SageTV Updates

SageTV has a couple of updates that hti recently. Nothing ground breaking just some bug fixes :).

HD-100 Extender Firmware update

  1. Fixed playback of many files submitted to us
  2. Compressed output on hdmi if the receiver supports it (Select SPDIF as the audio connector in the settings)
  3. Improved streaming performance in PS/TS push mode.
  4. Support for default aspect ratio (Needs server version 6.3.7+)
  5. DVD scene change fix
  6. DVD audio missing fix
  7. Google/YouTube audio missing fix on sdpif/hdmi
  8. Fixed mp3 podcasts
  9. Highly improved streaming in pull mode (tried up to 40mbit mpeg2 video inside mkv container  )
  10. Fixed seeking memory leak in mkv files.
  11. Optimized large avi index
  12. Workaround for bug in mov/mp4 parsing
  13. Faster loading of some files
  14. Fix AVI seeking to end of RIFF block
  15. Improve perfomance for small PCM block
  16. Fix AAC issue in MKV container
  17. Updated HDMI handling
  18. Fixed audio/video sync when seeking in some mov/mp4 files.
  19. Fixed audio/video sync when seeking in large avi files.
  20. Tweaked stuttering detection
  21. Fix bug when watching live tv using latest server release
  22. Modified audio output modes so hdmi compressed is only sent if spdif is selected in the audio configuration
  23. Fix hdmi audio when using resolution switching

SageTV 6.3.7RC (hit the read more for the full list)


SageTV V6.3.7 Release Candidate 1/22/2008

Core Updates
1. Add Switzerland DVBC frequency entries.
2. Fixed bug where animations in nested surfaces was falsely detected
if there was another nested surface behind it (fixed scrolling
animation issue in limit Fav by day setting)
3. Added SageTV recording recovery for .mkv files
4. Fixed bug where parental controls dialog wouldn’t come up on remote
placeshifter clients (actual bug was global hook cache wasn’t cleared
when switching STVs)
5. Fixed bug where we’d detect MPEG1-PS files as MPEG2-PS
6. Fix: ATSC tune to wrong channel with tuning string "channel-0-minor" (major = 0)
7. Fix: DVB channel scan return no channel found.
8. Fix: MPEG1 recording duartion dectection bug.
9. Fix: a aspect ratio format dection bug for the 1:1 ratio mpeg2 recording.


SageTV V6.3.7 Release Candidate 1/22/2008

Core Updates
1. Add Switzerland DVBC frequency entries.
2. Fixed bug where animations in nested surfaces was falsely detected
if there was another nested surface behind it (fixed scrolling
animation issue in limit Fav by day setting)
3. Added SageTV recording recovery for .mkv files
4. Fixed bug where parental controls dialog wouldn’t come up on remote
placeshifter clients (actual bug was global hook cache wasn’t cleared
when switching STVs)
5. Fixed bug where we’d detect MPEG1-PS files as MPEG2-PS
6. Fix: ATSC tune to wrong channel with tuning string "channel-0-minor" (major = 0)
7. Fix: DVB channel scan return no channel found.
8. Fix: MPEG1 recording duartion dectection bug.
9. Fix: a aspect ratio format dection bug for the 1:1 ratio mpeg2 recording.

Extender Updates
1. Fixed smooth FF/REW for HD files on the STX-HD100 so that it matches the desired rate much better
2. Changed behavior of property ‘ui/enable_hardware_scaling_cache’ so
that it makes image loading on the STX-HD100 behave like the MediaMVP
(but this will negatively impact performance of the extender so this is
not on by default). This will resolve users issues with large custom
thumbnails.
3. Fixed bug on STX-HD100 where clipped non-filled rectangles wouldn’t render
4. Moved default advanced aspect ratio to be in the client’s properties; not the server’s (also fixed support for this property)
5. Fixed support for AVI, MP4, MKV and ASF files that dont’ have native
codec support on the HD extender so that the server will transcode them
(such as MJPEG and WMV8)

Placeshifter updates
1. Fixed playback of MKV files on a local network

Windows Updates
1. Added support for KWorld DVB-T USB 339U (AF9015 DVB) dual tuner
2. Added support for KWORD DVB-T PCI 160 (dual tuner)
3. Fixed bug where the video wouldn’t be visible after changing channels sometimes until an OSD refresh when using VMR9
4. Don’t try to generate thumbnails for files recorded with the
ConvertX because the thumbnail generator can’t parse the MPEG2 format
used by those recordings
5. Fix: new SageTV software Video encoder wrong aspect ratio
6. Fix Broken code for old HDHR BDA driver support
7. Updated bundled JRE installer to the latest 1.6.0_04

Studio Updates
1. Don’t report animations as being supported if the rendering device
doesn’t support it (it used to just rely on the property’s value)
2. Only let animations target components in the top options menu of the UI if an options menu is visible
3. Added interruptable animation support (through an optional parameter
to AnimateVariable, AnimateTransition and AnimateDelayed)
4. Fixed bug where full screen BG layer ‘out’ animations didn’t work if
an ‘in’ animation for the BG layer was happening at the same time

STV Updates
1. Look for "background.jpg" themed BG image instead of "Background.jpg", so the file can be found on a case sensitive OS.
2. The videoframe/always_call_fileplaybackfinished property is always
reset to false since some custom STVs always set it to true.
3. Fixed calls where ChannelSet() was using GetPhysicalChannelNumberForLineup() instead of GetChannelNumberForLineup().
4. Removed BG for color calibration screen.


5. Fixed several places where the focus indicator was on top of the button text.