AC Ryan heeft voor de Playon!HD Mini 2 nieuwe firmware uitgebracht, die vooralsnog als bèta aangeboden wordt. De AC Ryan Playon!HD Mini 2 heeft dezelfde specificaties als zijn grote broer, maar dan in een kleinere behuizing. Hierdoor is er geen ruimte voor een interne harde schijf en ook moet hij het zonder een digital coax-aansluiting en cardreader stellen. Daar staat tegenover dat hij zijn werk kan doen zonder actieve koeling. Tweakers.net bespreekt de mini en de 'gewone' Playon! HD 2 uitgebreid in deze review. Deze release bevat een groot aantal verbeteringen en bugfixes, waaronder voor de vervelende problemen met ondertiteling. Het volledige changelog is hieronder te vinden.
What’s new in this release:Known issues/high priority to fix:
- Improved GOTO function, now able to directly input numeric on the entry fields
- Improved various menu language translations and OSD errors
- Improved audio playing indicator bar to match with the current progress of playback
- Improved sync with various .txt subtitle formats
- Improved subtitles handling
- Multiple SRT subtitles for a video, naming the desired subtitle file the same as the video name will make it the default subtitle during playback, example;
If you have 'Avatar.mkv' video and 'Avatar.srt', 'Avatar.dutch.srt', 'Avatar.german.srt', etc Avatar.srt will be the default subtitle
If you prefer to have other subtitle as the default subtitle, just rename that to 'Avatar.srt'- Only subtitles that are relevant to the video being played will be displayed and selectable, example;
If you have 'Avatar.mkv' and 'Iron Man.mkv' together with 'Avatar.srt' and 'Iron Man.srt' subtitles in a single folder
When playing 'Avatar.mkv' and pressing the subtitle button will only display and let you select 'Avatar.srt'. 'Iron Man.srt' will not be seen as a selectable subtitle- Added audio setting that can be directly accessed when pressing the MENU button during audio/video playback
- Added 'Show all files' option in SETUP - SYSTEM menu to provide users the flexibility of manipulating files that are otherwise filtered out by the system as non-media types
- Added Thai and Hebrew virtual keyboard layout and input method
- Added support for PGS subtitles in MKV container
- Fixed the limit of maximum 15 subtitles placed in a single folder
- Fixed missing audio channels when playing back video with multi-channel AAC audio via an external amplifier
- Fixed constant rebooting problem caused by the index file being corrupted after scanning any MP3 files with an ID3 tag that contains a large file size embedded image
- Fixed system reboot when loading a Jukebox created with AC Ryan YAMJ Installer v2.0
- Fixed random system freeze when exiting or stopping from playing a movie in Movie Jukebox
- Fixed unable to display YAMJ generated TV Series and Boxsets in Movie Jukebox
- Fixed broken service to NBC TODAY SHOW in Video Podcast
- Fixed no audio bug when using certain services in Internet Media if you are using SPDIF/OPTICAL connection to an external amplifier
- Fixed during audio playback, ID3 details does not appear after returning from screensaver, MENU options or SETUP
- Fixed unable to load subtitles when default subtitle option in Setup > Misc > Subtitle is turned off
- Fixed during a paused video playback and screen saver appears with option set to Photo Album or Flickr, will cause the system to reboot
Due to a Realtek SDK limitation, only the default screen saver image will appear during a paused video playback- Moved Shortcuts menu to the first listed menu on the Home Screen
GUI/Interface file copy using Samba network protocol = If you use the GUI/Interface with Samba network protocol to copy a file/folder to your USB-storage. The system will reboot.
Workaround to transfer files: You can use NFS, or the Samba PC environment (drag and drop) to transfer files if you want to use the network to transfer files.
If you enable 'Setup>System>Scan Storage' your system might crash depending on the files you have scanned, and create a corrupted '.Theater' folder, or if you then enter 'Movies' or 'Music' sections from the main menu, and change the view or filter (by pressing 'Menu') the system will reboot. If you would encounter this issue, you would have to manually delete the '.Theater' folder by connecting the USB-hard drive to your PC/Mac and remove the '.Theater' folder from the root folder of your hard drive. Then boot the Playon! with your TV, and go to 'Setup>System>Restore default Yes' and insert the USB-hard drive.