[A-200] Firmware 02-02-100128-19-POP-411 (02-01-100119-19-POP-411 Apps) (29.01.2010)

[popcornhour]

Dear customers,

Please be informed that Popcorn Hour A-200 firmware release:
02-02-100128-19-POP-411-000
and NMT apps:
02-01-100119-19-POP-411
is available for update.

THIS RELEASES IS FIRST RELEASED ON THE FORUM, BECAUSE SOME ALREADY RECEIVED THERE A-200, WE WILL RELEASE NEXT WEEK ON POPCORNHOUR.COM AND ALSO MAKE IT READY FOR ONLINE UPDATE.

for offline update and release notes, download from:

> > > DOWNLOAD < < <
MD5 CHECKSUM: 7f3894e1e8873ea7937e8ff295f611a9

please download this package and follow then the instructions inside the zip file!!!!

RELEASENOTES FIRMWARE

Code:

Release date : 29 January 2010
Firmware version : 02-02-100128-19-POP-411-000

1. New NMT apps 02-01-100119-19-POP-411
2. BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA
   - Retrieve DVD region and number of changes available from the hardware;
     show these info in the region setting pop-up box
   - Bookmark/resume support for DVD ISO/VIDEO_TS
     - Max. 10 bookmarks.
     - known issue, sometimes failed to resume correctly for certain clips
   - Implemented simple persistfs folder
     - if NMT HDD not exist, any available writable device (HDD/USB)
       will be auto-detected and used.
     - previous /persistfs mounting wizard removed
   - Temporarly mount VideoCD/SVCD as data disc, to play the .dat
   - Fixed DVD fast-forward issue; press FF->PAUSE->PLAY key, playback could not resume
   - Fixed some DVD ISO files cannot resume from bookmark.
   - Fixed system hang when BD-J ISO playback BDJ ISO without /persistfs (Bug #5000285)
   - Fixed playback BDJ disc from internal BDROM without /persistfs connected.
   - Fixed certain DVD ISO (Apocalypto.ISO) cannot resume from bookmark (Bug #5000289).
   - Fixed subtitle cannot be enabled when play DVD with only single subtitle.
   - Fixed audio CD info not showed
   - Fixed occasional access/mount failure to disc in USB drive (Bug #5000315, #5000316)
   - Workaround for CDDA issues (Bug #5000302, #5000303)
   - Workaround for BD-ROM via USB support
   - Performance improvement for BD ISO playback
   - Added patches for audio bitstream issues
   - Enabled MENU key for DVD/ISO/VIDEO_TS playback
   - Added REPEAT A-B function for DVD/VIDEO_TS and CDDA
     - Known to have slow response
     - A-B interval of less than 2sec may have issue
   - Workaround for BD audio no output after switch from HD audio to Dolby Digital/DTS
   - Fixed after HDMI audio muted, DVD playback will have noise on audio output
   - SimpleBD navigation feature for A-200
     - Added support for ISO files.
     - Fixed video skip forward about an hour when switch audio track. (Tested BEVERLY_HILLS_CHIHUAHUA)
     - Fixed subtitle menu incorrect listing
     - Fixed audio/subtitle persistency issue
     - Fixed incorrect icon displayed when doing scene selection using menu
   - Enabled MENU key for DVD/ISO/VIDEO_TS playback
   - Added ANGLE switching OSD display for DVD/ISO/VIDEO_TS/BRD playback.
   - Added option in SETUP page to enable or disable BD PiP
   - Fixed AVCHD disc intermittent "could not play" issue.
   - Fixed AVCHD shown as "BLU-RAY Video" at OSD infobar
3. Video and Audio playback
   - Added Dolby DRC (Dynamic Range Control) setting
   - Fixed RW/FF/Slow icon not cleared after seek
   - Fileplayer bookmark/resume support (first-cut)  
     - Max. 10 bookmarks
     - bookmark saved on STOP keypress; subsequent press (ENTER or PLAY) will resume from bookmark.
     - To start from beginning, press '0'.
   - Fixed incorrect aspect ratio (Bug #5000155)
   - Fixed "actual size" aspect ratio issue when playback clips below 1080p. (Bug #5000154)
