Improve audio/video content type detection process to support more types of Media Server such as Vista UPnP server, Mezzmo UPnP server...
☆ Change UI:
Support localization for 9 languages: French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Chinese.
Fix bug related to iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus screen resolution.
Auto scroll long file name in list view mode.
Upgrade of version 6.4.5:
☆ Improve media player:
Fix bug cannot play some mkv video in iOS 7.
Add option to set amount of change when using gestures (Changed Value Speed).
Add option to disable auto hide playback controls and corresponding gesture.
Fix bugs app freeze in a while when play video/audio in the first time.
Add feature to allow to watch movies later without internet connection.
Fix bugs chromecast does not goto the next track when play some kind of video files.
Fix bugs sometimes does not display video when connect to AppleTV.
Fix bugs crashes, hangs when play video from https link.
Fix bugs green screen when play none-yuv420p video.
Fix bugs lack of text when play embedded subtitle movie.
☆ Change UI:
Native support iPhone 6 Plus screen resolution.
Add option to get thumbnail at specified time.
Add option to get network thumbnail from external artworks. Support name are: "folder.jpg", "folder.png", "artwork.jpg", "artwork.png", "artworks.jpg", "artworks.png", movie-filename.jpg, movie-filename.png.
☆ Fix bugs:
Fix bugs app crashes in some special network environment.
Fix bug to hide app contents when start/resume from background if the password is ON.
Fix bugs app freeze in a while seconds when start WebDAV/Http Server.
☆ Cloud Driver integration (iOS8 only):
Ability to import files from other apps from "Locations" (iOS 8).
Integration with iCloud Drive (iOS 8).
☆ Touch ID integration (iOS8 only):
Ability to use Touch ID for all operations that require application password.
☆ Upgrade Unzip/Unrar module:
Add progress bar when unzip/unrar.
Support unrar password-protected rar file.
☆ Improve Playlist:
Add menu context to allow user to add files/folders to playlist directly.
Can add to playlist from both local iPhone/iPad and remote network server (Samba, Afp, Ftp, UPnP).
☆ Add Watch Later feature:
Allow user to add current network video to Watch Later.
User can watch the added video later without internet connection.
User CAN NOT copy, move or export the added files.
Upgrade of version 6.3.3:
☆ Improve media player:
Add feature to auto select audio/video/subtitle track by language.
Support text and bitmap subtitle for AirPlay (AppleTV).
Support bitmap subtitle for Chromecast.
Improve video transcoding to fix bug Chromecast hangs while playing high bit rate video.
Fix bug Air Play does not continue play next item (when in background).
Fix bug cannot connect to Chromecast in iPad iOS8.
Add continuous gestures mode.
Add option to enable/disable sound boost. (Default is disable)
☆ Fix bug FTP client:
Fix bug "no permission" when connect to some kind of server (ZFTPServer).
☆ Appearance:
Add option to turn on/off thumbnail of network server. (Default is on)
Add progress indicator when play in popup mode.
Upgrade of version 6.2.0:
☆ Improve media player:
Synchronize audio and video when play video via network.
Fix bugs: hang when stop playing video that contain embedded subtitle.
Improve media detection to fix bug cannot play some avi file (H264, MP3).
Support sound boost for all type of media files.
Add feature to allow play video from website directly.
Improve video buffer length calculation to fix bug lagging while play H264 file over unstable network.
Remove code that retrieve subtitle from UPnP server to fix bug hanging while play audio/video.
Enlarge playing buffer to resolve lagging problem while playing full HD video over network.
☆ Add new feature for streaming all types of video to AppleTV.
New video transcoder module allows to stream all types of video to AppleTV natively.
Hardware video and audio encoder for high performance and low battery consumption.
☆ Add new feature for streaming all types of video to Chromecast.
Stream all types of video and audio to Chromecast natively.
Support almost types of subtitles including srt, sub, msi, ssa, aas.
Hardware video and audio encoder for high performance and low battery consumption.
☆ New video converter module:
Hardware decoder/encoder to convert video with high performance and low battery consumption.
Works well with almost video and audio format.
Support external subtitle and movie's embedded subtitle.
☆ Import/Export photo and video from/to Camera Roll:
Import/Export photo and video from/to Camera Roll.
Convert none-mp4 video then import to Camera Roll.
