• Change: Daylight saving changes/EPG: If the timezone is set to "automatically" the system will calculate the local time of the EPG entries depending on the date with the help of special windows functions.
  This should fix most problems with day light saving changes because now the EPG always has the "correct" time.
  Timer in the night of the change may have to be adjusted manually.
• Fix: Adjust PAT/PMT: If a recording was started before the PAT contained the fitting PMT the PAT/PMT were not correctly adjusted and written.
• Fix: OSD/Weather: The weather page is working again. ATTENTION: You have to setup your location in the weather options again!
• Change: MHEG5: Rewritten Audio/Video playstate in Mheg5 engine
• Change: MHEG5: ServiceIDs (NID, TID, SID) are now send properly to the Mheg5 engine
• Change: MHEG5: Booking (Add, List, Delete) EPG Events in NZ should work but is untested
• Fix: VOD filter does no longer accept ms-asf streams, since they can not work
• Fix: Recordings: Splitted recording weren't correctly deleted.
• Fix: Options: The custom renderer check box wasn't correctly synchronized between the DVD and DirectX options pages.
• Fix: Main window: Maximize via Aero snap for Vista/Win 7 deactivated.
• Fix: File playback: The bit rate in the status bar wasn't updated correctly for mp3 files.
• Fix: Rec Stats Window: The recordings count is now updated immediately after deleting a recording.
• Change: Main window: Best window size: For 4:3 monitors the height is adjusted (as before), for non 4:3 monitors the width is now adjusted to fit the window with the TV picture. You can disable the new adjustment via tweak -> see tweaker.exe.
• Change: DirectX options: Audio/Video auto detection changes in the DirectX options page now trigger a rebuild graph.
• Add: DVD Playback/Presets: It is possible to define a DVD navigator other than the MS DVD navigator in the presets for DVD playback.
• Change: Windows: Added high res explorer icons (Vista/Win 7) for the DVBViewer Pro and the setup programs.
• Fix: Startup: fixed the issues with the "synzip" messageboxes on program start.
• Fix: RDS Parser: Griga fixed a problem in the RDS parser.
• Fix: Channel Scan: Griga fixed several potential problems in the channel scanner.
• Fix: COM Interface: The Timer list didn't take the remote timers of the recording service into account.
• Fix: Videotext Parser: Griga fixed some small problems with the videotext parser.
• Fix: Instant recording: If an instant recording is started while the DVBViewer Pro is in radio (small interface) mode, the OSD display of the instant recording menu is disabled.
• Add: File Playback: The settings of the progressbar in the statusbar for file playback are now stored separately from the settings for LiveTV.

• Enhanced: Unicable support, particularly for DVB-S/S2 devices that don't allow full Unicable compliance.
  The basic requirement for Unicable support is a driver providing an interface for sending DiSEqC raw commands. This is fulfilled by all DiSEqC 1.2 capable DVB-S/S2 devices. Additionally a (known) interface for directly changing the LNB voltage (without tuning) is required. If it is not available the DVBViewer Pro now performs the necessary voltage changes by dummy tuning. However, this method slows down channel switching and may exceed the Unicable timing constraints. It is not guaranteed to work in all cases (though it works quite well with an Inverto Unicable LNB and different devices).
  In case of a device that does not allow to fulfill the EN 50494 specifications properly, the hardware options page displays a warning before opening the Unicable configuration dialog. Devices regarded as fully Unicable compliant are currently: Digital Devices (above all), FireDTV, TechnoTrend and DVBSky.
• Added: Unicable collision detection.
  A Unicable collision occurs if two receivers try to send a ChannelChange DiSEqC command to the Unicable router at the same time. Frequency switching failure in the router results in no data arriving at all, or even worse, still data from the previous transponder (depending on the transponder parameters).
• Fix: Work-around for the "Initializing the device has failed" error under Windows 7, caused by a buggy Microsoft component that tries to create registry keys without sufficient access rights.
  In "Use internal Network Provider filter off" mode (see hardware settings) the DVBViewer Pro now uses the new MS Universal Network Provider filter (introduced with Vista/Windows 7), that does not show this issue. Additionally "Use internal Network Provider filter on" has become the default setting for new installations, which avoids the error as well. However, it may still occur in "Use standard interface on" mode.
• Added: Pilot symbols auto-detection when receiving DVB-S2 channels resp. transponders with Hauppauge devices.
  DVB-S2 tuning will now succeed with wrong Pilot Symbols settings (though it takes a bit longer).
• Added: DiSEqC 1.2 support for TechniSat SkyStar eXpress HD with WDM/Network driver.
• Enhanced: DiSEqC 1.2 support for TechniSat SkyStar eXpress HD and SkyStar USB HD with BDA driver. Now it also works under Windows XP.
  Please note: Due to the design of the BDA DiSEqC interface for these TechniSat devices command sequences (consisting of more than one DiSEqC command) will not work. Please use the WDM/Network driver in this case.
• Changed: Handling of TBS DiSEqC interfaces (since the implementation in TBS/Prof drivers is quite confusing). The DVBViewer Pro first verifies that the interface specified in the hardware database exists. If not, the DVBViewer Pro tries to auto-detect the interface.
• Fix: ATSC Direct Tuning: The 1750 Hz offset is now taken into account.
• Fix: Using more than one KNC One device does now work correctly.
• Add: Detection of TerraTec H5 Rev. 3 devices.
• Add: Detection of TT-budget S2-4100 devices.
• Add: Detection of PCTV Dual Sat Pro PCI 4000i (Stargate Tuner) devices.
• Add: Detection of several TBS devices.
• Add: Added DiSEqC 1.2 support for Omicom devices.
• Add: Added DiSEqC 1.2 support for Compro devices.
• Change: TBS CI Stack update
• Add: Support for CI modules from Jactec.
• Change: Detection of the Pinnacle PCTV DVB-S2 Stick 460e changed from VendorID 7 to VendorID 33, otherwise DiSEqC would not work in Vista/Win 7. Users of Win XP have to change this entry back to VendorID 7 manually in the hardware.xml.
• Updated: Hardware database.

• Add: The tweaker tool enables you to adjust the tweaks for the DVBViewer Pro with a quite comfortable UI. For all tweaks the tools has a check box or edit box and a short explanation. The changes can only be saved if the DVBViewer Pro is not running.

• The DVBServer has been discontinued and will be no longer available.

