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TVersity

Last version released: 1.8

Free version: all features available, except for streaming of premium content from internet

Pro trial version: no limitations, users are encouraged to try it as long as needed to make a decision (within reason)

Pro version price and licensing: $29.95, the license entitles you to one year of free updates.

Summary:

One of the feature-rich media servers available for Windows. It was reported in the past that some of the video formats are not supported well by TVersity, so you need to check how it handles everything you need.
While the user interface is very well done, it is still might take some time to configure everything to work smoothly.

Features

  • Play Internet audio, image and video streams and RSS/RDF/ATOM/OPML feeds and podcasts on your TV, Stereo and other connected devices
    • The media server streams media from the Internet and delivers it to connected devices via HTTP, the only protocol supported by those devices
  • Play Premium Internet content on your TV
  • The only truly universal media server (including support for the Apple iPhone, Sony PSP, the Sony PS3, the Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii, The Nokia 770/N800 and many more devices)
    • Use the same server for home and mobile networked devices (with multimedia capabilities) whether they support UPnP AV / DLNA or just have a web browser or an RSS/Podcast Reader
  • Enter your own Internet URLs or select from the bundled Audio and Video Guides
    • The media server is bundled with hundreds of TV stations from all over the world and thousands of radio stations
  • Play your ENTIRE media collection on your connected devices
    • Finally almost any content that plays in Windows Media Player can be played on any of the supported devices disregarding their codec limitations
  • Automatic Real-time Seamless Transcoding
    • Let the Media Server automatically detect when a given media needs to be transcoded for playback on your media player
  • Very fast browsing of your media library with unprecedented speed for huge libraries (up to 100,000 items and more)
    • The Media Server has a very short response time, allowing faster browsing of your media library
  • Advanced searching and smart playlists
    • The Media Server supports keyword searching as well as advanced search expressions and allows search results to be saved as playlists
  • Easy to use Graphical User Interface
    • Control the media server locally or remotely by running the GUI as a web application (both MSIE and Firefox are supported)
  • Support multiple devices simultaneously
  •     Connect every room with a TV and other connected devices you own to the same media server
  • Share media with friends and family via RSS
    • Synchronize your media library with remote installaions of TVersity or with remote Podcast managers like iTunes
  • Support for all leading tagging formats and then some
    • ID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis comments in Ogg, FLAC, and MPC/Ape, iTunes AAC tags, MPEG4 tags, ASF tags (WMA, WMV, DVR-MS)
  • Intuitive Navigation
    • Finally a media server that organizes your media properly, maintaining the order of songs, supporting extensive navigation criteria and doing it all very fast
  • Manage cache of transcoded media
    • No need to transcode the same media twice
  • Pause Live Internet feeds just like with Tivo
    • Watching live Internet TV and listening to live radio stations have never been so much fun
  • Runs as a service
    • You no longer need to log on to your computer for the media server to start
  • Works well on slow system while providing real benefits on faster ones
    • Transcode Internet videos (300 kbps) on very slow systems and downsample high definition videos to standard definition on fast ones
  • Raw digital camera image support
    • crw, cr2, nef, nrw, mrw, orf, raf, dng, erf, x3f, dcr arw, raw, kdc

Video formats supported (some only with 3rd party codecs installed):

  • WMA, WMV, MJPEG, DVR-MS, AVI (including Divx3/4/5/6, Xvid, and others)
  • MPEG1/2/4 (including H.264), MP3 and AAC
  • Qucktime MOV
  • Real Video/Audio/RMVB
  • OGG Vorbis and OGM
  • FLAC, WMA lossless, Monkey Audio (APE), Musepack Audio (MPC) and Wavpack
  • Flash Video
  • Matroska (MKA and MKV)
  • Karaoke CDG/BIN

Content site streaming (all versions):

  • Audio and Video Podcasts (see iTunes for a comprehensive list of podcasts available online).
  • WMA and WMV streaming (RTSP, MMS, HTTP).
  • Any common video format available over HTTP.
  • YouTube (except most movies and full episodes which require the Pro version)
  • Google Video
  • Flickr
  • Funny Or Die
  • Flix.co.il

Premium content site streaming (Pro version only):

  • Hulu
  • BBC iPlayer
  • Joost
  • CBS
  • NBC
  • The WB
  • TV.com
  • ESPN
  • NFL
  • MTV
  • VH1
  • Sling.com
  • IMDB.com
  • The Daily Show
  • The Colbert Report
  • Comedy Central
  • South Park
  • Marvel
  • The Discovery Channel
  • National Geographic Channel
  • E Online
  • CNN
  • Food Network
  • HGTV
  • Snag Films
  • YouTube Movies and Full Episodes
  • My Damn Channel

Known to work via 3rd party tools:

  •     last.fm via the last.fm proxy
  •     Sirius and XM Satellite Radio via SiriusXMStreamer

 

 

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Minimum Requirements (Free edition):

  • Pentium III 700 Mhz or better (Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz with support for Hyper Threading is recommended)
  • 256 MB of memory or more (2GB recommended)
  • 100 MB of disk space (At least 4 GB of free space is recommended for cache area of transcoded media)
  • Windows XP / 2000 / 2003 / Vista
  • DirectX 9.0 or higher
  • Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher
  • For transcoding to WMV (Xbox 360) WMP11 is recommended (otherwise WMV encoding can be done via ffmpeg instead of DirectShow)
  • Audio enabled on the computer running the software

Minimum Requirements (Pro edition):

  • Pentium 4 2.8Ghz or better.
  • Latest Flash Player installed and working with either Firefox or Google Chrome

 

 

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