Sobre Joost
(c) 2006, Satis Superque Merce B.V. All rights reserved. This code contains
- trade secrets of Satis Superque Merce B.V. and any unauthorized use or
- disclosure is strictly prohibited.
Revision : $Revision: 67324 $
Build beta 0.5.2
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Second beta release
Cleartype fixed
Build beta 0.5.3
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Improved font clarity
Improved tolerance of faults in streaming, retries.
Interstitials added when beginning to fetch videos
Build beta 0.5.3.1
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Improved interstitial quality.
Build beta 0.6
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Smileys added for chat
Controller fixed on for Welcome Channel
Scaling enabled for aspect ratio
Enabled Preferences screen (Control-P or from the Menu (Control-M))
Mute status persisted between launches.
Show duration of video on EPG
'Power' button now suspends TVP to System Taskbar, Alt-F4 completely closes,
or Close from System Taskbar
NDA appears on every launch during closed beta test.
Full Screen/Windowed icon toggles on button.
Scroll button on mouse supported in EPG, Menu, etc
Default 15 second timeout on dialogs (such as when a video fails to play).
IM Chat window now resizes to application window size.
Icon for executable, etc fixed.
Build beta 0.6.1
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IM Chat temporarily removed for rework and redesign.
Application now runs on some lower specification video that previously
just gave a black screen.
Performance back to the same level as 0.5.3.1
Application now exits reliably from system task bar
Current Channel and show now highlighted in red in Controller.
Accidental replaying of the same show whilst playing it is fixed.
Numerous minor hidden fixes.
Build beta 0.6.2
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Adverts reenabled.
Build beta 0.7
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New animated UI with fade in/out, slide in/out transitions.
New UI is quicker in response in scrolling Channel lists, etc.
Add Channel feature to add channels to the existing list.
Coming up next message towards end of current show.
Chat separated into two plugins.
Channel Chat, anonymous chat on the channel you're currently watching.
Personal Chat, using your jabber account to chat to existing and new buddies.
Ratings Plugin, rate the current show and see the overall rating once
you have rated it.
News Ticker, takes an RSS 2.0 feed and displays it on top of the running show.
Replacement icons for the hot edges, renaming the hot edges to clarify them,
My Channels, My Venice.
Build beta 0.7.0a
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Structured Advertising Packaging, adverts structured around the content.
Build beta 0.7.1
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Seeking.
You can seek within a show, forwards and backwards, for what you have
already seen of that show.
Channel Catalogue.
Mostly fixes and adapting to the new UI system.
Re-enabling the Coming Up Next feature
Improving the feedback on the Ratings Plugin
You can now move the windowed program by clicking and dragging on the video
background.
General improvements in the UI, cleanup
Build beta 0.7.2
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Fix for graphics cards that only support 2 squared textures
Changes in P2P library to improve performance
Changes to avoid issues with anti-virus programmes and other
similar utilities.
Fix for crashes in videos due to a bug in motion compensation
Security and certificate changes
Build beta 0.7.3
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Branding release.
Change of labels and messages to match the branding.
RSS reader now uses mozilla parser all dialects should be supported
Screen saver disabled when full screen.
Chat improvements
Compositing improvements.
Error reporting improvements at startup.
Better application shutdown path.
Build beta 0.7.3.1
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Fix for uninstaller not removing The Venice Project directory
in Program files.
Build beta 0.7.4
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Integration of Core AVC codec.
Row sprites creation improved,
Channel numbers displayed and selectable from the keyboard.
Small windowed screen simplified UI.
Locale support.
Tooltip improvements, dynamic tooltip messaging.
Mid-roll advertising improvements, fix the black screen after advert bug
Actually pause streams and incoming traffic on minimise to system tray.
Airbag support in the client, creates mini dump files in the minidump directory
within the profile directory.
Enable dual monitor support again, window can be dragged from screen to screen
or to overlap screens.
Build beta 0.8.0
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Search has been given the sprite treatment, improvements include info panel
stays open as the results are scrolled through.
Adverts now have overlays, click the top logo during an advert and the interactive
overlay will come up.
Channel Catalogue is improved and now includes all Channels targetted to the
location of the viewer.
Duration of each Show is now on the info panel for the show as well as the EPG.
Show duration on EPG is now in words, 50 minutes, 1 hour, 30 minutes; instead of numbers.
Trivia tracker introduced, delivers timed messages on supported shows.
Improvements generally in delivering video, sprite performance, etc.
Build beta 0.8.0 for Mac OS X
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First beta release
Changes from 0.8.alpha:
- Crashes on quit have been fixed
- Fonts are more readable
- Overall polishing
Includes all 0.8.0 functionality.
Build beta 0.8.1
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Single stable release tree.
Improvement in cairo fonts on Mac
Fix for sticky UI when updating Channels
Memory leak in XPCOM plugged.
Build beta 0.9.0
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Considerable improvements to P2P reading performance to reduce stream startup
times and 'stuttering'
Many improvements to Channel Catalogue code and the layout
- Try out channels
- More information on shows
- Categories of shows.
Delivery of geo targetted Catalogues and start up My Channels
'Hand Icon' to manipulate Channels, delete and reorder (reorder not yet saved).
Content now indexed, allows seeking ahead of what's already viewed (experimental).
New Account registration and login
Invitation system incorporated into My Joost.
Tooltip and Help improvements
Notification that Standby means going to the Taskbar
Improvements to UI code to reduce stuttering.
Widgets are now transparent.
Overlays and Advert Overlays, you can toggle between which one you see
whilst the show is running.
Overlays can be moved
System menu removed, preferences are now in My Joost under Advanced preferences
Notification of age suitability before each show.
New coming up overlay during interstitial
New Interstitial
Plugins for browsers installed at application install time to detect that Joost
is installed on the machine.
Support for remote on Macintosh enabled.
Build beta 0.9.1
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Fixed problem in recovering streams that have more than 5% packet loss
Always on Top mode, available on context menu on video
Baseline of text and refresh of text in Search box of controller.
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