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Overview

Please note: DVBViewer Pro 7.x contains major changes. If DVBViewer is associated with a DVBViewer Media Server (full or basic version), it should be updated to version 3.x, because there may be compatibility issues with older Media Server 2.x versions. “Associated” means in this context, that Options → DVBViewer Media Server → Enable support for the DVBViewer Media Server is switched on and the Media Server in question is selected on this page.

A brief overview of the main changes:

    Streaming: MPEG Dash is supported as new streaming format. The support for HLS has been enhanced, particularly the playback of files that are provided as HLS stream.

    Channel List: All kinds of media streams and files can now be included in the channel and favorites list, thus giving it playlist functionality.

    Recording has generally been reworked and harmonized with the DVBViewer Media Server, plus several functional and UI enhancements. More settings can now be set up individually per timer in the Timer Recordings window. The recorder engine enables the download of files from streaming sources (e.g. HbbTV) and storing them as recording, by just clicking the Record button.

    Timeshift has been redesigned completely. Timeshift recordings are now performed by the recorder engine, not by the playback engine anymore, which involves several enhancements. If you decide to keep a timeshift file, it gets fully integrated as recording. Ongoing recordings are automatically used for timeshift. Multi-timeshift enables switching between two or more channels with timeshifted playback.

    Media Server Support: Particularly the cooperation with a DVBViewer Media Server as background recording engine has been elaborated further and harmonized in several respects.

    Keyboard / Remote Control: The Options → Input page has been reworked, particularly for making it more convenient and self-explanatory. It provides extended facilities for organizing the assignment of keys to DVBViewer functions.

    Option pages have partly been moved to another tree view position, renamed, redesigned or merged, in order to achieve a more reasonable and understandable structure.

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Streaming

    Added: TS Stream: Support for the streaming format MPEG Dash. Usually the URLs have the filename extension .mpd and refer to an XML manifest. The general handling is similar to HLS. MPD URLs for Dash streams can be used in Playback → Open URL, in the playlist and channel list. Additionally they may be selectable on HbbTV pages (requires HbbTV add-on). Please note the following limitations:

        Supported codecs are H.264 and HEVC video and AAC, AC3 and EAC3 audio.

        The only supported container format is the mostly used segmented MP4 base media format (which is internally transcoded to TS). Some rarely used MPEG Dash options are not supported.

        The current implementation does not support playing encrypted / DRM-protected streams.

    Added: TS Stream: Support for HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) with

        AC3 and EAC3 audio (previously only MP3 and AAC).

        segments in MP4 base media format (previously only segmented transport and audio elementary streams). DVBViewer internally converts it to a transport stream.

        master playlists that offer streams with different video/audio formats (e.g. H.264 and HEVC). The desired format can be selected by appending ?codec=… to the URL (or &codec=… if there is already a query part). The codec selection is not sent to the server, but processed and removed by DVBViewer. The specified codec must be a sub-string of (or equal) the CODECS attribute in the master playlist, e.g. codec=avc1

    Added: File Playback: Files provided by the server as HLS or MPEG Dash stream can now be played as files by using the DVBViewer Filter, including support for jumping to another position. All HLS/Dash URLs originating from Playback → Open URL or the Playlist are handled in this way. If they are actually live streams, jumping is disabled. HLS/Dash URLs from the channel list are only played as file, if “Play as file” is checked in the Channel Editor.

    Added: Playback Components Options (former DirectX options): Two additional checkboxes on the DVBViewer Filter tab: Use DVBViewer Filter for *.m3u8 (HLS) and *.mpd (MPEG Dash). They specify whether the DVBViewer Filter shall be used for HLS / MPEG Dash file playback or a third party source filter, provided a suitable component is registered in the system. HLS can also be played with the LAV source filter, if installed. However, no alternative is currently known for MPEG Dash.

    Change: File Playback: DVBViewer can now play files with HTTPS URLs by using the DVBViewer Filter, even if the server uses a self-signed certificate or a certificate with unknown issuer. Previously playback failed in this case due to the underlying WinInet API, so that the LAV Source Filter had to be used as fallback.

Channel List

    Added: Channel Editor: Possibility to include all kinds of media streams and files in the channel list and start playback from there (previously only live streams belonging to the TS Stream type). The Channel Editor enables it in the following ways:

        Drag and drop media files and folders from the explorer into the Channel Editor. Multi-selection is supported. Only media files are added (see Options → Movies/Music/Images for media file extensions). The drive letter is used as root folder name and the directory name as category.

        Select media files in the Import Dialog (after switching to the “All Files” type).

        Add a single item by clicking New → Stream. Enter the URL or file path in the Address input line and the stream name in the Name input line. Finally click the Add button. You can preselect the position where the new item shall be inserted by first selecting an existing category folder or channel list item.

Such items can also be included in the favorites. Channel +/- or Favorite +/- can be used to switch between them, and DVBViewer stores them as “Last Channel”. However, using the number or up/down keys for switching is not possible, because they have another function for file playback. Please note that there are drawbacks due to the channel list file format. Names may get shortened after restarting DVBViewer. Furthermore items with Unicode characters that are missing in the local character set are not handled correctly.

    Added: Channel Editor: Checkbox “Play as file” on the Channel/Stream Data page for (TS) Stream items. It decides which internal DVBViewer branch takes over playback:

        If “Play as file” is unchecked, the TS Stream branch intended for live streams is used. It only covers transport streams (TS) and streams that DVBViewer can convert to a transport stream (like MP3/AAC audio or MPEG Dash). Seeking/jumping is disabled.

        If “Play as file” is checked, the file playback engine is used. However, it can also handle some live stream formats, that are not covered by the TS Stream branch, particularly if the LAV Filters are installed. If the source has a finite length, seeking/jumping is enabled, otherwise disabled.

In many cases DVBViewer recognizes the type automatically and sets/resets the “Play as file” checkmark accordingly. If an item is clearly not playable with the TS Stream branch, the checkbox is checked and disabled. However, in some cases DVBViewer cannot distinguish “live” and “file” by examining the URL (without asking the server), so a manual adjustment may be necessary. This particularly applies to URLs for MP3, AAC, TS, HLS or MPEG Dash Streams.

    Added: Channel List: New “Playlist Settings” sub-menu in the context menu of all channel list representations (except OSD and Channel Editor), including the Popup Channel List and the Channel Lists in the EPG and Timer Recordings window. The sub-menu contains the following items:

        Playlist Mode: Switches the mode on/off. In playlist mode file entries in the channel list are played consecutively. When playback of a file is finished, DVBViewer automatically switches to the next one. It skips all channels and streams that are not recognized as file or not marked with “play as file” in the Channel Editor (see above).

        Endless Playback: Switches endless mode on/off. In endless mode DVBViewer continues with the first file entry after the last has been played.

        Across Categories: If switched off, DVBViewer regards each category as a separate playlist. It stops playback if the last file entry in the current category has been played, or continues with the first entry within the category in endless mode. If “Across Categories” is switched on, DVBViewer regards all file entries in the channel list as a single playlist.

    Added: Channel List: “Only File Entries” item in the Filter sub-menu of the context menu. It activates/deactivates a filter for only showing file entries in the channel list. Since file entries don't contain video/audio format information, the H.264/HEVC and AC3 filter options are ignored in this case.

Recording

    Change: Main Window: The red record button now also signals an ongoing timer recording of the currently played channel by changing its color to blue-gray (previously only in case of manual instant recordings). By this the record menu, that appears after clicking the blue-gray button, is also applicable to timer recordings. If there are two or more ongoing recordings of the channel, an additional submenu level allows to select the recording that shall be targeted by commands like “Stop” or “Delete”. Please note that in two cases the end time of ongoing recordings cannot be changed via the record menu (e.g. by “Stop in 30 Minutes”):

        Timer recording with weekly repetition on certain days, because it would affect all future recordings triggered by this timer.

        Timer recordings that are stopped in the Media Server by the EPG status.

    Added: Main Window: Tweak “Record button only for instant recordings” (→ launch Tweaker.exe). Switching it on lets the record button behave like in previous DVBViewer versions, so that the button and associated menus in the main window only respond to ongoing (manual) instant recordings, not to timer recordings. The default is off. Please note that the action “Record” (by default assigned to the R key) always refers to instant recordings, independently from the tweak. This enables to start instant recordings, even if a timer recording of the currently played channel is already going on. If an instant recording is going on, the action opens the OSD record menu.

    Change: Recording Options: The elements on the “Recordings” and “Recording Timers” pages (former “Recorder” and “Recordings”) have been re-sorted:

        The Recordings page contains settings that are applied to recordings when they are started by DVBViewer (not by the Media Server, that uses its own set of corresponding settings).

        The Recording Timers page contains settings that serve as default for recordings that are executed by DVBViewer or delegated to the Media Server. The settings can be changed individually per timer in the Timer Recordings window (see below).

    Added: Recording Timers Options: New Placeholders button. It opens a tool window that enumerates all placeholders that can be used in the File Naming Scheme. Double-clicking a placeholder or selecting it and pressing the Return key inserts it at the current position in the input line.

