Popcorn Hour C-200 Firmware Update
Release Date : 04 September 2009
Firmware Version : 02-01-090729-17-POP-408-000
Release Note :
1. Stepstone to firmware with new kernel 19-POP
2. NMT apps 02-01-090724-17-POP-408
3. BD/AVCHD/DVD
  - Fixed Audio CD cannot playback through internal SATA drive
  - Audio CD UI and infobar updated, Time Seek fixes
  - Fixed incorrect path detection when disc autoplay mode is on.
  - Fixed DVD disc playback unable to resume from bookmark, after playback ISO/VIDEO_TS video clip.
  - During DVD playback (not at menu/setup page), ENTER key will act as PLAY/PAUSE
  - Fixed DVD pan function (panning in wrong direction).
  - Reset the zoom/pan value for LPB/DVD/Blu-ray before stop playback.
  - Fixed BD ROM playback showed incorrect cdrom title name on infobar during playback.
4. Video and Audio playback
  - Fixed aspect ratio (Actual Size) persistent to next play item
  - Changed the sequence of zoom menu (Zooming->Panning->Scaling)
  - mp3 detection/estimation of total time, extra handling to parse Xing header (not 100% accurate)
5. OSD
  - OSD, audio time seek (new component) supported.
  - Fixed wrong arrow indication for pan menu when min/max reached
  - hide bottom info bar if it is time seek
  - Step menu, menu pane will be resized according to the number of info available.
  - Step/Pop-up menu, header thickness(image) has been reduced.
  - Enable OSD text for DVD/BD playback when REPEAT key triggered.
  - Fixed LPB/DVD/BRD playback PAUSE icon on infobar will blink when keep pressing STEP function.
6. Front panel display
  - when audio playback in playback and screensaver kicks in, FIP will show the audio info instead of clock.
  - Fixed weird message upon starting photo slideshow
7. System
  - Fixed firmware update progress not shown correctly
  - Fix unordered NAND flash writing issue, which cause issue when programming zboot during firmware update
  - Enable HDCP by default
8. SAMBA/NFS
  - Samba client/server, improvement on read/write speed. (NMT App update is required)
9. Browser
  - cursor in pop-up input box not drawn after timeout.
10. New
  - Added AVCHD .iso file playback support, performance still an issue.
  - Added font "outline" style
11. Known issue
  - Certain TS detection may return incorrect count of subtitle track, causing wrong behaviour.
  - Soft reboot broken
Firmware Version : 02-01-090904-19-POP-408-000
Release Note :
1. New NMT apps 02-01-090828-19-POP-408
2. BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA
  - Fixed Audio CD cannot playback through internal SATA drive
  - Audio CD UI and infobar updated, Time Seek fixes
  - Fixed incorrect path detection when disc autoplay mode is on.
  - Fixed DVD disc playback unable to resume from bookmark, after playback ISO/VIDEO_TS video clip.
  - During DVD playback (not at menu/setup page), ENTER key will act as PLAY/PAUSE
  - Fixed DVD pan function (panning in wrong direction).
  - Reset the zoom/pan value for LPB/DVD/Blu-ray before stop playback.
  - Fixed BD ROM playback showed incorrect cdrom title name on infobar during playback.
  - Workaround cannot return to browser after playing BD content with BDJ
  - move GUI to secondary OSD during BD-J playback
  - Added aditional condition for auto play detection for DVDROM saved/resume bookmark.
  - DVD region code setting implementation
  - Fixed DVD playback for Zoom/Pan menu with wrong dim down icon during panning.
  - Fixed BD show incorrect video container on infobar during playback (for BD ISO file)
  - Fixed DTS-HD, DD+ downmix (core only) and bitstream output for BD
  - Consistent zoom/pan menu for BD playback, same as DVD playback.
  - Set CDDA FF and FR speed in the range of 2x and 16x.
  - Fixed BD playback cannot switch audio/subtitle when till the last audio streams/subtitles (for certain file like Dracula).
  - Added new languages for audio/subtitle ditection when switching audio/subtitle on the fly.
  - Fixed Audio CD playback through USB DVD-ROM broken in previous release
  - Fixed BDROM playback issue: when loading the BD disc, the video will shown album art page when starting playback
  - HD audio (downmix and passthrough) supported now, except TrueHD passthrough
  - Fixed "Pink Panther" BD could not show subtitle
  - Corrected video aspect ratio in info
  - Modified style of DVD/BD switching subtitle/audio OSD message
  - Allow mounting of USB storage to be used for BD-J playback
    - Currently need to manually create:
     i. Need a USB thumbdrive (>= 2GB) formatted in EXT3 or FAT32
     ii. Created both directories "bdj/ada/" and "bdj/buda" (case sensitive).
