iSedora Media Server

Beta Development News

User Scripts

iSedora 2 extension logic is now more simple and straightforward. "User Scripts" will allow to customize and extend the server in any way. The DLNA server itself is implemented as a user script extension inside iSedora.

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Device Information

Detailed device information page with ability to change device display name. Will be very helpful for new clients debugging and transcoding profile matching.

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Device "Search" and Server "Notify" Commands

We've just added two commands to allow manual device connection troubleshooting. "Search" will send discovery requests for all network devices. "Notify" will inform other devices that iSedora server is running and ready to accept connections.

Usually these actions are executed automatically on the background but for some rare cases it is helpful to manually trigger device discovery and server notification.

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Per Device Security

New security feature to allow device access based on unique identifier. This is more flexible than just IP address blocking since most home networks are configured with dynamic IP address assignment. Unique identifier never changes.

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New rule is created automatically with hinted device name in the comment (started with
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Connections

The device connection logic in the second version is completely reworked based on experience from the first version. Now iSedora keeps track of all local network devices. This will allow for more flexible device configuration.

Active devices:

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All network devices:

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New Security Features of iSedora 2

All new security management features will be introduced in iSedora 2.

It will be possible to filter access to the server on network interfaces level as well as by White and Black lists of IP addresses.

The IP address specification is very flexible and allows to specify exact, prefix and range addresses.

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Custom Server Icon

Some new features of the upcoming iSedora 2 release:
  • Startup configuration from server console
  • More flexible power management
  • Custom server icon

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List of Supported Image Formats

Great news for Mac version of iSedora 2. The list of supported image formats is greatly enhanced and will include all professional RAW camera formats as well as PDF documents viewing by pages.

Screen 1:

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Screen 2:

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First Screenshot of iSedora 2

We are busy coding the user interface of iSedora 2. The main change in the new version is the separation of server and interface into different applications. This will allow to manage server from remote computer on the home network.

Here's the first screenshot:

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JavaScript Bridge is Ready

Major milestone has been accomplished. The JavaScript bridge is production ready with super fast native call paths and low memory consumption.

This was one of the most difficult tasks in iSedora 2 development roadmap. The bridge is based on the latest version of Mozilla JavaScript engine which support all extended features for the language.

We strongly believe that having easy to use and well-known language for extending iSedora will make it an outstanding media streaming platform.

Stay tuned for first screenshots of the new interface.