Gestern ist ein weiteres Firmware-Update für den Popcorn A-110 erschienen, welches den tollen Namen 01-17-081023-15-POP-403 trägt.

Die Releasenotes lassen folgendes verlauten:

  1. Requires NMT apps 00-17-081023-15-POP-403
  2. Playback

  • MKV HTTP streaming performance improved

  • MKV Chapters support.

  • MKV chapter key handling (follows WMP)

  • use PREV/NEXT key to switch chapter

  • at each chapter,

    • pressing PREV once will goto start of that chapter
    • pressing PREV twice will goto previous chapter
    • pressing PREV twice at 1st chapter will goto previous clip if in playlist
    • pressing NEXT once will goto start of next chapter
    • pressing NEXT once at last chapter will goto next clip if in playlist

  • Fixed ISO playback over USB occasional hang issue

  • Fixed some FLAC playback at wrong sampling frequency

  • Fixed certain TS substream (mostly teletext) incorrectly detected as DTS

  • Fixed certain TS with mixed Hi-Def and standard audio subtracks losing audio

  • Audio with new info display and ID3v2 (album art if available)

  • ID3 parsing for local (HDD, USB storage) content only

  • Press Info key to display

  • Added filename and bitrate in video info display.

  • RMVB support (requires new myiHome v5.1.0 and above to perform transcoding)

  • Fixed certain microDVD SUB file will cause hang

  • Fixed thumbnail display issue from WMP servers

  • Moved Video Zoom option from “Preferences” to “Audio/Video” page, separating into 2 options

  • Video Zoom [Actual Size | Fit To Screen | Crop | Full Screen]

  • TV Type [4:3 | 16:9 | 16:10]- Prebuffering control

  • new HTML extension tag supported, “prebuf=xxx” property tag added to anchor tag to set the size of the pre-buffer

  • Fixed no dimension information displayed for certain M1V/M2V files

  • display MP3 album art in actual size

  • Fixed exception handling for music album art

  • added handling of FLAC file with ID3 header

  • DTS-core passthrough fixed

  • Fixed audio switch between DTS-HD and other codec no output issue

  • Video playback progressive zoom and pan

  • press “Zoom” key to cycle through zoom mode, magnify mode and pan mode

  • use arrow key to adjust value (only left/right key for zoom/magnify)

  • moves viewport when panning, instead of the image

  • added exit zoom mode

  • change pan step size to 1

  • save pan/zoom setting for each zoom profile (FullScreen, Actual Size etc) to RAM.

  • Audio output fixes

  • fixed some AVI with DTS 96/24 output

  • fixed AVI with PCM output noise when set to 5.1

  • fixed HDMI no DTS output when AC3 set to PCM mode

  • Fixed for 24 bit encoded FLAC playback

  • Fixed playback video_ts over SMB stuttering issue

  • Fixed Brightness/Saturation/Contrast not applied correctly in DVD playback

  • Added language selection for DVD subtitle/audio (Danish etc)

  • Fixed DVD with single subtitle track cannot be displayed

  • Modified Volume range to improve usable range

  • Volume range -15~+15, max 15dB, min -28dB.

  • red number if >0dB, indicating boosted volume

  • green number if <0dB

  • white at 0dB

  • Fixed volume not saved when it is 0dB

  • Detect .dts as DTS-WAV, starts playback with 0dB to allow uncorrupted passthrough

  • Fixed WAV header parsing for certain wav file

  • Fixed HD-DVD remux, DD+ track no audio downmix output

  • Fixed M2T PMT detection bug

  • Fixed DTS-WAV output issue when surround mode is set to 5.1

  • Fixed inaccurate running video bitrate

  • Rectified “repeat”, “suspend” key mapping in ISO playback

  • Fixed incorrect playlist OSD display when music playback from myiHome

  • Fixed decoder crash when playing a MKV without audio track

  • Fixed incorrect downsampling of PCM audio for HDMI output source sampling rate > 48kHz

  • Fixed incorrect WAV playback sampling rate (set at 48kHz)

  • DTS Stereo downmix supported

  1. Photo app
  • New Photo app
  • added more information on display
  • eliminate black-out gap between slides
  • able to display monochrome JPEG
  • auto rotation for photo (JPEG)
  • based on EXIF orientation and below 2048x2048
  • Brightness/contrast/saturation change (“Setup” + arrow keys)
  • Slideshow fixes
  • Auto rotation for jpeg 2111 profile
    • Known issue: Color distortion at the bottom of picture after +-90deg rotate.
  • Color settings to follow preset value
  • changed pan to moving viewport, instead of image (same as for movies)
  • fixed mis-aligned position when performing zoom
  • Fixed decoder crashed when displaying certain GIF file through HDMI
  • Fixed certain JPEG rotation will crash decoder
  • Known issues:
  • for GIF/BMP/PNG, will clear screen when manually switch previous/next slide
  • color distortion at bottom of photo when panning.
  • no rotation for BMP GIF PNG
  • no rotation for JPEG >= 2048x2048
  • JPEG > 15MB cannot be displayed through HTTP
  • BMP > 2272x1712, PNG > 4000x2400 cannot be displayed - checking
  • Note: myiHome will transcode and scale-down BMP/GIF/PNG to JPEG
  1. System/Browser
  • Atheros WiFi WEP issue fixes
  • added HDMI/DVI colorspace Setup option
  • fixed wrong navigation flow after adding network share
  • Modified Web Services UI pages
  • Fixed when USB drive added/removed, issue with media source page refresh
  • Turkish, Danish translation added
  • Browser caching to harddisk
  • Various translation fixes
  • WiFi graceful teardown during reboot/shutdown to avoid crash.
  • Browser modification
  • pressing SOURCE key at “Media source” page will goto “Web Services”
  • fixed browser using wrong cached image
  • added “new folder” and “rename” functions in File Operation menu
  • faster fileplayer sort
  • Fixed garbled text at network share -> username/password page
  • Various new libs to resolve crash issue Usenet download under certain condition
  • Fixed CD-ROM folders not sorted on top of file list
  • Fixed occasional inaccurate WiFi auto-scan list
  • Workaround inaccurate width calculation for some fixed-width character
  • Cut Browser parsing time to about half (reduce about 0.2s)
  • Fixed ISO file does not support relative path on fileplayer
  • Fixed NMT apps start/stop status shown incorectly
  • Fixed NMT apps status refresh in SEtup page and “Reset Factory Setting” handling
  • Fixed failure to access Clutch interface
  • Fixed broken browser history
  1. Network
  • NFS servers browsing supported
  • SMB client fixes, additional checking to prevent from redirect to invalid/stale share folder
  • Handling when network lost - proper unmount and page redirection
  • NFS client fixes, reduce the retry time on NFS mount from 2 mins to 1 min
  • Revert network IP checking for SMB/NFS share before mount attempt
  • Fixed reset to factory settings occasionally failed after network configuration changed
    1. Subtitle
  • Fixed extended character misaligned in MKV embedded subtitle
  • Fixed bi-direction issue in Hebrew *.SUB
  • Subtitle menu re-ordered and text modified
  • A"Time"->“On/Off”->“Color”->“Size”->“Position”

Fixed Subtitle from myiHomeLite bug (QA#495) 7. Casgle client

  • changed Casgle client name from “Casgle Client” to “Casgle iDVR”
  • opened Casgle client service for SD mode too
  1. Known issues
  • PNG/TIFF support over myiHome broken

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