MediaLink Changelog

What's new in MediaLink 2.67

Aug 14, 2013
  • More sandboxing fixes.

New in MediaLink 2.66 (Jul 24, 2013)

  • Fixed preferences/access to folders on prefpane version
  • Fixed code signing on prefpane version
  • Fixed issue with upgrading of Helper while process is active
  • Fixed iPhoto source All Photos not showing
  • Fixed sorting of iPhoto Albums/Events
  • Fixed restart system preferences dialog on OS X 10.7

New in MediaLink 2.62 (Jul 22, 2013)

  • Fixed issue with upgrading of Helper while process is active
  • Fixed iPhoto source All Photos not showing
  • Fixed sorting of iPhoto Albums/Events
  • Fixed restart system preferences dialog on OS X 10.7

New in MediaLink 2.61 (Jul 17, 2013)

  • Fixed issue with preferences not working due to sandboxing changes in last update.

New in MediaLink 2.60 (May 29, 2013)

  • Fixed start-on-login
  • Fixed crash when browsing Aperture/iPhoto albums in prefs
  • Improved stability
  • Sandboxed for improved security

New in MediaLink 2.50 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Updated for OS X 10.8
  • Improved stability

New in MediaLink 2.42 (Nov 30, 2011)

  • Improved UTF8 subtitle support
  • Added Polish audio track selection
  • Added Polish subtitle support
  • Switched to a sans-serif subtitle font
  • Fixed MKV audio being out of sync

New in MediaLink 2.41 (Nov 25, 2011)

  • Added Polish subtitle support
  • Switched to a sans-serif subtitle font
  • Fixed MKV audio being out of sync

New in MediaLink 2.40 (Aug 9, 2011)

  • Added Unwatched and Genre browsing for iTunes Movies
  • iTunes Music albums now include artist name in brackets, to facilitate duplicate album names
  • iTunes TV Shows are now sorted by season and episode
  • Improvements to subtitle code/fonts
  • Updated transcoder components
  • Added support for more subtitle languages
  • Added audio track selection
  • Added ability to select which events to share in the iPhoto source
  • Added improved hierarchical lists to source settings for iPhoto/Aperture
  • Fixes PNGs failing to display
  • Added workaround for leak in CFHTTPMessage
  • Added SSDP byebye support
  • GUI improvements

New in MediaLink 2.33 (Aug 5, 2011)

  • Improved device detection code
  • Fixed a number of bugs affecting native video playback
  • Fixed a number of memory leaks

New in MediaLink 2.3 (Jul 17, 2011)

  • Fixes a potential system crash
  • Now works with Mac OS X Lion
  • Many internal optimizations and fixes

New in MediaLink 2.14 (Feb 8, 2011)

  • Corrects Mac OS X 10.5.8 incompatibility
  • Adds Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese subtitle support
  • MediaLink now reads track numbers from ID3 tags for the Folders Source
  • Added a new compatiblity mode option in Settings that disables QuickTime duration scans and ID3 tag reading
  • Fixes QuickTime hangs on MPEG files causing DLNA 2006
  • Fixes potential crash during listing of files

New in MediaLink 2.13 (Feb 7, 2011)

  • Adds Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese subtitle support
  • MediaLink now reads track numbers from ID3 tags for the Folders Source
  • Added a new compatiblity mode option in Settings that disables QuickTime duration scans and ID3 tag reading
  • Fixes QuickTime hangs on MPEG files causing DLNA 2006
  • Fixes potential crash during listing of files

New in MediaLink 2.12 (Dec 12, 2010)

  • Fixes potential transcoding crash on Mac OS X 10.5.x
  • WMV/ASF files are now streamed without transcoding
  • Dutch subtitle support added

New in MediaLink 2.11 (Dec 7, 2010)

  • Fixes an intermittent crash issue
  • WMV/ASF files are now streamed without transcoding
  • Dutch subtitle support added

New in MediaLink 2.10 (Nov 7, 2010)

  • Improved subtitle support
  • Minor UI improvements

New in MediaLink 2.05 (Sep 29, 2010)

  • Fixes an issue with the Start/Stop button in Preferences not working correctly
  • Fixes an issue when using both MediaLink and Connect360 on Snow Leopard
  • Adds subtitle support to mencoder transcoder
  • Fixes upgrades on Mac OS X 10.5 systems
  • Fixes DLNA errors due to application hang
  • Fixes hanging on some systems when streaming video files without transcoding
  • Video transcoding bug fixes
  • Fixes album art not working on initial install

New in MediaLink 2.04 (Sep 26, 2010)

  • Fixes an issue when using both MediaLink and Connect360 on Snow Leopard
  • Adds subtitle support to mencoder transcoder
  • Fixes upgrades on Mac OS X 10.5 systems
  • Fixes DLNA errors due to application hang
  • Fixes hanging on some systems when streaming video files without transcoding
  • Video transcoding bug fixes
  • Fixes album art not working on initial install

New in MediaLink 2.03 (Sep 21, 2010)

