Thursday, December 15, 2011

nessViewer 2.9.1 for Mac available (Vimeo)

Beside the adaption of various internet providers, we added a new internet provider: Vimeo.
By fortune we found a content at Vimeo which is not easy to find in the internet: erotic video art.
We collected the best of these videos and offer them at collection at the MediaCenter - of course (youth protection) only for those who registered at our web pages and confirmed this content.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

nessViewer App 1.6 for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch available

At length the new version of nessViewer App is available now.

We added a lot of new features:
1.) Create folders and move files to these folders
2.) Add pictures and movies to the "Photo App"
3.) Editable media show entries
4.) Compatibility of media show previews between Mac and iOS
5.) FTP server & client
6.) Live broadcasting and access to local media at the MediaCenter

Especially the FTP server & client is the beef: beside the transfer of media between two devices or the Mac, it is now also also possible to stream media from the Mac to e.g. to the iPad.

This means that - instead of transfering e.g. a large movie to the iPad - the movie can be presented just in time by transfering only small segments time by time.

We also added a help - available at "Open File".

Thursday, October 20, 2011

nessViewer goes FTP: share your media between computers and iDevices

The last weeks we did a lot of work:
1.) nessViewer App for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch has a FTP server and client now, so media can be transferred from the computer to the iDevice by an FTP client (like Cyberduck) and media can be shared between two iDevices.
2.) nessViewer for Mac has a media server now, which allows to share media like movies "on the way": just connect to your local computer by WiFi and download your media. If the media is not compatible with iOS, the media server will convert the media before transferring it.

If you are interested just contact us to get the beta versions.

Screenshot of the media server

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

nessViewer 2.8.4 and Hulu

Today a user gave us the info that Hulu (an offer of the MediaCenter, only available in USA) is not working at all.
We fixed the problem now but did not release a new version - so all users in USA should manually download version 2.8.4 from our download page and install this version (if they use Hulu and it is not working).

We are very sorry for this fact - but can not say often enough: as earlier we get hints as sooner we can react.
nessViewer is supporting more than 40 internet providers and it takes hours to check every offer.
So please send a note to <tvchannels@nessviewer.com> if you notice that something is now working properly.

Monday, July 18, 2011

nessViewer 2.8.4 available (GPS support)

On user request GPS is now supported for pictures: if a picture contains GPS data, then the geo location (country and city) will be shown - both at the picture info and the MediaCenter. At the MediaCenter further EXIF data like the description will be shown also.

Thru a computer magazine we got the hint that Flash plugins store several informations like visited pages at the user preference folder. To increase data security and anonymity, "Remove Flash plugin informations on quitting" was added to the nessViewer preferences (s. media preferences).

In the past the installation of the QuickTime extension "DivX" was recommended - meanwhile the free DivX extension does not allow to edit DivX movies. Because Perian also supports DivX movies including the editing, we suggest to uninstall the DivX extension.
For uninstallation the application "Uninstall DivX for Mac" is available which commenly can be found at the application folder. After the uninstallation the Mac should be restarted and then checked if no DivX files can be found at "/Library/QuickTime" anymore.

FreeMoviesCinema has changed its domain (freemoviescine.com instead of freemoviescinema.com) - the integrated browser and the MediaCenter was adapted therefor.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

nessViewer App 1.5.3 available (entertainment/music collection)

nessViewer App for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch now also offers (beside the cinema movie collection) music and entertainment collections at the MediaCenter.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

nessViewer 2.8.3 available (entertainment/music collection

Beside the movie collection, the MediaCenter of nessViewer is now also offering entertainment and music collections.

In the past we offered these link collections by media shows which were available at the download area; now we invested a lot of work to be able to offer these collections at the MediaCenter: nessViewer can now save media shows as XML file, a PHP script parses these XML files for the MediaCenter, and the MediaCenter is only loading the preview of the current entry. This way the entries are loaded quick enough to make even media shows available which e.g. are greater than 60 MB.

In the provider dropdown menu of the integrated browser, now the movie collection is also selectable. This makes it easier to search for certain movies - and each movie can be started by clicking on the preview of a movie.

At YouTube half of its cinema movies are now not available any more: one reason is the idea to earn money by loaning the movies, the other reason are copyright complaints.
The MyVideo offer were also adapted to its changes.

