HDPVR Capture -> Version History

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Index:

• Version 2.11.2 (Sep 13, 2011)
• Version 2.11.0 (Sep 12, 2011)
• Version 2.9.2 (Mar 8, 2011)
• Version 2.9.1 (Feb 28, 2011)
• Version 2.9.0 (Jan 13, 2011)
• Version 2.8.2 (Nov 8, 2010)
• Version 2.8.1 (Oct 15, 2010)
• Version 2.8.0 (Oct 10, 2010)
• Version 2.7.0 (May 1, 2010)
• Version 2.5.3 (Sep 13, 2009)
• Version 2.5.2 (Aug 2, 2009)
• Version 2.5.0 (Jun 21, 2009)
• Version 2.4.1 (Mar 16, 2009)
• Version 2.3.0 (Mar 7, 2009)
• Version 2.2.1 (Mar 1, 2009)
• Version 2.2.0 (Feb 25, 2009)
• Version 2.1.0 (Feb 23, 2009)
• Version 2.0.12 (Feb 20, 2009)
• Version 2.0.11 (Feb 11, 2009)
• Version 2.0.9 (Feb 1, 2009)
• Version 2.0.8 (Jan 22, 2009)
• Version 2.0.7-b1 (Jan 18, 2009)
• Version 2.0.6-b1 (Jan 14, 2009)

• Release Date: Sep 13, 2011
• bugfix: Fixed a 10.5 specific crash on startup.

• Release Date: Sep 12, 2011
• Release 2.11.0
  • Enable video preview when streaming to the network.
  • Restart VLC for video preview every time the Preview button is pressed.
  • Removed a compiler define for FILTER_TAB, no longer required.
  • Update the user preferences (default and custom) with good sensible video defaults.
  • Enable the video controls for support with the July 27th 2011 firmware.
  • Code cleanup to the usb handler, globals and some common functions.
  • Various mutex cleanups, make sure we take the mutex during device removal.
  • Re-instate mutex locking on device structure.
  • Support VLC in /Applications or on the users desktop.
  • bugfix: 10.7 Replaced /tmp tmp files with ~/Documents.
  • bugfix: 10.7 bug where writing to /tmp is prohibited.
  • bugfix: custom video control values were not being restored correctly.
  • bugfix: record recording LED remained on with July 27th Firmware.
  • Added a single click defaults button to restore video controls easily.
  • Disabled the warning if Perian is not installed.
  • bugfix: Preferences windows would often not appear when selected.
  • cleanup: Only allow a single VLC instance to run concurrently.
  • cleanup: Stop the associated VLC instance when encoding stops.
• Release 2.10.1
  • Feature: Simplified all-in-one menu in the conversion tab.
  • Feature: More flexible timing control over manually scheduled iCal recordings.
  • Feature: Add support for Tivo Channel Changing via the network remote interface.
  • Feature: Improvements enabling app to by used by Accessibility controls.
  • Bugfix: Custom Audio Boost setting was lost when the user selected a different audio input.
  • Cleanup: Fixed a small handful of memory leaks.
  • Cleanup: Switched the project compiler from gcc to lvm gcc 4.2 and xcode 4.0.2
  • Cleanup: Removed bare-bones Applescript support.
  • Cleanup: Removed spurious console message.

• Release Date: Mar 8, 2011
• Bugfix: Recordings would occasionally abort during conversion to MP4.

• Release Date: Feb 28, 2011
• Feature: Broadcast system wide channel change notifications.
• Feature: Support for the Firewire 'Channel Changer' app by rti-zone.org.
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Satellite Box Sky-Plus Amstrad
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Satellite Box Sky-Plus Pace BSKYB3100
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Satellite Box Sky Pace 2500B
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Satellite Box Sky Pace DS445NB
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Cable Box Cisco Explorer 4642HD
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Cable Box BT Vision
• Feature: Minor face lift to the UI, improvements to image rendering.
• Feature: Remember the previous time duration after restart.
• Bugfix: Selecting 1, 2 or 3 digit IR blasting could result in a crash.
• Bugfix: IR blaster often sent additional leading zero digits.

• Release Date: Jan 13, 2011
• Feature: Allow the network address / ip to persist when custom settings enabled.
• Feature: New preferences - Move files to Trashcan after mp4 conversion (def disabled).
• Bugfix: Fixed a crash related to the IR blasting keycodes
• Bugfix: iCal scheduling generated popup errors and failed to record.
• Bugfix: TitanTV tvpi files failing to load into HDPVRCapture.
• Bugfix: Higher than necessary CPU load when HDPVRCapture is idle.
• Bugfix: Fixed a small memory leak related to USB handling.
• Bugfix: Avoid signal detection handling during recordings, leading to intermittent stalls.
• Cleanup: Remove small amounts of redundant code.
• Cleanup: Truncate the displayed filename if it overflows the dialog.
• Cleanup: Encoder stop improvements, minor performance improvement.
• Cleanup: Replaced a deprecated function.
• Cleanup: Adjusted the threshold that triggers the 'no audio or video' message for low bitrate streams.
• Cleanup: HDPVRCapture now needs to be running for scheduled recordings to trigger correctly.

