[Lars_MQ]

After lengthy discussions we decided to open the beta test again but this time in a limited fashion.

This means: The beta will expire 3 weeks after publishing date. This should be no problem, in the past the beta updates where posted every week, often less, so the beta testers have 2 weeks time to compare the old against the new version. If you don't agree with this, please use the official release.


For Installation and previous updates please read the Beta 3.6.3.xx announcements

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

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Terms of Use
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The normal License you received and agreed to when installing DVBViewer Pro also applies to this version.

If you use this version you agree to the following terms:

- The Beta version will expire 3 weeks (21 days) after it has been published.
- You are not allowed to publish the files anywhere. The only valid place to download this BETA is the membersarea of DVBViewer Pro.

- This program is provided as "BETA" release and is intended for users willing to test it at their own risk.
- The program may still contain errors or bugs.
- Users may report bugs/problems in the BETA section of http://www.dvbviewer.info/forum !

- Support for a beta release is NOT GUARANTEED!


Changes:
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Version BETA 3.6.4.0
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ATTENTION! The epg.dat format changed, the old epg.dat will not be read and can not be interchanged with old versions.
If you use the DVB Service with the COM-Plugins, please stop the service and unregister the COM Plugins. Otherwise your epg.dat will be all the time rewritten and empty!

DVBViewer Plugins and tools using the Plugin interface or the COM Interface are NOT affected.


[*]Change: Scanwindow: Several enhancements in the scan window. Some might even make working with this window easier

[*]Change: Scanwindow: Channel names can be updated on update scan.

[*]Change: Scanwindow: Transponderlists are sorted alphabetically.

[*]Change: Scanwindow: Scan only possible if a fitting hardware for a tuner type is present.

[*]Change: Scanwindow: DiseqC for each SAT is remembered. If you don't need DiseqC set it to none!

[*]Change: Scanwindow: The last selected transponder list is now remembered.

[*]Change: Scanwindow: The scanwindow tries to preselect the tuner type based on the installed cards.

[*]Change: Scanwindow: Only the relevant controls are shown.

[*]Fix: Scanwindow: Channelgroup is now preserved on update scan.

[*]Change: Channelscan: Update Channels are marked bold in the channeleditor. This lasts till the next scan or program restart.

[*]Change: Channel editor: Drag'n'drop now only works "on node". No insertionsmarks are shown anymore.

[*]Change: Favorites editor: Drag'n'drop now only works "on node". No insertionsmarks are shown anymore.

[*]Fix: Skinmode: Sometimes the video window was not restored properly after another window was on top of the viewer.

[*]Fix: Mainwindow: The favourites in the second level of the favourite menu didn't show EPG.

[*]Fix: Twinhan: Fixed a possible crash on scanning with CI.

[*]Fix: FireDTV: fixed incorrect reset on every channelchange (did only affect some CAMs).

[*]Reworked: Channel autoupdate: The Channel autoupdate in the mainwindow has been extended and reworked.

[*]Add: Inputcommands: Added keep Timeshift file as input command.

[*]Add: Actions.ini: Added portalselect menu to the actions.ini.

[*]Update: Languages: english, german (thanks @floppys for the weather translations) and italiano (thanks @gioxy) update.

[*]Change: EPG: Changed the channel->epg relation to avoid problems with channels with same SID and TID. This resulted in a changed of the epg.dat format.

[*]Change: Channellist: DVB-S2 channels are coloured blue.

[*]Change: Channelscan: Changed the naming scheme a little bit. H.264 is not added to the channelname anymore.

[*]Fix: MosaicOptions: Fixed problem with remembering the colours and alphavalue for the selection.

[*]Fix: MosaicPreview: Tweaked mosaic preview a little bit to work better with different codecs.

[*]Fix: Saving of config files: Configfiles are now saved only if they are changed.

[*]Fix: News window: Fixed umlauts problem with heise and other sites.