Monday, May 23, 2011

nessViewer 2.8.1 available (movie collection)

In the past the cinema movies of the MediaCenter were only offered separated by providers - which of course has some disadvantages: some of the movies are offered by several providers, some providers offer movies in German and English and some movies were classified rather "non optimal" in their categories.

We have spend a lot of time and work to offer a better overview with our own movie collection.
Currently it contains over 2000 motion pictures.

At the MediaCenter their are now two more entries: Movies (English) and Movies (German). Both entries offer movies in categories alphabetically.
Of course the movies are offered by the named providers and not by the MediaCenter of nessViewer.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

nessViewer 2.8 available (media show export)

After getting an iPad, we like to watch movies and videos on it. But until now we had to convert each movie/video in a single step. Now the media show export was extended:
1.) Movies can be converted for AppleTV/iPad/iPhone/iPod touch.
2.) Beside the optional resizing, the format and compression for pictures can now also be set.

The YouTube web side developers seem to change the web side very often which is not a new news. But we wish a.) they would finish their work and then update the web side and b.) the web side would offer new movies.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

nessViewer App 1.5.1 available

Now we also got an iPad and were very much surprised that the iOS on iPad is working different in many ways.
So we testet all functionality of the nessViewer app on the iPad and fixed the errors.

Recorded movies (of the photo library) are now also supported.
For us it is not understandable that Apple does not allow access to the videos which are shown by the Video app.

MSN Movies and YouTube cinem movies are now available again - let's what for how long.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

nessViewer at Facebook

One month ago we created a German page at Facebook and now also a English version for our friends and users who are not native German speakers.

To appeal pressing "Like it" at Facebook, we offer nessViewer now for 10% less for people who join us at Facebook and press this button.

Friday, May 6, 2011

nessViewer 2.7.9 available (MSN Movies, YouTube)

This version adapts among others MSN Movies and YouTube cinema movies. Also one of the providers offered by the extension was concerned.

Especially annoying: these two providers are now also not available at the app which was released just now.

As always: please report broken providers by mail to tvchannels@nessviewer.com.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

nessViewer App 1.5 available

This time the GUI has been improved: on the iPad the buttons moved to the tab bar and on the main view the icons of some internet video providers are shown. On iPhone/iPod touch a second main view has been added which is available by touching the two dots at the bottom.
Touching one of the icons will show the video list of the internet provider.

"Internet TV" has been renamed to "MediaCenter" and gives now access to the photo library beside the internet video providers.

Some of the internet providers has been adapted as well (e.g. DailyMotion).

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

nessViewer live broadcasting

We have extended our live broadcasting offer now: beside the English offer (movies, comics, news etc.) and music channels (pop, techno etc.) nessViewer is now offering more than 200 channels from more than 45 countries.

Engage yourself in searching for other live broadcasting channels or report broken channels by sending us a mail to tvchannels@nessviewer.com.
And if you know people from foreign countries who have a Mac: tell them about nessViewer and ask them to contact us by email.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

nessViewer 2.7.8 available (DailyMotion)

Now DailyMotion has changed their web page: some videos are offered now in hight quality beside the normal quality.

At the "Center" tab in the preference "Prefer high movie resolution" can be set: beside Arte, ARD- and ZDF-Mediathek and SpiegelOnline now also DailyMotion will take this settings.

Also some providers of the extension were adapted.

Friday, April 15, 2011

nessViewer 2.7.7 available

This version fixes 2 minor bugs:
1.) Clicking on DailyMotion in the browsers "provider examples" displayed DailyMotion without the CSS (which resulted in a very bad display).
2.) At the "German Television" the videos of the podcast were not available due to an developing error.

ForUTV is changing their cinema movie offer: a new domain named "MobyMovies" and movies from Google and YouTube (beside the old ForUTV movies). This might get interesting in the future; currently ForUTV is not available any more and removed from the MediaCenter.

Friday, April 8, 2011

nessViewer App 1.4.4 available

Just after the last update some of the providers (especially the extended offer) did not work anymore. An imp who sees a connection between an update and the non-availability of some providers? :-)

Fortunately Apple has released this update just in time: thanks!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

nessViewer 2.7.6 available (Bild-Kino, MyVideo)

This version adapts among others Bild-Kino and MyVideo - Bild-Kino was adapted only one month ago. Also some of the providers offered by the extension were concerned.

