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After almost a year, Apple finally fixed a fatal bug with tvOS 17 in September: while playing movies (via M3U8 playlist), the app sometimes crashed when the system function in AVFoundation tried to display the duration even though it was not there yet / was known. Unfortunately, 2 new bugs have been added: firstly, when starting to play the movie, an incorrect playback position is sometimes displayed – e.g. 10 minutes instead of 2 minutes. As soon as the movie is completely segmented and the total duration of the movie is known, …

Keywords: Apple, AppStore, MediaCenter, Playback, TV, tvOS

In this version of the nessMediaCenter App, we have revised and extended the control of the media presentation through the Siri remote control. Previously, when presenting multiple media, the previous or next media (picture/movie) could be selected by swiping on the Siri Touch surface – but only for pictures, as the swipe for movies is intercepted by the movie system routines. In addition, the movie presentation was zoomed by double-pressing on the touch surface – regardless of the position (left/middle/right). This also zoomed when, for example, you double-pressed on the right …

Keywords: Apple, AppStore, MediaCenter, Remote Control, Siri, TV, tvOS

After we intensively tested miniDLNA, installed on the Raspberry Pi, we noticed a few things that were not so optimally. On one hand, the date of videos was displayed in an illegible form and the duration directly behind it. Now the date is displayed localized and the duration in the 2nd line. In addition, a preview is now displayed for videos. We have read the opportunity to create a cover for each video and to change the miniDLNA configuration. But that is too complex for us with so many videos. However, the video preview …

Keywords: Apple, AppStore, DLNA, MediaCenter, Media Server, miniDLNA, TV, tvOS

nessMediaCenter App for AppleTV now supports miniDLNA too. We have been informed by Dennis that nessMediaCenter App for AppleTV can not access miniDLNA installed on the Raspberry Pi. So far, miniDLNA has not been specified as supported DLNA / UPnP media server, but Raspberry Pi is an interesting solution because of the low price. After a loan was unfortunately too old to install OpenMediaVault 4 on it, we invested in Raspberry Pi – and unfortunately we had to find …

Keywords: Apple, AppStore, DLNA, MediaCenter, Media Server, miniDLNA, TV, tvOS

As reported, it needed various bug reports to Apple and updates of macOS 10.14 to finally offer a new version of nessMediaCenter. With this version, 2 old braids are cut off: The 32 bit version is no longer maintained (and this update is only available for the 64 bit version). The internet offer will also not be maintained anymore and probably removed in the future. Version 1.8 finally supports the dark appearance of macOS 10.14. In addition, the server address of the

Keywords: 64 bit, MediaCenter, Media Server, nessMediaCenter, nessViewer