☆ Samba improvement :
Re-add Samba 4.x backwards compatibility feature.
User can determine which version of Samba to use.
User can determine which version of LANMAN Authorization to use.
Fix bug cannot connect to WDTV, iUSBPort with empty password.
☆ HTTP/WebDAV Server improvement :
Allow to create folder inside subfolder from web browser.
Sort files/folders in web browser base on current sort settings.
Display progress when receive file from web browser (upload file using web browser).
Check available free space before receive file from web browser or WebDAV client.
☆ Change UI :
Add new Network Settings screen (move from General Settings).
Add new Appearance Settings screen (move from General Settings).
Allow user to change size of thumbnail.
Add Gesture Settings screen (on Playback Settings)
☆ Enhance Features:
Add some more gesture controls and allow configure gesture in settings.
☆ Fix bugs:
Crashes when put it into background while display samba server contents.
Cannot browse contents of some Media Server type (UPnP).
Does not display subtitle from FTP server.
Does not play m3u8 stream.
Cannot add bookmarks in WebBrowser.
Cannot play H264 video file that does not have key video frame at the beginning.
Keyboard isn't shown automatically on alert in iOS 8; playlist.
History is not updated when delete, rename, move, copy... files.
App keep disable autolock after stop from popup play screen.
App in 32 bits devices crashes when browse/play from AFP server.
Web Browser: bug that always so alert when starting download action.
Remote events: bug that sometimes unable to remote events.
Upgrade of version 6.0.0:
☆ Support armv7s and arm64 natively:
Now BUZZ Player can run on newly iOS devices natively. That improve application performance and stability.
☆ New UI and Features:
Display contents of local folder, history, playlists, and network servers by tabs.
Allows to open multi network servers simultaneously.
New History and Playlist mechanism.
Allows manage file and folder from network servers.
Support display video in retina mode.
Add POPUP PLAY mode to allow user do other taks such as viewing pictures, manage files/folders...while running media player.
☆ Improve Media Player:
Improve BUZZPlayer H264 video hardware decoder for playing H264 video files smoothly.
Add gestures to allow user to control playback (fast forward/backward, playback speed, audio volume, brightness...) by gestures.
Support remote control event to allow user to control BUZZ Player remotely.
Improve stream hot switching feature to allow user to switch audio/video/subtitle streams smoothly.
☆ Support iOS8 and fix bugs:
BUZZ Player now can run on iOS8 normally.
Fix bug cannot connect to some SAMBA server.
Fix crash bug while playing file in AFP server. (Almost done but still remain in unstable network - It's technical difficulty.).
Older versions up history
Upgrade of version 5.0.1:
☆ Fix some bugs and improve some funtions in all iOS version and iPad device:
Fix bug that cannot display subtitle when play video over samba share.
Fix bug that cannot play rtsp:// streamming video.
Fix bug that media player resume automatically when app enters background.
Fix bug that cannot open old history network link file.
Improve search function on Main screen, Internet Browser screen, Subtitle setting screen for more convenient and information when searching.
Fix bug that Network Browser display file information without separate between modified date and file size.
Fix bug sometimes display wrong picture file when open finished download files on Downloads window.
Fix bug cannot open picture, audio, video file when using Open In feature from other app.
Fix some mistyping texts on Subtitle settings
Fix bug inconsistent Font Name setting between Settings on main screen and Subtitle settings on Video Playback screen.
Fix bug wrong position and size of Master volume controls on Video Playback screen.
☆ Fix some bugs relate to iOS version and iPad device:
iOS version 7: Fix bug displays text with some incorrect font size when user changing system font size.
iOS version 5, 6: Fix bug don't have action button on Web Browser screen.
iOS version 5: Fix bug displays interface with slow animation after tapping song list button on Video Playback screen.
iPad 1: Fix some bugs UI on Picture Viewer function such as displays additional toolbar in some cases, does not display thumbnail of picture files.
Upgrade of version 5.0.0:
☆ Support iOS 7 and new user interface for iOS 7.
☆ Improve user interface with gentle icon sets and some other changes.
☆ Improve Video Playback module
Improve Video Playback quality that allows playing H264 full HD video (mkv, mp4...) smooth.
Newly support select arbitrary subtitle file to display along with video even when playing file on playback screen.
