New:
Video: Improve VOB subtitles support and display
Video: Improve MP4 file support
Video: MPEG-2 TS files from Freebox are now supported
Video: It is now possible to seek in FLV files with no index
Bug fixes:
Network: Network browsing was not working with some network configuration
Audio/Video: Files from '(Rec)' folder didn't play in right order when they were started from resume or shortcut
Photo: Zooming of JPEG images with a 180 degrees rotation was not correct
Recording: Device could freeze if an error occurred at the end of the audio recording
TV out: Settings could be wrong after unplugging an accessory while in the TV out settings screen
TV Snap-on: There was sometimes an error when leaving the TV application
New:
Video: VOB subtitles are now supported
Video: Now recognize subtitle filenames with the language added between the movie name and the extension
Bug fixes:
Video Subtitles: Player was hanging when there was an empty .SSA file
Video: Some MP4 files containing MP3 audio didn't play well
Video: Some MPEG-4 files didn't play well
Video: Some FLV files didn't play well
Video: Animated thumbnails didn't loop correctly
Music: Artist name containing "/" were not displayed correctly in the tab of the Music Browser
Music: Device could reboot when cleaning the Playlist while in shuffle mode
Music: Device could freeze when toggling from FM radio to Music Player in queue mode
TV: There was some OSD display glitches while playing some video files in 720p mode
Web: Allow to play local video files from the Web Browser
Home Shortcuts: some shortcuts had truncated names
Home Shortcuts: There was issues in the shortcut manager when more than 50 shorcuts had been created
System: There was some issue with the download manager when the hard drive was full
Virtual keyboard: There was issues when writing an e-mail with a non-latin language selected
GUI: Update Arabic, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Italian and Spanish translations
GUI: Bulgarian virtual keyboard had a duplicated letter and one missing
New:
Hardware changes support
New:
GPS Car Holder Support
New File Browser with Drag-and-Drop and Multi-Selection
TV Snap-on: Application can now store several different channel lists
Video: "Image too large" error now also reports the video codec of the stream
Bug fixes:
Video: Some subtitles had first line displayed only
Video: Some AVI files (ODML) where seen shorter than they are
Music: In some cases the device rebooted after a toggle from LCD to HDMI 720p while in the music player
Music: Playback of files with very large ID3V2 tags didn't work
File Browser: Deleting a folder sometimes made the device reboot
Remote Control: In Alt mode, pressing "0" cancelled the Alt mode
New:
HiDef Video Plug-in
support
- WMV/VC1 AP at 720p, 24 fps, 6 Mbps maximum
- MPEG-4
ASP w/o QPEL and GMC at 720p, 24 fps, 6 Mbps maximum
Network: Now display
only one Hidden SSID item in the access point list even if several
are detected
(Note: previous Wifi configuration is lost after
firmware update)
Bug fixes:
Music: some MP3 files did not show up in Music Library
TV Snap-on: recording failed in case there was no "(Rec)" folder
TV Program Guide: Title bar was not updated when changing day by selecting a program
ARCHOS 5G : Device didn't start when plugged on some DVR Stations
GUI: Animated Wallpaper was using the format selected in the Video Player instead of Full Screen
GUI:
Device rebooted when opening a shortcut to a picture folder
containing sub-folders only
New:
DTI games support (see www.archos.com)
Email: Added HTML display for email content
Email: DOC and XLS attachement preview
Email: Added new incoming message notification widget in Home Screen
Email: Added Hotmail support (POP3/SMTP protocols)
Music: Added CoverWall view
Photo: PhotoWall display speed has been improved
Photo: New "Fit to width" display format
Video: Allow to offset the display of the subtitles in time
Web Radio is now directly accessed from the Home Screen, in the "Play" category
Web TV is now directly accessed from the Home Screen, in the "TV" category
Web Radio / Web TV: Last station can now be resumed
Web Radio: Now gives the choice between "Play" and "Download" when opening a podcast
File Browser: Added DOC and XLS file preview
GUI: Added a "Touch Screen Lock" item in the menu of the recorders when DVR Snap-on is used
GUI: Added support for Bulgarian User Interface
Bug fixes:
Games: Device sometimes rebooted during Play'inTv games
Video: The subtitles are now displayed more precisely timewise
Video Recorder: The top-left menu was disabled after a TV/LCD toggle
TV Scheduler: The previous/next day buttons were sometimes not working properly
Email: On TV, there was sometimes a "Connection error" message although there was no error
Parental Code: Arclib (music library) was empty after the playback of a video with adult permissions
Wifi: It was sometimes not possible to connect to Hidden SSID access points because the "Connect" button remained greyed out
Web: Device sometimes restarted when opening the Web Browser after a Suspend, if Widgets were used before Suspend
Demo Mode: Click was taken into account by the Home Screen when stopping a demo video
GUI: The "TV toggle" dialog was not closed when unplugging from the DVR Station
GUI: Plug-ins list was sometimes truncated in "Firmware and Plug-ins" settings screen
GUI: There was a missing letter in the Hebrew keyboard
Bug fixes:
System: Sometimes the clock was wrong after a Suspend or a USB connection
Audio: AC3 5.1 audio didn't always work with SPDIF output (it was stereo only)
Settings Wizard: It was not possible to select a month other than 10, 11 or 12
Music: The display of the "Hard Drive" view is now faster when there are a lot of files or folders
System: ARClibrary is not systematically rebuilt after firmware update anymore
New:
GUI: Added support for Arabic User Interface
Music: Now supports FLAC files with an ID3V2 tag
Bug fixes:
System: Clock drifted when staying ON for a long time. Could lead to wrong TV program being recorded.
