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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. Some media players do not allow you to choose which media server to use and therefore you first need to terminate the media server you were using before and only then will the media player be able to identify the TVersity Media Server, please make sure no other media server software is running.

Make sure that no other program is listening on the relevant port for the Media Server and for the Screen Server. If the computer running the TVersity server has more than one active network interface, you need to make sure that the the TCP binding order on your machine is such that the network interface on which it is supposed to communicate with the media player typically your Local Area Connection appears first.

Note that both VPNs and virtualization software like VMWare add virtual netrwork intefaces and therefore in such a case you do have multiple network interfaces from Windows point of view.

More information is available here and here. Make sure your router allows multicast traffic. Some routers block certain types of multicast traffic traffic over a wireles connection even when they are configured not to do so, therefore try using a wired connection at least for testing purposes and see if it helps.

Frequent disconnections in your home network could cause errors with some media players from which they cannot recover without a reboot. Try rebooting your media player or shutting it off and then turning it back on and see if the problem persists. Try disabling it. If nothing else works, check the network equipment, a bad cable or faulty hardware is often the cause of this issue. Are you using uTorrent? If you are using some other P2P software, it may have similar settings, which will need to be disabled.

Uninstall all previous versions of the software and re-install the latest one, then check again if the service started this is especially true if you initially installed the software on Windows XP and then upgraded your computer to Vista or Windows 7. If none of the above worked, power users can try the possible solutions mentioned below, other may need to seek assistance from power users.

If no errors are displayed and you do not get back to the command prompt it means that you successfully started the Media Server as an application. This means that there are some problems with the way the Windows service that corresponds to the TVersity Media Server is configured on your computer. Please try again to uninstall all previous version and re-install the latest, this should fix the problem. If a message box was displayed with the error message "The application failed to initialize properly 0xc Click on OK to terminate the application.

The solution they suggest is to re-install the latest Windows Service Pack and then restart the computer. For more information please click here. If a different error message is displayed please contact TVersity support with that message and a full description of the issue you are having.

The TVersity Media Server will not be able to access content on the network unless the Windows service that corresponds to it has a log-on account of an administrative user of your choice. This account is very limited when it comes to networking and therefore it is necessary to modify it to a different account that is not limited in that respect. You can use your own account or if you prefer you can set-up a separate account for the media server.

In addition to that the log-on account you configured MUST be able to access the network path without authentication, failing to configure it as such is the most common reason for this issue. Please also avoid using mapped network drives inside playlists.

If you keep getting an error message that connectivity to the server could not be estabished then please follow the steps below:. Make sure the server is running e. If it is not running then check this. This should open the GUI inside the browser, and you can now save this shortcut to the desktop and use it from now on to start the GUI.

Please note that as explained above, this shortcut will work only if the server is running. Assuming the server is running now and that you are currently reading this on the same machine as the one on which the server is running and assuming you are using the default port then clicking here should open the GUI for the Media Server and clicking here should open the GUI for the Screen Server.

Some personal firewalls like ZoneAlarm may inspect all the data read from network drives and this could lead to such symptoms. You may need to adjust the firewall configuration or disable it for the brief period of time when network drives are scanned in order to overcome this issue.

Some devices request all the items under each folder. While this works well in most cases, it takes a long time to retrieve all the items under folders that have thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of items. Devices that do that are typically doing it in order to sort the items in a certain way, however the DLNA standard, predicting the time such an operation may take, suggests that devices need to ask the server to do this sort operaton and provide a sorted result with the first few items of the folder only.

Additional items should be retrieved by the device while the user scrolls down the folder. Thumbnails are created the first time they are needed and then remain in the cache area. TVersity is very much a work in progress. If you are going to stream to the make sure you have Windows Media Player 11 installed. TVersity consists of two components: The media server itself which is invisible to the user and the Flash front-end.

The front-end does not need to be running for Tversity to operate. The media server runs as a system service. Unfortunately, due to a bug involving permissions in the media server Windows service needs to be tweaked to ensure proper operation. If the service is not already started, start it.

At this point TVersity should be operational. The goal here is to optimize the transcoder to output the best possible video quality possible. Keep in mind that this involves a great deal of horsepower and network bandwidth. I am transcoding on a 1. Your mileage may vary and if it does you will need to scale back where appropriate, especially if dealing with HD content. This determines how the transcoder will scale down your media in order to conserve network bandwidth.

The computer name is now added to the friendly name TVersity provides to UPnP devices, making it easier to identify cases where several instances of TVersity are running simultaneously.

Nested RSS feeds are not added anymore to the Internet feeds container, making the menus cleaner and non cluttered. RSS feeds published by TVersity can now be emailed by a click of a button to designated recipients, making it easier than ever to share a portion of the media library and keep it in synch with others. RSS feeds published by TVersity will now show a readable page when opened in a web browser.

