nessViewer 2.7.1 available (Aperature, Bild-Kino)

The MediaCenter now supports Aperture, the iPhoto application for professional photographers.

Unfortunately the xml file, which manages the media data, does not contain the movies added to albums or projects. And also some other parts do not work as good as with iPhoto.

Bild-Kino is now offered by the MediaCenter - please note that it is only available in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

And some providers are adapted - mainly for the nessViewer extension, which now offers new playlists at XTra.

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 2.7 available

After several requests the MediaCenter allows now to select the arrow keys used for previous/next entry and level up - either left/right/up or up/down/left.

A cover and description can now be set for media shows by the movie info and will be shown in the MediaCenter.

Also the automatic creation of QuickTime movie previews is now available in the movie info. Available on user request since some QuickTime movies need time to show the preview in the MediaCenter.

Please note that for DVDs it can take also time to show a cover - this can be influenced by the MediaCenter preferences: as more providers will be used to find a cover the more time it can take.

The ARD-Mediathek videos are now available again in the MediaCenter.

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...

nessViewer 2.6.5 available (Browser)

In this version the download speed of the integrated internet browser is now optimized. And the supported providers are extended: 3sat, Kabel1, MySpass, Pro7, Sat1.

Various providers are adapted: among others MSN Movies which changed their cinema movie offer from flash to MPEG-4.

This is a really good news since these cinema movies can now be offered for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch.

The nessViewer App is already adapted to offer these movies - watch out for the new version 1.4.1 to view German cinema movies. It should be available in about 1 week.

My Mac MediaCenter

At mac-media-center.com is now a personal review and tutorial about the experiences with the Mac as a MediaCenter.

In part 1 the motivation for a MediaCenter, the thoughts to hard- and software and the setup of the iMac as a MediaCenter is described.

In part 2 the first steps with nessViewer - thus the installation and settings - are described.

In part 3 some specialties of nessViewer which makes the differents to other media and MediaCenter applications are described.

In the forum it is possible to discuss or ask questions.

nessViewer and compatibility

nessViewer App needs iOS 4.2 to support the iPad.

iOS 4.2 needs iTunes 10 which is only runnable on MacOS X 10.5 or MacOS X 10.6.

The reason why iTunes 9 can not update to iOS 4.2 is unknown (and thereby not understandable). And it is not our kind of compatibility view.

But even worse an iPhone/iPod touch upgraded to iOS 4.2 will not mount in iTunes 9.

nessViewer for Mac is compatible with 10.4 at least. And we would also like to have nessViewer App compatible with 10.4 and iTunes 9.

At the moment we can only offer to send us the UDID of the iPhone/iPod touch. With this UDID we can offer nessViewer App for iOS 4.1 for that corresponding iPhone/iPod touch.

The only other possibility would be to generally offer 2 nessViewer Apps: one for iPad (with iOS 4.2) and one for other devices (with iOS 4.1).