• Fix: Custom Renderer: Accessing the DVD menu with the mouse now works with custom EVR and VMR9.
• Fix: Main Window: Hiding the symbols/status/menu bar changed the aspect ratio of the playback.
• Fix: File/Timeshift Playback: Fixed problems with playback from file and UAC.
• Fix: Options -> Mosaic Preview: After changing the decoder the DVBViewer had to be restarted for the change to take effect. Now you only need to deactivate and reactivate the mosaic preview (if it is active).
• Improved: Mosaic Preview: Compatibility improvements with video decoders and DXVA. Image quality slightly improved and the change frequency increased.
• Fix: Mosaic Preview: Fixed a bug in the mosaic preview which could crash the DVBViewer under certain circumstances.
• Change: Writing of the info file of recordings has been optimized.
• Fix: EPG: The Chinese charset Big5 was incorrectly converted.
• Fix: Start: Script error message on startup fixed.
• Change: Channels.dat: While reading the channels.dat there now is a check if the transponder frequency is in khz and it will be accordingly adjusted.
• Change: Changed the initialization of the D3D devices of the custom renderers a little bit to prevent problems on some systems after standby.
• Fix: Recordings: Refreshing the recording data from the file info had problems with summer/winter time calculations.
• Fix: BDA-Devices - KNC One: The KNC DLL was initialized wrongly.
• Add: DVBViewer Pro Update Notice: If a new DVBViewer Version is available a message will be displayed in the menu -> Help -> Info window and in OSD -> System -> Info.
• Fix: OSD/Videos: If more than one DVD drive existed the title of a previous DVD drive was copied to the following empty DVD drives.
• Change: DVD Options: The custom renderer check box has been removed. This setting can only be changed on the DirectX options page.
• Fix: VCR: Fixed a potential overflow in "Adjust PAT/PMT" function.
• Fix Channel Editor: The audio language of an subchannel couldn't be changed.
• Fix: Hardware: Detection of dLAN devices corrected.
• Fix: Unicast Devices: Channel search with unicast devices now works for "slow tuning" DVB hardware in the Recording Service.
• Fix: Input Options: Fixed multiple warning message boxes were shown if the remote had auto repeat.
• Change: Recordings: Remove filler data for H264 now defaults to active.
• Change: Timeshift: Remove filler data for H264 now defaults to active.
• Change: Main Window: If there is no playback active at all, the status bar now shows "No Playback" instead of "Standby".
• Change: Language Files: Translations for the weather forecast are now prefixed by "weather.".
• Removed: Language Files: Video Recorder Plugin removed from the language files and the defaults.
• Update: Updated to Version 3.6.2 of the DVBSource filter.
• Update: Updated language files.
• Update: Updated sqlite DLL.
• Several small fixes and optimizations.

Version 4.9.9 BETA
expires 10.10.2012


General

• Fix: Splash Screen: The splash screen is not brought repeatedly to the front.
• Fix: Custom Renderer: Reworked the screen shot routines.
• Fix: Music tag reader: Fixed problems with Flac and tags.
• Fix: EPG Export: Fixed wrong time format for the duration.
• Add: Remove H264/MPEG2 Filler Data for recordings/timeshift updated/added (Thanks to @Basic.Master, @Martin K and griga).
• Fix: Streaming Renderer / WMV Recordings: Fixed exception on ending a recording.
• Fix: SI-Parser/Language Support: Added several fixes for the language processing.
• Change: User Name/Password Recording Service. The data is now stored encrypted in the userdata.xml.
• Change: Timeshift/Plugin/Recordings running messages on shutdown separated.
• Fix: Default OSD-Skin: The title of a Yes/No dialog was not displayed.
• Change. No message is shown anymore on DVBViewer start up if no useable device is found.
• Update: Updated language files.
• Update: Updated sqlite.dll.

RTSP Network Devices
A new virtual network device has been added. The SAT>IP / RTSP Devices is compatible with the SAT>IP protocol by SES and can be used with compatible Servers. Additionally the devices support the DVB>IP extension of the Recording Service.

A RTSP Device normally consists of three parts

• The RTSP part which is a TCP protocol similar to Http. This part is the controlling instance of the device and send all commands to the server.
• The RTP part which is UDP based and responsible for the TS streaming. RTP always uses even port numbers.
• The RTCP part which is UDP based and used for status messages (signal quality etc).
  The RTCP part always uses the RTP port + 1.

You can add RTSP devices via the RS Connection wizard or manually with the add device (+) button on the hardware options page.

The setup of these manually added devices is quite simple.

• The Servers list presents all found SAT>IP Servers. If it's empty check if the firewall allows UPnP packets. SAT>IP uses UPnP (SSDP) to announce the server.
  If you select a server the RTSP Server address and port are automatically entered.
• You can enter a Description for the device in the name field.
• Normally you do not need to change the suggested RTP Settings UDP Ports. The RTSP device selects automatically the needed free ports from the port range.
• The Default button resets the UDP Ports to the default port range.
• If the selected Server is a DVBViewer Recording Service you can additionally select the "Use TCP instead UDP", which switches the RTP and RTCP part to TCP.
  It is generally discouraged to use this option. The overhead of UDP is way lower than TCP and UDP works in a local LAN very efficient.

Instant Recordings
Instant Recordings are now delegated to the Recording Service.

• Send timer to Recording Service must be active.
• The instant recording is only recognized for the runtime of the DVBViewer client. If you close the DVBViewer, it will not recognize the recording as an instant recording anymore.
• If you change the end time of the instant recording (DVBViewer or RS webinterface), it will be converted to a normal recording.
• If you close the DVBViewer a warning will be shown and you can either stop the instant recording or let it continue after the DVBViewer is closed.

Internal Task Scheduler

• The internal task scheduler uses the Windows Task Scheduler to automatically wake up the PC for timer recordings from standby / sleep mode and / or to start the DVBViewer Pro.
  
  The task scheduler can be activated via Options -> Extended -> "Use Microsoft Task Scheduler". If the external DVB Task Scheduler (Scheduler.exe) is found in the DVBViewer Pro program folder, it will be used, otherwise the internal task scheduler is used.
  
  Please note: The task scheduler is not used if the timers are send to the Recording service.
  
  If the internal task scheduler is used, Options -> Extended -> Scheduler Settings opens the scheduler dialog with the following settings:
• Execute as: Windows User account to run the DVBViewer Pro.
• Password: Password of the user account.
• Maximum number of scheduled tasks (default 3): Determines how many timers the DVBViewer Pro adds in advance to the Windows Task Scheduler. They are updated automatically each time the DVBViewer Pro starts and any time the timers are changed.
• Additional lead time in minutes: Determines how many minutes before an upcoming recording the PC is woken / DVBViewer Pro is started.
• Command line parameters: Determines the command line parameters the Windows Task Scheduler passes to the DVBViewer Pro at startup.

Please note: It is required that the Windows Task Scheduler service is running. It starts the DVBViewer Pro only if the user is logged into their account. A user account locked by the welcome screen is not an obstacle, but the account must already be active by prior log in.Hardware

• Fix: Hardware Detection: fixed a memory leak in the hardware detection
• Fix: Unicast Devices: Problems with auto retune fixed.
• Fix: File Device: Error on initializing the file device fixed.
• Add: Added support for Terratec N3
• Update: Hardware database.

Options

• Add: F1 opens the according DVBViewer wiki page in the web browser
  The English URLs are integrated into the program. The (German) URLs are taken from the language file.
• Add: Added a help button, which opens the according DVBViewer wiki page in the web browser.
• Removed: Removed the Wiki link in the bottom area of the options window.
• Change: The passwords are now shown as "*****".
• Change: Recording Service: The password is now saved encrypted.
• Add: Recording Service: Added a list box with all found Recording Services. On selection of a RS the address and port are automatically entered into the address field.
• Add: Recordings: "Remove MPEG2 Filler data" added.
• Removed: Hardware/Add Virtual Devices: Removed the multicast device entry.
• Add: Hardware/Add Virtual Devices: Added SAT>IP / RTSP Device entry.
• Fix: Hardware: Not needed settings are now disabled for virtual devices.
• Add: Recording Service: Added "ignore local recordings". If selected, the local recording db will be ignored.

