[6/4/2007 - Updated beta available]
Oops. Cat is out of the bag now... 
Accidentally hit that "send" button a bit too quickly. This was my general plan, but it is now accelerated a bit.
Welcome to the public beta of WebGuide 4.1. WebGuide continues to improve all around. I've also bumped the version number up to "4.1", denoting a new phase in development.
Lots of new stuff to play with. One of the big new features is that WebGuide now supports streaming unencrypted DVD's! (ie, home movies and such) If WebGuide finds the “Video_TS” folder or a mountable ISO image, it will treat it as a DVD - fully streaming with chapters and everything. This feature has also been added to the mobile section along with other new functionality. You can now stream TV, videos, music and DVD's to your Windows Mobile device!
Give it a shot and post your feedback in the beta forum.
Thanks.
Doug
4.103 Public Beta (5/8/07)
- Added streaming DVD functionality for non-encrypted DVD's stored in folders.
- - store all of the video_ts files in a folder with a "folder.jpg" to use as cover art.
- - recognized as full DVD offering titles/chapters/menus.
- - note that direct-show doesn't show the menu highlights when streaming, so you can also use the title/chapter list.
- Added DVD ISO mounting via Daemon Tools.
- Added DVD ISO mounting configuration options to config app.
- Added "dvdid.xml" support for cover art and DVD info.
- Will read a DVD_ID file from the DVD folder and if it has full data it will be used. If it only has the Disc ID, then WG will then scan the DVDCache folders for the full XML data.
- Modified DVD stream to pick AC3 stream with more than 2 channels (was selecting a silent channel sometimes)
- Added "Now Playing" page to Mobile section to allow for transport controls and chapter list while streaming.
- Added 8Mbps 480p 16x9 and 4x3 streaming profiles for powerful machines.
- Added 4x3, 16x9 and audio-only streaming profiles.
- Added streaming audio to mobile (to handle high-bitrate or MP3->WMA conversion).
- Added videos/DVD streaming to mobile.
- Added zip downloads of music albums.
- Changed streaming media-type to "video/x-ms-asf" to fix issue with Kinoma on Palms.
- Fixed "low disk space" icon/warning (really mean it this time :) )
- Changed stream page to show chapter-list when DVD's launch. This will help bypass the DVD menus.
- Automatically goes to "now playing" screen before launching mobile stream
- Added "count-down" clock to auto-start stream using previously selected profile.
- Added Czech and Hungarian translations.
- Fixed mobile permission issue where user wasn't allowed to login with restricted permissions.
- Added auto-restart to transcode service after streaming. Helps with some random codec issues.
- Fixed random UPnP router error message.
- Added config flag to hide low disk-space warning.
- Added prompt for login credentials to config app when adding network folders.
- Cleaned up misc error reports.
- Added about page and system info to mobile section.
- Fixed mobile auto-login.
- Cleaned up font sizes in mobile pages.
- Added ability to submit errors for review.
- Fixed video thumbnails.
- Videos now substitutes a JPG image as thumbnail for videos that have a JPG file in the same folder as video with the same name (without extension). ie: video_file.avi -> video_file.jpg
- Other file-types now display in the same "dvr" type window as TV shows when streaming.
- Improved streaming of Divx/Xvid files.
- Improved Firefox embedded WMP control layout.
- Added zip downloads of picture folders.
- Fixed warning message during config load when the audio/video decoder couldn't be identified.
- Now remembers "open with WMP" setting for streaming.
- Added cleanup of old image cache items after 30 days.
- Added mobile setting to change the ASX stream extension (normally WVX, but can be changed to ASX for other apps that don't recognize WVX (Kinoma on Palm).
- Added registry check ("fEpgDataAvailable") before trying to loading guide.