They have sent the latest buggy firmware for the AZBox 3661 to the Beta testers and someone has leaked it. I am not trying it out at this point in time since none of the things fixed or improved are the major problmes I ahve had with the thing, let alone the minor ones.
1)Timer does not work properly
2) No stereo audio from RCA or SCART
3) Blacks dark grey on some channels.
It claims to offer the following over the last one:
New AZBox HD Firmware - rev. 0.9.3661
RELEASE NOTES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# FIXED
========
- Correct a bug regarding the message for screen capture.
- Correct a bug, do not proceed the progress bar at FTP up/download.
- Correct a bug when it occured the FTP login was failed.
- Correct some bugs of the file manager: Icon images / Multi language messages
- Correct a bug regarding DVB-T&C TS discriptor.
- Correct the gritch noise bug on the HDMI audio.
- Correct a bug regarding the setup display options.
- Correct the bug regarding LEDs on the front panel (AZBox Premium)
- Correct the alphabetical sorting bug of the favorite channel list
- Correct the bug to remember the last channel.
- Correct the scan SAT bug
- Correct the TV buffering problem.
- Correct the MKV player bug whick is not displayed videos
- Correct the time display problem at MKV player
- Correct a memory leak at the new audio driver
- Correct the audio bug which is occuring when the radio was played long time
- Correct the video bug which regarding display mode like as pan & scan display
- Correct a fast forward problem to go forward faster.
- Upgrade the YouTube player
# ADDED
========
- Add new driver for better A/V performance (under testing)
- Add a function to insert many function keys on the USB keyboard.
- Support multi-audio of TS files.
- Add subtitle ID and audio ID at the individual channel.
- Add a decoder recovery routine for correct the radio distortion bug.
- Add a function to be able to select the Dolby output mode (Line mode / RF mode)
- Add scripts when called at standby and wakeup
/DISK2/etc/standby.sh
/DISK2/etc/wakeup.sh
- Add new driver for Samsung ATSC tuner.
- Modify the azbox SDK and test application
- Add a radio wallpaper register module
- Add the page up/down function at file manager.
- Add a information bar for ATSC
# IMPROVED
===========
- Modify the main menu position.
- Modify the DEMUX structure to be able to parse several PMTs in the same time.
- Increase IPTV ability to get several types of streams.
- Modified for EPG
+ EIT pool
+ EIT filters
+ Memory Pool
+ Memory menager etc.
- Modify the EIT parser to add a function regarding ATSC
- Modify the scanning PMT method for using multiple PMT filters.
- Optimization of the DEMUX_INFO structure for using the multiple PMT parser at movie player.
- Apply the multiple PMT parser at the movie player.
- Optimization the memory of the audio player.
- Support VBR at the MP3 player
- Modify web browser and RSS news cause by change the driver.
- Modify to set subtitle at center
- Modify to display full screen at photo viewer.
- Change some video decoder options to solve the mkv file player problems
- Change some audio decoder options to solve the glitch noise problems
- Change the recording file size to 4GB from 3GB (will be changed next release to detect the max file size from system)
- Modify the network setting timeout for wifi to 1 minute from 30 seconds.
1)Timer does not work properly
2) No stereo audio from RCA or SCART
3) Blacks dark grey on some channels.
It claims to offer the following over the last one:
New AZBox HD Firmware - rev. 0.9.3661
RELEASE NOTES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# FIXED
========
- Correct a bug regarding the message for screen capture.
- Correct a bug, do not proceed the progress bar at FTP up/download.
- Correct a bug when it occured the FTP login was failed.
- Correct some bugs of the file manager: Icon images / Multi language messages
- Correct a bug regarding DVB-T&C TS discriptor.
- Correct the gritch noise bug on the HDMI audio.
- Correct a bug regarding the setup display options.
- Correct the bug regarding LEDs on the front panel (AZBox Premium)
- Correct the alphabetical sorting bug of the favorite channel list
- Correct the bug to remember the last channel.
- Correct the scan SAT bug
- Correct the TV buffering problem.
- Correct the MKV player bug whick is not displayed videos
- Correct the time display problem at MKV player
- Correct a memory leak at the new audio driver
- Correct the audio bug which is occuring when the radio was played long time
- Correct the video bug which regarding display mode like as pan & scan display
- Correct a fast forward problem to go forward faster.
- Upgrade the YouTube player
# ADDED
========
- Add new driver for better A/V performance (under testing)
- Add a function to insert many function keys on the USB keyboard.
- Support multi-audio of TS files.
- Add subtitle ID and audio ID at the individual channel.
- Add a decoder recovery routine for correct the radio distortion bug.
- Add a function to be able to select the Dolby output mode (Line mode / RF mode)
- Add scripts when called at standby and wakeup
/DISK2/etc/standby.sh
/DISK2/etc/wakeup.sh
- Add new driver for Samsung ATSC tuner.
- Modify the azbox SDK and test application
- Add a radio wallpaper register module
- Add the page up/down function at file manager.
- Add a information bar for ATSC
# IMPROVED
===========
- Modify the main menu position.
- Modify the DEMUX structure to be able to parse several PMTs in the same time.
- Increase IPTV ability to get several types of streams.
- Modified for EPG
+ EIT pool
+ EIT filters
+ Memory Pool
+ Memory menager etc.
- Modify the EIT parser to add a function regarding ATSC
- Modify the scanning PMT method for using multiple PMT filters.
- Optimization of the DEMUX_INFO structure for using the multiple PMT parser at movie player.
- Apply the multiple PMT parser at the movie player.
- Optimization the memory of the audio player.
- Support VBR at the MP3 player
- Modify web browser and RSS news cause by change the driver.
- Modify to set subtitle at center
- Modify to display full screen at photo viewer.
- Change some video decoder options to solve the mkv file player problems
- Change some audio decoder options to solve the glitch noise problems
- Change the recording file size to 4GB from 3GB (will be changed next release to detect the max file size from system)
- Modify the network setting timeout for wifi to 1 minute from 30 seconds.