Subtitle Engine

• Change: Subtitle Engine: The subtitle engine has been completely rewritten from scratch. It supports now all kind of DVB/ATSC/ISDB and Bluray subtitles available.
• Add: BluRay Subtitles: If you play bluray discs inside the DVBViewer you are now able to enable and show all available subtitle streams. It works with graphical as well as with text subtitles.
• Changed: ISDB Subtitles (統合ディジタル放送サービス): A complete rewrite which is 100% compatible to the specification and tested with Brazilian and Japanese subtitles.
• Change: ATSC Closed Captions: Closed captioning is the process of displaying text on a television, video screen or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information to individuals who wish to access it. It is used mainly in North America and Canada and typically show a transcription of the audio portion of a program as it occurs.
• Change: DVB Subtitles: Also completely rewritten and closer to the specification (EN 300 743)
• Add: Better ATSC Subtitle Detection: ATSC transmissions can have up to 4 channels which are now detected properly.
• Add: Subtitle Detection: Subtitles are detected in transmissions/recordings and listed resp. delisted if they (dis)appear.

Simple Recording Service Connection Wizard
A Simple Recording Service Connection Wizard has been added which can be accesses via main menu → help → Rec. Service Wizard.

• Notice: The wizard will ignore all existing settings for the RS connection.
• On the first page you have to select an existing RS, enter the user name and password and click the "Test" button, only if the test is successful you can continue with "Next".
• On the second page you can adjust the different options.
  If the RS is on the same PC as the DVBViewer the download channel- and favorites list is disabled.
• On the third page the wizard will list all needed/possible RTSP Devices. You can deselect devices which will be ignored.
  The list will only offer two RTSP devices per tuner type, even if your server offers more devices.
  If the RS is on the same PC as the DVBViewer, an option for disabling all local (real) DVB devices in the DVBViewer is available.
• If you close the wizard with "Finish" the following things happen:
• The RS options are saved, existing data will be overridden.
• All Unicast Devices and if needed all local DVB devices are disabled.
• All selected RTSP devices are created with the needed options and settings overriding the existing RTSP devices.
• If selected the EPG, channel, timer, favorites lists etc. are downloaded (and loaded).

World Community Grid - Distributed Computing

Some of you may have heard about distributed computing. Several people support - either as a lone wolf or as member of a team - scientific and/or medical research by providing surplus computing power.

In this field there are more or less meaningful or worthwhile projects.

I have founded the DVBViewer team at World Community Grid (WCG) (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/). The available projects address exclusively medical and environmental research,  i.e. no abstact mathematical problems.

To participate you only need a client, I use BOINC from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/. There is a download link at the WCG homepage, but that's an older release. I advise to you always use the latest version which supports GPU computing (provided the chosen project offers this, like "help conquer cancer").

Step-by-step guide:
 

1. Download the BOINC client at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php and install it.
2. Setup the client. At "tools" you can set some options and preferences, for example when and now to use the CPU/GPU.
3. Create an account at WCG: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do
4. Select one or more projects you want to participate in. At the moment you can choose from

•     Say No to Schistosoma
•     GO Fight Against Malaria
•     Drug Search for Leishmaniasis
•     The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2
•     Help Conquer Cancer
•     Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2
•     FightAIDS@Home  

Setup the BOINC client:

1. Add WCG as a project. Open "tools" and select "add project or account manager. In the next window click at "add project" and select "World Community Grid" from the list. Now choose "yes, existing user" and type in your credentials from no. 3 above.
2. Click at the "projects" tab. You should see "World Community Grid". Now select "my grid" and search for "DVBViewer" at "find a team". Alternatively You can find the team homepage here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=CP735GM412
3. So, that was it. You can start crunshing numbers by clickling "update" in the BOINC client, in the team column there should be "DVBViewer".

I'd be happy to establish a DVBViewer team and hope for active cooperation. At the moment I am participating in the "help conquer cancer" project, but as mentioned before, there are several others to choose from.

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.1 today.

ATTENTION: You can download the DVBViewer Pro 5.1 only from https://www.dvbviewer.tv/members/

We introduced a new protection system with Version 4.5, if you haven't already got the new user credentials please read also: http://www.dvbviewer...ew-credentials/
Mit der Version 4.5 wurde ein neues Benutzerdatensystem eingeführt, wer die neuen Daten noch nicht hat bitte unbedingt hier lesen: http://www.dvbviewer...-benutzerdaten/
 

Changelog DVBViewer Pro 5.1

General

• Fix: Playback: Playback of m2ts files with the DVBSource Filter didn't work.

• Fix: Main Window: Zoom 75% fixed.

• Fix: OSD: The screen saver was not disabled for slide shows.

• Fix: Timeshift: Fixed problems with timeshift for some channels.

• Fix: OSD: Image files with an UNC path were not shown.

• Fix: Tweaker.ini: The OSD Enable Tweak was missing.

• Change: Main Menu: Removed the Help entry.

• Change: Main Menu: Renamed the "Wiki" entry to “Online Help”.

• Change: Main Window: Auto Best Width defaults to enabled now.

• Fix: Recoding Window: The timer status changes were not shown correctly.

• Change: RTSP Device: 127.0.0.1 was not included in the SSDP search for SAT>IP servers.

• Fix: Options Window: Fixed problems with missing labels on reopening this window.

• Change: Options/Input: Changed the behavior of the “Learn” button.

• Add: Recording Options: Added an option to record the Current Now/Next EIT EPG data stream.

• Fix: Unicast Device Setup Window: The buffer count could not be adjusted.

• Add: ActionIDs: Added ActionID 135 for Close Graph.

• Fix: VCR: If a changed PMT PID was detected while recording the recording was restarted in an endless loop.

• Fix: VCR: TS audio only recordings with more than one audio stream sometimes an audio stream was wrongly detected as PCR stream.

• Fix: PMT-Parser: If the Service ID was set to 0 it was wrongly detected as PID 16.

• Fix: PMT-Parser: The PMT parser used a wrong PID for non ATSC audio streams with the ID $81.

• Update: DVBSource filter 3.7.

Channel Logos

• It is now possible to assign a logo to a channel with the help of the "channellogos.ini" file. The DVBViewer first checks if an entry for a channel is found in this file. If it isn't found it tries the old method (guessing).

• The format of the channellogos.ini file is quite simple:

  EPGChannelID]

  c=[Channelname} (UTF-8 encoded)

  logo=[LogoFilename]

  The “c=” entry exists for an improved readability the program just ignores it.

  If a logo can't be found or doesn't exist it is marked with

  logo=-

  This avoids repeating and failing the search over and over again.

Recording Service

• Fix: Service Options: The test button showed the XML answer of the request.

• Fix: Service Options: “Ignore local recording list” is now ignored if the RS support is deactivated.

• Change: Service Support: The MAC of the Recording Service PC (needed for WOL) is now updated on every DVBViewer start.

• Fix: Service Setup Wizard: Fixed problem with empty password.

• Fix: Service Options: Fixed problem with empty password.

• Fix: Fixed unnecessary memory consumption for downloading data from the RS.

