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UPDATE: Turns out I forgot to test XP. 157 fixes 156 from yesterday. Sorry about that.
New PiP capability -- Ctrl + Click in guide to play multiple channels in new windows without affecting the main player, if you have enough tuners or all of the channels are on the same transponder. Live playout only for now.
New Color Scheme Designer under Setup > Advanced.
New SAT>IP option under Setup > Network. It treats servers like a normal tuner and controls front-ends explicitly. Each enabled virtual tuner will show up as a discrete device under Setup > TV Sources, available for the usual channel scanning, slave configuration etc.
You can now search by channel name in the guide (start typing letters.) This meant that a few shortcuts had to change to free up all letter keys for normal typing. See F1 for latest shortcuts.
Keypad +/- for volume.
I'm now collecting more information about tuner drivers for better reporting on the homepage (driver name, manufacturer, version and date.) Will revisit the "supported devices" report once a reasonable amount of new data has accumulated.
Multi-tuner refinements -- if a device fails to open or lock the signal during recording, it'll try use slaves instead. EPG scanning now happens in the background on a slave tuner when available.
Fixed external monitor issue when the primary screen is on the right.
UI tweaks.
Clicking on the time will directly open the recording schedule.
New 'Show windows taskbar during fullscreen' option under Setup > Advanced.
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Refined OSD.
15 second skip.
Click + drag the play button to adjust speed.
Basic video editor added for slicing/trimming TS recordings.
Re-clocking of recordings added for improved playout support in some 3rd party software.
New "zoom" F2 stretch mode.
Show Info > Record Series now brings up a configurable list of channels/times.
New Setup > Advanced > Customise timeshift buffer size.
New Setup > Advanced > Disable Now/Next graphics.
New Setup > Advanced > Disable menu on full screen video.
Improved slaved tuner behaviour for DLNA clients.
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Now runs as 64bit when applicable and installs into Program Files. Also has a more flexible updating system than ClickOnce and can install more easily offline.
New code signing certificate. Early adopters are probably going to get a security warning/prompt from Windows SmartScreen since my new private key needs to re-establish a reputation.
New setting storage system. Not backward compatible with build 166 but it solves Windows 'system restore' issues causing random setting corruption. Settings should automatically migrate upon first run.
Settings are now in %ProgramData%SichboPVR.
New hardware de-interlace mode selection under Setup > Advanced for each decoder type.
Video processing controls under F1 > Video. Not all display drivers support this.
Renamed and re-purposed the "Disable the bokeh background" option to "disable continuous animations". Should save a bunch of power/battery on tablets and stuff.
Undo/redo support in the video editor.
Mouse wheel left/right clicker on guide screen will scroll the timeline.
EPG Content Reference ID (CRID) support for more reliable duplicate episode filtering.
ATSC and Taiwan DVB text encoding fixes.
Support for ATSC channel numbering over DLNA.
Improved folder indexing to support sub-folders. Option to disable recorded show indexing.
You can now delete channels in the channel properties fly-out, and re-scans will auto-remove obsolete channels when SichboPVR reckons it's safe to do so.
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Release Notes
During this update, don't bother using the handy "reload now" button if you're on build 3.1.0 - turns out I'm an idiot so it'll just crash :) Just reload manually when the update's downloaded. Fixed for next time.
3.1.7 just addresses an error with some settings due to text encodings, as well as a problem with my MP4 demuxer.
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Added an OpenGL video processor similar to the D3D11 one for the upcoming linux release.
Added a new 'RawTitle' file naming option for keeping original show titles for cases where they contain episode number data. The default 'Title' recording file naming field cleans up content in brackets, for tidier names.
Fixed a problem found on a Victoria channel 10 mux.
Fixed a problem which can cause the background service to chew CPU.
Added preliminary DVB-HB / SAT>IP support.
TV tuner hardware and DVB-HB network tuners can now be set to 'Do not use' under 'Setup > the server > the device', since SichboPVR uses everything it finds automatically, and that might not always be what you want.
Improved ATSC channel management so that it combines identical stations from different transmitters, as DVB already does.
Fixed a problem with 192Khz audio.
Made some refinements to variable playback speed.
There's a new driver bug classification "Reports an initial weak signal quality". Some tuners like the IT9135 report a false reading for a few seconds, which impacts scanning.
Made some minor guide refinements.
In addition to SichboPVR's continuous channel scan behaviour, every 5 days it'll now also do a frequency sweep during one of its regular background epg updates.