    Added: Timer Recordings Window: Possibility to adjust the recording format, the included streams and the file naming scheme individually per timer. This entails several internal adjustments. The file timers.xml has a new forwards and backwards compatible hybrid format. Besides timer data in the previous format the same data plus additional fields is written in a more flexible format close to the one used by the DVBViewer Media Server in its svctimers.xml. This avoids weak points of the old format. Now semicolons can be used in the timer name/description, semicolons in channel names do not corrupt timer data anymore.

    Change: Timer Recordings Window: Deactivated timers (without checkmark) are now displayed grayed (previously in italics). If “Send timers to the server” is configured, remaining DVBViewer timers are displayed in italics. Additionally the hint for such timer list entries contains “DVBViewer Recording!” (previously no indication).

    Change: Timer Recording Window: The tuner type icons in the timer list now also indicate with a small yellow key if the to be recorded channel is encrypted. If no channel can be assigned to the timer, so that DVBViewer cannot execute the recording, the icon is replaced by a red cross. However, this does not apply to timers that are delegated to the Media Server, because DVBViewer does not know whether the server can assign a channel (its channel list may be different).

    Fix: Timer Recording Window: The timer list now displays a channel name, even if no channel can be assigned to a timer, since the name can also be taken from the timer's channel ID. Additionally the timer can now be edited in case of a missing channel assignment (previously the Apply button was disabled).This particularly applies to Media Server timers for which no matching channel is present in the DVBViewer channel list.

    Added: Recording Statistics Window: Bottom panel buttons for stopping, deleting and playing recordings. Previously the commands were only available in the context menu. The Title column of the Recordings tab shows the EPG title plus the EPG subheading (if present) separated by a hyphen (previously only the title). The list views on the Recording Status and Recordings tab now show entries as hints on mouse over if they exceed the column width.

    Added: Recorder: If the currently played file is referenced by an URL and not located on the local hard disk, it can be downloaded by clicking the red record button. This particularly applies to HbbTV videos from media libraries (HbbTV add-on required). Basically DVBViewer handles the download like a normal recording:

        The progress can be viewed in the Recording Statistics Window.

        The file is named according to the user defined scheme (as far as possible without EPG) and stored in a recording directory

        The download is included in the recording database and listed as recording.

Since the download is performed independently from playback, it will usually be finished before playback is completed. The feature also applies to files that have been added as channel list entries (see “Channel List” section). This allows to schedule the download by creating a timer recording. It stops when the download is finished, or at the latest when the end time is reached.

    Fix/Change: Recorder: Henceforth DVBViewer will log recordings in the file rec.log (no more in svcrec.log), in order to avoid access clashes with the Media Server.

    Change: Recorder: The “Delete and Restart” command, available in the he context menu on the Recording Status tab of the Recording Statistics windows and in the Record Menu of the Main Window, now shifts the start time of the restarted recording to “Now” (except in case of timers with weekly repetition), but keeps the duration. Previously the end time was not shifted accordingly, thus shortening the restarted recording.

    Change: Recorder: Enhanced synchronization between the channel and timer list. Every relevant change in the channel list (e.g. renaming of a channel) immediately updates the assignment of channels to timers. Deleting channels from the channel list lets the timer list create a temporary copy of the channel data, so that the timers can still be executed until DVBViewer is closed. Adding channels lets the timer list check if lost links can be restored. This avoids wrong channel assignments and drifting apart of timers and corresponding channel list entries.

    Change: Recorder: If Options → DVBViewer Media Server → Send timers to the server is switched on, as well as Options → Recorder → Use Windows Task Scheduler, DVBViewer timers, that are executed by DVBViewer, are still synchronized with the Windows Task Scheduler. Previously any synchronization was prevented by the “Send timers to the server” option.

Timeshift

    Change: Timeshift: The handling of timeshift recordings has been reworked and changed completely:

        Timeshift recordings are now performed by the recorder engine, not by the playback unit anymore. The settings on Options → Recordings / Recording Timers apply to it, except the recording format, that is always TS, because it is required for the “recording from timeshift buffer” feature.

        “Rebuild Playback” does not cancel timeshift recording and playback anymore. The same applies to switching to another audio track, if Options → Recording Timers → Include All Audio Tracks is ticked. After the action playback is continued at the position where it has been stopped.

        After changing to a currently recorded channel or when a recording of this channel starts, DVBViewer automatically uses the file for timeshift, allowing to jump back in time. This also applies to recordings with MPG or MP2, AC3 etc. as format. Using recordings for timeshift can be limited or switched off by the tweak “Use ongoing recordings for timeshift” (→ launch Tweaker.exe): 0 = don't use recordings, 1 = only timer recordings, 2 = only manual (instant) recordings, 3 = all recordings.

        When switching away from such a persistently recorded channel, DVBViewer saves the current (timeshift) playback position and restores it when returning to this channel. This enables switching between two or more channels with time-shifted playback (multi-timeshift), provided enough tuners are available for receiving the channels simultaneously.

        TV/Radio → Keep Timeshift File is no general permanent setting anymore, but specifies the recording status of the currently played channel. The menu item is disabled if no recording of the channel is going on. It is checked in case of a normal (persistent) recording and unchecked in case of a volatile timeshift recording, that is deleted automatically when not needed anymore. Clicking “Keep Timeshift File” changes the recording status from volatile to persistent and vice versa. DVBViewer prompts for confirmation when “Keep Timeshift File” is switched off.

        Volatile timeshift recordings are not signaled as recordings. REC indicators are not visible and the record button remains red, so that recordings from the timeshift buffer can be started. Furthermore volatile timeshift recordings are not included in the recording database, so they don't appear in the list of recordings, unless “Keep Timeshift File” is switched on before they are deleted. However, timeshift recordings are listed in the Timer Recordings window and on the Recording Status tab of the Recording Statistics window (similar to manually started instant recordings), where they can be controlled by using context menu commands. In contrast to persistent recordings they are displayed in blue, not in black.

        The Options → Timeshift page has been removed. Two settings have been moved to the TV/Radio page (start timeshift automatically, warning on timeshift termination), other settings are now covered by the Recordings and Recording Timers page. The Directories section provides a new checkbox “Use for timeshift”, allowing to direct timeshift recordings to the selected recording directory. If no directory is assigned to timeshift, DVBViewer takes the first usable directory from the top for it.

        If DVBViewer is configured as client of a DVBViewer Media Server on the same PC and Options → DVBViewer Media Server → “Send timers to the server” is switched on, it is possible to activate the tweak “Delegate timeshift recordings to the Media Server” (→ launch Tweaker.exe). It lets the Media Server execute timeshift recordings and include them in its recording database, if “Keep Timeshift File” is switched on in DVBViewer (see above). Please note that in this case the Media Server settings apply to timeshift recordings, not the ones in DVBViewer.

Media Server Support

    Change: Media Server Client: When DVBViewer sends timers to the Media Server, it now includes all settings that are visible on the Options → Recording Timers page and in the Timer Recordings Window, thus allowing DVBViewer clients to specify timers more individually than before. However, some of the Media Server’s per-timer properties (EPG Monitoring, Task after Recording, Series, Priority) cannot be controlled in DVBViewer. The Media Server uses default values for them, that are specified in its options.

    Added: Media Server Client: If “Options → DVBViewer Media Server → Send timers to the server” changes from off to on, DVBViewer timers (supposed to be executed by DVBViewer) are moved to the Media Server. If “Send timers to the server” is already active on program start, but there are DVBViewer timers that previously could not be sent to the server, DVBViewer tries to send them again after loading its timer list (timers.xml).

    Change: Media Server Options/Wizard: If “Connect to the server's timer list” gets switched off, DVBViewer also switches “Send timers to the server” off, in order to prevent adding of timers without any feedback and control in DVBViewer.

    Change: Recorder: DVBViewer is now able to delegates timer recordings to the Media Server, even if the channel belongs to the TS Stream reception type and has an URL that refers to the Media Server itself (HTTP transcoded/non-transcoded or RTSP). Previous DVBViewer versions executed such timers themselves, because the server cannot work as its own client. For circumventing this problem, DVBViewer now changes the Channel ID of the timer to the one of the original Media Server channel (retrieved from the URL) when sending the timer and changes it back to the TS Stream Channel ID after having received the timer list from the Media Server.

    Change/Added: Media Server Client: More consistent and extended error handling when using the Media Server API. If the server is unreachable or responds with a HTTP error code, DVBViewer displays an error message (OSD or message box), particularly “Cannot reach the Media Server”, “Function unavailable” (404 Not Found), “Missing or wrong user name and password” (401 Unauthorized), or the error code in other cases.

    Change: Recorder: If Options → DVBViewer Media Server → Send timers to the server is switched on, but the server is not reachable or responds with an error code to adding a new timer, a DVBViewer timer (executed by DVBViewer) is created as substitute, if possible.

