Firmware Updates

Good news one and all as of today a new update for the popular network media player the c200 is out and available to download.

Please be informed that Popcorn Hour C-200 firmware release:

02-01-091113-19-POP-408-000
and NMT apps:

02-01-090828-19-POP-408
is available for update.

Goto Setup->Maintenance->Check for firmware update

Or

Please download this package and follow then the instructions inside the zip file!!!!

 DOWNLOAD HERE
02-01-091113-19-POP-408-000

BD Playback without internal HDD

1.) Format an USB Stick with 2GB or more to fat32 or ext3
2.) create directories “bdj/ada/” and “bdj/buda” (case sensitive) on the Stick
3.) plug in the USB devices and will be automatically mounted as PERSISTFS
4.) Now you can playback BD’s with BD-J and BD Live

 
IMPORTANT: THIS WORK ONLY 5 TIMES IN EACH OF THE SETUPS!
DVD Region Setting:
1.) Insert an DVD Disc which has the Region you wanna setup, if the Region is not the same as the Disc has, it wont work!
2.) Please go into the Setup Page
3.) press now “Slow, 1, 6, 8, 3″ on your remote (SLOW means the |> Button on the Remote)
4.) now an popup shows up, on the remote use the number for the region you wanna set.

1 Canada, United States; U.S. territories; Bermuda
2 Western Europe, incl. United Kingdom, and Central Europe; Western Asia; including Iran, Israel and Turkey, Egypt; Japan, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho; French overseas territories
3 Southeast Asia; South Korea; Taiwan; Hong Kong; Macau
4 Mexico, Central and South America; Caribbean; Australia; New Zealand; Oceania;
5 Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Continent of Africa, excluding Egypt, South Africa, Swaziland, and Lesotho; Central and South Asia, Mongolia, North Korea.
6 People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong

BD Region Setting:
1.) go into Setup (no need to put an BluRay into the drive)
2.) press now “Slow, 1, 6, 6, 3″ on your remote (SLOW means the |> Button on the Remote)
3.) an popup shows up, on the remote use the number keys to select the region you need.
1 = Region A
2 = Region B
3 = Region C
RELEASENOTES FIRMWARE

Code:
Release date : 19 November 2009
Firmware version : 02-01-091113-19-POP-408-000

