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TVersity Media Server v0.9.9.2 Posted by XanTium | December 26 00:06 EST

A new version of TVersity Media Server(info) has been released. TVersity allows you to stream pretty much any media (music/pictures and video) format to your Xbox 360 (with on-the-fly transconding to WMV for videos) from a Windows 2000/XP machine (MCE not required). What's new/fixed: * RSS Feeds - The FLV media inside SWF URLs from YouTube RSS feeds is now automatically detected. This means that adding a YouTube RSS feed to TVersity will now work as expected, with all the enclosed media listed and ready to play. - When scanning the header of media files enclosed in RSS feeds, the user agent is now "TVersity Mediabot". The "TVersity Media Server" user agent is still used when doing a full download (either due to a new subscription or playback of an item that was not previously downloaded). - Add support for RSS feeds that are using encodings other than UTF8 or Latin1. * Transcoding - Add support for transcoding audio to PCM and use this with the Xbox 360 instead of MP3. This way media encoded in lossless formats will have no quality degradation when streamed to the 360. - Adjust the video resolution when transcoding to WMV to insure that the Xbox 360 can upscale it to the resolution of the TV using integer multiplication. This eliminates display artifacts that used to occur when the video resolution was not conforming to this criterion. - Take into account the pixel aspect ratio of videos (that is for videos with non square pixels) when transcoding. This means that 16:9 and 4:3 DVDs will look as they are supposed to when transcoded. - The "Disable decoding clock" on the transcoder section of the settings tab is now meaningful when transcoding to WMV. This means that Xbox 360 users that wish to avoid 100% CPU usage when the video does not require it, can turn this flag off. * Media Librray - 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. * Windows Vista compatibility - All executables now have manifests to request admin privileges on Vista (this should allow them to run even with UAC enabled as long as the user grants them the permission to run as admins). - The Sharing service is installed on Vista without the "Allow interaction with desktop" feature since Vista does not support this (on XP/2K we keep using this feature as before since it allows codec icons to appear in the tray when they are used during transcoding). * Bug fixes and more - 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. - Add support for friendly file names in short URLs, so that devices that download content to their local storage (like the Sony PSP) will give a friendly name to content downloaded from TVersity. - Fix a crash that occurs when scanning a corrupt MP3 file. - The installer no longer overrides user definitions to the TVersity sharing service (that is it is no longer necessary to reconfigure a log-on account after each installation). - The TVersity audio and video feeds are no longer included, users can still get them by adding (or dragging and dropping) the URLs: here and here. - Fixed the CNN Radio and Ministry of sound TV URLs in the TVersity Guides. - Icons of audio and video RSS feeds are now properly displayed in the web interface. - Eliminate "insane" duration values displayed for some videos. Videos from which we cannot retrieve the duration, will now not have a value at all. - Fix a GUI bug related to using the keyboard in the sharing tab and having the keystrokes propagate to the library tab. - The right click menu can now be used on items in the sharing tab and it works as expected (previously it sopped working once the tray icon menu was invoked - a seemingly unrelated action had some, unaccounted for, side effects). Official Site: http://www.tversity.com Download: here

[kics]

this app rocks.... BUT i cant get it to install (this version).... so i installed v .9.9.1 again (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

the error is that "TVersity.exe is running and setup must end it ... " something like that... installed again .9.9.1 with no probs...

[Cyberz]

Stop services first.


Hope they fixed that it stops 30sec from the end.

[kics]

i already uninstalled it....

1)uninstalled the previous version
2) rebooted
3) tried to install the latest version - same error

[quarky42]

QUOTE(kics @ Dec 26 2006, 12:57 AM)

this app rocks.... BUT i cant get it to install (this version).... so i installed v .9.9.1 again (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

the error is that "TVersity.exe is running and setup must end it ... " something like that... installed again .9.9.1 with no probs...

I saved the setup file as "TVersity_Setup_0_9_9_2.exe".

During installation, the installer kept shutting down itself saying that TVersity.exe was already running.

When I renamed the installer back to Setup_0_9_9_2.exe instead, it installed just fine.

If the installer has "TVersity" in the filename, it will kill itself thinking that TVersity is already running.

I dislike installers that lack the name of the program in the setup name.  In this case it causes a minor bug during installation.  Fix:   Take TVersity out of the file name.

[kics]

it worked... thnx

BTW, how can i get rid of the green info that is showing on top ?

This post has been edited by kics: Dec 26 2006, 06:52 PM

[telo{+}]

Go into FFDSHOW and turn off the OSD

[c0c0plane]

Well they say this version fixes the infamous connection termiation bug, but now when I press play on a movie it doesnt say connection lost anymore, my xbox just freezes all together. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
 

Ive been attempting to use this app for a while with no success, if anyone could help, that would be nice.

[kics]

i happened to me, i changed the settings from automatic detection of media to xbox 360 and it worked..

[kics]

well, now it doesnt work... not even locally...  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[onis_uk]

Righty ive got this tversity all set up and running ok .....BUT i hate the way the xbox 360 displays all my music...its making it very hard for me to navigate around ....
i have a lot of music and ist all under one folder on my E drive.
i like to just look about in the folders...in tversitys libary view this is possible but my xbox insists in putting it all in album/artist etc view....gurrrrr
and i change this ?!?!
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[badbad21]

Finaly , with this version its works fine. ( with version 0.9.9.1 i didnt get it to work no matter what i did )

But one small question, does anyone else get worse quality with HDTV ripped Xvids ? and VOB files than ordinary Xvids ?
i do ,ordinary Xvids looks much better than DVD VOB files or HDTV ripped Xvids =/

[bobjim17]

Well, i installed the program and set it all up correctly, and I was very impressed with the layout I must say.
Forgiving the crap way that the 360 is organised in the first place, that is.

Unfortunately, every time I tried to play something I get 'the connection to the pc was lost blah blah'

Then my PC reported that TVersity's media server caused an illegal operation or some such.

I have tried it over and over again, and unfortunately it still does not work.

Is there anything I need to be looking at, or do I need to wait for the next build?

Thanks chaps. Big ups to the community as always.

[XenShocker]

I'm running a 64-bit version of Windows XP.

I can't install the "Windows Media Connect" software on the pc.

And it seems like "Windows Media Connect" is required in order to use TVersity, can anyone confirm?

Cheers

[XenShocker]

Found how to Install WMC on PlanetAMD64 Forums.

I have also released that i needed to connect to Xbox Live and get the Fall 2006 update, because without it there is not an option to connect to a computer from the "video" secion in the media tab of the xbox 360 dashboard.

Cheers