Popcorn Hour A-200/A-210 Firmware Update
Release Date : 24 February 2010
Firmware Version : 02-02-100208-19-POP-411-000
Release Note :
1. New NMT apps 02-01-100119-19-POP-411
2. BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA
  - Retrieve DVD region and number of changes available from the hardware; show these info in the region setting pop-up box
  - Bookmark/resume support for DVD ISO/VIDEO_TS
    - Max. 10 bookmarks.
    - known issue, sometimes failed to resume correctly for certain clips
  - Implemented simple persistfs folder
    - if NMT HDD not exist, any available writable device (HDD/USB) will be auto-detected and used.
    - previous /persistfs mounting wizard removed
  - Temporarly mount VideoCD/SVCD as data disc, to play the .dat
  - Fixed DVD fast-forward issue; press FF->PAUSE->PLAY key, playback could not resume
  - Fixed some DVD ISO files cannot resume from bookmark.
  - Fixed system hang when BD-J ISO playback BDJ ISO without /persistfs (Bug #5000285)
  - Fixed playback BDJ disc from internal BDROM without /persistfs connected.
  - Fixed certain DVD ISO (Apocalypto.ISO) cannot resume from bookmark (Bug #5000289).
  - Fixed subtitle cannot be enabled when play DVD with only single subtitle.
  - Fixed audio CD info not showed
  - Fixed occasional access/mount failure to disc in USB drive (Bug #5000315, #5000316)
  - Workaround for CDDA issues (Bug #5000302, #5000303)
  - Workaround for BD-ROM via USB support
  - Performance improvement for BD ISO playback
  - Added patches for audio bitstream issues
  - Enabled MENU key for DVD/ISO/VIDEO_TS playback
  - Added REPEAT A-B function for DVD/VIDEO_TS and CDDA
    - Known to have slow response
    - A-B interval of less than 2sec may have issue
  - Workaround for BD audio no output after switch from HD audio to Dolby Digital/DTS
  - Fixed after HDMI audio muted, DVD playback will have noise on audio output
  - SimpleBD navigation feature for A-200
    - Added support for ISO files.
    - Fixed video skip forward about an hour when switch audio track. (Tested BEVERLY_HILLS_CHIHUAHUA)
    - Fixed subtitle menu incorrect listing
    - Fixed audio/subtitle persistency issue
    - Fixed incorrect icon displayed when doing scene selection using menu
  - Enabled MENU key for DVD/ISO/VIDEO_TS playback
  - Added ANGLE switching OSD display for DVD/ISO/VIDEO_TS/BRD playback.
  - Added option in SETUP page to enable or disable BD PiP
  - Fixed AVCHD disc intermittent "could not play" issue.
  - Fixed AVCHD shown as "BLU-RAY Video" at OSD infobar
  - Fixed short audio mute issue when resume from bookmark for DVD content playback
  - For AudioCD/DVD/AVCHD, Right/Left key will do +/- 30 seconds skip
3. Video and Audio playback
  - Added Dolby DRC (Dynamic Range Control) setting
  - Fixed RW/FF/Slow icon not cleared after seek
  - Fileplayer bookmark/resume support (first-cut)
    - Max. 10 bookmarks
    - bookmark saved on STOP keypress; subsequent press (ENTER or PLAY) will resume from bookmark.
    - To start from beginning, press '0'.
  - Fixed incorrect aspect ratio (Bug #5000155)
  - Fixed "actual size" aspect ratio issue when playback clips below 1080p. (Bug #5000154)
  - Fixed BiDi char type table to resolved incorrect Hebrew subtitle rendering.
  - Partially fixed Arabic Tashkeel character shaping issue
  - Fixed subtitle size/position affected by pan/zoom.
  - Modified time seek hh:mm:ss key handling.
  - Fixed certain clips WMAPro audio lose output after 1-2 sec playback.
