
Nero Media Home was designed to manage, share and stream your media items easily and wirelessly. It allows you to organize your selected TV channels, radio stations, media libraries (music, photos and videos), share multimedia files through the home network to other computers using Universal Plug and Play technology, also converting and real-time transcoding media formats automatically for any device. The application parses media files for details like the song's artist, album, title, duration, bit rate, colour depth, resolution etc. Also you can setup play lists as directories, categorization of user's media. This application supports this audio and video formats: MP3, MP4 (Audio), WAVE, AAC, HE-AAC, OGG Vorbis, WMA, AC3, AIFF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DV-AVI, AVI, Xvid, ASF, WMV, MP4 (Video), JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF (MPEG-4 formats are not supported in the Nero Media Home 4 trial version).
The application is available in different languages. The trial version allows you to use only TV Streaming and Transcoding Features for a 15 days period.
Nero Media Home is compatible with Windows XP/2003/Vista.
v4.5 [Sep 29, 2009]
New Features :
- Added streaming support for MKV files
- Browse media server 4x faster with enhanced performance
- Network drive sharing (NAS)
- Improved support of Windows Media Player® 11 and 12 for browsing and streaming audio and video content
- Implemented easy setup with step-by-step guide and automatic configuration
- Implemented automatic online update for the device compatibility database
- Added support for MPEG-4 video playback (including DivX® and Xvid) and movie thumbnails on Microsoft® Xbox 360®
- Further improved browsing speed
- Further improved visual quality of thumbnail graphics
- Player controls now show device names and icons
Changes/Bugfixes :
- Improved TV wizard stability during channel search on Windows® XP SP2 operating systems
- Improved thumbnail creation for some specific files as well as better CPU load and memory handling
- MP3 audio playback times are calculated automatically if ID3 tag is missing
- MP3 Audio file thumbnail graphics display correctly
- Meta data and thumbnail graphics for renamed files display correctly
- Media library shared folders display correctly with names containing blank or Unicode characters
- Enhanced background service performance
- Thumbnails cover art was not correctly updated if the media file changed
- The content in the "\All Audio\" folder was not immediately updated when new folders were added to the "Shares" list
- Previous user settings were not kept after an update was installed