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TerraTec Home Cinema Seite 1/17

1 changes in Version 5.100

1.1 TerraTec Home Cinema

Version 5.100 is a maintenance release. We worked to improve stability, usability and visibility. Thus there are no new major features but many minor improvements to make watching TV more comfortable than ever.

1.2 Minor changes

• Improved OSD

• Added MP3 and WAV recording for radio

• Import channel list on scan options page

• Added advanced options page

• Added dynamic favorites list for ‘most seen’ and ‘last seen’ channels

• Recordings are automatically analyzed by Cut! to speed up opening files in Cut!

2 Important notes

2.1 Update from previous versions

Version 5.100 has many internal changes so it is recommended to uninstall all previous versions below 5.100 before installing a version 5.100 ore above. The user settings are not affected. They could be kept.

2.2 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 Supported devices

Name Bus DVB-C DVB-T DVB-S Analogue additional

Cinergy 250 PCI PCI X FM Radio

Cinergy 400 TV mobile MKII PCMCIA X

Cinergy 1200 DVB-C PCI X

Cinergy 1200 DVB-T PCI X

Cinergy 1200 DVB-S PCI X

Cinergy 2400i DT PCIe 2X

Cinergy A USB XS USB X

Cinergy DT USB XS Diversity USB 2X

Cinergy HT PCI PCI X X

Cinergy HT PCMCIA PCMCIA X X

Cinergy HT USB XE USB X X FM Radio

Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS USB X X

Prodigy Hybrid TV USB USB X X

Cinergy S USB USB X

Cinergy T USB XE USB 1.1 X

Cinergy T USB XE (MKII) USB X

Cinergy T USB XS USB X

Cinergy T² (BDA) USB X

Cinergy Piranha USB X DAB, T-DMB

Grabster AV 400 USB

Cinergy 800e PVR USB

Grabster AV 250 USB

Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS USB X X

Cinergy Hybrid XE USB X X


Cinergy HT Express USB X X

Cinergy T Express USB X



Cinergy HT USB PVR USB

Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS FM USB X X FM Radio

Cinergy HTC USB XS USB X X X

Cinergy C PCI PCI X

Cinergy C PIC HD PCI X

Cinergy S2 PCI PCI X

Cinergy S2 PCI HD PCI X DVB-S2

Cinergy S PCI PCI X

Cinergy CI USB USB CI

Cinergy TC PCI CI PCI X

Cinergy T USB XXS USB X

All TerraTec TV cards should work with this software. Newer TerraTec TV cards may not yet be contained in this list.

!!! Please make sure to use the latest drivers available on the TerraTec homepage !!!


The following devices are no longer actively supported by the TerraTec support. Nevertheless they might work with the TerraTec Home Cinema.

Device Vendor ID / SubVendor ID

Cinergy 800i PVR 0x153B1173

TerraTValue 0x153B1117



TerraTValue 0x153B111A

TerraTv Radio+ 0x153B1123

TerraTv+ 0x153B1127


TValue Radio 0x153B1135


TValue Radio 0x153B1140

Cinergy 200 TV 0x153B1152

Cinergy 200 USB 0xEB1A2800

Cinergy 250 USB (PAL) 0x0CCD0036

Cinergy 250 USB (PAL/SECAM) 0x0CCD0037

Cinergy 400 TV 0x153B1142

Cinergy 600 TV Radio 0x153B1143

Cinergy 600 TV Radio 0x153B1158

Cinergy 400 TV mobile 0x153B1162

Cinergy 400 USB 0x0CCD003B

Cinergy 1400 DVB-T 0x153B1166


4 Known issues

• You can’t watch MPEG recordings during recording

• MPEG recordings with more than one audio track play only the first audio track

• Split MPEG recordings are not concatenated automatically during playback

• DVB-H is not supported yet

5 History

5.1 Version 5.100.26 August, 22nd 2008

• Analogue TV

o Fix: Analogue TV doesn't show audio/video when using the MPEG Encoder

o Fix: Overscan is lost, when enabling the MPEG Encoder manually

• Audio

o Fix: No sound after timeshift when muted in timeshift

o New: Soft audio mute

o Change: Removed Stereo/Mono/Dual Channel entries for AC-3

• Channel Editor

o New: New menu entry to save changes

o Fix: Renaming channels in the left list doesn't work

• Common Interface

o Fix: CI was used for FTA channels

o Fix: MMI messages were not send to OSD

o Fix: Receiver was deactivated and activated again when watching scrambled channels

o Change: Decrypting of multiple services is now disabled by default. To enable it, go to Options -> Device Properties and enable "Multi Decryption"

o Fix: "Scrambled - no ci present" message appears on FTA channels

• Codecs

o Change: Updated Audio Decoder to the latest version (Fixes problem with 6-channel settings)

o Change: Updated MPEG2 and H.264 Video Decoder to the latest version

o Change: The alternative demultiplexer mpg2splt_mce.ax will now only be loaded on Windows XP