  - Forced 24p source to framerate 60Hz for non-1080p TV mode
  - Fixed issue where audio playback do not stop gracefully when encounter file read error
  - added FLAC audio support, including multi-channel FLAC
  - Fixed and restored video/audio bitrate display
  - Added Vorbis/FLAC audio bitrate display.
  - Fixed MKV playback file cannot get audio bitstream/passthrough after resume from bookmark.
  - Modified subtitle menu order and reversed time offset key direction; same as A100
  - Changed tab-switching (SOURCE key) focus behaviour
  - Show only ID3 album art if exist, when music playback
  - Fixed incorrect ID3 genre display for certain files
  - Disable bookmark for Internet/Broadcast/MSP/SayaTV video playback
  - Temporarily disabled video format with psfdemux/demux for video/audio bitrate shown on infobar.
  - Increased subtitle font size range.
  - maintain adjusted subtitle time offset throughout playlist.
  - Increased vertical position range for external text subtitle.
  - Stop background slideshow before starting VOD to release free memory (Bug #5000299)
  - Fixed detection conflict between FLAC, WAV and AVS video (Bug #5000287)
  - Enable support for FLAC and VORBIS with 3, 4 & 5 channels
  - Support Thai(codepage 874) external ext-based subtitle
  - Checking of Byte Order Mark for external SRT in UTF8 (Bug #5000322)
  - Fixed positioning of long/large-size text-based subtitle
  - Fixed external text-based subtitle via HTTP e.g. myiHome not loaded (Bug #5000250)
  - Fixed resume/bookmark issue; only seekable files can be bookmarked now
  - Fix to only allow files with duration and seekable status to do time seek (LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO) (Bug #5000139)
  - Fixed file certain WMV clip unable to end after LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO seek
  - Fixed STEP on clip that is not steppable will terminate playback
  - Fixed after trigger SEEK LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO on the infobar will show PAUSE/STOP icon then only show PLAY icon.
  - Fixed hang-up when press PLAY on m3u file (Bug #5000320)
  - Fixed issue regarding video zoom/scaling (Bug #5000327)
  - Improvements for h264 video frame sequence calculation to handle typical h264 encoding fault caused by non-standard ripping
  - MKV chapter support, use PREV/NEXT key
  - Added FLAC metadata display for music playback
  - Added shuffle feature for music playlist; press REPEAT to toggle
  - Added gapless playback feature for audio playback (first phase)
    - only for MP3 and WAV now, and for subsequent files of same format
    - cannot seek when prebuffer starts near end of file
  - Fixed certain TS video clips cannot do LEFT/RIGHT/GOTO/TIME SEEK seek/resume from bookmark.
  - Fixed if huge MKV chapter size causing system error.
  - Fixed certain Internet radio cannot play.
  - Fixed UPnP-AV (WMP11) playlist item crashes.
  - embedded PGS subtitle support for M2TS files (first phase)
  - Fixed PGS/M2TS subtitle rendering resolution flaw
  - Enabled camcoder AVCHD type detection.
  - Added gapless audio support for FLAC format.
  - Support for changing subtitle encoding on-the-fly
    - in subtitle menu; only for ASCII codepages (Latin1, Greek, Cyrillic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai), GB2312, BIG5, Shift_JIS and UTF-8)
  - Fixed missing space with italic subtitle
  - Fixed PGS subtitle potential hang.
  - Workaround to enable 24Hz at auto framerate sync
  - Fixed gapless playback feature for small mp3 file less than 1MB
  - Added album art retrieval from FLAC metadata
  - Added Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation setting for video (press Setup during video playback)
  - Fixed issue where single file playback could not toggle repeat mode.
