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. Its
highly recommended to do so. Otherwise some parts of the new hardware will not work as expected.

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3 Supported devices
Name
Cinergy 250 PCI
Cinergy 400 TV mobile MKII
Cinergy 1200 DVB-C

Bus

Analogue

additional

PCI

FM Radio

PCMCIA

PCI

DVB-C

DVB-T

DVB-S

X
X

Cinergy 1200 DVB-T

PCI

Cinergy 1200 DVB-S

PCI

Cinergy 2400i DT

PCIe

Cinergy A USB XS

USB

Cinergy DT USB XS Diversity

USB

2X

Cinergy HT PCI

PCI

Cinergy HT PCMCIA

PCMCIA

Cinergy HT USB XE

USB

Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS

USB

Prodigy Hybrid TV USB

USB

Cinergy S USB

USB

X
2X
X

USB 1.1

Cinergy T USB XE (MKII)

USB

Cinergy T USB XS

USB

Cinergy T (BDA)

USB

Cinergy Piranha

USB

Grabster AV 400

USB

Cinergy 800e PVR

USB

Grabster AV 250

USB

Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS

USB

Cinergy Hybrid XE

USB

Cinergy 850e PVR

USB

Cinergy HT Express

USB

Cinergy T Express

USB

Cinergy 800e PVR

USB

Cinergy T USB XE

FM Radio

Cinergy 850e PVR

USB

Cinergy HT USB PVR

USB

Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS FM

USB

Cinergy HTC USB XS

USB

Cinergy C PCI

PCI

Cinergy C PIC HD

PCI

DAB, T-DMB

Cinergy S2 PCI

PCI

Cinergy S2 PCI HD

PCI

Cinergy S PCI

PCI

Cinergy CI USB

USB

FM Radio

DVB-S2
CI

Cinergy TC PCI CI

PCI

Cinergy T USB XXS

USB

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 !!!

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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

0x153B1118

TerraTValue

0x153B1119

TerraTValue

0x153B111A

TerraTv Radio+

0x153B1123

TerraTv+

0x153B1127

TerraTValue

0x153B1134

TValue Radio

0x153B1135

TerraTValue

0x153B1139

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

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4 Known issues

You cant 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

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

Audio
o

Fix: No sound after timeshift when muted in timeshift

New: Soft audio mute

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

Channel Editor
o

New: New menu entry to save changes

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

Common Interface
o

Fix: CI was used for FTA channels

Fix: MMI messages were not send to OSD

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

Change: Decrypting of multiple services is now disabled by default. To enable it, go to

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)

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

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

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Cut!
o

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

New: Implemented new commandline (-analyze <filename>) to analyze files automatically

Fix: Improved loading bigger TS files

Devices
o

Cinergy HTC USB XS: Workaround for setting Spectral Inversion

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

Cinergy HTC USB XS: Workaround for QAM detection

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

Fix: Removed duplicate strings in result details

Frequencies
o

Added frequencies for DVB-T (Belgian)

Added frequencies for DVB-S (Eurobird 9)

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

Updated frequencies for DVB-C (Austria Cablecom)

Updated frequencies for DVB-C (Unitymedia)

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

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

General
o

Change: Speed up TerraTec Home Cinema start

Change: Smooth CPU usage and memory load

Added support for MCE remote

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

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

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Options
o

New: New options page Advanced.

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

General

User Interface

Added some tooltips with advanced descriptions for specific options

Recording

Improved combo boxes for recording options

Added UI for MP3 recording

Improved codec dialog

Updated link for XviD codec download

o

Audio / Video

Channels

Fix: For H.264 always the first found H.264 decoder was used. Now the CyberLink
H.264 Decoder is the default selection again.
Don't always retune after changing the channel list

OSD
o

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Store last OSD EPG view

New Timer Edit OSD

Improved calculation of signal strength

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

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

Removed channel logo in TV info

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PIP
o

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

Zapping speed in PiP mode improved

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

Fixed: OSD was kept in small PiP window.

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)

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

FM scan: assign station names from RDS

Recording
o

Add Title to manually added timer entries

Added button to refresh codec lists

Added MP3 and WAV recording for radio

disabled merge of Timers

Finished recordings will be automatically analysed by Cut! now.

