nessViewer App 1.8 for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch available

Suitable for the new iOS 7 look, nessViewer App is now displayed in a lighter design with flat buttons. This appearance can be disabled / enabled in the "Settings App" at the nessViewer tab.

iOS 7 has a bug which displays fullscreen videos always in portrait mode if added to a landscape view. This behavior is "circumnavigated"by displaying the video player not in fullscreen which has another advantage: if multiple videos are presented continuously then a next / previous button is now available.
By (double) touching, the video controllers can be changed to hidden / visible.

Caused by a bug, YouTube videos were not available with iOS 7 in nessViewer App - this bug has been fixed.

For (free of charge) registered users (available at the download page), we also added support for more providers and content.

We placed a donate button at the bottom of our iOS web page and would be pleased for some donations - nessViewer App is free of charge and without iAds. Please support this offer.

nessMediaCenter 1.3.4 & nessViewer 3.2.4 for Mac available

Since the last version, the iPhoto and iTunes album overview shows a preview for each entry. We adapted this now for the internet: at German television, entertainment and music, a preview and description will we shown in near future. Currently we are working at the German version...

DailyMotion and YouTube has changed their video setup - we adapted the MediaCenter aka media presentation.

nessViewer App for iOS was adapted as well and uploaded to the Apple App Store - hopefully this time the new version will be available soon. The new version can now be updated for registered devices.

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 2.9.7 for Mac available (AirPlay server)

The highlight of this version is AirPlay: presentation of pictures and videos from device (e.g. iPhone) to Mac. That means that both directions are now supported by the media server. (AirPlay is the technology to stream media from device to AppleTV.)
Of course media can be streamed to the media server with every app which supports AirPlay - but with nessViewer App 1.6.6 (available in about one week) e.g. even PDF documents are supported.

But we also improved all other nessViewer components: MediaCenter, media server, media shows, PDF display and web browser.

To name just 2 things: at Google search in the browser, each opened search entries will be called directly (instead of Google redirection). And (among others) YouTube videos can now be automatically presented in lower quality if the internet connection is slow (if "Prefer high movie resolution" at the preferences is unchecked).

nessViewer App 1.6.3 for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch available

Again after 6 days nessViewer App 1.6.3 is now available in the AppStore.

The changes can be read in the post about the pre-release.

On Monday we had a intensive discussion with a new user of the nessViewer App from Norway - in addition to some minor changes we integrated the "double touch" on list entries to open the entry: that way the button at the buttom has not to be touched.

If your device is registered, please open the nessViewer App web page and touch one of the links at the bottom right.

nessViewer App 1.6.2 for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch available

After nearly 6 days nessViewer App 1.6.2 is now available in the AppStore. There was a time Apple was quicker releasing new versions. :-(

The changes can be read in the post about the pre-release - as mentioned we are already working on the next version.

nessViewer App 1.6.3 pre-release for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch (EXIF, Geo data)

nessViewer App 1.6.2 is not available in the "App Store" yet even if it was transmitted on Sunday - but there is already a new version 1.6.3. Of course it might be annoying to update an app so regulary but we think the new features are very nice. Anyway - if your device is registered you can install the new version.

To come to the point: a user informed us that the EXIF data (and therefore the geo data) is not saved if pictures are imported from the "Photos App". These infos are only available for pictures taken by the e.g. iPhone camera (because Apple is removing all EXIF data if tranfering pictures by iPhoto), but nevertheless..

We extended nessViewer App now:

1.) In the "Settings" the account name of geonames.org can be set. The registration is free of charge.

2.) In the MediaCenter the geo location (country / town) of pictures will be shown at "Photos" and "Media Files (Local)".

3.) Pictures imported from the "Photos App" will contain the EXIF / GEO data.

The last point was really a little bit of work because (once again) Apple is suppressing these infos.

By the way: we also adapted the presentation of YouTube movies because most of the movies are only available for people who are older than 16 years. To watch the movies, one must register at YouTube and login - but this is against the idea of nessViewer, to give Google statistics as less data as possible.

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 1.6.2 pre-release for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch

Unfortunately we have found some bugs in nessViewer App 1.6.1:
1.) Touching the German television icons at the main view (on iPhone/iPod touch only available by swiping horizontal) show the wrong entries.
2.) "French Television" in the MedienCenter does not show any entries in the English version.
3.) Pictures of the "Photos App" can not be viewed by the MediaCenter -> Photos since iOS 5.

Beside fixing these bugs, we have added some new features:

• Picture View:
  1.) Rotate pictures left/right by buttons (prior only available by gestures).
  2.) Import of a picture of the "Photos App" (if the picture was opened by a media show, which was created by touching "+" at MediaCenter -> Photos).
  


• MediaCenter:
  1.) Preview of local pictures
  2.) If a internet movie can not be presented, then a better message of the reason will be shown.

We are working on further improvements...

If your device is registered, please open the nessViewer App web page and touch one of the links at the bottom right.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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 App 1.4.1 available (cinema movies)

The main focus of this version is cinema movies: MSN Movies offers movies in German, and YouTube offers movies in English (beside the videos already offered before).

nessViewer demo videos at YouTube

At YouTube are now several demo videos available which show the functionality of nessViewer.

From the installation to the MediaCenter or the arrangement of media shows (playlists) - take a look how you can use nessViewer to enjoy media!

Currently the videos are taken from a German MacOS - but we hope that even so you get an idea...