Network Browser: Some directories had wrong names (first letter repeated) and could not be opened
Flash Video: Sometimes video did not play in Full Screen mode
Flash Video: Sometimes audio did not play in Embedded mode
Flash Video: Embedded video display sometimes flickered
Flash Video: Embedded playback sometimes rebooted the device
Video: Subtitles were not outlined
Video: Lower part of the subtitles was cut, especially in 720p mode
WebRadio: Accentuated characters were not displayed correctly (now depends on the current language used)
Music: WMA files smaller than 500KB did not play
TV Program Guide: Channel name was sometimes not well updated in the bottom detail line
GUI: Some Chinese messages were wrong
New:
Email application is now in release version
Web Radio: Allows Web Radio to play in background like regular audio files
Web Radio: Added Previous and Next buttons in the Web Radio player
Web Browser: Gives a choice between "Embedded" and "Fullscreen" playback for Flash Video
Web Browser: Added a vertical scrollbar to scroll the page (Option in the Web Browser settings)
Music: Displays a larger "Album Art" picture in the player
GUI: Allows creation of Home Screen shortcuts for Flash SWF files
GUI: Allows renaming and deleting files in the PDF and Flash Apps browsers
GUI: Displays videos in the Help browser
TV Control: More devices have been added to the Infrared Emitter support list (Fastweb, FranceTelecom, HOT, Noos, Telefonica, ...)
Bug fixes:
Music: Search feature was not usable with Remote control
Music: Back from Player to Browser was not working well in playlist mode
Music: Browser was not in playlist mode after resuming a playlist playback
Music: all ARCLibrary categories were empty after playing a Web Radio station
Music: Background Audio Player was stopped when opening a Flash SWF file
Music: when finding the next track in a playlist, skip over up to 10 non-existing tracks before giving up
Music: when starting a playlist and the track doesn't exist, don't stop current audio but mark the track as deleted in the playlist
Video: Search feature was not usable with Remote control
Web Radio & TV: Search feature was not usable with Remote control
Web Browser: Map area was reduced too much on www.sytadin.fr
MediaClub: Remote control Back button didn't perform back in history
Contacts: Searching for contacts sometimes returned unexpected results
Contacts: Search could not be used with the Remote control
TV Control: Satellite category stopped after the letter "M"
TV Control: Infrared Emitter used to freeze the device if it had been in Suspend mode before
DVR: Device freezed when removing DVR Snap-on while in CamCorder
FM remote: after a FM recording, the volume slider was not updated anymore when changing the volume
FM remote: Don't hide touch screen keys when FM remote keys are pressed
USB Host: Allow aborting PTP copy with Back or Home buttons (Back key on the IR Remote)
USB Host: There was a long delay without visual feedback before the File Browser is opened
USB Host: Trying to copy a file that already exists made the device reboot
GUI: Some texts were corrupted after quitting the Demo mode if a non latin font was selected
System: There were some artifacts visible on the screen with some pictures
System: USB transfer was very slow in recovery mode
New:
System: Use suspend mode for faster start-up (One can still perform full shutdown by pressing ON/OFF button for 4 seconds)
Accessories: FM Remote supported (http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_5/accessories.html?p=fmremote)
Video: Can now play H264 and AAC codecs in FLV streams (Plug-ins required)
Web: On TV, the page scrolls when moving the mouse to the top or the bottom of the screen
Virtual Keyboard: Can do Caps Lock with a second click on "Shift"
GUI: Full Screen Clock is now displayed only when in Standby or in the Home Screen
Bug fixes:
Music: Resume was not working with FLAC files
Music: There were some audio drop-outs with high-bitrate FLAC files
Music: The download pause/resume menu was not consistent with the actual download state
Video: Resume was not available after quitting the player using the Home button
Video: Sometimes video playback was not possible after using the photo viewer
Video: Sometimes the video search was very slow
Video: The device could reboot when playing a video after browsing the web
Video: The device could reboot when using "Switch to Adult" in the video browser
Web: Remote Control BACK button performed "Quit" instead of "Back"
