[A-200/A-210] Firmware 02-04-110308-21-POP-411 (02-04-101104-21-POP-411) (24.03.2011)

[werner]

Dear customers,

Please be informed that Popcorn Hour A-200/A-210 firmware release including the new Networked Media Jukebox:
02-04-110308-21-POP-411-000
and NMT apps:
02-04-101104-21-POP-411
is available for update.

for offline update and release notes, download from:

http://www.popcornhour.com/download/A200...-A200.html

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

RELEASENOTES FIRMWARE

Code:

Release date : 24 March 2011
Firmware version : 02-04-110308-21-POP-411-000

1. Still same NMT apps 02-04-101104-21-POP-411
2. BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA
   - Fixed incorrect elapsed time when press PREV/NEXT during
     SimpleBD/BD ISO playback
   - SimpleBD
     - Fixed certain BD ISO playback get stuck at chapter
       transition (Bug #5001786)
     - reduced time for info grabbing and playback start
     - fixed issue with "seek to 0%"
   - Added "Prompt" option for BD ISO navigation
   - Fixed issue where certain SimpleBD playback will get
     incorrect scene/chapter/info after seeking.
   - Fixed audio out-of-sync after playback Audio CD
     (Bug #5001759/#0000452)
3. Video and Audio playback
   - Fixed incorrect menu selection displayed on "Subtitle"
     menu when color=auto
   - Fixed certain APE audio caused system crash (Bug #5001699).
   - Fixed certain MP4 playback freeeze when resume from bookmark
   - Added audio mono left/right selectable MPEG .dat files
   - Fixed subtitle selection persistency issue with certain MKV
   - Display forced subtitle track even when subtitle=off
   - audio output during FF 2x and SLOW 0.5x
        (with known out-of-sync issue with certain high bitrate file)
   - Fixed regression in MP3 playlist gapless playback
   - Don't allow "SEEK" during pause and FF/FR/SLOW trickmode.
   - RAR Playback, file view and extraction
        - currently only for single RAR file
   - 3D output to HDMI 3D TV for Stereoscopic 3D (side-by-side,
     Top-and-bottom) file
        - Files must be named with "<filename>.3DSBS.*", "<filename>.3DTAB.*"
       accordingly
        - Tested with MKV, AVI, TS (MPEG)
   - Fixed audio loss for certain high bitrate FLAC files
   - Fixed ASF audio pitch issue after fast forward
   - Fixed missing right channel in DTS-MA
   - Fix single TS file can fastforward till 8x and unable to
     cycle to repeat from 2x.
   - Fix internal PGS subtitle not show correctly in mkv issue
     which due to timecode checking for internal PGS.
   - Fixed APE files with distorted sound.
   - Disable RAR menu prompt over HTTP services.
   - Enable cuesheet support: APE, FLAC, WAV
   - Fixed playback issue of mkv with multiple menu (Bug #5001881)
   - Fixed some PGS subtitle always shown at top left corner.
   - Fixed external subtitle not shown while playback BDJ/Non-BDJ
     and BDMV when started from NMJ.
   - Supported TS file fast forward and fast rewind
   - Fixed occasional wrong time information when rewinding.
   - MKV chapter name now limited to only 10 characters,
     append "..." if the name is longer.
   - Fixed blinking exclaimation mark when Slow depressed.
   - Fixed ASS subtitles wrong placement under certain condition (Bug #5001944)
   - Gapless support for small FLAC files.
   - MKV 3D support.
     - Support .mk3d extension with StereoMode parameter (side-by-side,
       top-and-bottom)
     - mkvmerge v4.5.0 onwards includes this support.
4. Networked Media JukeBox (NMJ)
   - Fixed "watched" status for TV Series
   - Fixed thumbnail generation causing system crash
   - metadata_scanner
     - set full access permission for nmj_database
     - improved "disk full" checking and database size estimation
     - improved scanner progress status for unknown music album
     - fixed issue where video image cannot be replaced for BD content
     - Added timeout when grabbing media info
     - Improved scanning speed on m2ts
   - Improved checking for database version
   - Limit cover art poster to file < 1MB
   - Fixed TV Series Season Sorting issue
   - Support "Jump to" feature in Wall View
   - Added shortcut to add a group of music album to playlist or
     queue at Category view
   - Added ability to change video type
   - Added ability to reorganize video file for incorrect grouping
   - Added ability to view episode synopsis
   - Added ability to search artist and genre at song info
   - Improved NMJ UI browsing speed
   - Added Music metadata and progress bar in Now Playing Playlist page
   - Added delete feature in Now Playing playlist page
   - Fixed occasional unable to access NMJ photo page
   - Fixed NMJ load page fail issue when browse song with multibye.
   - Added Volume up/down in Now Playing playlist page.
   - Added Mute in Now Playing playlist page.
   - Fixed non-latin word not shown correctly
   - Support 3D indicator in NMJ UI.
   - Some fixes to command server APIs:
     - insert_vod_queue
     - list_vod_queue_info
5. System/Network
   - Some translation updated
   - Fixed issue when special characters used in proxy server naming
   - Fixed netbios name resolution issue
   - tvid=0 support
6. UPnP AV
   - Fix for certain media servers not showing up on browse
     and missing content for DTCP resources
   - Fixes for hang-up during browse and adjusted timeout
   - Fixed Cardea checksum readback
7. Apps/Apps Market
   - minor improvement on key responseness
   - Stop flashlite video playback when POWER key depressed
   - Fixed RTMPe playback return buffer full upon starting playback
     even though it's still prebuffering
   - Fixed wrong time info with "live audio only" RTMP
   - Fixed short videos (duration of 3~4 seconds) playback issue
   - new AppsMarket 1.3.11
   - Fixed Shoutcast crash
   - Fixed issue with Page Up/Down key assignment in Apps.
     Now will be Vol Up/Down when playback, but Page Up/Down otherwise.
     (Bug 5001702)
8. Known issues
   - The Samba workgroup name set in the options not applied temporary.
     It defaults to "WORKGROUP".
   - Any new 'excludes' are ignored on a refresh - you have to do a
     complete rebuild for .no_all.nmj etc. to actually work.
   - Encoding type other than utf-8 may caused nmj page load error

