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Beta Firmware Changelogs - See whats being tested!
09-16-2008, 05:33 PM (This post was last modified: 12-04-2009 06:09 PM by chris57.)
Post: #1
Beta Firmware Changelogs - See whats being tested!
This thread has appeared due to users that arent in the beta testing team wanting to know what is happening and what is likely to come in the next stable firmware releases.

Previously there were threads for beta changelogs but these were stopped for two reasons:-
1. Beta firmware discussions are to be contained within the beta section, only visible to the beta team.
2. The threads became a bashing opportunity that at the time as we were on the old board moderating became nearly impossible.

For those reasons the thread is purely for notification. Do not start any beta firmware threads or discussions as they will be deleted.

I will post the round of beta firmware details until the stable is released. Then I shall start again with the next round of beta releases.

Just because something is mentioned in the beta this does NOT necessarily mean that it WILL be in the stable.

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03-26-2010, 04:30 PM (This post was last modified: 08-22-2010 10:59 AM by chris57.)
Post: #2
RE: Beta Firmware Changelogs - See whats being tested!
[C-200] Firmware 02-03-100821-21-POP-408 RC4

RELEASENOTES FIRMWARE
Code:
Release date : 21 August 2010
Firmware version : 02-03-100821-21-POP-408-000

1. previous NMT apps from Beta1 02-03-100427-21-POP-408
2. Video Photo and Audio playback
    - Fixed SimpleBD DTS-HD audio incorrectly switched to DTS after seek operation
    - Fixed certain small video files causing incorrect "buffering" display and hang up after playback
    - Fixed audio volume level and mute inconsistency after seek operation
    - Fixed wrong fps info on certain TS and MKV files
3. HDMI
    - Fixed HDMI CEC issue
4. PHF
    - Latest fixes (including the YouTube twirling thing..)


[C-200] Firmware 02-03-100814-21-POP-408 RC3

RELEASENOTES FIRMWARE
Code:
Release date : 14 August 2010
Firmware version : 02-03-100814-21-POP-408-000

1. previous NMT apps from Beta1 02-03-100427-21-POP-408
2. Video Photo and Audio playback
    - Fixed sound burst when certain WAV playback starts.
    - Fixed issue with MP4 file > 2GB playback through HTTP
    - Fixed incorrect volume level during certain DVD playback


[C-200] Firmware 02-03-100807-21-POP-408 RC2

KNOWN ISSUES
Code:
    - video blackout for a few seconds while framerate sync is performed

RELEASENOTES FIRMWARE
Code:
Release date : 6 August 2010
Firmware version : 02-03-100807-21-POP-408-000

1. previous NMT apps from Beta1 02-03-100427-21-POP-408
2. Video Photo and Audio playback
    - disable SSA subtitle animation
    - Fixed +-30sec skip (RIGHT/LEFT key) not working properly during certain M2TS playback
    - Fixed HDMI audio mute broken
    - Workaround for MKV with "header removal compression"
    - Fixed proper display of audio info on Info bar
    - Fixed volume control sluggishness during Internet radio
3. PHF
    - Latest modified apps, with fixes (Youtube,....)
4. System
    - minor French translation fixes


[C-200] Firmware 02-03-100731-21-POP-408 RC1

RELEASENOTES FIRMWARE
Code:
Release date : 31 July 2010
Firmware version : 02-03-100731-21-POP-408-000

1. previous NMT apps from Beta1 02-03-100427-21-POP-408
2. BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA
    - Arabic added in BD/DVD subtitle/audio selection
    - SimpleBD fast rewind
        - fast forward still in development
        - currently it does not span over if the video consists of multiple TS.
3. Video Photo and Audio playback
    - subtitle improvement
        - Better rendering for subtitle
        - hide "Color", "Size" and "Position" when they are not applicable (e.g. IDX/SUB)
        - added "auto" in Color to apply native styles in SSA ("white/red" option is removed).
            - SSA/ASS styles
            - SSA/ASS Tags in SRT
            - Microdvd subs tags
    - Fixed wrong audio format info displayed on Info bar
    - Fixed a mp3 with embedded cover art cause crash
    - Fixed DTS -HD changed to PCM after Dolby Digital Analog/PCM selection is changed
    - Fixed DTS audio loss after playback with DTS-MA
4. Webservice
    - Fixed minor pop-up message word-wrap issue
    - removed broken MSP Community Plugins
5. PHF
    - Latest modified apps, with fixes
    - New apps added: YouTube, blip.tv, Twitter, MotorZ and Picasa Web Albums
6. System
    - Added patch for GPT USB (Drobo)
    - update on Traditional Chinese language pack


[C-200] Firmware 02-03-100713-21-POP-408 Beta 3

RELEASENOTES FIRMWARE
Code:
Release date : 16 July 2010
Firmware version : 02-03-100713-21-POP-408-999

