WARNING: This release is not compatible with OSX 10.5 or PPC

Only upgrade if you are running 10.6 or higher

• cleanup: Ensure the system doesn't sleep under certain circumstances.
• bugfix: 2013 Scheduled entries were not always appearing in the iCal view.

• Bugfix: Ensure Split recording feature is disabled if RecordToDisk has been disabled.
• Bugfix: Fixed a memory leak related to closing the Preferences menu.
• Bugfix: Drag/drop to the conversions window would occasionally refuse files.
• Bugfix: Multiple HDPVR license keys within a single license file were deemed invalid.
• cleanup: Minor grammar fix in the Misc / Preferences menu.
• cleanup: Changed the Media info window to use a fixed space font.

• Added: Official support for OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion.
• Added: HDPVRCapture is now formally code signed for additional user security.
• Bugfix: The Show Media window had visual issues during window resizing.
• Bugfix: Preview button was enabled even when VLC was not installed.
• cleanup: Removed support for OSX 10.5.

• Bugfix: Sporadic recording start times with the March 2012 firmware.
• Bugfix: Fixed 'No Video Detection' errors with 2012 firmware.
• Bugfix: Some UI controls occasionally disappeared on 10.6.8.
• cleanup: Moved to xcode 4.3.2 ahead of the 10.8 incremental changes.
• cleanup: DAC3 atom replacement improvements for larger files.
• Added: Support for recording SD video in 16:9 or 4:3 modes (highly experimental)

• Added: A generic log viewer instead of presenting logfiles in TextEdit.
• Added: A specific help button to the main application window.
• Added: Storing the firmware date inside the recording stats packets.
• Added: New post processing task to split M2TS files into 4GB chunks.
• Added: Experimental post processing task to 'transcode to iPod' (640x480) task if VLC is installed.
• Added: New post processing task to remove the DAC3 atom from MP4 files.
• Bugfix: Related to launching tasks which could later crash.
• Bugfix: Showing logs on 10.7 would generate sandbox errors and fail.
• Changed: Redirect the Menu / Help item to www.hdpvrcapture.com
• Changed: Bumped the software upgrade tool to query www.hdpvrcapture.com instead of steventoth.net

• bugfix: Fixed a 10.5 specific crash on startup.

• Enable video preview when streaming to the network.
• Restart VLC for video preview every time the Preview button is pressed.
• Removed a compiler define for FILTER_TAB, no longer required.
• Update the user preferences (default and custom) with good sensible video defaults.
• Enable the video controls for support with the July 27th 2011 firmware.
• Code cleanup to the usb handler, globals and some common functions.
• Various mutex cleanups, make sure we take the mutex during device removal.
• Re-instate mutex locking on device structure.
• Support VLC in /Applications or on the users desktop.
• bugfix: 10.7 Replaced /tmp tmp files with ~/Documents.
• bugfix: 10.7 bug where writing to /tmp is prohibited.
• bugfix: custom video control values were not being restored correctly.
• bugfix: record recording LED remained on with July 27th Firmware.
• Added a single click defaults button to restore video controls easily.
• Disabled the warning if Perian is not installed.
• bugfix: Preferences windows would often not appear when selected.
• cleanup: Only allow a single VLC instance to run concurrently.
• cleanup: Stop the associated VLC instance when encoding stops.

• Feature: Simplified all-in-one menu in the conversion tab.
• Feature: More flexible timing control over manually scheduled iCal recordings.
• Feature: Add support for Tivo Channel Changing via the network remote interface.
• Feature: Improvements enabling app to by used by Accessibility controls.
• Bugfix: Custom Audio Boost setting was lost when the user selected a different audio input.
• Cleanup: Fixed a small handful of memory leaks.
• Cleanup: Switched the project compiler from gcc to lvm gcc 4.2 and xcode 4.0.2
• Cleanup: Removed bare-bones Applescript support.
• Cleanup: Removed spurious console message.

• Bugfix: Recordings would occasionally abort during conversion to MP4.

• Feature: Broadcast system wide channel change notifications.
• Feature: Support for the Firewire 'Channel Changer' app by rti-zone.org.
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Satellite Box Sky-Plus Amstrad
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Satellite Box Sky-Plus Pace BSKYB3100
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Satellite Box Sky Pace 2500B
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Satellite Box Sky Pace DS445NB
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Cable Box Cisco Explorer 4642HD
• Feature: Added support for IR control of Cable Box BT Vision
• Feature: Minor face lift to the UI, improvements to image rendering.
• Feature: Remember the previous time duration after restart.
• Bugfix: Selecting 1, 2 or 3 digit IR blasting could result in a crash.
• Bugfix: IR blaster often sent additional leading zero digits.

