HDPVR Capture -> Version History

This is the version history page for HDPVR Capture, showing the last 20 software updates. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here.

Index:

• Version 3.9.0 (Feb 3, 2018)
• Version 3.8.3 (Oct 19, 2016)
• Version 3.8.1 (Oct 12, 2016)
• Version 3.8.0 (Oct 8, 2016)
• Version 3.7.0 (Sep 30, 2015)
• Version 3.3.4 (May 27, 2013)
• Version 3.3.3 (May 8, 2013)
• Version 3.3.2 (May 2, 2013)
• Version 3.0.20 (Feb 21, 2013)
• Version 3.0.15 (Jan 3, 2013)
• Version 2.12.1 (Mar 11, 2012)
• Version 2.11.2 (Sep 13, 2011)
• Version 2.11.0 (Sep 12, 2011)
• Version 2.9.2 (Mar 8, 2011)
• Version 2.9.1 (Feb 28, 2011)
• Version 2.9.0 (Jan 13, 2011)
• Version 2.8.2 (Nov 8, 2010)
• Version 2.8.1 (Oct 15, 2010)
• Version 2.8.0 (Oct 10, 2010)
• Version 2.7.0 (May 1, 2010)

• Release Date: Feb 3, 2018
• • Change: Display iCal scheduled recordings for 2018 onwards.
  • Cleanup: OSX 10.10 related API cleanups.

• Release Date: Oct 19, 2016
• • Bugfix: Don't throw a hard assert if the HDPVR2 performs a USB timeout.

• Release Date: Oct 12, 2016
• • Bugfix: Corrupt video appears in some recordings.

• Release Date: Oct 8, 2016
• Bugfix: On OSX 10.10, app would crash after downloading a license key.
  Bugfix: On OSX 10.10, app would crash when clicking 'record' when no signal present.
  Cleanup: Extended the iCal view into 2017.
  Cleanup: Codesigning fixes related to xcode8.

• Release Date: Sep 30, 2015
• • Feature: Additional OSX 10.11 El Capitan compatibility fixes.
  • Feature: Upgraded the entire application from 32bit to 64bit.
  • Feature: Added IR Blaster support for Cable-box Cisco-9865HDC.
  • Feature: Added IR Blaster support for Cable-box Cisco-4742HDC.
  • Feature: Changed the HDPVR2 157xxx user controls, slightly brighter.
  • Cleanup: Upgraded to Spark Framework v1.12 for El Capitan Compatability.
  • Cleanup: Resolved a GateKeeper related code-signing issue.
  • Cleanup: Removed Colossus product support from the app.
  • Cleanup: Ensure Spark doesn't download incompatible upgrades, min version is 10.8.
  • Cleanup: Fixed a gatekeeper issue related to rpath and failing to load a dylib.
  • Bugfix: 145210 models hang when attempting a recording on OSX 10.10.2 and higher.
  • Bugfix: In custom mode, using insane, fix an issue where bitrate shifts from 14Mbps to 13Mbps.
  • Bugfix: Files not overwritten when user explicitly enabled the preference.
  • Bugfix: HDPVRCapture Narration playlist not being created, and tracks not added automatically.
  • Bugfix: PS4 HDMI 1080p60 could alternative between signal locked and no signal.
  • Bugfix: Rocket device could hang when attempting to stop recording.
  • Bugfix: HDPVR Model 49xxx experiencing El Capitan signal lock related issues.
  • Bugfix: HDPVR start/stop recording crash.
  • Bugfix: Issue related to HDPVR2 device detection with OSX 10.11, El Capitan.
  • Bugfix: Fixed issue related to genuine license keys being incorrectly processed.
  • Bugfix: Rocket rapid start/stop results in instabilities.
  • Thanks: Many thanks to GregN for finding / reporting recent HDPVR issues.

• Release Date: May 27, 2013
• Feature: HDPVR2 GE Plus - Auto detects HDMI PCM or Dolby 5.1, no user selection required.
• Bugfix: HDPVR2 GE Plus - Fixed occasional issue with noise during HDMI recordings.
• Bugfix: Occasional exception during start of HDPVR 1212 recording.
• Bugfix: PCR related issue with the HDPVR 1212.
• Bugfix: UI duplicate errors if the hardware became unstable during startup.
• Cleanup: Minor improvements to the default HDPVR2 default video levels.
• Cleanup: Renamed the audio input names when using the HDPVR2 GE Plus.
• Cleanup: Removed unused functions and various if0 code.

