nessViewer App 1.9.1 for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch available

As previously reported, we have fixed a bug that did not start videos streamed from your Mac (nessViewer media server). This was the case in the FTP client and the access to the media server in the media center.

In addition, we also found a few more "visual" bugs in FTP client, which were also fixed. Disabled buttons are now generally displayed in a better way.

At "Deutsches Fernsehen" in the media center, the Bavarian magazine "Quer" has been added - read more in the blog entry mentioned above. And for registered users, we added even more new content.

nessViewer App 1.7.1 for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch available

On 2/14/2013 we uploaded nessViewer App 1.7.1 - unfortunately it was rejected by Apple. After some discussions and changes suggested by Apple, we uploaded it again 3/3/2013 - and it was rejected again.
After some more discussions, nessViewer App 1.7.1 is now available.

Beside some provider adaptions, the major change is that the following content is now only available for registered users: ARD, Arte and ZDF Mediathek, cinema movies in German and English, entertainment / serials and music.

Our original idea was to offer an app with very much content and features free of charge - and that the people will help us by e.g. clicking "Like it" at the start window. Unfortunately this did not work.

From now on we will send the registration data (free of charge) only to people who do also something for us - e.g. by clicking "Like it" or by reporting about the app in a blog.

nessViewer App 1.6.5 pre-release for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch

The last weeks we did so much work e.g. to offer movie streaming, that we had no time for testing the user interface enough.

The following errors has been found by us and other users:

1.) FTP button at top left

Touching this button without a local WiFi connection did show nothing - just because the FTP server is not available then and this was the only functionality. Of course at least a message would have been nice. Now there is always something shown because we added "Open FTP client" (which will show "Open URL" with "ftp://" as text).

2.) Provider icons at main view (on 2. main view for iPhone/iPod touch)

If the MediaCenter was opened by an provider icon and "arrow up" was pressed multiple time, then on iPad the view for the iPhone was shown - which is too small and looks "funny".

3.) Media Shows

On iPad after changing a media show and touching "Close", only the "Save" button (and not the "Dismiss" aka "Do not save" button) was visible.

4.) Movie Presentation

If presenting a movie failed, then the failure message was not shown long enough with iOS 5. The reason was, that iOS 5 calls the "movie playback finished" message twice - and even worse the first time with no failure message. In this case the code is now analysing whether the movie was loaded at all - and if not ignores the first message. This way the failure message is shown as expected.

5.) Live Broadcast (MediaCenter -> Internet)

The English provider file had an error and because of this the country list was only shown after another touch of ">" or another double-touch. (Unfortunately now the Italian TV channels will be shown instead of the country list.)

And at live broadcast ">>" was enabled (which presents all entries starting at the current enty) which does not really make sense.

We are continuing to test the GUI... if you find (other) errors please let us know.

If your device is registered, please open the nessViewer App web page and touch one of the links at the bottom right to install this pre-release.

nessViewer 2.9.4 for Mac available (optimized movie streaming)

As already posted, this version offers optimized streaming of movies e.g. to the iPhone via media server.

Movies can now be streamed running MacOS X 10.5 or newer - even long cinema movies will be streamed directly (aka within seconds). And that independent from the movie format which might not be compatible for iOS.

VLC 2.0 should be installed in the application folder to use this new feature.

If Apple's "mediastreamsegmenter" is installed and the movie is already iOS compatible, then the result will be even better since the movie must only be segmented (and not converted).

We also added support for media presentation of Veoh movies.

nessViewer media server & movie streaming

Today there are 2 good news:

1.) Apple's "mediastreamsegmenter" is available for MacOS X 10.7 - as far as registered free of charge as Apple developer.

2.) VLC 2.0 offers the functionality to convert / segment movies.

We extended the code of the media server to use VLC 2.0 for the convertion / segmentation if the "mediastreamsegmenter" is not available.

This means that streaming movies via media server e.g. to the iPad is now available for MacOS X 10.5 and newer - either via "mediastreamsegmenter" under MacOS X 10.6 / 10.7 or via VLC.

Just install VLC 2.0 in the application folder to convert / segment movies and stream them via the media server. The convertion / segmentation is executed in a thread in the background - that way it is not necessary to launch VLC.

Importent: for MacOS X 10.5 the 32 bits version of VLC 2.0 must be installed.

The new version has to be tested some time - if you are interested just contact us.

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 1.6.2 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 2.9.2 for Mac and nessViewer App 1.6.1 for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch available

At "Open Files" pictures and videos can be imported from the "Photos App" and files can be renamed.

After the import the files can be found at the "Import" folder - and e.g. can be transfered to other devices via FTP.

At the MediaCenter the media hosted by the media server can now be accessed via the local WiFi.

Please notice that videos can only be presented if the necessary tools are installed (see older posts).

nessViewer 2.9.2 was extended to publish the media server (Bonjour) and to host the previews.

Now the FTP access via 3G is also possible - many thanks to Erik for his iPhone and his time!

We also adapted several providers.

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".

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.

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.

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 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).

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 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". :-)

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.

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 1.2.1 for iPhone/iPod touch

After longer diskussions with Apple the nessViewer App is now available in the App Store.

We would like to thank explicit the several Apple employees/teams at this point!

The main focus of nessViewer App are the various internet video offers and the media shows (playlists).

The internet video offer contains momentary videos from DailyMotion, German television (podcasts), movie trailers (en/de), cinema movies from Free Movies Cinema, music videos from LastFM and videos from YouTube.

These videos can not only be presented but also collected in media shows, which can be saved and presented again later.

Via "Open URL" a web browser can be opened for the supported internet providers which allows to browse safely, play the videos and collect them in media shows.

The supported media (media shows, Office documents like Word or Excel, PDF documents, pictures, videos) can be transfered to the iPhone/iPod touch via iTunes.

For registered users we offer further internet video providers.

nessViewer 2.6 available (iPhone/iPod touch remote)

3 weeks ago we bought an iPod touch to offer nessViewer also for this plattform.

As a first result the app "NV Remote" is available which allows to remote control nessViewer like with the "Apple Remote Control" but via WiFi. It just makes a lot of fun to set the current music all around the flat. To make this working an info is shown in landscape orientation where e.g. the media center is positioned.

The live broadcasting offer can now be changed without publishing a new version. Nearly 2000 providers are now in our database - it will take some time to check this records. As a first result France and Spain television is now added.

And a "traffic light" shows if the provider is (currently) available - this changes sometimes nearly daily.

Next plan is to develop nessViewer for the iPhone/iPod touch. Copying media shows and movies to the iPod via iTunes and viewing on the iPod is already available. Fantastic to enjoy hours of music videos on the way!

nessViewer & Apple

After more than half a year we are now listed at Apple downloads... :-))

Seems that it helped to modify the text.

Whether it was the applications we "replace" (and are now not mention anymore) - or the erotic?

No matter - the main point is that we are listed!

After taking this barrier we are thinking about porting nessViewer for iPad/iPhone/iPod... even if only 75% could be offered (since this hardware has no shockwave flash)...

Several request has been made... :-))

Lets see how much resources we will have and how much request will be made!