• Feature: Allow the network address / ip to persist when custom settings enabled.
• Feature: New preferences - Move files to Trashcan after mp4 conversion (def disabled).
• Bugfix: Fixed a crash related to the IR blasting keycodes
• Bugfix: iCal scheduling generated popup errors and failed to record.
• Bugfix: TitanTV tvpi files failing to load into HDPVRCapture.
• Bugfix: Higher than necessary CPU load when HDPVRCapture is idle.
• Bugfix: Fixed a small memory leak related to USB handling.
• Bugfix: Avoid signal detection handling during recordings, leading to intermittent stalls.
• Cleanup: Remove small amounts of redundant code.
• Cleanup: Truncate the displayed filename if it overflows the dialog.
• Cleanup: Encoder stop improvements, minor performance improvement.
• Cleanup: Replaced a deprecated function.
• Cleanup: Adjusted the threshold that triggers the 'no audio or video' message for low bitrate streams.
• Cleanup: HDPVRCapture now needs to be running for scheduled recordings to trigger correctly.

• Feature: Enable Return/Enter key to start/stop capture.
• Feature: Added support for infinite recording time.
• Feature: Added support for recording to be split into file chunks based on time.
• Bugfix: HDPVR had to be power cycle during startup else not detected.
• Bugfix: Fixes related to file conversions that abort.

• Bugfix: Ensure appropriate message is shown when HDPVR Firmware fails to start.
• Bugfix: Ensure HDPVRCapture correctly handles removal of HDPVR.

• Feature: Added support for a new revision of the Hauppauge HDPVR hardware
• Feature: Added a real-time stream to network capability
• Feature: Added the ability to disable recording data to disk
• Feature: Show on screen error during capture if audio/video signal is bad
• Feature: Show error if video signal disappears
• Feature: Added Tivo IR support
• Changed: Make Rear RCA jacks the default audio input method
• Changed: Make AAC 2 channel audio the default codec when recording analog audio
• Cleanup: Disable video preview if ONLY streaming captured video to network
• Cleanup: Disable post processing if ONLY streaming captured video to network
• Cleanup: If EyeTV is installed then inform user another app is using the HDPVR.
• Cleanup: Warn user if the output directory does not exist.
• Bugfix: Avoid crash when recording and HDPVR is disconnected
• Bugfix: Crash related to miss-handling of preference data with 2.7.1 beta#1
• Bugfix: Don't disable the Ui controls until the hardware has begin streaming.
• Bugfix: iCal scheduled recordings lost the notes field and show information.

• Bugfix: iCal errors when application starts
• Bugfix: iCal errors when TVPI is opened.
• Bugfix: HDPVRCapture creates iCal events with incorrect dates and/or times.
• Feature: Alterations to the iCal view for faster display of your iCal schedules
• Feature: Alterations to the 'Schedule Entry' dialog to improve performance with large lists of schedules.
• Cleanup: Removed support for 10.4
• Cleanup: Removed support for the iCal Applescript interfaces

• Bugfix: Avoid restarting the encoder after extended fade-to-black on the PS3/360.
• Cleanup: Changed the default audio encoder format from 2 Channel AC3 to AAC for easier customer use.
• Cleanup: Minor on-screen text cleanup in the Audio panel.

• Cleanup: Minor wording change in the Preferences / Misc panel.
• Feature: Allow .zip and .txt file formats during 'Add License' procedure.

• Bugfix: Converting .m2ts recordings to .mp4 would abort on 10.4 Intel.
• Feature: Added a 'load-license' button to simplify license key handling.
• Cleanup: Avoid a crash (hopefully) when HDPVRCapture co-exists with EyeTV.
• Feature: Added support for the Next YE1500 STB IR Blasting.
• Feature: Added a 'Preview Video' button to the recording panel.
• Cleanup: Reduced the maxbitrates and reset the default to 16000.
• Cleanup: The actual hardware encoder maxes at 16000.
• Cleanup: Removed the MP4 embedded comment field from mp4 converted files.
• Bugfix: New version of FFMPEG to fix AC3 transcode issue.

• Cleanup: Removed the long-term disabled IR blaster test controls.
• Bugfix: Avoid a crash (hopefully) when HDPVRCapture co-exists with EyeTV.

• Bugfix: Glitches in video recordings at high bitrates under some circumstances.

• Advanced version from 2.5.0-b3 to 2.5.0.

