Version history for PS3 Media Server

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Changes for v1.81.0 - v1.82.0

• Engines:
• - dcraw Thumbnailer:
• - Fix image transcoding
• - Add support for more extensions
• - FFmpeg:
• - Fix bug that disabled FFmpeg for compatible files
• - Fix audio channel selection (thanks, valib)
• - MEncoder Video:
• - Fixed bug that caused embedded subtitles to be displayed instead of external (thanks, SubJunk)
• - Fixed handling of per-renderer aspect-ratio settings (thanks, ExSport)
• - tsMuxeR:
• - Fixed 24-bit FLAC support with tsMuxeR (thanks, SubJunk)
• - Fix bug that disabled tsMuxeR for compatible files
• - VLC:
• - Fix looping playback
• - Add multi-threading support (GC1234: thanks, ccampora)
• - Misc:
• - New engine: VLCWebVideo ("vlcwebvideo")
• - Clean up engine names
• Renderers:
• - PS3: TV series with sound problems after "previously on" block should now play normally with the "Keep AC-3 track" option enabled (thanks, SubJunk)
• Language updates:
• - Updated Dutch translation (thanks, leroy)
• Misc:
• - Fix issue with VirtualBox and PMS launchers (thanks, thepadawan42)
• - Added support for M4A files encoded with Fraunhofer AAC
• - Upgrade Thumbnailator to 0.4.4 to fix out-of-memory errors (thanks, coobird)

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Changes for v1.80.0 - v1.81.0

• Engines:
• FFmpeg:
• Add/fix audio channel options
• Build script: add HTTPS support
• WEB.conf:
• Add support for the file:// protocol
• Match protocols (e.g. mms://...) before extensions (e.g. http://example.com/foo.mms)
• Misc:
• Media Parser v1: fix audio channel parsing
• Fix for "Can't assign requested address" bug after update to Java 1.6.0_45 on Mac OSX

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Changes for v1.72.0 - v1.80.0

• Regressions:
• Re-allow all transcode engines to be disabled
• PMS.conf:
• FFmpeg has been renamed ffmpeg_video_custom_options and now defaults to null
• Renderers:
• Document TranscodeVideo and TranscodeAudio profiles
• Panasonic TVs: Add "exclusive" option to SeekByTime to work around a transcoding issue
• PS3: Restore seek-by-time support for streaming
• Android: allowing chunked transfer
• AirPlayer & iPad/iPhone: transcoding to WMV format gives better results
• Improved support for Sony Bravia HX (thanks, mazey!)
• Improved streaming support for some renderers (thanks, ExSport!)
• Engines:
• FFmpeg Video and FFmpeg Web Video:
• Support all three TranscodeVideo profiles: WMV, MPEGTSAC3 and MPEGPSAC3
• Preserve source video quality
• FFmpeg Video:
• Custom FFmpeg options are now read before each transcode rather than only at startup(parity with custom MEncoder options)
• Rescale videos larger than the renderer's max height/width
• Updated to use "wmav2" codec (#1583)
• FFmpeg Audio: support all TranscodeAudio profiles
• VLC:
• Added support for VLC as engine (thanks, LordQuackstar!)
• Language updates:
• Updated Brazilian translation (thanks, Bruno Arueira!)
• Updated Catalan translation (thanks, oscaroe!)
• Updated simplified Chinese translation (thanks, lovenemesis!)
• Updated Italian translation (thanks, nocciola82!)
• Misc:
• Fixed bug that prevents PMS running multiple profiles concurrently
• Fixed NPE when responding to DLNA subtitle requests
• Fixed NPE for empty soapactions
• Image thumbnailer:
• Added thumbnail support for TIFF and other formats
• Trapped exception when handling unsupported formats
• Fixed response to M-SEARCH "ssdp:all" message (thanks, ler0y!)
• Fixed fontconfig configuration for Mac OSX, improving subtitle quality
• Moved several transcoding settings from MEncoder to Common transcoding settings
• Layout improvements to remove scroll bars where possible
• Help is now context sensitive

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Changes for v1.71.0 - v1.72.0

• Fixed bug that occurred when using ShowDVDTitleDuration
• Fixed bug that caused embedded subtitles to be displayed when subtitles are disabled
• Fixed bug in handling of filenames with embedded $ characters
• Engines:
• Removed option to automatically switch to tsMuxeR (available manually via the #--TRANSCODE--# folder)

