Firmware changes

Version 1.3.07 - November 17th, 2009

Multimedia Libraries: allow to disable Archos and/or Android libraries automatic updates after USB disconnection (Settings > Device Storage > Multimedia libraries)
Multimedia Libraries: allow to limit Android library indexing to Music/Video/Photos instead of the whole storage
New ThinkFree Mobile 1.1: word finder, charts rendering, zip extraction, larger document handling, etc.
Mail: allow to send various file types (pdf, ppt, doc, xls, zip, apk, etc.) from ThinkFree Mobile
Video: thumbnails were not created for HD videos
Video: improve MP4 files support
Video: improve codec support for MKV files
Video: improve VOB subtitles support and display
Video: sometimes HD videos could not be read, had to reboot to fix the issue
Video: some videos were playing back with a wrong resolution
Video/Music: some MP3 and MPG streams did not play
Video/Music: improve error reporting for unsupported audio/video formats
Music: do not stop FM Transmission when going back to the Music Browser to change track
Photo: zooming of images with a 180 degrees rotation was not correct
Thumbnails: fix some cases of corruption of thumbnails image
Web Browser: fix YouTube fullscreen playback
Web Browser: allow to zoom-in/out with Page-down/up on the Remote Control
Media Club: back button now takes server redirections into account
Network Browser: The current folder name was lost when returning to Network Browser at player exit
Network Browser: Added an animated hourglass while searching for the first UPNP server
GUI: add localized keyboards for Russian, Bulgarian and Greek in Android
GUI: improve Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish translations
TV: touchpad mode didn't allow to reach the whole screen area in 720p mode
TV: HDMI audio output was proposed when video output was analog
System: lower power consumption in suspend mode
System: display was frozen when inserting an SDcard after Arclibrary update
System: prevent Bluetooth (ACRVP) and IR Remote Control key press to wake-up the screen
System: prevent USB mode to be changed during USB connection
System: add localized firmware update messages

Faster than nz?!?!

But anyway. For an Archos employee to inform us of an update, can we assume that it is a big one?

This is a where we are up to so far release to keep the masses happy Please be kind

Youtube HD, HQ and Normal in Archos Media Player works again..

and a lot of thanks to perrin21 for helping with many of the multimedia related bugfixes!!!

any idea when we will get Donut upgrade?
and I guess Flash support will be delayed till next year, as per Adobe statement, correct?

Please note that there will be some more fixes regarding H264 soon, some streams were crashing the codecs and some more unsupported streams will be identified and at least partially played.

Dont push your luck, Youtube works

There is also a screen crashing issue ive already submitted for repair.

Anyone would expect a company to support and ensure that they have a proper product in the field. And while I'm a member of many medical groups (work) and photography groups (hobby), I've yet to witness CONSUMER-BASED support and dare I say almost fanatical displays of enginuity, brotherhood, and goodwill as I have in this Archos community.

So I sincerely thank those here who have contributed to the betterment of all by putting up with the complaints and criticisms of the A5A, all the while helping us to move towards enjoying the use of a device that lives up to our expectations at time of purchase and in some cases actually exceed those expectations.

To date, your efforts have been largely thankless, and even if it's just myself, I'd like very much for that to change.

So THANK YOU to all who participated in bringing us a better Archos experience!

Ken N.

Ditto

Is the smooth bitrate playback support for MKV HD 720p being increased? Last we were testing here on the forum MKV 720p were still smooth with average bitrates of around 3500kbit/s so good enough for MKV 720p TV episodes but not good enough for most MKV 720p movies that usually have average bitrates 4000-5000kbit/s or even more? What are the improvements in that area with this firmware and what does Archos and Texas Instruments expect to achieve at the most?

Is it mostly a MKV parsing issue vs perhaps yet more standard parsing of MP4, M4V and MOV file containers? Anyone seen if and how much bitrate difference is decoded smoothly from using MKV or one of the others like MP4 for 720p H264 contents?

perrin, stay with them for the next firmware update . This forum need people like you.

It seems like a great FW update?
Fine.

Upgrade went smooth and having YouTube HD back is great. THANKS ARCHOS for what I consider a timely firmware update.

Sadly I tried to connect to a Blackberry after the update, and then to tether...nothing...Still getting the error "paired but not connected"...lets hope on the next update they will enhance Bluetooth tethering...Thats my main reason for buying this thing

Cool...thanks for all the work, everyone! I just updated the Wiki with the new firmware info and included a link to the Archos change history as well.

Ugh, I just sent my A5A back to Amazon this morning. I guess I will live vicariously through you all and wait and see if/when the A5A becomes more stable and hopefully gets the Android Eclair upgrade so it can fully utilize the high res Archos screen.