In firefox but not in MSIE they will also allow navigation to subitems. The Philips SLA is now automatically identified after playing some track. Since this unit does not identify itself before that stage, one needs to restart it after playing some item, in order to have TVersity properly detect it and correctly transcode content for it.

When navigating the library tab inside the flash GUI one can no longer end up in a web page from which it is impossible to return. Added a UTF8 header to our web based media library browsing interface, this insures a correct parsing by web browsers and fixes the issue with foreign characters not being displayed correctly in previous releases.

The Nokia profile was fixed such that download of videos while transcoding them, now produces videos that play smoothly. Fix image viewing issues by modifying the installer to create the necessary environment for a correct ImageMagick operation. Devices that have a web browser with integrated media streaming or downloading capabilities. Devices that have an RSS reader with integrated media streaming or downloading capabilities.

Support for Radio stations streaming to the PSP was added as well despite the fact that the PSP could not natively do streaming of live content. PDAs, cell phones and other networked devices that have a web browser and can do multimedia streaming or downloading are supported via a general profile for mobile devices. As time goes by, individual profiles may be created for some of those devices in order to allow the server to make more accurate transcoding decisions.

TVersity is now set by default to automatically detect the devices it is serving. This makes it possible to use simulatenously devices with different make and model and have the server treat each one of them as if their specific profile was selected.

The devices that can be automatically detected are:. Thanks to this feature it is no longer required to select a device make and model during installation. There are some devices that cannot be automatically detected since they do not provide the server with identifiable information and for those it is still necessary to specify a profile explicitly. These devices are:. There are some devices that cannot be automatically detected since we do not have them in our labs and so we could not test them.

For those devices we will need the help of the community to find out the information needed to identify them. TVersity is now resizing images automatically to fit the device capabilities. This allows viewing of hi-res photos on devices that could not render them natively due to their size. It is now also possible to control the size to which photos are resized from the GUI via the configurable maximum image resolution values under the transcoder settings tab.

The server can also convert images from one format to another, thus making them viewable on devices that cannot render them in their original format.

Please note that these thumbnails are created upon first browsing and then cached and therefore subsequent browsing of the same thumbnail page will be much faster than the first time a certain page is reached. Users that cannot establish a VPN should use software solutions that automatically do that for them like hamachi.

The server can now publish portions of the media library as RSS feeds. When a published portion of the media library e. This makes it easy for friends and family to share portions of their media library, automatically receive new media files from one another and then access them on their device of choice. This should eliminate some of the problems this filter may cause when it encounters a file it cannot handle. Some podcasts that were mistakenly considered empty by TVersity despite the fact that they were not, are now handled correctly.

Restore compatibility with some devices that used to work like the Snazio and the Roku Photobridge. The transcoder is now more selective in the directshow filters used for decoding and therefore the existence of non TVersity compatible filters in the system is less likely to interfere.

Eliminate yet more errors occuring when stopping the server while it is downloading some media fom the Net. Add a download status icon when the refresh of some media source is done while the downloading is still in progress. This will hopefully eliminate most of the failures to transcode when other non TVersity compatible codecs such as Nero, Cyberlink, Intervideo, Elecard, and more are present.

Support for RSS 0. With this new functionality it is now possible to add to the media library:. Image feeds such as the ones provided by flickr look for the RSS 2.

Video Feeds such as the ones provided by Yahoo! Audio and video playlist feeds such as the ones provided by Webjay look for the podcast RSS icon at the top of a playlist page and add this URL to the library. Some sample audio and video feeds are now distributed with TVersity and will be updated automatically from time to time with new content submitted by TVersity users. This feature is still experimental but it already allows feeds with FLV enclosures such as the ones from Reuters to work as long as the enclosures were already downloaded.

M3U and PLS files can now include any media and not just audio. They can even includes a mix of audio, images and video file both local and remote. Fixed incompatibility issues with firmware 1. The media server is no longer refreshing the library each time it is started, except the first time it is executed after a new install. The default refresh policy is now configured to be once a day at midnight and it is now possible to control the start time of the refresh and not just the time interval between refresh sessions.

More sophisticated refresh policies can be accomplished by using a third party scheduler such as the task manager in Windows in conjunction with the now up-to-date MShare utility.

Content Guides - the content guides were updated and fixed to make them compatible with some media hubs that could not handle them. Some MOV video files that were wrongly identified as audio only and therefore were transcoded to an audio format are now properly detected as video files.

Sharing a folder and one of its subfolders will now index the items under both folders and not just under the first one that was shared. Sharing playlists prior to the folders from which the playlists items originated will no longer result in the items appearing only under the playlists.

Indexing by folders now places all the containers at the top and then the items, this makes navigation easier as items and containers are not mixed. The export and import is now incremental meaning that one can import into a non empty media library and the imported data will be merged into the library. Added the TVersity logo and icons thank you Frode for your excellent work and for all the time invested in creating these for us.

