Movian

Finally time for a new release just before 2014 ends. In total 183 issues have been filed and fixed

Major changes¶

• Add support for streaming directly from bittorrent peer-to-peer network.

• Improved HLS streamer, in particular better support for live streams and quicker adaption between bitrates.

• New javascript engine for plugins (http://duktape.org) which is actively maintained and offers much better support than Spidermonkey. Spidermonkey is now deprecated and will be removed for 5.0 so plugin authors are urged to port their plugins.

• Major rewrite of user interface rendering code. This is a preparation for Showtime 5.0 which will sport a new user interface.

Minor changes¶

• It's now possible to turn off automatic browsing of archives (ZIP and RAR) as folders.

• It's now possible to configure the amount of time Showtime skips when seeking backward and forwards. Settings available in settings -> video playback.

• Since February 2014 (Showtime version 4.5.108), clearing metadata does not erase playcount, resume point, etc. Update the 'Clear metadata...' -warning text to r
  eflect this.

• Improve metadata lookup speed when using external sources such as http://themoviedb.org, etc.

• Add support for video panning during playback.

Improve User Interface when streaming from Tvheadend:¶

• Added show description and name of next show to TV playdeck.
• If a channel has an icon, display that instead of Display.png in list view.
• Added tv show description to iteminfo view.
• Sort channels based on channelNumber set in Tvheadend's user interface.

Ps3 specific¶

• Fix interlaced h264 playback

• Display HDD utilization in sysinfo overlay

Raspberry Pi specific¶

• Fix broken AV sync when streaming from Tvheadend