As always: please report broken providers by mail to tvchannels@nessviewer.com.

Friday, March 25, 2011

nessViewer App 1.4.3 available now

After clarifying with Apple the reason for the rejection and making some changes, the new version of nessViewer App is now available a short time after the upload.

Originally this version should has been available since end of February because several internet tv offers were not available - we hope future updates will be available again just in time.

Unfortunately the settings have a liste mistake: it must be "safe surfing" instead of "save surfing". :-)

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

nessViewer App 1.4.3 submitted again to the app store

The Appple Developer Team has given us now detailed information why the app was rejected: the safe browsing may not load all content of a web page and the App Review Team found that this may result in "incorrect" rendering/displaying of web pages.

We now made the "safe browsing" optionally - this way the user can decide whether to browse safely or not (and to accept "incorrect" rendering or not).

For those who do not understand the reason for safe surfing: a lot of web sides load data from other providers and thereby give user data to these providers. By browsing (now optionally) safely only content from the web side is loaded (and thereby the user can avoid to give data to other providers).
Another effect is to avoid redirections to mobile web sides - which sometimes is helpful if one wants to use the "normal" web content.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

nessViewer 2.7.5 available (YouTube movies)

About one month ago we adapted the YouTube movies at the MediaCenter - and now YouTube changed their web page code again. Not that the changes are visible... :-)

But one advantage have the changes - we can now offer the YouTube movies without advertisings again. Let's see how long it will work.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

nessViewer App 1.4.3 rejected by Apple

Unfortunately the current version 1.4.3 of nessViewer App was rejected by Apple.
Currently we can not understand the reason for this - but we are trying to clarify with Apple their statement ("The app is not using the WebKit in a appropriate manner in the integrated browser.").
The rejection is surprising us in particular because all previous versions were released by Apple and we did not change anything at the integrated browser.

Until the clarification and release of the new version some of the internet offers (e.g. Free Movies Cinema) are not working (or - even worse - will lead to a crash of the app) - these errors were fixed in version 1.4.3.

As always we can only offer to send us the UDID of your iPad/iPhone/iPod touch - with the UDID we can send you a pre-release of version 1.4.3.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

nessViewer 2.7.4 available (MSN Movies)

Now also MSN Movies changed their web site - this version is adapted to these changes.

FreeMoviesCinema is now not available any more - their RSS feed is not reachable since weeks, and their web page list does neither contain infos nor previews/covers.

nessViewer App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is also adapted and will be available after the Apple verification.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

nessViewer 2.7.3 available

Aperture does not save in the XML file the pictures which lay in contained subfolders - therefore the MediaCenter did not show pictures of folders which only contain subfolders. Now the MediaCenter shows pictures which lay in subfolders.

The structure of Bild-Kino, ARD mediathek and YouTube cinema movies were changed by the providers - this version is adapted to these changes.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

nessViewer App 1.4.2 available now (YouTube)

YouTube cinema movies in English are available again - YouTube now expects the language parameter as query parameter - is this a preparation to show cinema movies in other languages in near furture?

Saturday, January 15, 2011

nessViewer 2.7.2 available (MetaCafe)

At the internet browser MetaCafe is now supported.

Various providers are adapted, among others MySpace at the internet browser and YouTube cinema movies at the media center.

YouTube now expects "&l=en" (language=english) as query parameter to show their cinema movies - is this a preparation to show cinema movies in other languages in near furture? That would be really great!

Our special campaign is now finished - we would like to thank the new customers, in particular for their great ideas to improve nessViewer.

nessViewer web side available again

Caused by server problems our web side and the services were not available for some hours. We solved the problem now and would like to excuse for any unpleasantness.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

nessViewer 2.7.1 available (Aperature, Bild-Kino)

The MediaCenter now supports Aperture, the iPhoto application for professional photographers.
Unfortunately the xml file, which manages the media data, does not contain the movies added to albums or projects. And also some other parts do not work as good as with iPhoto.

Bild-Kino is now offered by the MediaCenter - please note that it is only available in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
And some providers are adapted - mainly for the nessViewer extension, which now offers new playlists at XTra.