    Change: Media Server Client: If DVBViewer is configured as client of a Media Server on the same PC, reception of all TS Stream channels (except those with localhost as source) is delegated by default to the Media Server's web server, that passes the stream on to the DVBViewer client, in order to avoid double bandwidth occupancy, e.g. if the same Internet TV/Radio channel is played in DVBViewer and simultaneously recorded in the Media Server. Please note: This feature requires DVBViewer Media Server 3.0.0 or later.

    Added: Media Server Client: The tweak “Receive TS Stream via the local Media Server” (→ launch Tweaker.exe) allows to switch reception of TS Stream channels via the Media Server off, if unwanted.

    Added: Media Server Client: DVBViewer is now able to establish HTTPS connections to the Media Server 3.0 or later, if it is configured accordingly. For this purpose https:// must be prefixed to the content of Options → DVBViewer Media Server → Address and port. Please note that messages from the Media Server to DVBViewer clients, e.g. for letting them update the timer list, use another protocol (UDP Multicast) which can not be changed to HTTPS. The same applies to RTSP/Sat>IP. Auto-detection of Media Servers in the network always assumes HTTP due to the underlying UPnP protocol.

    Change: Timer Recording Window: Selecting a Media Server timer with EPG monitoring disables the input fields for date, start and end time, because the times are determined by the EPG.

    Added: Recording Statistics Window: The Recording Status tab now provides full information about recordings executed by the Media Server by means of a new Media Server API (version 3.0.0 or later required). Previously most of the information was empty.

    Change: Media Server Options / Wizard: The “Ignore local recordings” setting has been reversed and renamed to “Also show DVBViewer recordings” to make it more comprehensible. Additionally DVBViewer prevents the options “Connect to the server's recording list” and “Also show DVBViewer recordings” to be both switched off, because this combination would yield an empty recording list.

    Change: Recording Statistics Window: If “Options → DVBViewer Media Server → Connect to the server’s recording list” and “Also show DVBViewer recordings” are both switched on, duplicate entries in the recording list are filtered out. Entries originating from the Media Server recording database are preferred over entries originating from the DVBViewer database. Additionally they are displayed in different colors (black = Media Server, blue = DVBViewer), so they can be distinguished.

    Fix: Media Server Options: If the associated Media Server is currently executing instant or timeshift recordings, and sending timers to the server gets canceled by changed settings, the recordings are stopped after prompting for confirmation.

Keyboard / Remote Control

    Change/Fix: Input Options: The input options have been reworked completely. Several issues have been fixed. Adding/Editing user defined commands is more convenient and comprehensible now. In detail:

        Change: The default command list has been restructured. Some groups have been renamed (in the English and German language files), some commands have been moved to a more suitable group so they can be found easier. However, after updating an existing DVBViewer installation to 7.0.0, Options → Input will still show the previous structure, that is loaded from the file default.remote in the Remotes subdirectory of the configuration folder. For adopting the new structure, first rename this file while DVBViewer is closed, e.g. to old.remote. After starting DVBViewer, Options → Input will show the new default list. For restoring user defined commands and key assignments, click Import and select the previous (renamed) default.remote file.

        Change: The “Learn On / Off” button has been replaced by a checkbox, that indicates the current state more clearly.

        Fix: Added key assignments are now automatically scrolled into view.

        Fix: Clicking Apply in learning mode prevented further assignment of remote control keys, though the "Learn Off" button still signaled an active learning mode. It was necessary to switch the learning mode off and on again in order to assign more remote control keys. The keyboard was not affected.

        Change: “Add Group” does not open an input box prompting for the group name anymore, but adds a new group with the default name “New” and activates an in-place input line in the command list.

        Change: “Add Command” does not open an input box prompting for the command name anymore. The input line is now integrated in the Command Editor, with “New” as default name.

        Change: The useless “action name” input line has been removed from the Command Editor. DVBViewer did not use the name. Actions defined in the command.vbs script file (with action numbers starting from 20480) always got and still get the name “User Defined”.

        Added: Changing the Action ID in the Number input line of the Command Editor or selecting an action in the “Action sequence assigned to the command” list now automatically displays the corresponding item in the “Select an action” drop-down list.

        Fix: Wrong insert position when re-sorting the action sequence in the Command Editor by drag & drop.

        Added: All groups can now be deleted (previously only user defined groups). Additionally they can be renamed by slowly double-clicking the name in the command list. It lets an in-place input line appear. Previously renaming was only possible for user-defined groups by deleting and recreating the item.

        Added: All commands can now be deleted, renamed (by slowly double-clicking them) or edited. Previously only user defined commands could be changed, not the predefined ones that initially populate the command list. Please note: After changing the name of a predefined item it is internally regarded as user-defined. It is not translated by language files anymore.

        Added: The new button “Import Default” adds missing default commands, that have been deleted or changed before, to the command list again.

        Change: The previous “Default” button has been renamed to “Load Default”, making more clear what it does. Generally “Import” buttons add something to the list, whereas “Load” buttons replace the whole list.

    Change: Winlirc: For being launched automatically on DVBViewer start, Winlirc.exe can now also be stored in a Winlirc sub-folder of the DVBViewer program directory (instead of the DVBViewer program directory itself). This avoids a conflict between the Winlirc Plugins sub-folder and the DVBViewer Plugins sub-folder.

Options

    Change: Options: The Options tree view has been restructured:

        The Timeshift page has been removed. Two settings have been moved to the TV/Radio page (start timeshift automatically, warning on timeshift termination), other settings are now covered by the Recordings and Recording Timers page (see Timeshift section above).

        The Shutdown page has been merged with the Extended page.

        The EPG, Teletext, Subtitles and Channel Logos pages are now subitems of the TV/Radio page. The Teletext page has been renamed to Teletext/HbbTV (see below).

        The Weather page is now a subitem of the News page.

        The Images page including its subitem has been moved down below the Movies and Music pages.

        The DirectX page has been renamed to Playback Components (for making more clear what it is about).

        The DVBViewer Media Server page has been moved up below the Recording pages, so it is visible without scrolling.

    Change: Hardware Options: The tuner type of BDA devices cannot be changed anymore in the options, in order to prevent misconfiguration (see here). If really necessary, the type must be tweaked by editing the TunerType entry in the file hardware.xml while DVBViewer is closed (0 = Cable, 1 = Satellite, 2 = Terrestrial, 3 = ATSC).

    Fix: OSD Menu Options: Missing translation of parent menu names in the list of OSD pages, missing update of the whole list after a language change and other issues.

    Added: Teletext/HbbTV Options: The new HbbTV section contains HbbTV auto-start options. They are only available if the HbbTV add-on is installed (see DVBViewer help menu → Order/Unlock Add-Ons). The options specify for which channels DVBViewer shall start HbbTV automatically after channel selection. Without auto-start HbbTV has to be activated by pressing OSD Red (F5). The “Passive HbbTV mode” tweak is superseded by the new options and has been removed.

Auto-start can be activated for all channels, only radio channels, no channel or for channels whose name contains a certain character string like “(internet)” or “(connect)”. The last option particularly targets channels that use HbbTV for automatically starting an internet stream after they have been selected, like the German public internet TV channels on the DVB-T2 ARD frequency and the commercial Freenet Connect internet TV channels in substream #1 of the DVB-T2 ZDF frequency.

Please note that HbbTV auto-start may cause a temporary insert in the TV picture after channel selection, depending on the broadcaster. Activated HbbTV (even if not visible) captures some keyboard / remote keys, so that they don’t have their normal OSD function anymore. Pressing OSD Menu or Esc switches HbbTV off and lets DVBViewer return to the normal key assignment.
Miscellaneous

    Fix: Recording and Device Statistics: Wrong color for unavailable tuners on the Device Status tab (gray instead of red).

    Fix: Playlist: If the DVBViewer Filter handled live streams originating from a playlist, the playlist was reset to the “not playing” state, causing no item to be selected and the Previous/Next actions to be disabled (see here).

    Change: TV Playback: Better handling of streams using the H.264 baseline profile, which caused problems with the LAV Video Decoder if configured for DXVA2 native. This also includes measures in the DVBViewer Filter.

    Fix: Playback: Video format detection failed in case of HEVC Range Extension and High Throughput profiles (also concerns the DVBViewer Filter, see here).

    Added: EPG Window: Tuner type icons on the “EPG at...” tab.

    Fix: Screenshots: If Options → General → Use EPG for screenshot filename was switched off, the channel name was not included in the filename in case of TV playback, yielding a filename that only consisted of date/time.

    Change: Main Window: The “Change Log” item in the Help menu has been renamed to “Release Notes”.

    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 set of zoom settings.

    Change: Network Libraries / OpenSSL: Network libraries have been updated for OpenSSL 1.1.x support. OpenSSL is required for encrypted connections via HTTPS. The new OpenSSL DLLs (libssl-1_1.dll and libcrypto-1_1.dll) have been added to the setup. They carry different names than the previously used OpenSSL 1.0.2 DLLs (ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll). DVBViewer preferably uses the new DLLs, if available, but is also able to work with the old ones.

    Added: Hardware: Plugin interface that allows to support new hardware (e.g. ATSC 3.0 devices) by adding a DLL (by Christian).

