MAMEdOX v1.0
>> MAMEdOX is a new port of MAME to Xbox based on the MAMEoX(info) project. It builds on what Bendermike did in his Bendermameox releases. MAMEdOX is based on "Bendermameox 21.01.05" and includes all his updates.
What's new/fixed:
Interface improvements/modifications:
* Added Back button to cycle through sort methods (by name, by manufacturer, by genre etc.) The sort mode is displayed at the top of the screen.
* Fixed Screenshots aspect ratio in display modes.
* Clones use screenshot from parent rom.
* Favourite roms are displayed as a different colour (gold).
* 'Show Favourites' filter now replaces 'filter disliked'.
* Renamed some text in UI for accuracy.
New Drivers:
* MAME 0.92 driver added for Super Trio (suprtrio)
Extra Options:
* Soften and Flicker Filter are now configurable.
* Ability to select whether clones use their own screenshot, or the screenshot from its parent rom.
* "Force VMM" is set to 'off' by default, this is to enable the use of the new updated VM.txt
* Miscellaneous Default options changed to be more user-friendly.
General Changes:
* Changed save game location (was 4d414d45 now 4d414d46.)
* Changed save game icon.
* Debug.log logging removed.
BAxxx build 05/03/2005
>> A new version of FBAxxx(info) has been released. What's new/fixed:
* Re-added all software filters
* Re-added some decrypted neogeo roms
* added Puzzle Loop 2 (JAP) support
* fixed sound issues whith PCM2 roms (matrim.zip and kof2002.zip)
* removed pagesize and vmm option (it now uses old vmm with +T+ malloc optimisition, I think it is the best I can get for the moment)
* fixed VMM issues with some roms (All C roms don t have the same size, I dunno why but it is a problem with my optimisation)
* Re-added clockfix on neogeo games
XboxMediaCenter (XBMC) 2005-03-04 CVS build
>> A new CVS compile of XboxMediaCenter(info) has been released.
It's been a while (Jan 15th 2005) since the last build ... so the changelog is HUGE with lots of added, updated, changed and fixed stuff.
XBOX Media Center, March 4th 2005 build
Changes since Jan. 15th 2005
* added: wma tag loader, support for multiple artists and genres
* added: Thumbs table clean up on cleanup of the music library.
* added: Cached thumb location is now stored in the database. Music database SHOULD auto-update when you first access My Music.
* added: Screensavers from the competition.
* added: new infofadelabel control. Works like infolabel, except you can have multiple <info> tags. See the PM MusicOverlay.xml files for an example.
* added: Screensaver screenshot ability.
* added: Patches [1153934] and [1153884] thanks to MrC.
* added: More DirectX exports for screensavers, thanks to SiW + MrC
* added: IMDb scraping moved into system/HTMLScraper.dll. You must have this in order for IMDb lookups to function!
* added: Source for IMDb scraping dll + a windows test application (useful in it's own right). See Tools\HTMLScraper\IMDbLookup.
* added: My Music iPod-style Navigator. (Initial commit. Support for multiple artists and genres coming SOON!)
* added: [ 1149558 ] Printing XBE Title To LCD On Launch. Thanks sniperkilla!
* added: More weather localization thanks to Kotix. Busy is also localized (string 503).
* added: Writing files returns false if unable to do so. Means that moving files will only allow the source file to be deleted if the copy was successful - thanks to modplug.
* added: Option to enable fatal error handler on fatal errors in XBoxMediaCenter.xml. Defaults to false (off).
* added: ButtonScrollers with <wraparound> off can move to a different control off the top + bottom (or left + right for horizontal scrollers).
* added: System.CPUTemperature, System.GPUTemperature, and System.FanSpeed to the infoManager.
* added: Option to disable thumbnail generation during picture viewing.
* added: Smooth progress bar for the HD44780 (stop-symbol was not used) (thnx to GreenGian and SniperKil to make it smooth)
* added: progress bar for the LCD (smooth on KS0073, on HD44780 later)
* added: LCD option for HD44780/KS0073 controllers
* added: [ 1121950 ] Kai Games Dir & Game Search - thanks to scampa123. Games to start using kai are also looked up in the program's database
* added: Keymapping for python debug - only runs from the Scripts window - thanks to EnderW + NotWired.
* added: New infolabels: System.FreeSpace(C) returns freespace on C (E, F, or G) and Network.IPAddress
* added: More infolabel stuff to the infomanager, plus updated various places to use the new methods. See http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=ST;f=7;t=10459; for more info.
* added: Two new gui control types: infolabel and infoimage. Identical to label and image except they come with an additional tag <info> with one of the 5 strings below. More stuff to be added later.. Example code in Home.xml in Project Mayhem.
