CinemaSix 1.1 Beta Ready

Sujal Patel <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 02:05:34 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.roku.technical
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've fixed a bunch of bugs and just released 1.1 beta.  You can get it here:

http://www.up.org/cinemasix


Here is a summary of the changes:

  - HTTP streaming now reconnects when the network is disrupted, you press
    pause for too long, or the playlist moves to the next file.  It
    attempts to reconnect for about 5 seconds.  After a reconnect, you may
    need to press "ROTATE" to knock it back in sync.  I need to make this
    much better in the future, but it will require adding code to VideoLan.

  - DVD lipsync seems better since I added a bunch of code to handle
    problems in the stream like timestamps going backwards.

  - Bug fix: Aspect ratio isn't reset by decoder reinits

  - PCR's are now used to reconstruct the source audio timeline for live
    streaming and TS file playback.  Translation:  Lipsync for some long
    movies will be better!

Here is what I need from you folks.  I need three things in particular
tested by the masses:
  - Did non-streamed DVD playback get better from 1.0 to 1.1 wrt
    lipsync?  Have you ever seen CinemaSix (any version) do better?  Test
    with both digital output on and off.
  - Did TS file lipsync get better (if problems occured in 1.0)?  Please
    send e-mail if StreamPlayer can play a clip correctly and CinemaSix can't.
  - Did HTTP streaming reconnect fix the problems you've been seeing.


Sujal