Sage Release Notes V1.2.5 Beta 4/9/03 1. -awake cmd line option on SageTV will awaken it from the system tray 2. Lack of a sound card no longer crashes SageRecorder setup 3. Added prefiltering settings for iVac encoder settings 4. Channel numbers are now String based instead of integer, this allows channel mapping to anything and SR scheduling to anything also 5. Link Keystroke to Command now will accept Hauppauge remote control buttons for reprogramming 6. Changed audio sampling for CVD & SVCD to be 44.1kHz 7. Disabled fast mux switch for the Creative card, regardless of the property setting 8. Fixed freeze in SageRecorder live preview 9. Added Micronas Audio configuration parameters for the Hauppauge card to the Windows Registry. It's in HKLM\Software\Frey Technologies\Common\MSPAudio. The keys are Modus, StandardSelect, Scart1Volume, ScartPrescale, FmAmPrescale, NicamPrescale, AcbSwitches and Scart1Source. 10. Customization of the colors for the UI & the images can be done in Detailed Setup for SageTV 11. Removed ntsc colors option. That's the default now. 12. Fixed Bob and Weave deinterlacing option so the selection holds. 13. Time-based recordings should now work correctly 14. Deleting the file you just watched now works in SageTV V1.2.4 Beta 4/2/03 1. Added MPEG1 support for Hauppauge PVR 250/350. You need to create custom qualities to use this. Playback won't work though. 2. Added option to disable scanning the DirectShow filters on initialization. Set mmc/scan_dshow_filters to false to disable this, the options for the decoder filters will not be verified in this case and all will appear. 3. LOOK: All of the colors for the SageTV UI are customizable now through the properties file 4. LOOK: The image for the main button background is also customizable through the properties file 5. Added EncodedBy to detailed info for MediaFiles 6. Added NTSC colors option to Detailed Setup UI 7. Made mouse clicking easier 8. Added country_code to the properties file for tuner configuration 9. Recording schedule in SageRecorder is viewable even while recording now, previously it would disable that button's menus 10. Fixed Seeker bug where it would stop the recording on the wrong tuner when there was nothing to record next 11. Fixed schedule sorting issues in SageRecorder. This should resolve the scheduling issues people have been having in SageRecorder. 12. Added OK & Cancel buttons to the custom weekly dialog in SageRecorder 13. Overscan correction variables have been added to the properties file for SageTV. This is for when the desktop is larger than the TV. 14. Sort order of recordings was changed so newer files are kept over older files in SageTV 15. Database synchronization for client & EPG server has been amended to error check the number of airings. This should resolve the No Data issues in the EPG. 16. Changed old EPG data kill age to be 2 days ago instead of just one. V1.2.3 Beta 3/31/03 1. Bug fixes for audio/video sync with Creative VBDVCR card 2. Fixed bug where Sage would crash on loading if you had more than one capture card installed and Sage wasn't configured yet 3. PAL Tuner Audio works now; this has been confirmed. 4. Default capture device selected is now the one with the most desirable MPEG2 properties 5. Properties files are now sorted!! 6. Bug fix where SageTV was cutting the recording up into pieces (this bug was just introduced in 1.2.2) 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 NOTE: IF YOU UPGRADE TO BETA 1.2.1 OR LATER FROM AN EARLIER VERSION YOU MUST RERUN THE SETUP WIZARD IN SAGETV 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.