    Removed: Hardware: Support for Freenet DVB-T2 USB devices. If still needed the support will be added again as plugin (see above).

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Changelog

    Change: General: HTTP Wiki URLs in DVBViewer and the German and English language files have been changed to HTTPS.
    Fix: Recording Timers Options: DVBViewer did not keep the “Include Teletext, DVB Subtitles…” etc. settings after a restart.
    Fix: COM Interface: The interface for adding timers was not compatible with old add-ons (particularly Zappi).

    Fix: Channel List: DVBViewer did not not show EPG hints on mouse over, though "Show EPG Hints" in the context menu was switched on (applies to the Popup channel list and the Channel List, EPG and Timer Recordings window).
    Fix: Favorites Menu: The items did not show EPG hints on mouse over anymore, after a hint appeared in a tree view or list view.

    Fix: TS Stream: DVBViewer displayed no EPG for TS Stream channels delivered via HTTP by receivers/servers like Dreambox or VU+.
    Fix: EPG Window: Wrong channel assignment on the “EPG per Channel” tab after changes in the Channel Editor. The wrong channel was displayed in the details after selecting an EPG item and also assigned to scheduled recordings that were created from this tab (see here).
    Fix: Timeshift: Stuttering timeshift playback if the timeshift recording was located on a (remote) network share, due to an insufficient read buffer size.
    Added: Media Server Client: Tweak “Allow timeshift delegation to a remote Media Server” (→ launch Tweaker.exe). Enables DVBViewer to delegate timeshift recordings to a Media Server on another PC. EXPERIMENTAL! The "Delegate timeshift recordings" tweak must also be switched on. Additionally the Media Server MUST be configured to write timeshift recordings to a shared directory with a network (UNC) path (see Media Server Options -> Recordings). Please note: There is no protection against incorrect usage!

    Fix: Media Server Client: DVBViewer could not connect to a Media Server that is protected by username and password (see here). If a username and password for the Media Server was set up on Options -> DVBViewer Media Server, DVBViewer did not respond anymore to user actions for some seconds after receiving a message from the Media Server (see here).
    Fix: OSD: The OSD record indicator was not updated on recording start/stop if the main window toolbar was hidden (particularly in full screen mode).
    Fix: MHEG-5: MHEG-5 did not work with the HbbTV/MHEG-5 add-on, though the HbbTV/MHEG-5 add-on was installed.
    Fix: Hardware Options: The tuner type selection has been re-enabled for HDHomeRun devices. It is required because the tuner type information exposed by the driver is ambiguous (see here).

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    Music Options -> FreeDB Audio CD lookup does not work anymore, because the service is closed. Now GnuDB is used as replacement.
    The tuner used for timeshift recording is  not released correctly after a “Keep Timeshift File” on/off change.
    The OSD record indicator is  not updated on a channel change if the toolbar is  hidden in the main window (particularly in full screen mode).
    Changing the TV or Radio Format for a scheduled recording  in the Timer Recordings window does not work correctly. After Apply the format is reset to the standard format specified on Options -> Recording Timers.
    A wrong calculation of time stamps for MP3 streams (particularly internet radio) with 44.1 kHz sample rate causes periodically interrupted playback after 20 to 30 minutes.


    Musik Optionen -> Audio CD-Informationen von FreeDB abrufen funktioniert nicht mehr, da der Service beendet wurde. Jetzt wird GnuDB als Ersatz verwendet.
    Der für eine Timeshift-Aufnahme verwendete Tuner wird  nach einem Ein- oder Ausschalten von "Timeshift-Datei beibehalten" nicht richtig freigegeben.
    Das OSD-Aufnahmesymbol wird bei einem Senderwechsel nicht aktualisiert, wenn die Symbolleiste im Hauptfenster unsichtbar ist (insbesondere im Vollbildmodus).
    Ein Wechsel des TV- oder Radio-Formats für eine Timer-Aufnahme im Aufnahmeprogrammierung-Fenster funktioniert nicht richtig. Nach Übernehmen wird das Format auf das unter Optionen -> Aufnahmetimer festgelegte Standardformat zurückgesetzt.
    Eine falsche Berechnung von Zeitstempeln für MP3-Streams (insbesondere Internetradio) mit einer Samplerate von 44,1 kHz führt nach ca. 20 bis 30 Minuten zu einer periodisch unterbrochenen Wiedergabe.

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    Added/Change/Fix: EPG Window: Various enhancements on the Timeline tab, particularly for people who like to use it for channel selection:
        Change: Playing a channel by clicking the channel button now only requires a single left click (previously a double click, which is still required for channel switching via the EPG item buttons). A right-click on a channel button allows to select the channel for Picture in Picture via the context menu.
        Added: Possibility to select a channel and scroll it into view by typing the first letters of the channel name. If the interval between two subsequent keypresses is more than half a second, the key buffer is cleared and a new search started with the next input.
        Added: The Timeline now marks the currently selected channel (not necessarily played channel) with a yellow frame around the channel button, so the selection remains visible even if the channel has no EPG or the selected EPG item has been scrolled out of view.
        Added: Two new items in the Timeline context menu:
            Simple Timeline View (previously only available as tweak) switches to the timeline style of version 6.1.2 and earlier. It lists more channels in a given area, because the lines contain no EPG sub-heading, thus requiring less space. Additionally the simple view doesn’t use different colors for indicating the genre of programs.
            Show Channel Logos: Displays channel logos in the timeline instead of channel names (provided logos are installed and available for the channels). Please note that logos can’t be displayed in the simple timeline view because there is not enough space for them. As substitute DVBViewer adds tuner type icons to the channel names.
        Fix/Change: The width of the channel name column and the height of the header row (containing the time) on the Timeline tab were not scaled according to the Windows text size. In “simple timeline view off” and “show channel logos off” mode channel names are now displayed with word wrap in up to three lines, thus showing long channel names completely.
        Change/Added: The filter dropdown list on the “EPG at…” and “Timeline” tab has been replaced by a button. It opens a popup menu containing the filter options “Only TV Channels”, “Only Radio Channels”, “Only Favorites” and on the Timeline tab additionally “Only Channels With EPG”, allowing to also include channels without EPG. The options can be combined arbitrarily, except “Only TV Channels” and “Only Radio Channels”, which are mutually exclusive.
    Added: EPG/Teletext: Tweak “Remove (German) gender-neutral language” (→ launch Tweaker.exe). If activated, it replaces German forms of gender-neutral language in the EPG and teletext by generic forms, either masculine or feminine: 0 = unchanged (default), 1 = masculine (Musiker*innen → Musiker), 2 = feminine (Musiker*innen → Musikerinnen). Please note that the setting is applied to EPG data when it is received, not to data already stored in the file epg.dat. Thus it may take time until a change fully takes effect, unless the file is deleted.
    Added: Channel List: Tweak “Use tuner type icons in channel lists” (→ launch Tweaker.exe). It replaces the media type icons (video/audio) in channel lists by tuner type icons indicating the reception type (DVB-S/T/C or Internet TV/radio. This is useful if the channel list contains a mix of channels from different sources.
    Change: Channel List: The root folder and Video/Audio sub-folder icons in the channel list have been replaced by other icons.
    Fix: Channel List: The Picture-in-Picture button in channel list toolbars was always disabled and wrongly showed “Back” as hint on mouse over.
    Added: Channel Editor: If a (TS) stream channel list entry is selected or New → Stream has been performed and the Address input line is the active element, Ctrl + U copies the URL of the currently played stream / the file path of the currently played file to this input line. This allows to copy the URL of a HbbTV video to the channel list, for example. Previously HbbTV URLs could only be retrieved from the DVBViewer.log after playing the video in debug mode.
    Fix: TV/Radio Playback: Playback → Rebuild Playback did not work if a live stream was played that was not present in the channel list, particularly internet TV/radio channels that were automatically started from German DVB-T2 HbbTV. Additionally,  after switching playback off, these channels could not be played again without tuning another channel first.
    Removed: TV/Radio Options: Needless “Channel plus/minus switching delay” checkbox. The delay can as well be switched off by setting it to zero.

    Fix: TS Stream: Channels using the HLS format were played and recorded without audio if the broadcaster used MP4 segments that contained both video and audio, not separate segments.

    Fix: Recorder: Options →  Recordings → Auto split on channel data change was not handled correctly, particularly in case of dynamic program switching by the broadcaster, as performed by the German ARD when switching to regional editions of a program and back to the main program.
    Fix: Recorder: Memory leak on each recording start.
    Fix: Timeshift: Timeshift was stopped unnecessarily on video/audio A/B switching.
    Fix: Timeshift: Unnecessary warnings when using Stop in timeshift mode (supposed to stop timeshift when it is active).