   - Fixed BiDi char type table to resolved incorrect Hebrew subtitle rendering.
   - Partially fixed Arabic Tashkeel character shaping issue
   - Fixed subtitle size/position affected by pan/zoom.
   - Modified time seek hh:mm:ss key handling.
   - Fixed certain clips WMAPro audio lose output after 1-2 sec playback.
   - Forced 24p source to framerate 60Hz for non-1080p TV mode
   - Fixed issue where audio playback do not stop gracefully when encounter file read error
   - added FLAC audio support, including multi-channel FLAC
   - Fixed and restored video/audio bitrate display
   - Added Vorbis/FLAC audio bitrate display
   - Fixed MKV playback file cannot get audio bitstream/passthrough after resume from bookmark.
   - Modified subtitle menu order and reversed time offset key direction; same as A100
   - Changed tab-switching (SOURCE key) focus behaviour
   - Show only ID3 album art if exist, when music playback
   - Fixed incorrect ID3 genre display for certain files
   - Disable bookmark for Internet/Broadcast/MSP/SayaTV video playback
   - Temporarily disabled video format with psfdemux/demux for video/audio bitrate shown on infobar.
   - Increased subtitle font size range.
   - maintain adjusted subtitle time offset throughout playlist.
   - Increased vertical position range for external text subtitle.
   - Stop background slideshow before starting VOD to release free memory (Bug #5000299)
   - Fixed detection conflict between FLAC, WAV and AVS video (Bug #5000287)
   - Enable support for FLAC and VORBIS with 3, 4 & 5 channels
   - Support Thai(codepage 874) external ext-based subtitle
   - Checking of Byte Order Mark for external SRT in UTF8 (Bug #5000322)
   - Fixed positioning of long/large-size text-based subtitle
   - Fixed external text-based subtitle via HTTP e.g. myiHome not loaded (Bug #5000250)
   - Fixed resume/bookmark issue; only seekable files can be bookmarked now  
   - Fix to only allow files with duration and seekable status to do time seek (LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO) (Bug #5000139)  
   - Fixed file certain WMV clip unable to end after LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO seek
   - Fixed STEP on clip that is not steppable will terminate playback
   - Fixed after trigger SEEK LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO on the infobar will show PAUSE/STOP icon then only show PLAY icon.
   - Fixed hang-up when press PLAY on m3u file (Bug #5000320)
   - Fixed issue regarding video zoom/scaling (Bug #5000327)
   - Improvements for h264 video frame sequence calculation to handle typical h264 encoding fault
     caused by non-standard ripping
   - MKV chapter support, use PREV/NEXT key
   - Added FLAC metadata display for music playback
   - Added shuffle feature for music playlist; press REPEAT to toggle
   - Added gapless playback feature for audio playback (first phase)
     - only for MP3 and WAV now, and for subsequent files of same format
     - cannot seek when prebuffer starts near end of file
   - Fixed certain TS video clips cannot do LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO/TIME SEEK seek/resume from bookmark.
   - Fixed if huge MKV chapter size causing system error.
   - Fixed certain Internet radio cannot play.
   - Fixed UPnP-AV (WMP11) playlist item crashes.
   - embedded PGS subtitle support for M2TS files (first phase)
   - Fixed PGS/M2TS subtitle rendering resolution flaw
   - Enabled camcoder AVCHD type detection.
   - Added gapless audio support for FLAC format.
   - Support for changing subtitle encoding on-the-fly
     - in subtitle menu; only for ASCII codepages (Latin1, Greek,
       Cyrillic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai), GB2312, BIG5, Shift_JIS and UTF-8)
   - Fixed missing space with italic subtitle
