Release Date          :      4th December 2009    
Firmware Version     :     50-17-091022-15-HDD-403-000     

Release Note     :     
1. New NMT apps, 00-17-091014-15-POP-403
2. Internet Radio link added in Web Services
3. Screensaver support during playback pause
4. non-JPEG rotation
5. Japanese subtitle support option
6. Remove "Audio */*: ***" message at start of video playback (e.g. TS)
7. IDX/SUB support added
8. Image cache issue fix
9. workaround DirecTV UPnP crash issue
10. Fixed ISO with single subtitle track cannot display (QA#0528)
11. Turkish codepage bug fix
12. workaround MP3 volume soft after ISO/IFO playback (QA#0487)
13. TFixed copy small file from NTFS cause system crash
14. Fixed HDD icon on Media Source page occasionally disappearing
15. Fixed MP3 volume soft after DVD playback.
16. Added Dolby Digital disclaimer at [Maintenance] page.
17. Fixed Missing HDD/USB device entries from [Media Source] page.
18. Prevent multiple [Media Source] page refresh during startup process.
19. Fixed blank info in network share edit page, also missing remove button.
20. Fixed blank page when browse network share from network share page
21. Fixed wording "Scan complete" appears at the top left corner after performing wifi scan.
22. Fixed VESA tv mode display either flickering or black screen.
23. Fixed Selecting AP "linksys28" will have the SSID wrongly changed to "linksys28P1"
24. Fixed UPnPAV server detection issue after changing new hostname or restarting server.
25. Fixed Playback of BD-ripped M2TS (eg. movie "Taken") causing system crash.
26. Fixed broken Kartina TV support.
27. Changed Japanese and Chinese (both simplified & traditional) translation of "Crop" under "Video Zoom" option in setup page.
28. Fixed volume automatically increased from "-15" to "-14" issue when playback the next item in a playlist.
29. Fixed refreshing server listing page shows corrupted page
30. Fixed vobsub crash when only idx file exist in the folder
31. Fixed vobsub load regardless of filename
32. Fixed vobsub positioning problem
33. Fixed twonkyserver photo slide show using low resolution
34. Added dynamic javascript loading
35. Known issue: multi-language vobsub not supported

Note     :     Unzip into the root of your USB thumbdrive. Browse to usbupdate.html to updat

Please DO NOT power off the unit during firmware update, as it will render your unit inoperational.

Release Date      :      4 June 2009     
Firmware Version:     50-17-090204-15-HDD-403-000    

Release Note     :    
1. No NMT apps, still previous 00-17-090115-15-HDD-403
2. Some critical patches on 00-17-090125-15-HDD-403
3. Fixed Video_ts playback over SAMBA, with whitespace in share name, will crash.
4. Turkish codepage fix.
5. Remove "Audio */*: ***" message at start of video playback (e.g. TS).
6. PNG read failure cause crash.
7. Fixed ISO with single subtitle track cannot be display
8. Internet Radio link added in Web Services
9. MP3 volume soft after ISO/IFO playback workaround
10. Workaround DirecTV UPnP crash issue
11. Image cache issue fixed
12. Fixed long playback of some TS file causing system crash
13. Fixed formatting SATA HDD failure on some large capacity HDD
14. Fixed further DTS dropouts in MKV.
15. DTS 2-Channel downmix Support
   
Note:     Unzip into the root of your USB thumbdrive. Browse to usbupdate.html to update.
    Please DO NOT power off the unit during firmware update, as it will render your unit inoperational.

Release Date      :      28 March 2009     
Firmware Version:     50-17-090201-15-HDD-403-000    

Release Note     :    
1. Requires NMT apps 00-17-090115-15-HDD-403
2. Added hebrew, turkish and danish language support

This is a minor firmware release which adds the above language support, it is not neccesary to update to this version if you do not need it.