[*]Reworked: Networkdevices: Most parts are rewritten to make way to the upcoming changes to the dvbserver. Please check your Network option in the hardware options.

The bigger changes in detail:
* The Multicastdevice tries to determinate the packet size automatically. But you should set it to the same buffers count as in the server to avoid unnecessary delays on startup in the netdevice options.
* The Multicastdevice has now a buffercount property. One Buffer = 188 bytes. It Buffercount determinates the used UDP packet size. You should use more than one buffer but not too much, you have to play around with the value and remember to set the value in the server too!
* The Networkdevices do a simple valid check of the packets to avoid sending non TS-packets into the pipeline.
* The Networkdevices has now a buffercount property. This buffer is used internally to cache the arriving packets for checking. The buffercount does not influence the packet size, it will always be 1460 byte (limited by TCP).


DVBServer Beta 3.6.4
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The DVBServer has been mostly rewritten and has now multidevice capabilities.

- Multidevice only works with unicast.

- The userinterface has been modified extensively, but most should be recognisable.

- The settings in the hardware are similar to the DVBViewer settings.

- Because of conflicts with the DVBViewer the DVBServer now uses an own hardware file. So you have to setup your hardware on first use!

- Be careful and use IDENTICAL channellists on server and client. Especially channelgroups and DiseqC MUST match!

[Lars_MQ]

I've uploaded the Beta 3.6.4.1 which fixes a serious bug, preventing dvbviewer to start under certain circumstances.

[Lars_MQ]

A new Beta in the membersarea.

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Version BETA 3.6.4.2
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[*]Fix: COM-Interface: http server and other plugins didn't work correctly with EPG.

[*]Fix: Mainform: The toolbuttons weren't activated correctly.

[*]Fix: Mainform: The aspectratios weren't activated.

[*]Fix: Timeshift: If the timeshift folder didn't exist, timeshift did not work. Now the default recording folder is taken if the timeshift folder does not exists.

[*]Update: Language: Small corrections to the deutsch.lng.

[*]Change: Hardware/CI: Technotrend devices will use the "old" (< 3.6.3.0) CI handling if MultiPID is not selected.

[*]Reverted: Hardware: The handling of hardware support dlls is changed back to the old (<3.6.4.0) handling.
The new handling causes serious stability problems with firedtv/TT devices in dvbserver and sometimes dvbviewer.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

[Lars_MQ]

A new Beta in the membersarea.

This one has some heavy changes in the channelhandling. Please read the explanation further down carefully.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

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Version BETA 3.6.4.10
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[*]Fix: COM-Interface: Problem with EPGPlus, broken in 3.6.4.0.

[*]Fix: EPG-Import: Fixed epg-import, broken in 3.6.4.0.

[*]Fix: EPG-Source: Fixed EPG-Source not saved, broken in 3.6.4.0.

[*]Fix: Hardware/CI: Twinhan: Added support for twinhans new CI handling (mantis driver 1.0.5.8) should be backward compatible, please test!

[*]Fix: Last Channel: Fix for not saved.

[*]Update: Channeleditor: Reworked portions of the Channeleditor. Added popupmenu.

[*]Update: Channeleditor: Channels can be moved by keyboard (Shift + Up/Down/Home/End).

[*]Update: Favourite editor: Reworked portions of the Favourite editor. Added Popupmenu.

[*]Update: Favourite editor: Channels can be moved by keyboard (Shift + Up/Down/Home/End).

[*]Add: Both above editors: Added "Copy ID to clipboard" command. This copies the ChannelID to the clipboard. helpful for applications like tvgenial and other, where you need to map the channels.

[*]Add: Added IAccessible Interface to all Treeviews. This time it actually works. Might be helpful for screenreaders.

[*]Update: Language: Small corrections to the deutsch.lng.

[*]Update: Language: updated suomi.lng thanks @sf100 and @IRa.

[*]Change: Autochannel update: completly reworked. Should be activated in options -> TV + Radio. Does add new Audiochannels automatically.