RELEASENOTES NMT Apps

Code:

NMT Apps Version : 02-04-101104-21-POP-411

Release Notes :
1. Minimum firmware version to use this NMT App is 02-04-101104-21-POP-411-000
2. Version stepping, practically same as 02-03-100427-21-POP-411

[Antobello]

Thx

[Lanfeust1313]

Excellent !!!

[ertech]

Thx...

[gregori]

Thx !

[urkel]

Bin ich blind oder haben sie den Bug mit der fehlenden CD-Audio-Backup-lib nicht kommentiert, bzw. fehlt das noch ganz?!

Danke für die Info, Werner! :-)


--
Did they miss the notification about the missing cd-audio-backup-lib or did they miss the upgrade of the lib?

[truelove79]

Sweet, I was hoping for a Gigabit fix and the ability to page up and page down in the NMJ wall view, but oh well. I see they fixed the whole page up/page down key being assigned to volume up/volume down in an app, so maybe that fixes the issues on the movie wall too, I'll try it tonight.

[willum77]

Thanks for the update

[Foxia]

Thank you Syabas!

Been waiting for the Update.

[Snick66]

where TrueHD Downmix ?

[halfelite]

(03-24-2011 09:39 PM)Snick66 Wrote:  where TrueHD Downmix ?

next release do out in a couple weeks it did not make it into this release. they are doing another mini update.

[Antobello]

Mkv with chapter, as previous firmware if i try to change chapter the film freeze, and i must stop it

If i try to reload it again pch doesn't load it and the popcorn resolution changes from 1080p to 1080I

If i remove chapter with mkvmerge the film works correctyl

Ok Sigma's sdk are buggy, but Sybas firmware are buggy too if he spend his time with crappy feature like mkv 3d

[halfelite]

(03-24-2011 09:50 PM)Antobello Wrote:  Mkv with chapter, as previous firmware if i try to change chapter the film freeze, and i must stop it

If i try to reload it again pch doesn't load it and the popcorn resolution changes from 1080p to 1080I

If i remove chapter with mkvmerge the film works correctyl

Ok Sigma's sdk are buggy, but Sybas firmware are buggy too if he spend his time with crappy feature like mkv 3d

post a mediainfo output i have many mkv files with chapters and have not had a problem.

[Antobello]

Thanks Halfelite

Code:

General
Unique ID                        : 177823167007935054406163775688015607121 (0x85C77F07EC1F0F4BAF60165E685BF551)
Complete name                    : G:\TRON LEGACY.mkv
Format                           : Matroska
File size                        : 22.3 GiB
Duration                         : 2h 5mn
Overall bit rate                 : 25.5 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-03-10 14:56:22
Writing application              : mkvmerge v3.4.0 ('Rapunzel') built on May 15 2010 09:38:20
Writing library                  : libebml v0.8.0 + libmatroska v0.9.0

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP             : M=1, N=24
Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                         : 2h 5mn
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 23.4 Mbps
Maximum bit rate                 : 35.8 Mbps
Width                            : 1 920 pixels
Height                           : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.472
Stream size                      : 20.5 GiB (92%)
Title                            : Tron Legacy - Kaliber
Language                         : Italian
Color primaries                  : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics         : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients              : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177

Audio
ID                               : 2
Format                           : DTS
Format/Info                      : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID                         : A_DTS
Duration                         : 2h 5mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 6 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 24 bits
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 1.32 GiB (6%)
Title                            : Italiano DTS
Language                         : Italian

Text #1
ID                               : 3
Format                           : VobSub
Muxing mode                      : zlib
Codec ID                         : S_VOBSUB
Codec ID/Info                    : The same subtitle format used on DVDs
Title                            : Italiano
Language                         : Italian

Text #2
ID                               : 4
Format                           : VobSub
Muxing mode                      : zlib
Codec ID                         : S_VOBSUB
Codec ID/Info                    : The same subtitle format used on DVDs
Title                            : Italiano
Language                         : Italian

Menu
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[halfelite]

^^ i dont see anything wrong with it. although it could have hires vobsobs internally which have been known to cause issues do the subtitles display on that film?