DVBViewer -> Version History

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Index:

• Version 4.9 (Sep 16, 2011)
• Version 4.8.1 (Jun 3, 2011)
• Version 4.8.0.1 (Apr 25, 2011)
• Version 4.8 (Apr 21, 2011)
• Version 4.6 (Jan 18, 2011)
• Version 4.5 (Oct 7, 2010)
• Version 4.5 RC2 (Sep 30, 2010)
• Version 4.5 RC1 (Sep 16, 2010)
• Version 4.2.1 (Jul 26, 2009)
• Version 4.2 Beta (Jun 20, 2009)
• Version 4.1 (May 5, 2009)
• Version 4.0 (Dec 22, 2008)
• Version 3.9.4.0 (May 30, 2008)
• Version 3.9.2.0 (Jan 18, 2008)
• Version 3.9.1.0 (Dec 1, 2007)
• Version 3.9.0.0 (Oct 4, 2007)
• Version 3.8.0.0 (Aug 6, 2007)
• Version 3.6.0 (Dec 31, 2006)

• Release Date: Sep 16, 2011
• Only available to customers who have purchased the Pro version
• MHEG-5
  • Add: TOT data generated by the system time
  • Add: Audio play states are now handled by the MHEG engine
  • Add: Video play states are now handled by the MHEG engine
  • Add: partially support for online content like BBC iPlayer
  • Fix: Volume control of the MHEG engine should work correctly
  • Fix: Interactive language is now send to the MHEG application correctly
  • Add: PVR Bookings are send/read to/from the VCR
• Video On Demand Filter
  • Add: Youtube support (youtube://[youtubeid])
  • Add: Vimeo support (vimeo://[vimeoid])
  • Fix: Improved Playback and buffering of all kind of audio and video streams
  • Add: Better Icecast/Shoutcast detection
  • Removed: LastFM support
• General
  • Add: Playback Presets by Griga. Presets are used to offer a more flexible way to select codecs and splitters for specific file formats. Note: selecting a Videorenderer inside these preset files is NOT supported.
  • Some example presets are in the [app-folder]\GraphPresets_Samples. You need to copy them into the [configuration folder]\GraphPresets\ folder and adjust the filter IDs and/or make sure you have the fitting filters/splitters installed.
  • Add: Playback: Added CD and WAV playback via the DVBSource Filter.
  • Change: Program: Saving of the windows positions is now handled a little better.
  • Fix: Program: The position of dialog windows was sometimes incorrect.
  • Add: Playback: Playback of ts/mp3/wav streams from a http source (Recording Service) via the DVBSource filter added. Use the "Open URL" dialog. Needs the current version of the Recording Service.
  • Fix: Installation: A clean installation with no channel list as a Recording Service client could deactivate all timers in the Recording Service.
  • Fix: Program Start: under certain circumstances a renderer error message could delay the program start up to 20 seconds.
  • Fix: Recordings: If adjust PAT/PMT was activated and the SID of a channel was wrong, no Audio/Videodata was written. Now adjust PAT/PMT is deactivated if the SID doesn't match. careful this might cause problems with other hard/Software. Make sure the SID of a channel is always correct.
  • Change: Rewritten and optimized the code for (debug)Logfile writing.
  • Fix: Settings: Changes to Auto detect Audio/Video weren't saved anymore.
  • Updated to current sqlite3 version.
  • Updated the DVBViewer Filter.
  • Several corrections and optimizations.
  • Language files updated.
• Hardware
  • Add: Skystar USB HD with WDM driver: Enabled Diseqc 1.2 for this device.
  • Add: BDA: DiSEqC support for DVBSky devices added.
  • Add: BDA: Detection of Digital Devices Cine CT V6 devices added.
  • Add: BDA: Reworked the detection of Turbosight devices. You might have to do a manual hardware search in the options.
  • Add: BDA: Cinergy HTC Stick detection added.
  • Change: BDA: New option for EMPIA compatible devices in DVB-C mode in the hardware Options: "Force Auto Modulation". Changing this value might help if channel changes are very slow.
  • Add: Support for Hauppauge PVR devices