[*]Add: Cable devices/Channel Scanner: Added some additional default frequencies für german cable users (for blindscan).

[*]BIG Change:

Channels can have (audio) subchannels. This is not done automatically, you have to help the first time a little bit. The format of the channels.dat does not change and the system is backward compatible.
A "old" channellist is shown as you are used to it. But if you scan the Audio subchannels will be automatically created and inserted.
You can update the channellist by the following:

- Scan the Source into a new root, this will be the easiest solution but your sorting will be lost.

- Do an update scan, this function will try to find the channel/subchannel relations, but you have to delete the old audiochannels manually. And you have to be careful, the channels have to match (this includes diseqC).

- Sort it by hand (mouse). Via Drag'n'Drop you can drag the to be subchannels onto the main entry ("ZDF (AC3)" on "ZDF"). If it does not work, the channels are not equal (do the diseqC settings match?).

Rules:

- Subchannels have NO own channelnumber, subchannels will be ignore on channel Up/Down. To select a subchannel use the Audiotrack menu (Input Options -> OSD, Mainmenu->Settings, OSD Blue).
- To change the default audiotrack you can swap a subchannel with its parentchannel (via drag'n'drop or Shift + Up/Down). You can also change the order of the subchannels via this.
- You can add a subchannel as a favourite, but favourites do not have subchannels in the favouritemenu.

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ATTENTION:
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Audiotracks menu and MPEG recordings with "record all audiotracks" NEED the subchannels otherwise they don't work, this means they only include the current audiotrack, so you better adjust you channellist.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

[Lars_MQ]

A Hotfix update for the "update channelscan with activated update channel names messes up main/subchannel relationship" bug is in the membersarea.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

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Version BETA 3.6.4.12
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[*]Fix: Scanner window: update scan with activated "update channel names" messed up the main/subchannel relationship.

[*]Fix: Recording options: The "signal recording" setting was only changed after a restart of the dvbviewer.

[*]Fix: EPG/Timeline: Send to PVR didn't work.

[*]Fix: EPG/What's now: Under rare circumstances a crash could happen when starting a recording with no channel tuned.

[*]Fix: EPG-Details: Fix wrong colorcoding when subtitle contained an illegal character.

[*]Change: Channeleditor: Optimized handling while deleting. The next found node now gets the focus after deletion.

[*]Fix: all channellists: Showed them how to count their channels correctly.

[*]Fix: Channel editor: Renaming the main channel messed up the subchannel display.

[*]Fix: Channel editor: Renaming a Subchannel was not reflected in the tree.

[*]Add: EPG-TVGuide: Enter tunes the channel belonging to the currently selected entry.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

[Lars_MQ]

A new Beta in the membersarea.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

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Version BETA 3.6.4.16
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• Fix: Premiere EPG: works again.
  
  
• Fix: VIA CPU: Fixed problems with VIA CPUs thanks @erwin and @mister black.
  
  
• Change: MiniEPG: MiniEPG is not shown anymore on audiochannel changes.
  
  
• Add: Main window: Added Channel auto update into the main menu / channels.
  
  
• Fix: DVB-Source: Fix possible crash with activated format detection and shutdown of the viewer.
  
  
• Add: Input options: Added Zoompresets to the input option. It toggles through the zoom presets.
  
  
• Add: Zoom Presets: Added three predefined presets for 16:10 monitors. You have to reset all zoom presets in the zoomwindow to activate them.
  
  
• Change: Options: Moved timezone settings to EPG/Teletext settings window.
  
  
• Removed: Options: Removed timezone option window.
  
  
• Change: Options: Moved recordDB options to the recording options window.
  
  
• Removed: Options: Removed recordDB option window.
  
  
• Fix: EPG-Window: Fixed empty "()" in the detail window.
  
  
• Fix: EPG-Window: Fixed TVGuide showed nothing the first time after changing to it.
  
  
• Update: Language: Updated several language files with the changes in the options.
  
