This is largely another infrastructure release. Here's the highlights:
Xbmc metadata support out of the box (plugin is now obsolete)
New video player layout in the web client
Improved seeking while transcoding for the web client & roku, coming soon to other apps
New mobile tap-hold menus
Improved log page
Subtitle download scheduled task
Latest item groupings
Season overview fetching from Tmdb
Episode image fetching from Tmdb
Chapter images now part of regular re
There may not have been a lot of public activity on the MBT development side for a while, but behind the scenes, there has been some significant movement. Media Browser Theater is currently going through a significant architectural re-write. Most of the changes are there to make the developer's lives easier, while also greatly improving the extensibility of the software (to support themes and more powerful plugins in the future). However, there are also major changes to the GUI incoming.
Thi
Xenon Beta is here!!
Available thru MBC config Plugins page.
Forgot to blog this, but certainly looking for any help to test. Its very stable and functional.
This is a beta and the time to ween out any final bugs your are seeing and probably a good time to through in any suggestions.
I still have a tonne of backlog stuff i know I need to finish, but it's 90% there and should give you an enjoyable experience.
Thanks for your help and patience!!
I would also like to persona
We are happy to announce that a new version of the Windows Store app is now available for download.
So what is new in this version?
First off:
The "Resume" and "Resume On" funtionality has changed.
We have now removed the resume button and resume to buttons.
If a movie has the possiblity to resume, a flyout is presented with the options of either "Play" or "Resume".
PlayTo, when you've decided that you wan't to watch a movie on another device the app will now Auto-navigate to the
MaxCDN (http://www.maxcdn.com) has graciously offered to provide space and bandwidth for Media Browser on their content delivery network. MaxCDN has a history of supporting FOSS (Free Open Source Software) projects and we are thankful to join the list of beneficiaries of this generous company. Their own software infrastructure makes use of FOSS, and this is their way of giving back to the open source community. For more information on FOSS projects supported by MaxCDN, visit http://www.maxcdn.co
This is just a quick update with mostly bug and stability fixes. We have a lot more features planned for both the near and long term, so stay tuned!
- Fixed a bug that sometimes prevents the local player from seeking correctly
- Fixed the forward / rewind buttons
- Fixed sort crash bug on movie/tv show list
- Fixed the hostname/port fields on the add server screen
- Now with less memory leaks!
Don't forget to leave us a review!
Android development has been a busy place these last few months. Behind the scenes a lot of work has been done to provide some great features. I'm going to do a series of blog posts showing off some of the progress leading up to the final availability this summer. So without further ado, here's some of the good stuff that's coming.
Android in the living room
The Android client will provide the mobile layout that everyone is used to. Users will be able to enable a new UI that is meant for
The Infrastructure Release
That's probably the best way to describe this as it brings a lot of improvements to existing features. Let's jump right into the highlights:
New text subtitle delivery system
New metadata refresh options
DLNA Improvements
New Channels
New Channel Improvements
Unified web interface
New Text Subtitle Delivery System
The server now has the ability to deliver text subtitles directly to the client, thereby eliminating the need to "burn them in
Version 3.0.187.0 of Media Browser Classic has just been released.
There are several fixes and enhancements in this release but the biggest one is a brand new interface during video playback. This new interface is much more modern looking, provides more information and great functionality including customized skipping, direct access seeking and full, interactive chapter access with chapter images.
Please see the new interface usage guide for a complete description of how it all
We are happy to announce that Media Browser for iPad has been approved in the Apple App Store.
Appstore Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/media-browser-client/id879475585?ls=1&mt=8
We know this has been a long time coming and we are glad the community has been so patient with us while we worked on it.
There is still a lot of work to come. We plan to make this a universal app so that you can also use it on the iPhone. We also have a slew of features that we plan to implement in the
The official private beta channel has relaunched with a new store address:
https://owner.roku.com/add/MediaBrowserBeta
The public channel is soon to follow.
