Download Firmware Popcorn Hour A-200 02-03-100918-21-POP-411-000

The developers of Syabas Technology released new firmware for the Popcorn Hour A-200 on Thursday. This so-called Networked Media Tank can play audio and video from an optional hard drive, from a NAS system or from a computer. Updating the firmware can be done by extracting the zip file to the root of a USB memory stick and then browsing to the file ‘usbupdate.html’ from the menu. The list of changes for this update is as follows:

02-03-100918-21-POP-411-000

Minimum NMT apps 02-03-100427-21-POP-411

BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA

• BD playback – Load subtitle index.srt (case sensitive) in BDMV folder by default
• Now allow both *.ISO and *.iso to be detected for external SRT subtitles
• SimpleBD fast rewind
  • currently it does not span over if the video consists of multiple TS.
  • fast forward beyond 4x still under development

Video and Audio playback

• HD audio passthrough support for file playback
• Fixed certain Arabic subtitles failed to display
• Fixed failure to playback some AVI which contain ID3 (aoe-cop.avi)
• Fixed frequent press of Enter key at start of audio file playback occasional cause system failure
• MKV file playback with new audio/subtitle/chapter navigator ala SimpleBD menu style
  • Press Title key
• Fixed some MKV (created with makemkv) freeze on time seek
• Fixed MKV with 5.1 FLAC audio cannot playback
• Fixed subtitle not displayed after 64 subs (Sigma bugId 11560)
• external IDX/SUB (D1 resolution only) support for MKV
• Fixed m4a with unsupported genre metadata crashing the player (Bug #5000716)
• Fixed incorrect playback timer for MPEG after trick mode (Bug #500072)
• Changed DTS default setting to PCM in setup
• Improve pre-buffering for H.264 streaming
• TrueAudio (.tta) audio file playback support
• Fixed background image conflicting with the listing page after pressing stop button at exact end of the music file (Bug #5001072)
• Fixed missing subtitle “track” submenu during first playback after system reboot (Bug #5001116)
• MP3 handling for certain bad unconventional v2.4 ID3 tag
• Fixed playback issue with some mp3 files with multiple ID3 tag
• Fixed certain IDX/SUB cannot display (IDX that contains only selected non-zero substream index)
• Fixed audio mute/unmute issue at the beginning of file playback
• Fixed a mp3 with embedded cover art cause crash (Bug #t0000391)
• Fixed DTS-HD changed to PCM after Dolby Digital Analog/PCM selection is changed (Bug #t0000384)
• Fixed DTS audio loss after playback files with DTS-MA
• Better rendering for subtitles
• subtitle improvement
  • added “auto” in Color to apply native styles in SSA (“white/red” option is removed).
  • note that when subtitle Color set to “auto”, other settings becomes inaccessible
  • hide “Color”, “Size” and “Position” when they are not applicable (eg IDX/SUB)
• Fixed wrong audio format info displayed on Info bar
• Fixed FF (mkv, avi) broken in previous release
• disable SSA subtitle animation
• Fixed +-30sec skip (RIGHT/LEFT key) not working properly during certain M2TS playback (Bug #5001535 = #0000246)
• Fixed HDMI audio mute broken
• Workaround for MKV with “header removal compression”
• Fixed proper display of audio info on Info bar
• Fixed volume control sluggishness during Internet radio
• Fixed sound burst when certain WAV playback starts.
• Fixed issue with MP4 file > 2GB playback through HTTP
• Fixed incorrect volume level during certain DVD playback
• Fixed SimpleBD DTS-HD audio incorrectly switched to DTS after seek operation (Bug #5001602)
• Fixed certain small video files causing incorrect “buffering” display and hang up after playback
• Fixed audio volume level and mute inconsistency after seek operation
• Fixed wrong fps info on certain TS and MKV files
• Improved ASS/SSA subtitle engine (Anime correct tag, color, etc…)
• SSA/ASS subtitle rendering patches (.ASS extension supported now)
• Improved bookmark handling for all file player playback.
• Initial pause for 3 seconds when framerate sync activates at start of playback.
• Fixed DTS-HD switched to DTS after seek/trick mode issue.
• Fixed audio downmixing for file player playback.
  • modified related options in setup page
• text subtitle font size fixes (Bug #0000139)
• Fixed missing center channel when directly connect to HDMI TV in Dolby Digital passthrough mode
• Reverted some bookmark handling due to stability issue.