  
• Fix: Channel editor: Fixed display problems of channel detail view with big fonts setting of windows.
  
  
• Fix: Main Window: The record sign in the statusbar was not properly removed, after a recording ended.
  
  
• Fix: Recordings window: Times between 00:00 and 09:59 were displayed faulty in the time edit boxes.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

[Lars_MQ]

A new Beta in the membersarea.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

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Version BETA 3.6.4.20
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• Fix: Channel list export: fixed not exporting subchannels correctly.
  
  
• Reworked: Mosaic Preview: Code reworked completly runs smoother now. NOT SUPPORTED CODECs: Sonic, Nero(?).
  
  
• Fix: Audio menu: the audio menu could be opened several times via remote. Fixed it.
  
  
• Fix: Channel editor: Added missing FEC values in channel details.
  
  
• Fix: EPG-Details in EPG window, Rec. Stat window: The font for the description was not used.
  
  
• Fix: Scan window: Update channel scan with update names could mess up the custom sorting of main/subchannel.
  
  
• Add: Rec. Stats window: Added menu item recorder window.
  
  
• Pimped: Info file for recordings, now more info in it.
  
  
• Add: Tool button iconset: The correct XPediton iconset is now used.
  
  
• Changed: Control window: Fixed mute button and reworked the other buttons also in this window.
  
  
• Change: EPG: changed the special char cleaning routine of the EPG. It removed valid chars in french and danish (maybe other langages too).
  
  
• Change: EPG: Changed internal format and handling of the EPG.
  The short consequence: You will see some entries doubled. This will stop as soon as the existing entries are out of date and replaced with new entries from the dvb-stream (you could delete the epg.dat to speed up this).
  The longterm effect: the amount of data gets smaller (in memory and in the epg.dat). EPG processing needs less resources.
  
  
• Update: Language: Suomi language file updated thanks @sf100.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

[Lars_MQ]

A new Beta in the membersarea.

This one is the Release Candidate. If now bigger problems surface we will most likely publish a release by the end of next week.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

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Version BETA 3.6.4.25
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• Fix: Actions: EjectCD didn't work.
  
  
• Fix: Musicfiles: m3u Extention was not in the extentions list in a default setup.
  
  
• Fix: Mainwindow: the refresh status problem should be solved.
  
  
• Fix: Recorded show - Infofiles/Refresh RecordingsDB: Fixed a problem preventing the refreshing via infofiles.
  
  
• Fix: Recorded show - FileInfo: Extended the NTFS Fileinfo so it can be used to rebuild the db entry completely. It is advised to activate this option.
  
  
• Fix: DiseqC 1.1: Some tweaking.
  
  
• Add: Rec. Stats window: Added menu item "refresh DB" and "Clean DB".
  
  
• Fix: Mainwindow: In some iconsets for the toolbuttons the recording symbol (possible/active) was wrong.
  
  
• Fix: The News OSD-window: Another fix for the umlautsproblem.
  
  
• Add: Rec. Stats window: A confirmation dialog is shown in the recorded Show tab for deleting files. Is only shown if the files actually exists, otherwise the db entry will be deleted without confirmation.
  
  
• Fix: Rec. Stats window: The recorded show list is now correctly updated if a recording finishes while the window is open.
  
  
• Fix: Networkdevice/DVBServer: Fixed problem with sometime not tuning on startup.
  
  
• Fix: MHW Plus EPG: Obviously the format was changed - updated the parser.
  
  
• Change: OSD-Options: Show Background is now per default enabled. Affects only for new installations.
  
  
• Fix: Slideshow: the transition in single mode didn't work correctly.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

[Lars_MQ]

A new Beta in the membersarea.

This one is the Release Candidate 2.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

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Version BETA 3.6.4.30
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• Fix: Channel autoupdate: Fixed problems with channel autoupdate and channels with "local windows".
  
  
• Fix: OSD datamanager: Fixed channelname not updated on audiostream change.
  