• Cut!

o Fix: MPEG file could not be opened by Cut! due to a problem with the MPEG-2 Demultiplexer

o New: Implemented new commandline (-analyze <filename>) to analyze files automatically after recording.

o Fix: Improved loading bigger TS files

• Devices

o Cinergy HTC USB XS: Workaround for setting Spectral Inversion

o Fix: DvrApi/CapturePeer deadlock with Cinergy HTC when switching between DVB-C and DVB-T

o Cinergy HTC USB XS: Workaround for QAM detection

o Cinergy DT USB XS Diversity: Fix: The devices was completely switched off if "Force diversity mode" was selected

• EPG search

o New: Added "clear history" button to EPG Search dialog

o Fix: Removed duplicate strings in result details

• Frequencies

o Added frequencies for DVB-T (Belgian)

o Added frequencies for DVB-S (Eurobird 9)

o Updated frequency for K46 in Unitymedia (DVB-C) cable

o Updated frequencies for DVB-C (Austria Cablecom)

o Updated frequencies for DVB-C (Unitymedia)

o Updated frequencies for DVB-S (Astra) -> Arte HD

o Updated frequencies for DVB-S (Astra 2A/2B/2C/2D)

• General

o Change: Speed up TerraTec Home Cinema start

o Change: Smooth CPU usage and memory load

o Added support for MCE remote

o Change: Improved handling of the -fullscreen parameter (TV window will now be maximized directly)

o New: Added command line option '-repair' to register all filter and recreate tuning spaces


• Options

o New: New options page ‘Advanced’.

o Advanced

� Added the option to set the default length of direct recordings

� Added option to configure the start time of the PC before a recording

o General

� Added some tooltips with advanced descriptions for specific options

o User Interface

� Fix: A monitor aspect ratio of 16:10 is detected as 8:5

o Recording

� Improved combo boxes for recording options

� Added UI for MP3 recording

� Improved codec dialog

� Updated link for XviD codec download

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o Audio / Video

� Fix: For H.264 always the first found H.264 decoder was used. Now the CyberLink H.264 Decoder is the default selection again.

o Channels

� Don't always retune after changing the channel list

• OSD

o Fix: Next event showed "1:00" when no event present

o Fix: Red button in main menu shuts down application instead of showing Shutdown OSD

o Fix: Scrollbar in EPG details (TV info) doesn't work

o Fix: OSD context menus (e.g. audio track, subtitles, ...) are immediately deactivated, when using the mouse-sensitive OSD

o If no OSD bitmaps exist for a specific skin, the bitmaps are loaded from the "Default" skin

o New: "External inputs" channel list in OSD channel list

o New: "Last seen" and "Most seen" channel list in OSD channel list

o New: text control as a counter for the list of internet radio stations in my NOXON OSD

o Store last OSD EPG view

o New Timer Edit OSD

o Improved calculation of signal strength

o Fix: When shutting down PC via OSD a dialog is shown for 30 seconds.

o Disabled OSD messages for mode changes, favourite list changes, FFWD and FREW

o Removed channel logo in TV info


• PIP

o After zapping in PiP mode file position was reset to the beginning of file

o Zapping speed in PiP mode improved

o Fixed: Nvidia fix doesn't work for the PiP window

o Fixed: OSD was kept in small PiP window.

o Fixed PiP not redrawn with VMR7

• Radio

o Fix: Popup menu took seconds to start when FM Radio was selected after Analog TV of DVB-T (Especially with Cinergy HTC USB XS)

o Added RDS info to audio OSD (Cinergy HTC USB XS only)

o FM scan: assign station names from RDS

• Recording

o Add Title to manually added timer entries

o Added button to refresh codec lists

o Added MP3 and WAV recording for radio

o disabled merge of Timers

o Finished recordings will be automatically analysed by Cut! now.

o Improved AVI XviD recording (especially video format and aspect ratio handling)

o Fix: Metainformation (HTML) was not written for direct recordings

o Added option to enable/disable setting modified timestamps for AVI recording

o Added support for "DV Video Encoder" when recording in AVI format

o Added option to set the default length of direct recordings

o Fix: AVI recording for Analogue TV only created a file of a few KB

o Fix: WMV and AVI recording doesn't work, if the Audio Decoder is set to 6 channel

o Keep TerraTec Home Cinema running when a recording is watched during recording even when 'Shutdown after recording' is set.