Hardware

• Change: BDA Hardware Detection: The DVB-S2 flag is now set for unknown DVB-S Devices.

• Fix: Hardware Options: The display wasn't updated correctly if no hardware entries were present.

• Add: HardwareDB: Support for Technotrend TT-budget CT2-4500 CI and Technotrend TT-connect CT2-4650 CI.

• Fix: Hardware/Sundtek/HDHomerun: Added a signal strength query directly after tuning.

• Add: HardwareDB: Support for DVBSky S680, DVBSky S960 and DigitalDevices Cine S2 V6.5.

Subtitles

• Add: MPEG/Subtitles: Support for subtitles in MPEG files added.

• Fix: The “show subtitles automatically” option didn't work under certain circumstances.

• Fix: DVB Subtitle: Switching between different languages didn't work.

• Change: OSD Subtitle: The OSD subtitle display is now cleared on channel / subtitle stream changes.

• Change: Options/TTX Subtitle: Changed the default font size to 24 point.

EPG

• Change: EPG Parser: The EPG Parser doesn't delete CRLF in the description text anymore.

• Change: EPG Processing: The language tag of the EIT EPG is now ignored if only one language is present.

• Fix: EPG-Export to HTML: Fixed problems with non ANSI channel names.

• Change: EPG Window: Unnecessary updates of the details display removed.

• Add: EPG: Tweak to force EPG without character set information to be recognized as ISO6937 encoded.

• Fix: EPG-Parser: Fixed missing last character for UTF-8 encoded EPG.

Internal Task Scheduler

• Fix: The tasks were not created in the correct order.

• Fix: Fixed different defaults for the LeadTime setting.

• Fix: The “-i” command line parameter was not detected correctly.

• Fix: Running recordings are now deleted from the task list.

• Fix: Synchronizing the task list on DVBViewer start.

• Fix: Empty parameter didn't work.

• Fix: Timer with the same start time result now in only one entry in the task list.

Streaming Playback

• Add: Ability to use the LAV Source Filter. By adding a "lav_" before an URL the Lav Splitter will be used instead of the own Vod Filter.

VOD Source Filter

• Fix: Streaming Thread reading problem. Several Splitters tried to read "behind" a file which caused an endless loop inside the reading thread

• Fix: Exception inside GetMediaType, if no PAMMediaType is provided

• Fix: UserAgent changed to allow playback of HbbTV content

Shaders

• Fix: the Bilinear Hardware Filter is disabled if you use a resample filter. To do so you have to set the ManualResample variable inside the shader script

• Add: Lanczos 3 and 12, Bicubic, resample shader

• Add: Several new Shader effects, like Old TV.

• Add: Stereo 3D Left/Right to Up/Down converter, which is required for several 3D glasses like Zeiss Cinemizer OLED.

• Change: Shaders have been renamed and sorted into Stereo, Effect and Resample categories.

Hi,

as the topic suggests we have an exciting new feature in the works which took me the last 2 years of hard work. This week i also had spent dozens of hours to implement the engine from a stand alone application into the DVBViewer and there are still a couple of side effects which has to become fixed before the feature will be available for all. 

The cool thing is that these images are taken from the application itself and are not just mockups.

We definitively will integrate the HBBTV feature into the Mheg5 engine add on, which allows customers who have already a license not to buy another one. For those who want to save some money (we probably have to increase the price, since we also sub licensed the engine) a good time spent money in order to buy the Mheg5 plugin  

Have i mentioned that the media archives also work fine? The first release wont be able to allow a complete web browser inside the DVBViewer, but i already added two com object functions which can be used to load the website and to show the browser. This might become useful for plugin developers who would like to create a fully featured web browser inside the DVBViewer.

Christian

Dear users,

I have to inform you about the death of my colleague and friend Lars.

He died totally unexpectedly and the news has hit us hard. I have known him for 10 years and I miss him as a friend, mentor and colleague.

Even if I’m currently not in the mood to focus on working on the open projects I will update them and continue our work. Please understand, however, that we probably won't be able to answer emails and phone calls as quickly and as frequently as we did in the past.

Lars we will miss you.

Lars Gehre

10.02.1968 - 24.06.2013

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.2 today. 

ATTENTION: You can download the DVBViewer Pro 5.2 only from https://www.dvbviewer.tv/members/

We introduced a new protection system with Version 4.5, if you haven't already got the new user credentials please read also: http://www.dvbviewer...ew-credentials/
Mit der Version 4.5 wurde ein neues Benutzerdatensystem eingeführt, wer die neuen Daten noch nicht hat bitte unbedingt hier lesen: http://www.dvbviewer...-benutzerdaten/
 

Changelog DVBViewer Pro 5.2

General
 

• Fix: Weather: Errors inside the XML-Weather information are ignored.
• Add: HbbTV: HbbTV Engine for CE-Html and HbbTV related content.
• Add: HbbTV: Parser for AIT transmissions provided by the broadcasters.
• Add: HbbTV: Passive mode available via Tweak.ini.
• Add: HbbTV: Ability to inject javascript for certain channels.
• Add: HbbTV: Ability to add own User-Agents for certain websites
• Add: HbbTV: Ability to switch between transparent and colorkey mode.
• Fix: Channel AutoUpdate: Wrong PMT tables where left uncorrected.
• Change: Client Tuning Priority Default: Default value is set to 50
• Add: Teletext: Persian (ira) Teletext language is set to arabic by default
• Change: Channel Scanner: False frequencies entered by the user are automatically fixed if no transponder list is used.
• Add: UPnP: You can now open a Upnp Browser under the DVBViewer menu.

Hardware

• Fix: RTSP Device: more detailed Keep-Alive timing
• Fix: RTSP Device: optimized command sequences
• Fix: RTSP Device: closing the device caused sometimes exceptions in UDP mode
• Fix: RTSP Device: Sat>IP Server from Digital Devices should now work fine
• Fix: Hardware Framework: PIDs for NULL-Packets can be added.
• Change: RTSP Device: The device detects if the RTSP Server is a Recording Service. If so you can additionally use the TCP Option.
• Change: BDA Devices: DVB-S BDA devices with unknown vendor are now marked as DVB-S2 compatible by default.

EPG

• Fix: EPG: simplified management of EPG information 

MHEG5-HbbTV Engine 2.0.0.3
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre
 
Changelog
 
General

• Fix: MHEG5: Updated the dll
• Change: HbbTV.INI: updated missing pages for colorkeys
• ​Change: HbbTV.INI: fix for Sport1 HD links  
• Add: HbbTV: enabled optional HTML5 support
• Add: HbbTV: enabled optional WebGL support

more informations: DVBViewer HbbTV Plugin

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.2.7 today. 

ATTENTION: You can download the DVBViewer Pro 5.2.7 only from https://www.dvbviewer.tv/members/

We introduced a new protection system with Version 4.5, if you haven't already got the new user credentials please read also: http://www.dvbviewer...ew-credentials/
Mit der Version 4.5 wurde ein neues Benutzerdatensystem eingeführt, wer die neuen Daten noch nicht hat bitte unbedingt hier lesen: http://www.dvbviewer...-benutzerdaten/
 
DVBViewer Pro 5.2.7

In Memoriam - Lars Gehre
 
Changelog

General

• Add: HbbTV: COM Interface to load customized websites via Plugin:

Interface: IHbbTV = interface(IDispatch)

Description: The IHbbTV interfaces allows to load and display HTML websites inside the DVBViewer.

