Tuesday, March 30, 2010

nessViewer 2.4 available (DVD and film cover, movie trailer)

After several discussions with users how nessViewer could integrate DVD and (EyeTV-) film covers, we now found a (as we think very good) solution: the film info (see File-New) now allows to set the cover and description and these informations will be displayed in the MediaCenter.

These informations will be saved in the DVD folder respectively EyeTV film package or in the user folder.
The latter allows to set these informations also for (QuickTime-) movies.

Now the times are gone were the MediaCenter shows a different image for EyeTV films each time after watching this film - because EyeTV always changes the image afterwards.

Next plan is the export of all these film informations as HTML, XML or RSS feed for publishing these film informations.

Last but not least: the MediaCenter now also offers movie trailers in German and English.

Friday, March 12, 2010

nessViewer 2.3.3 available (ARD Mediathek, Arte LiveWeb)

The developers of the ARD Mediathek web site has invented a new html attribute: image data source ("<img data-src=...>" instead of "<img src=...>").
Unfortunatly the corresponding RSS feed is not showing any pictures anymore - strange... :-))
We adapted the media center so now it can access the ARD Mediathek again.

Arte has published a new web portal: Arte LiveWeb. It offers occasional live concerts at 8 pm - and concert recordings.
As a first step we integrated at Internet -> German Television -> Arte.
And the recorded concerts at Internet -> Arte -> Music Recordings.

With appropriate interests we can extend the offer by categories (Classic, Pop/Rock, Jazz...).

Monday, March 1, 2010

May there be some erotic? Or: why does Apple not publish nessViewer?

Since 3 month nessViewer is added to the Apple third-party list - according to Apple the max. time one has to wait for publishing.
But sadly nessViewer is not published - why? At least nessViewer is the only media center (as far as we know) that is using only Apple technology (e.g. QuickTime).

Unfortunatly Apple gives no information for this - so there is only speculation: is it the competition (because we "replace" applications of Apple) or is it the erotic content of the media center (which is only available optional, for registered users being over 18/21 years old).

Of course Apple has all rights to publish not all applications - but it might be helpful to know why.

Calming to know that also other offerer had to feel Apple's iron hand (http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/mobil/0,1518,624226,00.html and http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadgets/0,1518,663123,00.html).