   - Fixed PGS subtitle potential hang.
   - Workaround to enable 24Hz at auto framerate sync
   - Fixed gapless playback feature for small mp3 file less than 1MB
   - Added album art retrieval from FLAC metadata
   - Added Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation setting for video
     (press Setup during video playback)
   - Fixed issue where single file playback could not toggle repeat mode.
   - Fixed M2TS PGS subtitle issue
   - Workaround WMAPro bitstream output issue
   - Added all playable formats allow for audio playlist
   - Fixed incomplete FLAC metadata retrieval
   - Fixed playlist sometimes does not start from correct file
   - Fixed m4a song info and album art display
   - Patch Colorspace algorithm (for file playback only)
   - Fixed playback failure via certain HTTP server (SwissCenter)
   - Disable subpicture for .VOB file play
   - Fixed WAV detection that crash with MPEG1/2
   - Fixed subtitle switching issue with MPEG; previously broken external subtitle on/off function
   - Fixed specific ASF cannot fast forward
   - Fixed subtitle CP1258 detection
   - Added album art retrieval from FLAC metadata
   - Added BCS (Brightness/Contrast/Saturation) on-the-fly setting during playback (press Setup)
   - workaround for MKV audio lip-sync issue
   - Fixed scaling/zoom/pan OSD menu unintended pop-up when playback near end of file
   - Fixed STOP key cannot save the bookmark file to flash setting when scaling/zoom/pan menu is ON.
   - Fixed playlist sometimes does not start from correct file
   - Improved SRT subtitle parsing
   - Display language code of MKV embedded subtitles
   - Fixed m4a song info and album art display
   - Exception handling for ID3 genre index out-of-range (7034.mp3)
4. Photo app
   - Fixed an issue when setting repeat on the last photo in playlist
     will show current playlist item as 0 on FIP (Bug #5000116)
   - Fixed PNG image decoding causing system hang
   - Fixed issues where myiHome (Mac) not focusing on photo when playback
     photo with BGM and stopping photo does not stop BGM
   - Enable screensaver during photo playlist pause state
   - Slideshow, new photo info (ISO speed, F number and Exposure time)
5. OSD
   - fixed minor OSD text wrapping issue.
   - slight modification for info display during video/photo playback.
6. System/Network
   - Fixed cannot eject data disc (Bug #5000064)
   - Workaround for missing folder issue due to filesystem failed to identify
     directory type for unknown reason with scandir (Bug #5000218)
   - Fixed incorrect display resolution when boot up in auto TV mode without
     connecting HDMI.
   - Tweak to improve network performance.
   - Fix for HDMI blackout and HDMI audio mute issue
   - Added progress indicator during firmware update download
   - Fixed flash driver to avoid occasional hang issue when umount particular partition
   - Fixed default value; DTS:PCM, DRC:off for factory setting
   - Changed "AC3" wording to "Dolby Digital", shifted DRC setting down to Audio section
   - Fixed language tanslations
   - Added Country/Region code to WiFi config setup.
     - Country/Region contains channel settings for 8 regions; only for Ralink MII card.
   - Fixed stuck in playback if no network up
   - Fixed reboot failure (Bug #5000243)
   - Fixed screensaver still kicks in at background when in standby mode
   - Show harddisk and usb disk size when info button pressed
   - Show file size on the UI listing
   - Reverted patch which fixed screensaver kicking in at background when standby; causing (Bug #5000314)
   - Resolved screensaver setting issue after restoring factory setting
   - Fixed video scaling info not updated during PAUSE (Bug #5000306)