    Change: Main Window: The main window now automatically becomes the foreground window (by temporarily switching to “always on top”), if an urgent message appears in the OSD, e.g. announcing a shutdown after a timer recording.
    Added: Main Window: If the support for visual impaired users is active, the text panel with EPG information that covers the TV picture can now be hidden / shown by pressing Ctrl + Enter, without affecting other features for the visual impaired. Previously it was not possible to switch the text panel off except by deactivating the support for the visual impaired completely.
    Fix: OSD: If DVBViewer was started with activated support for visual impaired users (implicating a deactivated OSD), switching the support off did not reactivate the OSD. It required a DVBViewer restart.
    Change: OSD: The Recordings page now also displays the year of the recording date (previously only day and month).
    • Fix: UPnP Selection Window: Toggling the “Show Thumbnails” option in the context menu let DVBViewer freeze, if the item list on the right was empty.
    • Fix: Picture in Picture: Timing issue if Picture in Picture was started on a second monitor with the EVR as video renderer, causing playback to remain in stopped state.
    • Added: Remote Control: A simulated keyboard keypress on each remote control keypress signals user presence to Windows, thus letting it return from “Away Mode”.
    • Change: HbbTV: Some optimizations.
    • Change: Plugins: Measures against “evil “plugins stealing the DVBViewer input focus when they get initialized, particularly on recording/timeshift and picture-in-picture start (see here).
    • Change: Hardware: DVBViewer now avoids unnecessary automatic TS Stream device creation on internal device availability checks.

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    Ergänzt/Geändert/Fix: EPG-Fenster: Verschiedene Verbesserungen auf der Timeline-Registerkarte, insbesondere für Leute, die sie gerne als Senderliste verwenden:
        Geändert: Die Wiedergabe eines Senders über die Sender-Buttons erfordert jetzt nur einen einfachen Linksklick (zuvor einen Doppelklick, der jedoch weiterhin für eine Senderumschaltung über die EPG-Buttons erforderlich ist). Ein Rechtsklick auf einen Sender-Button ermöglicht die Auswahl des Senders für Bild-in-Bild über das Kontextmenü.
        Ergänzt: Möglichkeit, einen Sender auszuwählen und in den sichtbaren Bereich zu scrollen, indem man die ersten Buchstaben des Sendernamens eingibt. Wenn das Intervall zwischen zwei aufeinanderfolgenden Tastendrücken mehr als eine halbe Sekunde beträgt, wird der Zeichenpuffer gelöscht und mit der nächsten Eingabe eine neue Suche begonnen.
        Ergänzt:Die Timeline markiert jetzt den momentan ausgewählten Sender (nicht notwendigerweise wiedergegebenen Sender) mit einem gelben Rahmen um den Sender-Button, so dass die Selektion sichtbar bleibt, auch wenn der Sender keinen EPG hat oder der selektierte EPG-Eintrag sich außerhalb des sichtbaren Bereichs befindet.
        Ergänzt: Zwei neue Menüpunkte im Kontextmenü der Timeline (siehe hier)
            Einfache Timeline-Ansicht (zuvor nur als Tweak verfügbar): Schaltet auf die einfache Timeline-Ansicht der Version 6.1.2 und früher um. Sie zeigt mehr Sender in einer gegebenen Fläche, da die Zeilen keine EPG-Untertitel enthalten und deshalb weniger Platz beanspruchen. Außerdem verwendet die einfache Ansicht keine verschiedenen Farben für die Anzeige des Programmgenre.
            Senderlogos anzeigen: Zeigt in der Timeline Senderlogos statt Sendernamen an (vorausgesetzt. Logos sind installiert und für die Sender verfügbar). Bitte beachten: In der einfachen Timeline-Ansicht kann der DVBViewer keine Logos anzeigen, da für sie nicht genug Platz vorhanden ist. Er ergänzt deshalb ersatzweise die Sendernamen durch Tunertyp-Icons.

        Fix/Geändert: Die Breite der Sendernamen-Spalte und die Höhe der Kopfzeile (die die Zeit enthält) wurden nicht an die Windows-Textgröße angepasst. Im Modus „Einfache Timeline-Anischt aus“ und „Senderlogos anzeigen aus“ werden die Sendernamen jetzt mit Zeilenumbruch in bis zu drei Zeilen angezeigt, so dass auch lange Sendernamen vollständig erscheinen.
        Geändert/Ergänzt: EPG-Fenster: Die Filter-Dropdownlisten auf den Registerkarten „Zur Zeit“ und „Timeline“ wurden durch einen Button ersetzt. Er öffnet ein Popup-Menü mit den Filteroptionen „Nur TV-Sender“, „Nur Radiosender“, „Nur Favoriten“ und auf der Timeline-Registerkarte zusätzlich „Nur Sender mit EPG“, was ermöglicht, auch Sender ohne EPG anzuzeigen (siehe hier). Die Optionen können beliebig kombiniert werden, außer „Nur TV-Sender“ und „Nur Radiosender“, die sich gegenseitig ausschließen.
    Ergänzt: EPG/Teletext: Tweak „Gender-Sprachelemente entfernen“ (→ Tweaker.exe starten). Er wandelt deutsche Gender-Sprachelemente im EPG und Teletext in eine generische Form um, entweder maskulin oder feminin: 0 = unverändert (Default), 1 = maskulin (Musiker*innen → Musiker), 2 = feminin (Musiker*innen → Musikerinnen) (siehe hier). Bitte beachten: Die Maßnahme wird  beim Empfang von EPG-Daten angewandt, nicht auf bereits in der Datei epg.dat gespeicherte Daten. Deshalb kann es einige Zeit dauern, bis sich eine geänderte Einstellung vollständig auswirkt, außer man löscht die Datei.
    Ergänzt: Senderliste: Tweak „In Senderlisten Tunertyp-Icons verwenden“ (→ Tweaker.exe starten). Er ersetzt die Mediatyp-Icons (Video/Audio) in Senderlisten durch Tunertyp-Icons, die die Empfangsart angeben (DVB-S/T/C oder Internet, siehe hier). Dies ist von Vorteil, wenn die Senderliste ein Gemisch von Sendern aus verschiedenen Quellen enthält.
    Geändert: Senderliste: Die Stammordner- und Video/Audio-Icons wurden durch andere Icons ersetzt (siehe hier).
    Fix: Senderliste: Der Bild-in-Bild-Button in Senderlisten-Symbolleisten war immer deaktiviert und zeigte beim Überstreichen mit der Maus fälschlich „Zurück“ als Hinweis an.
    Ergänzt: Senderlisten-Editor: Wenn ein (TS) Stream-Sender selektiert ist oder Neu → Stream ausgeführt wurde und die Adress-Eingabezeile das aktive Element ist, kopiert Strg+U die URL des aktuell wiedergegebenen Streams / den Dateipfad der aktuell wiedergegebenen Datei in diese Eingabezeile. Dies ermöglicht beispielsweise, die URL eines HbbTV-Videos in die Senderliste zu kopieren. Zuvor konnten HbbTV-URLs nur nach Wiedergabe im Debug-Modus aus dem DVBViewer.log ermittelt werden.
    Fix: TV/Radio-Wiedergabe: Wiedergabe → Wiedergabe neu aufbauen funktionierte nicht, wenn ein Live-Stream wiedergegeben wurde, der sich nicht in der Senderliste befand, insbesondere Internet TV/Radio-Sender, die automatisch über DVB-T2 HbbTV gestartet wurden. Außerdem konnten diese Sender nach dem Abschalten der Wiedergabe nicht erneut angewählt werden, ohne vorher einen anderen Sender einzuschalten.

    Entfernt: TV/Radio-Optionen: Nutzlose Checkbox „Sender Plus/Minus-Schaltverzögerung“. Die Verzögerung kann ebenso gut abgeschaltet werden, indem man sie auf 0 setzt.

    Fix: TS Stream: Sender im HLS-Format wurden ohne Audio wiedergegeben und aufgenommen, wenn der Anbieter MP4-Segmente verwendete, die sowohl Video als auch Audio enthielten, anstatt separate Segmente (siehe hier).
    Fix: Recorder: Optionen → Aufnahmen → Auto-Split bei Senderdaten-Änderungen wurde nicht korrekt ausgeführt, insbesondere bei einer dynamischen Programmumschaltung durch den Sender, so wie sie die ARD bei der Umschaltung auf Regionalfenster und zurück zum Hauptprogramm durchführt (siehe hier).
    Fix: Recorder: Ein Speicherleck beim Start jeder Aufnahme.