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Changes for v1.70.1 - v1.71.0

• Windows:
• Updated MEncoder and MPlayer to SB41
• Updated ffmpeg to 1.0 (Zeranoe Build 2012-10-10)
• Fixed file permissions bug
• Mac OS X subtitles:
• Changed audio/subtitle defaults to accept anything
• Removed fontconfig from MEncoder for improved subs compatibility
• Renderers:
• Improved Android.conf video support
• Added support for Samsung SMT-G7400 (UPC Horizon)
• Fixed bug that prevented Galaxy Nexus pictures displaying
• Language updates:
• Updated Chinese Traditional translation (thanks, mcc!)
• Added Turkish icon
• Misc:
• Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.60 (GC1508)
• Updated h2 database to 1.3.168 (thanks, valib!)
• Improve handling of initialization errors
• Fixed possible error while loading iPhoto library (GC1523)
• Fixed bug where disabled engines could be selected in the #--TRANSCODE--# folder
• Added options for renderer-specific file name formats
• Added ffmpeg build script

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Changes for v1.60.0 - v1.70.1

• Add new default web video engine: FFMpeg Web Video
• Add support for new web protocols: mmsh:// and mmst://
• Sort files alphanumerically by default e.g. Episode 2 before Episode 10
• Auto encoding detection of non UTF-8 external subtitles for Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages
• (leave "Subtitles codepage" option blank)
• Improved handling of UTF-8 external subtitles
• Localized #--TRANSCODE--# folder name
• PMS.conf:
• Added transcode_folder_name option to allow #--TRANSCODE--# folder name to be customized (issue GC963)
• Make example PMS.conf behave more like built-in defaults
• Restore maximum buffer size to 600 MB (was 400 MB)
• Prevented image distortion on some DLNA clients with "Keep AC-3 track" option enabled
• Don't show entries for disabled engines in #--TRANSCODE--# folder
• Allow Traces tab panel to auto-scroll (thanks, LordQuackstar!)
• Revert changes to SMP-N100.conf that conflict with Sony Blu-ray players and break MKV support (thanks, mrw1986)
• Replaced ImageMagick with Thumbnailator for thumbnail generation
• Fix FFmpeg engine's handling of unsupported custom options (thanks, ajamess)
• Fixed FFmpeg command line arguments used by tsMuxeR video
• Added new renderer: Yamaha RX-A1010 (thanks, merelin)
• Language updates:
• Updated Dutch translation (thanks, leroy)
• Updated Bulgarian translation (thanks, JORDITO)
• Fix DNLA 2114 errors when scanning non-readable subfolders with "hide empty folders" enabled
• Renderers:
• Deprecate misnamed TranscodeVideo profile MPEGAC3: use MPEGPSAC3 instead
• Document and clean up TranscodeVideo and TranscodeAudio profiles
• Linux tarball: fix "cannot find tsMuxeR" error
• MEncoder:
• disable AC-3 remux if audio track has delay
• disable DTS and LPCM remuxing if tsMuxeR engine is unavailable

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Changes for v1.54.0 - v1.60.0

• Enabled FFmpeg video player for all platforms
• Added support for PGS (Blu-ray) subtitles
• Added support for TX3G (MPEG-4 Timed Text) subtitles
• Added support for VobSub (DVD) subtitles in MP4 container
• Better handling of embedded SSA/ASS subs styling
• Fixed audio track selection for MP4s and MOVs
• Fixed DV videos detection
• Added support for WebM videos downloaded from YouTube
• Optimized CBRVideoBitrate value for Panasonic TVs (thanks, ExSport!)
• Added new renderer: Sony SMP-N100 (thanks, mrw1986 and guillepalao!)
• Language updates:
• - Catalan translation update (thanks, aseques!)
• - Simplified Chinese translation update (thanks, lovenemesis!)
• Localized audio and subtitle priority defaults

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Changes for v1.53.0 - v1.54.0

• Added LPCM transcoding option for all audio tracks
• Added DTS HD-MA support up to 7.1 channels: DTS core remux, LPCM and AC3 transcoding
• Added Dolby TrueHD support up to 7.1 channels: LPCM (recommended) and AC3 (buggy for 7.1) transcoding
• Added workaround for 2.0 384 kbits AC3 PS3 audio bug
• Added support for DirecTV HR series (thanks, DeFlanko!)
• Added support for LG's Smart TV Upgrader (LG 600ST)
• Added support for Yamaha RX-V671 (thanks, adresd!)
• Added support for OPPO BDP-83 and OPPO BDP-93 (thanks, adresd!)
• Fixed bug that occurred when resetting cache
• Made buffer display in megabytes instead of bytes
• Fixed overscan compensation bug on some renderers (thanks to tMH for reporting the bug!)
• Updated MPlayer for OSX to SB32
• Language updates: CZE translation update (thanks, valib)