   - Disallow file copy of over 4GB to FAT device (filesystem limitation)
   - included kernelmode NTFS read/write driver
   - Fixed configure proxy result in error page
   - Fixed DVD parental setting cannot be saved
   - minor update on Chinese/Japanese language pack
   - Fixed HDD name not displayed
   - Fixed occasional detection failure of NTFS harddisk
   - New network share UI
   - Turn on syabas_command_server
   - Improve time for NFS (UDP/TCP) client login to non-exist/blocked shares
   - Improve time for server discovery utility
   - More intelligent handling of protocol type instead of .udp. default
   - Torrent client HTTP wget fix
   - Network share, number of allowed persistent links has been increased to 20.
   - Fixed USB unmount issue
   - Fixed issue of incorrect redirection when changing password in NMT Apps page
   - Fixed CD status update while opening/closing
   - Fixed issue where some servers were missing from the discovery
   - Minor update to language pack
   - Added USB keyboard hotplug handling
   - Fixed incorrect harddisk status/icon display after USB slave operations
7. Browser
   - New twirling icon
   - New licensed font integrated
   - Support dynamic loading of external js file
   - New UI theme
   - To display memory usage; press SLOW key
   - Fixed Pause key wrongly mapped as Play/Pause key
   - Fixed 'No Disc Found' message not shown and browser hang when accessing empty loader (Bug #5000292)
   - press PLAY on non-playable item will instead play from first playable
     item in the folder
   - Browser user-agent missing closing bracket.
   - Added "remove USB device" feature in file mode menu
   - For browser to display USB mount point instead of USB name
   - browser will stay busy until all images from previous page is loaded
   - Fixed file operation delete/copy/newfolder/move/rename/createplaylist does not update the list in UI
   - Fixed Internet radio showing image info on front panel LCD
   - Fixed SD mode media source listing issue, broken in previous RC release
   - Fixed HTTP mime type overwritten issue
8. WiFi
   - Integrated WIFI driver for Realtek USB RTL8192
   - Turn on Ethernet LNK LED when link to 100baseT as well.
   - Fixed connection failure if disable SSID broadcast at router and key in SSID manually (Bug #5000331)
   - Fixed unable to play Internet radio via MSP when using WiFi (Bug #5000330)
   - Fixed issue where empty entry is displayed in the SSID dropdown list (Bug #5000341)
   - Added in support for extended printable ASCII characters for SSID/security code input (Bug #5000345)
   - Fixed soft reboot wasn't able to reboot machine, after connection to network with wifi device(Bug #5000340)
   - Check on WPA state and continue with configuration when state is WPA_COMPLETED
   - Fixed improper word displayed at the wifi connection column while not able to establish connection (Bug #5000342)
   - Improved IP address acquisition when using DHCP (Bug #5000339, #5000344)
9. UPnP AV
   - Added image resolution support (Twonky photo bug)
   - Fixed UPnP device duplication issue when server restart or host name changed
   - Added .ts, .avi support (Twonky)
   - Resolved photo pause-next will hang the system
   - support mp2v m4a mp4 m4v.
   - Resolved PlayOn "no content found" problem
   - Fixed URL with parameters cannot find extension
10. Web Services
    - App Center service
    - Official SHOUTcast service added
    - Fixed "scroll up" page handling issue.
    - Fixed loading wrong saved flash info in SD mode
11. PHF (ROBIG)
    - Overall performance improvement, fixes for multi-language support
    - Fixed PHF launch without special HTML attributes
    - Shoutcast app having problem; removed for now
    - Enable system font
    - New Revision3 app

