Archos 604 Wifi Operating System

New Features / Improvements / Bug Fixes

Version 1.3.10
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Initial Operating system


Version 1.5.53
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Improvements:
- Support Helmet Camera, with timestamp
- Allow mute/unmute the speaker while recording video
- Fix video record resolution at the optimal setting
- Allow displaying on TV extern while helmetcorder is plugged
- Allow to start an helmetcorder recording from standby mode
- Support plugin videopodcast (H264 and AAC codecs)
- Display the plugins info in the System menu
- USB connection faster in Windows Device mode
- LCD now turns off automatically after a long USB connection (save power)
- Always output audio on the analog output of the DVR station (music playback or video playback)
- Improved video playback quality on LCD with very dark movies (fix persistance trails)
- Improved playlist management and playlist playback in shuffle mode
- Support plugin cinema (MPEG-2 and AC3 codecs; .vob, .mpg and .ps file formats)
- New podcast category in ARCLIB

Bug fixes:
- Make it possible to start charge over USB while viewing a video
- Arclib sometimes crashed when entering Music/Photo if it is empty.
- Makes Arclib more robust to broken ID3V2 and WMA/ASF tags
- Fix bad behavior of the photo viewer zoom when music is playing in background
- Detect correctly all the video files recorded with a Archos PMA400
- Fix changing video playback speed could crash the unit
- OSD nicer on the TV output
- Make videorecording with HelmetCam more stable
- Fix selecting an empty folder in the photo browser could crash the unit
- Fix hard disk free space in the videorecorder
- Fix some GUI glitches
- Fix MPEG-4, H264 and AAC decoder bugs
- Fix playback glitches with some WMV9 video files protected with WMDRM10 (sound was noisy sometimes)
- Make Exif parser more robust against corrupted files
- Fix some Arclib issues with very large number of files
- Display plugin names in the system menu
- Factory reset now does reset theme and font color
- Fix some issues with video recorder encryption
- Improve french virtual keyboard


Version 1.5.56
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Improvements:
- Better handling of low battery conditions to increase the autonomy, especially in video playback.
- Add a charging reminder message.
- More user-friendly "plugin missing" messages.

Bug fixes:
- Fix some issues with video recorder encryption
- Fix web browser crash when certain characters appear in bookmark title
- Allow automatic power off on battery low when USB is plugged, to prevent battery full discharge in some cases.


Version 1.5.58
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Bug fixes:
- Connecting to a hidden wireless network could prevent other networks from being detected


Version 1.6.05
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Improvements:
- Wifi: Dynamic wireless power management to speed up downloads in Opera web browser
- Wifi: Better handling of hidden wireless networks
- Wifi: Bigger icons and fonts for Opera browser on TV
- Audio: Better sound presets.
- Arclib: Arclib maximum capacity increased.
- Video: Support VC1 encoded video files.
- Video: Support MJPG encoded .AVI and .MOV files.
- Video: Enable animated thumbnails for DRM videos.
- Videocorder: Allow recording of widescreen NTSC content.
- Photo: Use EXIF orientation to avoid rotating every Picture by hand.
- Photo: Take rotation into account for wallpapers.
- Photo: Declare ".jpe", ".jfif" and ".jif" as valid picture files.
- Photo: Support CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK ) jpegs.
- GUI: Improved battery status display in the statusbar.

Bug fixes:
- Wifi: when scanning for wireless networks, signal level of already discovered networks was not updated
- Audio: Album Art synchronization with Windows Media Player 11.
- Audio: When using the video browser, the audio in background was sometimes lost.
- Audio: duration was wrong in info with some MP3 VBR tracks.
- Audio: Fix elapsed/remaining time corrupted when switching from a track >1h to a track <1h.
- Video: folder+shuffle mode sometimes failed.
- Video: Some .MP4 files did not stop at the end.
- Video: ASF files with 0 sized chunks did stop playback.
- Video: ASF FPS estimate was sometimes wrong.
- Video: Image better centered in original and auto modes.
- Video: Fix jerky playback of H264 B-frames after seek.
- Video: Better A/V sync at start and after seeking.
- Videocorder: Apply PAL PLUS correction if detected during recording.
- Videocorder: Preview better centered on TV.
- Photo: Fix weird effect when scrolling portrait pictures in photowall.
- Photo: Fix thumbnails could be displayed on background of sound/settings screens
- Photo: Portrait picture zoom sometimes crashed on TV-out.
- Photo: Fix corrupted band at the right of some picture on TV-out NTSC 4/3.
- Photo: Allow sound control with the IR remote.
- Photo: do not try to zoom small pictures.
- USB host: Some devices did not work high speed due to CRC errors on the bus.
- USB MTP: sometimes cancel didn't work with usb full speed.
- DVR station: video pass through mustn't be disabled as soon as the unit is on the DVR station.
- GUI: Repair and format menu displayed was empty after toggling video output.
- GUI: Suppress some video glitches on TV when no external module is plugged.
- GUI: Fix issues when switching LCD/TV output with the USB charge message displayed.
- GUI: Fix ARClib update messagebox overwriting the charge message at startup.


