TVersity Media Server v0.9.9 (beta) now available

Posted Nov 27, 2006 at 1:39PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Firefox, TVersity, Windows XP
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TVersity Media Server v0.9.9 (beta), which features on the fly transcoding to WMV for the Xbox 360, is now available. The TVersity Media Server allows the management of Internet and home media. It can also be used to create Personal Entertainment Guide (PEG) - personalized lineup of channels. It then serves this media to networked devices in the home as well as mobiles, making the media available anywhere, anytime and from any device.

Some of the features contained in the latest update are:
  • TVersityOn the fly transcoding to WMV for the Xbox 360
    • Xbox 360 users can now play their entire media library with no need for MCE.
    • Users of other devices that can play WMV can use this target format as an alternative to MPEG. While this will require faster machines to achieve the same quality, it allow for a higher quality per bitrate meaning that a slower home network can be used. This is important mainly for HD content streamed over wireless connections.
    • Upconversion of videos to WMV HD can be done (on a fast machine) by tweaking the minVideoInfo in config.xml.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Bad Internet URLs no longer cause the server to hang for a long period of time (during which no other media could be played).
    • UPnP connections from different networks or different subnets are now accepted when the server is configured to accept remote connections. This is as opposed to the past behavior where this configuration only affected the web based interface.
    • The XML results returned by the server are now guaranteed to place the item/container title first as required by the UPnP standard.
    • Some issues related to playing flash video files (FLV) that were downloaded by the server automatically were fixed.
    • Temporary files that were mistakenly placed in the wrong folder are now stored in the Windows temporary folder.
To run TVersity Media Server you need the following minimum 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)
  • Windows XP or Windows 2000
  • DirectX 9.0 or higher
  • Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher
  • Audio enabled on the computer running the software
  • Flash version 7 for the GUI (MSIE version 6.0 required for full GUI functionality, other Flash enabled browsers such as Firefox will have most but not all of the functionality.)
If you want to try this free app, click the link below and you'll be directed to the TVersity site where you can get more details about TVersity Media Server v0.9.9 (beta).

Download: [TVersity Media Server v0.9.9 (beta)]

Via TVersity

 
 
 

Comments [refresh]

by Zerone - 2006-11-27 11:00
» First!

LOL always wanted to do that, but to not be so lame i'll comment a real comment too...



AT LAST "Xbox 360 users can now play their entire media library with no need for MCE."

by JesusXP - 2006-11-27 11:14
» I want one!..

Whens the Xbox 260 come out!!

by WompaStompa - 2006-11-27 13:04
» ha ha

Xbox 260.....

by ENFORCER - 2006-11-27 14:46
» HEY

Alaric you should fix the 260 link into 360....get your facts straight. and if you aint gonna do it right then let someone else do it.

by ya - 2006-11-27 16:19
» ya

Somebody translate this Butt- *****er language into English for me please. Do I need a media center PC to transfer videos to my living room via xbox or Not?

by lmao - 2006-11-27 16:40
» XBOX260?

" TVersity Media Server v0.9.9 (beta), which features on the fly transcoding to WMV for the Xbox 260, is now available. "



Wtf is a XBOX 260? can i preorder one?

by Zerone - 2006-11-27 22:19
» Ok can't get this to work with XP Pro

Ok so if i don't need MCE, how do you manage to access your video folder? i'm missing a step, and none of the FAQs on the website address this issue? if anyone got this working with a none MCE computer plz share how you got it working.

by Flaming Ya - 2006-11-28 00:00
» Translating for you!

Im sorry we cant translate this for you, cause no one speaks your version of moron.



you could always try again later, or figure out how to google you complete retard.

by Nickq - 2006-11-28 04:39
» its not that great

this program is a step in the right direction but far too buggy, no long file names, no long folder names, mpg's wont convert properly (after 6 hrs trawling through their forums still no luck) and half the time it states connection dropped after 10 mins (on a wired network)



maybe if they fix it up it will be worth using but for now its simply a step in the right direction... ill keep using vlc to convert to wmv then media connect to stream i think, much less hassle

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