• Remote Control Editor

o Support of new product ID for Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS FM (HD)

• Scan

o Added PAL-60 as TV standard (required for some devices connected via Composite/S-Video)

o Improved detection of scrambled channels during channel scan

o Fix: Analogue: Cinergy HT PCI (SAA713x): FM scan did not find correct FM stations.

o Fix: DVB-T scan took very long because of the DVB-C QAM workaround.

o Fix: Increased "wait for lock time" from 2 to 3sec. (required for Cinergy T USB XE (MKII) drv. v.8.xx.xx.xx)

o Implemented channel import (File, Online) into the options page "Scan"


• Setup

o Improved installation of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable

o Improved silent mode for setup

• Shutdown

o Implemented handling for applications that will block the automatic shutdown mechanism of TerraTec Home Cinema

o Improved shutdown timer dialog

• Subtitles

o Fix: Teletext subtitles were not always updated

• Teletext

o Fix: Teletext filter did not work because of a too small ringbuffer

• Tuning

o Improved receiver selection for DVB-S2 channels. TerraTec Home Cinema will now search for a receiver which is capable of receiving S2

o Improved receiver selection for scrambled channels. TerraTec Home Cinema will check if the channel is scrambled and search for a receiver which is able to decrypt the scrambled channel

• TVTV

o Fixed progress bar on channel mapping

o Fixed some problems with the TvTv server update

o Added Portuguese translations for TvTv Setup Wizard

o When TvTv is disabled, the options are only greyed

• User Interface

o Hotkeys are now loaded from XML file

o New: "Last seen" and "Most seen" channel list in context menu

o New: Submenu for external inputs into the context menu

o Added message box that is shown, when the screenshot function is not available and the user presses P to get a screenshot.

o Screenshot button is now greyed, if screenshot function is not available.

• Update

o updated update XML structure to Version 1.1

• Video

o Fixed wrong aspect ratio handling for h264

o Fixed wrong aspect ratio when moving video window to secondary monitor


5.2 Version 5.101.00 August, 26th 2008

• Cut!

o Error messages have now a checkbox to ignore them in the future

• Frequencies

o Updated frequencies for DVB-C (Kabel Deutschland)

• Noxon Home Server

o My NOXON is now unchecked by default

• OSD

o Fixed: Channellist in OSD timer is empty when a movie is played.

o Fixed: No video in the viewport when playing a video stream.

o Implemented handling DELETE key in recordings OSD

• Recording

o Fixed: Automatic Cut! analysis of finished recordings doesn't work, if the application is automatically closed after a recording.

• Setup

o Fixed: Install after uninstall was impossible

• Streaming

o Temporarily disabled 'Stop' button for streaming content in the UI, because currently there is no specific action defined for that case.

o New Feature: ZDF Mediathek

• TVTV

o TvTv is disabled after Setup unless it's enabled by the TvTv Wizard.

• UI

o Disabled Softmute. Fixes volume is getting lower when changing channels fast.



• UI

o Fix: DeskBand cannot be activated


• General

o Updated the H.264 and MPEG-2 decoders to the latest version

• PiP

o Fix: PiP window is not restored after the OSD channellist is closed

• Recording

o Fix: Manual recordings are lost at the end of THC

o Fix: Under some circumstances editing a timer entry could create a new entry instead of replacing the old one

o Fix: According to KB 318355 the default wake up time before a recording was set to two minutes and key INI key was renamed to "StartTime (min)"

o Fix: Some recordings don't work when they are added through tvtv. For example this happened on Eurosport.

• User interface

o Updated OSD bitmaps

o Improved description of timeshift buffer size in options (Added values for HDTV)


5.5 Version 5.104.00 September, 1st 2008

• Setup

o Fix: XML components will not be installed by the setup.

• Options

o Fix: "Hide control window from taskbar" was greyed, although this setting is independent of other settings.

o Settings for auto update now immediately take effect, when clicking on the update button.

• OSD

o Fix: Recordings cannot be deleted in the OSD.

o Fix: Settings button is not shown in TV info OSD.

o Fix: No OSD when THC is started with an analogue radio station.

• Cut!

o Improved filter registration

• PiP

o Implemented Drag&Drop for the PiP window


5.6 Version 5.105.02 September, 5th 2008

• General

o Fix: "My movies" and "My pictures" folders should not be created automatically, if another folder was set for recordings and screenshots.

• Setup

o Fix: Install NHS even when THC is not in the default directory.

• User interface

o Fix: Under some circumstances UI objects are no longer drawn because used GDI Objects exceeds 10000.

o Fix: Option channels include "|99" after automatic renaming.