  - Fixed M2TS PGS subtitle issue
  - Workaround WMAPro bitstream output issue
  - Added all playable formats allow for audio playlist
  - Fixed incomplete FLAC metadata retrieval
  - Fixed playlist sometimes does not start from correct file
  - Fixed m4a song info and album art display
  - Patch Colorspace algorithm (for file playback only)
  - Fixed playback failure via certain HTTP server (SwissCenter)
  - Disable subpicture for .VOB file play
  - Fixed WAV detection that crash with MPEG1/2
  - Fixed subtitle switching issue with MPEG; previously broken external subtitle on/off function
  - Fixed specific ASF cannot fast forward
  - Fixed subtitle CP1258 detection
  - Added album art retrieval from FLAC metadata
  - Added BCS (Brightness/Contrast/Saturation) on-the-fly setting during playback (press Setup)
  - workaround for MKV audio lip-sync issue
  - Fixed scaling/zoom/pan OSD menu unintended pop-up when playback near end of file
  - Fixed STOP key cannot save the bookmark file to flash setting when scaling/zoom/pan menu is ON.
  - Fixed playlist sometimes does not start from correct file
  - Improved SRT subtitle parsing
  - Display language code of MKV embedded subtitles
  - Fixed m4a song info and album art display
  - Exception handling for ID3 genre index out-of-range (7034.mp3)
  - Enable 7.1 support for flac, vorbis and also mkv-flac mkv-vorbis
  - Fixed error in MKV embedded subtitle language code display causing disappearing menu
  - Fixed MKV aspect ratio error
  - Fixed some internet radio links cannot stream with MMS protocol.
  - PGS subtitle support for MKV
    - May have time offset issue depending on muxer software.
  - Workaround to overcome some m2ts stream with incorrect PTS causing subtitle to show up for 1~100ms then dissapear (Bug #5000395)
  - Workaround to output M2TS TrueHD as Dolby Digital where applicable
  - Added manual audio sync support to compensate HDMI audio sync issue (press SETUP during video playback)
4. Photo app
  - Fixed an issue when setting repeat on the last photo in playlist will show current playlist item as 0 on FIP (Bug #5000116)
  - Fixed PNG image decoding causing system hang
  - Fixed issues where myiHome (Mac) not focusing on photo when playback photo with BGM and stopping photo does not stop BGM
  - Enable screensaver during photo playlist pause state
  - Slideshow, new photo info (ISO speed, F number and Exposure time)
5. OSD
  - fixed minor OSD text wrapping issue.
  - slight modification for info display during video/photo playback.
6. System/Network
  - Fixed cannot eject data disc (Bug #5000064)
  - Workaround for missing folder issue due to filesystem failed to identify directory type for unknown reason with scandir (Bug #5000218)
  - Fixed incorrect display resolution when boot up in auto TV mode without connecting HDMI.
  - Tweak to improve network performance.
  - Fix for HDMI blackout and HDMI audio mute issue
  - Added progress indicator during firmware update download
  - Fixed flash driver to avoid occasional hang issue when umount particular partition
  - Fixed default value; DTS:PCM, DRC:off for factory setting
  - Changed "AC3" wording to "Dolby Digital", shifted DRC setting down to Audio section
  - Fixed language tanslations
  - Added Country/Region code to WiFi config setup.
    - Country/Region contains channel settings for 8 regions; only for Ralink MII card.
  - Fixed stuck in playback if no network up
  - Fixed reboot failure (Bug #5000243)
  - Fixed screensaver still kicks in at background when in standby mode
  - Show harddisk and usb disk size when info button pressed
  - Show file size on the UI listing
  - Reverted patch which fixed screensaver kicking in at background when standby; causing (Bug #5000314)
  - Resolved screensaver setting issue after restoring factory setting
  - Fixed video scaling info not updated during PAUSE (Bug #5000306)
  - Disallow file copy of over 4GB to FAT device (filesystem limitation)
  - included kernelmode NTFS read/write driver
  - Fixed configure proxy result in error page
  - Fixed DVD parental setting cannot be saved
  - minor update on Chinese/Japanese language pack
  - Fixed HDD name not displayed
  - Fixed occasional detection failure of NTFS harddisk
  - New network share UI
  - Turn on syabas_command_server
  - Improve time for NFS (UDP/TCP) client login to non-exist/blocked shares
  - Improve time for server discovery utility
  - More intelligent handling of protocol type instead of .udp. default
  - Torrent client HTTP wget fix
  - Network share, number of allowed persistent links has been increased to 20.
