TerraTec Home Cinema 1 Changes in Version 6 TerraTec Home Cinema Version 6 is a major release. We worked to improve stability, usability and visibility. Thus there are only few new features but many minor improvements to make watching TV more comfortable than ever. Major changes It is possible to upgrade from Classic and Basic version to Premium version by entering a serial number during setup. Timeshift is always active now 1. Improved navigation in timeshift and file playback. An advanced progress bar gives more information on the current time and file position. Improved timer programming Updated PDF manual Minor changes Changed channel switching with up/down arrows. Now you can preview the current/next information of the channels in your favourite list. Select the channel for viewing by hitting Return. Duration of manual recordings can be changed through the OSD now. Simply press the record key on the remote control or R on the keyboard again to show the end time selection OSD. New OSD dialog to show an overview of timer conflicts. 2 Important notes Update from previous versions Version 6 has many changes so it is recommended to uninstall all previous versions below 6 before installing a version 6 or above. The user settings are not affected. They can be kept. To enter a serial number it s required to run the setup again. New hardware notification TerraTec Home Cinema checks for new hardware and possibly advises you to run the setup again. It s highly recommended to do so. Otherwise some parts of the new hardware will not work as expected. 3 Known issues Split MPEG recordings are not concatenated automatically during playback 1... for digital TV. Old behaviour can be forced via the options on the Audio/Video. For analogue TV permanent timeshift is deactivated by default.
4 History Version 6.00.16 February, 27th 2009 First version 6.00 released Version 6.00.17 March, 27th 2009 Setup Fixed: Skin is not loaded, if the application is not installed to the default directory Fixed: Uninitialized memory in XML file decryption Corrected TV standard for Bulgaria from SECAM D/K to PAL B/G Timer editing Fixed: Predefined shutdown mode is not set when adding a timer Fixed: Modified timers are not stored Version 6.00.19 March, 30th 2009 Updated DVB-C frequencies for Germany (KMS) Fixed: DiSEqC didn t work for Cinergy S PCI Streams Fixed: Only the first 4 audio tracks are working Version 6.01.00 April, 7th 2009 Corrected TV standard for Bulgaria from PAL B/G to PAL D/K Playback Fixed: Teletext subtitles cannot be selected when playing a MPEG-TS file Remote control Improved responsiveness for some devices Version 6.02.00 April, 8th 2009 Added DVB-T frequencies for Greece Subtitles Fixed: Application crashes in teletext subtitle detection
Version 6.03.00 April, 21th 2009 Added TerraTec S7 (MKII) Added DVB-T frequencies for Iceland Scheduled recordings OSD: Timers are again sorted by date (and not by channel) Fixed: After creating a timer changing the shutdown mode did not take effect. Fixed: After editing a timer the programme title was deleted. Version 6.04.01 May, 7th 2009 Replaced some images with better quality Corrected character set for Iceland (wrong characters in station names and EPG data) Version 6.04.02 May, 14th 2009 Device Fixed: Cinergy HTC USB XS/TerraTec H5: DVB-C and DVB-T devices were always enabled / disabled together due to identical filenames for receiver settings Diagnostics Added list of tuning spaces to system info in Trace.log Version 6.05.00 May, 26th 2009 Fixed: Play/Pause button (SPACE key) did not pause. Improved: Power button now shows the shutdown OSD instead of terminating THC directly. Version 6.11 September, 17th 2009 Setup & Autoupdate Added input page for Elgato serial number (enables 12 month free tvtv subscription) Allow autoupdate from HTTP servers New VCRedist 5.0.50727.4053 DirectShow & DVB Fixed reset of PSI filter for PID filter devices (sometimes not all stations were found) Fixed PiP with PID filter devices not working Fixed BBC-HD not recognized as TV channel Station Setup / Channel Editor Allow download of channel lists from HTTP servers Updated Astra/Anixe HD frequency
