NMT PCH 100 firmware update

[imagn]

I happened to go see if there was an update for the pch today and on throught the PCH maintenance screen there was one released today (20th January)

Just wondering if this affects GBPVR in anyway and can we use the resume feature

Thanks

[mvallevand]

From what I read the firmware is available online but there is no changelog 'til tomorrow. I didn't see any negative impact on GBPVR in the final release, (some betas did) and it will be better with the mpeg-ts files they broke in the last firmware and some mkv's do play better.

Resume is supported on the last 10 files but it is not stored in flash and sub opted not to integrate the resume with GBPVR at all :-( so if you turn off/unplug your machine these settings will be lost.

There is also no prompt to resume, it just does so if you want to restart you need to hit the normal 0 remote key to go to the beginning of the file.

Martin

[pBS]

my radar musta kicked up cuz i just upgraded yesterday...lol
i'm still slobbering over the thought of full osd he teased us with...
i'll be trying out that firmware for sure..
and not a bad way to do it, easy to restart from beginning and no other hassels...
but geez, just 10? tsk tsk

bet that was the easiest feature Sub ever added...LOL

[imagn]

Just upgraded and all is going well. Finaly some sort of resume feature Yay

[jksmurf]

.... and sub opted not to integrate the resume with GBPVR at all :-( so if you turn off/unplug your machine these settings will be lost ...

Oh Bum. Bum Bum, Bum.

Any chance of a future implementation?

k.

[wtg]

From what I read the firmware is available online but there is no changelog 'til tomorrow. I didn't see any negative impact on GBPVR in the final release, (some betas did) and it will be better with the mpeg-ts files they broke in the last firmware and some mkv's do play better.

What's the best source for info like this, besides you? The networkedmediatank forums feel very disorganized and overwhelming to find anything. Maybe there are key forum or two there I should be watching, or maybe you have a better source.

I have some recent SD clear QAM .ts recordings that won't playback on the PCH even though the HD clear QAM ones from other channels are fine, and I'm not sure how to find out what problems are known and what aren't.

[psycik]

if you just want firmware info, then just subscribe to the firmware announcement forum:
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/forumd...php?fid=11

Or the individual firmware release thread: (A100) - http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...p?tid=4297
A110 - http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...p?tid=7518

[mvallevand]

Also the beta changelogs are usually online in the Firmware forum
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...p?tid=8159

It's overwhelming for sure I read maybe 5% of the posts very selectively. I knew the firmware was coming because the betaforum thread was closed.

As for diagnosing problems with mpeg-ts files, that isn't normally a priority unless there is a regression and it stopped working in one release like psycik and Sheik Yerbouti found last time around.

What I do to diagnose mpeg-ts issues when a file doesn't play

- look at the file with mediainfo
- play it with vlc to see if there are errors in the stream
- run through ts4np or tsdoctor. If it plays after the fix forget about getting Syabas to fix it. Most issues relate to the this and since it is pass thru to the hardware mux, if it fails you have to await new Sigma microcode and hope.
- If this doesn't fix it and it plays in GBPVR (now my standard for TS quality) I would pass it to the authour of TSDoctor to see if he can figure out what is wrong with it and also to Syabas

I'd be happy to look at a 50MB sample via megaupload or other free file sharing site to see if it plays via the software demux I am working on.

Martin

[pBS]

changelog is up and i must say, quite the mess of goodies they've included..

Release Date:21 January 2009
Firmware Version: 01-17-090116-15-POP-402-000

2. Browser / System
- Improvement on font engine character rendering (30% speed up)
- faster navigation on local drives
- Use numeric key to input item number to jump to the page where item is located
- Improved fileplayer speed
- Hebrew translation added
- Fixed HDMI display output blackout issue for auto EDID
- Discrete RC (Logitech) scancode fix
- Updated network share and webservices language packs.
- Removed EXT2 option for NMT installation
- Note: due to long term reliability issue with EXT2 on device that is frequently turned off abruptly
- Additional symbols can be input from "1" key
- HTTP download manager (only works with links with special "download" attributes.
- File player hide Recycle Bin folder
- Fixed 'TV MODE' + '3' key handling bug
- Fixed recovery kernel no red screen displayed
- Browser image caching fix, should fix some YAMJ crashes or no image issue.
- Fixed HDD spin-up during standby
- Fixed slow loading of HTML pages

3. Web Services
- New UI
- customizable icon feature with browse image utility (need NMT apps)
- bug fixes on customizable service icon with browse feature.
- Web Services page modification
- Fixed a "save/remove service" bug
- Now able to customise JPG/BMP icon
- Fixed slow IR response while playback Internet Radio
- Immediate response to STOP during Internet video streaming
- Fine-tune Web Service UI