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

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

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

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

Added option to set the default length of direct recordings

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

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

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

Remote Control Editor

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/SVideo)

Improved detection of scrambled channels during channel scan

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

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

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

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

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Setup
o

Improved installation of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable

Improved silent mode for setup

Shutdown
o

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

Improved shutdown timer dialog

Subtitles
o

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

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

Fixed some problems with the TvTv server update

Added Portuguese translations for TvTv Setup Wizard

When TvTv is disabled, the options are only greyed

User Interface
o

Hotkeys are now loaded from XML file

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

New: Submenu for external inputs into the context menu

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

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

Update
o

Fix: Teletext subtitles were not always updated

updated update XML structure to Version 1.1

Video
o

Fixed wrong aspect ratio handling for h264

Fixed wrong aspect ratio when moving video window to secondary monitor

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5.2 Version 5.101.00

Cut!
o

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

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

Implemented handling DELETE key in recordings OSD

Recording

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

Setup
o

My NOXON is now unchecked by default

OSD

Updated frequencies for DVB-C (Kabel Deutschland)

Noxon Home Server

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

Frequencies
o

August, 26th 2008

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.

New Feature: ZDF Mediathek

TVTV
o

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

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

UI

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5.3 Version 5.102.00

UI
o

Fix: DeskBand cannot be activated

5.4 Version 5.103.00

August, 26th 2008

August, 29th 2008

General
o

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

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

PiP

Recording
o

Fix: Manual recordings are lost at the end of THC

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

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)"

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

User interface
o

Updated OSD bitmaps

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

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5.5 Version 5.104.00

Setup
o

September, 1st 2008

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.

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

OSD
o

Fix: Recordings cannot be deleted in the OSD.

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

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

Cut!
o

Improved filter registration

Implemented Drag&Drop for the PiP window

PiP

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5.6 Version 5.105.02

General
o

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

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

EPG

Fix: Crash when MMI list received from CAM.

Channel Editor
o

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

Fix: Channels could not be sorted by channel.

Cut!
o

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

Common interface
o

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

User interface

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

Setup
o

September, 5th 2008

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).

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5.7 Version 5.106.00

Analogue TV
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

Improved calculation of Windows Task Scheduler tasks

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

Scan
o

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

User interface
o

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

MPEG
o

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

General
o

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

FAQ
o

Removed workaround "AnalogWorkaround_TuneTwice" except for "Cinergy Hybrid XE"

Audio
o

September, 19th 2008

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

Setup
o

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

Fix: VersionCheck could not download update information

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

Fix: Framedrops on Arte HD

TV

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5.8 Version 5.108.00

General
o

Implemented basic MP4 playback for online media

Improved parsing streams for online media

Slightly improved fast rewind

Recording

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

Added symbolrate for DVB-S

Bitrate is now also shown for MPEG-TS file playback

Teletext
o

Fixed: ITV HD cannot be received

Setup
o

added extended option to set the filemask of recordings

Scan
o

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

Playback

Improved French translation

OSD
o

September, 29th 2008

Fixed: analog teletext was disabled accidentally

Timeshift
o

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

Fixed handling multiple timeshifted stations

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

Fixed: No live video after timeshift mode was stopped

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5.9 Version 5.108.01

September, 29th 2008

OSD
o

Fixed: The recording list in the OSD is empty

5.10 Version 5.109.00

General
o

Updated ReceiverCaps.ini

Updated Italian language files

Recording
o

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

5.11 Version 5.111.00

Fix: save filemask from extended options

OSD
o

October, 10th 2008

Options
o

October, 7th 2008

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.

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5.12 Version 5.112.00

User interface
o

Fix: Redraw problems in favorites list

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

EPG search
o

October, 21th 2008

Fix: Special character in EPG search

Recording
o

Fix: playback during record for .MPG files.

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

tvtv

5.13 Version 5.115.00

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.

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

Frequencies
o

Updated frequency for KabelBW (DVB-C)

5.1 Version 5.116.00

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

October, 23th 2008

Timeshift
o

October, 22th 2008

November, 3rd 2008

Frequencies
o

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

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

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5.3 Version 5.118.00

Scan
o

November, 4th 2008

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!

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