Record Hide index files in record folder Miscellaneous Cache DirectX version to speed up THC start Fixed tvtv and audio/video page not updated when changing user interface language Enabled RDS for EyeTV Hybrid Added support for EyeTV DTT Deluxe and other EyeTV products Added support for EyeTV DTT Deluxe and other EyeTV products Version 6.11.06 October, 26th 2009 Setup Removed remote control option Cinergy S USB from custom setup. The selection is always done automatically. Added workaround to enumerate the encoders as admin during the setup. This will hopefully fix the issue that THC hangs when starting as normal user. Added frequency list United Kingdom (London) Force fine scan for Australia, France and U.K. where transponders are transmitted with a frequency offset. Cut! Cut! output directory is now stored. Version 6.12 December, 4th 2009 Autoupdate Gentle redesign of the update notification dialog Updated frequency lists for Italy Added frequency lists for Dutch cable TV providers (Ziggo) Decoders Windows 7: Support for H.264 decoding with "Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder" Windows 7: Support for AAC decoding with "Microsoft DTV-DVD Audio Decoder" New Editor version 5.22 Improved responsiveness by increasing the poll thread priority Added support for EyeTV Sat via Cinergy T² interface Fixed: Editor crashed with some devices. Error message: "0xC0150010: The activation context being deactivated is not active for
the current thread of execution." This problem occurred mainly in Windows 7 with these devices: Cinergy Hybrid XE, TerraTec S7, TerraTec H7, EyeTV Sat Fixed: Application could not be started on some systems Removed dependency on msvcr80.dll Fixed: Volume control was not working in Windows Vista / Windows 7 Fixed: Set device name for Cinergy T² on "Options" page Version 6.13.16 Jan, 4 th 2010 THC Fixed waking up from (user initiated) suspend Setup Support for Cinergy HTC USB XS (MKII) & TerraTec H5 (MKII) Eye TV DTT Deluxe (2009) Fixed station scan found not all stations EyeTV Hybrid (U.S.) showed 2 DVB-C devices Fixed: PThreadVC2.dll was not installed for Channel Editor Autoupdate Fixed crash in VersionCheck.exe when no Internet connection is available. Updated frequencies for ASTRA 19.2 New version v.5.23 fixes for Eye TV DTT Deluxe (2009) Version 6.13.18 Jan, 19 th 2010 New version v.5.25 fixes for Eye TV DTT Deluxe (2009); allows elna override Version 6.14 Feb, 3 rd 2010 Decoder Elgato version only: Added Elgato Audio (default for France) Elgato version only: Support for EyeTV Netstream DTT Cinergy Hybrid XE: Enable FM radio Version 6.14.01 Mar, 18 th 2010 Decoder Allow decoder selection for each audio subype separately (MPEG Audio, AC-3/EAC- 3, AAC) Updated DVB-T frequency table for Portugal
Version 6.14.02 Mar, 20 th 2010 Recordings Fixed Windows 7: Scheduled recordings failed if scheduled time lay 3 hours or more in the future. Windows Vista/7: Allow scheduled recordings even if system runs on batteries Version 6.15.05 Apr, 30 th 2010 Setup Redistributable setup for Visual Studio 2008 Support for Cinergy T Stick Black Recording Fixed: (Windows Vista/7) Scheduled recordings were not recorded under Windows 7 when the scheduled time was more than 3 hours in the future (Windows Vista/7) Allow waking up system if it runs on batteries Version 6.15.06 Apr, 30 th 2010 Support for Cinergy S2 USB HD Recording Fixed crash on Windows XP when THC was started for scheduled recordings New version v.5.27 internal changes Version 6.15.07 May, 11 th 2010 New version v.5.28 Support for Cinergy S2 USB HD Version 6.15.08 May, 21 st 2010 Support for Cinergy T Stick Mini Version 6.15.11 June, 9 th 2010 (v.5.31) Support for Cinergy T Stick Mini Fixed: Application did not run on a clean Windows XP / Vista Version 6.15.12 July, 15 th 2010 Support for Cinergy S2 USB HD (MKII)
Teletext (Decoder v.4.73) Fixed missing teletext pages on ARTE (v.5.32) Support for Cinergy S2 USB HD (MKII) Fixed: Application did not run on a clean Windows XP / Vista Version 6.15.13 July, 15 th 2010 Support for TerraTec T1 Fixed: EyeTV Netstream DTT detection was broken DVB-S: Allow to specify the DiSEqC position when importing stations from Internet or local files. Show polarisation and DiSEqC position on scan page Updated transponder settings for Satellites Astra 19.2 E, Hotbird 13.0 E, Eurobird/Astra 28.5/2 E Version 6.16 September, 13 th 2010 Autoupdate Improved layout of update notification message Support hyperlinks in update messages Teletext (Decoder v.4.74) Fixed crash when ARTE teletext was viewed Fixed wrong display of graphical pages due to incorrect usage of spacing attributes (tested against ARTE pages 196, 197, 198) tvtv Updated URLs to tvtv web pages Decoders Added Elgato video decoder Elgato audio decoder: Fixed playback of mono audio Elgato decoders are now the default selection (if installed) (v.5.34) Support for TerraTec T1 Version 6.17.13 November, 12 th 2010 Support for EyeTV Netstream Sat Support for new revisions of TerraTec devices Misc Added UI for specifying the country of your location
