nessMediaCenter 1.5.4 & nessViewer 3.5.4 for Mac available

Simultaneous with the Mac App Store version of nessMediaCenter, the new versions of nessMediaCenter and nessViewer are now available.

As previously posted, we have adjusted the versions for the upcoming Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) after hints from Kelvin.

The AppStore version was rejected in the first review, because we have pointed out the adaptation to Yosemite - according to AppStore rules, "not yet released" Mac OS X versions may not be mentioned.

The only question is how to update versions simultaneously with the new Mac OS X version (and to inform the user about it) if the review takes almost a week.
Anyway - recent changes mention now just "adaptions for Mac OS X" and the user must think the rest...

Adaptions for Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

We have now installed Developer Preview 8 of Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) to prepare nessMediaCenter and nessViewer to the new system.

Surprisingly, the message "NSApplicationDidChangeScreenParametersNotification" is sent when displaying a fullscreen window (MediaCenter, media presentation), which should normally only be sent if the monitor resolution has changed. In this case - if the user changes the resolution - the current fullscreen window is closed. But displaying a fullscreen window does not change the screen resolution.
Under Yosemite this meant that the media center or fullscreen media presentation was immediately closed after a very short display. Now the current screen resolution is compared with the size of the fullscreen window and the window is only closed if the size is different.

In addition, we have adapted the export of videos in media shows for the 64 bit version of nessViewer, so that now several videos can be sequentially converted again.

Overall, we are excited about Yosemite - not only because of the new design, but also because QuickTime and the QuickTime extensions (eg Perian) continues to be supported. Thus the 32-bit versions can still be used, which offer the advantage of greater compatibility with video formats.
The 64 bit versions provide better support for multiple screens with Yosemite, so that the menu bar is now finally managed independently for each monitor. This means that now the menu bar no longer "unintentionally" appears if in fullscreen mode.

The modified versions can be downloaded from the download page - a new version will be simultaneously released with the new AppStore version 1.5.4 of nessMediaCenter, which we have uploaded today to the AppStore and is now awaiting the review by Apple.

Bug if Universal Access (VoiceOver) is activated

Kelvin informed us that nessMediaCenter (and nessViewer) is not compatible with the Universal Access and that it shows endless crash reports if "VoiceOver" is activated.

We apologize for this bug - modified versions of nessMediaCenter and nessViewer are now available at our download pages. In the Mac App Store this bug fix will be available with the next version.

Alternatively Universal Access and "VoiceOver" can and should be deactivated.

Furthermore we will test whether the MediaCenter can improve the support of Universal Access.

nessMediaCenter (64 Bit) in Mac App Store

The 64 bit version of nessMediaCenter is now available in the Mac App Store.

On 64 Bit & AppStore the differences to the 32 bit version will be explained, which we offer on our download page.

We recommend to download both versions - 32 bit and 64 bit - as demo and to compare them. Both versions have their advantages...

The AppStore version costs 14.99 instead of 9.50 Euro, but may also be used on multiple Apple computers.