  • Adds subtitle support to mencoder transcoder
  • Fixes upgrades on Mac OS X 10.5 systems
  • Fixes DLNA errors due to application hang
  • Fixes hanging on some systems when streaming video files without transcoding
  • Video transcoding bug fixes
  • Fixes album art not working on initial install

New in MediaLink 2.02 (Sep 14, 2010)

  • Fixes upgrades on Mac OS X 10.5 systems
  • Fixes DLNA errors due to application hang
  • Fixes hanging on some systems when streaming video files without transcoding
  • Video transcoding bug fixes
  • Fixes album art not working on initial install

New in MediaLink 2.01 (Sep 9, 2010)

  • Fixes DLNA errors due to application hang
  • Fixes hanging on some systems when streaming video files without transcoding
  • Video transcoding bug fixes
  • Fixes album art not working on initial install
  • Fixes crash when transcoding images to JPEG
  • Improved SSDP discovery
  • Adds rescaling preferences for images/photos
  • Adds transcoding and rescaling of videos
  • Adds FLV, MOV, ASF, WMV, MKV support via transcoding
  • Adds workaround for PS3 MPEG4 bug via transcoding option
  • Fixes a possible crash in Folders when browsing audiofiles

New in MediaLink 2.0 Beta 8 (Apr 1, 2010)

  • Stability improvements
  • Improved SSDP discovery code

New in MediaLink 2.0 Beta 7 (Feb 8, 2010)

  • Crash fixes, further improved networking

New in MediaLink 2.0 Beta 6 (Jan 25, 2010)

  • Networking/streaming reliability improvements.
  • Fixes crash when scaling/transcoding images.

New in MediaLink 2.0 Beta 5 (Dec 28, 2009)

  • IMPORTANT: Fixed memory leak when transcoding.

New in MediaLink 2.0 Beta 4 (Dec 22, 2009)

  • Greatly improved video transcoding.
  • IMPORTANT: Fixes crash when generating a preview.
  • ID3 tags in the Folders source are back.
  • Experimental transcoding of various video formats to a PS3 compatible format.
  • Fixes for a number of memory leaks and removed garbage collection support for now.
  • Various crash fixes.

New in MediaLink 2.0 Beta 2 (Dec 14, 2009)

  • IMPORTANT: Fixes crash when generating a preview.
  • ID3 tags in the Folders source are back.
  • Experimental transcoding of various video formats to a PS3 compatible format.
  • Fixes for a number of memory leaks and removed garbage collection support for now.
  • Various crash fixes.
  • This is a beta release.

New in MediaLink 2.0 Beta 1 (Dec 7, 2009)

  • ID3 tags in the Folders source are back.
  • Experimental transcoding of various video formats to a PS3 compatible format.
  • Fixes for a number of memory leaks and removed garbage collection support for now.
  • Various crash fixes.
  • This is a beta release.

New in MediaLink 2.0 Alpha 1 (Sep 5, 2009)

  • Adds support for Mac OS X 10.6.
  • Now 64-bit native.
  • Support for transcoding of various image formats.
  • Adds rescaling preferences for images/photos.
  • ID3 tags in the Folders source are temporarily disabled.
  • Alpha release, excludes some great new functionality still coming in 2.0 final.

New in MediaLink 1.7 (Jan 16, 2009)

  • Fixes major video streaming bug when using a high speed connection (Caused random errors during streaming)
  • Adds automatic garbage collection on Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

New in MediaLink 1.6 (Jan 12, 2009)

  • Adds "Composers" menu to iTunes source.
  • Adds an option to disable album art/previews (for slower Macs).
  • Fixes 3 known crash bugs.

New in MediaLink 1.59 (Aug 14, 2008)

  • Fixes activation bug.
  • Fixes incompatibility with Connect360, update Connect360 too.
  • Minor stability improvements.

New in MediaLink 1.58 (Aug 12, 2008)

  • Fixes incompatibility with Connect360, update Connect360 too.
  • Minor stability improvements.

New in MediaLink 1.57 (Jul 27, 2008)

  • Fixes incompatibility with PPC Macs.

New in MediaLink 1.54 (Jun 2, 2008)

  • Fixes stopping of MediaLink.

New in MediaLink 1.53 (May 14, 2008)

  • Fixes PS3 networking error code 80710536 bug
  • Fixes potential crash when Aperture is not available

New in MediaLink 1.5 (May 5, 2008)

  • full Aperture library support
  • folders support within the iTunes source
  • a slew of other improvements

New in MediaLink 1.34 (Apr 16, 2008)

  • Fixes an issue with playing back files larger than 4GB.

New in MediaLink 1.33 (Apr 14, 2008)

  • Fixes more QuickLook preview related issues.

New in MediaLink 1.32 (Apr 12, 2008)

  • Fixes preview threading bug

New in MediaLink 1.31 (Mar 24, 2008)

  • Fixed a bug related to previews that would often cause streaming to freeze/fail
  • Improved preview code