DVB-TV 2.608 build02 release note 2005-12-20

Features & bugs fixed,
1. Recording
   1.1 Fix Astra HD program recording issue
   1.2 Compatible with SONY DVD Architect and TMPGenc DVD author
   1.3 Compatible with Media Player
   1.4 Bug fixed: the length of the record path can't exceed 60 characters
2. DVB Subtitling
   2.1 Subtitle won't disappear until next one showing up.
   2.2 Support multiple language subtitle pages 
3. Video freezes after long time playback
4. Cyclic Channel Up/Down
5. Channel scan issue with India DVB-C
6. Fix DiSEqC 1.2/ USALS motor support bugs
7. Enable "Mask off VBI" by default
8. Show cursor properly while in full screen mode


Know issues and limitation,
1. Support only Windows XP/2K.
2. MagicBox II (7045/7046) supports only USB 2.0.
3. MagicBox(7041) supports both USB 2.0 & 1.1, but HDTV is not supported.
4. StarBox(7020/7021/7021A) supports USB 2.0 for XP/2K, but USB 1.1 for XP only.
5. DVD burning supports only SDTV, no transcoding support.
6. USB BOX hot-unplug is not supported in Win2K.
7. Remote controller does not support LCN channel switch, yet.
8. There is minor glitch while play Australia high-bit rate programs for MagicBox (7041).
9. DVD burning does not support DVD+R/DVD-R discs.
10.When switch to another APID of a scrambled program, the audio disappears.
11.DVD-VR burning is not supported.
12.Subtitling recording is not support, yet.
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DVB-TV 2.607 build06 release note 2005-11-02

Features & bugs fixed,
 1. DVD recording
    1.1 Increase stability with large GOP TS
    1.2 Improve DVD burning related user interfaces.
 2. EPG, 
    2.1 Auto refresh EPG (TTV issue)
    2.2 When recording, enter EPG menu, the EPG is not updated
 3. Power Management
    3.1 Power options are not restored when system crash.
    3.2 Disable Power Management & screen saver while channel scan
    3.3 7045 RC power on button does not work while waking up from S3.
        (WinManager update)
 4. DVB-S & DiSEqC
    4.1 Simple DiSEqC support
    4.2 Proper Hi-Lo band switch & 22KHz output for non-Universal LNB.
    4.3 For USALS, location in east longitude is supported
 5. Logical Channel Number
    When  DVB-T  & country= UK or France,
    LCN is enabled automatically and favorite list sort order is set to  Name/Ascending.
 6. Subtitles
    6.1 Support DVB-Subtitle
    6.2 Fix bugs with multiple page (language) teletext subtitles
 7. Fix issue with duplicate program names,
    ID Up/Dn and Channel Up/Dn does not work properly with Australia Channel TEN
 8. System crashes after scanning DVB-C 
 9. When  DVB-T  & country= Australia or France, "off-center frequency scan" is enabled automatically.
10. Support 7021A, USB 2.0 bypass mode.
11. Video stops after long-time playback.
12. Large file (>4GB) playback
13. MS Demux will not be un-registered.
14. CI card access timing fix

Know issues and limitation,
1. Support only Windows XP/2K.
2. MagicBox II (7045/7046) supports only USB 2.0.
3. MagicBox(7041) supports both USB 2.0 & 1.1, but HDTV is not supported.
4. StarBox(7020/7021/7021A) supports USB 2.0 for XP/2K, but USB 1.1 for XP only.
5. DVD burning supports only SDTV, no transcoding support.
6. USB BOX hot-unplug is not supported in Win2K.
7. Remote controller does not support LCN channel switch, yet.
8. There is minor glitch while play Australia high-bit rate programs for MagicBox (7041).
9. DVD burning does not support DVD+R/DVD-R discs.
10.Astra HD program is not recorded well.
11.Fail to author recorded files to DVD with SONY DVD Architect2.0 and TMPGenc DVD author1.6. 
12.When switch to another APID of a scrambled program, the audio disappears.
13.DVD-VR burning is not supported.
14.While play recoreded files with MS MediaPlayer, the playback is jerky.
15.The length of the record path can't exceed 60 characters, or else it will not be saved.
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DVB-TV 2.606 build06 release note 2005-7-28

