nessMediaCenter 1.5.1 & nessViewer 3.5.1 for Mac available

These versions are a aggregation of the last improvements and adaptions.

Oliver helped us to improve the remote control of EyeTV by our applications.

And we adapted some internet provider content like ARD-Mediathek and BBC (only for users in GB).

The 64 bit version of nessViewer, which is only available on request, makes it now very easy to convert incompatible videos: in a media show, these videos will be marked with a dot in the title. If these videos are exported, then they will be continuously converted to a compatible format.

nessMediaCenter 1.3.2 and nessViewer 3.2.2 for Mac available

Apple announced the new iTunes as the world's best way to play media. As far as our test Macs show, it starts protected DRM media now even slower if started from another application like our media center.
But now we found hopefully a final (?) solution to start these media always successfully. Sometimes the grey screen is still visible and the media is played only for a short time, but now after a short delay the media will be played always!

As already posted, YouTube now offers even German cinema movies. Unfortunately movie categories are (as side effect?) not available any more. Luckily we have the movie database with the YouTube movies (and others) in categories.

Last but not least: we improved the GUI (Graphical User Interface) a little bit: the selection and the icons / previews are shown with a small shadow.

nessViewer 3.2 and nessMediaCenter 1.3 for Mac available

We added new internet TV content from Austria, Netherlands and Swiss: ATV, ORF, NL1, Net5, SBS6, VeronicaTV, RTS, SF. For French people the video podcasts offered at Swiss Television might be interesting.
These content will be automatically deactivated if the MediaCenter will be opened from another country - but it might be useful to activate it once: we were impressed by the very good documentations and reportages.

"Delete cookies" has been added to the nessViewer preferences at the tab "Media" to increase security and anonymity. According to the docu of Apple, this might also affect other applications (it is called Shared Cookie Storage) - but as far as we have seen cookies from e.g. Safari were not concerned.
Cookies which are necessary to view content are set automatically and removed if the provider has been changed.

nessViewer 3.1 and nessMediaCenter 1.2 for Mac available

iTunes, EyeTV or VLC can now be controlled via nessViewer by Apple remote control or NV Remote App if one of these applications is frontmost.
iTunes can be activated by the MediaCenter (iTunes -> iTunes Control -> Activate iTunes), EyeTV (or VLC if EyeTV is not installed) will be automatically activated if a EyeTV movie is started by the MediaCenter.
Once activated, in iTunes the current track can be paused / continued or the next / previous track selected, in EyeTV (or VLC) the current movie can be paused / continued or stepped forward / backwards.
Thru pressing MENU, the MediaCenter of nessViewer will be activated and then nessViewer can be controlled again by the remote control.

We have tested all offered internet providers and adapted them if necessary.
FreeMoviesCine is now offering their RSS feeds again so we included their movies in the MediaCenter again. Unfortunately Hulu (only available in USA) can not be offered any more by the MediaCenter because they made it to complicated to parse their flash content.

nessViewer App 1.6.7 for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch available

We are always searching for new interesting content we can offer - and found now video news from "New York Times" and "Reuters". If you know other stuff, please let us know. Especially for the iPad version, we would like to replace all German offers by English content.

Support for a new provider (Veoh) was added - so now we can offer serials from that provider.

File transfer between FTP server and client sometimes failed - we fixed that bug now.

nessViewer 2.9.3 for Mac available (provider adaptions)

Just after complimenting a user for his great videos on YouTube (and announcing that we arranged these videos with others to a playlist which is offered at the MediaCenter -> Entertainent), YouTube has changed some parameters for the video presentation.

Even some other providers were creative and changed their parameters - not really reasonable if nothing new is offered.

Since we have to offer a new version, we also extended the Clipfish support and changed the MediaCenter extension (downloadable at our web side after login and confirmation).

Last but not least we extended the media presentation on user request: slow motion via remote control for QuickTime movies (press "pause" and then hold "right arrow").

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!

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.

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?