The image processing system of upcoming iSedora 3 has been updated to support more image formats as well as optimized for speed and memory usage. Processing well-known image types should be much faster especially on Windows. We're also adding DLNA image streaming from Internet for most popular…
The server part of the upcoming iSedora 3 release is written in Go programming language developed and maintained by Google. The latest major Go release 1.15 requires macOS 10.12 Sierra as the minimum system version. We have to follow this requirement since each major Go release provides valuable…
This is somewhat a technical post to show current code statistics for iSedora 3 development progress. This is for the server application. User interface app for configuration and monitoring will be separate from the core server app.…
We've been very conservative with changing minimum system version requirements for both macOS and Windows platforms. Recent release of our primary development language for both platforms required us to update minimum system requirements. MacOS minimum supported version has changed from 10.10 to…
We've started working on the preferences user interface. Some details may changes along the way. Here is the General preferences tab: macOS: Windows:
We've been busy implementing advanced support for playlists in the upcoming new version of iSedora Media Server. Three most popular formats are ready: M3U, PLS, and CUE. The M3U parser supports extended attributes for Apple HLS streaming. All playlist formats can target local and Internet media…
Several media formats have a notion of chapters which splits media into logical units. This feature is very handy for listening audio podcasts and books.
We've just installed and begun testing DLNA compatible BD-J7500 Blu-ray player from Samsung. It is a very connection capable device, having built-in Ethernet and Wi-Fi, two HDMI output ports, USB 2.0. Player is equipped with 7.1 sound, 3D and supports native playback for various A/V formats: AVI,…
iSedora 3 will feature all new intelligent video thumbnailer. To produced the best thumb picture, it scans 50 frames in a row, looking for best still frame. Also, the new thumbnailer employs advanced scaling formula, based on the video display aspect ratio, to properly adjust thumb width and height.
A couple of screenshots illustrating the work of the media inspector in iSedora 3. As usual, for the image sample we use our favorite JPEG file from the Google Art Project. It is extreme! File size is 226 MB, picture resolution is 30,000 by 29,560 pixels. PDF file inspection: