SageTV V6.0.17 RC2 is Now Available

SageTV is hard at work squashing bugs :). They have released RC2 for version 6 with the full release coming soon! Click the read more for the full release notes!

Release Notes:

SageTV V6.0.17 Release Notes 12/14/2006 RELEASE CANDIDATE 2

Core Updates
1. Fixed bug with scaling GIFs while decoding them using the native image loader
2. Fixed bug with OGM duration detection
3. Memory usage optimizaitons for getting the name of a capture device (used heavily in the Scheduler, and was found through analysis of a user's dumps)
4. Native image loader is now enabled by default. Use "ui/disable_native_image_loader" to disable it.
5. Disabled multipass encoding for 3GP format since it doesn't always fit within the desired parameters
6. Fixed bug where Razr transcodings wouldn't play back on a Razr anymore
7. Changed offline transcoder so it allows WMV9 files to be converted (even though WMV9 is not supported officially)
8. Disabled debug logging by default
9. Fixed bug where invalid formats in a transcode job would cause no transcode jobs to be executed at all.
10. Fixed bug with metadata parsing where we interpreted Unicode chars as UTF-8

SageTV V6.0.17 Release Notes 12/14/2006 RELEASE CANDIDATE 2

Core Updates
1. Fixed bug with scaling GIFs while decoding them using the native image loader
2. Fixed bug with OGM duration detection
3. Memory usage optimizaitons for getting the name of a capture device (used heavily in the Scheduler, and was found through analysis of a user's dumps)
4. Native image loader is now enabled by default. Use "ui/disable_native_image_loader" to disable it.
5. Disabled multipass encoding for 3GP format since it doesn't always fit within the desired parameters
6. Fixed bug where Razr transcodings wouldn't play back on a Razr anymore
7. Changed offline transcoder so it allows WMV9 files to be converted (even though WMV9 is not supported officially)
8. Disabled debug logging by default
9. Fixed bug where invalid formats in a transcode job would cause no transcode jobs to be executed at all.
10. Fixed bug with metadata parsing where we interpreted Unicode chars as UTF-8

Linux Updates
1. IR codes for the MCE remote control are now configured by default
2. Fixed bug where we would continually regenerate the photo thumbnails when used on Linux.
3. Enable deinterlacing by default when using OpenGL renderer

Windows Updates
1. Force rebuildPMT for wrong PMT table created by firewire recorder (SageGraph Recorder).
2. Fix: multiple card support broken code (DVB-T Cinergy card)
3. Fixed multi-audio stream rendering so that when it switches it removes the old filters before adding the new ones

Placeshifter Updates
1. Fixed issue with Placeshifter bitrates getting out of control.
2. Don't disable the custom title bar by default on Win/LInux

Extender Updates
1. Modified transcoding setting used for Standard transcode quality to fix an audio/video sync problem on the MVP.
2. Fixed bug where the files used for DVD playback were not closed
3. Fixed bug playing back DVDs with MPEG1Layer2 audio content

STV Updates
1. Photo Viewer: Cache next image while slideshow is paused & fixed too-fast forked loop while paused in non-3D Accelerated mode.
2. Photo Viewer: Can access slideshow options while viewing photos.
3. Slideshows used by screensaver will auto-advance even if the slideshow auto-advance option is disabled.
4. Hidden: Fixed some divide by zero possibilities in the new diskspace bar code and some other minor visual touch-ups.
5. DVD Resume or Restart dialog: added Play command icon to Resume option button and added Play as a shortcut command to Resume playback.
6. Photo Browser: Display "Loading…" while loading an image & switching to the photo viewer.
7. Photo Viewer: Display indicator in lower right corner when manually switching from one photo to another.
8. Photo Viewer: Added additional commands to use up, down, ff, rew, ff2, rew2, smooth ff, smooth rew, chan up, chan down, page up, page down, page right, page left to move to next or prev photos.
9. Photo Viewer: Image viewing is always part of a slideshow. If a single image is selected in the Photo Browser, then a slideshow of all images in that folder starts as paused on that image. The Play and Pause commands may be used to start/pause the slideshow from that point. The on-screen tip is only shown while paused.
10. Photo Viewer: Next/Prev shortcut command icons were changed to FF and REW.
11. Photo Viewer: fixed image fade sequence when moving backwards in photo list.