* added: New InfoManager class for allowing specific info/images to be displayed anywhere in the GUI. Initially added 4 labels: Weather.Conditions, Weather.Temperature, System.Time and System.Date and 1 image: Weather.Conditions
* added: new control ids 51-54 to MusicOverlay.xml for Title, Artist, Year + Album labelcontrols.
* added: New medium quality Pixel shader. Uses only 1 pass, and very little memory
* added: windows media player playlists
* added: High quality pixel shader YV12->RGB method
Known issues with switching to/from GUI
* added: Profile overwrite + context menu in profilewindow for overwrite/rename/delete.
* added: mplayer support for new system\players directory structure, enable Alternate mplayer core in settings to use it. Requires new compiled mplayer.dll, old dll's still needs to be in old mplayer dir.
* added: My Programs option to cache thumbnails. HDDLoader users will want to turn this off.
* added: Representative screenshot for overlay modes.
* added: SF patch from kraqh3d enhancing the music title format: %N = tracknumber, %T = title, %A = artist, %B = album, %G = genre, %Y = year, %% for a % sign.
* added: Auto gui resolution, sets highest enabled resolution, Settings->Appearance->Look and Feel->Resolution
* added: Music listing style can be specified in options (in place of the Hide Track Numbers option)
* added: file manager, show free disk space for hdd and total size for DVD
* added: Pictures auto-rotate using EXIF information
* added: Video database update code
* added: Video settings are saved per-file to the video database.
* added: [ 1111870 ] Blue Screen of Death (which isn't blue), thanks to Fulg
* added: [ 1102392 ] XLink, support for multiple games dirs (Thanks to scampa123). Use a ; to separate them (example: f:\games;g:\games)
* added: Options to disable looking for custom thumbs on remote shares (folder.jpg/folder.tbn/<filename>.tbn), Will speed things up on a slow connection and/or slow server and/or you have many folders. Settings -> My Videos/My Music -> Library
* added: [1105853]Added locks & context menu to My Programs, fixed some bugs - thanks to slacker!
* added: [ 1099915 ] Enable debug log by pressing X+Y while starting XBMC (Thanks to jarkkom). Enables logdebug, mplayerdebug and showfreemem.
* added: some more startuplogging
* added: Combination Overlays/Pixel shader method (faster than just overlays, with the same (or better?) quality)
* added: Option to add Film Grain on video
* added: [ 1097508 ] Fix for FTP logging, new GetTime/DateFormat functions (Thanks to jarkkom). Logging is disabled by default, xbfilezilla will write a daily logfile to /xbmc/Logs/. To enable logging set "Enable logging" in "FileZilla Server.xml" to 1
* changed: Reversed Clear() change as it caused graphics leak through when UI calibration was not at 0,0.
* changed: Zoom in my pictures now goes in steps of 1.0, 1.2, 1.5, 2.0, 2.8, 4.0, 6.0, 9.0, 13.5 and 20.
* changed: Pictures have more scope for being larger. Previously they were limited to 2048 in either direction. The limitation now is 4096 in either direction, with the number of pixels being less than 4Mp (can't have more than this without rewriting the imagelib due to RAM constraints). Should give better detail when zoomed.
* changed: background music info scanner is default now (setting removed)
* changed: GUIButtonControl and GUIToggleButtonControl send their click message before executing a action or a hyperlink
* changed: folders and files from smb will be sorted by modification date now
* changed: Rendering of CGUIImage -> big boost in gui framerate (most noticeable in 1080i)
* changed: moved cdda reading to CFileCdda class
* changed: some gui rendering optimization
* changed: Use alternate mplayer location now means old mplayer.dll location, and not setting it means new mplayer.dll. Remember to verify your settings to make sure you are using the proper dll (ie for most disable Use alternate mplayer location)
* changed: gui presentation interval + removed blocking wait for vertical blank from gui thread
* changed: Delay audio output until video is ready to play
* changed: Get available subtitle fonts and sizes from alternate mplayer path if alternate mplayer is enabled
* changed: Enlarge Vobsubs changed to Resize Vobsubs. Percentage runs from 30% -> 200%. Defaults to 100%. If you don't reset your settings on upgrade (which there is no need for) it will be initally set to 30%, which you may wish to change.
* changed: Improved handling of resolution switching in GUI->Fullscreen video.
* changed: audiobuffer sizes for smoother pal video
* changed: Weather is now obtained in a background thread on demand.
* changed: High quality pixel shader uses less memory. Drops down to medium quality shader in GUI mode.
* changed: delay when changing resolution in settings (easier resolution selection)
* changed: removed libcdrip from project, libcdio replaces it
* changed: cd ripper now uses libcdio for ripping
* changed: cdda player is now based on libcdio
* changed: Reboot from FatalErrorHandler works on all buttons now (thanks Fulg!)
