DVBLink Public Beta of Version 4

The DVBLink software from DVBLogic which we have written about a lot in the past has a new version in the works.

DVBLink TVSource and Home Server v4 products are now in public beta and there are a lot of new things and improvements comparing to version 3.x. Some features are the same but done/accessed in a different way.

The DVBLink Server Network Pack is now split into two separate products:

DVBLink Home Server

• DLNA and networked MediaCenter server

DVBLink Connect! Server

• Web interface for Guide/timers/web streaming
• Server for IPhone/IPad, WinPhone and Android apps
• Server for 3rd party DVBLink clients

So what’s new:

• Web-based DVBLink server configuration –Specifically designed for headless servers
• Localized in 10+ languages

Virtual PBDA drivers provide MediaCenter integration:

• Easy and more intuitive TV Setup procedure
• Removed 4 tuner limit (8 virtual tuners will be available at release)
• One-to-one mapping between source instance and virtual tuner instance

DVBLink Home Server:

• New DLNA server module provides improved DLNA clients compatibility and improved channel change speed (using smart stream burst technology)
• New streaming module for MediaCenter clients provides improved streaming reliability (works over WiFi now!)

DVBLink Connect! Server:

• Improved web interface and a more robust web streaming
• Bundled IPhone/IPad, Android and WinPhone apps (can be downloaded free of charge)
• Exposes DVBLink Remote API to build custom DVBLink clients. The API is http/xml based so should work on any client and is publicly available
• Includes (optional) DVBLink recorder module for WMC-independent timer recordings functionality

DVBLink Remote API

• HTTP/xml based
• Delivers the following functionality
  –Channel list retrieval
  –EPG information retrieval (leveled, can be optimized for low bandwidth connections)
  –Recording timers management
  –Live streaming
• Supported streaming formats
  –Raw mpeg-2 transport stream over UDP or HTTP
  –Transcoded ASF streaming over HTTP
  –Transcoded HLS (iphone/ipad format)
  –Transcoded mpeg-2 TS with mpeg-4 video/AAC audio over RTP

More information on version 4 beta 1 is available from here.

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