Release Date      :      6 March 2009     
Firmware Version:     50-17-090125-15-HDD-403-000    

Release Note     :    
1. Requires NMT apps 00-17-090115-15-HDD-403
2. Browser / System
  - Improvement on font engine character rendering (30% speed up)
  - faster navigation on local drives
    - Use numeric key to input item number to jump to the page where item is located
  - Improved fileplayer speed
  - Fixed HDMI display output blackout issue for auto EDID
  - Discrete RC (Logitech) scancode fix
  - Updated network share and webservices language packs.
  - Removed EXT2 option for NMT installation
    - Note: due to long term reliability issue with EXT2 on device that is frequently turned off abruptly
  - Additional symbols can be input from "1" key
  - HTTP download manager (only works with links with special "download" attributes.
  - File player hide Recycle Bin folder
  - Fixed 'TV MODE' + '3' key handling bug
  - Fixed recovery kernel no red screen displayed
  - Browser image caching fix, should fix some YAMJ crashes or no image issue.
  - Fixed HDD spin-up during standby
  - Fixed slow loading of HTML pages
3. Web Services
  - New UI
    - customizable icon feature with browse image utility (need NMT apps)
    - bug fixes on customizable service icon with browse feature.
  - Web Services page modification
    - Fixed a "save/remove service" bug
    - Now able to customise JPG/BMP icon
  - Fixed slow IR response while playback Internet Radio
  - Immediate response to STOP during Internet video streaming
  - Fine-tune Web Service UI
4. Network
  - Improved SMB server startup time
  - Improved browsing time for SMB client
  - Atheros USB WiFi stability fixes
  - Fixed SMB client hostname resolution picked up wrong IP address from the IP list
  - Fixed file copy failed from HDD to SMB/NFS with names containing whitespace
  - Fixed UPnP AV server playall issue broken in previous release
  - Fixed Samba server halts after device name change
  - Torrent client is now by default Transmission (btpd removed)
     **** IMPORTANT NOTE: Please ensure completion with previous downloads with BTPD, as new Transmission client cannot inherit previous downloads.
  - Fixed torrent schedule page not working
  - Fixed occasionally newly created SMB/NFS shares doesn't show up in media source list
  - Atheros USB WiFi added support for TP-Link v2 stick
  - Fixed persistent private IP when DHCP server unavailable (e.g. cross-cable connection etc)
5. Playback
  - Bookmark/resume for single playback
    - 10 bookmarks available now
    - Press stop to bookmark the last video playback
    - Press enter / play with focus on bookmarked clip to resume
    - Press "0" to start from beginning of clip
  - Auto framerate synchronisation
    - Framerate sync function in ISO playback, only for 50,60Hz modes (PAL/NTSC)
    - switch to NTSC(60Hz) when selected mode not applicable.(previously, it will follow TV mode selected)
    - Use 59.94 for NTSC when matching content detected.
    - Fixed incorrect data shown on infobar.
    - Fixed after ISO playback, screen goes blank when framerate sync kicks in
  - Improved info display
    - Disable incorrect video MPEG1/2 VBR display.
    - Fixed incorrect framerate info for video playback (*.mov, *.mp4).
    - Fixed video bitrate calculation error (less 1 packet every second)
    - Modified infobar UI (height, spacing and text displayed)
    - Fixed info bar losing text after paused
    - Improved accuracy of mpeg1/2 bitrate information
  - Photo app
    - Fixed JPEG (PNG / TIFF transcode) from myiHome server cannot be displayed
    - Fade-In Fade-out effect added for photo transition
    - Enable large jpeg rotation. (downscale before rotate)
    - Fixed faded color for jpeg at 360-deg rotation
  - TV Type setting for DVD playback
    - the TV type setting is now working for DVD video playback (4:3 and 16:9 only, 16:10 will treat as 16:9)
  - DVD Menu
    - new popup menu if MENU key on PCH remote controller is pressed
    - user can select to jump to ROOT, TITLE, CHAPTER.... etc from the menu
  - Modified progressive zoom and pan in ISO/IFO playback
  - Removed up/down keys as prev/next track/td>
  - VCD *.DAT playback fixed using soft demux
  - Fixed "repeat" keypress in myiHome when playback audio caused picture playback to halt
  - Improved handling of MKV H.264 profile and vlevel.
  - Fixed cannot stream MPEG from UPnP AV server, liveTV
  - Fixed .pls file unable to start when playback locally (HDD/SMB/NFS)
  - *.m3u playlist supported.
  - Fixed TS with stream6 as teletext playback cause out of memoryFixed MKV H264 L4.1 pixelated video issue
  - Fixed MKV H264 L4.1 pixelated video issue
  - Fixed ISO over SMB stutter issue, when no HDD attached
6. Subtitle
  - Fixed subtitle parsing with BOM (UTF8 support only)
  - Fixed wrong character rendered in Thai subtitle
  - Changed default subtitle font size to 28 and Y offset to 10
  - Exception handling in SSA subtitle parsing
  - Slight adjustment of subtitle position
 

