Changelog:

Regressions:

Re-allow all transcode engines to be disabled

PMS.conf:

FFmpeg has been renamed ffmpeg_video_custom_options and now
defaults to null

Renderers:

Document TranscodeVideo and TranscodeAudio profiles
Panasonic TVs: Add "exclusive" option to SeekByTime to work
around a transcoding issue
PS3: Restore seek-by-time support for streaming
Android: allowing chunked transfer
AirPlayer & iPad/iPhone: transcoding to WMV format gives better
results
Improved support for Sony Bravia HX (thanks, mazey!)
Improved streaming support for some renderers (thanks, ExSport!)

Engines:

FFmpeg Video and FFmpeg Web Video:
Support all three TranscodeVideo profiles: WMV,
MPEGTSAC3 and MPEGPSAC3
Preserve source video quality

FFmpeg Video:

Custom FFmpeg options are now read before each transcode
rather than only at startup
(parity with custom MEncoder options)
Rescale videos larger than the renderer's max height/width
Updated to use "wmav2" codec (#1583)
FFmpeg Audio: support all TranscodeAudio profiles

VLC:

Added support for VLC as engine (thanks, LordQuackstar!)
Language updates:
Updated Brazilian translation (thanks, Bruno Arueira!)
Updated Catalan translation (thanks, oscaroe!)
Updated simplified Chinese translation (thanks, lovenemesis!)
Updated Italian translation (thanks, nocciola82!)

Misc:

Fixed bug that prevents PMS running multiple profiles concurrently
Fixed NPE when responding to DLNA subtitle requests
Fixed NPE for empty soapactions
Image thumbnailer:
Added thumbnail support for TIFF and other formats
Trapped exception when handling unsupported formats
Fixed response to M-SEARCH "ssdp:all" message (thanks, ler0y!)
Fixed fontconfig configuration for Mac OSX, improving subtitle
quality
Moved several transcoding settings from MEncoder to Common
transcoding settings
Layout improvements to remove scroll bars where possible
Help is now context sensitive

- Engines:
FFmpeg:
Add/fix audio channel options
Build script: add HTTPS support

- WEB.conf:
Add support for the file:// protocol
Match protocols (e.g. mms://…) before extensions (e.g. https://example.com/foo.mms)

- Misc:
Media Parser v1: fix audio channel parsing
Fix for “Can’t assign requested address” bug after update to Java 1.6.0_45 on Mac OSX

• Engines:
• dcraw Thumbnailer:
Fix image transcoding
Add support for more extensions
• FFmpeg:
Fix bug that disabled FFmpeg for compatible files
Fix audio channel selection (thanks, valib)
• MEncoder Video:
Fixed bug that caused embedded subtitles to be displayed instead
of external (thanks, SubJunk)
Fixed handling of per-renderer aspect-ratio settings (thanks,
ExSport)
• tsMuxeR:
Fixed 24-bit FLAC support with tsMuxeR (thanks, SubJunk)
Fix bug that disabled tsMuxeR for compatible files
• VLC:
Fix looping playback
Add multi-threading support (GC1234: thanks, ccampora)
• Misc:
New engine: VLCWebVideo ("vlcwebvideo")
Clean up engine names
• Renderers:
• PS3: TV series with sound problems after "previously on" block should
now play normally with the "Keep AC-3 track" option enabled (thanks,
SubJunk)
• Language updates:
Updated Dutch translation (thanks, leroy)
• Misc:
Fix issue with VirtualBox and PMS launchers (thanks, thepadawan42)
Added support for M4A files encoded with Fraunhofer AAC
Upgrade Thumbnailator to 0.4.4 to fix out-of-memory errors (thanks,
coobird)

lightglitch is no stranger to the inner workings of PS3 Media Server. He
contributed virtual folder support a few years ago, and spearheaded the
Community Build project that kickstarted a second wave of PMS development.
We're looking forward to benefiting from his experience and enthusiasm for
the project.

A lot of breaking changes to name it all: deprecated methods removed, api
signature changes, configuration params renamed etc.
Please check how your code works with master branch.

Changelog (1.90.0):

Engines:
FFmpeg Video, FFmpeg Web Audio and FFmpeg Web Video:
Add FFmpeg Web Audio engine
General improvements of usability and stability
Support for lossless video remuxing if supported by renderer
Support for AC-3 and DTS audio tracks remuxing
Support for external SRT and SSA/ASS subtitles
Support for auto charset detection of non UTF-8 external subtitles
tsMuxeR:
Regression: restore the pre-1.82.0 compatibility logic
VLC Web Video:
Fix NPE
Support for external subtitles (thanks, tdcosta100!)
Renderers:
Xbox 360: improved quality
Improved Sony Blu-ray Player support (thanks, skeptical)
Send thumbnails properly to Samsung 2012 ES and EH models (thanks, dmitche3!)
Added renderer profiles (thanks, UMS developers):
KalemSoft Media Player
Netgear NeoTV
Onkyo TX-NR717
Sharp Aquos TVs
Showtime 4 PS3 homebrew player
Sony Bravia EX620 series TVs
Sony Bravia W6/W8/W9 (thanks, gui17aume)
Sony Home Theatre Systems
Telstra T-Box
VideoWeb TV
Vizio Smart TV
Yamaha RX-V3900
Transcode folder:
Add entries for audio files
Add missing entries for video files
Add entries for web video and web audio files
Allow the chapter folder prefix to be localized
Hide chapter folders if the duration of the video is less than the chapter length
Don’t hide engine names in the #–TRANSCODE–# folder if hide_enginenames is true
Language updates:
Updated Dutch translation (thanks, leroy)
Updated French translation (thanks, gui17aume)
Misc:
A lot of backports from UMS (thanks, all UMS developers!)
Windows: system-wide Java installation is not needed anymore, now we bundle private JRE with installer
Fix duplicate entries in DVD/playlist/feed folders: GC566, GC636, GC1483, GH13
More accurate checks for reference frame counts to allow more videos to be remuxed rather than transcoded
Removed obsolete MPlayerAudio, MPlayerWebAudio and MPlayerWebVideoDump engines
Filename display formats can now be set at the profile level as well as per-renderer
More detailed logging to improve diagnostics and simplify issue reporting
Fix generation of music subfolders in iTunes Library (thanks, gui17aume)
Build Windows installer with bundled JRE for 32-bit systems (PMS-setup-full.exe)
Build Windows installer with bundled JRE for 64-bit systems (PMS-setup-full-x64.exe)
Build Windows installer without bundled JRE (PMS-setup-without-jre.exe)
Removed silent JRE download and installation within PMS.exe wrapper if no private or public JREs are found. Prompt user to run PMS-setup-full.exe instead
Show user GPL licence during Windows installation
Windows installer now runs PS3 Media Server with normal user rights after installation is complete
Windows installer localization.
New Mac OSX installer with bundled JRE (pms-setup-macosx.tar.gz)
Added configuration option for forcing renderer per IP address (#115)

Changelog:

Engines:

FFmpeg Video, FFMpeg Web Video and FFmpeg Web Audio:
Fix issue that prevented plugins extending
FFmpegWebAudio and FFmpegWebVideo safely
Updated FFmpeg for Windows

MEncoder Video:

Fix for spaces in font names breaking playback

Misc:

Fixed regression with tsMuxer and H264 support
Restored Java support for file names with special
characters on Mac OS X.