Firmware-update: Xtreamer 2.1

Xtreamer heeft een nieuwe firmware uitgebracht voor zijn gelijknamige mediaspeler. De Xtreamer is bedoeld voor het afspelen en streamen van mediabestanden van de optionele ingebouwde harde schijf, een apparaat op het interne netwerk - bedraad of draadloos - of van het internet. Op ons eigen GoT loopt een topic waar meer informatie over deze budget-mediaspeler is te vinden.

Nieuw in versie 2.1 is onder andere de mogelijkheid om favoriete content direct aan het Home-menu toe te voegen en scant de Xtreamer nu automatisch voor gedeelde netwerkmappen. Verder zijn er verbeteringen aan de foto- en film-preview aangebracht en zijn er de nodige bugs verholpen. De eerste reacties geven overigens aan dat er naast de nodige verbeteringen ook enkele nieuwe problemen geïntroduceerd zijn. Wellicht is het dus beter om even op versie 2.1.1 te wachten. Het changelog voor versie 2.1 ziet er in ieder geval als volgt uit:

New:

• “Favorite” in Home menu.
  • Needs Restore Defaults in setup menu.
  • Add your favorite contents from HDD (Internal/External) to “Favorite”
  • By pressing “Func(8)” key from Remote Control select “Add to Favorite”
  • To remove from Favorite press “Func(8)” key and select “Delete from Favorite” from Favorite menu.
  • Folders and files are displayed from “All” menu only, “Music/Photo/Video” menu only shows respective files not folders
• Network shares (samba/NFS) auto scan.
  • Accessible from “Media Library->Network Shares” menu.
  • NFS Shortcut replaced by Network Shares
  • NFS Client option also remover from Xtreamer Web UI “Setup” menu
  • To reload list of share folders press “1” key
• eTrayz auto search and mount.
  • eTrayz can be auto searched and mounted from media library.
  • Only one eTrayz device supported for auto mount now.
• Estonian language support.
  • Estonian language support for OSD and subtitle.
• Not pirated DVD with CSS support.
• User’s font(ttf) support for subtitles only
  • Subtitle font can be change from Setup->Playback->User Subtitle Font
  • Font file should be in internal HDD(first partition) or USB HDD(first partition) in “user_font” folder.
• Subtitles on/off option
  • Subtitle can be turn on/off from “Setup->Playback->Subtitle Default”
  • Factory default in “subtitle on”
• Subtitles border thickness can be changed
  • During movie playback, press subtitles button from remote control and select thickness
  • Thickness option is next to size option.
• USB DVD AutoRun
  • From “Setup->Playback->DVD AutoRun” on/off option can be selected
• Unzip and Archive option from Xtreamer web UI
  • From Xtreamer web UI .zip, .tar, .tar.bz2 type files can be unzipped
  • Just click unzip icon located next to file name, select target dir and press “unzip” button
  • So user can upload more than 10 files at a time as a zip file
  • Select “File Manager->Archive” option and choose folder to make archive(tar)
  • Folder can be downloaded at a time instead of downloading files one by one
• Workgroup option
  • User can change their workgroup from Xtreamer Web UI “Setup->Workgroup/Hostname”
  • Under this workgroup they will find their Xtreamer samba share
  • Samba share name change from samba 3.0.23c to xtreamer’s hostname..
• HDMI chroma Sub-sampling set
  • Can be selected from “Setup->A/V->HDMI chroma Sub-sampling set”
  • “Auto” option will auto select one of YCbCr422 and YCbCr 444.
  • “On” means YCbCr 422 (if supported).
  • If Xtreamer connect to DVI, output is RGB444

Improvements:

• Photo preview UI improved
• Movie preview UI improved.
• Change UI string.

Bug Fixes:

• “Kerning” (black line between letters) from Arabic subtitle removed and space between some Arabic character removed.
• During movie playback, after pressing “Stop” button it went to “All” menu from “Movie” menu.
• ODD (audio & data disc) detection.
• Playback OGG with CoverArt.
  • Not display tag information and cover art.
• Smooth Fast Forward
• User cannot upload files from Xtreamer Web UI to USB (if don’t have internal HDD)
• Mac users can’t upload file to Xtreamer samba share.
• “503 upload error” during file upload from Xtreamer web UI
• File can’t be uploaded to folder containing multi-byte character(Korean/Chinese/Japanese) in folder name
• FTP file uploaded error “530 server busy”
  • If this symptom found, Restore Default will be needed.
• Can’t write ext3 file system
• Korean missing character in subtitle