Features & bugs fixed,

1.Correct UI translation mistakes.
2.EPG, 
  2.1 automatically detect summer daylight saving time
  2.2 OSD EPG not updated after long time playback
  2.3 Taiwan TTV EPG
3.Parental control password
  3.1 Only numeric keys allowed (for RC support)
  3.2 Schedule recording password check
  3.3 RC+/- keys can skip password input window
4.Teletext viewer
  RC "Teletext" button can be used to close Teletext viewer.
5.Program list,
  5.1 Fix bugs in Program list's ID Up & Down operation.
  5.2 "Class" Input window can't be pulled down if screen font is large (120dpi).
6.Can switch to another program in the same mux while recording
7.Recorded file playback,
  7.1 when play stops, press "Play" button will play the recorded file again.
  7.2 when rewind to the beginning, the play will not stop.
8.Fix failure in scan multiple LCN channels.
9.Schedule recording,
  9.1 Fix end time not shown in recording status window
  9.2 Fix schedule recording not stopped properly
10.Show audio format while switching apid's with "L" button on control panel

Know issues and limitation,
1. Support only Windows XP/2K.
2. MagicBox II (7045/7046) supports only USB 2.0.
3. MagicBox(7041) supports both USB 2.0 & 1.1, but HDTV is not supported.
4. StarBox(7020/7021) supports USB 2.0 for XP/2K, but USB 1.1 for XP only.
5. DVD burning support only SDTV, no transcoding support.
6. USB BOX hot-unplug is not supported in Win2K.
7. DVD burning is not stable, in case there is packet loss due to weak signal. 
8. Support only <4GB recorded file playback. 
9. Remote controller does not support LCN channel switch, yet.
10.There is minor glitch while play Australia high-bit rate programs for MagicBox (7041).
11.DVD burning does not support DVD+R/DVD-R discs.
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DVB-TV 2.605 build09 release note 2005-7-11

Features & bugs fixed,

1.Correct UI translation mistakes.
2.MagicBoxII 7045/7046 BDA driver
  2.1 supports remote remote controller power on.
  2.2 WHQL certification
3.Fix StarBox 7021 high bit rate program playback
4.Teletext viewer
  4.1 RC: Full screen/Power/Vol+/Vol-/Mute support
          Page number input directly
  4.2 Swap the definition for Ch+/Ch- as,
       PgUp/CH+  increasing the page number, and the PgDown/CH- decreasing.
  4.3 Enable Teletext in recoding & timeshift mode.
  4.4 Fix page print failure
5. Two buttons (ID Up & Down) added for sorting program list.
6. Disable screen saver & power management while playback
7. MagicBoxII RC key repeat support
8. RC channel swich
   8.1. after target channel ID input (RC or keyboard), the channel is switched to the
        new one after 2 seconds automatically, if the Play button was not pushed.
   8.2. CH+, CH- buttons zapping, switch to the new one after 1 second time-out, so if
        pressing CH+ twice continuously, it plays the next second channel.
9. Fix channel switch slow with ATI VGA card
10. Fix playback intermittent when reception recovers from weak signal. 
11. Fix mouse cursor not hidden in full screen mode on some PC's.
12. Fix High CPU usage when dragging mouse cursor over the video window.
13. Muting system mixer volume will not mute DTV program.
14. Preview
    RC CH+/CH-/Play can select the channel to play. 
15. Fix RC FF/Rewind does not work in timeshift mode
16. Change Mute OSD display location
17. Parental Control
    Stop time shift, no need to input parental password again
18. Fix CI card channel locking failure on high-end P4 PC's.

Know issues and limitation,
1. Support only Windows XP/2K.
2. MagicBox II (7045/7046) supports only USB 2.0.
3. MagicBox(7041) supports both USB 2.0 & 1.1, but HDTV is not supported.
4. StarBox(7020/7021) supports USB 2.0 for XP/2K, but USB 1.1 for XP only.
5. DVD burning support only SDTV, no transcoding support.
6. USB BOX hot-unplug is not supported in Win2K.
7. DVD burning is not stable, in case there is packet loss due to weak signal. 
8. Support only <4GB recorded file playback. 
9. Remote controller does not support LCN channel switch, yet.
10. There is minor glitch while play Australia high-bit rate programs for MagicBox (7041).
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DVB-TV 2.605 build04 release note 2005-6-14

Features & bugs fixed,

1.Correct UI translation mistakes.
2.Audio noise while switching channel in mute mode.
3.Live Recording,
  2.1. If record button pressed, the recording starts immediately. 
  2.2. In ˇ§Recording time setupˇ¨ window,  a new button ˇ§Cancelˇ¨added. 
  2.3. In the window ˇ§Recording statusˇ¨,  a new button ˇ§Hideˇ¨ added.
4. Teletext viewer
   4.1 USB RC suspport in teletext viewer
   4.2 German UI support
5. Fix BDA driver installation failure in XP/SP1 & Windows 2K.
6. Improve weak signal handling (stop playback while poor reception)
7. Fix StarBox 7021 DiSEqC motor support