* changed: free a little more memory when leaving kai window
* changed: Merged audio/video/dvd cachesize settings for harddisk to 1 setting. Added cachesize setting for unknown types on the internet (url's without a known audio or video extension). Allow cache sizes of 0.
* changed: Default IMDb url is now akas.imdb.com for alternative title support.
* changed: XLink window and dialogs are localizable now
* changed: Minor tweaks to the pixel shader YV12->RGB coefficients.
* changed: mplayer command for postprocessing, no quality changes
* fixed: Small thumbs in list controls weren't centered + other small graphical glitches here and there.
* fixed: Volume amplification setting for videos was applied to music as well.
* fixed: using autosync caueses problems when resuming from pause. (updated mplayer.dll again)
* fixed: music overlay sometimes shows no default thumb, eg. when starting a http stream with python
* fixed: screensaver preview sometimes crashes
* fixed: screensaver preview button is enabled when screensaver is off
* fixed: [ 1155038 ] "Video calibration" error
* fixed: cdda player, couldn't seek to the start of a track
* fixed: cdda player, gui was choppy when seeking
* fixed: Changed Karaoke default delay from 80 to -80 as per SF bug report [1101736].
* fixed: flashing screen when viewing pictures
* fixed: Kai window showed incorrect image in Friends view.
* fixed: Possible crash bug when dialog in Fullscreen video is closed.
* fixed: 100k or so memleak in Settings screens.
* fixed: switching between list/thumbs/bigthumbs in Music->Nav root window (& corrected date for the last few items added today to this changelog!)
* fixed: progbar/subtitles display chopped of when starting a new movie while one is already running
* fixed: stacked video freezes on start of second video
* fixed: DVDImage/Folder playback could fail on remote drives (smb,ccx..) if password set with new player
* fixed: My Music view resets to file view on restart if it was set to navigator view.
* fixed: Stack overflow in ActivateWindow if it's called with an invalid window from a windows OnInit message handler.
* fixed: Timing Issues: Printing XBE Title To LCD On Launch
* fixed: Some long-lined vobsubs were not displayed. Fixed in alternate mplayer only.
* fixed: [ 1093336 ] MusicInfoTagLoaderWMA.cpp string conversion resulted in double length strings
* fixed: Switching from Fullscreen Video -> GUI now looks more professional (blank screen rather than stalled/mangled video)
* fixed: Crash when Kai is re-entered after a skin/font/etc. change.
* fixed: Yet another weather localization fix. Thanks KoTiX!
* fixed: Updated system/players/mplayer/mplayer.dll to current CVS (includes flac fix + crash fix)
* fixed: Music Database Cleanup would remove all songs from database.
* fixed: iTunes sharing caused crash if no connection (or iTunes sharing) was available.
* fixed: Highlight sometimes didn't go away in filemanager when doing popup menu stuff.
* fixed: Destination files weren't deleted if copy/move was cancelled.
* fixed: OSD audio menu lockup
* fixed: Buttonscroller focus from another control didn't update background images correctly.
* fixed: OSD crashes when filling listcontrols.
* fixed: Noise level was not used correctly for video filters.
* fixed: various info related things (eg music current pos could show negative times)
* fixed: Kai avatar on toast dialog wasn't shown in correct position.
* fixed: Comborenderer small window in different resolution.
* fixed: LCD: last bar of the progress is now shown
* fixed: LCD: execution-timing for the LCD and SmartXX (sometimes the display crashs, hope it's fixed now)
* fixed: LCD: backlight-fix for the X3-LCD (thnx to GreenGian and SniperKil for testing)
* fixed: <allowoverlay> doesn't work in music songs
* fixed: Localization of UV data in weather.
* fixed: crash bug in thumbpanels when switching from large->small without resetting current focus.
* fixed: dialog select doesn't free its items when it is closed
* fixed: black screen when going from visualisation -> other window -> press stop -> press back
* fixed: Crash when going from FullScreenVideo -> other window -> press stop -> press back twice.
* fixed: Crash bug in Thumbpanels + page number display.
* fixed: Lockups in blank dirs when hide parent folder item is on.
* fixed: possible lock ups in video playlist and my programs when no ThumbnailPanel present
* fixed: [ 1122417 ] Pressing pause after playing finished results in an exception
* fixed: enable/disable "Repeat Folders" option only works after restart
* fixed: More weather localization stuff. New ids need translating: 388-393. Thanks to vnm.
* fixed: [ 1122791 ] LCD: no display of current playbacktime while videoplayback
* fixed: wrong display in the lcd of following asci characters: _ [ ] \
* fixed: Possible crashes in ListControl + RssControl.