• Release Date: Nov 8, 2010
• Feature: Enable Return/Enter key to start/stop capture.
• Feature: Added support for infinite recording time.
• Feature: Added support for recording to be split into file chunks based on time.
• Bugfix: HDPVR had to be power cycle during startup else not detected.
• Bugfix: Fixes related to file conversions that abort.

• Release Date: Oct 15, 2010
• Bugfix: Ensure appropriate message is shown when HDPVR Firmware fails to start.
• Bugfix: Ensure HDPVRCapture correctly handles removal of HDPVR.

• Release Date: Oct 10, 2010
• Feature: Added support for a new revision of the Hauppauge HDPVR hardware
• Feature: Added a real-time stream to network capability
• Feature: Added the ability to disable recording data to disk
• Feature: Show on screen error during capture if audio/video signal is bad
• Feature: Show error if video signal disappears
• Feature: Added Tivo IR support
• Changed: Make Rear RCA jacks the default audio input method
• Changed: Make AAC 2 channel audio the default codec when recording analog audio
• Cleanup: Disable video preview if ONLY streaming captured video to network
• Cleanup: Disable post processing if ONLY streaming captured video to network
• Cleanup: If EyeTV is installed then inform user another app is using the HDPVR.
• Cleanup: Warn user if the output directory does not exist.
• Bugfix: Avoid crash when recording and HDPVR is disconnected
• Bugfix: Crash related to miss-handling of preference data with 2.7.1 beta#1
• Bugfix: Don't disable the Ui controls until the hardware has begin streaming.
• Bugfix: iCal scheduled recordings lost the notes field and show information.

• Release Date: May 1, 2010
• Bugfix: iCal errors when application starts
• Bugfix: iCal errors when TVPI is opened.
• Bugfix: HDPVRCapture creates iCal events with incorrect dates and/or times.
• Feature: Alterations to the iCal view for faster display of your iCal schedules
• Feature: Alterations to the 'Schedule Entry' dialog to improve performance with large lists of schedules.
• Cleanup: Removed support for 10.4
• Cleanup: Removed support for the iCal Applescript interfaces

• Release Date: Sep 13, 2009
• Cleanup: Removed the long-term disabled IR blaster test controls.
• Bugfix: Avoid a crash (hopefully) when HDPVRCapture co-exists with EyeTV.

• Release Date: Aug 2, 2009
• Bugfix: Glitches in video recordings at high bitrates under some circumstances.

• Release Date: Jun 21, 2009
• Bugfix: iCal view hangs after multiple calendar entries are removed.
• Bugfix: Repeating schedules had incorrect launch dates/times.
• Bugfix: Odd task related bug when post processing related to translating ~, possibly new in 10.5.7.
• Bugfix: Automatic conversion of 5.1 after recording did not have 5.1 passthrough enabled.
• Bugfix: Multiple AC3 5.1 conversion tasks running concurrently hung the app. (Quicktime hang)
• Cleanup: Functional change, limit AC3 5.1 task conversion to a single concurrent instance, to avoid a Quicktime hang.
• Feature: Rewrote the internal scheduler to specifically allow any number of AAC or AC3 2.0 conversions concurrently.
• Feature: Warn the user if Perian is not install.
• Feature: Added support for external channel changing, see prefs. Scripts called with args -c -d -f
• Known Issues: Zap2it schedule entries can be wrong by 12 hours, you need to verify the time at entry time.
• Known Issues: PPC post processing can be buggy.
• Known Issues: .mp4 files don't play on the PS3 (Workaround: play the native .m2ts instead)
• Bugfix: Crash/hang during blasting if no 'Enter key codeset' for the selected STB
• Bugfix: No video captured if we're blasting and not using Component, first time around.
• Bugfix: Buffering related fixes when video is lost, to preserve the packet alignment.
• Bugfix: Buffering related fixes if the encoder has to be restarted.
• Bugfix: Related to high CPU load with the new buffering scheme.
• Bugfix: Related to out of order buffers being written to the recording, causing corruption.
• Bugfix: Mutex deadlock between threads on los of signal.
• Cleanup: Removed spurious debug messages.
• Regression: Added Video Control view (Brightness/Contrast controls) (Not working).
• Feature: Updates to the IR database - Added support for the UK BSKYB Thomson STB.
• Increases the number of allowable outstanding USB buffers to compensate for bursty storage drives.
• Improve performance of Stop Recording function.
• Added Ability to split file into 50MB chunks to help with diagnostics.
• Automatically maps the correct AC3 channesl during conversation, when using Quicktime 7.6 and higher.
• Preparation code to re-enable network streaming (not functional yet)
• Bugfix: Removed Video Control view (Brightness/Contrast controls), these don't work with recent HDPVR firmwares.
• Bugfix: Motorola 6412 IR selected selected the incorrect codeset, results in IR blaster failure.

