Z500 & CS5xx - Official 2.0.1 Firmware Released Options

[chuna]

Folks,

The Final Official Firmware Version 2.0.1 has been released. You can download this in the My Ziova Club.

Please note the following:

If you have firmware Version 1.X, you MUST do a a full RECOVERY of the firmware. After the full update is done please do a FACTORY RESET to avoid any issues. Please read all the instructions very carefully that are available on the My Ziova Club. For those that have 2.0 RC4 and above you can either do a normal upgrade or a web upgrade. Please note that we recommend all users to just do a full recovery.

Release Notes:

* Version 2.0.1

- FEATURE: GUI Redesign – See GUI Changes
- FEATURE: Favorites support added
- FEATURE: Stop during ISO/IFO returns to current path rather than main menu
- FEATURE: Active Playlist support & File Enqueing added
- FEATURE: Now playing bar added
- FEATURE: Favorite grouping for more than 5 items
- FEATURE: File Type Filtering Added
- FEATURE: Time based and Percentage based seeking in playback
- FEATURE: Advanced Sort options on Filelists and Playlists
- FEATURE: Custom sorting and reordering of playlists
- FEATURE: Sort grouping added based on content type
- FEATURE: Menu button jumps to main screen
- FEATURE: Added Language Support for GUI
- FEATURE: Cancel INFO pop up box by pressing INFO again
- FEATURE: Commercial Skip forwards and backwards using Left and Right button
- FEATURE: Ability to save Brightness, Contrast and Saturation


- GUI CHANGE: Interface redesign
- GUI CHANGE: Icon set changes
- GUI CHANGE: Updated dialogue boxes
- GUI CHANGE: Changed to Tree based menu structure
- GUI CHANGE: All supported Files Displayed and filterable
- GUI CHANGE: Settings menu changes
- GUI CHANGE: Menu animations
- GUI CHANGE: Menu now in HD and not optimized for non HD screens
- GUI CHANGE: Filter by file types
- GUI CHANGE: Setup not on front menu - accessible only via button on remote
- GUI CHANGE: Weather & Extras removed

- BUGFIX: Upnp Broadcast ID corrected
- BUGFIX: Playlists hold correct track order
- BUGFIX: Nero Digital - Audio Stutter when changing subtitle
- BUGFIX: SMB Netmask restrictions
- BUGFIX: Lot of ISO/IFO freezes and crashes fixed


- KNOWN ISSUE: Nero Digital - Subtitle stays on screen until next one displayed
- KNOWN ISSUE: 5.1ch via HDMI not working
- KNOWN ISSUE: Audio via HDMI may not work until a video is played

The following limitations and others that may not be listed apply:

1. USB drives in NTFS format are not detected or supported (Known Issue)
2. Loading a large number of files in a folder may make the player take a long time to load and possibly stop responding
3. 5.1ch will not work over HDMI (Known Issue)
4. Navigating deep into a folder tree on a UPnP server will fail
5. Progress bar not visible while playing FLAC music files.
6. Player cannot display characters such as ä, ü, ö, é, è while browsing files.
7. Variable bit rate MP3s can make the progress bar inaccurate.
8. Subtitles stick on screen when viewing Nero Digital files.
9. Computers with multiple enabled network adaptors will be listed multiple times.
10. WPA encryption may be unstable (Known Issue)
11. Audio playback by HDMI may not work until a Video file has been played (Known Issue)


I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers for helping us nail many bugs and special thanks to all our beta testers and Admins for tirelessly working through the initial stages of testing.

Enjoy the release.

This post has been edited by chuna: Oct 19 2007, 08:57 AM