Friday, November 20, 2009

AZBox HD Firmware - rev. 0.9.3877

AZBox HD Firmware - rev. 0.9.3877
(2009.11.20)


RELEASE NOTES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

# FIXED
========

- Redraw routine for subtitle when the drawing fails.

- Corrected an issue when some movies are restarting play in Movie player.

- Corrected the continues play bug in Music Player.

- Corrected the large artwork bug in Music Player.

- Corrected an audio play bug when using Photo Slide Show

- Corrected the duration time issue in Movie Player.

- Corrected a bug regarding the single EPG.

- Corrected some bugs regarding photo viewer (zoom in/out, rotation, move, etc.)

- Corrected a problem related to the bookmark function and high bitrate movies.

- Corrected a problem with the play time in YouTube.

- Corrected a VFD problem regarding accent characters

- Corrected a problem when some GUI elements were overlapping (TV module).


# ADDED
========

- Added the ability to delete a group of channels in the channel manager.

- Added some setup functions in the movie player.

- Added language selection in teletext.

- Added the 'all' option in the backup/restore feature

- Added a jump key in File Manager.

- Added a possibility to show the play or remaining time in the VFD.

- Added more GMT offsets

- Added 480i video resolution for component and HDMI video output.


# IMPROVED
===========

- Increased the channel zapping speed

- Better detection of the duration time of MP3 files (when file includes artwork).

- Increased the video quality by correcting the mosaic problem at movie player.

- Changed the PAT parser on media player to ensure the stability when parsing multiple PIDs.

- Modified the channel manager to close when a channel was selected.

- Insert some additional info at the recording buffer header.

- Modified the TS parser to extract the exact time from PTS (Movie Player).

- Modified the plug-in message queue for better synchronization and speed.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Firm 0.9.3661

RELEASE NOTES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

# FIXED
========

- Correct a bug regarding the message for screen capture.

- Correct a bug, do not proceed the progress bar at FTP up/download.

- Correct a bug when it occured the FTP login was failed.

- Correct some bugs of the file manager: Icon images / Multi language
messages

- Correct a bug regarding DVB-T&C TS discriptor.

- Correct the gritch noise bug on the HDMI audio.

- Correct a bug regarding the setup display options.

- Correct the bug regarding LEDs on the front panel (AZBox Premium)

- Correct the alphabetical sorting bug of the favorite channel list

- Correct the bug to remember the last channel.

- Correct the scan SAT bug

- Correct the TV buffering problem.

- Correct the MKV player bug whick is not displayed videos

- Correct the time display problem at MKV player

- Correct a memory leak at the new audio driver

- Correct the audio bug which is occuring when the radio was played long
time

- Correct the video bug which regarding display mode like as pan & scan
display

- Correct a fast forward problem to go forward faster.

- Upgrade the YouTube player


# ADDED
========

- Add new driver for better A/V performance (under testing)

- Add a function to insert many function keys on the USB keyboard.

- Support multi-audio of TS files.

- Add subtitle ID and audio ID at the individual channel.

- Add a decoder recovery routine for correct the radio distortion bug.

- Add a function to be able to select the Dolby output mode (Line mode / RF
mode)

- Add scripts when called at standby and wakeup
/DISK2/etc/standby.sh
/DISK2/etc/wakeup.sh

- Add new driver for Samsung ATSC tuner.

- Modify the azbox SDK and test application

- Add a radio wallpaper register module

- Add the page up/down function at file manager.

- Add a information bar for ATSC


# IMPROVED
===========

- Modify the main menu position.

- Modify the DEMUX structure to be able to parse several PMTs in the same
time.

- Increase IPTV ability to get several types of streams.

- Modified for EPG
+ EIT pool
+ EIT filters
+ Memory Pool
+ Memory menager etc.

- Modify the EIT parser to add a function regarding ATSC

- Modify the scanning PMT method for using multiple PMT filters.

- Optimization of the DEMUX_INFO structure for using the multiple PMT parser
at movie player.

- Apply the multiple PMT parser at the movie player.

- Optimization the memory of the audio player.

- Support VBR at the MP3 player

- Modify web browser and RSS news cause by change the driver.

