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DVBViewer Demo v6.1.6
Change Log DVBViewer Demo v6.1.6 ( 12 Wednesday 2020 )
Added: Subtitle Options: Checkbox “Use teletext font for teletext, ATSC and ISDB subtitles” (default unchecked). If switched on, DVBViewer uses the (usually mono-spaced) font specified on the Teletext Options page for the mentioned subtitle types, which are typically output in a grid with fixed character positions. If switched off, DVBViewer uses the font selected on the Subtitle Options page and particularly displays teletext subtitles with variable spacing in case of a proportional font, thus enhancing the appearance and readability. However, not aligning the output to the teletext character grid may also have disadvantages (see here).
Added: Subtitle Options: Settings for adjusting the synchronization of subtitles with video. The value in the delay input line lets the subtitles appear x milliseconds later, or earlier in case of a negative delay. Checkboxes allow to separately switch the delay on and off for different subtitle types. A change takes effect immediately, but is reset on channel switching, stopping the video or if the Options Window is closed, unless clicking Apply makes it permanent.
Removed: Subtitle Options: Checkboxes in the Appearance section for switching shadow, outline and background transparency off. This can as well be achieved by moving the sliders to their leftmost position.
Removed: Teletext Options: Sliders for adjusting background transparency and outline of teletext subtitles. The functionality is now covered by correspondent sliders on the Subtitle Options page.
Fix: Hardware Options: Updated device list entries were not marked as available after “Scan Devices”, causing tuners, that were displayed in red due to a wrong device name, to remain red, though the name was corrected. “Scan Devices” did not add the SRx1000 entry (read from an updated hardware database) to an already existing DVB-C tuner in the file hardware.xml.
Added: Hardware Options: The TS Stream device settings dialog contains a new input line “Replace in URL”, allowing to vary the processed URL per device. It applies to HLS, internet radio and transport streams wrapped in HTTP(S). The syntax is [placeholder]=[device specific string], e.g. @@=username
assword. A use case is described here (IPTV provider requiring x different accounts for receiving x streams simultaneously).
Fix: Hardware: If TBS 5520/5580 multistandard devices were configured and used for ISDB-T reception, DVBViewer switched the tuners to DVB-T mode on tuning (see here).
Fix: EPG: The erroneous “\n” inserted by some Austrian providers as line break indicator is now automatically replaced by a DVB compliant line break on EPG data reception.
Change: EPG: Auto-detection of the ISO 6937 and ISO 8859-2 character sets for some East European countries (particularly Poland, Romania, Hungary) where providers indicated them wrongly in the past years. DVBViewer now first assumes ISO 6937 and then tries to find a proof for ISO-8859-2 (previously the other way round). This handles true ISO 6937 always correctly, but may fail in certain cases where ISO-8859-2 is used with missing indication (see here).
Fix: EPG Window: When opened for the first time between 00:00 and 00:15 o'clock, the timeline showed an empty EPG for Saturday, 30 December 1899 (see here).
Fix: Channel Editor: Issues when using the New button while an audio sub-node is selected or after it was selected. The input form was not adjusted to the parent reception type or controls remained deactivated though a category was selected subsequently.
Added: TS Stream: Support for channels broadcasting via internet in HLS format with audio tracks provided as separate streams.
Added: TS Stream: Tweak “Receive all audio tracks of HLS streams” (→ launch Tweaker.exe). If switched on DVBViewer fetches all available audio tracks of HLS streams from the server, thus occupying more bandwidth. If switched off only the main audio track (marked as default by the provider) is fetched.
Fix: DVD Playback: Resuming playback at the last position could fail due to potential timing issues when retrieving the Disc ID.
Fix: Recorder. Lazy program response caused by uselessly repeated tune attempts once per second in case of a whole transponder recording, if the allocated device was not usable for this purpose. This particularly applied to all RTSP network devices, that by default are not configured for delivering a whole transponder. DVBViewer did not realize this until tuning was performed. Now only devices are allocated for such recordings, that either deliver the whole transponder anyway (most BDA devices) or can automatically be configured for it (unused RTSP network devices). However, whole transponder recording with RTSP devices may still be hindered by servers that do not support the pids=all parameter or by insufficient network bandwidth.
Fix: Main Window: Horizontal resizing of the Radio Window did not work correctly, if the mode was selected manually in the View menu (not by Options → TV/Radio → Auto-switch to TV/Radio Window.... ).
Added: Zoom Presets: Tweak “Number of zoom presets” (→ launch Tweaker.exe). It can be used to change the number of zoom presets. Four presets are set up by default. The Preset #x button in the Settings -> Zoom window or the "Zoom Next Preset" action switch over to the next preset.
Fix: HbbTV: Issues with Swiss HbbTV (see here) and other channels using erroneous JavaScript or broadcasting a HbbTV Application Information Table (AIT) with more than one section (particularly “Das Erste” in Germany).
Fix: HbbTV: If the tweak “Use browser cache for HbbTV” (see Tweaker.exe) was switched off, DVBViewer failed to clear the HbbTV cache completely, because files were still in use. Clearing the cache is now done right after DVBViewer start.
Fix: Component Downloader: Bug causing error code 406 in the server response on DVBViewer installation and when using the downloader separately.