Changes 1.5.0.55 Beta test (needs installed V1.5.0.31) * Fix: Recordings: Fixed several problems refreshing the database.
* Change: Changed to sqlite Version 3. The database will be converted on first start.
* Change: PAT/PMT and EPG tables will now be CRC32 checked to avoid problems with wrong data (caused by bad reception).
* Change: Hardware: LNB Off can be set per device, if it supports this. You have to do a manual device scan, to see the option on the hardware page.
* Change: Hardware: LNB Off will be force for shared LNB devices.
* Add: Twinhan/Azurewave based devices: Added LNB Off.
* Add: Freesat EPG/ATSC EPG: New Huffman decoding unit thanks to Griga.
* Fix: QBox DiseqC support integrated
* Add: Configuration program: Default settings for priority and after recording process added.
* Add: Internal tasks are automatically added to the tasklist.
* Fix: Optimized the debug logging.
* Removed: Single EPG search timer removed.
* Add: Internal Tasks Timer added. These timers do have a starttime and a duration (defined by the endtime). They will be (like the other special timers) always executed even if they are late for their programmed time. These timers can execute all internal tasks.
* Add: Added the internal tasks CleanupDB, RefreshDB and CleanupRefreshDB.
* Fix: Under certain circumstances the service did initialize twice after waking from standby/hibernate.
* Change: Internally unicode is now used. It does not have any influence on the web interface for now. But the UPnP stuff does already use it.
* Change: Configuration program: Removed the options to assign the Web/UPnP and popcornhour to an IP. Instead those servers now connect to each network interface separately. If you want to exclude network interfaces you can add them to the (semicolon separated) blacklist in the options.
* Add: Timers: Added a new property: "Series". The value will be save to the database and the file info / info file and will be used (in the future) to group recordings. You can edit this value manually in the timer edit window or add it as a property to an EPG search.
* Add: Timers: Added a new placeholder for the file name: "%series".
* Improved: UPnP: Improved compatibility with several clients/programs (PS3, Samsung TV, Pioneer TV and more).
* Improved: UPnP: Does now support artwork (thumbnails) of recordings.
* Improved: UPnP: Does now use real UTF8.
* Improved: UPnP: Does now support parts of the DLNA specs.
* Improved: UPnP: The mediaservice can send its logo to devices which can display it.
* Improved: UPnP: The mediaservice does now serve the media data of the recordings (real length, resolution, bitrate etc).
Vthumb.exe * A thumbnails generator for TS (Mpeg2/h264) and mpeg files. Can be used by the recording service to generate thumbnails of your recordings.
* You first have to setup the decoders:
o Start vthumbs.exe and select the video decoders. To check if the decoders are useable drag and drop a TS MPEG2 and a h.264 recording into the program window. If all works, you should have a jpeg File in the folder of the TS file and this image does show something "useful" (means no gray, green or distorted image). If there is no lpeg file or the image is not correct, try another decoder.
o If everything looks OK press the "Save" button.
* After all is setup the recording service generates thumbnails
o On a recording database refresh, if not thumbs are present in the cache folder.
o After a recording.
o On UPnP browsing, if no thumbnails for the recording files are present in the cache folder.
* Generating the thumbnails does take quite some time, so you might see a placeholder image until the actual thumbnails are generated.
* Because it takes so long to generate them, the thumbnails will be cached in the [userdata folder]imagesthumbsrecordings folder. The thumbnails are removed, if you delete the recording via the webinterface/dvbviewer connection.
* If you don't want to use thumbnails, just rename/remove vthumbs.exe.
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