Methods: procedure LoadInBrowser(const Url: WideString; IsHbbtv: WordBool); safecall;

Properties: property Available: WordBool;
property Visible: WordBool;

• Change: MHEG-5: handling is now similar to HbbTV. You find a Mheg-Item inside the OSD Home-Menu which starts the MHEG window. OSD Close turns it off, which allows you to use the regular OSD even if MHEG is started.

• Fix: HbbTV: HbbTV did not worked properly on several (e.g. virtual) machines, caused by timing related issues of webkit.

• Add: HbbTV: AIT Parser now supports Simple application boundary descriptor

• Add: HbbTV: Proxy can be used by a tweak

• Fix: VirtualTreeview 5.0.1 used since screen reader support was broken

• Fix: HbbTV: rewrite to avoid browser multithreading related problems

• Add: HbbTV/MHEG5: Tweaks to disable both engines separately

• Add: HbbTV/MHEG5: Zoom and stretch values in full screen mode are used for video display

• Add: HbbTV/MHEG5: Can be disabled by a tweak

• Fix: HbbTV: In passive mode the page is loaded only after the browser is opened and not automatically in background.

• Removed: Exit Action (12294)

• Add: HbbTV: Channel +/- does now simulate TAB resp. Shift+TAB key press for better handling of websites who do not work fine with cursor keys

• Changed: OSD: Incremented revision number of the windowdef.xml

Hardware

• Add: Support for DVBSky DVB-T2/C hybrid tuner, no CI

• Fix: HDHomeRun/Sundtek and other Network Devices devices now work again

• Fix: Tuning with EMPIA based DVB-C USB devices if “Force Auto-modulation” is switched off.

• Add: Support for multiple tbsCIapi.DLLs. If you use more than one CI in combination with more than one TBS card you should create additonal tbsCIapi's starting with tbsCIapi1.dll up to tbsCIapin.dll

There are a couple of changes concerning the HbbTV/MHEG5 Plugins, so if you wonder what this is, you should have a look in here.

• Change: TS Playback: The package size is now detected more accurate
• Fix: COM: The Interface IHbbTV is now located under the DVBViewer3 Interface
• Fix: Vod Source: Obviously wrong HbbTV-urls are not repaired
• Change: COM-Interface: HbbTV Interface is now moved to a new IDVBViewer3 Interface
• Add: COM-Interface: new OSD2 interface with Showpopup2 function
• Change: TS Playback with DVBSource: The TS packet size is now detected automatically. Previously DVBViewer only relied on the file extension (.ts, .m2ts).
• Fix: TS Playback with DVBSource: Under certain (rare) circumstances video wasn't detected in TS files.
• Change: File/Stream Playback without DVBSource: Enhanced aspect ratio detection, particularly on-the-fly changes (depending on the video decoder).
• Fix: Stream Playback: A splitter name specified in a filtergraph preset wasn't assigned to the splitter and didn't show up under View -> Filters
• Add: File/Stream Playback: Presets are now shown under View -> Filters
• Add: Scanner: Widestring support in channel scan, same like in the GE
• Fix: Playback: support for <=L2000 WMV DRM via wmvdrm.dll:
  __stdcall HRESULT WMCreateCompanyCertificate(IUnknown **pUnkCert; GUID *Company);
• Fix: VodSource: Test für Content-Range if the server does not return the proper file size (e.g. DR dk)
• Change: General code cleanup
• Add: Options: Channel Logo editor under options
• Change: Options: Former "Is DVB-S2 device" checkbox replaced by a DVB-S2 / DVB-T2 checkbox that is now located above the tuner type dropdown list.
• Add: Channel Editor: DVB-T2 checkbox, Substream ID checkbox and Substream ID input field for DVB-T/T2 channels. Please note: Channels that are flagged as DVB-T2 require a tuner that is flagged as DVB-T2 capable

• Change: DVBSky: Disabled PMT Polling if no CAM is available
• Add: Terratec H7/S7: Support for CAM and DiSEqC
• Add: Started implementing the DVB-T2 support
• Fix: Source IP only partly checked on IPTV transponder comparison

• Fix: fix for problems with diacritic char sets

• Fix: HbbTV: The automatic translation is disabled for the browser list
• Fix: HbbTV: Some providers send wrong URIs for their videos, they are now repaired before playback starts
• Fix: HbbTV: ACTION_DVD_MENU does not open HbbTV anymore
• Fix: HbbTV: The automatic translation is disabled for the browser list
• Fix: HbbTV: Some providers send wrong URIs for their videos, they are now repaired before playback starts
• Add: MHEG-5: new engine build which required changes in the interface
• Fix: HbbTV: partially rewrite of the html loader, if an application/ce-html+xml or application/vnd.HbbTV.xhtml+xml is used. ZDF should run fine as well as Mediathek
• Fix: HbbTV: the window ignored the Close OSD on Video playback setting
• Fix: HbbTV: content is stored in the cache-subfolder
• Fix: HbbTV: https urls now also work fine if the MIME type application/vnd.HbbTV.xhtml+xml is used
• Fix: HbbTV: The window cleared a background while loading a video, which caused removed background textures on some skins
• Fix: HbbTV: created a dummy KeyEvent Object, used on several sites (e.g. LokalTV)
• Change: HbbTV: new HbbTV.xml file for configuration and auto update located under http://www.dvbviewer.tv/hbbtv.xml
• Fix: HbbTV: Debug Window did not worked, caused by the Popupblocker

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.2.9 today. 

ATTENTION: You can download the DVBViewer Pro 5.2.9 only from https://www.dvbviewer.tv/members/

We introduced in 2010 a new protection system with Version 4.5, if you haven't already got the new user credentials please read also: http://www.dvbviewer...ew-credentials/
 
DVBViewer Pro 5.2.9
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre
 
Changelog
 

General

• Add: Main Window: Resizing by dragging the edges keeps the aspect ratio of the video display area. Dragging the corners works as before.

• Change: Main Window: The window sticks to the screen edges when it is resized with the mouse wheel.

• Fix: Main and GUI Skin Window: Aero snap is prevented while resizing

• Add: Main and GUI Skin Window: Snapping to the desktop edges under Windows Vista / 7, issues when moving the napped window are solved.

• Add: GUI Skin Window: Resizing by dragging the lower right corner and holding the shift key down keeps the aspect ratio of the video display area. Dragging without shift key works as before.

• Fix: GUI Skin Window: Resizing with the mouse wheel invisibly changed the size of the main window

• Fix: DVBViewer Windows (general): Keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C etc. disabled using them for standard functions (Select All, Copy...) in focused input fields

• Fix: Channel List: Auto-scroll did not work when expanding a node.

• Fix: Channel Editor: The return key didn't start the search function.

• Fix: Scanner: The scanner didn't read ATSC Clear QAM channels correctly, thus creating "Service XXX" entries to which no EPG data could be assigned.

• Fix: Timeshift: Timeshift files weren't written correctly after selection of ATSC subtitles

• Fix: Timer Recordings Window: The Special Action -> Transponder Dump option didn't work.

