nessViewer 2.4.3 available (Hulu)

Beside Hulu, the provider of cinema movies and tv series in USA (and only available there), the MediaCenter has various new live broadcastings: Danish and Greek Television, web cams e.g. with a view on Loch Ness and 2 sport channels.

We would be glad to offer even more local content, but for this we need your assistance!

The MediaCenter now automatically deactivates local content (BBC for GB, Hulu for USA, myVideo for German speaking area) - this deactivation can be canceled in the preferences.

The next version is already in progress: no desktop will be shown when switching from MediaCenter to media presentation. And the media presentation will have a menu with the commands which are currently only available by keyboard.

nessViewer 2.4.2 available

Thanks to Reiner for creating the new media show icons - this was mainly necessary because media shows are now handled like folders in the MediaCenter.

This way media shows can now presented with all entries or only the selected entries.

If someone still do not know the advantages of media shows (aka nessViewer playlists): register at our web page and load our media show examples with a lot of movies, music, comics and other entertainment stuff without searching the internet!

Loading MediaCenter lists sometimes needs a little bit time - especially the Miro video podcasts (e.g. nature videos from "Terra - Nature of our World") and are now animated.

A lot of users are using the MediaCenter with their Laptop - so the keyboard function was reworked: canceling presentations via escape (ESC) now shows the MediaCenter again if the presentation was started by the MediaCenter.

And some minor "inconsistencies" are now corrected.

nessViewer 2.4.1 available (movie info export)

The movie infos can now be exported as HTML, RSS feed or XML.

After opening the movie info and selecting a movie, the movies in the folder of the selected movie will be shown in the drawer. Afterwards the infos of these movies can be exported.

The access of DailyMotion, LastFM and YouTube has been adapted, whereas YouTube will now be shown by Flash which is faster than the original QuickTime access.

And DVD presentations can now be zoomed by the remote control via "play hold" to hide e.g. the margins.

On user requests the previews/covers in the MediaCenter has been reduced to show more lines of the descriptions; the descriptions will now be scrolled by pixel instead of lines; "folder picture" and "folder movie" will be shown instead of the path.

Our trial to add nessViewer to Wiki has been failed - no relevance, no external perception! What a pity! Anyway: once again thanks to all the people of Wiki for their help!

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.

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...).

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).

What do you neeed for a optimal MediaCenter?

Up to 2 years ago our living room was filled with plenty of devices: the hi-fi system, the TV, the DVD player... and if we intended to present some pictures to friends we had to search in several photo albums.

There's an end with it!

After buying an iMac 24'' with EyeTV (to watch DVB-T and record the video cassettes) and Bose Companion speakers the work started: photo scanning and arrangement in iPhoto, music import into iTunes, movie recording by the video input...

Even if it was much work: the daily fun richly rewards! And the living room got some space back: from over 6 devices to only 1, 3 storage racks full of (ugly) video cassettes are gone - and times are over searching long-winded for photos/music and movies.

Just one downer: how to watch all these media comfortable from the sofa??

Much disappointments testing the available media centers: titles and text not viewable from the sofa, only 5 menu entries per page (but a lot of gimmigs), only one photo/movie presentation (and then back in the media center to select the next one) - no, this is no pleasure!

So here we go: a better media center must be developed!

And the result is excellent: see for yourself!