Firmware Update: Popcorn Hour C-200 02-02-100109-19-POP-408-000

The developers of Syabas Technology have prepared new firmware for the Popcorn Hour C-200. This so-called Networked Media Tank can play audio and video from the optional hard disk. But the device can also be used without a hard disk, because content can then be streamed from a NAS system or a computer. The list of changes for this update with 02-02-100109-19-POP-408-000 as the version designation is as follows:

Version 02-02-100109-19-POP-408-000:

Previous NMT apps 02-01-091203-19-POP-408

BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA:

• Workaround for CDDA issues
• Workaround for BD-ROM via USB support
• Performance improvement for BD ISO playback
• Added patches for audio bitstream issues
• Enabled MENU key for DVD/ISO/VIDEO_TS playback
• Added REPEAT AB function for DVD/VIDEO_TS and CDDA
  • Known to have slow response
  • AB interval of less than 2sec may have issue

Video and Audio playback:

• Fixed detection conflict between FLAC, WAV and AVS video
• Enable support for FLAC and VORBIS with 3, 4 & 5 channels
• Support Thai(codepage 874) external ext-based subtitle
• Checking of Byte Order Mark for external SRT in UTF8
• Fixed positioning of long/large-size text-based subtitles
• Fixed external text-based subtitle via HTTP eg myiHome not loaded
• Fixed resume/bookmark issue; only seekable files can be bookmarked now
• Fix to only allow files with duration and seekable status to do time seek (LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO)
• Fixed file certain WMV clip unable to end after LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO seek
• Fixed STEP on clip that is not steppable will terminate playback
• Fixed after trigger SEEK LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO on the infobar will show PAUSE/STOP icon then only show PLAY icon.
• Fixed hang-up when press PLAY on m3u file
• Fixed issue regarding video zoom/scaling
• Improvements for h264 video frame sequence calculation to handle typical h264 encoding fault caused by non-standard ripping
• MKV chapter support, use PREV/NEXT key
• Added FLAC metadata display for music playback
• Added shuffle feature for music playlist; press REPEAT to toggle
• Added gapless playback feature for audio playback (first phase)
  • only for MP3 and WAV now, and for subsequent files of same format
  • cannot seek when prebuffer starts near end of file
• Fixed certain TS video clips cannot do LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO/TIME SEEK seek/resume from bookmark.
• Fixed if huge MKV chapter size causing system error.
• Fixed certain Internet radio cannot play.
• Fixed UPnP-AV (WMP11) playlist item crashes.
• embedded PGS subtitle support for M2TS files (first phase)
• Fixed PGS/M2TS subtitle rendering resolution flaw
• Enabled camcoder AVCHD type detection.
• Added gapless audio support for FLAC format.
• Support for changing subtitle encoding on-the-fly
  • in subtitle menu; only for ASCII codepages (Latin1, Greek, Cyrillic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai), GB2312, BIG5, Shift_JIS and UTF-8)
• Fixed missing space with Italian subtitles
• Fixed PGS subtitle potential hang.
• Workaround to enable 24.000Hz at auto framerate sync
• Fixed gapless playback feature for small mp3 file less than 1MB
• Added album art retrieval from FLAC metadata
• Added Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation setting for video (press Setup during video playback)
• Fixed issue where single file playback could not toggle repeat mode.
• Fixed M2TS PGS subtitle issue
• Workaround WMAPro bitstream output issue

photo app:

• Slideshow, new photo info (ISO speed, F number and Exposure time)

OSD:

• slight modification for info display during video/photo playback.

System/Network:

• Resolved screensaver setting issue after restoring factory setting
• Fixed video scaling info not updated during PAUSE
• Disallow file copy of over 4GB to FAT device (filesystem limitation)
• included kernel mode NTFS read/write driver
• Fixed configure proxy result in error page
• Fixed DVD parental setting cannot be saved
• minor update on Chinese/Japanese language pack
• Fixed HDD name not displayed
• Fixed occasional detection failure of NTFS hard disk
• New network share UI
• Turn on syabas_command_server
• Improve time for NFS (UDP/TCP) client login to non-exist/blocked shares
• Improve time for server discovery utility
• More intelligent handling of protocol type instead of .udp. default
• Torrent client HTTP wget fix
• Network share, number of allowed persistent links has been increased to 20.
• Fixed USB unmount issue
• Fixed issue of incorrect redirection when changing password in NMT Apps page
• Fixed CD status update while opening/closing
• Fixed issue where some servers were missing from the discovery

browser:

• press PLAY on non-playable item will instead play from first playable item in the folder
• Browser user agent missing closing bracket.
• Added “remove USB device” feature in file mode menu
• For browser to display USB mount point instead of USB name
• browser will stay busy until all images from previous page is loaded
• Fixed file operation delete/copy/newfolder/move/rename/createplaylist does not update the list in UI
• Fixed Internet radio showing image info on front panel LCD
• Fixed SD mode media source listing issue, broken in previous RC release

Wi-Fi:

• Fixed connection failure if disable SSID broadcast at router and key in SSID manually
• Fixed unable to play Internet radio via MSP when using WiFi

UPnP AV:

• Resolved photo pause-next will hang the system
• support mp2v m4a mp4 m4v.
• Resolved PlayOn “no content found” problem
• Fixed URL with parameters cannot find extension

Web Services:

• App Center service (First Cut)
• Official SHOUTcast service added
• Fixed “scroll up” page handling issue.
• Fixed loading wrong saved flash info in SD mode