• Release Date: May 8, 2013
• Feature: Added support for capturing HDPVR2 SPDIF PCM Audio.
• Feature: Auto detect SPDIF PCM vs Bitsream audio modes during capture.
• Bugfix: HDPVR 1212 Bling ring did not illuminate.
• Bugfix: Application can crash during the iTunes CreatePlaylist.
• Bugfix: Occasional crash when adding a voice recording to iTunes.
• Bugfix: V2 license key warning message shown when v2 and v3 license keys are installed.
• Bugfix: A/V sync issues or missing audio after conversion.
• Cleanup: Changes to the HDPVR2 HDMI Hotplug handling.

• Release Date: May 2, 2013
• Bugfix: GE Model 145xxx YPRPB showed lock when green sync missing.
• Bugfix: GE Model 145xxx YPRBR 1080i50/60 fluctuates between lock and unlock.
• Bugfix: Captures bytes UI indicate could report larger than expect values briefly.
• Bugfix: HDPVR2 could hang during recording in a busy system.
• Bugfix: AC3 5.1 Channel remapping output filename related fix.
• Bugfix: HDPVR2 Aspect Ratio support for SD recordings.
• Bugfix: HDPVR2 Random crashes during recording.
• Bugfix: Rare (potential) crash related to signal lock check when recordings start.
• Bugfix: Recordings were interrupted unnecessarily by the main UI controls.
• Bugfix: HDPVR2 GE Noisy audio during recording.
• Bugfix: Conversion window popup menu didn't appear for multiple jobs.
• Bugfix: A/V sync issue during job conversion resolved.
• Bugfix: HDPVRCapture application crash when recording from the HDPVR 1212.
• Bugfix: HDPVR 1212 PAL/Secam related fix.
• Bugfix: Colossus video glitches intermittently during recording.
• Cleanup: Presents a 'hardware failed' message if the HDPVR2 hardware stops responding.
• Cleanup: Removed various debugging messages.
• Cleanup: Added various sanity checks on HDPVR2 buffer handling.
• Cleanup: Upgraded HDPVR2 firmware to March 2013 release.
• Cleanup: Upgraded ffmpeg conversion tool.

• Release Date: Feb 21, 2013
• Feature: Adding support for the HDPVR2 1512 PVR Edition. (No blasting or SPDIF support yet)
• Feature: Adding support for the newer HDPVR2 GE (productid 0xe524).
• Feature: Adding newer HDPVR2 GE HDMI 1080p50/60, 640x480p support.
• Feature: Adding newer HDPVR2 GE HDMI 1080i50/60 support.
• Feature: Adding newer HDPVR2 GE HDMI 720p50/60 support.
• Feature: Adding newer HDPVR2 GE HDMI 640x480p xbox support.
• Feature: Adding newer HDPVR2 GE HDMI 480i/576i support.
• Feature: Adding newer HDPVR2 GE YPRPB 1080p50/60 support.
• Feature: Adding newer HDPVR2 GE YPRPB 1080i50/60 support.
• Feature: Adding newer HDPVR2 GE YPRPB 720p50/60 support.
• Feature: Adding newer HDPVR2 GE YPRPB 480i/576i support.
• Feature: Adding newer HDPVR2 GE YPRPB 720x480p support.
• Feature: Adding newer HDPVR2 GE Composite 480i/576i support.
• Feature: Automatically download the license key and activate when a new device is detected.
• Feature: In demo mode, upload anonymous statistics for product improvement purposes on startup.
• Bugfix: Signal Monitoring was not disabled after a device was removed.
• Bugfix: Crash related to PARAM_AUDIO_BOOST.
• Bugfix: Rare app hang when stopping a Colossus recording.
• Bugfix: Cable disconnect and format detection related bugfix for HDPVR2.
• Bugfix: Record button created 0 length file when no device attached.
• Cleanup: Moved the AC3 5.1 track remapping 32bit code into it's own process.
• Cleanup: Cleanups related to removing the HDPVR from the running application.
• Cleanup: Cleanups related to internal device detection.
• Cleanup: Added support for the original HDPVR 1212 IRBlaster.

• Release Date: Jan 3, 2013
• Bugfix: Rare crash when the device is disconnected.

• Release Date: Mar 11, 2012
• 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

• Release Date: Sep 13, 2011
• bugfix: Fixed a 10.5 specific crash on startup.

• Release Date: Sep 12, 2011
• Release 2.11.0
  • 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.
• Release 2.10.1
  • 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.

• Release Date: Mar 8, 2011
• Bugfix: Recordings would occasionally abort during conversion to MP4.

• Release Date: Feb 28, 2011
• 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.

• Release Date: Jan 13, 2011
• 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.

• Release Date: Nov 8, 2010
• 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.

• Release Date: Oct 15, 2010
• Bugfix: Ensure appropriate message is shown when HDPVR Firmware fails to start.
• Bugfix: Ensure HDPVRCapture correctly handles removal of HDPVR.

• Release Date: Oct 10, 2010
• 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.

• Release Date: May 1, 2010
• 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