At this point make sure the server is running and responding by opening the following URLs: click here for Media Server or click here for Screen Server. You should see a media library navigation page, this is a web based interface for accessing your media library. This GUI has a few additional features. This section is not relevant to the Screen Server, which has in its media library exactly two options: screen mirroring and PC audio playback.
Thus, media player error messages pop up when required codecs are missing for some videos that users try to play. Work Introduction. Part 2. Click the Tools menu and navigate to Options. Click on the Player tab to display options. Codec Tweak Tool is a codec installer that allows you to control all the codecs being installed on your PC in addition to repairing all the bad ones or uninstall the unnecessary. Solution 2. Install missing codec or codec pack. Select the Player tab in Windows Media Player.
Check the box Download codecs automatically, and then click OK. Here are step by step instructions:. A black command line window will open. For your convenience the command window will display some examples on how to share files and folders. You can use these in the future as reminders on how to accomplish various sharing tasks. In that command window please type the command MShare and then hit the space bar. At this point type the names of files or folders you wish to share.
If you include more than one such element make sure to separate them with at least one space. Please also note that each one of them must be enclosed in double quotes. You should now see a scrolling list of file names that are scanned by the MShare utility. Once the scannig is complete a message with the number of new media files added to the repository of shared media will be displayed. If you are currently running TVersity on this computer with the default port, and would like to see the GUI click here for the Media Server or here for the Screen Server.
In order to add a URL of some audio file from the command line please type the command:. From the GUI just select an itema and then click the delete button.
From the command line please use the command:. This is done automatically by the Media Server. You can control the frequency and time of day in which this full synchronization is carried out by the media server.
Even huge libraries , items and more will be synchronized very quickly less than a minute if nothing changed. In addition to that you can use the Graphical User Interface or the command line interface to refresh the entire media library or a particular folder whenever you see fit. You can even use the command line tool in conjunction with some task scheduling tool like the one that comes with Windows to schedule a synchronization task if you wish to achieve some advanced scenario say add or refresh a folder automatically after some other event occurs.
The TVersity Media Server and Screen Server are configured by default to reject requests originating from outside your home network and therefore with this configuration any attempt to access your media from the Internet will be blocked if you wish to access your media remotely you will need to enable remote connections and set a username and password for such connections.
You should put your home network behind a hardware firewall or router with firewall capabilities. A firewall software running on your computer, while adding a level of protection, is not by itself sufficient. You should run a firewall software on every machine on the network or at least enable the firewall software that comes with Windows.
When you enable the TVersity Media Server or Screen Server to act as a server you should take the time to create the most restrictive rule possible that still allows the servers and the target device to interact with one another. For example a restricitve firewall rule would allow the media server to act as a server on the given port only for the specific IP address or the MAC address of your target device s.
A less restrictive rule would be to allow it to act as a server on the given port for any IP address inside the home network. A non restrictive rule would be to allow it to act as a server on any port and for any source IP address - you should avoid such rules. If you have a wireless network running you should allow only specific MAC addresses to join the network and you should turn on encryption on your network.
Otherwse it becomes too easy for someone in close proximity to your home to gain access to your home network, in which case they will also gain access to anything shared via TVersity Media Server and Screen Server. If you have no intention to use TVersity Media Server or Screen Server on the go, you should disable it from accepting requests originating from outside your home network this is the default setting.
We are currently releasing to consumers Windows versions only. We offer Windows, Mac and Linux versions to pay-TV operators that distribute a white-label version of TVersity Media Server but we do not make such releases available to consumers. We do not allow comnsumers to install it on such devices, however the software can be embedded by the manufacturer. If you are manufacturing such a device and would like to learn more about using the TVersity Media Server, please email our sales department.
Locate the TVersity menu in the Windows start menu and select uninstall then follow the directions of the uninstall wizard. This will open a window listing all the programs on your system, locate the program you wish to uninstall and double click on it. This will start the uninstall wizard of the selected application, follow the directions of the uninstall wizard. This is a known issue. Currently browsing the library during a refresh is likely to fail. Waiting till the refresh operation is done will solve this problem.
If you would like the server to abort the current refresh operation, you need to restart it since currently the GUI does not have an abort refresh feature.
For the TVersity Media Server you need to make sure the Windows service that corresponds to it, is started. This should open a black window in which the progress of the starting operation will be displayed. If it starts successfully then you most likely have solved your problem.
If it says that the server was already running please check the other possible solutions below. If starting the service seems to fail please refer to the next question in this FAQ which deals with problems in getting the media server to start as a service. Make sure that the Windows Firewall and any other personal firewall installed on your computer does not block the server from accpeting incoming connections. This is a very common problem so please take the time to check this issue.
