Software update: ChrisTV 4.20

ChrisTV has been updated to version 4.20. This program is intended for people with a TV card. For example, it has advanced recording functions, a scheduler and extensive setting options. Support for all TV cards with WDM drivers, including the FM tuner functions, is provided. The software is available in the flavors Lite (free), standard and Professional† The differences in options and price are this one page explained. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

New in version 4.20

• Support for Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350/500, ATI EHome Wonder and Leadtek PVR 2000 has been improved.
• Channel Automatic Scan module has been improved and optimized :
  • Added new feature to Autoscan for Radio Stations.
  • Added new option to save found channels into a new channel list or append to the existing channel list.
  • Improved channel scanning and switching for some bt8x8 tv cards.
  • If you don`t find any channel, you can change the TV Card Driver frequency tunning settings by pressing the “Advanced Settings…” button.
• Mosaic Mode has been improved and optimized, also now you can choose the number of channels to be displayed once : 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, 5×5.
• For better Channel Settings management, you can now maximize the Channel Settings Window.
• Improved Scheduler module : scheduled tasks will wake up your PC from Hibernation/Standby Mode.
• Improved detection of TV Cards with MPEG2 Hardware Encoding.
• Improved support for Hauppauge PVR 250/350 series – Live Preview Mode without MPEG2 Hardware Encoding.
• Added new option to reinitiliaze the Preview Graph, after you make a MPEG2 Hardware Recording, in order to fix some sound and video problems.
• For some TV cards with MPEG2 Hardware Encoding the Video Standard was not correctly set, now you can Force the TV Video Standard to PAL/NTSC in Program Settings->MPEG Hardware Encoding.
• Fixed a bug that prevented ChrisTV to start correctly for Windows Users that didn`t have admin rights.
• Improved detection of the Composite and S-Video inputs for TV Cards that have more than 1 input, like Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350/500 series.
• Optimized the TVgenial support in ChrisTV.
• Fixed some bugs in MPEG Recording Module and new frame sizes : 640×480, 704×480 and 704×576 have been added.
• You can now send a ChrisTV Questionnaire or Error Report, without launching ChrisTV, by going to Start Button->Programs->ChrisTV->”Contact ChrisTV Support”.
• Some language files have been updated.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

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