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Changes for v1.52.1 - v1.53.0

• Fix global custom MEncoder options
• Re-fix NPE when toggling HTTP Engine V2
• Fix startup for symlinked PMS.sh (#1356) (thanks, Matthijs!)
• Added documentation to PMS.conf (thanks, Hagar!)
• Updated JNA to support multiarch directories on Linux (#1152)
• - Fix test/startup error caused by conflicting JNA versions
• Language updates:
• - added Arabic
• - added Hebrew (thanks, zvi-yamin!)
• - CZE translation update (thanks, valib)
• - Layout support for right-to-left languages added
• Added option to select and force the default renderer
• Fixed Samsung 2012 TVs timeout (thanks, troop!)
• Added support for D-link DSM-510 (thanks, glenrocks!)
• Updated MPlayer build script to SB32
• Fix "value too long" SQL exceptions
• If renderer has not specified a maximum height/width, default to 1920x1080
• Initial fix for Samsung 2012 TVs (thanks, troop!)
• Linux: load system-wide defaults from /etc/skel if user's profile not found
• Added recognition for AcePlayer app (thanks, md.versi!)
• Fix parsing of in plist preventing iPhoto libraries from working
• Added Plugin development guide (thanks, glebb)

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Changes for v1.52.0 - v1.52.1

• Updated MPlayer to SB29 which fixes AC3 audio sync
• Allow JRE 6 instead of just JRE 7
• Language updates:
• added Turkish (thanks, BrYaNT!)
• updated Bulgarian (thanks, JORDITO!)
• updated Catalan (thanks, aseques!)
• updated Czech (thanks, valib!)
• updated English labels
• Reading genre from media (thanks, nielsb!

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Changes for v1.51.0 - v1.52.0

• Fix program starting on Linux
• Support videos with resolutions that are not divisible by 4
• Improved overscan-compensation
• Fixed the display of Hebrew subtitles
• Improvements to logging
• Language updates:
• Czech (thanks, valib!)

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Changes for v1.50.1 - v1.51.0

• Fix StartStopListener callbacks for HTTP Engine V1
• Surface playback start/stop events
• Make video quality presets localizable
• Fixed OSX log message about font definitions
• Fixed double wrapping of streams causing stuttering
• Added MPEG4 ASP with Qpel support for PS3
• Allow 15fps video
• MediaInfo link added to the About tab
• Updated to latest versions of libraries (codec, jdom, logback and slf4j)
• Various stability and speed improvements
• Updated JRE autodownload to 7u3 from 7u2
• Updated MPlayer and MEncoder to SB28
• Updated ImageMagick Convert to 6.7.6
• Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.54
• More reliable selection of correct audio channels
• Improved fast-forward and rewind support

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Changes for v1.50.0 - v1.50.1

• Improved audio/video synchronisation when using tsMuxeR
• Updated MPlayer/MEncoder to SB22 from SB18
• Language updates:
• Russian (thanks, Tianuchka!)
• Clarified some settings in all languages
• Fixed delay when entering the media server
• Improved support for Samsung AllShare devices
• Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.53 from 0.7.51
• Updated JRE auto-download to 7u2 from 7u1
• Updated FFmpeg to r35509 from r31564
• Added country code thumbnails (Thanks, happy-neko!)
• Fixed #1274

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Changes for v1.40.0 - v1.50.0