    Fix: Timeshift: Timeshift wurde unnötigerweise bei einer Video/Audio A/B-Umschaltung abgebrochen (siehe hier).
    Fix: Timeshift: Unnötige Warnungen, wenn Stopp im Timeshift-Modus verwendet wurde (das Timeshift beenden soll, sofern aktiv, siehe hier).
    Geändert: Hauptfenster: Das Hauptfenster erscheint jetzt automatisch im Vordergrund (durch zeitweiliges Einschalten von „Immer im Vordergrund“), wenn eine dringende Nachricht im OSD erscheint, die zum Beispiel ein Herunterfahren nach einer Timeraufnahme ankündigt (siehe hier).
    Ergänzt: Hauptfenster: Wenn die Unterstützung für Sehbehinderte aktiv ist, kann die Texttafel mit EPG-Informationen, die das TV-Bild verdeckt, jetzt mit Strg + Eingabetaste aus- und eingeblendet werden, ohne andere Eigenschaften für Sehbehinderte zu beeinflussen. Vorher konnte die Texttafel nicht abgeschaltet werden, außer durch Deaktivieren der gesamten Unterstützung für Sehbehinderte.
    Fix: OSD: Wenn der DVBViewer mit aktiver Unterstützung für Sehbehinderte gestartet wurde (was ein deaktiviertes OSD beinhaltet), reaktivierte das Abschalten der Unterstützung nicht das OSD. Es war ein DVBViewer-Neustart erforderlich.
    Geändert: OSD: Die Aufnahmen-Seite zeigt jetzt auch das Jahr des Aufnahmedatums an (zuvor nur Tag und Monat, siehe hier).
    Fix: UPnP Auswahl-Fenster: Ein Umschalten der Option „Vorschaubilder zeigen“ im Kontextmenü führte zum Einfrieren des DVBViewers, wenn die Medienliste auf der rechten Seite leer war.
    Fix: Bild in Bild: Timing-Problem beim Start von Bild in Bild auf einem zweiten Monitor mit dem EVR als Video Renderer, wodurch die Wiedergabe im gestopptem Zustand blieb.
    Ergänzt: Fernbedienung: Ein simulierter Tastendruck bei jedem Fernbedienungstastendruck signalisiert die Anwesenheit eines Benutzers, so dass Windows aus dem Abwesenheitsmodus zurückkehrt (siehe hier).

    Geändert: HbbTV: Einige Optimierungen.

    Geändert: Plugins: Maßnahme gegen „böse“ Plugins, die bei ihrer Initialisierung dem DVBViewer den Eingabefokus stehlen, insbesondere beim Start von Aufnahmen/Timeshift und Bild in Bild (siehe hier).
    Geändert: Hardware: Der DVBViewer vermeidet jetzt die unnötige automatische Erzeugung von virtuellen TS Stream-Geräten bei internen Überprüfungen der Geräte-Verfügbarkeit (siehe hier).

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    Added/Fix/Change: Support for visually impaired users: Corrections and additions in the text panel for the visually impaired, that appears in the Main Window if Options → Extended → Support for visually impaired users (JAWS) is switched on.
        Radio text is displayed in the second line below the channel name, if available.
        The recording status that was previously displayed in the second line has been removed (there was a bug anyway). The status of timers (deactivated, waiting, timeshift, recording).is now displayed at the beginning of each entry in the timer list that appears at the end of the text panel.
        The text panel is now displayed with black text on white background, not white on black anymore, in order to avoid screen reader errors.
    Added/Change: Support for visually impaired users: If Options → Extended → Support for visually impaired users (JAWS) is switched on, main window audio is now muted if another DVBViewer window gets activated (gets the input focus), but is switched on again as soon as the main window gets the input focus back, without having to close the other window first. Additionally the muting can be switched off completely in Options -> Extended with a new checkbox "Mute main window while another DVBViewer window is active".
    Fix: Support for visually impaired users: If the support for visually impaired users was switched on, DVBViewer still used different background colors and icons in list views at various locations, instead of displaying them in a simple black on white style for facilitating screen reader usage.
    Change: Recordings: If a recording is deleted by or in DVBViewer, directories that were automatically created for this recording due to path elements in the file naming scheme (e.g. %year\%m\%event\…) are now deleted too if they are empty after deletion of the recording. This also applies to timeshift recordings. Please note that Windows may prevent the deletion of empty directories in case of access conflicts e.g. with the Explorer.
    Added: Recordings: Under the following conditions DVBViewer informs the Media Server about a recording executed by itself (not by the Media Server), so that it also appears in the Media Server recording list:
        DVBViewer is associated with a Media Server (see Options → DVBViewer Media Server), that it located on the same PC.
        Options → DVBViewer Media Server → Connect to the server’s recording list is switched on.
        The recording directory used by DVBViewer is also a Media Server recording directory.

Even if DVBViewer is associated with a Media Server, it may execute recordings itself, either because Options → DVBViewer Media Server → Send Timers to the Server is switched off, or because DVBViewer has to do the job for technical reasons, e.g. if the recording is actually a file download or a recording from the timeshift buffer. When the Media Server gets informed about such a recording, it copies the corresponding DVBViewer recording database entry to its own database. This saves performing a recording database update in the Media Server for including such recordings.

    Fix/Change: Recordings: Several adjustments and corrections concerning the handling of recordings, particularly for implementing the feature above.
    Added: Recording: Tweak “Convert LOAS/LATM to ADTS for AAC recordings” (→ launch Tweaker.exe). For recordings with the file extension .aac it may be useful to let DVBViewer convert a broadcasted LOAS/LATM container to the older ADTS container for compatibility with certain software/devices, particularly editing software like mp3DirectCut.
    Fix: Recording Statistics Window: Opening an Explorer window with the content of the current recording folder by clicking the path displayed on the Recording Status tab did not work if the path contained Unicode characters that are not available in the local character set..
    Change: Databases: Optimized handling of the recording, media and music database.
    Fix/Change: Audio Playback/Recording: Some fixes and enhancements concerning the processing of AAC audio.
    Added: Radio Text (RDS): Detection of RDS data that is not contained in the audio data, but in a separate stream, as used by German ARD radio channels after changing the audio format from MP2 to AAC. DVBViewer automatically sets the RDS flag and adds the PID of the RDS stream as teletext PID. It can be inspected in the Channel Editor. Additionally DVBViewer is now able to include such RDS streams in recordings and display the radio text on playback, provided the radio recording format is TS and Options → Recording Timers → Include Teletext is switched on.
    Fix: Radio Text (RDS): Radio text contained in a recorded MP2 or TS file was not displayed in the OSD (only in the control bar).
    Fix: Radio Text (RDS): Wrong conversion to Unicode if the local (language-specific) Windows character set is not Windows Western European.
    Change: Audio Playback: On playback of radio recordings in MP2, MP3, AC3 or AAC format DVBViewer now retrieves displayed metadata (like title and description) from the recording database or the EPG Info File. Previously DVBViewer only looked for tags in the file, which are usually not present in recordings.
    Added: File Playback: EPG data contained in a recording in TS format is now displayed in the OSD Media Window (after pressing OSD OK or the Return key) and additionally in case of radio recordings as radio text at the top of the video window, provided the DVBViewer Filter is used for TS playback (see Options → Playback Components → DVBViewer Filter).

DVBViewer and the Media Server include Now/Next EPG data in TS recordings if Options → Recording Timers →  Include EPG Data is switched on. Please note that recorded EPG data may change during playback, in contrast to the static EPG data stored in the recording database and the EPG Info files. This particularly applies to internet radio, for which DVBViewer transforms the broadcasted metadata (like artist and title) to EPG data.

    Added: Video Playback: If no metadata (like title, description etc.) can be found for a played video in the recording and media database, DVBViewer now uses data provided by the LAV source filter (splitter), if available. This particular applies to MP4 and MKV videos. The data appears in the OSD Media Window after pressing OSD OK or the Return key.
    Added: Channel Logos: Support for a new logo administration that spares providing the same logo several times with different filenames for different channel names (e.g. BBC One Scot, BBC One Lon...). In future only one logo file will be needed in this case, plus a file LogoNames.ini that assigns channel names to logo files.
    Change: Channel Logos: Enhanced assignment of logos to channel names. It may find more or better matches by unifying the strings before comparison, particularly by replacing “+” by “plus” and removing all characters that are no letters or digits.
    Fix: OSD: Vertical text misalignment in the Movies, Music, Playlist, Images and UPnP list views.
    Change: EPG: Up to now DVBViewer appended extensive technical information originating from EPG data to the long EPG description (e.g. aspect ratio, video format, available audio tracks, subtitles etc.), often occupying several text lines. It has now been reduced to the most important facts that may change per program. They only occupy a single line and use the following symbols/abbreviations for what is signaled in the EPG:
        [4:3] [16:9] Program aspect ratio
        [3D] 3D transmission
        [HDR] High Dynamic Range video
        [OA] Original audio provided
        [5.1] Multi-channel (surround) audio provided
        <sub>Subtitles provided
        [AD] Audio description for the visually impaired provided
        [age+] Recommended minimum age, e.g. [16+]
        [PDC day.month hour:minute] Originally intended program start time. The Program Delivery Control is used by the Media Server for program recognition and EPG monitoring.

Please note that this information is not always reliable. Unfortunately some broadcasters handle this EPG based information quite carelessly, e.g. signal a wrong aspect ratio or indicate subtitles for all programs if they are only available for some programs. The new format is applied to newly received EPG entries, not to already stored entries.