Web: Predefined Yahoo search was not working
GUI: the list of scheduled programs was not correctly refreshed when scrolling
GUI: Background music was stopped when entering Tools>Settings>Appearance and Tools>Help
GUI: The MacOS hidden files were not ignored in the wallpaper selection
GUI: Registration and Online Firmware Update could conflict at first use
GUI: There were possible conflicts between Scheduled Recordings and Security Code request
GUI: There were possible conflicts between Alarm Clock and Security Code request
System: TV display was sometimes all pink when using HDMI output with Analog-out audio output
System: Wifi region was sometimes not right, which could make channels 12 and 13 unusable
New:
Music: Can now play OGG/FLAC files
Music: Improved battery autonomy during music playback
System: Improved USB speed
Video/Web: Can now play Flash (VP6) and MPEG-2 videos with resolution up to 800x576
Accessories: Helmet Cam supported
PDF: Can now create Home Shortcuts from the PDF browser
Bug fixes:
System: Wifi was hanging after some random time
System: USB host (PTP mode) connection was not always working
Video: Image was not always centered on the screen
Video Recording: Sometimes video preview was stuttering after a while
Video Recording: Default settings were not always taken into account
Web: Improved image quality for analog TV output (PAL & NTSC)
Media Club: Fixed zoom mode in HDMI 720p
Media Club: Resume was not working in the download manager
PDF: Fixed many user interface bugs, especially in TV out
GUI: Wallpaper was not centered in TV output mode
GUI: The device could hang when exiting the TV Control screen after the EPG setup
GUI: The device could reboot when deleting an opera widget
GUI: Caps Lock state on keyboard changed too quickly on long press
Bug fixes:
Fixed Video Recording
Music: Fixed audio drop-outs during playback
Music: Fixed File Info not correct in UPnP mode
Video: Fixed support for certain H264 and MPEG1 files
Video: Fixed WebTV search
Photo: Fixed some green lines at the right side of some JPEG pictures
Photo: Fixed picture display and zooming was slow if launched from the file browser
Photo: Fixed support for certain JPEG pictures
Photo: Fixed picture zoom sometimes hanged
Web: Improved overal stability
Web: Fixed javascript for Amazon.com and HotmailClassic compatibility
Email: fixed attachment save
Email: added sorting feature
Games: Fixed some PlayinTV games made the unit crash after several start/stop cycles
Wifi: Fixed could not list/connect to Wifi Access Point with hidden SSID
Minidock: Image quality with the MiniDock in NTSC mode has been improved
Minidock: Keep speaker on if plugged to a minidock but still display on LCD
Tools: Fixed USB Host instability
Tools: Now possible to cancel/interrupt a file copy
TV out: Fixed flicker on LCD after using TV out (flicker could persist for 24h then)
TV out: Fixed crashing after standby/wake-up on TV
User Interface: Fixed Chinese (pinjin) and Russian virtual keyboard on TV
User Interface: some screens adapted to work better with the infrared remote control on TV
User interface: some polishing everywhere
Bug fixes:
Demo mode: fixed rebooting the unit in the Demo mode could end up in a endless reboot loop (in this case, please restore your unit by rebooting in the recovery firmware – press VOL buttons at boot time and by upgrading the firmware)
Demo mode improved
Improvements:
Add a new application Mail and Contacts Manager, in beta version
The web browser rendering, zooming and panning is now much faster
Can now playback the WAV files ripped from Windows Media Player Vista
Gives about 2 more hours of battery life in music playback
Bug fixes:
Fixed the web browser on TV with the DVR Station or the adapter crashed sometimes
The web browser has more compatibility with various complex websites (i.e. Googlemaps and Googleapps did not run at all)
Fixed the preview picture was not good in the video recorder with the DVR Station or the adapter
Fixed display on TV with the mini-dock adapter
Fixed transfer files through USB host between the Archos and a peripheral copied corrupted files, with the DVR Station and the mini-dock
Fixed the IR blaster feature, to control you external TV for video recording scheduling
Several fixes in the menus and the settings where the unit may crash
Some user interface polishing everywhere
Some user interface screens adapted to work better with the infra red remote control on TV
More translations to German and other languages
Initial Operating System