RELEASENOTES NMT Apps

Code:

NMT Apps Version : 02-01-100119-19-POP-411

Release Notes :
1. Minimum firmware version to use this NMT App is 02-01-091203-19-POP-411
2. myiHomeLite
   - change audio playback slideshow images
   - change theme
3. BitTorrent
   - New Transmission client 1.75
   - Fixed parse data error causing BT page unable to show
4. FTP
   - FTP server, new share path (/opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives) to
     share out all HDD and USB devices.
5. Network
   - Samba improvement on read/write speed
6. UnP AV Server
   - Fixed some media files not visible from 8642/8634 player
7. Change stop NZB command to fix firmware update getting black screen

[silentcrib]

Thnx. Finally I can format my HD :-)

[Philos]

Thanks.

[johnagr]

The A-200 firmware come with the workaround for MKV audio lip-sync issue

[aangeboden]

By the way is the IDX/SUB subtitles with 2 or more languages has been solved on the A200? Can someone check this with the A200?

[nuke12]

Well after looking at Philos' pictures and a few others that are on the net, it seems the A-200 and C-200 are both using the same Vitesse VSC8601 PHY chip for networking.

So, the big question of the day is;


Does the A-200 exhibit the same 1Gb networking problems as the C-200? Does the A-200 also offer the same 10/100 setting?

[Mickster]

(01-29-2010 08:22 PM)aangeboden Wrote:  By the way is the IDX/SUB subtitles with 2 or more languages has been solved on the A200? Can someone check this with the A200?

we need to know this man

[Haaibaai]

Ok, I figured it out. I can tell you for me it works best on a ext3 formatted usb disk... On fat it wouldn't run. It's rebooting now.

[johnagr]

(01-29-2010 11:20 PM)Haaibaai Wrote:  Ok, I figured it out. I can tell you for me it works best on a ext3 formatted usb disk... On fat it wouldn't run. It's rebooting now.

very well !! please put your impressions for your a-200 and welcome to the forum

[Haaibaai]

(01-29-2010 11:29 PM)johnagr Wrote:  very well !! please put your impressions for your a-200 and welcome to the forum

Hi,

It was working fine for films and music from my local network shares. All internet services didn't do anything, so that's why I opted for the firmware update. I will check them out and see if they work now. I'll first watch Dark Knight, it is looking great!

[tuurie]

Hi,

I am having problems with the internet connection for the A-200 as well. Tried just about everything. copied IP settings from other computers in the network which have no problems connecting to the internet. But nothing I try seems to work on the popcorn. Using webservices will try for a couple of minutes to connect, but eventually it will time-out and return a cannot connect message. The local network works fine, computer and laptop all "see" the popcorn, and are all connected to the internet, only the popcorn wont "go outside to play".
(already installed latest firmware through usb)

Are more people experiencing this problem for the A-200?

[reiserfs]

Holy shit, FLAC support? About time I'd say.

[Haaibaai]

(01-30-2010 04:51 PM)tuurie Wrote:  Hi,

I am having problems with the internet connection for the A-200 as well. Tried just about everything. copied IP settings from other computers in the network which have no problems connecting to the internet. But nothing I try seems to work on the popcorn. Using webservices will try for a couple of minutes to connect, but eventually it will time-out and return a cannot connect message. The local network works fine, computer and laptop all "see" the popcorn, and are all connected to the internet, only the popcorn wont "go outside to play".
(already installed latest firmware through usb)

Are more people experiencing this problem for the A-200?

@tuurie, did you try a complete shut down first? after the firmware update it didnt work for me, but after a reboot it works fine. listening to shoutcast, playing youtube lite video etc. I did have to set up the wireless again after the update, but since ssid broadcasting is not required anymore it was much easier.

[tuurie]

(01-30-2010 05:32 PM)Haaibaai Wrote:  @tuurie, did you try a complete shut down first? after the firmware update it didnt work for me, but after a reboot it works fine. listening to shoutcast, playing youtube lite video etc. I did have to set up the wireless again after the update, but since ssid broadcasting is not required anymore it was much easier.

thanks, but I did shutdown first, btw I am not wireless..

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(01-30-2010 06:02 PM)tuurie Wrote:  thanks, but I did shutdown first, btw I am not wireless..

looks more like the a-200 doesnt want to talk to the damned ziggo (cable) modem..

[DigitalSoul]

(01-30-2010 06:02 PM)tuurie Wrote:  thanks, but I did shutdown first, btw I am not wireless..

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(01-30-2010 06:02 PM)tuurie Wrote:  thanks, but I did shutdown first, btw I am not wireless..

looks more like the a-200 doesnt want to talk to the damned ziggo (cable) modem..

How can PCH A-200 talk to Modem? It is not a PC. You will need a router in between. may be wireless may be not.. but router would be must.. Isn't it?