Installer - upgrading to version 0. Please be sure to uninstall only version 0. Support for additional media hubs - added a profile for the Pinnacle showcenter Please note that directshow filters that can handle these formats are required for this feature to work check the FAQ for links to such filters. Added support for Karaoke. After sharing such files, look for them in the video section of your media library and not in the audio section. XML escaping issues in file and folder pathnames that prevented proper sharing of these pathnames were eliminated.

GUI can be run from the start menu, the desktop shortcut icon or inside any browser. The new GUI allows one to easily change the server configuration and has detailed description of each possible configuration option and its implications. It also allows one to totally shut off the transcoding, or to have it always run, to have it run only when needed this is the default and recommended setting.

GUI has many new sharing related features that are not supported from the command line, this includes:. Tagging: Each shared URL can have a set of tags associated with it. These tags allow one to organize the URLs such that one can easily browse all the URLs that have a certain tag associated with them. Tags can be hierarchical, this is done by using a dot to separate the different hierarchy levels. This make them a true generalization of folders as one can create an arbitrary hierarchy just like with folders but any item can have many tags associated with it, while with folders any item can reside only in one folder.

As far as we know TVersity is the first to ever come up with the notion of hierarchical tags and to implement it, so remember when everyone else adopts it, you saw it here first. Selective folder sharing: When sharing a folder one can decide if to share any subset of audio, video, images.

Later on one can turn on and off each one of these and the server will quickly update the media library to reflect this change. Safe library reset: Resetting the media libraray from the GUI is different from the command line in that it keeps all the shares intact and just reconstructs the library. The command line opertion is still available but it should probably be used only in very extreme situations,as it deletes the exisitng media library and creates an empty one instead losing all the existing shares and therefore requiring the user to manually re-enter them.

The tagging will also make it possible to browse public URLs by tags and search them by keywords. Any share, including files and folders, can now be given a name. As far as files and folders are concerned, this name is currently used only in the GUI to refer to this share.

Containers in the media library that used to have items in them but no longer do are now deleted from the library. This means that if, for example, the last song from a certain genre was removed from the library and now this particular genre has no child items, then at that point this genre will be removed.

The sorting of audio and video URLs is now by their name and not as it was before by the order in which they were added, this should make it easier to find the URLs you are looking for as long as you properly name them. The sorting of items by creation date is now descending and not ascending as before, meaning that the newset stuff will always be at the top. Added support for OGM, the new Divx file extension from version 6 Divx has its own file extension and it is not longer using the AVI extension and the file extension M2v.

Windows Installer - the installer now supports upgrading from a previous release, so users of V0. In fact this is the only way to have your audio and video URLs copied over to the new installation so that you will not need to re-enter them manually.

Please be advised that unistalling V0. Sharing Winamp playlists that have items with absolute path names but without the drive letter now works. Updated the Roku Soundbrdige profile such that WAV files provided by the server will be recognized correctly and accepted by the Soundbridge. This also fixes issues with the transcoding of audio files such as WMA lossless with the Soundbridge. The WAV file generated by the media server when transcoding from some other format is now more compatible and works with additional media hubs such as the Roku Soundbridge.

Also unlike before it plays in Windows Media Player. The delay between trasncoded audio files had been reduced from seconds to less than 1 second. Future releases will simply download the files if no transcoding is necessary and will serve these files to the media hub as they are being downloaded.

Some video files such as RMVB were not correctly handled in terms of their mime types and for that reason were not played by some media hubs, this issue is now fixed.

Fixed some issues related to running as a Windows service that resulted in a hanging computer after a reboot only in some rare cases. Fixed the periodic rebuffering problem with the Philips Streamiums over wireless it was every seconds and over a wired connection it was every seconds. Modified the media server behavior with the Roku Soundbridge to transcode WMA lossless audio files since the Soundridge does not natively support this format. The media library refresh interval has been increased from 30 minutes to 8 hours.

This is to avoid too much network traffic for users that have many network shares, which are slower to refresh and therefore with the previous setting the media server could always be refreshing.

Users that need to refresh more often can modify config. The corruption of the media library as a result of MShare and the Media Server modifying it simultaneously has been fixed.

Please refer to the FAQ to learn more about temporary error messages that can be displayed when running MShare when the media server is synchronizing the media library. In any case it is safe now to do so, in the worst case one of them will output an error message requesting the user to try again since the media library is locked. The errors in shutting down the media server service while it is refreshing the media libraries have been eliminated.

The media library has been rewritten and is no longer an XML file residing in memory during runtime, but rather a lightweight database residing on the disk. This means that ProgrammingGuide. Users that added online content to this file manually should backup their additions prior to installing this version and read about the new features of MShare designed to allow them to do the same with much less effort.