* fixed: Listcontrols weren't cleared correctly in some views during UpdateDir().
* fixed: Temperature label now shown correctly for weather using infolabels.
* fixed: No space between date and time in system info
* fixed: short date's day and month are not swapped like in settings set
* fixed: album cover disappears if next song in a playlist is played
* fixed: [ 1121387 ] Fatal exception after dir up and select in an empty folder
* fixed: Rebuilt image libs - seems to cure TIFF loading issues.
* fixed: Weather localization.
* fixed: [ 1119893 ] XLink Kai window freezes after chatting then pressing left
* fixed: [ 1106617 ] Bug-fix for XBMC's XNS client support - thanks to J°rn Jensen.
* fixed: my music, when entering a unscanned directory, whose files have no tags the second time, all files show " - "
* fixed: wpl and b4s playlists do not work from other shares then local
* fixed: Harddisk spins down without any file playing when Immediate HD Spindown set to Music & Video
* fixed: 12 hour clock display on homepage - thanks to Nuka1195
* fixed: Thumbnail is erronously set when last entry in comma separated <path> is an XBE.
* fixed: Info on parent folder (..) in my music crash + some contextmenu are now disabled on parentfolder items.
* fixed: added font files that was missing in new mplayer directory (thx to Diontae16)
* fixed: subtitle/osd crash with high quality pixel shader
* fixed: sometimes unreadable discs will be detected as audio cd's
* fixed: [ 1095048 Part 2 ] Icon for folder displayed using XBE's icon (also fixed some stupidities).
* fixed: [ 1113362 ] Selecting "All songs" in Artist view takes awfully long time
* fixed: Slow music search
* fixed: [ 1095048 ] If no DVD is in the drive, do not use cached thumbnail.
* fixed: Screenshot mem is freed correctly in overlays mode
* fixed: Some defaults for movie viewing + "subs delay" message no longer shows on movie start.
* fixed: Incorrect webrequest HEAD sent when a value was entered for HTTP Proxy Host but HTTP proxy was disabled.
* fixed: videos (in certain resolutions) crash on subtitle/osd display, more commonly reported as "MPEG2 files don't play".
* fixed: Now Playing in My Videos goes to playlist view even if nothing is playing.
* fixed: Canceling scan of videos causes freeze.
* fixed: Screensaver dims videos in ComboRenderer.
* fixed: crash when leaving kai window
* fixed: [ 1107267 ] CRC32::Compute needs to be case insensitive (All thumbs need to be recreated)
* fixed: 1080i aspect ratio in ComboRenderer
* fixed: Zoom in pictures should pause slideshow till unzoomed
* fixed: textsubtitles were being rendered in sourceresolution instead of outputresolution causing larg(er) subs and >2 lines on low(er) resolution videos.
* fixed: vobsubs were being clipped instead of scaled unless displayresolution matched the vobsubresolution and no overscan was set. (only with mplayer pre6)
* fixed: subtitle files with uppercase extension were not loaded
* fixed: attempting to change audio track locks up xbmc.
* fixed: my programs, last focused control is not remembered
* fixed: ID3 tags with UTF16 fields show strange characters
* fixed: Screensaver could show music info - thanks to kraqh3d!
* fixed: music info tag, remove possible \r\n at the end of a tag field (artist, title...)
* fixed: Zoom mode in Combo renderer + glitches. Should be as good as (or surpass) the YUY2 Overlays method now.
* fixed: memory leak in Kai UI
* fixed: the heading of dialog keyboard was not displayed
* fixed: Minor blackscreen issues when starting videos in some view modes (NB: Zoom is still not functioning in the overlay modes).
* fixed: CDDA playback broken
* updated: German, Norwegian, Italian, German (Austrian), Finnish, Polish, Dutch, Korean, French, Catalan language file
* updated: mplayer.dll to current cvs version. (final flac fix + realvideo 10 fix)
* updated: libcdio to version 0.72
* updated: mplayer.dll to current cvs (final real fix + autosync fix)
* enabled: autosync=30 by default
* removed: old mplayer use. We now only use the system/players/mplayer directory.
* removed: YUY2 Overlays and LQ Pixel shader render modes have been removed. Combo renderer has been renamed to "Hardware Overlays" and MQ Pixel shader is now LQ pixel shader. Default is Combo renderer which is the best all-round.
* removed: Slow overlays method as it gave no improvement in quality
* cleanup: moved (most) Is..(), SetThumb()... functions from CUtil to CFileItem, different other cleanups
* cleanup: LCD progress bar code moved to LCD class
* cleanup: Video time/duration is all calculated in the infoManager now.