• Release Date: Jun 3, 2011
• MHEG-5
  • Fix: Stopped graph on radio playback
  • Fix: Problem with ISO default language setting
  • Fix: Time difference caused by summer time
  • Fix: Audio 100% problem on BBC MHEG
  • Fix: Problems with the videowindow while MHEG is active on Irish channels
  • Add: Partially support for interactive channels (not finished yet)
• General
  • Change: EPG.dat: The PDC PIL (if present) for EPG entries is saved in the epg.dat.
  • Change: BDA-Hardware: EyeTV devices with CI are now handled like Twinhan/Terratec devices , MMI should work now.
  • Change: Adjust PAT/PMT: The ECM Descriptors are now removed from the PMT if "Adjust PAT/PMT" is activated.
  • Change: TS-Recordings: TS recordings now start always with a PAT/PMT.
  • Fix: EPG-Parser: Fix for polish EPG by Griga.
  • Add: Arib Subtitles: Do work now for real.
  • Fix: DVBViewer Recording Service: Connection to the local recording service now doesn't use the windows proxy settings anymore.
  • Change: Wizard: Simplified the hardware selection in the wizard.
  • Change: DirectX Options: Changed the selection of media file types the DVBSource Filter should be used for.
  • Fix: Video playback without the DVBSource Filter: Griga fixed several problems with the IAMStreamSelect interface.
  • Add: Teletext: Added Grigas improvements to the teletext parser.
  • Fix: Video/Audio A/B: Fixed a bug in detecting the correct file extension.
  • Add: Datamanager: Added #TV.Timeshift.relativepos a float value (0..1). 0 means timeshift is at the beginning of the timeshift file, 1 means timeshift is at the liveTV position.
  • Fix: OSD-Teletext: On jumping to page 100 with the OSD-OK key the internal input buffer for the teletext page numbers is reset now.
  • Add: BDA Devices: Added detection of several new TBS devices.
  • Add: OSD Channel EPG Window: You can now programmatically select which channel EPG should be shown by setting #OSD.channelnumber to the wanted channel number.
  • Attention: The caller is responsible to set the value to empty or -1 after use.
  • Change: Playback: For mp3 playback with the DVBSource Filter the graph is not rebuild if the old one can be reused.
  • Updated to current sqlite3 version.
  • Update to Version 3.5.5 of the DVBViewer Filter.
  • Several corrections and optimizations.
  • Language files updated.

• Release Date: Apr 25, 2011
• Fix: Favourites: fixes problems with favourites.
• Fix: Timer: fixes all timers are shown red in the recording window if recorded locally.

• Release Date: Apr 21, 2011
• Only available to customers who have purchased the Pro version
• Main feature: Adds MHEG-5 support
• For a list of completed changes, please refer to this forum thread: http://www.dvbviewer.tv/forum/topic/45388-dvbviewer-pro-48/

• Release Date: Jan 18, 2011
• For a list of what's changed, please refer to this forum post: http://www.dvbviewer.tv/forum/topic/44158-dvbviewer-pro-46/

• Release Date: Oct 7, 2010
• For a list of what's changed, please refer to this forum post http://www.dvbviewer.tv/forum/topic/42593-dvbviewer-pro-45/

• Release Date: Sep 30, 2010
• This version fixes smaller issues with the installer, the dvbserver and the DVBViewer.
• One fix is quite important: we found a problem in the miniEPG handling, which caused a very high CPU peak for several seconds after switching channels.

• Release Date: Sep 16, 2010
• For a list of what's changed, please refer to this forum post:

• Release Date: Jul 26, 2009
• For a list of what's changed, please refer to this forum post: http://www.dvbviewer.info/forum/index.php?showtopic=35263

