What's new in PS3 Media Server 1.90.1
Aug 19, 2013
- Engines:
- FFmpeg Video, FFMpeg Web Video and FFmpeg Web Audio:
- Fix issue that prevented plugins extending FFmpegWebAudio and FFmpegWebVideo safely
- Updated FFmpeg for Windows
- MEncoder Video:
- Fix for spaces in font names breaking playback
- Misc:
- Fixed regression with tsMuxer and H264 support
New in PS3 Media Server 1.90.0 (Aug 1, 2013)
- Engines:
- FFmpeg Video, FFmpeg Web Audio and FFmpeg Web Video
- Add FFmpeg Web Audio engine
- General improvements of usability and stability
- Support for lossless video remuxing if supported by renderer
- Support for AC-3 and DTS audio tracks remuxing
- Support for external SRT and SSA/ASS subtitles
- Support for auto charset detection of non UTF-8 external subtitles
- tsMuxeR
- Regression: restore the pre-1.82.0 compatibility logic
- VLC Web Video
- Fix NPE
- Support for external subtitles
- Renderers:
- Xbox 360: improved quality
- Improved Sony Blu-ray Player support
- Send thumbnails properly to Samsung 2012 ES and EH models
- Added renderer profiles
- KalemSoft Media Player
- Netgear NeoTV
- Onkyo TX-NR717
- Sharp Aquos TVs
- Showtime 4 PS3 homebrew player
- Sony Bravia EX620 series TVs
- Sony Bravia W6/W8/W9 (thanks, gui17aume)
- Sony Home Theatre Systems
- Telstra T-Box
- VideoWeb TV
- Vizio Smart TV
- Yamaha RX-V3900
- Transcode folder:
- Add entries for audio files
- Add missing entries for video files
- Add entries for web video and web audio files
- Allow the chapter folder prefix to be localized
- Hide chapter folders if the duration of the video is less than the chapter length
- Don't hide engine names in the #--TRANSCODE--# folder if hide_enginenames is true
- Language updates:
- Updated Dutch translation
- Updated French translation
- Misc:
- A lot of backports from UMS
- Windows: system-wide Java installation is not needed anymore, now we bundle private JRE with installer
- Fix duplicate entries in DVD/playlist/feed folders: GC566, GC636, GC1483, GH13
- More accurate checks for reference frame counts to allow more videos to be remuxed rather than transcoded
- Removed obsolete MPlayerAudio, MPlayerWebAudio and MPlayerWebVideoDump engines
- Filename display formats can now be set at the profile level as well as per-renderer
- More detailed logging to improve diagnostics and simplify issue reporting
- Fix generation of music subfolders in iTunes Library (thanks, gui17aume)
- Build Windows installer with bundled JRE for 32-bit systems (PMS-setup-full.exe)
- Build Windows installer with bundled JRE for 64-bit systems (PMS-setup-full-x64.exe)
- Build Windows installer without bundled JRE (PMS-setup-without-jre.exe)
- Removed silent JRE download and installation within PMS.exe wrapper if no private or public JREs are found. Prompt user to run PMS-setup-full.exe instead
- Show user GPL licence during Windows installation
- Windows installer now runs PS3 Media Server with normal user rights after installation is complete
- Windows installer localization.