Release Date : 11 November 2008
Firmware Version : 50-17-081023-15-HDD-403-000

1. Requires NMT apps 00-17-081023-15-HDD-403
 
2. Playback
  - MKV HTTP streaming performance improved
  - MKV Chapters support.
  - MKV chapter key handling (follows WMP)
   - use PREV/NEXT key to switch chapter
   - at each chapter, 
    - pressing PREV once will goto start of that chapter
    - pressing PREV twice will goto previous chapter 
    - pressing PREV twice at 1st chapter will goto previous clip if in playlist
    - pressing NEXT once will goto start of next chapter
    - pressing NEXT once at last chapter will goto next clip if in playlist 
  - Fixed ISO playback over USB occasional hang issue
  - Fixed some FLAC playback at wrong sampling frequency
  - Fixed certain TS substream (mostly teletext) incorrectly detected as DTS
  - Fixed certain TS with mixed Hi-Def and standard audio subtracks losing audio 
  - Audio with new info display and ID3v2 (album art if available)
   - ID3 parsing for local (HDD, USB storage) content only
   - Press Info key to display 
  - Added filename and bitrate in video info display.
  - RMVB support (requires new myiHome v5.1.0 and above to perform transcoding)
  - Fixed certain microDVD SUB file will cause hang
  - Fixed thumbnail display issue from WMP servers
  - Moved Video Zoom option from "Preferences" to "Audio/Video" page, separating into 2 options 
   - Video Zoom [Actual Size | Fit To Screen | Crop | Full Screen] 
   - TV Type [4:3 | 16:9 | 16:10] 
  - Prebuffering control 
   - new HTML extension tag supported, "prebuf=xxx" property tag added to anchor tag to set the size of the pre-buffer
  - Fixed no dimension information displayed for certain M1V/M2V files
  - display MP3 album art in actual size
  - Fixed exception handling for music album art
  - added handling of FLAC file with ID3 header
  - DTS-core passthrough fixed
  - Fixed audio switch between DTS-HD and other codec no output issue
  - Video playback progressive zoom and pan 
   - press "Zoom" key to cycle through zoom mode, magnify mode and pan mode 
   - use arrow key to adjust value (only left/right key for zoom/magnify)
   - moves viewport when panning, instead of the image 
   - added exit zoom mode 
   - change pan step size to 1
   - save pan/zoom setting for each zoom profile (FullScreen, Actual Size etc) to RAM.
  - Audio output fixes 
   - fixed some AVI with DTS 96/24 output 
   - fixed AVI with PCM output noise when set to 5.1 
   - fixed HDMI no DTS output when AC3 set to PCM mode
  - Fixed for 24 bit encoded FLAC playback
  - Fixed playback video_ts over SMB stuttering issue
  - Fixed Brightness/Saturation/Contrast not applied correctly in DVD playback 
  - Added language selection for DVD subtitle/audio (Danish etc)
  - Fixed DVD with single subtitle track cannot be displayed
  - Modified Volume range to improve usable range
   - Volume range -15~+15, max 15dB, min -28dB.
   - red number if >0dB, indicating boosted volume
   - green number if <0dB 
   - white at 0dB 
  - Fixed volume not saved when it is 0dB
  - Detect .dts as DTS-WAV, starts playback with 0dB to allow uncorrupted passthrough
  - Fixed WAV header parsing for certain wav file
  - Fixed HD-DVD remux, DD+ track no audio downmix output
  - Fixed M2T PMT detection bug
  - Fixed DTS-WAV output issue when surround mode is set to 5.1
  - Fixed inaccurate running video bitrate
  - Rectified "repeat", "suspend" key mapping in ISO playback 
  - Fixed incorrect playlist OSD display when music playback from myiHome
  - Fixed decoder crash when playing a MKV without audio track 
  - Fixed incorrect downsampling of PCM audio for HDMI output source sampling rate > 48kHz 
  - Fixed incorrect WAV playback sampling rate (set at 48kHz) 
 