☆ Improve Picture Viewer module for iPad 2 and later with new user interface, more functions and stability:
Improve speed and view method that allows displaying and continuously browsing photos faster and more smooth.
New navigate function that allows fast navigating to arbitrary photo in list by dragging thumbnail slider.
New sharing functions that allow attaching photo and sharing with your friends via Mesage, Email, Facebook, Twitter.
New copy function that allows copying photo to system clipboard and paste to any apps support paste photo function such as mail app.
New air-print function that allows printing photo via wifi
New thumbnail view mode that allows displaying thumbnail of all photos at one time.
☆ Improve Internet Browser module with more functions and stability:
Remember history of visited sites to manage in History window and suggest each time you typing the address in address bar.
Improve download function.
☆ Improve Network Browser module with more stability and support simultaneously play and copy video files via SAMBA server.
Upgrade of version 4.1.0:
☆ Upgrade "Media Download" feature. Now, user can download standard audio (mp3, wav, 3gp) & video (mp4, 3gp, mov) from almost website.
☆ Add "Video Converter" feature. Now, user can convert all video files to mp4 format with various options and amazing conversion speed.
☆ Improve Video Playback Quality that allows play mp4 HD video via SAMBA & AFP protocols smoothly.
☆ Add new feature to support playing 3D video.
Upgrade of version 4.0.2:
☆ Change color conversion algorithm for better video display.
Upgrade of version 4.0.0:
☆ Improve playback quality by using GPU hardware color conversion (iOS version 5.0 or later only).
☆ Newly support view pictures: 13+ picture file formats (jpg, jpeg, jpe, jp2, bmp, png, gif, tiff, tif, cbz, ico, pict, tga), 10000 pixels x 10000 pixels picture (~100 MB JPG file). Please refer to View Pictures topic for more details.
Upgrade of version 3.1.0:
☆ New MKV Player allows to play 1080p MKV video:
Play local mkv (H264, AAC/AC3) smoothly: Upto 1080p mkv on iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPad 2, iPad 2012(iPad 3).
Play SMB (Windows share) and AFP (Mac OS share) mkv (H264, AAC/AC3) file smoothly .Upto 1080p mkv on iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPad 2012(iPad 3).
Stream mkv video to Apple TV (local and SMB/AFP network video).
Note: This improvement does not apply for FTP and HTTP (including Media Server - UPnP) protocol.
Upgrade of version 3.0.3:
☆ Fix some bugs and improve some functions:
Fix bug that BUZZ Player crashes unexpectedly of version 3.0.2, especially on iPad 2012.
Fix bug that BUZZ Player wrongs to change order of items in playlist and playlists by dragging order icon in Edit mode on main screen.
Fix bug that BUZZ Player cannot launch after about 30 seconds due to too much data to load at launch time.
Fix bug that BUZZ Player doesn't recognize flac file extension with "Open In..." feature from other apps.
Correct misspelling of thumbnail on setting window.
Additional display seeking time while dragging slider to seek audio/video on playback screen.
Upgrade of version 3.0.2:
☆ Fix some bugs and improve "Disable Auto Lock Screen" function:
Web Browser: fix bug cannot open some websites or some UPnP servers by enter server Website's address on Web Browser.
Shared Server Browser: fix bug "Sort By Date" doesn't function on some system language setting.
Others: improve "Disable Auto Lock Screen" function to only disable auto lock screen while playing file and don't disable auto lock screen while browseing or other screens.
Others: additional support to download and unrar file immedidately after finishing download file or "Open In" from other app.
Upgrade of version 3.0:
☆ User Interface:
Additional support Rentina Display.
Additional support portrait mode, lock/unlock auto rotation.
Additional support thumbnail display mode.
Additional support gestures: swipe to delete file, folder, playlist; long press to display actions menu in normal mode (not edit mode).
Clean and clear user interface.
☆ Wifi sharing:
Additional support UPnP server (media server) sharing with customizable connection port.
Additional support WebDAV (http) server sharing with customizable connection port.
☆ Web Browser:
Additional support MULTI-TAB browsing.
Enhance download with many additional file types.
☆ Others:
Support Open in feature for integrating with other app to open arbitrary file by other app.
Additional support download management: recent download and download in progress, re-download, show distination location of downloaded file.
Upgrade of version 2.0.2:
☆ Relate to iOS 5:
Fix bug cannot play file with scheme buzzplayer:// from other app such as Safari...
