INTRODUCTION
These release notes describes the features and limitations for the NTB software Version 6.2.0.
FEATURES
We recommend that you read the NTB Users Guide
for an introduction to using the NTB.
Users familar with the NTB V5 Web user interface are recommended to read
NTB V6 for V5 users.
Note: It is not possible to update NTB100 series to V6.
Neither is it possible to update NTB3000 series from to V6 in the field as it requires a factory install.
Contact ONELAN if you wish to update your NTB3000 series from V5 to V6.
NEW IN 6.3.0
The following improvements have been made:
New features:
- Time Validaty - Each media item can be set to play only at a time, day or date range of your choice.
- Presentation player - The NTB can now play Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and Open Office presentations.
- Player Status/Playing Now page shows the CPU used by the Web User Interface.
- NTB40 can be setup to output on its Composite connector.
Problems fixed:
- Includes all hot fixes for 6.2.0
- Fix FTP error reporting problem that stop Channel Subscriber working (Hot Fix 6206)
- Fix sound distortion on NTB60x models (Hot Fix 6205)
- Fix permissions on DVB rebroadcaster settings file, allowing boxes upgraded to 6.2.0 to use the rebroadcaster (Hot Fix 6204)
- Fix SAP listener dropping some packets, resulting in missing channels from Exterity TV Gateways (Hot Fix 6203)
- Fix RS232 items in channels not being copied from publisher to subscriber (Hot Fix 6202)
- Fix problem with Tuning DVB-T after update to 6.2.0 (Hot Fix 6201)
- Fix Touch Screen detection to find more models of Touch Screen (Hot Fix 6201)
- Fix Player Status/Playing Now to reduce the CPU load needed to keep the page updated.
- Fix copying of layouts with Text Clocks
TRANSLATION STATUS
The Web User Interface of the NTB is supported in a number of languages.
Note: The Help and User Guide pages are only supplied in English.
Full translation:
Partial translation:
Presentation and Time Validaty features have not been translated.
Everything else has been translated in all languages.
- Arabic
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Chinese
KNOWN LIMITATIONS
- Presentation zones may ignore pop up over other zones.
- Text zones that contain moving text must not have any other zone covering any part
of them as this will lead to failure of the NTB software.
- The NTB40 may not update the screen correctly in some cases when output via the Composite connection.
- The NTB5005 may reboot when starting the Screen or when changing the Screen settings.
- There are limits to the total amount of text that can be drawn by a single item.
- The Web UI has some minor display issues under Windows Internet Explorer 6.
Mozilla Firefox 2 or Windows Internet Explorer 7 do not have these issues.
- When uploading files using Apple Safari it is not possible to show a progress bar.
DETAILED VERSION IDENTIFICATION
The software release version described herein is comprised of a number of sub-packages.
Each sub-package has a build number - in parentheses.
NTB-Signage | NTB Signage Applications | V6.3.0 (13591) |
NTB-System | NTB System | V6.3.0 (13591) |
NTB-WebUI | NTB Web UI Applications | V6.3.0 (13591) |
NTB-library | NTB Library | V6.3.0 (12769) |
NEW IN 6.2.0
The following improvements have been made:
New features:
- NTB610 and NTB615 models are supported
- USB Touch Screen Input for interactive applications (requires seperate license).
- RS232 Control line inputs and outputs for sensing switches for interactive applications.
- LDAP support - add user authenication and permissions can be setup in an LDAP directory.
Tested against Microsoft Activate Directory and OpenLDAP.
- DVB-T Rebroadcaster allows one NTB to stream one DVB-T TV station to any number of NTBs (requires a seperate license).
Note: Receiving NTBs must be updated to V6.2.0.
- NTB support additional languages via the Setup/International page:
Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish and Turkish
- All Ad Hoc controls can now be reset to their default values on the "Ad Hoc Items" page when in Expert mode.
- The NTB shows the current CPU load on the HOME page of the NTB.
If the CPU is overloaded a warning is shown on the HOME page.
CPU overload condiditions may lead to poor quality playback of media.
- If a Hot Fix has been installed the page banner show the version of the Hot Fix.
Problems fixed:
- Include all hot fixes from 6.1.2
- Fix to make it more obvious how to open up the zone properties in the Layout editor.
- Fixed Occassional Movie playback tearing on NTB5000, NT5005 and NTB4000 models.
- NTB will no longed publish to itself over FTP to prevent deleting published files.
- Fix problem with firewalls rejecting FTP REST command when subscribing.
- Fix Video Streaming to work with the DVB-T Rebroadcaster streams.
- Fix Font handling issues with unicode font names and extended font attributes.
TRANSLATION STATUS
The Web User Interface of the NTB is supported in a number of languages.
Note: The Help and User Guide pages are only supplied in English.
Partial translation:
Partial translation:
- Arabic
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish
KNOWN LIMITATIONS
- RealPlayer support has been removed from this release pending updated software from Real.
Do not update to 6.2.0 if you depend on RealPlayer.
- The NTB5005 may reboot when starting the Screen or when changing the Screen settings.
- There are limits to the total amount of text that can be drawn by a single item.
- The Web UI has some minor display issues under Windows Internet Explorer 6.
Mozilla Firefox 2 or Windows Internet Explorer 7 do not have these issues.
- When uploading files using Safari it is not possible to show a progress bar.
DETAILED VERSION IDENTIFICATION
The software release version described herein is comprised of a number of sub-packages.
Each sub-package has a build number - in parentheses.