  
• Fix: OSD Timeline: fixed missing long channelname.
  
  
• Add: Option TV&Radio: Added tune last channel on start option. Default is enabled.
  
  
• Fix: Channellist: Fixed problem with searching and a channellist with invalid entries.
  
  
• Change: DisableAV: Removed most functionality of the DisableAV setting of the timers. If enabled it does only suppress tuning the recorded channel.
  
  
• Change: Channelscan / Channel editor: Now all new or updated channels are displayed in bold font in the channeleditor.
  
  
• Removed: Mini EPG: Removed portallist from MiniEPG (OSD-Green).
  
  
• Updated: Language files: German, english and suomi (thanks @sf100).
  
  
• Fix: Inputystem: fixed a potentional memoryleak (could only occur on invalid or faulty .remotefiles).
  
  
• Add: Input options Added im- and export of .remote files.
  Export and Import can be done for remotedevice or for user defined commands.
  - On exporting you can select if you want to export the user defined commands only or the remotekeys for a remotedevice. The user commands are automatically exported, if you choose a remote device.
  - On importing existing entries of remotedevice/remotekey pairs will be replaced to avoid double entries.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

[Lars_MQ]

A new Beta in the membersarea.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.

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Version BETA 3.6.4.36
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• Fix: EPG Window: Fixed a bug which prevented the window to show the EPG.
  
  
• Fix: TS/MPEG2 Fileplayback: Fixed a endless loop on opening a non existing file.
  
  
• Fix: Disable Audio: Disable audio is not allowed anymore on fileplayback.
  
  
• Fix: Rec/Stats win: Fixed the the AV Display was not always synchronized on fileplayback.
  
  
• Fix: Autochannel Update: Did not work if detect Video/Audio format in directX options was selected.
  
  
• Fix: Channeleditor: Fixed a crash when trying to move a entry to an empty group.
  
  
• Fix: OSD Timer dialog: fixed problems with audio subchannels.
  
  
• Fix: OSD: Fixed the fix for long channel names. Now works as exspected.
  
  
• Change: OSD Options: Transparency now only allowed up to 80% instead of 100%.
  
  
• Change: OSD Timer dialog: audiosubchannels are also shown in the channel list.
  
  
• Change: OSD-Timeline: If favourites in contextmenu (F8) are selected, the channels have now the ordering of the favorites.
  
  
• Fix: Timeshift: Fixed timeshift file was not deleted if stop timeshift recording was executed before.
  
  
• Add: Timeshift: You can now define the minimum free disk space in the timeshift options. Notice: on reaching this value timeshift recording will be stopped but timeshift is still active, so you can view the timeshifted stuff.
  
  
• Fix: Mediaplayback: Pressing the play button does now reset the speed to normal.
  
  
• Fix: Scanner window: Fixed sometimes the last transponder list setting was overridden.
  
  
• Fix: Autoplay: Changed autoplaysetting are now active without restart of dvbviewer.
  
  
• Changed: Favourites: Favourites are now displayed with a dot in front instead of a checkmark in the menus.
  
  
• Add: Channeleditor-favorites: You can now display the favoritenumber in the favorite editor activate it via popup menu.
  
  
• Changed: Fav+/Fav-: Now works the same as Ch+/ch- you can only go to favorites if a device is available and not blocked by recordings.
  
  
• Add: Favourites: Now EPG preview on zapping works also for Fav+/Fav-. The same settings as for the channels apply (timeout etc).
  
  
• Add: Mediacontrol window: Can now be pinned, so it doesn't disappear if you leave it.
  
  
• Add: Mediacontrol window: Moving the slider now updates the time display. It's not 100% accurate but a good indicator...
  
  
• Changed: MiniEPG: Changed the way EPGNow/Next are retrieved, hopefully fixed some random no data displays.
  
  
• Updated: Language files.

For more informations and previous updates please read the above posts!

Please post all reports to the english or deutsch beta forum.