Finally a media server that organizes your media properly, maintaining the order of songs, supporting extensive navigation criteria and doing it all very fast
- Manage cache of transcoded media - No need to transcode the same media twice
- Pause Live Internet feeds just like with Tivo - Watching live Internet TV has never been so much fun
- Runs as a service - You no longer need to log on to your computer for the media server to start
- Works well on slow system while providing real benefits on faster ones - Transcode Internet videos (300 kbps) on very slow systems and downsample high definition videos to standard definition on fast ones
System requirements:
- Pentium III 700 Mhz or better (Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz with support for Hyper Threading is recommended)
- 128 MB of memory or more (512 MB recommended)
- 50 MB of disk space (At least 1 GB of free space is recommended for cache area of transcoded media)
- DirectX 9.0 or higher
- Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher
- For transcoding to WMV (Xbox 360) WMP11 is required (Win2k and Win2K3 users need the Microsoft codecs from the Ace Codec Pack instead)
- Audio enabled on the computer running the software
- Macromedia Flash version 7 or higher for the GUI

Enhancements:
- New Features
- Raw digital camera image support (crw, cr2, nef, nrw, mrw, orf, raf, dng, erf, x3f, dcr arw, raw, kdc).
- Feature some Internet content during installation to raise awareness for Internet video support in TVersity. This content, if subscribed to, will be available at the root menu of devices.
- Navigation by Folders and by Podcasts is now available at the root menu of devices that have such a menu. These new menu choices combine audio, photo and video items, all in the same place.
- The file extensions mts and m2ts (used for AVCHD videos by HD camcorders) are now recognized and can be streamed to PS3.
- Public media sources are now aggregated in a global repository and will soon be used to offer new content search and discovery features.
- Devices
- Added a user contributed profile for the DSM 750.
- Bug Fixes
- Music menus on Xbox 360 were not working.
- Some DVD videos were transcoded even when it was not required.
- Some iPhone videos were transcoded even when it was not required.
- A rare sqlite crash was solved by upgrading to the latest release.
- A rare pthreads crash was solved by upgrading to the latest release.