Information: a) SW BETA RELEASE version 2.0.43 for Gigaset M740 AV. This SW is intended for Germany and France b) This is no official version. Only a beta release c) This SW beta release will not be supported by Siemens. For a released and supported version use 1.50.6 d) The Linux source files are identical to 1.50.6 besides the new FTP server e) If you want to downgrade please make a power on/off sequence (unplug/plug power cable) 4 times. Afterwards you can update the Gigaset M740AV with a released SW version (1.50.6) f) Improvements and bug fixes in beta version 2.0.43 compared to official release 1.50.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Improvements in 2.0.2 (included also in 2.0.43) Timer: · Days of week are displayed in timer menu when an EPG series was programmed (Now Portal Feature Request #444) Network: · During entering a password it is displayed visible until it is saved · When editing a network share the default characters "---" will be automatically deleted when activating editing Picture Playlist: · It is possible to set the displaytime for pictures played with a picture playlist. Setting can be made by using Menu -> Settings -> General -> Dia Displaytime Operating Mode: · A new operating mode was implemented. It is call "Hot Power Mode". When using this mode the Gigaset M740AV will power up within 2-3 seconds. The two modes can be selected by Menu -> Settings -> General -> Power mode · When switching off Gigaset M740AV in "Power Save Mode" a pop-up will be shown EPG: · Within EPG menu the blue key can be used for activating the program. Now blue key can also be used when the EPG of a program was entered. But when the cursor is placed on a future telecast which was already programmed then the functionality of the blue key remains as "Timer" Playback: · When a playback of an already recorded program will be started then the default setting is changed to "resume video playback" (Now Portal Feature Request #488) · When EXIT button will be pressed during a playback of an already recorded program or video a pop-up will be displayed asking the user if the playback should be stopped Switch of programs: · When switching between programs there is blackscreen in order to achieve faster switching times · When activating a program not only the program number and channel will be displayed but also the current telecast Recording: · When a standby recording is ongoing then the blink sequence is different from normal blink sequence (the sequence is faster). This makes it more convenient to differentiate between live and standby recording · Deletion of recordings: it is selectable whether only the last recording or all recordings which belong to this series should be deleted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Improvements in 2.0.21 (included also in 2.0.43) Timer: · days of week are displayed formatted · days of week are also displayed even when the next episode of the programmed EPG series is still not available EPG - selection of other time periods: (Now Portal Feature Request #342) · Possibility to browse inside EPG by using the keys ">>" and "<<". By doing this browsing you can skip to the next or to the previous telecast of the selected program. The telecasts of the other programs are chronologically synchronized. Example: During Live-TV press EPG and put cursor on a program. Then press >> and the next telecast of the selected program will be displayed. All other telecasts will be chronologically synchronized · Possibility to browse inside EPG by entering a time offset in hours relative to current time position displayed in EPG. The telecasts of the other programs are chronologically synchronized. Example: During Live-TV press EPG. If you want to know what will be telecasted in 12 hours press keys 1, 2 and afterwards >>. This relative jump will be done from time the EPG information is being displayed and not from the current local time Playback: · relative jump during timeshift or playback (Now Portal Feature Request #449, 506) During timeshift or playback press pause "||" and then enter a time offset in minutes relative to the current time position followed by ">>" if you want to skip forward or "<<" if you want to skip back. A jump forward will automatically be done when the duration between the entry of following digits is more than 2 seconds. So if you want to make a jump forward you only need to enter the minutes without ">>". After 2 seconds the Gigaset M740AV will automatically jump forward. After the jump the playback will restart at the chosen position Switch of programs: · When activating a program not only the program number and channel will be displayed but also the current telecast and additional the start and stop time of this telecast (Now Portal Feature Request #373) Deletion of recordings: (Now Portal Feature Request #467) · when a series recording is selected you can select if you want to delete the whole series or only the latest episode · when an episode of an series recording is selected you can delete only this recording Medialocator: · Possible to play "only selected file" or "all files sorted" or "all files random" within a directory (Now Portal Feature Request #300, #471) Program sort: · program numbers are displayed (Now Portal Feature Request #173) Sleep timer: · During live-TV the function of the red button is changed to "Sleep timer". You can select different times and can also disable the sleep timer when it was once