Added a check to make sure starting window dimensions are always sane during startup for when the screen config changes.
Refined the background service installer a bit so it ends tasks more aggressively.
Added variable playback speed with pitch corrected audio time stretching. Mouse wheel over the OSD play button to adjust the playback rate of a recording or timeshift buffer.
You can now set channel/time preferences and "record duplicates" on Wishlists.
Automatically generated Library show folders can now be hidden by clicking "Hide Folder" (or reenable them later under Library Settings.)
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More crash fixes from field telemetry.
Fixes wishlist creation.
Adds Italian translation work by R.B.
Fixed a problem with some stations coming on-air.
Added support for opening SichboPVR from the MCE remote control green button when the app is configured to minimise to the system tray.
UI refinements in the Guide, Search and Library.
This is also the third pre-release Linux build. Details at sichbopvr.com/linux.
NEXT:
ATSC 3.0.
Web front end for mobiles/browsers.
Video editing.
Transcoding.
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Fixed a couple of crashes detected over the past month.
NEXT:
Web front end for mobiles/browsers.
Video editing.
Transcoding.
ATSC 3.0.
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Rendering performance improvements.
On-screen display refinements.
Channel editor refinements.
Added better handling of older display drivers.
Added a Missing channel troubleshooter to the guide menu.
Accessibility and Text to Speech refinements.
There are now mappable shortcuts for TTS mute and volume, as well as speech rate control.
More scheduling refinements and better handling of custom defined shows.
Thanks again to Michael for debugging a problem with SAT>IP.
You can now manually type in UNC share paths (\serversharefolder) for recording/timeshift/library folders. If the SichboPVR4 server is installed as a Windows Service, you'll need to configure the NT service to run under a user account with permission to access the share.
Thanks to Igor for adding Ukrainian support.
Improved client sync performance for libraries having tens of thousands of items.
You can now disable timeshifting under Library > Library Settings > Set Timeshift buffer duration to "No time shifting".
service-settings.json has a new setting "EpgUpdateOnStart" which can be set to false for folks who don't care about guide data or want to wait on it.
Added better storing of series/episode info and support for credits/actors from xmltv sources.
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The freemium experiment back in June was a disaster — turns out, not everyone's jazzed about the recording feature. Instead of finding more supporters, I managed to lose over fifty of my usual backers. So in order to keep the project afloat, I've had to hit the brakes and switch back to the paid-only model. Lesson learned! Thank you to the handful of new folks who did sign up to support sichbopvr over these past months.
Child window locations are now remembered. Closing the primary window will close all other SichboPVR windows and automatically restore upon relaunch. You can tell which window is your primary because it lists opened windows on the left-hand side of the guide.
Shift + Click on TV guide channel logos will now open that channel directly in a new window, whilst Ctrl + Click opens in Picture in Picture mode (consistent with web browser behaviour where Shift + Click is a new window, Ctrl + Click is a new tab.)
A new option to "Record everything on this station" has been added to channel settings. This allows people to archive entire TV stations without having to configure any recordings.
You can now edit meta information on recordings by changing titles/descriptions/tags.
Tags/genres are now listed in the Library for broadcast regions that transmit them.
You can also now bookmark recordings.
Added a toggle for audio VU meters and stream information under the Mixer > Video tab.
Adds preliminary right-to-left language support.
Fixes a problem with sound no longer time-stretching under 4.0.15 during variable speed playback (mouse wheel over play button.)
Misc performance and stability tweaks.
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There's a new code signing certificate that is potentially unknown to Microsoft SmartScreen, so you might need to permit the installer to run. If prompted, choose to "Keep" the installer when downloading and "Run anyway" to train Microsoft SmartScreen.
Thanks to Anthony for figuring out an intermittent packet loss issue when the PC is running under resource strain.
There's finally a proper user guide pdf that people can download or print over at sichbopvr.com/manual. It's available in only a handful of languages for the time being because it's a lot of work to do each. Please let me know if you'd like to see your language added so I can gauge demand.
You can now more easily toggle OpenGL mode underneath Setup > UI > Tweaks. Some newer NVidia drivers are having a problem with my D3D11 video processing engine it seems, so I'll need to save up for a card someday. In the meantime, feel free to give OpenGL a try if your video isn't smooth.
Fixes an issue where progress was not saved when watching videos.
Fixes a few other issues that have come up since the last release.
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