• Release Date: Jun 20, 2009
• Fix: EPG HTML Export: Fixed several problems and bugs.
• Change: EPG Processing: Fixup for Anxie, RTL and SuperRTL EPG. The viewer tries to map some info from the description to the subtitle.
• Change: Wiki links: Depending on the selected language the german or english wiki link is shown in the help menu.
• Add: New graphics for the Wizard made by rago.
• Fix: The brightness setting was reset if started with -c parameter.
• Fix: Blu-ray was not started correctly from OSD Videos
• Fix: Popup channel list did not focus the correct channel sometimes.
• Update: Some German language file updated.
• Fix: Several fixes in the translation code to avoid problems on faulty language files.
• Fix: The Popup channellist closes if you leave the window to the right side.
• Fix: Some fixes for Unicable support.
• Fix: Recordings without EPG were not written to the database.
• Fix: Fixes for Skystar 2 Diseqc WDM.
• Fix: OSD-Slideshow: The pictures should now keep their aspect ratio.
• Removed: OSD-Teletext mouse support removed.
• Change: OSD-Teletext: Now always in 4:3 ratio.
• Fix: OSD-Teletext: Several small fixes and changes.
• Change: MiniEPG preview: OSD-Up/Down browses the channels, left right the time, OSD-OK switches to the channel. Ch+/ch- and Fav+/Fav- does switch the channel at once now. You can revert back to the old behavior in the options.
• Add: TV + Radio options: Added a option to enable/disable the new MiniEPG behavior.
• Change: The OSD Image dialogue keeps the aspect ratio of the image.
• Fix: ATSC channel scan: fixed the problem of missing channel names for ATSC channels.
• Change: VCR: You can activate auto splitting of a recording if the PMT data changes while it is running.
• Add: Recording options: Added an option to enable auto split on PMT data change.
• Change: Channel auto update: change the auto update method to the one used for auto splitting recordings.
• Fix: Plugins: Fixed a problem on channel change with additional graph rebuild.
• Change: If the selected/default recording folder is not found the DVBViewer tries all folders in the recording folder list and takes the first one, which can be used. If no folder was found the default user/public video folder is used.
• Change: Data transfer from the service (timer, recordings, EPG lists) can be compressed now, if the service supports it.
• Fix: OSD: for channels with mono audio the wrong audio format image was shown.
• Change: Channel list: The channel names are now shown with a charset based on the user locales. Thanks @ter9999.
• Change: Chinese EPG should show now correctly everywhere (OSD/EPG window). Big Thanks @ter9999 for testing. These changes should also affect other non latin based languages.
• Change: CAM support for Twinhan and KNC1 based cards (EXPERIMENTAL!). Some broadcasters send contradicting CA_Info descriptors on program and ES level, which some CAMs do not handle very well (Hotbird the polish TVN channels as example). Now the CA_PMT ignores the descriptors on the ES level if program level descriptors are present. This is not according to the specs, but seems to work. Please report if you have one of the mentioned cards and experience problems with this new handling.
• Fix: ATSC AC3 detection. Some broadcaster use a wrong formated registration descriptor for the AC3 Audio ES causing the DVBViewer not to recognize it as an audio stream.

• Release Date: May 5, 2009
• For a list of what's changed, please refer to this forum post

• Release Date: Dec 22, 2008
• For a list of what's changed, please refer to this forum post

• Release Date: May 30, 2008
• For a list of what's changed, please refer to this forum post

• Release Date: Jan 18, 2008
• Fix: The Wizard ignored the recording folders if using an existing configuration.
• Fix: DVD Playpack without video.
• Fix: Channellist: If the favourite filter was set, changes in the favouriteseditor did not show up in the channellist until disabling, enabling the favourite filter.
• Fix: SFI: removed non displaying chars.
• Fix: OSD-Recording window: the command.ini got the wrong filesnames.
• Fix: PIP: moving with the mouse did not work with vista correctly.
• Fix: Small Videowindow: moving with the mouse did not work with vista correctly.
• Fix: Favouriteeditor: folder could be placed in folder and triggered an exception.
• Fix: AC3/AAC fixes from Griga integrated. Fixes Problem no AC3 recording on certain channel in mpeg format.
• Fix: CC-Subtitel ATSC reworked.
• Fix: Wizard sometimes messed up with network devices.
• Fix: thumbnail folder were not create if usermode=0.
• Fix: OSDSkin: several problems corrected if a skin ignores some standards.
• Fix: Hardwareoptions: sharelnb was not hidden on tunertype change.
• Change: Timeshift: In Timeshift mode pressing stop the first time stopps the timeshift recording, pressing stop a second time stopps timeshift completely.
• Change: Options: All decoder selection boxes display system default in red.
• Workaround: Cyberlink resets colorcontrol on renderer state change in overlay.
• Add: Hardware: Terratec s2 dection integrated.
• Fix: aac audio only recordings now have the extention ".aac".
• Fix: DVBsubtitle reworked.
• Fix: DiseqC 1.2: Westposition were ignored.