• Backwards-incompatible API changes (for plugin developers/packagers) - see http://tinyurl.com/3qtgk5k for more details
• Updated binaries build script to include Linux support (thanks, happy.neko!)
• Updated OS X MPlayer to include fontconfig support
• Language updates:
• Updated Bulgarian translation (thanks, JORDITO!)
• Updated German translation (thanks, smo!)
• Updated Dutch translation
• Clarified English language labels
• Speeds displayed in Mb/s instead of Kb/s
• Added full featured IP filter with support for wildcards and ranges
• Improved network interface choosing algorithm now skips virtual interfaces
• Updated libraries (configuration, jgoodies and slf4j)
• Detect file system changes runtime (adding/removing folders/files).
• Updated JRE auto-download from 6u27 to 7u1
• Added option to create a desktop shortcut to the Windows installer
• Renderer image improvements
• Improvements to tab layouts
• Maximum bandwidth setting works
• Limit bandwidth to 110Mb/s by default which should solve a lot of "stuttering playback" reports
• Recognise forced subtitles (thanks, ExSport!)
• Updated MPlayer and MEncoder on Windows and OSX from Sherpya's old builds to SubJunk's new builds which fixes many playback issues, colour-conversion bugs and more (but possibly has drawbacks for some files, too)
• Main (Status) tab displays a large tick when it's connected to a renderer instead of a PS3 or warning image
• Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.51 from 0.7.47
• New natural sort option for file order: Alphanumeric (e.g. Season 2 before Season 10)
• Always allow "Restart Server" button (#1186)
• Updated FFmpeg for Windows to r31564 from r30656
• We now support Samsung AllShare, along with our existing support for Samsung WiseLink
• Allow to configure subtitle color if using PMS in headless mode (#1280)

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Changes for v1.40.0 - v1.50.0 Beta 2

• Backwards-incompatible API changes (for plugin developers/packagers) - see http://tinyurl.com/3qtgk5k for more details
• Updated binaries build script to include Linux support (thanks, happy.neko!)
• Updated OS X MPlayer to include fontconfig support
• Updated Bulgarian translation (thanks, JORDITO!)
• Updated German translation (thanks, smo!)
• Updated Dutch translation
• Added full featured IP filter with support for wildcards and ranges
• Improved network interface choosing algorithm now skips virtual interfaces
• Updated libraries (configuration, jgoodies and slf4j)
• Detect file system changes runtime (adding/removing folders/files).
• Updated JRE auto-download from 6u27 to 7u1
• Added option to create a desktop shortcut to the Windows installer
• Renderer image improvements
• Improvements to tab layouts
• Maximum bandwidth setting works
• Limit bandwidth to 110Mb/s by default which should solve a lot of "stuttering playback" reports
• Speeds displayed in Mb/s instead of Kb/s
• Recognise forced subtitles
• Clarified English language labels
• Updated MPlayer and MEncoder on Windows from Sherpya's old builds to SubJunk's new builds which fixes many playback issues, colour-conversion bugs and more (but possibly has drawbacks for some files, too)
• Main (Status) tab displays a large tick when it's connected to a renderer instead of a PS3 or warning image
• Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.50 from 0.7.47

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Changes for v1.40.0 - v1.50.0 Beta 1

• Backwards-incompatible API changes (for plugin developers/packagers) - see http://tinyurl.com/3qtgk5k for more details
• Updated binaries build script to include Linux support (thanks, happy.neko!)
• Updated OS X MPlayer to include fontconfig support
• Updated Bulgarian translation (thanks, JORDITO!)
• Updated German translation (thanks, smo!)
• Updated Dutch translation
• Added full featured IP filter with support for wildcards and ranges
• Improved network interface choosing algorithm now skips virtual interfaces
• Updated libraries (configuration, jgoodies and slf4j)
• Detect file system changes runtime (adding/removing folders/files).
• Updated JRE auto-download from 6u27 to 7u1
• Added option to create a desktop shortcut to the Windows installer
• Renderer image improvements
• Improvements to tab layouts
• Maximum bandwidth setting works
• Limit bandwidth to 110Mb/s by default which should solve a lot of "stuttering playback" reports
• Speeds displayed in Mb/s instead of Kb/s
• Recognise forced subtitles
• Clarified English language labels
• Updated MPlayer and MEncoder on Windows from Sherpya's old builds to SubJunk's new builds which fixes many playback issues, colour-conversion bugs and more (but possibly has drawbacks for some files, too)
• Main (Status) tab displays a large tick when it's connected to a renderer instead of a PS3 or warning image
• Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.50 from 0.7.47

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Changes for v1.30.1 - v1.40.0

