[Hi-Jack]

You can update the player using the online options of the NMT. The files can be downloaded later on from PCH web site or other sources sharing it...

Release Date : 04 November 2008
Firmware Version : 01-17-081023-15-POP-403-000

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> 48kHz
- Fixed incorrect WAV playback sampling rate (set at 48kHz)
- DTS Stereo downmix supported
3. 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
4. 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
- Browser codepage conversion
- 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
5. 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
6. Subtitle
- Fixed extended character misaligned in MKV embedded subtitle
- Fixed bi-direction issue in Hebrew *.SUB
- Subtitle menu re-ordered and text modified
- "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
8. Known issues
- PNG/TIFF support over myiHome broken


NMT Apps Version : 00-17-081023-15-POP-403

Release Notes :

1. Minimum firmware version to use this NMT App is 00-17-081023-15-POP-403-000
2. Casgle services added
- For more information on this feature, please visit http://www.casgle.com/pch.php
- Note that by default Casgle iDVR will be subscribed to some
default channels and will do downloads in the background.
This may take up some of your HDD space, and network bandwidth
during the download.
To disable this service, you can Stop this service under
Setup->NMT apps->Start/Stop OR you can unsubscribe all channels
on Casgle
3. Fixed Casgle when start from index page link, unable to add channel
4. NMT apps page will generate for every access to get latest status
5. Added Casgle UI with help
6. Restart NMT apps after restore factory setting
7. Automatic restart NMT app that fails to start
8. Samba server, remove server information when server is stopped
9. Samba server, upgraded Samba server from 3.0.26a to 3.0.32.

Unzip into the root of your USB thumbdrive. Browse to usbupdate.html to update.
Please DO NOT power off the unit during firmware update, as it will render your unit inoperational.

List courtesy of Charon (Werner) from Syabas.

[agent_c]

anyone used this fw yet?
lots of fixes in there. New Photo app .....interesting. Also fixed HDMI no DTS output when AC3 set to PCM mode, these guys (syabas) really do live off red bull.......

[werner99]

yes i tried it and finally dts downmixing is in was realy strange to get the right ucode from sigma hahaha.

regards werner

[jovel]

I tried it and it didn't work!

I have a very normal setup of my A100 (no harddisc) and after the (online) update i had the following problems.

1. I couldn't turn the machine on by remote. If i turned it off (the normal way, by remote) it didn't respond to the remote, so i had to do a hard reset (i.e. pull the plug) to get it to work again (and i had to do that a lot).
2. If i wanted to go back to the home menu the little sun keeps playing and finally it displays 'could not display page' (and since i couldn't navigate anymore i had to do a hard reset, see point one). I thought that that could be something due to the new firmware in combination with the old myihome software so i downloaded and installed the latest version, but no change.
3. If my unit started up (after a hard reset) most of the times i could see the home page but the little sun keeps playing (and i couldn't select anything) after that see point 2.

So i decided to download the previous firmware (080812) and do a downgrade via an usb stick. And now i have a perfectly working PCH A100 again.

[daniel_owen_uk]

Haha, very normal setup, A100 (no harddisc), HOLD THE PHONE

Try putting A110 firmware on the A110

[jovel]

I see. I'm sorry. I Posted this one in the wrong topic. Sorry, this one should be in the A100 frimware topic.