- Modify to set subtitle at center

- Modify to display full screen at photo viewer.

- Change some video decoder options to solve the mkv file player problems

- Change some audio decoder options to solve the glitch noise problems

- Change the recording file size to 4GB from 3GB (will be changed next
release to detect the max file size from system)

- Modify the network setting timeout for wifi to 1 minute from 30 seconds.

Thursday, October 01, 2009

AZBox HD Firmware - rev. 0.9.3501

This has been released to public due to recent events...

Hier jetzt der ganze Changelog,dazu:

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|__|__|_____|_____|___|_,_|
www.opensat.eu | www.azbox.com


OpenSAT is proud to present

AZBox HD Firmware - rev. 0.9.3501
(2009.10.01)


RELEASE NOTES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

# FIXED
========
- USB memroy stick without partition is not supported

- Movie Player: Bookmark option doesn't work very well

- If you want to use bookmark function do not work if you are beyond 1 hour mark.

- Still no recognize of audio language in mkv files

- When you try to see the teletext on "Canal+ Film HD" of HotBird 11278Mhz, TTX menu hangs up.

- TELETEXT is without polish character 


# ADDED
========

- USB keyboard is supported (Currently, not available in browser)

- US Diseqc is supported

- US Channel Mapping is supported

- EPG plugins for US

- EGP plugins for SkyUK, SkyItalia, Freesat

- 70.0W & 180W satellite TPs

- Audio API for plugins

- Change the initial page of web browser to www.azbox.com

- IPTV HTTP stream support


# IMPROVED
===========

- MKV Movies with high bitrates cannot be correctly reproduced

- Optimized FORMAT procedure
Now when we format 1TB disk, it takes under 20 minutes

- The speed of copying(HDD, USB) is 30% faster than old version

- Modify WiFi for encryption

- Increase GUI speed



Best Regards,

The OpenSAT/AZBox Team

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

AZBox HD Firmware - rev. 0.9.3177

AZBox HD Firmware - rev. 0.9.3177
(2009.08.19)
this is only test version 

RELEASE NOTES

# FIXED

- CI can not support HD channel
- CI can not send the reply of ENQ
- Subtitles are transparent when menu is set to transparent
- Unicable is not working

- If playing recorded contents on movie player, recorded contents have no sound
- Can not add new SAT/TP on SAT/TP Editor
- Can not play with After recording
- If the channel has the subtitle language, which was selected on setting, subtitle
should be showed, automatically 

# ADDED

- DVB-T/C NIT Search
- DTS decoding
- The menu of "Fixe Interlace on/off" on channel manager
For supporting the encoder, which may not respect the spec on this matter.
"When progressive_frame = 1 the picture is progressive, the two fields represent the 
exact same time, and you should not see any comb effect when displaying the frame.
Moreover, when progressive_frame = 0, top_field_first is used to indicate which field 
has to be displayed first."
- Satellite Nile Sat 101/102/Altantic Bird4 (7.0W) is missing in the satellite list
- Telefonica transponder on Amazonas(61.0W) is missing
- Always start in TV mode
- "Automatic Reboot Option" to Timer menu 

# IMPROVED

- If you choose a movie from hard disk and in the same folder where the movie is stored
there is an .srt or something else the box loads subtile automatically ordered
by .smi/.srt/.txt.

Best Regards,
The OpenSAT/AZBox Team

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Firm 0.9.2880

Changelog / Release Notes

Fixed - SmartCard driver is updated because internal smartcard is sometimes reset or crashed
Fixed - Using at least the 3 last firmware releases (0.9.2163, 0.9.2371 and 0.9.2372), the WIFI has some problems related with WEP(64/128) encriptation 1. Prevented the box from booting 2. Not possible to use the wireless connection
Fixed - DVB-C - Search of frequenz < 177 Mhz is not possible ("Out of range")
Fixed - DVB-C - Search-Mode Automatic ist not working
Fixed - When selecting GUIDE on TVP sports, Box hangs up.
Fixed - Moving of more than one channels shows error message
Added - Germany DVB-C Frequency
Added - Turkish OSD language
Added - AC3 audio file is supported.