Know issues and limitation,
1. Support only Windows XP/2K.
2. MagicBox II (7045/7046) supports only USB 2.0.
3. MagicBox(7041) supports both USB 2.0 & 1.1, but HDTV is not supported.
4. StarBox(7020/7021) supports USB 2.0 for XP/2K, but USB 1.1 for XP only.
5. DVD burning support only SDTV, no transcoding support.
6. USB BOX hot-unplug is not supported in Win2K.
7. DVD burning is not stable, in case there is packet loss due to weak signal. 
8. Support only <4GB recorded file playback. 
9. Remote controller does not support LCN channel switch, yet.
10. There is minor glitch while play Australia high-bit rate programs for MagicBox (7041).
11. 7045 BDA driver does not support remote controller power on.
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DVB-TV 2.604 build02 release note 2005-6-1

Features & bugs fixed,
1. Fix 7045/7046 BDA driver (THBDAAgent) setup failure
2. Fix 7045/7046 BDA driver playback failure
3. Improve 7045/7046 BDA driver channel switch speed
4. Add Hungarian

Know issues and limitation,
1. Support only Windows XP/2K.
2. MagicBox II (7045/7046) supports only USB 2.0.
3. MagicBox(7041) supports both USB 2.0 & 1.1, but HDTV is not supported.
4. StarBox(7020/7021) supports USB 2.0 for XP/2K, but USB 1.1 for XP only.
5. DVD burning support only SDTV, no transcoding support.
6. USB BOX hot-unplug is not supported in Win2K.
7. DVD burning is not stable, in case there is packet loss due to weak signal. 
8. Support only <4GB recorded file playback. 
9. Remote controller does not support LCN channel switch, yet.
10. There is minor glitch while play Australia high-bit rate programs for MagicBox (7041).
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DVB-TV 2.604 build01 release note 2005-5-29

Features & bugs fixed,
1. Support 7045/7046 BDA driver (THBDAAgent) and Mantis PCI Series.
2. No-audio (video only) program playback 
3. Lip-Sync issue for Australia ABC.
4. Slow radio channel switch
5. Channel switch time-out when there is a blank CD/DVD in drive.
6. Can't record or play recorded audio program
7. Time-out check for closing DVD disc
8. Driver setup options

Know issues and limitation,
1. Support only Windows XP/2K.
2. MagicBox II (7045/7046) supports only USB 2.0.
3. MagicBox(7041) supports both USB 2.0 & 1.1, but HDTV is not supported.
4. StarBox(7020/7021) supports USB 2.0 for XP/2K, but USB 1.1 for XP only.
5. DVD burning support only SDTV, no transcoding support.
6. USB BOX hot-unplug is not supported in Win2K.
7. DVD burning is not stable, in case there is packet loss due to weak signal. 
8. Support only <4GB recorded file playback. 
9. Remote controller does not support LCN channel switch, yet.
10. There is minor glitch while play Australia high-bit rate programs for MagicBox (7041).
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DVB-TV 2.603 release note 2005-5-01

Features & bugs fixed,
1. Support StarBox(7020/7021)  & MagicBox (7041).
2. Lip-sync issue in Australia is fixed.
3. Recorded files can't be played on VIOAZone platforms.
4. Shorten Channel switch time
5. 22K DiSEqC switch support
6. Support multiple languages
7. A new message window for recording status 
8. Option to show control panel in full screen video window
9. LL & RR speaker output reversed
10. CI window pops up randomly while playback
11. EPG bugs fixed,
    11.1 The current channel is not selected in the list when opening the EPG. 
    11.2 Clicking on the channel name sorts only the first char of the channels. 
12. Telete/Subtitle fonts support for English, Turkish & Swedish.
13. Auto-scrolling option for Preview
14. Option for weak or no signal handling
15. AC3 SPDIF output
16. Fix DiSEqC 1.2/USALS motor support

Know issues and limitation,
1. Support only Windows XP/2K.
2. MagicBox II (7045/7046) supports only USB 2.0.
3. MagicBox(7041) supports both USB 2.0 & 1.1, but HDTV is not supported.
4. StarBox(7020/7021) supports USB 2.0 for XP/2K, but USB 1.1 for XP only.
5. DVD burning support only SDTV, no transcoding support.
6. USB BOX hot-unplug is not supported in Win2K.
7. DVD burning is not stable, in case there is packet loss due to weak signal. 
8. Support only <4GB recorded file playback. 
9. Remote controller does not support LCN channel switch, yet.
10. There is minor glitch while play Australia high-bit rate programs for MagicBox (7041).
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DVB-TV 2.602 release note 2005-3-24