activated (Now Portal Feature Request #348) SW Update: · Timer entries and playlists will be saved and restored after SW update. This feature will effectively work only when SW 2.0.21 was installed. So for future SW updates timer entries and playlists will be restored. (Now Portal Feature Request #448) USB devices: · 2 USB harddiscs or memory sticks (Now Portal Feature Request #302) are supported · support of USB harddiscs with integrated HUB ******************************************************************************* * IMPORTANT: Due to this you have to select the recording folder after the SW * * update again because the name of the USB device was changed from USB-HDD to * * USB-HDD-1 or USB-HDD-2 * * Check also your playlists because they are also referring to USB-HDD * ******************************************************************************* For FTP usage: Name and password for both devices is usb1 resp. usb2 DVB-T Radio: (Now Portal Feature Request #492) · DVB-T radio is included. To select between TV or radio you have to go to EPG menu and by using the yellow button you switch between TV and radio programs · To sort DVB-T radio programs you have to use the blue button within program sort menu UPnP client interface: (Now Portal Feature Request #472) · first implementation of UPnP client interface. To enable UPnP go to Menu -> Settings -> Network -> UPnP Client This feature will be improved in next beta version Connectivity and support of PC-SW: ******************************************************************************* * For the future usage of additional PC-SW you have to use this and the next * * following SW versions * ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Improvements in 2.0.25 (included also in 2.0.43) UPnP client interface: · Further implementation. UPnP server is now accessible via media locator. A new entry UPnP is visible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Improvements in 2.0.36 (included also in 2.0.43) Medialocator: · After stopping a playback of a media file (MP3, MPEG-2 video or picture) there is no more live-TV in the back ground only a black back ground (Now Portal Feature Request #561) · When selected to play "all files sorted" or "all files random" a skip to the next file is possible(Now Portal Feature Request #413, #441, #577) EPG - selection of other time periods: (Now Portal Feature Request #342) · Possibility to browse also inside the EPG of a program by entering a time offset in hours relative to current time position displayed in EPG. Example: During Live-TV press EPG. Then select a program and press OK or right button. If you want to know what will be telecasted in 12 hours press keys 1, 2 and afterwards >>. This relative jump will be done from time the EPG information is being displayed and not from the current local time. If you step back to EPG of all channels then this selected time will be shown for all programs. If you want to see the current programs then press only EPG again. Functionality of EXIT key: (Now Portal Feature Request #515) · EXIT will close only the last active operation. For example following situation: A playback of an already done recording is ongoing. PIP is activated and live-TV is shown in small PIP window. Additionally menu was opened. If you press EXIT the first time then the menu will be closed. If you press EXIT a second time the PIP window will be closed. If you press EXIT a third time then you will be asked whether you want to stop the playback. · When EXIT will be pressed during a playback when EPG info is displayed then only EPG info will be closed but not asked whether the playback will be stopped. EXIT cancels only the last active operation. Sleep Timer: · 1 minute before sleep timer will finish a pop-up message will be shown Trickmodes: · When pressing PAUSE and then << or >> you will activate slow motion. Pressing PAUSE/PLAY during slow motion will now pause the picture. Pressing PAUSE/PLAY again will resume the playback (Now Portal Feature Request #596) Playback of recordings: · Pressing INFO key twice will display the EPG information of the recording (Now Portal Feature Request #566) Playback: · relative jump during timeshift or playback. Timeout increased to 3 seconds. When after 3 seconds of entering the minutes the key ">>" was not pressed the relative forward jump will automatically be done Deletion of recordings: · when the last episode of a series recording will be deleted within the series recording folder the cursor will be placed to the recording folder and will not stay in an empty folder (Now Portal Feature Request #578) PIP: · PIP window will be closed only by pressing EXIT key (functionality of pressing twice MENU for closing PIP was removed) UPnP: · The UPnP entry will be listed in medialocator at the end. This makes it more convenient for users which are using only USB devices Support of PC-SW PVRPilot: (Now Portal Feature Request #522) · PC-SW PVRPilot is now supported (look at www.pvrpilot.com when PC-SW will be released for Gigaset M740AV) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Improvements in 2.0.43 UPnP: · Client and control are running in parallel · Transcoding with Nero Media Home to MP3 or MPEG-2 · Pictures will be displayed · Thumbnails being displayed · Nero Media Home, Twonkyvision music server and Windows Media Connect are tested · Activating and Deactivating of UPnP improved. EPG · Due to wrong EPG information send from the broadcasters