Fix bug cannot play file from other app by Open In... feature
☆ Playback function:
Fix bug video and audio out of sync after pause and resume.
Fix bug stop playing at the end of some files.
Add option to justify fast forward / fast rewind value (setting Playback > Fast Forward/Rewind Interval).
☆ Wifi sharing (HTTP server):
Fix bug cannot stream, copy files/folders with space in name and path.
☆ Web Browser:
Add zoom by gesture function.
Upgrade of version 2.0.1:
☆ Fix some bugs:
Some bugs of AFP and improve WebDav servers: cannot remember play position afp, crash afp when wake up from background.
Bug crash when performing some actions with files/folders/playlist
Bug some times having wrong layout of collapse table on main screen
Bug cannot play uPnP server
Upgrade of version 2.0:
☆ Newly support AFP and WebDav servers.
☆ Fix bugs on iOS 5: cannot open file with buzzplayer:// scheme; don't automatically update files list after transfering files from iTunes; cannot delete folder contains files.
☆ Fix bug cannot download file in background, bug crash when resume playing video from background and some bugs relate to manage files.
Upgrade of version 1.9.4:
☆ Fix bug cannot access samba share files on Mac LION servers. Note: to connect as Guest user on Mac LION servers, please type user name "guest" and blank or arbitrary password.
☆ Change UI icons
Upgrade of version 1.9.3:
☆ Local Network browser:
+ Fix bug permission of Guest user when play samba share files on some Windows servers
+ Correct some misspelling messages
Upgrade of version 1.9.2:
☆ Local Network browser:
+ Fix bug cannot play/copy samba share when connect as Guest user on Windows server
+ Save status of Local network windows after playing network files
Upgrade of version 1.9.1:
☆ Fix bugs of version 1.9:
+ Fix bug crash when tap Done button on playback screen
+ Fix bug cannot remember local network screen in some cases
Upgrade of version 1.9:
☆ Local Network browser:
+ Improve uPnP browsing method to fix some bugs: empty folders on some NAS such as Synology, unstable displaying contents of uPnP share folders
+ Add function to cancel action when connect to a local network share item
+ Add setting "General" > "Auto Search Share Servers" to avoid auto search sharing server at first time open "Browse Network" screen
+ Fix some bugs of FTP, SMB: cannot connect with user name that has password contains special characters: @, #...; cannot re-connect with other user name, password
+ Fix bug crash when browsing local network and the wifi is broken
☆ Playback:
+ Fix bug sometimes crash when play HD and full HD video
+ Add setting "Playback" > "Auto Hide Playback Controls" to allow remain showing Onscreen Playback Controls while playing files
☆ Others:
+ Fix bug duplicate Network History items
+ Little change on user interface appearance
Upgrade of version 1.8:
☆ Playback quality:
+ Fix bug playback quality of version 1.7 and continue improve video rendering algorithm to display video more smoothly
+ Add "Decoding Method" setting to select appropriate decoding method for normal video or large video (HD, full HD video)
☆ Subtitle:
+ Fix bug don't display external subtitle through Samba (SMB)
+ Fix bug display wrong internal bipmap subtitle
+ Fix bug display wrong subtitle shadow on external display
Upgrade of version 1.7:
☆ Playback quality:
+ Improve video rendering algorithm to display HD video more smoothly
+ Add "Software Color Conversion" setting to fix color conversion problem for some video sources (IP camera, some video files...)
+ Fix bug crash when play serial YUV flash video.
+ Fix bug cannot play 3gp file with “Auto Select Engine” in iOS 4.3.2 and later
☆ Local Network browser:
+ Improve browse samba speed
+ Fix bug cannot browse samba folder contain “%” character
☆ Video Subtitle:
+ Add shadow to subtitle
+ Fix bug display wrong image embedded subtitle
☆ Built-in Web Browser:
+ Auto change %20 to space character in download file name from web
☆ External Display:
+ Fix bug incorrect displaying video on some TV models
Upgrade of version 1.6:
☆ Improve video quality:
+ Speed up about 50% to sync between audio and video (especial valuable with mkv and rmvb file)
+ Support xdiv (avi) file to play HD (720p)
+ Support xdiv (avi) file to play full HD but still very slow and need improve more
Upgrade of version 1.5:
☆ Add AirPlay feature for video
With AirPlay feature support, you can streaming all BUZZ Player supported audio/video files (need AirVideo application on PC if play non-standard Apple supported video files) on your Apple TV by using BUZZ Player. You can easily play a list of audio, video files, not only one file.