3. Photo app
  - New Photo app
  - added more information on display
  - eliminate black-out gap between slides 
  - able to display monochrome JPEG
  - auto rotation for photo (JPEG)
   - based on EXIF orientation and below 2048x2048 
  - Brightness/contrast/saturation change ("Setup" + arrow keys) 
  - Slideshow fixes
   - Auto rotation for jpeg 2111 profile 
    - Known issue: Color distortion at the bottom of picture after +-90deg rotate. 
   - Color settings to follow preset value 
  - changed pan to moving viewport, instead of image (same as for movies)
  - fixed mis-aligned position when performing zoom 
  - Fixed decoder crashed when displaying certain GIF file through HDMI
  - Fixed certain JPEG rotation will crash decoder
  - Known issues: 
   - for GIF/BMP/PNG, will clear screen when manually switch previous/next slide
   - color distortion at bottom of photo when panning.
   - no rotation for BMP GIF PNG 
   - no rotation for JPEG >= 2048x2048 
   - JPEG > 15MB cannot be displayed through HTTP 
   - BMP > 2272x1712, PNG > 4000x2400 cannot be displayed - checking 
   - Note: myiHome will transcode and scale-down BMP/GIF/PNG to JPEG 
 
4. System/Browser
  - Atheros WiFi WEP issue fixes
  - added HDMI/DVI colorspace Setup option
  - fixed wrong navigation flow after adding network share
  - Modified Web Services UI pages
  - Fixed when USB drive added/removed, issue with media source page refresh
  - Turkish, Danish translation added
  - Browser caching to harddisk
  - Various translation fixes
  - WiFi graceful teardown during reboot/shutdown to avoid crash.
  - Browser modification 
   - pressing SOURCE key at "Media source" page will goto "Web Services" 
   - fixed browser using wrong cached image 
   - added "new folder" and "rename" functions in File Operation menu 
   - faster fileplayer sort
  - Fixed garbled text at network share -> username/password page 
  - Various new libs to resolve crash issue Usenet download under certain condition 
  - Fixed CD-ROM folders not sorted on top of file list 
  - Fixed occasional inaccurate WiFi auto-scan list
  - Workaround inaccurate width calculation for some fixed-width character
  - Cut Browser parsing time to about half (reduce about 0.2s)
  - Fixed ISO file does not support relative path on fileplayer
  - Fixed NMT apps start/stop status shown incorectly 
  - Fixed NMT apps status refresh in SEtup page and "Reset Factory Setting" handling
  - Fixed failure to access Clutch interface
  - Fixed broken browser history
 
5. Network
  - NFS servers browsing supported
  - SMB client fixes, additional checking to prevent from redirect to invalid/stale share folder 
  - Handling when network lost - proper unmount and page redirection 
  - NFS client fixes, reduce the retry time on NFS mount from 2 mins to 1 min
  - Revert network IP checking for SMB/NFS share before mount attempt
  - Fixed reset to factory settings occasionally failed after network configuration changed
 
6. Subtitle
  - Fixed extended character misaligned in MKV embedded subtitle 
  - Fixed bi-direction issue in Hebrew *.SUB 
  - Subtitle menu re-ordered and text modified
   - A"Time"->"On/Off"->"Color"->"Size"->"Position"
  - Fixed Subtitle from myiHomeLite bug (QA#495)
 
7. Casgle client
  - changed Casgle client name from "Casgle Client" to "Casgle iDVR"
  - opened Casgle client service for SD mode too
 
8. Known issues
  - PNG/TIFF support over myiHome broken