>> MAMEdOX is a new port of MAME to Xbox based on the MAMEoX(info) project. It builds on what Bendermike did in his Bendermameox releases. MAMEdOX is based on "Bendermameox 21.01.05" and includes all his updates.
What's new/fixed:
Interface improvements/modifications:
* Added Back button to cycle through sort methods (by name, by manufacturer, by genre etc.) The sort mode is displayed at the top of the screen.
* Fixed Screenshots aspect ratio in display modes.
* Clones use screenshot from parent rom.
* Favourite roms are displayed as a different colour (gold).
* 'Show Favourites' filter now replaces 'filter disliked'.
* Renamed some text in UI for accuracy.
New Drivers:
* MAME 0.92 driver added for Super Trio (suprtrio)
Extra Options:
* Soften and Flicker Filter are now configurable.
* Ability to select whether clones use their own screenshot, or the screenshot from its parent rom.
* "Force VMM" is set to 'off' by default, this is to enable the use of the new updated VM.txt
* Miscellaneous Default options changed to be more user-friendly.
General Changes:
* Changed save game location (was 4d414d45 now 4d414d46.)
* Changed save game icon.
* Debug.log logging removed.
BAxxx build 05/03/2005
>> A new version of FBAxxx(info) has been released. What's new/fixed:
* Re-added all software filters
* Re-added some decrypted neogeo roms
* added Puzzle Loop 2 (JAP) support
* fixed sound issues whith PCM2 roms (matrim.zip and kof2002.zip)
* removed pagesize and vmm option (it now uses old vmm with +T+ malloc optimisition, I think it is the best I can get for the moment)
* fixed VMM issues with some roms (All C roms don t have the same size, I dunno why but it is a problem with my optimisation)
* Re-added clockfix on neogeo games
XboxMediaCenter (XBMC) 2005-03-04 CVS build
>> A new CVS compile of XboxMediaCenter(info) has been released.
It's been a while (Jan 15th 2005) since the last build ... so the changelog is HUGE with lots of added, updated, changed and fixed stuff.
XBOX Media Center, March 4th 2005 build
Changes since Jan. 15th 2005
* added: wma tag loader, support for multiple artists and genres
* added: Thumbs table clean up on cleanup of the music library.
* added: Cached thumb location is now stored in the database. Music database SHOULD auto-update when you first access My Music.
* added: Screensavers from the competition.
* added: new infofadelabel control. Works like infolabel, except you can have multiple <info> tags. See the PM MusicOverlay.xml files for an example.
* added: Screensaver screenshot ability.
* added: Patches [1153934] and [1153884] thanks to MrC.
* added: More DirectX exports for screensavers, thanks to SiW + MrC
* added: IMDb scraping moved into system/HTMLScraper.dll. You must have this in order for IMDb lookups to function!
* added: Source for IMDb scraping dll + a windows test application (useful in it's own right). See Tools\HTMLScraper\IMDbLookup.
* added: My Music iPod-style Navigator. (Initial commit. Support for multiple artists and genres coming SOON!)
* added: [ 1149558 ] Printing XBE Title To LCD On Launch. Thanks sniperkilla!
* added: More weather localization thanks to Kotix. Busy is also localized (string 503).
* added: Writing files returns false if unable to do so. Means that moving files will only allow the source file to be deleted if the copy was successful - thanks to modplug.
* added: Option to enable fatal error handler on fatal errors in XBoxMediaCenter.xml. Defaults to false (off).
* added: ButtonScrollers with <wraparound> off can move to a different control off the top + bottom (or left + right for horizontal scrollers).
* added: System.CPUTemperature, System.GPUTemperature, and System.FanSpeed to the infoManager.
* added: Option to disable thumbnail generation during picture viewing.
* added: Smooth progress bar for the HD44780 (stop-symbol was not used) (thnx to GreenGian and SniperKil to make it smooth)
* added: progress bar for the LCD (smooth on KS0073, on HD44780 later)
* added: LCD option for HD44780/KS0073 controllers
* added: [ 1121950 ] Kai Games Dir & Game Search - thanks to scampa123. Games to start using kai are also looked up in the program's database
* added: Keymapping for python debug - only runs from the Scripts window - thanks to EnderW + NotWired.
* added: New infolabels: System.FreeSpace(C) returns freespace on C (E, F, or G) and Network.IPAddress
* added: More infolabel stuff to the infomanager, plus updated various places to use the new methods. See http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=ST;f=7;t=10459; for more info.
* added: Two new gui control types: infolabel and infoimage. Identical to label and image except they come with an additional tag <info> with one of the 5 strings below. More stuff to be added later.. Example code in Home.xml in Project Mayhem.
