Month: March 2013

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Changes since 2.5.2:

• General:
  
  • Added "Live Subtitles" which means you can select subtitles from the Internet via your device. It can be enable on the Navigation/Share Settings page.
  • Improved layout of the Navigation/Share Settings page
  • Implemented default subtitle preferences, to use them:
    
    • Either use the "Clean Install" option on Windows or put "eng,off;*,eng;*,und" into the "Audio/subtitles language priority" box in the "Subtitles settings" tab on the Transcoding Settings page
  • Fixed DTS muxing with FFmpeg
  • Added new "precoder" functionality, useful for plugin developers
  • Added h.264 encoding support to MEncoder (when renderers specify it)
• Languages:
  
  • Updated Czech translation
  • Updated English settings labels
  • Updated Simplified Chinese translation (thanks, lovenemesis!)
• External Components:
  
  • Updated h2 database to 1.3.171, which:
    
    • Increases speed
    • Improves JDK 7 compatibility
  • Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows SB52, which:
    
    • Improves audio sync
    • Improves DVD support
    • Supports filenames with uncommon characters
    • Fixes memory leaks
    • Improves sync with Real videos
    • Fixes a crash
  • Updated Netty to 3.6.3, which:
    
    • Makes browsing more stable

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Changes since 2.5.1:

• General:
  
  • Offer to automatically update Java on Windows from 6 to 7
  • Fixed library updating with cache enabled
  • Made detection of network speed more accurate (thanks, ExSport!)
  • Library scanning interface improvements
  • Set a higher maximum memory by default via the Windows installer for computers with 4GB+ of RAM

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Changes since 2.5.0:

• General:
  
  • Improved subtitle support on non-PS3 renderers
  • Made library/file loading faster
  • Fixed 24-bit flac support with tsMuxeR
  • Stopped using 2 database locations for media caching on Windows
  • Allow library scanning to be stopped
  • Library scanning interface improvements
• Renderers:
  
  • Added support for Sony Home Theatre systems
  • Added support for Onkyo TX-NR717
  • Improved Samsung AllShare compatibility

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Changes since 2.4.2:

• General:
  
  • Updated layout on the Transcoding Settings tab
  • Improved aspect ratio handling on Panasonic and Sony TVs
  • Enabled ASS/SSA subtitle support on Linux by default
  • Now compiled with Java 7
  • Optimized code for Java 7
  • The installer only tells Windows to run UMS at startup on new installs or if the user has specified it in UMS
  • Added RTMP support to FFmpeg Web Video engine
  • Fixed fontconfig support on OS X
  • FFmpeg can transcode to x264 with the renderer option TranscodeVideo=H264TSAC3
  • FFmpeg supports video muxing
  • Made muxing more reliable
  • Improved audio sync in FFmpeg
  • Improved FFmpeg buffering
  • Bandwidth limit is more accurate with FFmpeg
• Renderers:
  
  • Added support for KalemSoft Media Player on BlackBerry PlayBook devices
  • Added support for Netgear NeoTV
  • Added support for Telstra T-Box
  • Added support for Yamaha RX-3900
  • Improved support for Sony Blu-ray players
• Languages:
  
  • Made languages more consistent with eachother
  • Updated Russian translation (thanks, Tianuchka!)
  • Changed default audio/subtitles language priority for English users, which:
    
    • Disables subtitles when audio is English, otherwise look for English subtitles, prioritizing external before internal subtitles
  • Added language flags for Arabic, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian, Serbian and Vietnamese
• External Components:
  
  • Updated FFmpeg for Windows and Linux to SB8, which:
    
    • Increases x264 encoding speed
  • Updated InterFrame to 2.5.0, which:
    
    • Improves scene-change detection
    • Minimizes artifacts
  • Updated Java Runtime Environment automatic downloader for Windows to 7u17, which:
    
    • Fixes serious security holes
  • Updated MediaInfo for Windows to 0.7.62