Archos 5/7 Internet Media Tablet
Firmware changes
- Video: fix MPEG2 support for certain file format
- Video: fix some video files not playing in sync
- Video: fix MKV header compression
- Video: support MPEG1 in MKV
- Video: improve playback of large MP4 files
- video: improve AVI seeking robustness
- Video: fix some H264/FLV/MP4 files not playing
- Video: improve playback of RV files
- Video: fix some subtitles not displayed
- Video: add support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded subtitles
- Video: fix some subtitles showing wrong language code
- Multimedia library: increase maximum number of files indexed to 65000
- Bug fixes:
- Index: fix indexing of files with an extension longer than 3 chars
- Music: fix number track counter overwrites the buttons of Save Playlist message box
- Music: fix some Vorbis tags not read properly
- Music: fix some ID3 tags not read correctly
- Music: fix sometimes MP4 genre not recognized correctly
- Music: take DISCNUMBER tag into account
- Music: fix some MP3 files misdetected
- Music: fix some internet radio streams not playing
- Music: fix some ASF genre tags
- Video: fix some MP4 files not playing
- Video: fix MPEG4 in MP4 sometimes has wrong aspect ratio
- Video: fix unit can crash after finishing video podcast download
- Video: fix video podcast download can lead to an incomplete video file
- Video: fix issue with empty SRT files
- Video: fix turkish subtitles
- Video: fix some MP4 HD files not playing
- Video: add support for some more PCM formats in MOV/MP4
- Video: fix some large MOV/MP4 files not playing
- 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:
- 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 and 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