4. Network
- Improved SMB server startup time
- Improved browsing time for SMB client
- Atheros USB WiFi stability fixes
- Fixed SMB client hostname resolution picked up wrong IP address from the IP list
- Fixed file copy failed from HDD to SMB/NFS with names containing whitespace
- Fixed UPnP AV server playall issue broken in previous release
- Fixed Samba server halts after device name change
- Torrent client is now by default Transmission (btpd removed)
**** IMPORTANT NOTE: Please ensure completion with previous downloads with BTPD, as new Transmission client cannot inherit previous downloads.
- Fixed torrent schedule page not working
- Fixed occasionally newly created SMB/NFS shares doesn't show up in media source list
- Atheros USB WiFi added support for TP-Link v2 stick
- Fixed persistent private IP when DHCP server unavailable (e.g. cross-cable connection etc)

5. Playback
- Bookmark/resume for single playback
- 10 bookmarks available now
- Press stop to bookmark the last video playback
- Press enter / play with focus on bookmarked clip to resume
- Press "0" to start from beginning of clip
- Auto framerate synchronisation
- Framerate sync function in ISO playback, only for 50,60Hz modes (PAL/NTSC)
- switch to NTSC(60Hz) when selected mode not applicable.(previously, it will follow TV mode selected)
- Use 59.94 for NTSC when matching content detected.
- Fixed incorrect data shown on infobar.
- Fixed after ISO playback, screen goes blank when framerate sync kicks in
- Improved info display
- Disable incorrect video MPEG1/2 VBR display.
- Fixed incorrect framerate info for video playback (*.mov, *.mp4).
- Fixed video bitrate calculation error (less 1 packet every second)
- Modified infobar UI (height, spacing and text displayed)
- Fixed info bar losing text after paused
- Improved accuracy of mpeg1/2 bitrate information
- Photo app
- Fixed JPEG (PNG / TIFF transcode) from myiHome server cannot be displayed
- Fade-In Fade-out effect added for photo transition
- Enable large jpeg rotation. (downscale before rotate)
- Fixed faded color for jpeg at 360-deg rotation
- TV Type setting for DVD playback
- the TV type setting is now working for DVD video playback (4:3 and 16:9 only, 16:10 will treat as 16:9)
- DVD Menu
- new popup menu if MENU key on PCH remote controller is pressed
- user can select to jump to ROOT, TITLE, CHAPTER.... etc from the menu
- Modified progressive zoom and pan in ISO/IFO playback
- Removed up/down keys as prev/next track/td>
- VCD *.DAT playback fixed using soft demux
- Fixed "repeat" keypress in myiHome when playback audio caused picture playback to halt
- Improved handling of MKV H.264 profile and vlevel.
- Fixed cannot stream MPEG from UPnP AV server, liveTV
- Fixed .pls file unable to start when playback locally (HDD/SMB/NFS)
- *.m3u playlist supported.
- Fixed TS with stream6 as teletext playback cause out of memory
- Fixed MKV H264 L4.1 pixelated video issue

6. Subtitle
- Fixed Hebrew SRT subtitle containing invalid character
- Fixed subtitle parsing with BOM (UTF8 support only)
- Thai subtitle support
- Fixed wrong character rendered in Thai subtitle
- Changed default subtitle font size to 28 and Y offset to 10
- Exception handling in SSA subtitle parsing
- Slight adjustment of subtitle position


NMT Apps Version:00-17-090115-15-POP-402
Release Note:
1. Minimum firmware version to use this NMT App is 00-17-090116-15-POP-402-000
2. Improved on samba client browsing time and server boot up time
3. Fixed occasional slow samba response
4. Upgraded to nzbget 0.51
5. Upgraded to nzbgetweb 1.2 (Categories can be modifed in /mnt/syb8634/nzbgetweb/setting.php5)
6. Various Casgle fixes
7. Fixed FTP password saving
8. Improved Setup Page loading time
9. Remove btpd, using Transmission as default BT client
10. Fixed sometimes unable to access casgle web ui
11. Fixed HDD spin-up during standby

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Resume is supported on the last 10 files but it is not stored in flash and sub opted not to integrate the resume with GBPVR at all :-( so if you turn off/unplug your machine these settings will be lost.

Hmmm, not nice. Not integrating the resume with GBPVR is very bad for the WAF. And this really feels like missing a great opportunity to add functionality to the PCH that no other PCH app has (database driven resume).

Chris