New Features / Improvements / Bug Fixes
Version 1.3.10 -------------- Initial Operating system Version 1.5.53 ----------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ----------------- Bug fixes: - Connecting to a hidden wireless network could prevent other networks from being detected Version 1.6.05 ----------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ----------------- 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