* added: New InfoManager class for allowing specific info/images to be displayed anywhere in the GUI. Initially added 4 labels: Weather.Conditions, Weather.Temperature, System.Time and System.Date and 1 image: Weather.Conditions
* added: new control ids 51-54 to MusicOverlay.xml for Title, Artist, Year + Album labelcontrols.
* added: New medium quality Pixel shader. Uses only 1 pass, and very little memory
* added: windows media player playlists
* added: High quality pixel shader YV12->RGB method
Known issues with switching to/from GUI* added: Profile overwrite + context menu in profilewindow for overwrite/rename/delete.
* added: mplayer support for new system\players directory structure, enable Alternate mplayer core in settings to use it. Requires new compiled mplayer.dll, old dll's still needs to be in old mplayer dir.
* added: My Programs option to cache thumbnails. HDDLoader users will want to turn this off.
* added: Representative screenshot for overlay modes.
* added: SF patch from kraqh3d enhancing the music title format: %N = tracknumber, %T = title, %A = artist, %B = album, %G = genre, %Y = year, %% for a % sign.
* added: Auto gui resolution, sets highest enabled resolution, Settings->Appearance->Look and Feel->Resolution
* added: Music listing style can be specified in options (in place of the Hide Track Numbers option)
* added: file manager, show free disk space for hdd and total size for DVD
* added: Pictures auto-rotate using EXIF information
* added: Video database update code
* added: Video settings are saved per-file to the video database.
* added: [ 1111870 ] Blue Screen of Death (which isn't blue), thanks to Fulg
* added: [ 1102392 ] XLink, support for multiple games dirs (Thanks to scampa123). Use a ; to separate them (example: f:\games;g:\games)
* added: Options to disable looking for custom thumbs on remote shares (folder.jpg/folder.tbn/<filename>.tbn), Will speed things up on a slow connection and/or slow server and/or you have many folders. Settings -> My Videos/My Music -> Library
* added: [1105853]Added locks & context menu to My Programs, fixed some bugs - thanks to slacker!
* added: [ 1099915 ] Enable debug log by pressing X+Y while starting XBMC (Thanks to jarkkom). Enables logdebug, mplayerdebug and showfreemem.
* added: some more startuplogging
* added: Combination Overlays/Pixel shader method (faster than just overlays, with the same (or better?) quality)
* added: Option to add Film Grain on video
* added: [ 1097508 ] Fix for FTP logging, new GetTime/DateFormat functions (Thanks to jarkkom). Logging is disabled by default, xbfilezilla will write a daily logfile to /xbmc/Logs/. To enable logging set "Enable logging" in "FileZilla Server.xml" to 1
* changed: Reversed Clear() change as it caused graphics leak through when UI calibration was not at 0,0.
* changed: Zoom in my pictures now goes in steps of 1.0, 1.2, 1.5, 2.0, 2.8, 4.0, 6.0, 9.0, 13.5 and 20.
* changed: Pictures have more scope for being larger. Previously they were limited to 2048 in either direction. The limitation now is 4096 in either direction, with the number of pixels being less than 4Mp (can't have more than this without rewriting the imagelib due to RAM constraints). Should give better detail when zoomed.
* changed: background music info scanner is default now (setting removed)
* changed: GUIButtonControl and GUIToggleButtonControl send their click message before executing a action or a hyperlink
* changed: folders and files from smb will be sorted by modification date now
* changed: Rendering of CGUIImage -> big boost in gui framerate (most noticeable in 1080i)
* changed: moved cdda reading to CFileCdda class
* changed: some gui rendering optimization
* changed: Use alternate mplayer location now means old mplayer.dll location, and not setting it means new mplayer.dll. Remember to verify your settings to make sure you are using the proper dll (ie for most disable Use alternate mplayer location)
* changed: gui presentation interval + removed blocking wait for vertical blank from gui thread
* changed: Delay audio output until video is ready to play
* changed: Get available subtitle fonts and sizes from alternate mplayer path if alternate mplayer is enabled
* changed: Enlarge Vobsubs changed to Resize Vobsubs. Percentage runs from 30% -> 200%. Defaults to 100%. If you don't reset your settings on upgrade (which there is no need for) it will be initally set to 30%, which you may wish to change.
* changed: Improved handling of resolution switching in GUI->Fullscreen video.
* changed: audiobuffer sizes for smoother pal video
* changed: Weather is now obtained in a background thread on demand.
* changed: High quality pixel shader uses less memory. Drops down to medium quality shader in GUI mode.
* changed: delay when changing resolution in settings (easier resolution selection)
* changed: removed libcdrip from project, libcdio replaces it
* changed: cd ripper now uses libcdio for ripping
* changed: cdda player is now based on libcdio
* changed: Reboot from FatalErrorHandler works on all buttons now (thanks Fulg!)