    Change: EPG/Teletext: Further enhancements for the “Remove (German) gender-neutral language” function (see 7.1.0 changes).
    Fix: TS Stream: Erroneous confusion of the HTTP Location header (used for redirections to another URL) with other headers that also contain the sub-string “location:”.
    Added: Hardware: Support for assigning up to 4 CI modules in the settings dialog of RTSP network devices for Digital Devices Sat>IP servers (previously only 2).
    Added: Hardware: On hardware detection DVBViewer creates an additional DVB-C tuner entry for the TBS 5881 hybrid USB Box. This measure saves tweaking the tuner type for DVB-C reception.
    Fix: Hardware: If the DVB-T2 substream (PLP) ID is undefined, DVBViewer does not set it to 0 anymore as default for TBS devices, which prevented auto-detection in the driver and DVB-T2 reception in Austria, where the substream ID is 1 throughout. Now the TBS API call is omitted in this case.</sub>

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Changelog (deutsch)

    Ergänzt/Fix/Geändert: Unterstützung für Sehbehinderte: Korrekturen und Ergänzungen in dem Textfeld für Sehbehinderte, das im Hauptfenster erscheint, wenn Optionen → Erweitert → Unterstützung für Sehbehinderte (JAWS) eingeschaltet ist.
        In der zweiten Zeile unterhalb des Sendernamens wird Radiotext angezeigt, falls verfügbar.
        Der zuvor in der zweiten Zeile angezeigte Aufnahmestatus wurde entfernt (er war ohnehin fehlerhaft). Den Status von Timern (Deaktiviert, Warten, Timeshift, Aufnahme) zeigt der DVBViewer jetzt am Anfang jedes Eintrags der Timerliste an, die am Ende des Textfeldes erscheint.
        Das Textfeld zeigt der DVBViewer jetzt mit schwarzem Text auf weißem Hintergrund an, nicht mehr Weiß auf Schwarz, um Screenreader-Fehler Fehler zu vermeiden.
    • Ergänzt/Geändert: Unterstützung für Sehbehinderte: Wenn  Optionen → Erweitert → Unterstützung für Sehbehinderte (JAWS) eingeschaltet ist, wird Audio im Hauptfenster jetzt stummgeschaltet, wenn ein anderes DVBViewer-Fenster aktiv wird (den Eingabefokus erhält). Audio wird wieder eingeschaltet, sobald das Hauptfenster den Eingabefokus zurückerhält, ohne dass man zuerst das andere Fenster schließen muss. Zusätzlich kann das Stummschalten vollständig mit Optionen → Erweitert → „Hauptfenster stummschalten, während ein anderes Fenster aktiv ist“ abgeschaltet werden.
    Fix: Unterstützung für Sehbehinderte: An verschiedenen Stellen verwendete der DVBViewer bei eingeschalteter Unterstützung für Sehbehinderte noch unterschiedliche Hintergrundfarben und Icons in Listenansichten, statt sie in einem einfachen Schwarz-auf-Weiß-Stil darzustellen, um die Verwendung von Screenreadern zu erleichtern.
    Geändert: Recorder: Wenn eine Aufnahme im oder durch den DVBViewer gelöscht wird, werden nun auch dazugehörige Verzeichnisse gelöscht, wenn sie für die Aufnahme durch Pfadelemente im Datei-Namensschema automatisch erzeugt wurden (z.B. %year\%m\%event\…) und nach dem Löschen der Aufnahme leer sind. Dies betrifft auch Timeshift-Aufnahmen. Bitte beachten: Windows verhindert eventuell das Löschen leerer Verzeichnisse bei Zugriffskonflikten z.B. mit dem Explorer (siehe hier).
    Ergänzt: Recorder: Unter den folgenden Bedingungen informiert der DVBViewer den DVBViewer Media Server über Aufnahmen, die er selbst ausführt (nicht der Media Server), so dass sie auch in der Aufnahmeliste des Media Servers erscheinen:
        Der DVBViewer ist mit einem Media Server verbunden (siehe Optionen → DVBViewer Media Server), der sich auf dem selben PC befindet.
        Optionen → DVBViewer Media Server → Mit der Server-Aufnahmeliste verbinden ist eingeschaltet.
        Das vom DVBViewer verwendete Aufnahmeverzeichnis ist auch ein Aufnahmeverzeichnis des Media Servers.

Auch wenn der DVBViewer mit einem DVBViewer Media Server verbunden ist, führt er eventuell Aufnahmen selbst aus, entweder weil Optionen → DVBViewer Media Server → Timer zum Server senden ausgeschaltet ist, oder weil der DVBViewer die Aufnahme aus technischen Gründen selbst durchführen muss, z.B. falls es sich um einen Download oder eine Aufnahgme aus dem Timeshift-Puffer handelt. Wenn der Media Server über eine solche Aufnahme informiert wird, kopiert er den entsprechenden Eintrag aus der Aufnahme-Datenbank des DVBViewers in seine eigene Datenbank. Dies erspart eine Aktualisierung der Aufnahmedatenbank des Media Servers, um solche Aufnahmen dort zu integrieren.

    Fix/Geändert: Recorder: Einige Anpassungen und Korrekturen bei der Handhabung von Aufnahmen, insbesondere für das obige Feature.
    Ergänzt: Recorder: Tweak „Bei AAC-Aufnahmen LOAS/LATM nach ADTS konvertieren (→ Tweaker.exe starten). Bei Aufnahmen mit der Dateiendung .aac kann es zwecks Kompatibilität mit Software (insbesondere dem Schnittprogramm mp3DirectCut) oder Geräten nützlich sein, wenn der DVBViewer den gesendeten LOAS/LATM Container in den älteren ADTS Container konvertiert (siehe hier).
    Fix: Aufnahmestatistik-Fenster: Das Öffnen eines Explorer-Fensters mit dem Inhalt des aktuellen Aufnahmeverzeichnisses durch Anklicken des Pfades auf der Aufnahmestatus-Registerkarte funktionierte nicht, wenn der Pfad Unicode-Zeichen enthielt, die nicht im lokalen Zeichensatz vorhanden sind.
    Geändert: Datenbanken: Optimierte Handhabung der Aufnahme-, Media- und Musik-Datenbank.
    Fix/Geändert: Audio-Wiedergabe/Recorder: Einige Fixes und Verbesserungen bei der Verarbeitung von AAC Audio.
    Ergänzt: Radiotext (RDS): Erkennung von RDS-Daten, die nicht in Audiodaten, sondern in einem separaten Stream enthalten sind, so wie bei Radiosendern der ARD nach dem Wechsel von MP2- nach AAC Audio (siehe hier). Der DVBViewer setzt in dem Fall automatisch das RDS-Flag und speichert die PID des Streams als Teletext-PID. Sichtbar wird dies im Senderlisten-Editor. Außerdem kann der DVBViewer solche Streams mit aufnehmen und den Radiotext bei der Wiedergabe der Aufnahme anzeigen, wenn das Aufnahmeformat TS ist und Optionen → Aufnahme-Timer → Zusätzlich aufnehmen → Teletext eingeschaltet ist.
    Fix: Radiotext (RDS): In aufgenommenen MP2- oder TS-Dateien enthaltener Radiotext wurde nicht im OSD angezeigt (nur in der Kontrollleiste).
    Fix: Radiotext (RDS): Falsche Konvertierung nach Unicode, wenn der lokale (sprachspezifische) Zeichensatz nicht Windows Westeuropäisch ist.
    Geändert: Audio-Wiedergabe: Bei der Wiedergabe von Radio-Aufnahmen in MP2-, MP3-, AC3- oder AAC-Format entnimmt der DVBViewer die angezeigten Metadaten (wie Titel und Beschreibung) jetzt der Aufnahmedatenbank oder der EPG-Info-Datei. Bisher suchte der DVBViewer nur nach entsprechenden Tags in der Datei, die in Aufnahmen normalerweise nicht vorhanden sind.
    Ergänzt: Dateiwiedergabe: EPG-Daten, die in einer Aufnahme im TS-Format enthalten sind, erscheinen jetzt im OSD Media-Fenster (nach OSD OK bzw. Drücken der Eingabetaste) und zusätzlich bei Radioaufnahmen als Radiotext oben im Video-Fenster, sofern der DVBViewer Filter für TS-Wiedergabe verwendet wird (siehe Optionen → Wiedergabe-Komponenten → DVBViewer Filter).

Der DVBViewer und Media Server nehmen EPG-Daten für die aktuelle und nachfolgende Sendung mit auf, wenn Optionen → Aufnahme-Timer → Zusätzlich aufnehmen → EPG-Daten eingeschaltet ist. Bitte beachten: Die Anzeige aufgenommener EPG-Daten kann sich während der Wiedergabe ändern, im Gegensatz zu den statischen EPG-Daten, die in der Aufnahmedatenbank und EPG Info-Dateien gespeichert sind. Dies trifft insbesondere auf Internetradio zu, für das der DVBViewer mitgesendete Metadaten (wie Interpret und Titel) in EPG-Daten umwandelt.

