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Hi,
An update to the Serviio Media Player (1.5.1) is on its way. Right now it is residing the the clearos-test repo together with an updated version of the serviio-WebUI (1.6.3). The new serviio version requires Java 8 (instead of Java 6, that is default in ClearOS 6) and therefore require the java-1.8.0-openjdk package that is found in clearos-core. When the ClearOS-team are ready they will move serviio, serviio-WebUI and the java-1.8.0-openjdk rpms to the default enabled repos.

For those of you who can not wait for the official release you can already now update your serviio installation by running:

yum update serviio serviio-WebUI --enablerepo=clearos-test,clearos-core

It will update your serviio installation to the latest version and install the new java version. Note: The java-1.8.0-openjdk will NOT replace java-1.6.0-openjdk. Instead it will be installed in parallell, leaving you with BOTH versions installed (just as it is meant to be). The default java will still be java-1.6.0-openjdk, so any other programs using java on your machine will not be affected at all.

/Fred

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Thursday, February 26 2015, 07:54 AM

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Fredrik Fornstad

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Thursday, March 12 2015, 02:58 PM - #Permalink
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Hi everyone,
The new versions of Serviio and Serviio WebUI have now been pushed to the standard repos so everyone running Serviio should have gotten the updates by now.

A number of bug fixes are included and a fair amount of new features too. My favourite is the support for HEVC (h.265) format (require about half the file size for a given video quality, but require more CPU to encode/decode compared to h.264). (Does however require FFmpeg compiled with x265 which is not yet in ClearOS by default. Yet... )

See here for the Serviio 1.5 release notes:
http://serviio.org/news/9-release-notes/83-release-notes-1-5
As Peter mentioned earlier in this thread, you can probably expect a updated version of FFmpeg to arrive to ClearOS soon. I have been pushing this for a while with the intention to include x265 support, libass subtitle support and gnutls support to enable recieving of streamed media over https.

/Fred
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Marcel

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Friday, February 27 2015, 11:00 AM - #Permalink
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Awesome that the ffmpeg is updated. I use it for remuxing and encoding purposes. Thank you!
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Thursday, February 26 2015, 03:18 PM - #Permalink
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Many thanks Fred! FYI: Fred also provided us with updated ffmpeg and x265 RPM spec files. I have been able to get a variant built in our development (mock) environment, so we should be able to get things going through the build system soon.
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