SageTV V6.1.3 Release Candidate is Available!!

Windows
Updates
1. Added ATI decoders to DShow decoders list

Linux
Updates
1. Added EPG data scanning support on Linux for
ATSC/DVB

Extender Updates
1. Prevent non-repeating keys from repeating
when using the RC5 infrared optimization
2. Synchronize time reading (fix
problem in dvd still screens)
3. Bug fix for when doing a fast file switch
with the extender the audio stream wasn't set correctly

STV Updates
1.
Changed media browser view names to use the same size font to prevent having to
load many different font sizes.
2. Applied new transparent background to all
buttons that previously were outlined when not highlighted.

SageTV
V6.1.2 Release Notes 2/13/2007 RELEASE CANDIDATE 2

Core Updates
1.
Fixed regression bug caused by last bug fix for async Fav issues that would
cause all favorite & IR recordings to stop
2. Fixed regression bug where
the channel lineups were not initially loaded on the client
3. Fixed
regression bug where the display would power off while the user was watching
video
4. Fixed bug where some RSS Enclsures didn't parse the duration
correctly

Windows Updates
1. Fixed regression bug of timing issues in
playback of previously recorded HD content

STV Updates
1. Rearranged
Online Services Menu. Used 3×5 array of choices for YouTube & Google Videos.
Used new background for non-selected online video options. Removed item numbers
from lists of online videos.
2. Modified YouTube & Google Video menu
layouts for single line text all at roughly the same size & changed order of
menu items.
3. When setting or clearing MR for an airing, close dialog first
so the options don't appear to change as the MR status is being updated by the
core.
4. Display "Tuning into…" pop-up message when starting playback of a
TV show that is currently airing, since it can take a little while for the
recording to start so playback can begin.
5. Channel Setup: use a 'waiting'
type of dialog when channel scanning is initializing.
6. Fixed use of wrong
variable name in animation of music thumb list in Artist/Genre/Year
views.

SageTV V6.1.1 Release Notes 2/9/2007 RELEASE
CANDIDATE

Core Updates
1. Added persistence for Airing objects
that were linked to completed TV recordings. They will now remain in the DB
forever. To clear them out; set the property
wizard/retain_airings_from_completed_recordings=false
2. Updated
CaptureDevice merit sorting so that when merit is equal the device that has the
higher quality input will be chosen first.
3. Fixed bug where a newly added
Favorite may not get recorded because the profiler does an async update which
clobbers the Favorite airing data (normally it would restart but we had added
something to stop that if it kept restarting…now that's been adjusted to work
in this case as well)
4. When playing back a DVD with the NVidia decoder,
automatically insert the NVidia postprocessor unless another PP is specified or
the property videoframe/use_nvidia_pp_when_decoder_selected is set to
false
5. Fixed bug where channels that had a subchannel number greater than
10 didn't get properly sorter by subchannel number
6. Fixed bug where old
channels that weren't mapped to anything stuck around in digital TV
lineups
7. Fixed IR repeat timing issue
8. Disabled multipass encoding for
PSP & iPod conversions
9. Fixed DVD AC3 encoding so that it doesn't use
5.1 channels unless the source material also has 5.1 channels
10. Transcoding
of TS files now go through the remuxer instead of the transcoder
11. Added
optimized video thumbnail generation so it won't take 'black frames' of video
and will try to find a 'good' thumbnail
12. Added extra check when doing
MediaFile verification where we don't fail if the file is not zero length and
doesn't exist
13. Fixed bug where the file path index in the DB got broken
when files were removed
14. Fixed bug where the timeline for a file would be
messed up if it was converted & replaced but with different times
15.
Added support for asynchronous loading of URL based images
16. Fixed bug
where an unwatched favorite can get deleted before a watched recording if the
system was very low on diskspace.
17. Fixed bug that occassionaly caused
SageTV to hang for 30 second when shutting down
18. Fixed bug where converted
files that were placed in an import directory got imported in addition to their
TV metdata linking
19. Fixed bug where the wrong duration was shown sometimes
during playback of non-DVD content
20. If there's no Wiz.bin file, but there
is a Wiz.bak file; be sure to load the backup file instead of creating a new
DB!
21. Recording of DVB/ATSC/QAM will now generate more compliant Program
Stream files (the previous ones generated were missing some fields that some
editors/players required)
22. When scanning for QAM channels; don't list any
encrypted/unviewable channels.
23. Fixed bugs related to transcoding of HDTV
files (there may still be issues with recordings that have been made before
V6.1; we will release a tool to repair those recordings in the near
future)
24. Added support for parsing comments from an Ogg-Vorbis
file.