Channel database Massive speed improvement when handling large stations lists Support for Logical Channel Numbers (DVB-T, DVB-C) Location aware auto-sorting of channel lists after scan Store videotype / audiotype / HDTV for each channel Support for.ech file format Version 6.17.20 November, 17 th 2010 Support for TERRATEC T5 (MKII) Bugfixes for EyeTV Netstream Sat / EyeTV Netstream DTT Misc Added Danish localization Version 6.18.00 December, 1 st 2010 Tune Added satellite detection Added automatic download of DVB-S station lists Improved channel switch times Bugfixes for EyeTV Netstream Sat / EyeTV Netstream DTT Version 6.18.01 December, 6 th 2010 Updated frequencies for DVB-T (Germany:Niedersachsen / Mitteldeutschland) Updated frequencies for DVB-S (various satellites) Fixed: Occasionally an invalid language string was stored Page Channels Allow sorting by satellite position Version 6.18.02 December, 8 th 2010 Tune Improved channel switch times when timeshift is active by 1-1.5 seconds Version 6.18.03 December, 9 th 2010 Tune Avoid multiple video window resizing after channel switch
Version 6.19.00 January, 20 th 2011 User Interface Show Aero windows frame for TV window (Windows 7 only) Page Channels Allow sorting of DVB-S station by satellite Subtitle decoder Fixed memory leak; occured after changing devices or switching PiP on Maintenance Bugfixes Version 6.21.00 March, 28 th 2011 User Interface Updated untranslated strings for several languages Updated DVB-T frequencies for U.K. Updated DVB-T frequencies for Belgium Improved signal detection and transponder scan. should be more reliable and faster in many situations. Tuning to a frequency with no signal should not block the application as long as before. Network Fixed: Device detection and/or streaming did not always work when a system had multiple network adapters (e.g. LAN and WiFi) Run UPnP (SSDP) discovery on all network adapters interfaces Improved status messages from network messages. Version 6.21.07 April, 13 th 2011 Support for TERRATEC N3 Support for Valups Tivizen Cinergy T Stick Video: Fixed: No sound for analogue TV (v.5.47) Support MCE always (even in exclusive mode ) Improved handling of double function keys bugfixes Version 6.22.00 April, 13 th 2011 Support for TERRATEC T6 (v.5.48) Support for TERRATEC T6
Version 6.23.02 June, 3 rd 2011 Support for TERRATEC G1 Better signal strength output for various products Show signal quality for the current frequency during channel scan Some improvements on the DVB-SI parser Setup Fixed: Long serial numbers could not be entered during the setup Version 6.23.17 July, 15 th 2011 Valups Tivizen New firmware 2.1.310 USB Mode Home Network Mode Added Bonjour device discovery. Fixed: A wrong device state was set on THC start when using multiple Netstream devices. Fixed: THC could not store channel list Fixed a crash on THC startup on Windows 7 with KB2507938 and KB2533623 Updated DVB-S frequencies for several satellites. Updated DVB-T frequencies for Berlin Version 6.24.08 October, 11 th 2011 Valups Tivizen New firmware 2.1.333 (includes some improvements for USB Mode and solves a problem with special characters in WPA passwords) Solved a problem where DVB-C channel scan could not be started Add DVB-S frequencies for Nilsat 101/102/201 Atlantic Bird 7 Improve.log Maintenance Minor Bugfixes Version 6.25.08 November, 24 th 2011 Tuning Added support for TERRATEC H5 (MKIII) and TERRATEC T5 (MKII) Dynamic device management: Handle connection and disconnection of USB devices DVB-S: Support for Unicable (EN50494) with
o o o Elgato EyeTV Netstream Sat Elgato EyeTV Sat Elgato EyeTV Sat Free Maintenance Avoid crashes when disconnecting devices while THC runs Editor New version v. 5.51.0.425 Fixed: Cinergy HT PCI (MKII) was not supported anymore Fixed: (bug was introduced Oct-10) Fixed: EyeTV Sat/Sat Free not available after resume Version 6.27.10 July, 11 th 2012 Common Fixed monitor aspect ratio was not properly detected for some Netbooks (e.g. resolutions of 1024x600, 1366x768) Fixed a crash which happened when closing THC and leads to missing recording jobs. Fixed switching analogue TV channels takes very long when tuning to any other receiver before Improved channel switching times Fixed audio is not muted when THC starts in silent mode User interface Fixed various buttons on the control panel are disabled in specific situations OSD Added an option to the advanced settings tab to enable/disable storing logical channel numbers (LCN) during channel scan Fixed EPG details view sometimes shows information of previous shows instead of the current Version 6.28.00 October, 10 th 2012 Added support for EyeTV Micro Version 6.28.02 October, 30 th 2012 Corrected signal strength display for EyeTV Micro Maintenance Setup changes for Windows 8: Only install a single tile
Channel database Fixed bug that not all channels in THC exported from THC to a Netstream device appeared in ios or Android apps. This happened if the video type was not found for a channel during scan. Preview Fix channel was unmuted after changing channels Version 6.28.08 April, 16 th 2012 New EyeTV Netstream Service installer v.1.01.00.16 Fix a EyeTV Sat Free Unicable problem Updated DVB-T frequencies for Italy Updated DVB-S frequencies for Astra 19.2