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.

nessMediaCenter 1.1.1 available

Unfortunately the last version had some minor errors (sometimes a wrong duration at movie informations, no movie informations at all for alias files), which were fixed time by time - but without releasing a new version.

Now it was necessary to adopt some provider offers and thus it made sense to release a new version which combines these adoptions and error fixes.

nessMediaCenter 1.1 available

As already mentioned for nessViewer 3.0, many people have sent us feedback and we added the requested feature in this version.

Most of the changes can be read in the post to nessViewer 3.0.

Additionally nessMediaCenter can now be controlled by NV Remote on iPhone / iPod touch.

nessViewer 3.0 for Mac available

The last weeks many people have sent us feedback to nessMediaCenter and nessViewer - we are impressed about the quality of the suggestions and reports.

Dietmar asked for the option to shutdown the computer via MediaCenter - after selecting the checkbox in the preferences (Center) once and then selecting exit at the MediaCenter, a countdown will be shown and the computer will be shut down after 60 seconds.
By pressing the ESC key or holding MENU on the Apple remote control, the MediaCenter can be closed as before without shuting down the computer.

Thomas (and some others) criticized the handling of alias files. We improved the MediaCenter: aliases to files will now be correctly handled (if the extension is correct). And a hint will be shown if aliases to folders / volumes has been found (but not displayed) which points to the script "Create Symbolic Link". We improved this script, so creating many symbolic links is now much easier.
Nevertheless: symbolic links are a much better solution than aliases. Unintelligible how Apple handles the creation of aliases by changing e.g. the extension "MOV" to "MOV Alias". Either the extension does matter or not...

Many users ask for the feature to mark unplayed movies and to resume to the last play position - a very good idea, but only as an option (and not for all movies). We came to the agreement, that these two features will (only) be offered if the movies are stored in iTunes and iTunes is running. This way everybody can decide on his own whether to use it or not - and we do not have to reinvent the wheel.

Among a lot of other improvements (see News) one last point: the media server offered already the feature to convert movies for iOS or not - but unfortunately "not" was ignored. Shame on us. :-) We fixed that now - so movies can now be easily & comfortable transferred from one to another Mac by a FTP client like Cyberduck.

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.

nessMediaCenter 1.0 for Mac available

The media center of nessViewer is now available as a product: nessMediaCenter. And this for a very low price: only 7.50 Euro.

We offer the application nessMediaCenter upon user request - in our opinion nessViewer as solution with plenty of functionality offers much more fun.