* changed: free a little more memory when leaving kai window
* changed: Merged audio/video/dvd cachesize settings for harddisk to 1 setting. Added cachesize setting for unknown types on the internet (url's without a known audio or video extension). Allow cache sizes of 0.
* changed: Default IMDb url is now akas.imdb.com for alternative title support.
* changed: XLink window and dialogs are localizable now
* changed: Minor tweaks to the pixel shader YV12->RGB coefficients.
* changed: mplayer command for postprocessing, no quality changes
* fixed: Small thumbs in list controls weren't centered + other small graphical glitches here and there.
* fixed: Volume amplification setting for videos was applied to music as well.
* fixed: using autosync caueses problems when resuming from pause. (updated mplayer.dll again)
* fixed: music overlay sometimes shows no default thumb, eg. when starting a http stream with python
* fixed: screensaver preview sometimes crashes
* fixed: screensaver preview button is enabled when screensaver is off
* fixed: [ 1155038 ] "Video calibration" error
* fixed: cdda player, couldn't seek to the start of a track
* fixed: cdda player, gui was choppy when seeking
* fixed: Changed Karaoke default delay from 80 to -80 as per SF bug report [1101736].
* fixed: flashing screen when viewing pictures
* fixed: Kai window showed incorrect image in Friends view.
* fixed: Possible crash bug when dialog in Fullscreen video is closed.
* fixed: 100k or so memleak in Settings screens.
* fixed: switching between list/thumbs/bigthumbs in Music->Nav root window (& corrected date for the last few items added today to this changelog!)
* fixed: progbar/subtitles display chopped of when starting a new movie while one is already running
* fixed: stacked video freezes on start of second video
* fixed: DVDImage/Folder playback could fail on remote drives (smb,ccx..) if password set with new player
* fixed: My Music view resets to file view on restart if it was set to navigator view.
* fixed: Stack overflow in ActivateWindow if it's called with an invalid window from a windows OnInit message handler.
* fixed: Timing Issues: Printing XBE Title To LCD On Launch
* fixed: Some long-lined vobsubs were not displayed. Fixed in alternate mplayer only.
* fixed: [ 1093336 ] MusicInfoTagLoaderWMA.cpp string conversion resulted in double length strings
* fixed: Switching from Fullscreen Video -> GUI now looks more professional (blank screen rather than stalled/mangled video)
* fixed: Crash when Kai is re-entered after a skin/font/etc. change.
* fixed: Yet another weather localization fix. Thanks KoTiX!
* fixed: Updated system/players/mplayer/mplayer.dll to current CVS (includes flac fix + crash fix)
* fixed: Music Database Cleanup would remove all songs from database.
* fixed: iTunes sharing caused crash if no connection (or iTunes sharing) was available.
* fixed: Highlight sometimes didn't go away in filemanager when doing popup menu stuff.
* fixed: Destination files weren't deleted if copy/move was cancelled.
* fixed: OSD audio menu lockup
* fixed: Buttonscroller focus from another control didn't update background images correctly.
* fixed: OSD crashes when filling listcontrols.
* fixed: Noise level was not used correctly for video filters.
* fixed: various info related things (eg music current pos could show negative times)
* fixed: Kai avatar on toast dialog wasn't shown in correct position.
* fixed: Comborenderer small window in different resolution.
* fixed: LCD: last bar of the progress is now shown
* fixed: LCD: execution-timing for the LCD and SmartXX (sometimes the display crashs, hope it's fixed now)
* fixed: LCD: backlight-fix for the X3-LCD (thnx to GreenGian and SniperKil for testing)
* fixed: <allowoverlay> doesn't work in music songs
* fixed: Localization of UV data in weather.
* fixed: crash bug in thumbpanels when switching from large->small without resetting current focus.
* fixed: dialog select doesn't free its items when it is closed
* fixed: black screen when going from visualisation -> other window -> press stop -> press back
* fixed: Crash when going from FullScreenVideo -> other window -> press stop -> press back twice.
* fixed: Crash bug in Thumbpanels + page number display.
* fixed: Lockups in blank dirs when hide parent folder item is on.
* fixed: possible lock ups in video playlist and my programs when no ThumbnailPanel present
* fixed: [ 1122417 ] Pressing pause after playing finished results in an exception
* fixed: enable/disable "Repeat Folders" option only works after restart
* fixed: More weather localization stuff. New ids need translating: 388-393. Thanks to vnm.
* fixed: [ 1122791 ] LCD: no display of current playbacktime while videoplayback
* fixed: wrong display in the lcd of following asci characters: _ [ ] \
* fixed: Possible crashes in ListControl + RssControl.