  - Fixed USB unmount issue
  - Fixed issue of incorrect redirection when changing password in NMT Apps page
  - Fixed CD status update while opening/closing
  - Fixed issue where some servers were missing from the discovery
  - Minor update to language pack
  - Added USB keyboard hotplug handling
  - Fixed incorrect harddisk status/icon display after USB slave operations
  - minor graphical adjustment for Info bar
  - Show decimal fraction for disk info (Bug #5000392)
7. Browser
  - New twirling icon
  - New licensed font integrated
  - Support dynamic loading of external js file
  - New UI theme
  - To display memory usage; press SLOW key
  - Fixed Pause key wrongly mapped as Play/Pause key
  - Fixed 'No Disc Found' message not shown and browser hang when accessing empty loader (Bug #5000292)
  - press PLAY on non-playable item will instead play from first playable item in the folder
  - Browser user-agent missing closing bracket.
  - Added "remove USB device" feature in file mode menu
  - For browser to display USB mount point instead of USB name
  - browser will stay busy until all images from previous page is loaded
  - Fixed file operation delete/copy/newfolder/move/rename/createplaylist does not update the list in UI
  - Fixed Internet radio showing image info on front panel LCD
  - Fixed SD mode media source listing issue, broken in previous RC release
  - Fixed HTTP mime type overwritten issue
8. WiFi
  - Integrated WIFI driver for Realtek USB RTL8192
  - Turn on Ethernet LNK LED when link to 100baseT as well.
  - Fixed connection failure if disable SSID broadcast at router and key in SSID manually (Bug #5000331)
  - Fixed unable to play Internet radio via MSP when using WiFi (Bug #5000330)
  - Fixed issue where empty entry is displayed in the SSID dropdown list (Bug #5000341)
  - Added in support for extended printable ASCII characters for SSID/security code input (Bug #5000345)
  - Fixed soft reboot wasn't able to reboot machine, after connection to network with wifi device(Bug #5000340)
  - Check on WPA state and continue with configuration when state is WPA_COMPLETED
  - Fixed improper word displayed at the wifi connection column while not able to establish connection (Bug #5000342)
  - Improved IP address acquisition when using DHCP (Bug #5000339, #5000344)
9. UPnP AV
  - Added image resolution support (Twonky photo bug)
  - Fixed UPnP device duplication issue when server restart or host name changed
  - Added .ts, .avi support (Twonky)
  - Resolved photo pause-next will hang the system
  - support mp2v m4a mp4 m4v.
  - Resolved PlayOn "no content found" problem
  - Fixed URL with parameters cannot find extension
10. Web Services
  - App Center service
  - Official SHOUTcast service added
  - Fixed "scroll up" page handling issue.
  - Fixed loading wrong saved flash info in SD mode
11. PHF (ROBIG)
  - Overall performance improvement, fixes for multi-language support
  - Fixed PHF launch without special HTML attributes
  - Enable system font
  - New Revision3 app
  - Handle volume up/down
  - Shoutcast app reenabled
NMT Apps Version : 02-01-100119-19-POP-411
Release Note :
1.Minimum firmware version to use this NMT App is 02-01-091203-19-POP-411
2. myiHomeLite
  - change audio playback slideshow images
  - change theme
3. BitTorrent
  - New Transmission client 1.75
  - Fixed parse data error causing BT page unable to show
4. FTP
  - FTP server, new share path (/opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives) to share out all HDD and USB devices.
5. Network
  - Samba improvement on read/write speed
6. UnP AV Server
  - Fixed some media files not visible from 8642/8634 player
7. Change stop NZB command to fix firmware update getting black screen
Note : Unzip into the root of your USB thumbdrive. Browse to usbupdate.html to update. Please DO NOT power off the unit during firmware update, as it will render your unit inoperational.