Boxee 1.0.2 Release Notes
Boxee for CE4100: Boxee Box by D-Link Version 1.0.2.16606 ------------------- Improvements and additions - Enabling user flavor selection (online/local inclination) during first login and via Settings - defaults for users selecting local will direct to local content and will not mandate multiple clicks to get to local content - Added alphabetical scrollbar for local content - Enhanced sorting options in browse screens (A-Z, Z-A, most popular, newest/oldest...) - Main menu supports additional filter options - Mark items as watched/unwatched from the Action menu - Added option for hourly scan of local libraries - When watching side-by-side or over/under video, the subtitles and OSD would not be visible when wearing 3D glasses. The user now has the option, under Settings, to have the user interface properly displayed when watching this kind of content - Added SMB client defaults to network settings Bug fixes - Do not de-interlace of video when the TV is in interlaced mode (e.g. 1080i) - HFS+ volumes display UUID instead of volume name under some conditions - Video OSD text background too small for text title when playing video with long titles - When connecting to VPN, Boxee didn't refresh region code - Boxee doesn't change DNS configuration when VPN is set up - Can't connect to hidden wireless networks - Cannot connect to network using WPA passcode with special characters - When Internet connection is restored, menu doesn't show online channels - DVD .iso playback aspect ratio incorrect - DVD playback displayed some artifacts - "Resume From" doesn't work on DVD ISO/Folders - Zoom on DVD (.iso and folder) video does not work as expected - .vob files playback (standalone files) is stuttering and low FPS - DVD .iso playback over Wireless N: excessive buffering, playback speed issues, random exits - "Vietnamese" character set is misspelled in System Settings - Show "Remove From Favorites" button in episodes list, even if no episodes are available - SMB credentials are not saved upon restart - Write failure when accessing Box-attached disk over SMB - SMB file sharing of external HD size reporting is wrong - Become unresponsive and hang during playback of AVC .mkv file from SMB mapped drive - Crashes when indexing some videos inside .rar files - Crashes indexing mp3 file with corrupt embedded thumbnail - Stretch 16:9 and Stretch 14:9 not working properly - Shoutcast and Radiotime: Switching stations or Cancel causes interface to freeze and console output to crawl - Some .mkv files do not playback properly (some flavors of H.264) - Support packed bitstream muxing mode in .avi - Some .wtv files do not playback properly - Constant buffering on 1080p BD .mkv files accessed wirelessly on Boxee - Boxee crash when browsing into unidentified Files - Playback choked and crashed during viewing of .mp4 file Version 1.0.1.16319 ------------------- This version is primarily a bug fix version for the first official release. Bug fixes Media Playback - 1080i playback in Web browser caused black screens for Web and local content - Some HD .avi content playing at low frames-per-second - Failure to seek in specific Blu-Ray .iso over network share - Case sensitivity issues in .iso filename extension - Stuttering while playing some Blu-Ray content - No video, audio only while playing some .m4v content - Failure to render .ass subtitles after changing overscan settings - Failure in opening .rar files containing subtitles - Playback and overscan issues when switching to and from fullscreen of online content - Rear channels on AAC 5.1 are not played properly w/ LPCM 5.1 out - Flash video audio drops out after ~1 hour in long length online videos - Select subtitles from hard-drive, screen does not work - MPEG1 video inconsistent play - Rebuffering during playback of HD-Audio - Video stuttering and losing audio (white noise) when resuming playback on a specific title in a blu-ray folder/ iso file - HGTV OSD Controls don't work and counter stuck at 00:00 - mpeg4 movies occasionally have green line at the side and/or purple line at the button Wireless Connectivity - Wireless signal levels display (showing one bar when in fact 3 bars should be displayed) - Some WiFi encryption schemes were not supported - First time WiFi setup takes excessive time - Boxee does not accept $ in password for WiFi - Wrong message displayed when WiFi password is wrong Network Shares - Repeated credentials request for non-secure network shares (SMB) - Unable to access network share when Window Live is installed on Windows 7 - Intermittent crashes when failing to open networked media - Frequent disconnects from Mac OS X network shares (SMB) - Not reconnecting to disconnected shares disables selection in the Movies database view - Prompted for username/password when accessing different shared folders on same computer via SMB Other - Empty screen appears when filtering shows by Channels > TED, Engadget, when geo lock is enabled - Faulty DNS configuration when using VPN causing a Boxee network disconnect - Not returning to the selected item library screens after item selection - Leave/stay prompt shows up multiple times for some online content - Searching for applications with spaces in their titles (i.e. funny or die) doesn't show the application in the results - When creating a new user, username textbox is not visible when the email contains the word 'boxee' - Repositories screen buttons activation and adding toggle state is wrong - Web browser screen size was wrong, not compensating for overscan - "Resume from" does not always show - Browser Loading progress bar does not go away - Weather location and timezone are not always set up correctly - Boxee weather application doesn't use the Temperature Scale configured at Settings > General > Location - Asian fonts display in the browser - 'Friends feed' from Facebook is not ordered correctly - TV OSD does not always work - Browser Loading progress bar does not go away Improvements and additions - Support .mkv with header compression - Support switching from PC black level to video black level - Default overscan is now 3% on all borders - Add a global subtitles toggle, set to off by default - Support for showing the last letter typed in password fields - Support local thumbnails: |
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