• Updated OS X MPlayer to enable external VOBsub, ASS/SSA and Fribidi support
• Allow update checks to be performed manually (Windows only)
• Allow automatic update checks to be enabled (Windows only)
• Simplify PMS customization for packagers of custom builds
• Logging fix for headless configurations
• Added experimental support for iPad / iPhone renderers
• Fixed DVD ISO playback on OS X (thanks, jjmojojjmojo!)
• Added support for the AirPlayer app
• Added support for Samsung TV model SEC_HHP_TV (thanks, coax-!)
• Added Aperture support on OS X (thanks, coax-!)
• Added thumbnail support for images (some code from http://www.rayinblu.com/ps3mediaserver)
• The cache is now reset after each upgrade/downgrade (for versions higher than 1.40.0)
• Files with the extension *.vdr are now recognized as MPG videos
• Added support for JPEG Multi-Picture Format (.mpo) files
• Added support for chunking renderers like Sony Bluray (thanks, infidel, WorldOfHurt and patters!)
• Updated Italian translation (thanks, nocciola82!)
• Fixed bug that would often limit streaming buffer to 50 MB.
• Updated FFmpeg for Windows to r30656 from r30172
• Updated French translation (thanks, danielha!)
• Updated Russian translation (thanks, Tianuchka!)
• Added support for regular ASS/SSA subtitles (before we only supported the more popular "advanced" kind)
• Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.47 from 0.7.44
• Updated JRE autodownload to 6u27 from 6u26
• Removed IP/hostname from Status tab (still shown in Traces)
• Updated libraries (codec, gson, jgoodies, logback and netty)

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Changes for v1.31.0 Beta 1 - v1.40.0 Beta 2

• Built from SVN r812.
• Released as beta because many code changes haven't been widely tested yet.

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Changes for v1.30.0 - v1.30.1

• Fixed bug that caused very slow iTunes library parsing

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Changes for v1.25.1 - v1.30.0

• Backwards-incompatible API changes (for plugin developers) - see SVN changelog for more details
• Updated OS X binaries (FFmpeg, MEncoder and MPlayer) to fix an AC3 bug and improve internal VOBsub display quality
• Consistent use of logging framework
• ASS/SSA subtitles disabled by default on Linux and OS X
• Multithreaded MEncoder enabled by default on multithreaded CPUs
• Subtitles stay within confines of original frame when using overscan compensation
• Made transcoding tab resizing consistent for all sizes
• Fixed DTS audio support with FFmpeg
• MEncoder supports DTS-ES (6.1 channels) audio
• Handles unknown audio channels
• Change maximum number of plugins to 30 from 4
• Improved MP4 support
• New Korean translation (thanks, mrahn80)
• Fixed bug where config sometimes wouldn't save on Windows 7

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Changes for v1.25.0 - v1.25.1

• Overscan compensation bug fixed

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Changes for v1.24.0 - v1.25.0

• Overscan compensation feature added for MEncoder
• Return of the official OS X build, thanks for your patience!
• MEncoder no longer crashes when using more then 8 cores
• New build script for OS X that builds all dependencies (big thanks to Raptor399)
• Overscan compensation support for MEncoder
• French translation fixed

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Changes for v1.23.0 - v1.24.0

• New icon on OS X
• Added Bulgarian and Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to jordito and gelo)
• Updated Polish, French, German and Portuguese translation
• tsMuxeR handles mov files
• Updated FFmpeg to r30172 from r28671
• Updated JRE auto-dl
• Forcing MEncoder via the TRANSCODE folder ignores tsMuxeR
• Fixed support for renderers including Panasonic TVs
• Improved RAR support
• Updated libraries for OS X build
• Lots of fixes to the OS X build process so now it works
• Support for multi-language VOBsub subtitles
• It's possible to remove hard drives from list if they are no longer connected (thanks, spots)

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Changes for v1.22.0 - v1.23.0

• Fixed Windows service
• Windows service now starts automatically with the computer
• Sony Bravia Z5500 (and possibly others) work again
• Fixed PS3 not being detected for some users
• Support cellphone/smartphone (3gp) videos
• Windows service is uninstalled with program
• Detect Popcorn Hour and WDTV live more reliably
• English, Russian and Dutch language updates

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Changes for v1.11.369 Beta - v1.11.381 Beta

• Mplayer builds from 2010-01-19 (Regular and MT): http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
• DVD ISO muxing enabled by default + DTS support (need some tests :p). It's an option in the transcode settings panel
• New Mplayer build font cache should build if needed at start
• Definitive removal of the tsmuxer mpeg parser (slow and now unnecessary with recent ffmpeg builds)
• New option to avoid music files resampling
• Better support for simultaneous usage with several ps3s/renderers (need tests as well)
• Better support for Sony Bravia TVs for all regions (no need to tweak that conf file by hand)
• 5.0 Audio channel support
• Small fixes

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