    Ergänzt: Video-Wiedergabe: Falls keine Metadaten (wie Titel, Beschreibung usw.) für ein Video in der Aufnahme- und Media-Datenbank auffindbar sind, verwendet der DVBViewer jetzt Daten, die der LAV Quellfilter (Splitter) bereitstellt, falls verfügbar. Dies betrifft insbesondere MP4- und MKV-Videos. Die Daten erscheinen im OSD Mediafenster nach OSD OK bzw. Drücken der Eingabetaste.
    Ergänzt: Senderlogos: Unterstützung für eine neue Logo-Verwaltung, die es erspart, für verschiedene Sendernamen das selbe Logo mehrfach mit verschiedenen Dateinamen bereitzustellen (z.B. für WDR Köln, WDR Dortmund...). In Zukunft wird für diesen Fall nur noch eine Logo-Datei gebraucht, plus eine Datei LogoNames.ini, die Logodateien Sendernamen zuordnet.
    Geändert: Senderlogos: Verbesserte Zuordnung von Logo-Dateinamen zu Sendernamen. Sie kann mehr oder bessere Treffer ermitteln, indem sie die Datei -und Sendernamen vor dem Vergleich vereinheitlicht, insbesondere durch das Ersetzen von „+“ durch „plus“ und Entfernen aller Zeichen, die kein Buchstabe oder keine Ziffer sind.
    Fix: OSD: Fehlerhafte vertikale Ausrichtung von Text in den Video-, Musik-, Wiedergabeliste-, Bilder- und UpnP-Listenansichten.
    Geändert: EPG: Bislang hat der DVBViewer aus den EPG-Daten stammende und oft mehrere Zeilen umfassende technische Informationen an die lange EPG-Beschreibung angehängt, z.B. das Seitenverhältnis, Videoformat, verfügbare Audiospuren und Untertitel usw. Sie wurden jetzt auf die wichtigsten Angaben reduziert, die pro Sendung variieren können. Sie belegen nur noch eine Zeile und verwenden die folgenden Symbole/Abkürzungen für das, was im EPG signalisiert wird:
        [4:3] [16:9] Seitenverhältnis der Sendung
        [3D] 3D-Sendung
        [HDR] Video mit hohem Dynamikumfang (High Dynamic Range)
        [OA] Originalton verfügbar
        [5.1] Mehrkanalton (Surround Sound) verfügbar
        <sub>Untertitel verfügbar
        [AD] Audiodeskription für Sehbehinderte verfügbar
        [Alter+] Empfohlenes Mindestalter, z.B. [16+]
        [PDC Tag.Monat Stunden:Minuten] Ursprünglich vorgesehene Anfangszeit der Sendung (VPS-Zeit). Die „Program Delivery Control“ verwendet der Media Server für die Wiedererkennung von Sendungen und die EPG-Überwachung.

Bitte beachten: Diese Informationen sind nicht immer zuverlässig. Leider behandeln manche Anbieter sie ziemlich nachlässig und signalisieren hier z.B. ein falsches Seitenverhältnis oder geben Untertitel für alle Sendungen an, obwohl sie nur bei manchen verfügbar sind. Das neue Format wird erst bei neu empfangenen EPG-Einträgen angewandt, nicht bei bereits gespeicherten.

    Geändert: EPG/Teletext: Weitere Verbesserungen der Funktion „Gender-Sprachelemente entfernen“ (siehe 7.1.0 Änderungen).
    Fix: TS Stream: Fehlerhafte Verwechslung des HTTP Location Headers (für die Umleitung auf eine andere URL) mit anderen Headern, die auch die Zeichenkette „Location:“ enthalten (siehe hier).
    Ergänzt: Hardware: Unterstützung für die Zuweisung von bis zu 4 CI-Modulen im Einstellungen-Dialog von RTSP-Netzwerkgeräten bei der Verwendung von Digital Devices Sat>IP-Servern (siehe hier).
    Ergänzt: Hardware: Bei der Hardware-Erkennung erzeugt der DVBViewer einen zusätzlichen DVB-C-Eintrag in der Geräteliste für die TBS 5881 Hybrid-USB-Box. Diese Maßnahme erspart eine Änderung des Tunertyps in der Datei hardware.xml (siehe hier).
    Fix: Hardware: Wenn die DVB-T2-Substream ID undefiniert ist, setzt sie der DVBViewer für TBS-Geräte nicht mehr standardmäßig auf 0, da dies eine automatische Erkennung im Treiber und DVB-T2-Empfang in Österreich verhinderte, wo die Substream ID durchweg 1 ist. Jetzt wird der Aufruf der TBS-Treiberfunktion in diesem Fall unterlassen.</sub>

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    Fix: TS Stream: Work-around for erroneous time stamp headers in HLS segments of additional audio tracks provided by German ARD channels, that caused audio drop-outs.
    Fix: TS Stream: Teletext data in HLS segments of AAC audio tracks provided as separate stream was mistaken for audio.
    Fix: Recorder: Under certain timing conditions the recorder detected the wrong AAC type when a channel with LOAS/LATM AAC audio was recorded. It caused permanently changing wrong format information in the recording log, but without disturbing TS recordings.
    Added: Recording Statistics Window: Display of the recording log (if available) in the Details panel of the Recordings tab. The “Show Recording Log” item in the context menu of the Details view or Ctrl+L allow to toggle between EPG details and recording log display for the selected recording. The font for the log display can be selected with the Fonts → Recording Log item of the context menu.
    Fix: Recording: Missing path and filename of the recording in the recording log.
    Fix: File Playback: Media files on mapped network and local drives drives could not be played if DVBViewer was configured as client of a Media Server on another PC and Options → DVBViewer Media Server → Connect to the server’s recording list was switched on (since version 7.1.1).
    Fix: Recording Playback: Recordings of a remote Media Server that were made available on the DVBViewer PC by means of a mapped network drive with the same drive letter as the original (physical) disk were not accessed directly (as intended), but via Media Server streaming.

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    Fix: TS Stream: Work-Around für fehlerhafte Zeitstempel-Header in den HLS-Segmenten zusätzlicher Audiospuren von ARD-Sendern, die Audio-Aussetzer verursachten.
    Fix: TS Stream: Teletext-Daten in HLS-Segmenten von als separater Stream gelieferten AAC-Audiospuren wurden irrtümlich als Audio angesehen.
    Fix: Recorder: Unter bestimmten Timing-Bedingungen ermittelte der Recorder den falschen AAC-Typ, wenn ein Sender mit LOAS/LATM AAC Audio aufgenommen wurde. Dies verursachte sich ständig ändernde Formatinformationen im Aufnahme-Log, ohne jedoch TS-Aufnahmen zu stören.
    Ergänzt: Aufnahmestatistik-Fenster: Optionale Anzeige des Aufnahme-Logs (sofern verfügbar) im Details-Bereich der Aufnahmen-Registerkarte. Der Menüpunkt „Aufnahme-Log anzeigen“ im Kontextmenü der Details-Ansicht oder Strg+L ermöglichen die Umschaltung zwischen EPG-Details und dem Aufnahme-Log für die selektierte Aufnahme. Die Schriftart für die Log-Anzeige kann mit dem Menüpunkt Schriftart → Aufnahme-Log des Kontextmenüs gewählt werden.
    Fix: Aufnahmen: Fehlender Aufnahmepfad und Dateiname im Aufnahme-Log.
    Fix: Datei-Wiedergabe: Media-Dateien auf verbundenen Netzwerk- und lokalen Laufwerken konnten nicht abgespielt werden, wenn der DVBViewer als Client eines Media Servers auf einem anderen PC konfiguriert und Optionen → DVBViewer Media Server → Mit der Server-Aufnahmeliste verbinden eingeschaltet war (seit Version 7.1.1,).
    Fix: Wiedergabe von Aufnahmen: Aufnahmen eines DVBViewer Media Servers auf einem anderen PC, die auf dem DVBViewer-PC mittels verbundenes Netzwerklaufwerk mit dem gleichen Laufwerkbuchstaben wie dem des originalen Laufwerks zugänglich waren, wurden nicht wie vorgesehen direkt gelesen, sondern via Media Server-Streaming.

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    Fix: Recording Playback: Recordings of a local Media Server on the same PC were not accessed directly (as intended), but via Media Server streaming (since version 7.2.0).

    Fix: EPG: The import of external EPG data via Xepg did not work anymore (since 7.1.2.0).

    Added: OSD: “Only With EPG / Also Without EPG” option in the OSD timeline context menu, that appears after pressing OSD Blue / F8. It specifies if only channels with EPG or also channels without EPG are displayed in the timeline (see here).

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    Fix: Wiedergabe von Aufnahmen: Aufnahmen eines lokalen Media Servers auf dem selben PC wurden nicht wie vorgesehen direkt gelesen, sondern via Media Server-Streaming (siehe hier).

    Fix: EPG: Der Import externer EPG-Daten mit Xepg funktionierte nicht mehr (seit 7.1.2.0, siehe hier).

    Ergänzt: OSD: Option „Nur mit EPG / Auch ohne EPG“ im Kontextmenü der OSD Timeline, das nach Drücken von OSD Blue / F8 erscheint. Sie bestimmt, ob nur Sender mit EPG oder auch Sender ohne EPG in der Timeline angezeigt werden (siehe hier).

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