photo app

• Fixed slideshow failed via Picasa if the album has more than 700 photos (Bug #5000535)
• Fixed incorrect photo played randomly when play a single photo (pressing Enter) via myiHome (Bug #5000535)
• Fixed photo playback crash due to photo EXIF ​​parsing

System/Network

• Fixed “purple splash” during system bootup
• When Ethernet speed set to 10/100, TCP Receive Window will be disabled
• Set TCP Receive Window to 0 for “Auto” trying to find best value.
  Manually change this value if it works better on your Gigabit network.
• Fixed failure to go to enter Media Source screen after setting TCP Receive Window to “auto”
• new Ralink RT2880 MII Wifi card driver
• Modified Hungarian text
• Workaround for occasional HDMI blackout when AVR/TV on/off or hotplug
• Added “open source license” page
• update on Traditional Chinese language pack
• Added patch for GPT USB (Drobo)
• minor French translation fixes
• Fixed HDMI CEC regression (Bug #5001609/#0000144)
• memory leak fix
• Fixed soft reboot failure with certain boards
• Some fixes for HDMI output issue, other reported issues still attempting to reproduce and trace.

Browser

• Fixed file rename issue with character ‘$’

UPnP AV

• Fixed remote renderer (EyeCon etc) cannot set pause, mute, volume up/down
• Fixed discovered devices disappear when certain UPnP device is attached to network
• Swisscenter Simple Media Server (SIME); reduce waiting time or change track.
• PlayOn UPnP server; fix streaming issue.

Web Services

• Fixed minor pop-up message word wrap issue (Bug #0000250)

AppCenter (PHF / ROBIG)

• Fixed old shoutcast menu could not pop up
• “Standby” by pressing Power key
• Fixed Return key not working
• new revision3, shoutcast, weatherbug PHF
• Channels.com (removed from latest release due some changes on partner’s server API, currently under QA)
• KiniTV
  • fixed broken playback issue
  • fixed screensaver activated during playback
• Next New Network
  • Fixed Cocktails channel url issue
  • Fixed unable to exit issue
  • Reposition exit button
  • Removed Indy_mogul – The Best Short Films in the World (due to no feeds available)
  • Refine error message
  • fixed screensaver activated during playback
• Photobucket, fixed crash issue for Interestingness page and limit to 16 items
• Revision 3
  • Fixed navigation issue after playback
  • Disable screensaver during playback
  • Refine error message
• Shoutcast Radio
  • Refine the playback handling
  • Fix navigation issue with Menu being blocked after performing Search.
• weatherbug
  • Fixed navigation issue, description being truncated and html syntax issue
  • Fixed tracking station list format issue
  • Fixed lost focus issue after changing tracking station
  • Fixed setting issues
  • Fixed revert to local info after 30s issue
  • Support 3 digit display for Celsius setting
  • Fixed bird animation (wing, eye flip) issue
• New apps
  • BlipTV
  • live station
  • MotorzTv
  • Picasa Web Album
  • Twitter
  • Youtube (back!)

NMT Apps

• Fixed NMT Setup unable to perform fresh setup on new harddisk with no partition
• Fixed NZBGet causes hard drive spindown issue

Known issues

• Does not output or downmix Dolby Digital core from Dolby TrueHD for file playback and SimpleBD
• video blackout for a few seconds while framerate sync is performed
• WMAPro RAW output cause hang-up; forced to PCM (downmix) as workaround

NMT Apps Version: 02-03-100427-21-POP-411

• Minimum firmware version to use this NMT App is 02-03-100918-21-POP-411-000
• Version stepping, practically same as 02-02-100318-19-POP-411
• BitTorrent
  • Torrent page sometimes displays a duplicate entry for the last torrent in the list.
  • Don’t show torrent page when torrent not started
• NMT apps run from USB device support. Separate NMT apps from Media partition.
  For example, to allow NMT apps running on USB stick, and Media on removable HDD