Media in nessViewer

• In nessViewer the most different media can be used:
  • Pictures
  • Movies (videos, → telecasts, podcasts, → live streams)
  • DVDs
  • PDF documents
• With nessViewer the media can be edited, arranged or presented. Furthermore nessViewer offers tools which allow it to carry out smaller media treatments and to avoid therefore the change in more extensive software products.

Pictures processing

• For the processing of pictures the following tools are available:
  • Crop parts of a picture
  • Rotate (left/right/vertical)
  • Flip (vertical/horizontal)
  • Save as (in the formats): BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF

Movie processing

• For the processing of movies, nessViewer offers a handy selection of tools. Through these tools it is possible e.g. to cut movies (for removing an introduction, excerpts or advertisements) or to join (for summarising single short sequences to one single sequence). In detail it contains the following tools:
  • Select, cut out, copy and paste of movie parts
  • Add, change, extract, remove tracks (e.g., a sound track to a video track)
  • Rotate (left/right/vertical)
  • Flip (vertical/horizontal)
  • Change the size or crop an excerpt (e.g. to fade out black beams on top and below)
  • Export/convert into different movie formats (e.g. for AppleTV, iPad, iPhone, iPod)

PDF document processing

• For the processing of PDFs the following tools are available:
  • Opening of single pages as a picture
  • Extraction of pages as pictures

DLNA (UPnP)

• "DLNA" allows it to browse the content of DLNA media servers and to present media like pictures and movies. With MacOS X 10.7 or newer even movies in MPEG2 format (like EyeTV movies) can be presented directly in nessViewer.

Internet browsing

• With the integrated internet browser web sites of various providers can be safely viewed and the respective media presented in fullscreen mode or collected in media shows for later presentation.

Media collection and arrangement

• With media shows it is possible to collect media from different sources (e.g. picture or movie files, iPhoto albums or internet links) and to arrange them. The collection can be used to clean up folders, to convert pictures and movies or present pictures/movies/PDF documents. The media show function offers the following tools:
  • Add pictures/movies/PDFs from folders, iPhoto albums or → internet links
  • Collection and arrangement of mixed media
  • Removing pictures/movies/PDFs from folders
  • Convert pictures (e.g. to reduce the size of the pictures) and movies (e.g. for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch)
  • Presentation

Media presentation

• nessViewer allows the presentation of media, media shows or - ad hoc in the media center assembled - playlists.
• During a presentation several functions are available
  • Zooming
  • Aspect ratio (4:3; 16:9; 21:9)
  • Language selection (if available)
  • Default audio language selection (including automatic selection of audio passthrough if available) for DVDs
• For movies which are stored in iTunes, the last play position will be resumed and saved on exit in iTunes (if iTunes is started).

• Manual presentation

  In nessViewer media can also be presented without remote control by mouse or keyboard.
  • Drag & drop function - media files or folders are dragged on the nessViewer icon in the dock and dropped
  • Opening by menu function - media files or folders are opened by the file menu
  • Media show presentation function - a media show presentation is started by the menu function

MediaCenter

• The media center offers the following content:
  • pictures, DVDs, movies, media shows, PDFs and films on (local) volumes
  • pictures or movies from Aperture, iPhoto and iTunes
    (incl. protected movies, TV shows)
  • RSS feeds (video podcasts) and their media from Miro
    (independent of the download state)
  • movie trailers in various languages
  • cinema movies from the → internet
    (e.g. BBC iPlayer, FreeMovieCine, MyVideo, YouTube)
  • videos from the → internet
    (e.g., Arte, DailyMotion, German television, LastFM, Spiegel online, YouTube)
  • → live streams
    (television, movies, music videos, news)
  • link collections with more than → 2500 cinema movies, music and → entertainment videos
• The media center offers the following features:
  • Ad hoc construction of playlists with pictures, movies, PDF documents
  • Presentation of this playlist or single media
  • iTunes control to switch playlists/tracks or start/stop playback
    (including informations of the current track)
  • Automatic dimming of the screen after five minutes
• Through "Movie Info" a cover/preview and description can be set for DVDs/movies and media shows.

Media Server

• The media server allows it to transfer media between Mac and iPad / iPhone / iPod touch.
  • Setup of shared folers
  • Setup of allowed users
  • Access restriction (anonymous access; TCP/IP filter; removing & renaming of folders and files)
  • Access via WiFi (local & extern) or cellular (e.g. 3G)
  • Automatic conversion of media (iOS compatibility)
  • Live streaming of QuickTime movies (among others AVI, DivX, MOV), EyeTV movies and DVDs
  • AirPlay (to stream media in both directions)