• Bugfix: iCal view hangs after multiple calendar entries are removed.
• Bugfix: Repeating schedules had incorrect launch dates/times.
• Bugfix: Odd task related bug when post processing related to translating ~, possibly new in 10.5.7.
• Bugfix: Automatic conversion of 5.1 after recording did not have 5.1 passthrough enabled.
• Bugfix: Multiple AC3 5.1 conversion tasks running concurrently hung the app. (Quicktime hang)
• Cleanup: Functional change, limit AC3 5.1 task conversion to a single concurrent instance, to avoid a Quicktime hang.
• Feature: Rewrote the internal scheduler to specifically allow any number of AAC or AC3 2.0 conversions concurrently.
• Feature: Warn the user if Perian is not install.
• Feature: Added support for external channel changing, see prefs. Scripts called with args -c -d -f
• Known Issues: Zap2it schedule entries can be wrong by 12 hours, you need to verify the time at entry time.
• Known Issues: PPC post processing can be buggy.
• Known Issues: .mp4 files don't play on the PS3 (Workaround: play the native .m2ts instead)

• Bugfix: Crash/hang during blasting if no 'Enter key codeset' for the selected STB
• Bugfix: No video captured if we're blasting and not using Component, first time around.
• Bugfix: Buffering related fixes when video is lost, to preserve the packet alignment.
• Bugfix: Buffering related fixes if the encoder has to be restarted.
• Bugfix: Related to high CPU load with the new buffering scheme.
• Bugfix: Related to out of order buffers being written to the recording, causing corruption.
• Bugfix: Mutex deadlock between threads on los of signal.
• Cleanup: Removed spurious debug messages.
• Regression: Added Video Control view (Brightness/Contrast controls) (Not working).
• Feature: Updates to the IR database - Added support for the UK BSKYB Thomson STB.

• Increases the number of allowable outstanding USB buffers to compensate for bursty storage drives.
• Improve performance of Stop Recording function.
• Added Ability to split file into 50MB chunks to help with diagnostics.
• Automatically maps the correct AC3 channesl during conversation, when using Quicktime 7.6 and higher.
• Preparation code to re-enable network streaming (not functional yet)
• Bugfix: Removed Video Control view (Brightness/Contrast controls), these don't work with recent HDPVR firmwares.
• Bugfix: Motorola 6412 IR selected selected the incorrect codeset, results in IR blaster failure.

• Bug: Scheduling via zap2it was broken after a recent zap2it website update. (It's better now but not perfect yet).
• Feature: Added option to query the files metadata and produce a report.
• Feature: Starting with Option key depressed enables two debugging / customer support features to analyze files.
• Feature: Ensured Menu / Help launches browser and navigates to online FAQ.
• Feature: Major speed improvements to to post processing capabilities, a 3GB 2 Hour movie now takes 40 seconds to convert on a MacPro, instead of 10-15 minutes.
• Feature: Major resolution changes to the post processing mechanism, all supported resolutions (1080i/720p/480i) and audio codec types (AAC 2.0, AC3 2.0 and AC3 5.1) can now be converted correctly into .mp4
• Feature: Converted files (1080i/720p/480i with AAC or AC3 2.0 or 5.1) are now compatible with the following applications:
• Compatible with: iMovie '09
• Compatible with: MPEG StreamClip v1.9.2
• Compatible with: FrontRow (Tested 10.5.6)
• Compatible with: Final Cut Pro v6.0.5
• Compatible with: QuickTime Player / QuickTime Pro v7.6

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• Feature: Added support for scheduling in using zap2it.com for Canadian customers.
• Cleanup: Compensate if the video glitches to avoid stability issues with Roxio Toast.

• Bugfix: Recordings do not show the correct duration when viewed on the PS3.

• Feature: Allow manual recordings to be accurate to the minute.

• Bugfix: Video signal wasn't detected correctly on cold boot.
• Feature: Lowered the Video Signal check interval to improve performance on low end CPUs
• Feature: New Preferences / Misc option to disable signal detection, lowering CPU overhead.
• Feature: Added time controls to make manual recordings easier.
• Feature: Abort recording if the HDPVR is connected to a low speed USB port.
• Feature: New Preferences / Misc option to override and allow recording on low speed USB ports.
• Cleanup: Minor updates to the tooltips on the Preferences panels.
• Cleanup: Reduced the default recording time from Infinite to 1 hr 30 mins.
• Cleanup: Removed small sections of unused internal code from the early betas.
• Cleanup: Track USB device speed and monitoring options internally for future debugging.
• Cleanup: Track statistics for USB1.1 recordings that exceed 8Mbps and risk stalling.

• Bugfix: Conversion panel task menu did not default correctly in all cases.
• Bugfix: PPC systems would abort during post processing conversion.

• Removed the Get_Video_Format from the recording code, it was causing a long term stall.
• Moved the 'populate iCal view call' from startup to where the user clicks the iCal view, to speed up application startup _and_ to avoid issues where the app will not start because of unknown iCal / Applescript issues.
• Added some prep code to find the users HDPVR Recordings calendar directory.
• Added more configurable debugging options for customer support.

• Added new defaults int to allow various advanced debugging features (internalstate) to be set aiding field support.
• Fixed a major bug with post processing #4 where I was calling quicktime to convert files, but quicktime was loading those files in asynchronous mode, meaning I was getting audio truncated.
• Added support to analyze files for errors.
• Added support for disabling video signal status.
• Added some wallclock performance debugging.