• EPG

o Fix: Handle special character in EPG search e.g c't.

• Common interface

o Fix: Crash when MMI list received from CAM.

• Channel Editor

o Fix: Channel numbers are not shown in the left list.

o Fix: Channels could not be sorted by channel.

• Cut!

o Fix: Cut! crashes when loading TS files.

• Analogue TV

o Fix: Uncompressed analogue video is not correctly rendered, when the system language is set to English (USA).



• Analogue TV

o Removed workaround "AnalogWorkaround_TuneTwice" except for "Cinergy Hybrid XE" (TM6010) with driver v.1.00.08.03 or earlier

• Audio

o Made softmute configurable in the advanced options (Volume - Fade in/out). Default is off

• FAQ

o Fix: Updated description to watch transponder dumps (with the channel editor)

• General

o Fix: VersionCheck.exe and InstToool.exe no longer activate the UAC under Vista

• MPEG

o Fix: Wrong timestamp calculcation for MPG recordings (Framecounter was increased twice)

• User interface

o Enable button 'Trace.log' only if the file Trace.log is available

• Recording

o Create wakeup task in the windows task scheduler if the system enters the suspend or hibernate mode

o Improved calculation of Windows Task Scheduler tasks

o Fix: Show subdirs even when they start with 'De'

• Scan

o Fix: scan of Danish DVB-C transponder w/o NIT

• Setup

o Fix: Start menu link to help file of the right language

o Fix: VersionCheck could not download update information

• TV

o Fix: Multiple PMT for different SID in one PID was not supported (use by TV4 in France)

o Fix: Framedrops on Arte HD



• General

o Improved French translation

• OSD

o Fixed: Listbox selection by keyboard input doesn't work.

• Playback

o Implemented basic MP4 playback for online media

o Improved parsing streams for online media

o Slightly improved fast rewind

• Recording

o added extended option to set the filemask of recordings

• Scan

o Fixed: ITV HD cannot be received

• Setup

o Fixed: XML components cannot be registered when the setup is started for the first time

• Signal info

o Added modulation and symbolrate for DVB-C

o Added symbolrate for DVB-S

o Bitrate is now also shown for MPEG-TS file playback

• Teletext

o Fixed: analog teletext was disabled accidentally

• Timeshift

o Fixed flickering video when viewing one station while another station runs timeshifted

o Fixed handling multiple timeshifted stations

o Fixed: After returning to a timeshifted service all channels were selectable again.

o Fixed: No live video after timeshift mode was stopped



• OSD

o Fixed: The recording list in the OSD is empty

5.10 Version 5.109.00 October, 7th 2008

• General

o Updated ReceiverCaps.ini

o Updated Italian language files

• Recording

o Fixed: MPEG files were played without audio in Windows Media Player


• Options

o Fix: save filemask from extended options

• OSD

o Fix: In timer edit OSD click on 'end time' opened 'duration' for edit

• Update

o Changed XML file content format to version 1.2. Updates from older versions 5.100-5.109 will no longer work.



• User interface

o Fix: Redraw problems in favorites list

o Fix: Key '0' on numpad was translated to '1'

• EPG search

o Fix: Special character in EPG search

• Recording

o Fix: playback during record for .MPG files.

• tvtv

o Automatically save tvtv login settings. Fixes error message on first TvTv EPG download.


• General

o Improved readability of the FAQ

• Recording

o MPG Playback with multiple audio tracks: Distorted playback, no video, no sound. Error was accidentally introduced in v.5.112.

o MPG Playback with multiple audio tracks: Show AC-3 track always last

• Frequencies

o Updated frequency for KabelBW (DVB-C)


• Timeshift

o A wrong audio track was selected after timeshift was started

• Recording

o Fixed MPEG playback of a running recording: Playback stopped before the end of file

• Station scan

o Station scan was not possible anymore because of a corrupted XML file

5.2 Version 5.117.00 November, 3rd 2008

• Frequencies

o Added channel 47 to DVB-T "Hannover/Braunschweig"

o Workaround for hang during scan of ORF transponder (ASTRA 1H; 12,69225GHz horz; 22.0 MS/s; FEC 5/6)


5.3 Version 5.118.00 November, 4th 2008

• Scan

o Fixed: Application hangs during scan on ORF transponder

• Recordings

o Fixed: MPEG Export (TS to PS) did not work for files that were edited with Cut!

whats new

Documents

usb 0x0ccd003b cinergy

usb 0xeb1a2800 cinergy

dvbt pci x cinergy

dvbc pci x cinergy

dvbs pci x cinergy

usb pal 0x0ccd0036 cinergy

pci pci x fm radio cinergy

tv 0x153b1142 cinergy