Version 1.6.06
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Bug fixes:
- Wifi: Under certain rare circumstances the Opera web browser would not connect to web sites but respond with a timeout message.
- Wifi: SSL secured connections did not work in Opera web browser if the products' time and date were not set correctly.


Version 1.6.10
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Improvements:
- Video: Support MPEG-TS files playback (require cinema plugin)
- DVR station: in S-Video out mode, S-Video Y signal is also on yellow output

Bug fixes:
- Video: Fix u-law support for .MP4/.MOV files
- Video: Fix playback of 16bit mono PCM in .MP4/MOV
- Video: Fix sound sometimes broken after seek in .MP4/.MOV files
- Video: Fix playing 4/3 videos in PAL TV 16/9 AUTO mode without corruption
- Videocorder: Fix recording videos in composite PAL/SECAM from a VCR without chroma
- Photo: Fix garbage at bottom of thumbnails
- Photo: Fix thumbnail of previous screen is not cleared when toggling TV/LCD with thumbnail slideshow running
- Photo: Fix slideshow sound/settings menu can be partially or completely cleared when slideshow run on background
- Photo: Fix slideshow menubar zoom button isn't added at right time on rotation
- Photo: Fix getting the right info while the photowall is drawing thumbnails
- GUI: Fix help browser content can be wrong after return from video browser
- GUI: Fix page down in video/help browser with one or less item
- GUI: Fix helmetcorder vertical volume bar isn't grayed when speaker is muted to avoid larsen
- GUI: Fix slideshow menubar is blended after moving over item with popup
- USB: Fix wrong detection of USB device when USB cable is plugged/unplugged while in message box
- TouchScreen: Fix zoomed menu arrows is not unzoomed when toggle to TV is done by selection of Video out menu item
- TouchScreen: Prevent to detect USB device while in calibration
- TouchScreen: Fix Clicking in menubar area of slideshow info shows the menu instead of closing the info
- TouchScreen: Fix tapping near the left edge of the video player progressbar sometimes lead to a full progressbar.
- TouchScreen: Fix videocorder volume isn't changed by dragging volume bar.
- TouchScreen: Fix audiocorder volume can be changed by gesture even when speaker is disabled to avoid larsen
- TouchScreen: Fix menu item not on screen can be selected by tapping at bottom of screen
- Update: Fix some firmware updates or plugin installation failed once and then worked fine (error code 10)
- WMV DRM: Fix playback of WMV DRM files could fail for rented videos (after setting a bookmark)


Version 1.6.21
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Improvements:
- Photo: allow to turn slideshow transitions off
- Videocorder & Audiocorder: audio gain is now from -12dB to +10dB
- Videocorder: Widescreen setting in now saved
- OPERA: Added right to left language support
- PDF: Added right to left language support

Bug fixes:
- Video: high bitrate VOB files with AC3 played jerky
- Video: fix video playback pausing for a second when buffering from disk starts
- Video: ASF MPEG4 files from Hitachi cameras hanged the unit
- Video: pause symbol in statusbar updated after saving the current video frame as wallpaper or thumbnail
- Video: when playing a video with multiple audio tracks in slow motion, the current speed was not visible on 404
- Video: Allow to step a recorded video by 1 second using the touchscreen
- Music: MP3 parser more robust
- Music: Sometimes the player hanged after a resume
- Music: some MP3 album art ware not displayed although embedded in ID3tag
- Photo: fix info displayed in info screen disappeared after a TV/LCD toggle
- USB: Fixed PTP issues with EOS300D
- TV output: S-Video mode was not working after a standby or a TV/LCD toggle
- WIFI: Fixed a problem which prevented copying of files to some types of network shares
- Double-Browser: Fixed cursor position when switching from left panel to right panel with the touch screen
- Double-Browser: Fixed file information not updated when moving the vertical scrollbar or tapping on a new item with the touch screen


Version 1.6.23
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Improvements:
 - WIFI: Supports browsing and playing content shared by a Windows Vista PC

Bug fixes:
 - Video: Supports larger MP4 files
 - Video: Fix some WMV files not playing correctly
 - Video: Fix some MP4 files not playing correctly
 - Audio: Fix noise appearing sometimes after switching from SPDIF to Analog Line-Out


Version 1.6.53
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New Features
 - Video Player: Add support for subtitles files: .srt, .sub, .smi, .ssa
 - Video Player: Play subsequent VOB files together as one file
 - Audio Player: Add support for PNG and BMP album arts

Bug Fixes:
 - Sound: Improved SPDIF compatibility
 - Sound: Fix sometimes audio/video is not sync in SPDIF
 - Sound: Fix drop-outs between tracks in SPDIF
 - Sound: Fix for first 200ms lost when starting to play audio or video
 - Video Player: Fixed issues with some AVI files
 - Video Player: Fixed issues with some MP4 files
 - Video Player: Fixed issues with files encoded using FairUse
 - Audio Player: Fixed issues with some M4A files
 - Video Recording: Fix sometimes the video is recorded at double speed
 - System: Fix USB compatibility with XBOX360
 - System: Fix crash when reading thumbnail files generated by an Archos Gen5 device