NOTE: to use AirPlay to play video file, you need Apple TV 2 and update to iOS 4.3 on both your iPhone/iPod Touch and Apple TV.
☆ Improve some functions:
+ Allow user rename extension of file
+ Support vdr which can play on previous version when change to mpg extension
+ Add more subtitle font sizes: 10, 12, 14
+ Auto detect subtitle file format to display subtitle even when the subtitle was accident changed the extension (ex: from .srt to .sub)
☆ Fix some bugs:
+ Fix bug of External Display feature that cannot display full screen on some TV model.
+ Bug don't save Subtitle text encoding for next time launch BUZZ Player
+ Bug don't save playing position when tap Done button on Playback screen
+ Fix bug display wrong message when rename file/folder to new file/folder name that already exist
+ Fix bug don't display BUZZ Player in "Open In" list on iOS 4.3
Upgrade of version 1.4:
☆ Add Air Video support for Built-in Network Browser
With Air Video support, you can browse, play media sharing files from Air Video Server on your PC for good video quality with live conversion video format feature of Air Video Server. Read more detail on "Browse Local Network" topic
☆ Add feature to disable iTunes USB Sharing
This feature allow you to disable synchronize your Documents folder of BUZZ Player on Device when needed (such as when update new version of BUZZ Player from iTunes)
☆ Add function sort Files/Folders: allow you to sort files, folders on device or local network by name, date, file type, file size...
☆ Add function to remember user name / password for Local Network Connection so that you don't need to retype them next time open local network
☆ Improve some functions: display subtitle on more than one line when needed, save text encoding of subtitle
☆ Fix some bugs: miss some local network contents, turn screen 180 degree on start up
Upgrade of version 1.3:
☆ Improve video quality to display full frame of large video
☆ Add Built-in Internet Browser to browse Internet, play and download media files and download zip then unzip to device
☆ Add feature to play and copy folder of Local Network Browser
☆ Playback function: add fast forward, fast backward; add progress while loading video
☆ Add feature to connect Network through cellular network (3G, GPRS...)
☆ Add feature Password protection to protect your private data: password to open application, open specific folders.
☆ Fix some bugs: external display, not saving network playlist, flick playback screen when rotate device continuously multi times, cannot remember position of all media file types
Upgrade of version 1.2:
☆ Add uPnP protocol support for Built-in Network Browser
With uPnP protocol support, you can browse, play and copy sharing media sharing files from uPnP compliance hardwares or softwares. Read more detail on "Browse Local Network" topic
☆ Allow user change aspect ratio of playing video
Read more detail on "Playing Files / Change video's aspect ratio " topic
☆ Improve video quality for VOB files
☆ Add feature Auto-Resume playback position
This feature auto remembers to resume audio/video files on your device or audio/video SMB sharing files on your local network so that media files will play at the position you stopped previous time. Read more detail on "Playing Files / Auto-Resume playback position" topic
This feature allow you to select audio/video/subtitle stream of one audio/video file that have multi embedded audio/video/subtitle streams. Read more detail on "Playing Files / Select embedded audio/video/subtitle stream to play" topic
☆ Add feature Auto-Balance audio channels
This feature allow you to justify left-right audio channels while playing an audio/video file. Read more detail on "Playing Files / Justify left-right audio channels" topic
☆ Add feature Subtitle Timing Offset
This feature allow you to justify timing offset of subtitle when playing video files. Read more detail on "Playing Files / Justify subtitle timing offset" topic
☆ Fix bug sometime display video with mirror picture
Upgrade of version 1.1:
☆ Add Built-in Network Browser allows user to play and copy files from Widows/Mac/Linux PC and remote FTP servers. (SMB & FTP Support).
☆ Add feature to display embedded subtitle in videos files.
☆ Add feature to allow user to call BUZZ Player HD to play media files from external application such as mail, readers...
☆ Fix TVOut problem when using AV Component Cable.
☆ Fix screen aspect problem when play DVD file.
☆ Fix bug when play RTSP stream video with authentication