Features & bugs fixed,
1. Subtitle
  1.1 An option to enable show OSD subtitling automatically
  1.2 Subtitle is not stopped automatically when time shift
  1.3 Only the half subtitle is shown, 1 line instead of 2 where there should be 2.
  1.4 Interference between subtitle and teletext
  1.5 Fit the OSD subtitle properly for both window & full-screen playback mode.
2.Preview
  2.1 Support HDTV 
  2.2 Preview all FTA channels
3.DVD burning
  3.1 update DVD burning module to v2.2
  3.2 A recording status to show record progress and recordable capacity.
  3.3 Fix improper behavior with non-DVD disc
  3.4 Dual layer DVD support
4.Player Panel
  4.1 Move hibernate button to advance panel.
  4.2 Fix left & right speaker control reversed
5.Recording
  5.1 Specify Apid to be recorded in schedule recording
  5.2 >4GB recording for NTFS   
6.EPG
  6.1 EPG window is enlarged
  6.2 The field column width is saved
  6.3 Fix wrong default channel when clicking "set to record" button
7.CI
  Fix bugs in scramble program playback
8.Channel scan
  8.1 LCN(logical channel number) channel scan support
  8.2 Option to support off the central frequency (+/- 167KHz) scan for DVB-T.
  8.3 Terrestrial channel list update
  8.4 Fix scan duplicate programs 
9.Playback 
  9.1 Astra HDTV playback
  9.2 Memory leakage in channel switching
  9.3 Option to mask off top edge of video frames (line 21 removal)
  0.4 Anamorphic mode for playback in window
10. MISC
  10.1 MagicBox II driver update
  10.2 Mpeg2 decoder update
  10.3 Support DirectX9

Know issues and limitation
1. Support only XP/2K PCI or USB 2.0
2. English UI only
3. DVD burning support only SDTV, no transcoding support.
4. USB BOX hot-unplug is not supported in Win2K.
5. 22K DiSEqC switch not supported
6. DVD burning is not stable for DVB-T programs. 
7. Support only <4GB recorded file playback 
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DVB-TV 2.601 release note 2005-2-4

Features
1. OSD Telext subtitle  
2. Improve Channel switch time
3. Add preview support
4. More messages for DVD burning
5. Fix DVB-C scan failure
6. faster to cancel "Channel scan" 
7. Default thread priority to "Normal"
8. Speedup FastForward/Rewind button response

Know issues and limitation
1. Support only XP/2K PCI or USB 2.0
2. English UI only
3. Preview is supported for SD only, no HD yet.
4. DVD burning support only SDTV, no transcoding support.
5. USB BOX hot-unplug is not supported in Win2K.
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DVB-TV 2.6 release note 2004-12-21

Features
1. Channel(program)  scan 
   a. An easy wizard for channel scan
   b. configurable scan options 
   c. channel databae can be editted.
2. Program List
   a. Listed in an spreadsheet array. More user friedly interface for program list editing.
   b. Parental control password protect
   c. UniCode program name support
3. Schedule recording
   a. support suspend wakeup schedule recording
   b. Support periodical (daily, weekly and monthly) schedule recording.
4. Aspect ratio support:Letter box, Pan&scan, Anamorphic 
5. Video/Audio decoding
   a. DxVA  support
   b. AC3 pass-through (SPDIF out)
   c. Option to decoding noisy frames
6. Configurable application priority
7. Power Management support
8. DVD DirectBurn recording
9. Video still frame capture
   Support multiple periodical capture
10. EPG
   a. Show current & next program info while play
   b. Program EPG info is saved in database
   c. Program EPG info is listed as spreadsheet array. 
11. An antena tuninig utility for DVB-T
12. Left & Righ speaker control
    The Left & Righ speakers can output in LL(both in left channel) or RR(both in left channel) mode.
13. Favorite list
    a. Various filters 
    b. Three different sorting keys, program number, name, and class.
14. Channel UP & Channel Down
    The definitions are reversed as compared to previous 2.4x.
 

Know issues and limitation
1. Support only XP/2K PCI or USB 2.0
2. English UI only
3. Preview is not supported yet.
4. Channel switch time is  a little slower than 2.4x
5. Subtitling is not support yet.
6. DVD burning support only SDTV, no transcoding support.
7. USB BOX hot-unplug is not supported in Win2K.
8. DVB-C is not officially supported in this release.