- Added configuration option for forcing renderer per IP address (#115)
New in PS3 Media Server 1.82.0 (Jun 3, 2013)
- Engines:
- dcraw Thumbnailer
- Fix image transcoding
- Add support for more extensions
- FFmpeg
- Fix bug that disabled FFmpeg for compatible files
- Fix audio channel selection
- MEncoder Video:
- Fixed bug that caused embedded subtitles to be displayed instead of external
- Fixed handling of per-renderer aspect-ratio settings
- tsMuxeR:
- Fixed 24-bit FLAC support with tsMuxeR
- Fix bug that disabled tsMuxeR for compatible files
- VLC:
- Fix looping playback
- Add multi-threading support
- 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
- Misc:
- Fix issue with VirtualBox and PMS launchers
- Added support for M4A files encoded with Fraunhofer AAC
- Upgrade Thumbnailator to 0.4.4 to fix out-of-memory errors
New in PS3 Media Server 1.81.0 (Apr 22, 2013)
- 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
New in PS3 Media Server 1.80.0 (Apr 6, 2013)
- 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
New in PS3 Media Server 1.72.0 (Nov 19, 2012)
- Regressions:
- 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)
New in PS3 Media Server 1.71.0 (Nov 7, 2012)
- Updated MEncoder and MPlayer to SB41
- Updated ffmpeg to 1.0 (Zeranoe Build 2012-10-10)
- Fixed file permissions bug
- 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
- Added Turkish icon
- Misc:
- Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.60 (GC1508)
- Updated h2 database to 1.3.168
- 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
New in PS3 Media Server 1.70.1 (Sep 1, 2012)
- 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
- Revert changes to SMP-N100.conf that conflict with Sony Blu-ray players and break MKV support
- Replaced ImageMagick with Thumbnailator for thumbnail generation
- Fix FFmpeg engine's handling of unsupported custom options
- Fixed FFmpeg command line arguments used by tsMuxeR video
- Added new renderer: Yamaha RX-A1010
- Language updates:
- Updated Dutch translation
- Updated Bulgarian translation
- 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
New in PS3 Media Server 1.60.0 (Jul 18, 2012)
- 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
- Added new renderer: Sony SMP-N100
- Language updates:
- Catalan translation update
- Simplified Chinese translation update
- Localized audio and subtitle priority defaults
New in PS3 Media Server 1.54.0 (Jun 27, 2012)
- 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)
New in PS3 Media Server 1.53.0 (Jun 27, 2012)
- 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!)
- Added recognition for AcePlayer app (thanks, md.versi!)
- Fix parsing of in plist preventing iPhoto libraries from working
- Added Plugin development guide (thanks, glebb)
New in PS3 Media Server 1.52.1 (Apr 6, 2012)
- 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!)
New in PS3 Media Server 1.52.0 (Mar 22, 2012)
- 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
New in PS3 Media Server 1.51.0 (Mar 19, 2012)
- 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
New in PS3 Media Server 1.50.1 (Jan 30, 2012)
- 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
New in PS3 Media Server 1.50.0 (Nov 22, 2011)
- Backwards-incompatible API changes (for plugin developers/packagers)
- Updated binaries build script to include Linux support
- Updated Bulgarian translation
- Updated German translation
- 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
- 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 0.7.51 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)
New in PS3 Media Server 1.40.0 (Sep 23, 2011)
- 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
- Added support for the AirPlayer app
- Added support for Samsung TV model SEC_HHP_TV
- Added thumbnail support for images
- 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
- Updated Italian translation
- Fixed bug that would often limit streaming buffer to 50 MB.