    - plug in the USB devices and will be automatically mounted as PERSISTFS.
  - Fixed BDJ playback cannot show 16x and 32x when triggered by FFW/REW key.
  - fixed loader eject button issue (Bug #5000038, #5000064)
    - press eject key during playback will stop and eject the tray
  - Fixed certain Audio CD disc detected as data disc
3. Video and Audio playback
  - Fixed aspect ratio (Actual Size) persistent to next play item
  - Changed the sequence of zoom menu (Zooming->Panning->Scaling)
  - mp3 detection/estimation of total time, extra handling to parse Xing header (not 100% accurate)
  - Fixed subtitle off/on not working with TS
  - m4a audio-only files seek->pause issue fixed
  - Added 2 sec timeout to minimise appearance of buffering screen.
  - bug fix for buffering screen did not turn off after playback start
  - Modified the zoom/pan menu in order Scaling, Zooming and Panning.
  - Fixed DTS-HD, DD+ downmix (core only) and bitstream (core only) output
  - Estimate total time for TS clips
  - Enable time seek/percentage seek/+-30sec skip for TS playback
  - Interval before rendering "buffering screen" changed to 4sec
  - Fixed LPB playback, FF will fall back to 2x when 8x and 16x not supported, instead of showing "!"
  - DTS HD (downmix and passthrough; core only) supported now
  - Workaround to show track number on audio track change for LPB, (not 100% fool proof, may have issue if continuous change)
  - Fixed first video playback after bootup always in actual size.
  - Subtitle font size range increased.
  - Fixed subtitle color and size selection missing after BD playback.
  - Fixed OSD SD/HD resolution incorrect after playback
  - Changed "Dolby D" text to "Dolby Digital"; icon remains as "Dolby D"
  - Fixed audio subtrack switching with files that has audio track starting from track 2 (Bug #5000002)
  - Corrected video aspect ratio in Info Bar
  - Enabled Rewind speed of 4x/8x/16x where applicable
  - Fixed certain MKV file cannot FFW to 8X and 16X.
  - Fixed issue with some weird ASF file containing ID3 tags cannot playback (Bug #5000023)
  - Fixed AAC wrongly detected as unknown (Bug #5000020)
  - Show fps info on infobar, currently for MP4, AVI, MKV only/td>
  - Fixed goto 0% causing video frames fast-forward motion (Bug #5000071)
    - side effect: audio-only *.m4a will pause if seek to 0, need to press PLAY.
4. Photo app
  - Sync photo zoom menu sequence with video zoom menu
  - rotate icon has been replaced with text.
  - Use abbreviation for front panel showing of photo date month
  - Fixed a bug where after stopping photo playlist with some settings changes, will cause player to black-out for a few seconds before coming back to browser (SVN R961)
  - Fixed Flickr playlist hung after a few hours playback (SVN R961)
  - Fixed memory leak and crashes during long hours photo slideshow
  - Fixed wrong color for BMP with 32bit depth
  - Fixed an issue where if system starts up in SD mode then change to HD, the slideshow photos may be cropped
  - Consistent with A100, changing repeat mode, transition, interval on the fly will not be saved persistently (Bug #5000027)
5. OSD
  - OSD, audio time seek (new component) supported.
  - Fixed wrong arrow indication for pan menu when min/max reached
  - hide bottom info bar if it is time seek
  - Step menu, menu pane will be resized according to the number of info available.
  - Step/Pop-up menu, header thickness(image) has been reduced.
  - Enable OSD text for DVD/BD playback when REPEAT key triggered.
  - Fixed LPB/DVD/BRD playback PAUSE icon on infobar will blink when keep pressing STEP function.
  - Updated (AC3) audio container and codec name and image to (Dolby D) instead.
  - USB HotPlug information board, fix ASCII text wrapping
  - Fixed info bar text/icon duplicated/flickering when in SD Mode.
  - Fixed triggering TV Menu caused system crash in previous release
  - Modified display style of audio track info
  - Improved OSD text message visibility by using text shadowing method.
