TwonkyBeam 1.2 Beta 1 is Now Available!

[TMM_Product_Manager]

What's New in TwonkyBeam 1.2 Beta 1?

NOTE: The download links to this Beta build have been removed because the final version of TwonkyBeam is now available here:
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=8389#p31054

New Features

- Playlist sharing – Access and play your music, photo and video playlists using UPnP and DLNA-certified devices, such as the Sony PS3. Note: This feature still needs additional testing. Some devices have problems with playlists containing URLs. Also, your device must be capable of playing the media you are streaming, or you will get an error message.

- Video playlist streaming – Beam video playlists to supported devices like DLNA-certified TVs and TwonkyManager.

- Auto filtering of unplayable videos – There is now a setting that automatically removes most unplayable YouTube videos from the Media List. This setting is enabled by default.

- Faster switching between videos – The Play button appears much faster after stopping a YouTube video. This allows you to move more quickly from one YouTube video to another.

- Improved right-click beaming – All YouTube videos that appear in the Media List can be beamed by right-clicking on their link and selecting ‘TwonkyBeam to.’

- Manual icon assignment – Although TwonkyBeam automatically assigns icons to all supported devices on your network, you can choose from nearly forty icons by simply right clicking on the device icon and selecting Set Properties.

- Next/Previous support – The skip keys now work for any TwonkyBeam playlist or queue. A queue is created when you play multiple media items in a media list.

- Installer improvements – The TwonkyBeam installer asks if you want to close Firefox when installing on a Mac.

- New media feed support – We recently added more than ten new links to our Sites page. The new sites include YouTube’s home page, Revision 3’s home page and their HD Nation and Tekzilla RSS feeds, as well as four new photo sites.

- New device support – TwonkyBeam now supports the following devices: Xbox 360 (running in Media Center Extender mode), WD TV Live and the Sonos S5 speaker.

- Improved icon assignments – We fixed several problems with device icon assignments, including the following:

1. All PCs running TwonkyManager are assigned a laptop icon. Of course, you can change this to a desktop PC icon if desired.

2. The Sonos S5 speaker is now properly identified and assigned the correct icon.

3. Added a gray outline around the icons for all Sonos ZonePlayers to appear when non-playable media is detected, so there is greater contrast against the white background.

New expiration date – To encourage all users to upgrade to the newest version, this version of TwonkyBeam will stop working on 1/31/11. After that date, go to the Settings page and click on ‘Check for Updates.’ You will be taken to a page where you can download the newest version of this software.

Download links

IE (Windows) http://www.twonky.com/upfiles/betas/bea ... _Setup.exe
Firefox (Windows) http://www.twonky.com/upfiles/betas/bea ... _Setup.exe
Firefox (Mac) http://www.twonky.com/upfiles/betas/bea ... _Setup.zip

Please send any bug reports or feature requests to tmm-beta@pv.com. Thanks.

- Rick

[jurrabi]

Hi there.

I updated to this latest beta and since I did townkybean just doesn't play any youtube video. It always says "the media item cannot be played on the selected player".

This same contents were always playable y both my dlna renderers (a Samsung TV and a XBMC media player over windows).

Might it be some core changes in the youtube desighn?

Thanks in advance.

[TMM_Product_Manager]

Hi Jurrabi,

You are correct. YouTube recently made changes that caused problems for all versions of TwonkyBeam. These issues have been fixed in the final release of TwonkyBeam 1.2. You can download this update from this forum or the Twonky.com website later this week.

Note: These fixes are not available in the Beta of TwonkyBeam 1.2 posted in this forum currently.

Please let us know if you cannot stream YouTube videos with the final release of TwonkyBeam 1.2. Thanks.

- Rick

[jurrabi]

I'll do so. Thanks for taking the time to answer.