VLC 2.0.1 brings HLS to Aerodrom

As we recommend our customers to use the VLC player as player engine, we would like to inform you, that the VideoLAN organization has released their latest version 2.0.1. This new version fixes more than 120 bugs and brings the first time support for Apples HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol to Aerodrom. With the support of HLS, Aerodrom is now able to AirPlay videos from many more apps than before to your Windows PC.

VLC player can be downloaded from their VLC Twoflower page.

Transition to a new Webspace provider finished!

We had some difficulties with our Webspace provider recently, which suspended their service without any warning last week. We now moved to a new provider and this transition is now done.
Automatic update of Aerodrom is working again for those custumers which are still running a pre 1.1.4.0 version.
The checkout system is also working again. It is safe to buy again.

Thank you for your patience!

Aerodrom updated to version 1.1.4.0

Aerodrom is a AirPlay server application for Microsoft Windows has been updated to version 1.1.4.0. Customers will get the latest version with the automatic update feature which is triggered on startup.

What's new: Changed Bonjour announcements. Added display album info popup notifier (does not work for iOS 5 devices - Apple TV has similar problems). Added visualize album info fullscreen (does not work for iOS 5 devices - Apple TV has similar problems). Added selection of album info visualisation. Fixed WindowsXP icon problem. Fixed popup dropshadow. Fixed Less Timesync traffic. Added iOS5 AirPlay photo caching. Changed communications to AerodromMCE (Pipes to TCP) - should now work with extenders. Fixed mousecursor problem on configuration dialog. Improved UDP receiption to lower frame drops. Added support for iOS 5 AAC audio encoding. (iOS 5 devices only). Added configuration settings for albuminfo and AAC audio. Fixed video start position when using Windows Media Center. Updated openSSL to 1.0.0g. Fixed slideshow photo fetching. Updated AreodromMCE to version 1.1.4.0.

Some of the main improvements are that AerodromMCE is now automatic detecting Aerodrom. AerodromMCE does not need to be started - it is now started automatically and it stops playing other content.
We also added album info display, which apparently worked fine as we started with this feature on iOS 4.x, but stopped working with iOS 5.0.1 (this info is not transferred anymore). Apple TV users experience also problems with this feature, but it does work partially there. Anyhow album info display still works for playing from iTunes. Hopefully this will be fixed with iOS 5.1.
Video playback is still in our main focus. The release of VLC 2.0 helped only a little, because HTTP live streaming (HLS) is still not possible. Currently we put big effort in improving support for that and other currently unsupported formats.
We put many hours of development in the support of AirPlay mirroring, but we found that without further knowledge of Fairplay DRM we will unable to support this feature.
We will continue to improve the quality of Aerodrom and a big thanks to all customers who helped further development with their purchase, input and especially bug reports or beta testing.
 

Aerodrom Demo version updated to version 1.1.4.0

Aerodrom Demo version updated to version 1.1.4.0.
The limitations of the demo version remain still the same as in version 1.1.0.0:
You can only use AirPlay for videos, photos and slideshows.
The full version can also use AirPlay to stream audio.

What's new: Fixed WindowsXP icon problem. Fixed popup dropshadow. Fixed slideshow photo fetching. Changed Bonjour announcements.

Download it from here.

VLC player 2.0 released

As we recommend our customers to use the VLC player as player engine, we would like to inform you that the VideoLAN organization has released their latest version 2.0. Aerodrom works with this version and it is no longer needed to install a beta version.

VLC player 2.0 can be downloaded from the VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' page.