• Release Date: Mar 16, 2009
• Bug: Scheduling via zap2it was broken after a recent zap2it website update. (It's better now but not perfect yet).
• Feature: Added option to query the files metadata and produce a report.
• Feature: Starting with Option key depressed enables two debugging / customer support features to analyze files.
• Feature: Ensured Menu / Help launches browser and navigates to online FAQ.
• Feature: Major speed improvements to to post processing capabilities, a 3GB 2 Hour movie now takes 40 seconds to convert on a MacPro, instead of 10-15 minutes.
• Feature: Major resolution changes to the post processing mechanism, all supported resolutions (1080i/720p/480i) and audio codec types (AAC 2.0, AC3 2.0 and AC3 5.1) can now be converted correctly into .mp4
• Feature: Converted files (1080i/720p/480i with AAC or AC3 2.0 or 5.1) are now compatible with the following applications:
• Compatible with: iMovie '09
• Compatible with: MPEG StreamClip v1.9.2
• Compatible with: FrontRow (Tested 10.5.6)
• Compatible with: Final Cut Pro v6.0.5
• Compatible with: QuickTime Player / QuickTime Pro v7.6

• Release Date: Mar 7, 2009
• Feature: Added support for scheduling in using zap2it.com for Canadian customers.
• Cleanup: Compensate if the video glitches to avoid stability issues with Roxio Toast.

• Release Date: Mar 1, 2009
• Bugfix: Recordings do not show the correct duration when viewed on the PS3

• Release Date: Feb 25, 2009
• Feature: Allow manual recordings to be accurate to the minute.

• Release Date: Feb 23, 2009
• Bugfix: Video signal wasn't detected correctly on cold boot.
• Feature: Lowered the Video Signal check interval to improve performance on low end CPUs
• Feature: New Preferences / Misc option to disable signal detection, lowering CPU overhead.
• Feature: Added time controls to make manual recordings easier.
• Feature: Abort recording if the HDPVR is connected to a low speed USB port.
• Feature: New Preferences / Misc option to override and allow recording on low speed USB ports.
• Cleanup: Minor updates to the tooltips on the Preferences panels.
• Cleanup: Reduced the default recording time from Infinite to 1 hr 30 mins.
• Cleanup: Removed small sections of unused internal code from the early betas.
• Cleanup: Track USB device speed and monitoring options internally for future debugging.
• Cleanup: Track statistics for USB1.1 recordings that exceed 8Mbps and risk stalling.

• Release Date: Feb 20, 2009
• Bugfix: Conversion panel task menu did not default correctly in all cases.
• Bugfix: PPC systems would abort during post processing conversion.

• Release Date: Feb 11, 2009
• The v2.0.11 demo is out of beta and available for download here. The application is fully function except that recordings are limited to a maximum time of 2 minutes, note that the IR Blaster is not enabled in demo mode. Release notes are here

• Release Date: Feb 1, 2009
• Changes:
  • Bugfix: Post processing conversion #4, with missing audio, is now working.
  • Bugfix: Added internal logging to help diagnose video signal issues for one customer.
  • Bugfix: A space in the bundle name caused post processing to abort.
  • Bugfix: Fixed a default menu selection bug after a drag and drop operation.
• Known Issues:
  • The test controls on the Preferences / IRBlaster page do not work, and have been disabled in this release.

• Release Date: Jan 22, 2009
• Changes:
  • Bugfix: Video signal reports errors and encoder stalled during recording.
  • Bugfix: Removed some spurious debug messages.
  • Bugfix: Minor cleanup of tooltip messages.
  Known Issues:
  • Post processing AC3 into .MOV files is buggy, often resulting in missing audio.

• Release Date: Jan 18, 2009
• Changes:
  • Bugfix: Applescript error causing a hang during iCal schedule creation.
  • Bugfix: Odd popup error if iCal scheduled a recording but no event existed.
  • Bugfix: Ensure the Monitor via VLC option is only enabled if VLC is installed.
  • Feature: Changes the preferences panel tabs to resize dynamically.
  • Feature: Automatically lookup the channel name if the user enters a channel number.
  • Feature: Added the preservation of the IR Blaster setting in custom mode.
  • Cleanup: Removed the unused Status column form the iCal view.
• Known Issues:
  • Post processing AC3 into .MOV files is buggy, often resulting in missing audio.

• Release Date: Jan 14, 2009
• Changes:
  • Bugfix: Running on PPC no video would be detected or captured.
  • Bugfix: Fixed a rare kernel panic case on PPC.
  • Bugfix: The application started in the incorrect tab.
  • Bugfix: When no hardware is connected, Video Signal Detection how shows an appropriate message.
• Known Issues:
  • Post processing AC3 into .MOV files is buggy, often resulting in missing audio.