Sage Release Notes

V1.2.2 Beta 3/26/3
1. Disabled VBR support for the Creative card. If you REALLY want to enable it, you need to make a custom quality and set vbr to 100.

V1.2.1 Beta 3/24/03
1. Added multiple tuner support to sageTV. The only known problem is when you modify a time-based recording while its occuring; so please don't do that.
2. Added PAL audio support for the Hauppauge cards
3. Removed language dependencies by changing capture device filter loading so that it's not using the names. It uses the device paths and filter types to get whatever it can to build the graph.
4. Fixed GOP encoder setting for PVR250/350 with the new driver, the data structure format was different
5. Fixed resolution encoder setting for VBDVCR so it uses the right property
6. Updated GridEPG to handle multiple schedules by showing multiple Sage channels at one time
7. Added ability to run SageRecorder without any capture device present
8. Library dir for SageTV doesn't have to be existent anymore for Setup Dialog to close OK.
9. TRIAL is the default access code for SageTV now
10. The Look & Feel of SageRecorder can be changed to a different Java PLAF via the properties file. Other valid PLAFs that come with Java are com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel and com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel
11. Made the SageRecorder window resizable
12. Closing the video window with the X in SageRecorder will also release the overlay surface now.
13. The capture device can be changed in SageRecorder without restarting it
14. Recordings can be scheduled across multiple capture devices with one instance of SageRecorder, but it can't record from more than one at a time with a single application.
15. While in the taskbar, if not recording the capture device is freed.
16. Enabled AutoTune on the RF input for SageRecorder
17. IRTuner plugins that can't be configured no longer ask to be in the SetupWizard
18. SetupWizard starts differently if its already been run before

V1.1.4 Release 3/10/03
1. SageRecorder now saves its state at system shutdown/reboot.
2. Increased number of buffers in mpeg2 demultiplexor to alleviate VBR playback issues with new Hauppauge driver.

V1.1 Beta b3 3/6/03
1. Changed playback graph setup...this may affect XCard playback, let me know.
2. Peak bitrate is new settable for the Hauppauge quality settings. It's peakvideobitrate in the property string.
3. Increased default overscan from 5% to 7%
4. Bug Fix: Setup without an access code required application restart to get channels to appear in guide w/no data.
5. Changed default video capture device to be PVR 250/350 instead of StreamMachine 2210 in machines where both are present.
6. Corrected bitrates for Hauppauge quality settings (again). Now peak is done correctly, so this should be it.
7. Bug Fix: Configuring the composite/svideo input in Setup Wizard when one is already configured didn't clear the previous one.
8. Bug Fix: "No valid providers defined" related error messages in SageTV when a provider was defined without an access code.
9. Bug Fix: Exiting SageRecorder while it's recording doesn't give any warning. (it sends it to the system tray now)
10. Bug Fix: Same as 4 for V1.1, but for when you hit Record while previewing already in SageRecorder.
11. Searching for the empty string tells the user they did that instead of not responding at all in SageTV.
12. Sort the list of recording qualities in SageTV.
13. Added Hauppauge quality settings to SageTV
14. Various bug fixes regarding running the Setup Wizard without an access code.
15. Setup Wizard now doesn't come up a second time on startup if SageTV is configured without an access code.

V1.1 Beta b2 3/5/03
1. SageRecorder will go to the system tray when exited if recordings are pending.
2. Bug fix for Creative VBDVCR card not using correct audio capture source. Creative users please delete the SageRecorder.properties and Sage.properties files if you used b1.
3. Corrected bitrate values for Hauppauge quality settings.
4. Added delay after file data appears for preview so there's enough time for audio data to be written also.
5. Added About panel to SageRecorder Setup. It shows the current version of the software.
6. When editing schedule events in SageRecorder; the channel can now be manually entered.
7. Installer now has the option of launching the manual when it's complete.
8. Installer includes parameter files for PAL format in Provideo option.

V1.1 Beta b1 3/4/03
1. Launching preview in SageRecorder is now significantly faster
2. Support for the Creative VideoBlaster DVCR card is complete. It requires the StreamMachine Audio Compressor or the LAME MPEG Layer III Audio Encoder DirectShow Filter to be installed.  The LAME MPEG Layer III Audio Encoder DirectShow Filter is freely available under GPL as open source from http://www.elecard.com/products/layer3encoder.shtml Thanks to _Demo_ for his help on this from vbdvcr.mu3d.com
3. Added DScaler plugin support. 
4. Added experimental XCard support. To use it, select it as the video decoder and then select default for the video renderer, audio decoder & audio renderer.
5. Added PV256Pro support. The card still needs to be initiliazed using their application first.
6. Encoder parameter setting for the Hauppauge cards now bypass any unspecified settings.
7. Added support for the IR receiver on the Creative card in SageTV. It works auotmatically, nothing to enable. But the Commands need to be configured in Detailed Setup.
8. Fixed recurring recording filename numbering in SageRecorder.
9. Added weekday selectable recurring recordings in SageRecorder, i.e. MTW only on a weekly basis
10. Added sorting to the columns of the time based scheduler in SageRecorder
11. Added user configurable background image for SageTV. It's the ui/background_image property and it expects a file (use \\ for directory separators)
12. Closing the preview window in SageRecorder while recording now completely closes the file and releases the overlay.