The memory consumption of the media server no longer depends on the size of the media library and is now much smaller.

The media library is designed to handle , items and more; Sharing is much faster and browsing is as fast as before. The media server is now showing the shared media as it is shared and it is no longer necessary to wait until the sharing of potentially very large folders is complete before browsing the items.

This also means that it is no longer required to restart the media server after a share process, and that stopping a share process in the middle is not an issue since it can be continued from the same point at a later time. The library item names are no longer a concatenation of the title tag, track tag, album tag and artist tag but are rather just the title tag and if this tag is missing then the file name without its extension is used.

When accessing the media library by folders, the items can now be sorted by the file name and not by their title tag it depends on the value of the sortFolderByFileName attribute from config.

This means that users that have a folder structure that includes a folder for each album and inside this folder their files are named such that the track number appears first, will have their album items sorted by the track number.

Please note that changing the value of the sortFolderByFileName attribute affects only shares done from that moment and on. Previous shares remain unaltered, so this decision need to be done prior to sharing. Users that do not wish the media server to capitalize the ID3 tags and apply other similar manipulations designed to make the tags more readbale and consistent can now turn this off by setting the value of the prettyTags attribute from config.

Please note that changing the value of this attribute affects only shares done from that moment and on. Previous shares remain unaltered. When the media library is refreshed it will automatically remove items that corresponded to previous content of removable drives and will add items that correspond to current content of these drives.

In addition to adding new shares, the MShare utility can now be used to list these shares, update all of them in one operation or remove one of the shares. You can type MShare -H for a complete description of the new command line options that were added. Since the media library is not an editable XML file, it is no longer possible to add new online content in the same undocumented method used so far.

Please check the FAQ for list of filters and links to their locations on the Web. Real and Quicktime streaming from the Internet is not yet supported. Added thousands of radio stations from around the world accesible by genre, region or language. The WMA streams are transocded on the fly to MP3 and therefore should work on all media hubs, the MP3 streams, being already in MP3 format, are provided as is to the media hub.

While in theory this should work well with all media hubs, in practice some media hubs are not able to play some of the streams.

This is due to limitations in accepting MP3 streams from the Internet as opposed to accepting them from the media server, which is on the local network. Future releases will include alternative sources for movie trailers. Added the ministry of sound TV and radio stations the TV seems to be working on and off, when in doubt check their web site and see if it works from there.

The media cache area is no longer growing indefinitely but is now contained within certain configurable minimum and maximum sizes. Indexing a music track that has the same value for the artist and album tags is now done properly.

The capitalization of text extracted from tags is done now better letter appearing after parenthesis are also capitalized. Sharing of network pathnames is improved and is now more compatible performance over network shares still needs to be improved.

There is now a file called version. You can even play the audio track of your video files or of online video channels on them. The media server has been made more portable across media hubs and is likely to work now with others that are noit mentioned above as well. Choosing the type of media hubs with which the media server need to interact is done during installation. ManiaTV has now a Kbps stream it seems to be still experimental on their side so the old stream of Kbps was kept.

The top viral videos and the top short films from ifilm were added some of these are for adults only so please be forewarned. Many of the ifilm trailers were updated from kbps to kbps, and hundreds of new trailers were added. Some examples of the kind of elements that can be configured follow.

The type of media hub with which the server is supposed to interact is now configurable. Currently there cannot be more than one type of media hub in the configuration file but there can be multiple instances of that media hub on the network of-course different types od media hubs that are compatible with one another to a certain degree may work fine by choosing one of the types.

In the future the server will be able to interact with different types of media hubs simultaneously and to detect their type automatically. The media server can now be configured to transcode audio to WAV so that the quality of lossless formats will be maintained, this is now the default behavior for the DLink DSM with which the media server is now also capable of automatically detecting WMA lossless files and transcode them, but refrain from transcoding lossy WMAs.

The connection speed of the media server to the media hubs can now be defined in the configuration file such that the bitrate of transcoded media will be adapted accordingly allowing smooth playback over any speed home network even Wireless B.

Moreover the media server can be configured to downsample high bitrate media files that can theoretically be played natively by the media hub but in practice their playback stutters due to their bitrate being too high for the network, again resulting in smooth playback.

Many transcoding related parameters are now configurable, e. Another example is switching the transcoding between two modes, the first mode is optimized for speed by using faster compression schemes and the second is optimized for quality by using slower compressions schemes that can produce a better quality within a given bitrate.

For best results, it is highly recommended to change your screen resolution to x before mirroring and to disable Windows aero. The minimum requirements will allow real-time transcoding of media files with bitrates up to kbps. Higher bitrates will require faster machines. Media files that do not require transcoding, i. A modern, desktop grade, single core CPU is required for real-time transcoding of standard definition video e.