* fixed: Listcontrols weren't cleared correctly in some views during UpdateDir().
* fixed: Temperature label now shown correctly for weather using infolabels.
* fixed: No space between date and time in system info
* fixed: short date's day and month are not swapped like in settings set
* fixed: album cover disappears if next song in a playlist is played
* fixed: [ 1121387 ] Fatal exception after dir up and select in an empty folder
* fixed: Rebuilt image libs - seems to cure TIFF loading issues.
* fixed: Weather localization.
* fixed: [ 1119893 ] XLink Kai window freezes after chatting then pressing left
* fixed: [ 1106617 ] Bug-fix for XBMC's XNS client support - thanks to J°rn Jensen.
* fixed: my music, when entering a unscanned directory, whose files have no tags the second time, all files show " - "
* fixed: wpl and b4s playlists do not work from other shares then local
* fixed: Harddisk spins down without any file playing when Immediate HD Spindown set to Music & Video
* fixed: 12 hour clock display on homepage - thanks to Nuka1195
* fixed: Thumbnail is erronously set when last entry in comma separated <path> is an XBE.
* fixed: Info on parent folder (..) in my music crash + some contextmenu are now disabled on parentfolder items.
* fixed: added font files that was missing in new mplayer directory (thx to Diontae16)
* fixed: subtitle/osd crash with high quality pixel shader
* fixed: sometimes unreadable discs will be detected as audio cd's
* fixed: [ 1095048 Part 2 ] Icon for folder displayed using XBE's icon (also fixed some stupidities).
* fixed: [ 1113362 ] Selecting "All songs" in Artist view takes awfully long time
* fixed: Slow music search
* fixed: [ 1095048 ] If no DVD is in the drive, do not use cached thumbnail.
* fixed: Screenshot mem is freed correctly in overlays mode
* fixed: Some defaults for movie viewing + "subs delay" message no longer shows on movie start.
* fixed: Incorrect webrequest HEAD sent when a value was entered for HTTP Proxy Host but HTTP proxy was disabled.
* fixed: videos (in certain resolutions) crash on subtitle/osd display, more commonly reported as "MPEG2 files don't play".
* fixed: Now Playing in My Videos goes to playlist view even if nothing is playing.
* fixed: Canceling scan of videos causes freeze.
* fixed: Screensaver dims videos in ComboRenderer.
* fixed: crash when leaving kai window
* fixed: [ 1107267 ] CRC32::Compute needs to be case insensitive (All thumbs need to be recreated)
* fixed: 1080i aspect ratio in ComboRenderer
* fixed: Zoom in pictures should pause slideshow till unzoomed
* fixed: textsubtitles were being rendered in sourceresolution instead of outputresolution causing larg(er) subs and >2 lines on low(er) resolution videos.
* fixed: vobsubs were being clipped instead of scaled unless displayresolution matched the vobsubresolution and no overscan was set. (only with mplayer pre6)
* fixed: subtitle files with uppercase extension were not loaded
* fixed: attempting to change audio track locks up xbmc.
* fixed: my programs, last focused control is not remembered
* fixed: ID3 tags with UTF16 fields show strange characters
* fixed: Screensaver could show music info - thanks to kraqh3d!
* fixed: music info tag, remove possible \r\n at the end of a tag field (artist, title...)
* fixed: Zoom mode in Combo renderer + glitches. Should be as good as (or surpass) the YUY2 Overlays method now.
* fixed: memory leak in Kai UI
* fixed: the heading of dialog keyboard was not displayed
* fixed: Minor blackscreen issues when starting videos in some view modes (NB: Zoom is still not functioning in the overlay modes).
* fixed: CDDA playback broken
* updated: German, Norwegian, Italian, German (Austrian), Finnish, Polish, Dutch, Korean, French, Catalan language file
* updated: mplayer.dll to current cvs version. (final flac fix + realvideo 10 fix)
* updated: libcdio to version 0.72
* updated: mplayer.dll to current cvs (final real fix + autosync fix)
* enabled: autosync=30 by default
* removed: old mplayer use. We now only use the system/players/mplayer directory.
* removed: YUY2 Overlays and LQ Pixel shader render modes have been removed. Combo renderer has been renamed to "Hardware Overlays" and MQ Pixel shader is now LQ pixel shader. Default is Combo renderer which is the best all-round.
* removed: Slow overlays method as it gave no improvement in quality
* cleanup: moved (most) Is..(), SetThumb()... functions from CUtil to CFileItem, different other cleanups
* cleanup: LCD progress bar code moved to LCD class
* cleanup: Video time/duration is all calculated in the infoManager now.