• Fix: Timer Recordings Window: An incomplete input in the start/end time fields disabled using most other control elements.

• Add: Timer Recordings Window: Carry from minutes to hours and from hours to the date when exceeding 0 minutes/hours in the start/end time field.

• Fix: Instance Management: Bug causing a resource leak under Windows 7 and preventing Tweaker.exe from detecting that DVBViewer Pro is running.

• Fix: Instance Management: A second DVBViewer instance accessing the same configuration folder could be launched by using "as administrator".

• Change: Browser: Enhanced default browser detection by using a new method (applies to EPG Internet search function and teletext URLs). A per-user browser selection now takes preference over global Windows settings.

• Change: Database: dbconvert.exe isn't launched automatically anymore when DVBViewer is launched (only required when updating from DVBViewer Pro 4.3 or earlier, has to be performed manually now for converting the database to the new format).

• Change: Teletext-Window: Start page input field for teletext search function removed (the start page can be selected directly as well).

• Fix: Teletext-Window: The "Match whole word" option for the teletext search function was reversed (previously unchecked = whole word, now checked = whole word).

• Fix: Setup: The setup.xml was written twice when DVBViewer was closed, causing the setup.bak to be a copy of the current instead of the previous setup.

• Change: Setup: If an xml file can't be loaded because it is corrupted or not present, DVBViewer recreates it by copying the content of the according .bak file (if available).

• Fix: KeyTool: Without a previously used key the key file selection was not displayed as intended

• Update: Tweaker.exe to version 1.0.4

• Update: DVBViewer Filter to version 3.8.0

EPG

• Fix: Tweaks: The tweak that was supposed to let DVBViewer assume ISO 6937 character coding didn't work correctly.

• Fix: EPG Character Set: Wrong EPG character set selection under certain circumstances.

• Change: EPG Character Coding: The setup doesn't contain the file Huffman.dll anymore because it has been integrated in DVBViewer.

• Fix: EPG Internet Search: The internet search in the EPG Window failed on some sites if the search item contained non-ASCII characters (e.g. umlauts). Please copy the new EPG_URLList.ini file from the installation directory to the configuration folder. It contains additional entries indicating if UTF-8 character coding must be applied for a site.

• Fix: EPG Window: Numerous TV Guide issues fixed.

• Fix: EPG Window: An incomplete time input in the time bar disabled using most other control elements.

• Add: EPG Window: Carry from minutes to hours and from hours to the date when exceeding 0 minutes/hours in the time bar.

• Fix: EPG Window: The date selection in the time bar was limited to 7 seven days ahead.

Hardware

• Fix: Hardware Options: If two or more equivalent free devices in the hardware list were set to "Preferred" DVBViewer selected the last instead the first one.

• Fix: Hardware Options: Sorting the device list with drag & drop followed by OK/Apply caused a memory leak and possibly access violations.

• Fix: Hardware Options: Canceling OK/Apply due to an ongoing recording caused a memory leak and possibly access violations.

• Fix: Hardware Options: Useless "Rebuild Graph" on file playback after OK/Apply removed.

• Add: Hardware Options: "Last Channel" is performed automatically if OK/Apply interrupts TV/Radio playback.

• Fix: CI/CAM: Dynamic PMT changes of scrambled channels didn't work with Digital Devices cards

• Fix: RTSP Device: A longer lasting RTSP tuning process could let the SAT>IP server stop the stream for other active RTSP devices in the same application because „still alive” messages were sent too late.

• Fix: RTSP Device: Channel redirection didn't work as intended and caused an RTSP device to block for some time (only applies if the Recording Server is the RTSP server).

• Change: RTSP Device: Code restructured in order to make it less error prone.

Playback

• Add: Playback: Support for HEVC video. Requires DVBViewer Filter 3.8.0 and LAV Filters 0.59 or later.

• Add: Playback: Support for AES3 audio. Requires DVBViewer Filter 3.8.0 and LAV Filters 0.58 or later.

• Add: DirectX Options: HEVC decoder selection

• Fix: Zoom: Under certain circumstances the video resolution was detected as 0 x 0 causing the View → Zoom 25%...200% functions in the context menu of the main window to set it to zero size.

• Change: Picture in Picture: Code cleanup.

• Fix: RDS: The accidental activation of RASS picture reception caused occasional beeps or saving of pictures in the configuration folder\images subdirectory when playing certain German radio stations.

• Fix: VOD Source Filter: URL detection for Vimeo. Links work again.

• Fix: Tweaks: Wrong default for "Use EVR Video Processor" option.

OSD

• Fix: OSD Volume Bar: After 24 days without rebooting the PC the volume bar remained endlessly on screen.

• Fix: OSD Help: The OSD menu timeout was unintentionally applied to the OSD help pages.

• Fix: OSD Timeline: After entering a channel / favourite number the according channel entry wasn't marked / selected correctly in the OSD timeline.

• Fix: OSD Menu: Moving the mouse within the video display area removed the focus from the currently selected OSD menu item, so OSD OK had to be pressed twice for selection.

• Fix: OSD Default Skin: Dialogs didn't perform "page down" on first arrow down key press.

• Fix: OSD Popup Windows: Closing DVBViewer with open OSD popup window (help or EPG details) caused an access violation.

• Fix: Subtitles: Subtitles remained on screen when performing "Close Graph" while they were displayed.

• Fix: Subtitles: Teletext subtitles didn't disappear immediately when switched off.

• Fix: Digger Game: Small memory leak after the first level with enemies

HbbTV

• Fix: HbbTV: Redirection of websites didn't work reliably

• Fix: HbbTV: The AIT Parser didn't write the AIT links to the debug.log and COM DataManager.

I published the first version of the Sat>IP tool we made for SES in the last weeks. It should allow users to align their dishes by presenting the quality and signal received from a sat>ip server. This could be a physical device or the Recordingservice. Besides this I also added a simple augmented reality sat finder. Since i now know how the magnetometer works and how the compass data is calculated with the gyro sensor i would not put to much trust in this, but unless you do not have a magnet nearby you should be able to track the satellite almost accurate with this feature.

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.3.0 today. 

ATTENTION: You can download the DVBViewer Pro 5.3.0 only from https://www.dvbviewer.tv/members/

We introduced in 2010 a new protection system with Version 4.5, if you haven't already got the new user credentials please read also: http://www.dvbviewer...ew-credentials/
 
DVBViewer Pro 5.3.0
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre

​

Changelog DVBViewer Pro 5.3.0

Main Menu

• Change: Menus: General restructuring of the DVBViewer Main Menu. Some menus and menu items were renamed and /or moved to another location. A new Playback Menu was added. The upper part of the Context Menu that appears after right-clicking the main window now exactly mirrors the main menu structure.

• Change: Main Menu: Former DVBViewer Menu renamed to TV/Radio. All items that are not TV/Radio related (like "Open Media File") were moved to the new Playback Menu (see below).

• Change: Main Menu: Former Channel Menu renamed to Favourites. It only contains favourites now (if present). Other items like "Channel List", "Channel Editor" etc.were moved to the TV/Radio Menu (see above), the Channel Auto Update option to Settings -> Options -> TV/Radio.