- Updated FFmpeg for Windows to r30656 from r30172
- Updated French translation
- Updated Russian translation
- 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)
New in PS3 Media Server 1.30.1 (Jul 7, 2011)
- Fixed bug that caused very slow iTunes library parsing
New in PS3 Media Server 1.30.0 (Jul 6, 2011)
- Backwards-incompatible API changes (for plugin developers)
- Consistent use of logging framework
- 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
- Fixed bug where config sometimes wouldn't save on Windows 7
New in PS3 Media Server 1.25.1 (Jun 24, 2011)
- Overscan compensation bug fixed
New in PS3 Media Server 1.25.0 (Jun 17, 2011)
- Overscan compensation feature added for MEncoder
- MEncoder no longer crashes when using more then 8 cores
- French translation fixed
New in PS3 Media Server 1.24.0 (Jun 16, 2011)
- Added Bulgarian and Brazilian Portuguese translation
- 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
- Support for multi-language VOBsub subtitles
- It's possible to remove hard drives from list if they are no longer connected
New in PS3 Media Server 1.23.0 (May 30, 2011)
- 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
New in PS3 Media Server 1.22.0 (May 16, 2011)
- Many file compatibility bugs fixed (particularly MKV, MP4 and DVD ISO)
- Help tab improved
- Improved alphabetical file sorting (old method is still there for those who liked it)
- Language fixes and updates
- Added custom profiles
- Added new renderers: Sony HX7, Bravia NX8, Panasonic Viera range
- Network traffic prioritised properly (thanks to bgm)
- 48fps videos are now supported
- Various other fixes
New in PS3 Media Server 1.21.1 (Apr 15, 2011)
- Rollback MEncoder for Windows to fix critical subtitle bug
- Add extra information to Windows uninstaller
- Fix NPE when toggling HTTP Engine V2
New in PS3 Media Server 1.21.0 (Apr 15, 2011)
- Support new devices: Android, Nokia N900
- Improved support for XBMC
- VOBsub subtitles are now supported on Windows
- Multithreaded MEncoder works on more things now
- Bandwidth optimisations
- New Help tab
- More file sorting options
- Improve error logging
- Buffer reports more accurately
- Properly support MEncoder multithreading on newer CPUs
- Updated MEncoder and FFMPEG
- Processes ended properly on Linux
- Many images added and updated in the program and Windows installer
- Support thumbnails for other aspect ratios than 16:9
- Support double-NTSC framerates
- Added DVD & VOBsub subtitle quality option for MEncoder (AKA subtitle anti-aliasing support)
- Many language fixes and improvements
- Config files are saved in AppData on Windows now instead of the install directory
- Folder names containing commas are now handled correctly when loading settings on startup (thanks, Targeter)
- GameTrailers support fixed
- WEB.conf parsed properly now
- iTunes library loads much faster
- Newer version of JRE is automatically downloaded for users who don't have it
- Window size tweaked to support lower resolutions better
- Internal scrollbars added for when content overflows
- Improved audio parsing
- Updated many dependencies
- Fixed DVR-MS support
- Fixed LPCM audio streaming
- Improved support for plugins
- Improved support for VLC Media Player
- Fixed many minor bugs
New in PS3 Media Server 1.20.412 Beta (Oct 5, 2010)
- Fixes for PS3 3.50 firmware
New in PS3 Media Server 1.20.409 Beta (Mar 30, 2010)
- UTF8 issues ?
- No more crashes on Linux/OSX
- MP4 Video Cover Art
- Other small issues
- Performance changes with videos folder scan
New in PS3 Media Server 1.20.400 Beta (Feb 20, 2010)
- Fixes: mp4 transcode/remux regression / Http server start regression / Mplayer thumbnails mode / Better DLNA (regarding totalmatches)
New in PS3 Media Server 1.20.397 Beta (Feb 17, 2010)
- Fix no thumbnails mode
- DRM files detection
- MediaInfo64 / Better divx, avi/ac3, wmv support, also Skip/Force transcode management
New in PS3 Media Server 1.20.392 Beta (Feb 12, 2010)
- Major change: Could introduce regression issues, streaming/transcoding detection issues
- MediaInfo support by default for PS3/XBOX, ongoing work on other renderers:
- -> Faster XMB navigation (faster parsing, plus file list appears before thumbnails generation)
- -> Proper auto detection of non supported files (PS3: Mpeg w/ DTS, Qpel/Gmc/H264 AVI files, Apple Lossless AAC files, 6 channels WMV, etc.)
- OS X: Dropped official support for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Intel processors without 64bit support (anything older then Core 2)
- Issues with some audio m4a and video mp4 files (wrong mime types)
- Slowdown on FLAC media library scan
New in PS3 Media Server 1.11.381 Beta (Jan 29, 2010)
- 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
New in PS3 Media Server 1.11.369 Beta (Dec 4, 2009)
- Auto rotation of images based on EXIF orientation, only on PS3
- New option to start basic streaming in the #transcode folder (request of meskibob)
- Static UUID, multiple server instances appearing on the renderer should be a thing of the past
- A few bugfixes