This release adds a long list of new features:
* Added remote control support
* All video features are now consistent across all video types (movie, episode, home video, etc)
* Most data is now background loaded for a more responsive presentation
* Image indicators are now available on all screens
* Display clock in top r
New release, v1.8.0
Glad to announce that today we've released a new version of the Windows 8.1 app.
What's new:
Basic Multipart-video support
Support for 480p -720k transcoding
Hide Music-Section when no music is available
Support for .mov files
Navigation buttons (Up,down,left,right,Select,Back,Home) on remotecontrol view if the client supports it.
Fixes:
Fix for audioplayback
Correct sorting of Media Folders
Fix for LiveTile
Check it out: http://apps.microsoft.com/w
This has been a longer than usual development cycle and as a result we've got some great things to introduce. Let's get right to the release highlights:
New Internet Channels Infrastructure
Improved DLNA Support
Improved Server Localization
Live TV H264 Optimizations
Subtitle downloading via OpenSubtitles.org
Newly designed web client home page
Design and customize your web client
Expanded user audio/subtitle language preferences
Improved remote control in the web clien
Our move to a completely new hosting environment for our back-end server was completed last weekend and everything appears to be running very smoothly with much better response from the forums and package delivery system.
At the same time, we have returned home to our original web address. Please update all your links and bookmarks to http://mediabrowser.tv
A huge thanks go to BigJohn and Abobader for making this transition so smooth. Please give them both some "Likes" on the forum whe
The forum will be unavailable starting at 9:00pm EDT on Sunday, May 11th. The public website should become available on our new (actually returning to the old) address of http://mediabrowser.tv.
We are going to be upgrading our web infrastructure over the weekend. This is going to mean an interruption in all of our web-based services including this forum for, hopefully, a very brief period.
The website, forum, plug-in catalog and registration information will be temporarily unavailable starting Sunday, May 11 9:00pm EDT
We hope this interruption will be minimal and the new infrastructure should improve our ability to handle both the forum and new version deliveries of all our co
This is just a bug fix release. Changes:
Fix direct streaming with Windows 8.1 app
Fix Added value not being read from local xml metadata
Fix Dlna Play To/Server issues with WDTV live devices (may benefit other devices as well).
Hi All,
We have reached a couple of new milestones with XBMB3C - release 0.9.0 AND a new skin repo!
But before going into the details, a few words...
We really would like to invite both MediaBrowser users who have previously tried XBMC and found the database capabilities lacking, and XBMC users who have tried or heard about MediaBrowser but found the hardware support lacking to give XBMB3C a shot!
What we are trying to do here is take the very powerful, VERY multi-platform XBMC p
It's been a while, but we're pleased to announce the Windows Phone 8 app has been given a massive update.
What's new?
- Video seeking when streaming video to the app
- "Play on" button moved to app bar
- Now Playing bar in the app for easier access (when listening to music only)
- Added the "Upcoming" section for TV Collections
- Added artist background image to now playing screen (music)
- Added support for Live TV (requires additional server configuration)
- Local trailer support
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We are very excited to introduce you to the new iPad app that we have been working on for the last few months. We wanted to create an app that goes beyond just basic functionality and also has a great user experience.
The central theme that we focused on for this application was speed, speed, speed.
Media Caching
All media information is cached using a combination of both disk and memory caches. On startup we prime our memory caches with our disk cached media list information for a give
To celebrate this slew of releases and announcements today, for one week all of our apps can be purchased for $.99:
Android @ Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GVH9O0I
Android @ Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mb.android&hl=en
Windows 8.1:
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/media-browser/ad55a2f0-9897-47bd-8944-bed3aefd5d06
Windows Phone:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/media-browser/f4971ed9-f651-4bf6-84bb-94fd98613b
Highlights:
New translations
DLNA Play To improvements
New DLNA Server
Enhanced DLNA profile editing
New server notification system
New transcoding audio boost setting
New collection grouping setting
Improved mobile layouts in the web client
Display mirroring added to the web client
Theme songs in the web client
New translations
Thanks to the community effort, Media Browser Server is now about 60% translated, and new languages have been added. We're still l
