Firmware update: Xtreamer 2.0

Xtreamer has released a new firmware update for its media player of the same name. The Xtreamer is intended for playing and streaming media files from the optional built-in hard drive, a device on the internal network – wired or wireless – or from the Internet. There is a topic on our own GoT where more information about this budget media player can be found. Version 2.0 includes support for Blu-ray ISO file playback, Dolby downmixing and Internet radio playback. Furthermore, the user interface has been overhauled, the fan can now be manually given a value between 0 and 200 and several bugs have been fixed. The full changelog of this release looks like this:

New features:

• BD ISO playback support.
  • Can’t support menu navigation.
• Change from SD UI to HD UI.
• DTS HD Master Audio down-mixing and pass-through.
  • Pass through(5.1ch )
• Dolby TrueHD down mixing.
  • Pass-through(5.1 PCM format)
  • Direct pass-through (5.1ch) will be prepared soon.
• Internet Radio.
  • “Internet Radio” menu added in main OSD.
  • *MyRadio* link to MyRadio folder in internal HDD first partition root directory.
  • .plsx extension detection support for internet radio.
  • Same file format for .pls and .plsx
  • User can use internet radio files residing in their internal or external HDD.
• Photo thumbnail display.(in “Photo” menu)
  • Preview button toggles between “Preview off/Preview on/Photo Thumbnail” in “Photo” menu if there is any photo file in that folder.
• Network virtual remote control.
  • URL http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/rc for mobile device.
  • URL http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/rc2.
  • Multilanguage support from keyboard to search, rename etc.
  • Usable from PC/IPhone/mobile hand phone(including web browser)
• Hostname Change Support
  • Web setup->DDNS/Hostname
  • hostname (to access Samba share), http://hostname:portnumber (to access web service).
• UI effect sound.
  • Setup->System->Effect Sound.
• Video playback window size decreased in internet menu.
  • Press zoom button to switch to middle size, full screen, small Screen.
• Zoom and navigation support for Weather map in internet -> weather menu.
• Home menu UI can support multi language.

Improvements:

• Improve HDMI compatibility.
• Normalize audio volume (except AAC, WMA pro).
• Network playback streaming speed up.
• Change Music Jukebox UI.
• Change weather UI.
• Change video playback information window.
• Change wireless Network UI.
• Increase subtitle window size
• Changed loading image for internet menu.
• Changed keyboard UI for internet menu.
• Reduced changing time between wireless and wired network.
• Language added (Arabic, Estonia, Hungarian, Slovenia, Vietnam) in web interface.
• Internet Video preview displays current time/total time and progress bar with buffering bar.
• Fan speed manual setting from 0 ~ 200.
• UTF8/UTF16 auto detection when no selection of Unicode in SUB-T/ID3TAG.
• After pressing “Enter” button on video file, direct playback while preview is on.
• Detection of external ODD improved.
  • If can’t detect, go to “Home” and press “Eject”. It will retry to detect.
  • To eject DVD go to “Home” menu and press “Eject” button(when DVD is detected).
• Fast forward from 0.8x to 2.0x displays subtitles also.
• Delete function added to remote control “Delete” (3) button.
• Change folder/file list in alphabetical order.
  • A, A1, C4, a2, b3 -> A, A1, a2, b3, C4.

Bug fixed:

• 24p cinema mode
• FLAC file playback including id3tag.
• Support MKV internal idx+sub subtitle.
• Movie including FLAC audio codec playback support.
• Sometime crashes when displaying Folder JPG in preview window.
• Max 16 character input in keyboard changed to Max 128 character
• Direct numbers input from remote control to keyboard.
• DEL/SP key problem fixed for Chinese keyboard.
• After returning from NAS Mode, photo crash problem fixed.
• Audio file play problem solved from UPnP client.
• Play/Pause both works for Internet Video playback.
• Rumania code page changed.
  • ISO-8859-2 -> ISO-8859-16
• Chinese missing character support.
• Samba Share of windows 7 can’t be seen.
• Center alignment of Arabic subtitle.
• No subtitle displayed while playing video if 1080P 24Hz set from setup menu.
• WPA key 64 characters not display.