• Release Date: Dec 1, 2007
• Fix: Adding music extentions works again.
• Fix: Split after options now works as exspected. Please check if your values are still ok in the option.
• Fix: Resume of DVD fixed.
• Reworked: Shoutcast support (scast://channel name).
• Fix: Channel scan with KNC-One with CI works.
• Fix: German EPG now without "Š".
• Fix: Last position of Video when closing DVBViewer on playback now is remembered correctly.
• Fix BDA Device: Terratec XE and XE MKII now work
• Fix: radioskin: not able to close dvbviewer.
• Fix: radioskin: disabled maximizing
• Reverted: Subtitle options: Delay is back.
• Fix: Zoomsettings were not saved if the zoomwindow was open on channelchange.
• Change: Zoomsettings are saved now for all aspectratio not only for automatic.
• Fix: ch+/ch- were swapped.
• Fix: The -c[name]:SID commandline did not work with audiosubchannels.
• Change: H264 now works with PIP. Think twice before using HDTV H264 in both (Main and PIP).
• Add: Channellist: Added AAC audioformat.
• Prepared: AAC support. Just waiting for working audiocodecs.
• OSD: Crash on changing language files if fullscreen OSD-page was opened.
• OSD: OSD Recording window - context menu: added database submenu.
• OSD: OSD timeline window - next/previos file action generates a page up/down.
• OSD: OSD Listview and thumbnailview: next/previos file action generates a page up/down.
• OSD: OSD Timer/EPG/EPG Now/EPG search/recordings: left/right generates a page up/down.
• OSD: OSD Channellist window: the textoffsets of the epg list now work.
• OSD: OSD several windows: if a EPG entry is selected you can send it to the PVR by pressing the record button on the remote.
• OSD: Fix for 120dpi font problems. All fontsizes will be translated to 96 dpi dimensions. If you use a skin especially for 120dpi you can influence it in the font.xml file of the OSD-skin (see default OSD-skin 120)
• Actions.ini: Added commands for recording database administration.
• Language files: german language file heavely reworked (thanks @Tjod and members of the forum). english up to date, suomi up to date (thanks @SF100)
• Experimental support for EVR with Vista. Don't use it with other windows versions. No guaranties.

• Release Date: Oct 4, 2007
• What's New forum post

• Release Date: Aug 6, 2007
• What's New forum post

• Release Date: Dec 31, 2006
• Add: Added recordingservice.
• Fix: EPG-Window: Fixed "&" was replaced by "_" in Timeline.
• Add: Recorderwindow: Added play running recording to contextmenu.
• Add: Recorderwindow: Added doubleclick on running recording switches to the channel the timer is recording.
• Fix: COM-Events: Fixed several glitches.
• Fix: Siehfern: Fixed endless loop in receiving due to too small buffers.
• Add: Channels/EPG: Added selection for EPG-Source in chaneleditor.
  The source:
  • DVB EPG: EIT, ATSC and Premiere Portal EPG.
  • Internal EPG: SiehFernInfo, MHW(+)
  • External EPG (for EPG-Importers)
  Default is: allow all sources.
• Change: OSD: When changing to subpages the selection in the EPG and channelwindows now is remembered.
• Fix: OSD: fixed pagecounter of lists.
• Fix: CAM: Fixed missing first entry in MMI menu on some CAMs. General improvement of CAM/CI support.
• Fix: EIT-EPG: Fixed loosing of entries in Kabel1/Pro7/Sat1 austria.
• Fix: Vista support: Fixed several issues with vista.
• Change: Signaldisplay: changed signal display for some pinnacle and terratec devices.
• Fix: Vista support: Fixed several issues with vista.
• Change: Added a splitter to some windows so the Headerpanel can be hidden by mouse.
• Change: OSD-Properties: added some properties regarding picture handling of epg entries.
• Fix: Radiomode: fixed a bug when starting viewer in radio mode.
• Change: Signaldisplay: changed signal display for some pinnacle and terratec devices.
• Update: Language: updated several language files.
• Change: Signaldisplay: changed signal display for some pinnacle and terratec devices.