Turn Your Computer Into A Media Server with TVersity

TVersity Media Server is an amazing piece of software which lets you manage your Internet and hoe media.It allows you to create your personalized lineup of channels and then serve this media to a number of networked devices while at home or on the go.

In short, with TVersity, your media is available anywhere, anytime and on any device which can go over the internet. TVersity Media Server software comes in two editions,a basic edition available for free and supported via user donations and a pro edition available for a small fee.

TVersity not only supports streaming your media files to another computer, rather TVersity can serve to any device which support the UPnP AV / DLNA standard (which is the de-facto standard for connecitivity between devices in the digital home). This includes devices like game consoles (Xbox 360 and Sony PS3), networked TVs, DVDs, Stereo Receivers, Digital Media Adapaters/Receivers, Mobile Phones, Satellite and Cable set-top-boxes and more.It even supports devices with a web browser (XHTML-MP or WAP 2.0) and media streaming or downloading capabilities like iPhone, Blackberry, the Sony PSP, Nokia N series, and other smart phones.Support is also included for devices with Adobe Flash, this includes the Nintendo Wii and devices with an RSS reader and media streaming or downloading capabilities like the Sony PSP, iTunes/iPod and more.

TVersity Media Server does all the transcoding of your content in real time.So what this means is that if you wish to stream a .avi file lying on your computers hard disk to your PS3, TVersity will convert the .avi file to something the PS3 can read on the fly.

Features provided by TVersity Media Server

1.) Play Internet audio, image and video streams and RSS/RDF/ATOM/OPML feeds and podcasts on your TV, Stereo and other connected devices.

2.) Play Premium Internet content on your TV.

3.) 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)

4.) Enter your own Internet URLs or select from the bundled Audio and Video Guides.

5.) Play your ENTIRE media collection on your connected devices.

6.) Automatic Real-time Seamless Transcoding.

7.) Very fast browsing of your media library with unprecedented speed for huge libraries (up to 100,000 items and more).

8.) Advanced searching and smart playlists.

9.) Easy to use Graphical User Interface.

10.) Support multiple devices simultaneously.

11.) Share media with friends and family via RSS,

12.) Support for all leading tagging formats.

13.) Intuitive Navigation.

14.) Manage cache of transcoded media.

15.) Pause Live Internet feeds just like with Tivo.

16.) Runs as a service

Check out the embedded video below which shows Live Internet TV and Youtube on the Blackberry Curve

TVersity Media Server can work with any media format that has a Directshow decoder installed.

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One Response to “Turn Your Computer Into A Media Server with TVersity”

markzenegar on December 5th, 2009 at 5:26 am

PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant Upnp Media Server for the PS3, written in Java, with the purpose of streaming or transcoding any kind of media files, with minimum configuration. It’s backed up with the powerful Mplayer/FFmpeg.

For Features and more on this you may visit at:

http://www.techarena.in/download/server-tools/ps3-media-server.htm

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