1. previous NMT apps from Beta1 02-03-100427-21-POP-408
2. Video Photo and Audio playback
    - Fixed background image conflicting with the listing page after pressing stop button at exact end of the music file
    - Fixed missing subtitle "track" submenu during first playback after system reboot
    - MP3 handling for certain bad unconventional v2.4 ID3 tag
    - Fixed playback issue with some mp3 files with multiple ID3 tag
    - Fixed certain IDX/SUB cannot display (IDX that contains only selected non-zero substream index)
    - Fixed audio mute/unmute issue at the beginning of file playback


[C-200] Firmware 02-03-100702-21-POP-408 Beta 2

RELEASENOTES FIRMWARE
Code:
Release date : 5 July 2010
Firmware version : 02-03-100702-21-POP-408-999

1. previous NMT apps from Beta 1 02-03-100427-21-POP-408
2. BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA
    - Fixed BD-Live; broken in previous release
    - Fixed PiP audio broken in previous release
    - Fixed a crash due to external subtitle
3. Video Photo and Audio playback
    - Fixed m4a with unsupported genre metadata crashing the player
    - Fixed incorrect playback timer for MPEG after trickmode
    - Changed DTS default setting to PCM in setup
    - Improve pre-buffering for H.264 streaming
    - Fixed photo playback seg. fault due to photo EXIF parsing
    - Added TrueAudio (.tta) audio file playback support
4.  System
    - Modified Hungarian text
    - Workaround for occasional HDMI blackout when AVR/TV on/off or hotplug
    - Added "open source license" page
5. Network
    - Fixed Samba Issues


[C-200 NMJ Reports] Firmware 02-03-100617-21-POP-408 ALPHA

This firmware would be called beta2 in normal circumstances. However it has the very first Alpha build of the new long awaited UI incorporated and is therefore known as an Alpha firmware despite having fixes and being a beta1 fixed version. Sure you'll understand Big Grin


Date: 18 June 2010 (1st Alpha release)
Firmware version: 02-02-100617-21-POP-408-999
NMT apps version: 02-02-100427-21-POP-408

RELEASENOTES FIRMWARE

Code:
Merged with Beta1 02-03-100531-21-POP-408-999, new fixes since:
- BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA
- Fix occasional fail to render external SRT after switching from internal PGS subtitle
- Both *.ISO and *.iso able to detect external SRT subtitles now
- Fixed "SleepingBeauty" BD playback from USB EXT3/NTFS will stutter (Bug #5000433)
- VOD
- Fixed some MKV (created by makemkv) freeze on TimeSeek
- Fixed MKV with 5.1 FLAC audio cannot play
- Fixed subtitle not displayed after the 64th subs
- External IDX/SUB (D1 resolution only) support for MKV
- NMT apps
- Fixed NZBGet causes harddisk spindown
- Browser
- Fixed file rename issue with character '$'
- ROBIG apps
- New Revision3, Shoutcast , Weatherbug
- Network
- Fixed Samba issues
- KNOWN ISSUES
- Shoutcast will crash when Stop button pressed
- BD rip with BD-J will crash

Here's some information on how to operate the new UI. It will be improved before open release so don't expect things to be as tricky as they may appear in the notes. Just read them and take away from the notes what you do or don't like from what you have read.
Code:
Networked Media JukeBox UI release note
=======================================

    1. Steps to enter JukeBox UI
    1.1 While browsing the content of any (writable) storage on sata, usb, smb or nfs,
    press red (video wall) or green (music wall) or yellow (photo wall) button
    (see section 2 below).
    1.2 If this is first time, it will prompt for scanning of media files on
    your storage device, to build the UI.
    1.3 Please ensure that you are connected to the Internet as the additional
    information on media files are retrieved from the web.
    1.4 Press enter on "ok" and it will start scanning through the storage
    for media files. After a few minutes, a progress indicator will be
    displayed on top left corner. This process may take from a few
    minutes to hours, depending on the amount of content on your storage.

    Note: During this period, it may switch to screen saver.
    You can interrupt the scanning process with the Stop button.

    1.5 Once the scanning is done, it will enter JukeBox UI.
    1.6 You may exit back to original ui using the same colored key (see section 2 below)
    1.7 The next time you enter the JukeBox UI using the same process as step 1.1,
    on the same storage, it will check whether a re-scan is required.

    Otherwise, it will enter directly into the JukeBox UI.

    2. Colored key functions

    Code:
    +--------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
    |  Key   |   In File Browser    |    In Video Wall     |    In Music Wall     |    In Photo Wall     |
    +--------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
    |  Red   |   Enter Video Wall   | Back to File Browser |   Enter Video Wall   |   Enter Video Wall   |
    |        |                      |    (video only)      |                      |                      |
    +--------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
    |  Green |   Enter Music Wall   |   Enter Music Wall   | Back to File Browser |   Enter Music Wall   |
    |        |                      |                      |    (music only)      |                      |
    +--------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
    | Yellow |   Enter Photo Wall   |   Enter Photo Wall   |   Enter Photo Wall   | Back to File Browser |
    |        |                      |                      |                      |    (photo only)      |  
    +--------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
    |  Blue  | Back to File Browser |   Enter App Center   |   Enter App Center   |   Enter App Center   |
    |        |     (no filter)      |                      |                      |                      |
    +--------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

3. Exclude Option for Scanning
    When you enter a device and activate the NMJ, it will scan the device for video-, music- and photofiles.
    You can exclude folders with different options.
    As example, if you have a Yamj folder on your Device then i would place the ".no_all.nmj" into the folder,
    if you don't do that it will aggregate all your images inside the yamj folder and show them on the Photo NMJ.