• Add: Main Menu: New Playback Menu containing playback-related items formerly residing in the DVBViewer Menu and other locations.

• Change: Main Menu: DVD submenu removed. Items like "Stop", "Fast Forward", "Next" etc. are now available in the new Playback Menu and also apply to other playback types, not to DVD only.

• Change: Main Menu: Playlist Submenu removed, Playlist menu item moved to the new Playback Menu, where it directly opens the Playlist Window. Its toolbar and context menu provide all functions of the former Playlist Submenu.

• Change: Main Menu: "Close Graph" moved from View Menu to Playback Menu and renamed to the more comprehensible "Playback Off". The function now works as a toggle. If playback is already switched off, DVBViewer resumes playback of the last channel or file.

• Change: Main Menu: "Rebuild Graph" moved from the View Menu to the Playback Menu and renamed to the more comprehensible "Rebuild Playback".

• Add: Main Menu: Video Playback Off/On switch in the Playback Menu. Only applies to TV/Radio and file playback with DVBViewer Filter. Allows to disable video playback without stopping audio.

• Change: Main Menu: View Menu reduced to user interface related items, thus conforming to the Windows standard. Playback related items were moved to the new Playback Menu (see above), TV/Radio related items like "Picture in Picture", "Mosaic View" and "CAM Menu" to the TV/Radio Menu. The Filters Submenu is now available in the Settings Menu.

• Change: Main Menu: View -> Menu Bar and View -> Title Bar items reversed resp. renamed from Hide... to Show... for unification. The actions in the file actions.ini were renamed accordingly (ShowMenu, ShowTitlebar). The action numbers remained unchanged.

• Fix: Main Menu: The View -> Show Titlebar setting was not saved when closing DVBViewer.

• Fix: Main Menu: If the Recording Service reported an available CI module, the "CAM Menu" menu item was enabled for RTSP devices, though they do not provide such a menu.

• Change: Main Menu: Playrate Submenu (only visible on playback without DVBViewer Filter) moved from the Settings Menu to the new Playback Menu.

Playback

• Change: Playback: Graph building code restructured. Decoders are now connected directly to the output pins of source filters / splitters, thus preventing DirectShow's "Intelligent Connect" from occasionally replacing user-configured decoders by other components.

• Fix: Playback: Audio playback tended to leak memory and to crash on stop if visualizations were active.

• Fix: Playback: The Play/Pause/Stop Buttons appearing in the Radio Window status bar on audio file playback (if Option -> TV & Radio -> Hide video display area is switched on) didn't work correctly.

• Add: Playback: If playback is already switched off, the Stop function generally resumes playback of the last channel or file, thus working as toggle. Please note: The function of the Stop button and menu item are configurable for file playback (see below)

• Change: File Playback: Options -> Movies -> Playback stop action is now performed without a preceding "Playback Off", thus enabling more possibilities than before. The default is "Stop". "None" also triggers "Stop" (for compatibility). The former default "Last Channel" works as before.

• Add: TV/Radio Playback: The stop function switches playback off/on in TV/Radio mode (previously inoperable).

• Fix: File Playback: TS files without PAT/PMT (e.g. TechniSat receiver recordings) couldn't be played with the DVBViewer Filter.

• Add: File Playback: The condition VC-1 (for VC-1 video) can be used in Auto B Conditions and Presets.

• Fix: File Playback: Useless "Press 0 to start from the beginning" OSD message on audio track changes removed (only file playback without DVBViewer Filter affected if "Options -> Movies -> Resume and ask" is switched on).

• Fix: File Playback: Video postprocessor filters inserted by filtergraph presets for displaying subtitles (like ffdshow subtitle filter or VSFilter AKA DirectVobSub) were not connected to the subtitle ouput pin of a splitter filter like LAV or Haali.

• Add: File Playback: DVBViewer is now able to receive multiple files as commandline parameter (previously it only used the last one). Practically this feature enables to select several media files in the Windows Explorer and drag & drop them on the DVBViewer icon, thus activating playlist playback.

• Fix: Stream Playback: Several issues in the “Open URL” window, particularly concerning the history list.

• Fix: Stream Playback: DVBViewer ignored the DirectX user settings when building a filter graph for audio streaming sources (e.g. internet radio).

• Change: Stream Playback: ShockWave rendering removed (introduced for streaming services that were hardly ever used).

• Fix: Stream Playback: Wrong handling of the "Stream" condition in Auto A/B and preset conditions.

• Fix: Stream Playback: Opening variable bitrate AAC or MP3 stream URLs could block DVBViewer for several minutes.

• Fix: Stream Playback: Opening Windows Media stream URLs could cause filter graph building failure.

• Fix: UPnP: Selecting an entry that lists hundreds of files in the Playback -> Open UPnP -> UPnP Select window could block the application for a long time.

• Fix: CD Playback: Audio CD playback with the DVBViewer Filter didn't work, forcing DVBViewer to use an external CD source filter as fallback.

• Fix: Playlist: Bug when writing M3U files, including the file Playlist.m3u in the configuration folder. All extended information (#EXTINF, e.g. the title) were omitted.

Recording & Timeshift

• Change: Recorder Options: "Write extended log file" checkbox removed. DVBViewer now always writes an extended recording log.

• Change: Recorder Options: "Instant Recording" settings removed (still available as tweak, see Tweaker.exe).

• Change: Recorder Options: "Remove H.264/MPEG2 filler data" checkboxes replaced by a single "Remove video filler data" checkbox affecting both formats.

• Change: Recorder Options: "Split file after.." setting removed (still available as tweak, see Tweaker.exe).

• Add: Recorder: DVBViewer automatically splits a recording into pieces slightly smaller than 4GB if the file is written to a FAT32 formatted drive. So there is no need to use the "Split file after..." option for this purpose anymore.

• Change: Recorder Options: Task Scheduler settings moved from Options -> Extended to Options -> Recorder -> Recording.

• Fix: Scheduler: The internal task scheduler ignored auto-repeated recordings.

• Change: Timer Recordings: Special Action sub-menu removed. The Transponder Dump option is now available in the Timer Action dropdown list.

• Change: Timer Recordings: The "Recording Folder and Special Action" button now has a caption ("Folder") and directly opens the Recording Folder menu. The button is disabled for external recordings (executed by the Recording Service), or if no alternative recording directories are specified (see Options → Recorder).

• Fix: Timer Recordings: DVBViewer didn't receive the "Transponder Dump" setting from the Recording Service.

• Change: Recording Statistics: AV Control in the Recording and Device Statistics Window removed. The options are already covered by functions like "Stop", "Video Playback Off" or "Mute".

• Fix: Recording: Setting an end time in the popup menu that appears after clicking the Record Button in the Main Window (if a recording is going on) did not immediately update the end time in the Recording Statistics and Timer Recordings windows.

• Change:Timeshift: In case of a channel change "Options -> Recorder -> Timeshift -> Warning on timeshift termination" only takes effect if time-shifted playback is going on, not if a channel is played live, thus avoiding a confirmation dialog on each channel change if "Options -> Recorder -> Timeshift -> Start timeshift automatically" is switched on.

• Change: Timeshift: The Stop function (button or menu item) first switches timeshift off if it is active. A warning is displayed (if enabled in the options), also in case of live playback. If timeshift is already switched off the Stop function switches playback off.