1. Previous NMT apps 02-01-090828-19-POP-408
2. BD/AVCHD/DVD/CDDA
   – Retrieve DVD region and number of changes available from the hardware;
     show these info in the region setting pop-up box
   – Bookmark/resume support for DVD ISO/VIDEO_TS
     – Max. 10 bookmarks.
     – known issue, sometimes failed to resume correctly for certain clips
   – Implemented simple persistfs folder
      – if NMT HDD not exist, any available writable device (HDD/USB)
        will be auto-detected and used.
      – previous /persistfs mounting wizard removed
   – Temporarly mount VideoCD/SVCD as data disc, to play the .dat
   – Fixed DVD fast-forward issue; press FF->PAUSE->PLAY key, playback could not resume
   – Fixed some DVD ISO files cannot resume from bookmark.
   – Fixed system hang when BD-J ISO playback BDJ ISO without /persistfs (Bug #5000285)
   – Fixed playback BDJ disc from internal BDROM without /persistfs connected.
   – Fixed certain DVD ISO (Apocalypto.ISO) cannot resume from bookmark (Bug #5000289).
   – Fixed subtitle cannot be enabled when play DVD with only single subtitle.
   – Fixed audio CD info not showed
   – Fixed occasional access/mount failure to disc in USB drive (Bug #5000315, #5000316)
3. Video and Audio playback
   – Added Dolby DRC (Dynamic Range Control) setting
   – Fixed RW/FF/Slow icon not cleared after seek
   – Fileplayer bookmark/resume support (first-cut) 
     – Max. 10 bookmarks
     – bookmark saved on STOP keypress; subsequent press (ENTER or PLAY) will resume from bookmark.
     – To start from beginning, press ’0′.
   – Fixed incorrect aspect ratio (Bug #5000155)
   – Fixed “actual size” aspect ratio issue when playback clips below 1080p. (Bug #5000154)
   – Fixed BiDi char type table to resolved incorrect Hebrew subtitle rendering.
   – Partially fixed Arabic Tashkeel character shaping issue
   – Fixed subtitle size/position affected by pan/zoom.
   – Modified time seek hh:mm:ss key handling.
   – Fixed certain clips WMAPro audio lose output after 1-2 sec playback.
   – Forced 24p source to framerate 60Hz for non-1080p TV mode
   – Fixed issue where audio playback do not stop gracefully when encounter file read error
   – added FLAC audio support, including multi-channel FLAC
   – Fixed and restored video/audio bitrate display
   – Added Vorbis/FLAC audio bitrate display
   – Fixed MKV playback file cannot get audio bitstream/passthrough after resume from bookmark.
   – Modified subtitle menu order and reversed time offset key direction; same as A100
   – Changed tab-switching (SOURCE key) focus behaviour
   – Show only ID3 album art if exist, when music playback
   – Fixed incorrect ID3 genre display for certain files
   – Disable bookmark for Internet/Broadcast/MSP/SayaTV video playback
   – Temporarily disabled video format with psfdemux/demux for video/audio bitrate shown on infobar.
   – Increased subtitle font size range.
   – maintain adjusted subtitle time offset throughout playlist.
   – Increased vertical position range for external text subtitle.
   – Stop background slideshow before starting VOD to release free memory (Bug #5000299)
4. Photo app
   – Fixed an issue when setting repeat on the last photo in playlist
     will show current playlist item as 0 on FIP (Bug #5000116)
   – Fixed PNG image decoding causing system hang
   – Fixed issues where myiHome (Mac) not focusing on photo when playback
     photo with BGM and stopping photo does not stop BGM
   – Enable screensaver during photo playlist pause state
5. OSD
   – fixed minor OSD text wrapping issue.
6. System
   – Fixed cannot eject data disc (Bug #5000064)
   – Workaround for missing folder issue due to filesystem failed to identify
     directory type for unknown reason with scandir (Bug #5000218)
   – Fixed incorrect display resolution when boot up in auto TV mode without
     connecting HDMI.
   – Tweak to improve network performance.
   – Fix for HDMI blackout and HDMI audio mute issue
   – Added progress indicator during firmware update download
   – Fixed flash driver to avoid occasional hang issue when umount particular partition
   – Fixed default value; DTS:PCM, DRC:off for factory setting
   – Changed “AC3″ wording to “Dolby Digital”, shifted DRC setting down to Audio section
   – Fixed language tanslations
   – Added Country/Region code to WiFi config setup.
     – Country/Region contains channel settings for 8 regions; only for Ralink MII card.
   – Fixed stuck in playback if no network up
   – Fixed reboot failure (Bug #5000243)
   – Fixed screensaver still kicks in at background when in standby mode
   – Show harddisk and usb disk size when info button pressed
   – Show file size on the UI listing
   – Reverted patch which fixed screensaver kicking in at background when standby; causing (Bug #5000314)
7. Browser
   – New twirling icon
   – New licensed font integrated
   – Support dynamic loading of external js file
   – New UI theme
   – To display memory usage; press SLOW key
   – Fixed Pause key wrongly mapped as Play/Pause key
   – Fixed ‘No Disc Found’ message not shown and browser hang when accessing empty loader (Bug #5000292)
8. WiFi
   – Integrated WIFI driver for Realtek USB RTL8192
   – Turn on Ethernet LNK LED when link to 100baseT as well.
9. UPnP
   – Added image resolution support (Twonky photo bug)
   – Fixed UPnP device duplication issue when server restart or host name changed
   – Added .ts, .avi support (Twonky)
RELEASENOTES NMT Apps
Code:
NMT Apps Version : 02-01-090828-19-POP-408

Release Notes :

1. Minimum firmware version to use this NMT App is 02-01-090904-19-POP-408
2. Network
   – Samba improvement on read/write speed
3. UPnP AV Server
   – Fixed some media files not visible from 8642/8634 player
4. Change stop NZB command to fix firmware update getting black screen

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Happy updating!

Regards, DE Sales Team sales@digitalera.co.uk