    3.1 Exclude everything
    - Create a file called ".no_all.nmj", place it on the device, or into a folder which you wanna exclude.
    3.2 Exclude Videofiles
    - Create a file called ".no_video.nmj", place it on the device, or into a folder where you wanna exclude Videofiles.
    3.3 Exclude Musicfiles
    - Create a file called ".no_music.nmj", place it on the device, or into a folder where you wanna exclude Musicfiles.
    3.4 Exclude Images
    - Create a file called ".no_photo.nmj", place it on the device, or into a folder where you wanna exclude Images.

4. Known issues

    Note: The JukeBox UI is in alpha release. We apologise for having a long list of known issues.
    We are keen to get your feedback and bug report so that we can do continuous improvements and
    bug fix on it.

    4.1 Occasional hang at scanning process.
    4.2 Multilanguage music id3. Unpredictable behaviour on the Wall.
    4.3 In Music list, Music info missing album
    4.4 Improve message while scanning
    4.5 Photo thumbnail and preview sometimes get the wrong rotation
    4.6 Photo Wall sort by date base on day may not be practical
    4.7 Hard to switch from music playback back to Music Wall
    4.8 Slideshow info bar shows less information than thumbnail info bar
    4.9 All episodes comes out as same name and no further info
    4.10 When in Now Playing, will return to Wall briefly between tracks.
    4.11 To show audio playlist at Now Playing
    4.12 If scanning is not cleanly terminated in this release. Incomplete process will result
    in missing information on UI.
    4.13 Not able to play bdj content from JukeBox UI
    4.14 Album art only support jpg format
    4.15 Photo aggregation through samba may fail if the total number of photos is more than 900

5. TONMJDB tools

- Version: tonmjdb_1.6.0-20100618
- This is a tool to convert YAMJ to NMJ UI Database. Useful in particular to those with YAMJ setup for specific languages/settings etc.



[C-200] Firmware 02-03-100531-21-POP-408 Beta 1 (02-03-100427-21-POP-408 Apps)

RELEASENOTES FIRMWARE
Code:
Release date : 1 June 2010
Firmware version : 02-03-100531-21-POP-408-999

1. New NMT apps 02-03-100427-21-POP-408
2. BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA
    - Fixed playback of BD-J disc in SD TV mode
    - Fixed BD ISO playback cannot display external subtitles (Mantis #5000593)
    - Fixed BD playback with external freeze at end of movie (Mantis #5000596)
    - now able to playback some BD titles e.g. Pirate of Carribean, Avatar
    - BD playback - Load subtitle index.srt (case sensitive) in BDMV folder by default
3. Video Photo and Audio playback
    - HD aduio passthru support for file playback (SimpleBD, m2ts, ts and mkv)
    - Fixed certain Arabic subtitle failed to display
    - Fixed failure to playback some AVI which contain ID3 (aoe-cop.avi)
    - Fixed frequent press of Enter key at start of audio file playback occasional cause system failure
    - Fixed slideshow failed via Picasa if the album has more than 700 photos (Mantis #5000535)
    - Fixed incorrect photo played randomly when play a single photo (pressing Enter) via myiHome (Mantis #5000535)
    - Fixed MKV issues related to makemkv
4.  UPNP-AV
    - Fixed remote renderer (EyeCon etc) cannot set pause, mute, volume up/down
    - Fixed discovered devices disappear when certain UPnP device is attached to network
    - Swisscenter Simple Media Server (SIME); reduce waiting time of change track.
    - PlayOn UPnP server; fix streaming issue.
5.  PHF
    - Fixed old shoutcast menu could not pop up
    - "Standby" by pressing Power key
    - Fixed Return key not working
6.  System
    - Fixed "purple splash" during system bootup
    - Fixed failure to go to enter Media Source screen after setting TCP Receive Window to "auto"
    - Wifi card driver Update
7.  NMT Apps
    - Fixed NMT Setup unable to perform fresh setup on new harddisk with no partition

RELEASENOTES NMT Apps
Code:
Release date : 1 June 2010
Version: 02-03-100427-21-POP-408
1. Minimum firmware version to use this NMT App is 02-03-100531-21-POP-408-999
2. compatible now with new SDK Firmware 02-03-100531-21-POP-408-999

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08-22-2010, 10:56 AM
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RE: Beta Firmware Changelogs - See whats being tested!
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