You will need to make sure that the executable MediaServer. Warn users when skipping installation of ffdshow or when unchecking the firewall checkbox. When installing for the first time, the service was always set to automatic start, even when the relevant checkbox was unchecked - this is now fixed.
Fix some rare crashes as well as many additional minor bugs. Advanced users should send us their additions since from time to time we overwrite your osb. This allows running other media sharing applications side by side with TVersity.
Additionally, the discover-ability of TVersity on the network has been improved. If your computer is not fast enough at least core 2 duo 1. As before it is a configurable setting. This content, if subscribed to, will be available at the root menu of devices.
These new menu choices combine audio, photo and video items, all in the same place. Album art relies on JPEG files conforming to certain naming conventions that are present in the same folder as music tracks. This in contrast to downloading the two newest items in previous releases. Thanks to that all radio stations and other Internet audio can be played.
This way there will be no download of media without an explicit subscription. The Artist tag is still used whenever indexing by artist and then by something other than album.
This is all configurable via config. This is designed for accessing TVersity on the go and it takes into account the upstream Internet connection speed. Version 0. This for examples solves the PS3 problem with Divx files larger than 2 Gb. The context menu command for folders is still kept since it has no undesirable side effects. By default remote access to all directories requires authentication when enabled and is rejected otherwise..
In the free version of TVersity this is limited to one custom hierarchy in addition to the default hierarchy. This is done by editing config. With folders their entire content will be accessible via the tag including playlists.
In both cases xxx. We will soon announce the first batch of content sites that will add this button. This is important with feeds that keep their entire history, which in some cases can be thousands of items. The changes from the previously released patch are: o Internet radio now works on the PS3. After this failure, wait a few seconds and try playing this same station again. While for now only wmv8 can be produced via ffmpeg, it is slightly faster than directshow and hence it may prove beneficial in certain cases.
It can be turned on by setting the readAVITags variable in config. This solves some playlist related playback issues.
A patch for the Sony PS3 firmware 1. This change was made to better support the Nintendo Wii. It can also be used on remote computers of any OS that has Adobe flash version 7 or higher. It is recommended to use the Media Streamer and not the UPnP browser that is built into the media player due to certain incompatibilities that need to be resolved together with Nokia. Clicking on some video in the PSP browser will start a conversion if needed however due to the limitation mentioned above the actual download will start only after the conversion is done.
For large files the PSP will display an error message after a while thinking that the download cannot be started. Simply try again and assuming the conversion is done the download will work and the resulting video should play on the PSP. These devices are not officially supportred but users report that they are working well. This is in contrast to older versions where the videos for these devices were always in VCD quality.
This is to insure that access to non shared files is not possible. This can be overcome by refreshing the browser page and then loading the new video. This can be overcome by refreshing the web page and hence reloading the flash interface. The "TVersity Media Server" user agent is still used when doing a full download either due to a new subscription or playback of an item that was not previously downloaded.
This way media encoded in lossless formats will have no quality degradation when streamed to the This eliminates display artifacts that used to occur when the video resolution was not conforming to this criterion.
This means that and DVDs will look as they are supposed to when transcoded. This is to allow users of the Xbox to navigate their long list of videos. This feature is turned off by default since devices other than the Xbox do not need it. When turning it on from the settings tab in the GUI one needs to reconstruct the media library for this to take effect. Videos from which we cannot retrieve the duration, will now not have a value at all.
While this will require faster machines to achieve the same quality, it allow for a higher quality per bitrate meaning that a slower home network can be used.
This is important mainly for HD content streamed over wireless connections. This interface will come in two versions the first is AJAX and the second is Macormedia Flash based only this version is currently being provided. This new interface will be the basis for our upcoming support for the Sony PS3 and will be used for any web browser enabled device that can handle AJAX or Macromedia flash to provide a better user experience than the simpler web based interface which will remain the interface of choice for limited resource devices such as mobile phones, the Sony PSP, etc.
Future releases will add support for playback inside this new interface as opposed to the current behavior where an external player is invoked. This solves issues with YouTube flv videos that the server refused to add due to an unknown mime type. This is as opposed to the past behavior where this configuration only affected the web based interface. This makes the web based interface for browsing one's media library remotely much more useful and user friendly.
This means that they will play only if your device has native support for them. This improvement is not relevant for media URLs or RSS feeds since for them the delay is mainly related to the time it takes to analyze the format of the media over the Internet. Video is not supported since the Xbox does not accept video via UPnP.
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