  - Fixed info bar not cleared after turned off in SD Mode (Bug #5000043)
6. Front panel display
  - when audio playback in playback and screensaver kicks in, FIP will show the audio info instead of clock.
  - Fixed display in audio mode, with empty album data will display bracket without text.
  - Fixed FIP displaying control character glyphs that in single byte range 0x00~0x1f, and 0x7f
  - Fixed wrong data displayed on front panel when return from screensaver
  - Fixed front panel backlit dimming level
7. System
  - Fixed firmware update progress not shown correctly
  - Fix unordered NAND flash writing issue, which cause issue when programming zboot during firmware update
  - Enable HDCP by default
  - Sigma HDMI patches for HDMI blackout (not 100% fixed)
  - Sigma HDMI patches for occasional HDMI -> DVI bug (fix not verified)
  - Fixed hang during reboot/shutdown, due to syb_framework is in zombie state
  - Fixed unable to soft reboot by pressing power+eject button
  - Workaround for analog video output off/on distortion issue (not 100% fixed)
  - Bug fix for timezone and daylight savings
  - Save TV mode setting after on-the-fly TV mode change
  - Further workaround for analog video output off/on distortion issue
  - Removed unused surround mode setting in setup
  - Fixed shutdown using RC, the orange LED does not blink
  - Fixed infobar showing wrong TV mode when swithing to 1080p24 (Bug #5000014)
  - Updated GMT+8 daylight timezone
  - Further fix for intermittent black screen issue during firmware update
  - Added softlink to resolve the update page redirection issue
  - HDMI workaround to prevent erroneous switch to DVI
  - Fixes for long delay when two USB devices inserted
  - Fixed when returning from online firmware update page, it shows "Request cannot be processed".
  - Added font "outline" style
  - Added DELETE, UP, DOWN keys into repeatable key (Bug #5000041)
  - Fixed Auto IP renewed every 30s when direct cable connection from PC to NMT (Bug #5000049)
  - Fixed changes to manual IP not reflected if changed from auto IP to manual IP when direct connection from PC to NMT (Bug #5000050)
  - Fixed slow response of cgi due to timeout of upnpapp
  - Fixed a bug for USB device name display due to '.' used in appending the volume label
  - Power button (RC, FIP) now will work as standby toggle even in screensaver mode
  - Further fix for intermittent screen black out during firmware update
  - Fixed USB detection issue - sometimes USB thumbdrive not detected when reattached./td>
8. Browser
  - cursor in pop-up input box not drawn after timeout.
  - Fixed text input in pop-up box delay is longer than usual
  - Fixed pop-up text font changes size when caplock is pressed
  - Fixed Webservices page "twirling" icon keep spinning when there is pop-up message (Bug #5000007)
9. UPnP AV
  - Added changes for UPnP-AV Media Renderer mute/pause/vol up/vol down
  - Fix for media renderer content length not being detected correctly
10. Network
  - Samba client/server, improvement on read/write speed. (NMT App update is required)
  - Ralink RT2880 MII wifi driver hack, to have the iNIC run propery after a hard reset
  - Fixed wireless AP scanning sometimes gives empty list
  - Fixed duplicate SSID in drop-down list (Bug #5000047)
  - Fixed SSID auto-switch to different SSID when select button is pressed (Bug #5000046)
11. Web Services
  - Fixed no prompt after editable links exceeded maximum allowed (Bug #5000058)
  - Fixed navigation stuck at bootup after deleted one of the services (Bug #5000059).
  - Fixed incorrect number of persistent services shown
  - Fixed service name didn't show up correctly on page
  - Partial fix for incorrect focus color at left pane of SD listing page. (Bug #5000006)
  - Fixed pop-up message causing screen misalignment slightly due to old HTML-based UI
  - Fixed pop-up message box re-appeared after clicking OK
  - Fixed wrong redirection after add/delete/save in edit page. (related to R1050)
  - Fixed service link added twice (Bug #5000061)
12. NMT apps
  - Fix NMT setup bug, increase harddisk format timeout
  - Fixed "request cannot be processed" display after NMT setup done (Bug #5000025)
  - Fix twirling icon while nmt setup
NMT Apps Version : 02-01-090828-19-POP-408
Release Note :
1.Minimum firmware version to use this NMT App is 02-01-090904-19-POP-408
2. Network
  - Samba improvement on read/write speed
3. UPnP AV Server
  - Fixed some media files not visible from 8642/8634 player
4. 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.