there were only a few EPG entries visible. If there is a gap inside the EPG data then the telecast will be marked with "..." but the following telecasts will be displayed ( Now Portal # 643) g) Bug fixes in 2.0.21: Timer: · Sporadical new episodes of an EPG series were not scheduled Operating Mode (Hot Power Mode): · HDD was not unmounted when switching off Gigaset M740AV in Hot Power Mode Recording: · Sometimes during a playback of a recording it was not possible to use fast forward or fast rewind and the corresponding MPEG files were much bigger than about 300MByte Factory reset: · factory reset was not working and leaves Gigaset M740AV in non operational mode ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bug fixes in 2.0.25: Recording: · MPEG Files of deleted recordings which were recorded with SW version < 2.0.19 will be detected an removed Medialocator: · when playing a list of media files a skip back and forward possible · Infobar shows information which track is being played ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bug fixes in 2.0.36: Medialocator: · Displaying file x from file y when playing files with medialocator was fixed · When playing files in sorted order then the playback will start with the file where the cursor was placed · Sometimes after playing mediafiles with medialocator it was not possible to activate trickmodes (pause, fast forward, fast rewind, slow forward, slow rewind) when doing a playback of a recording · When playing files (sorted or shuffle) only the files will be played belonging to this file-type and the number of files is shown correctly Playback: · relative jump during playback is possible even when timeshift is disabled (set to 0 minutes) Sleep timer: · Sleep timer can also be set during a playback and not only during live-TV Playback: · Making a playback of an recording after a playback of a media file (MP3, MPEG- Video or picture) was done a wrong information was shown in the infobar Playlists: · When activating a playlist it was incorrectly asked whether the user wants to play the current file, or all files sorted or random · After activating a playlist the devices hangs when cursor was moved up or down. EPG recording: · In the EPG channel view the red button is used to mark a telecast for recording, series recording or deletion of a series. When the cursor was placed on the current telecast the description of the red button didn't change although the functionality was changed. UPnP · The UPnP client is now able to be activated or disabled menu -> settings -> network -> UPnP Client USB-Mount: · When recording folder was set to a PC-share the USB device was not correct mounted after restart from hotpower standby mode Recording · improvements when a disturbance occurs (Now Portal bug # 565) or sporadical interruption after a few minutes (Now Portal # 588): EPG: · EPG channel: the description and the operation of the BLUE key was inconsistent if current program is recorded Playback: · After playing pictures with medialocator the trick modes in live-TV were not working Trick modes: · when pressing play after fast rewinding the video paused instead of doing a play back Digital output: · will be switched of also during hotpower standby · when digital output was muted it was wrongly activated when trickmode was activated Recording: · there was still a recording error after a few minutes (Now Portal # 588): USB-HDD: · When recording folder was set to a PC share and also a USB-HDD was connected then it last about 2 minutes after rebooting from hotpower standby mode and activating the USB-HDD Program sort: · After displaying signal quality the blue key (swap between TV and radio programs)was not displayed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bug fixes in 2.0.43: Picture: · 4:3 and 16:9 switching corrected (Now Portal # 583) AC3 sound: · short interruptions fixed (Now Portal # 526) Channel switching: · sometimes channels were skipped (Now Portal # 532) UPnP: · UPnP entry will not displayed when setting a new recording folder or for SW Update · Twonkyvision Internet radio supported (Now Portal # 664) · UPnP can be enabled or disabled. When UPnP is disabled the GigasetM740AV is hided in the network but GigasetM740AV is able to access UPnP server (Now Portal # 582) · Display of pictures (Now Portal # 667) Recording · Recording between 2 and 3 o'clock (Now Portal # 534) · when telecasts where shifted and also recorded there might be the possibility that they were recorded twice(Now Portal # 645) · Recordings not able to use fast forward or rewind (Now Portal # 613) · Recordings sporadically interrupted (Now Portal # 588) · Playback of recordings was not possible (Now Portal # 610) Playback · Sometimes recordings were not able to be fast forwarded or rewinded (Now Portal # 313) Sleeptimer · works now when a playback is running (Now Portal # 642) Medialocator: · When playing files in sorted order then the playback was started with the first file even when the cursor was placed on another file when different media types were located within the directory · when display time was set to infinite then the infobar was not updated (Now Portal # 611) EPG: · It was not possible to page up within a multilateral EPG text information (Now Portal # 668) h) Limitations · Some new texts are only available in German and English i) For installing this version extract the exe-File (self extracting file) and then install the file "2.0.43.wsw"