• Change: Timeshift: The Play function (button or menu item) resumes timeshift playback, if paused (as before). If time-shifted playback is already going on, Play jumps to the live position (new). If live playback is going on Play jumps to the last time-shifted position or the beginning of the file, if there is no last position (new).

Hardware

• Fix: Hardware: Reading of an uninitialized memory area under certain circumstances when searching for a free device, yielding unpredictable results.

• Fix: Hardware: Discontinuities with Digital Devices cards on overlapping recordings of the same channel.

• Fix: Hardware:: Decryption of a scrambled channel by Digital Devices CI was stopped by switching to an unscrambled channel on the same transponder (thus spoiling an ongoing recording of the scrambled channel).

• Fix: Hardware: Bug in DVBSky CI MMI handling (didn't take effect until now due to another bug in the DVBSky driver), unnecessary excessive logging when using DVBSky CI.

• Change: Hardware: Support for Twinhan WDM drivers removed.

• Fix: Hardware: Access violation if a device currently used by DVBViewer was disconnected.

• Change: Hardware: A more efficient and manageable internal representation of the device list.

• Fix: RTSP Device: Potential PID filter problem fixed, internal structure optimized.

• Change: RTSP Device: Automatic search for an alternative server removed. If the RTSP device cannot connect to the configured server it only checks if its IP address has changed. If yes the RTSP device corrects and saves it automatically.

• Change: Hardware Options: General reordering of control elements.

• Change: Hardware Options: The former "+" Button (now called "Add") doesn't open a dialog window anymore, but a pop-up menu allowing to select the type of virtual network device (RTSP, Unicast, IPTV or File) that shall be inserted at the selected device list position.

• Add: Hardware Options: OctopusNet CI configuration in the RTSP (SAT>IP) settings window. If the (selected) server is detected as OctopusNet, the window displays a drop-down list containing the following options
  
  Don't use CI
  Use any CI
  Use CI #1
  Use CI #2
  
  for assigning a CI to the RTSP device. "Any CI" means the first available (unoccupied) CI. The last two options require OctopusNet 1.0.17 or later. Please note: An RTSP device configured for OctopusNet CI usage occupies the CI all the time while it is active, even when DVBViewer receives unscrambled streams. If the CI is not available, tuning will fail in any case. A dynamic CI allocation and deallocation "per channel" can only be achieved by using two RTSP devices assigned to OctopusNet, one configured for unscrambled channels ("No CI"), the other one for scrambled channels only. The channels must be assigned to the two RTSP devices by using different channel groups for unscrambled and scrambled channels.

• Change: Hardware Options: All settings of virtual network devices are now stored in the file hardware.xml. The file network.xml isn't used for this purpose anymore. Please note: For compatibility with former versions DVBViewer reads settings from network.xml as long as they are not yet available in hardware.xml, but doesn't write to it anymore. Changed network device settings can not be read by former versions (no compatiblity in backward direction).

• Change: Hardware Options: All hardware settings (including virtual network device settings) are preserved on Scan Devices, except those prescribed by the BDA hardware database for important reasons. Formerly Scan Devices reset several settings to their default.

• Change: Hardware Options: Opening a dialog window with the Settings Button doesn't require to release the affected device anymore and to stop playback resp. recording.

• Fix: Hardware Options: Closing the Options with Cancel didn't restore previous hardware settings. Please note: Even the results of "Scan Devices" or changes in a dialog windows opened with the Settings Button are now discarded on Cancel!

• Fix: Hardware Options: Connecting or disconnecting a device from the PC didn't trigger an update of the device list (red display of unavailable devices).

• Fix: Hardware Options: Missing selection of the moved entry after dragging and dropping device list entries.

• Fix: Hardware Options: The "Use TCP instead of UDP" checkbox for RTSP devices assigned to the Recording Service didn't show up in the RTSP device settings until a server list entry was selected. The protocol is now represented by two radio buttons “UDP” and “TCP”.

• Change: Hardware Options: "Low bandwidth mode (USB 1.1)" checkbox removed (still available as hardware.xml tweak – create an “LowBandWidth” entry with the value 1 in the according section).

• Add: Hardware Options: "Scan Devices" auto-detects Digital Devices cards that are DVB-T2 capable.

Miscellaneous

• Change: Logging: debug.log, osd.log and osderror.log dropped. All log entries are written to the file DVBViewer.log, by default only critical errors and exceptions. The commandline parameter -debug additionally enables general event logging (as before), and -osddebug (new) general OSD event logging. The parameters -debug and -osddebug can be used separately or together.

• Fix: Options: When using the tab key for navigation the selection rectangle marking checkboxes as focused wasn't displayed. Additionally the tab order had to be corrected on some pages (= order of control elements when using the tab key).

• Change: Extended Options: "Ignore error messages" checkbox removed (still available as tweak, see Tweaker.exe)

• Change: EPG Options: Restructured. The former "Do not receive EPG Data" checkbox now appears as a reverse "Receive standard EPG data" checkbox making more clear what it does.

• Fix: EPG Options: After removing all MediaHighway/Freesat entries the default was restored on next launch. Additionally there were outdated Outdated MediaHighway entries.

• Change: Teletext Options: Color settings removed.

• Add: TV/Radio Options: General Restructuring. The "Disable video/audio when minimized" checkbox was replaced by a "Playback in minimized state" dropdown list providing three options: On, Stopped and Audio Only - the latter letting you hear what is going on while video decoding is switched off in order to save CPU power.

• Fix: Channel Logo Options: Changes didn't activate the Apply Button.

• Change: Visualization Options: The section has been merged with the Music section. The "Reload Plugin List" button and the Plugin path setting have been removed. The directory now always is DVBViewer\VisPlugins.

• Fix: OSD: System -> Settings -> Music settings were not synchronized with according settings in the Options Window. The Show Visualizations setting didn't take effect until DVBViewer was relaunched.

• Fix: OSD: Radio text wasn't removed on Playback Off.

• Fix: Recording Service Wizard: Bug causing heavy access violations if the Recording Service Wizard was executed while DVB devices were used (e..g. for TV/Radio playback). Now, when clicking "Finish", the wizard displays a warning in case of ongoing recordings and stops every DVB device usage.

• Add: Recording Service Wizard: Support for DVB-T2 and IPTV devices (requires Recording Service 1.28.0 or later).

• Change: GUI Skins: Default GUI Skins adapted to the new menu structure

• Fix: GUI Skins: Position slider resp. seeking issues.

• Change: Channellist Editor: The file dialog for importing channellist files now shows all channellist file types at once (e.g. *.csv and *.ini), no need to select the types separately anymore.

• Fix: Commandline: DVBViewer ignored the upper 32 Bit of a 64 bit channel ID passed as part of a -c parameter.

• Add: Datamanager: #System.mute contains the current mute state (1 = muted | 0 = unmuted).

• Update: VOD Source Filter to version 2.2.0

• Update: Transponder lists for Astra 13°/23°/28° East and Hotbird 13° East.

• Update: Tweaker.exe to version 1.0.5 (search function added).

• Update: Hardware Database: TBS, DVBSky and Digital Devices cards added.