Download Firmware Popcorn Hour A-200/A-210 02-04-110308-21-POP-411-000

The developers of Syabas Technology have released new firmware that is suitable for both the Popcorn Hour A-200 and Popcorn Hour A210. Also referred to as Networked Media Tank, or today Networked Media Jukebox, these media players can play audio and video from an optional hard drive, a NAS system, or 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. You can exchange experiences about this media player in this GoT topic. The list of changes for this update is as follows:

Changes in firmware version: 02-04-110308-21-POP-411-000

• Still together NMT apps 02-04-101104-21-POP-411
• BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA
  • Fixed incorrect elapsed time when press PREV/NEXT during SimpleBD/BD ISO playback
  • SimpleBD
    • Fixed certain BD ISO playback get stuck at chapter transition (Bug #5001786)
    • reduced time for info grabbing and playback start
    • fixed issue with “seek to 0%”
  • Added “Prompt” option for BD ISO navigation
  • Fixed issue where certain SimpleBD playback will get incorrect scene/chapter/info after seeking.
  • Fixed audio out-of-sync after playback Audio CD (Bug #5001759/#0000452)
• Video and Audio playback
  • Fixed incorrect menu selection displayed on “Subtitle” menu when color=auto
  • Fixed certain APE audio caused system crash (Bug #5001699).
  • Fixed certain MP4 playback freeeze when resume from bookmark
  • Added audio mono left/right selectable MPEG .dat files
  • Fixed subtitle selection persistence issue with certain MKV
  • Display forced subtitle track even when subtitle=off
  • audio output during FF 2x and SLOW 0.5x (with known out-of-sync issue with certain high bitrate file)
  • Fixed regression in MP3 playlist gapless playback
  • Don’t allow “SEEK” during pause and FF/FR/SLOW trickmode.
  • RAR Playback, file view and extraction
    • currently only for single RAR file
  • 3D output to HDMI 3D TV for Stereoscopic 3D (side-by-side, Top-and-bottom) file
    • Files must be named with “.3DSBS.*”, “.3DTAB.*” accordingly
    • Tested with MKV, AVI, TS (MPEG)
  • Fixed audio loss for certain high bitrate FLAC files
  • Fixed ASF audio pitch issue after fast forward
  • Fixed missing right channel in DTS-MA
  • Fix single TS file can fastforward till 8x and unable to cycle to repeat from 2x.
  • Fix internal PGS subtitle not show correctly in mkv issue which due to timecode checking for internal PGS.
  • Fixed APE files with distorted sound.
  • Disable RAR menu prompt about HTTP services.
  • Enable cuesheet support: APE, FLAC, WAV
  • Fixed playback issue of mkv with multiple menu (Bug #5001881)
  • Fixed some PGS subtitles always shown at top left corner.
  • Fixed external subtitle not shown while playback BDJ/Non-BDJ and BDMV when started from NMJ.
  • Supported TS file fast forward and fast rewind
  • Fixed occasional wrong time information when rewinding.
  • MKV chapter name now limited to only 10 characters, append “…” if the name is longer.
  • Fixed blinking exclaimation mark when Slow depressed.
  • Fixed ASS subtitles wrong placement under certain condition (Bug #5001944)
  • Gapless support for small FLAC files.
  • MKV 3D support.
    • Support .mk3d extension with StereoMode parameter (side-by-side, top-and-bottom)
    • mkvmerge v4.5.0 onwards includes this support.
• Networked Media JukeBox (NMJ)
  • Fixed “watched” status for TV Series
  • Fixed thumbnail generation causing system crash
  • metadata_scanner
    • set full access permission for nmj_database
    • improved “disk full” checking and database size estimation
    • improved scanner progress status for unknown music album
    • fixed issue where video image cannot be replaced for BD content
    • Added timeout when grabbing media info
    • Improved scanning speed on m2ts
  • Improved checking for database version
  • Limit cover art poster to file < 1MB
  • Fixed TV Series Season Sorting issue
  • Support “Jump to” feature in Wall View
  • Added shortcut to add a group of music album to playlist or queue at Category view
  • Added ability to change video type
  • Added ability to reorganize video file for incorrect grouping
  • Added ability to view episode synopsis
  • Added ability to search artist and genre at song info
  • Improved NMJ UI browsing speed
  • Added Music metadata and progress bar in Now Playing Playlist page
  • Added delete feature in Now Playing playlist page
  • Fixed occasional unable to access NMJ photo page
  • Fixed NMJ load page fail issue when browse song with multibye.
  • Added Volume up/down in Now Playing playlist page.
  • Added Mute in Now Playing playlist page.
  • Fixed non-latin word not shown correctly
  • Support 3D indicator in NMJ UI.
  • Some fixes to command server APIs:
    • insert_vod_queue
    • list_vod_queue_info
• System/Network
  • Some translation updated
  • Fixed issue when special characters used in proxy server naming
  • Fixed netbios name resolution issue
  • tvid=0 support
• UPnP AV
  • Fix for certain media servers not showing up on browse and missing content for DTCP resources
  • Fixes for hang-up during browse and adjusted timeout
  • Fixed Cardea checksum readback
• Apps/Apps Market
  • minor improvement on key responseness
  • Stop flashlite video playback when POWER key depressed
  • Fixed RTMPe playback return buffer full upon starting playback even though it’s still prebuffering
  • Fixed wrong time info with “live audio only” RTMP
  • Fixed short videos (duration of 3~4 seconds) playback issue
  • new AppsMarket 1.3.11
  • Fixed shoutcast crash
  • Fixed issue with Page Up/Down key assignment in Apps.Now will be Vol Up/Down when playback, but Page Up/Down otherwise. (Bug 5001702)
• Known issues
  • The Samba workgroup name set in the options not applied temporary. It defaults to “WORKGROUP”.
  • Any new ‘excludes’ are ignored on a refresh – you have to do a complete rebuild for .no_all.nmj etc. to actually work.
  • Encoding type other than utf-8 may caused nmj page load error