Linux Updates
1. Use Program Stream as the default recording
format for digital TV on all platforms
2. Fixed error printouts for eval
errors so the expression gets dumped to the log as well
3. Fixed bug where
the broadcast standard wasn't getting set for DVB capture devices on Linux
4.
Fixed OpenGL video rendering code so that it also takes into account the source
rectangle for the video (not just the destination rectangle).
5. DVB-T is now
fully supported on Linux
6. ClearQAM is functional on Linux but still
considered experimental

Windows Updates
1. Fixed bug where we didn't
properly clean up FSE when it was shutdown
2. Set a max limit on D3D VRAM
usage to be 120MB.
3. Added more cleanup calls so that when we drop out of
FSE or have to destroy the rendering engine everything comes back correctly.
There was a repro case where locking the screen would cause the 3D system to
fail and not recover. This fix solves that problem.
4. Fixed bug where
disabling overlay color keying caused SageTVPlayer to hide video even when using
3D render
5. Fixed support for .tivo imported media files on Windows
6.
Fixed bug where SageTV would hang if awoken from the system tray with a double
mouse click and video background always on is enabled
7. Optimized detection
of current screen bounds which is used to calculate PAR. This should eliminate
some of the pauses/stuttering that happen in the UI because it'll no longer be
enumerating all of the displays on every image render and every VMR9
callback.
8. Added support for VistView Saber 2020
9. Added support for
Hauppauge WinTv-HVR 1600 (can act as an ATSC + NTSC tuner that supports both
inputs at once!)
10. Disabled secondary copy of video texture unless it's
required to do the BLT (major performance increase for VMR9)

Macintosh
Updates
1. Fixed OpenGL video rendering code so that it also takes into
account the source rectangle for the video (not just the destination
rectangle).

Placeshifter Updates
1. Updates to add support for
infrared receive in the Windows Placeshifter client
2. Increased buffer size
used to push data to the extender/placeshifter
3. Added support for integer
coordinate rendering. This'll fix floating point rounding errors that would
occur in the Placeshifter & Extender.
4. Fixed bug in localhost
placeshifter license detection so it doesn't count the localhost as a license in
use.
5. Fixed bug where we were using premultiplied alpha for sending images
to the placeshifter when it was in LAN mode
6. Updated server discovery
process so it updates the list in realtime rather than waiting for the whole
discovery to timeout
7. Added version information to the About tab in the
SageTV Placeshifter

Extender Updates
1. Added support for integer
coordinate rendering. This'll fix floating point rounding errors that would
occur in the Placeshifter & Extender.
2. Fixed bug where FF/REW play
would sometimes continue onto next media file when the last one ended with it
on
3. Performance enhancemnts; should be faster.
4. Optimized
usage of RC5 remote controls so they're much more responsive

Studio
Updates
1. Fixed bug where the Studio allowed loading of menus while the
debugger was paused (now it resumes)
2. Retain multiple selections when doing
a Refresh in the SageTV Studio
3. Fixed bug where the Studio could be closed
while it was stopped on a breakpoint (now it resumes and disables stopping while
it's hidden)
4. Fixed bug where ensureVisiblityForVariable wouldn't always
work on non-wrapped tables
5. Fixed bugs where horizontal scrolling and
hor/vert scrolling didn't work correctly
6. Added support for dynamically
changing the H & V alignment of image widgets
7. Added Configuration API
calls: GetServerSubpropertiesThatAreLeaves,
GetServerSubpropertiesThatAreBranches, RemoveServerProperty and
RemoveServerPropertyAndChildren
8. Added Global API calls: IsLinuxOS and
IsMacOS