Sunday, February 21, 2010

New KGD 0.4348


We rushed a bit but finally launch, we have here the new image based on the official 4348, we would have liked to try but we failed due to time so if there is any failure to forgive.
Looking at the requests of the users have tried to get a new firmware to comply with them that are primarily the EPG and multimedia mainly reproductions mkv.
New:
This image brings the main novelty Epg 5 days for Astra and Hispasat Spanish provider

The second new is the sigma TakeControl KGD to 8634 after many tests we have seen that the main problem in multimedia playback azbox is the mismanagement of the resources it contains, because similar equipment, popcorn, wdhd, etc ... having a perfect reproduction in the same chipset sigma 86xx, the difference is that our azbox have built and linked to other aspects that significantly reduce the resources, we managed to optimize takecontrol much better.
Tests with the TC have achieved a perfect reproduction in from internal or external HDD, mainly with high bibrate mkv getting almost the same results as a NMT533 of popcorn.
From PanelKGD you have the following options:
1) General yield figure is activated soon after starting the TKC.
2) Yield TV is activated soon after starting the TKC.
3) Media Optimization is activated when the media starts
4) Optimization rss activates when you start the rss
5) Optimization youtube activates when you start the youtube.
Options 3, 4 and 5 can be used to maximum and is recommended. But in the 1 and 2 is convenient to put a very low minimum value, if the opening of channel emulation is correct and these options should not be touched . You will be able to make several tests but a very high value in options 1 and 2 can cause the system to slow down or problems.
IMPORTANT you can make several changes to the TakeControl and the effects are immediate but if you turn off or restart the computer this configuration is forfeited, so that it will have to keep going to the Settings menu and activate the TCK will be maintained as well when you reboot your configuration.
The takecontrol always know when is activated or deactivated because it showed the display.
Other developments PanelKGD:
The version 1.1 brings separate PanelKGD of takecontrolkgd another popular option for people because of problems with USB devices and HDD and their ext2, ex**, fat, etc. .. You can now format for any device in the format of choice in HDD Extras panel, there is also the possibility of converting a HDD USB or pass this on ext2 to ex** without losing data (not guarantee) the tests were satisfactory but may someone does not go well. And last on this same menu you will have the option of formatting the DOM instead of the next Upgrade to recommend changes before putting the image to this format EYE lost all data and should only be done for a makeover However before doing this format will make a backup of PanelKGD, ddirec, telnet, etc. .. and very important part of your folder so only Openxcas would have to put your data network and download the channel list.
In the channel list we made some changes now can download the channel list of the FTP server and no need to restart, the only thing to do is just have stuck antenna configure your data.
Also we have changed the panel and its webinterface DDirec now in version 2 we have corrected the problems starting from the first version, in webinterface have to

Code:Prioridad="0"

Where there are 4 options available, "0" is off, "alta" is "high", "media" is "medium" and "baja" is "low" you will have to write it as such in lowercase, in future versions we will put it on the panel to configure it from there.

General changes:
Other changes are when you install an internal HDD without the default image format on startup will do it in ext2 and ex** not to now.
There have been more changes in the skin and tucked the new translations for spanish of Ajo.
We have improved some aspects of the boot.
And last and most important thank all who have collaborated and developed the image, mainly Morser which has been the developer of the EPG, the admin of azboxhd.es, Milix, Linarense, Fundidum, Yersi, Mpiero, Macmanolo and I will not forget anyone mas. We also want to thank the web provides the EPG (http://www.rytec.be/)

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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