NTB-Signage | NTB Signage Applications | V6.2.0 (12985) |
NTB-System | NTB System | V6.2.0 (12985) |
NTB-WebUI | NTB Web UI Applications | V6.2.0 (12985) |
NTB-library | NTB Library | V6.2.0 (12769) |
NEW IN 6.1.2
The following improvements have been made:
New features:
- Movie player has been updated. The adds:
- Better WMV9 (aka VC1) support
- Better H.264 (aka MPEG4 AVC) support
- Better XVID and DIVX support
- The NTB's FTP server supports encrypting FTP session using TLS as defined by RFC4217.
Problems fixed:
- NTB failed to startup correctly if a Channel Subscriber has a large amount of data in the channel. For example 8GiB. (Hot Fix 6032)
- Graphical Layout editing failed to work if the Layout name had an apostrophe ("`") in it's name.
- Saving changes from the Graphic Layout editor sometime failed with a traceback.
- Invalid HEX colour values caused a traceback.
- When a text zone was exposed by hiding a zone above it the test zone did not draw its contents.
- Sound was not being played from the input jack for S-Video or Composite TV on the NTB605.
- Changing Ad hoc table contents sometimes failed witha traceback.
- Graphical Layout editing enforces a minimum zone size to avoid a number of problems while resizing a zone.
- Firewall status was not showing the number of bytes or packets matching a rule correctly.
- When a Channel Subscriber activated a channel that changed the size of an Ad hoc Table it sometimes cause the Channel Manager and the UI to fail.
TRANSLATION STATUS
The Web User Interface of the NTB is supported in a number of languages.
Note: The Help and User Guide pages are only supplied in English.
Full translation:
- Arabic
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish
KNOWN LIMITATIONS
- The NTB5005 may reboot when starting the Screen or when changing the Screen settings.
- There are limits to the total amount of text that can be drawn by a single item.
- The Web UI has some minor display issues under Windows Internet Explorer 6.
Mozilla Firefox 2 or Windows Internet Explorer 7 do not have these issues.
- When uploading files using Safari it is not possible to show a progress bar.
DETAILED VERSION IDENTIFICATION
The software release version described herein is comprised of a number of sub-packages.
Each sub-package has a build number - in parentheses.
NTB-Signage | NTB Signage Applications | V6.1.2 (12280) |
NTB-System | NTB System | V6.1.2 (12280) |
NTB-WebUI | NTB Web UI Applications | V6.1.2 (12280) |
NTB-library | NTB Library | V6.1.2 (12135) |
NEW IN 6.1.0
The following improvements have been made:
New features:
- Drag and Drop Layout editing allow easy Layout creation and modification.
- Clock are now text items and can show the time in any time zone.
Existing Layouts with HTML Clocks will continue to work.
- The language and country used to localise output on the NTB screen is configurable on the Setup/International page.
- HTML player reports the language and country when loading Web pages
allowing language specific pages to be displayed.
- Clock has an option to show the date and time in locale appropiate way.
- Text can now be scrolled in four directions right to left, left to right, bottom to top and top to bottom.
- Layout Page can be filtered to only show a subset of Layouts. This helps when there are a large number of Layouts on the NTB.
- The Web user interface has been localised for Arabic.
- Player Status page shows the CPU load of each Zone. This is useful in tracking down problems with media overloading the NTB.
- Data and Time page can now reports "No response from time server yet" to help diagnose problems with firewalls blocking Time Server messages.
- Advance to commands can now select the SoundTrack.
- Text media can now be spell checked in Firefox if a spell checking dictionary is installed.
- Alternative background images for the Office1 Layout are included on new NTB's.
- NTB40 supported
Problems fixed:
- Conversion of V5 media in Channels and Layout Packages:
- Fixed handling of missing image letterbox colour
- Fixed handling of RS232 commands
- News items where not being expired after NTB lost contact with the RSS server.
- Screen page is more robust when the NTB is connected to a screen that does not report it's configuration correctly.
- Ad hoc Tables will now refresh correctly when the values in the table are changed.
- After a Support Snap Shot had been created the Screen Snap Shot would not update.
- Subscriber Only NTB could not upload an update from the Web interface. Work around is to use FTP.
- NTB600, NTB605 and NTB50 now support a maximum of 1920x1200 screen resolution.
Warning: This is not recommended as it uses a lot of the NTB's resources.
TRANSLATION STATUS
The Web User Interface of the NTB is supported in a number of languages.
Note: The Help and User Guide pages are only supplied in English.
Full translation:
- Arabic
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish
KNOWN LIMITATIONS
- Text clocks do not draw properly if the background is transparent and compositing is disabled on the screen. The workaround is to not use a transparent background.
- There are limits to the total amount of text that can be drawn by a single item.
- The Web UI has some minor display issues under Windows Internet Explorer 6.
Mozilla Firefox 2 or Windows Internet Explorer 7 do not have these issues.
- When uploading files using Safari it is not possible to show a progress bar. This is a problem with Safari.
DETAILED VERSION IDENTIFICATION
The software release version described herein is comprised of a number of sub-packages.
Each sub-package has a build number - in parentheses.
NTB-Signage | NTB Signage Applications | V6.1.0 (11798) |
NTB-System | NTB System | V6.1.0 (11798) |
NTB-WebUI | NTB Web UI Applications | V6.1.0 (11798) |
NTB-library | NTB Library | V6.1.0 (11700) |
NEW IN 6.0.2
The following improvements have been made:
New features:
- NTB50 supported
- NTB3280 and NTB3285 models can be factory updated to run V6.0.2
Problems fixed:
- Fix HTML Player proxy support - username and password where not being used (Hot Fix 6031)
- Fix Schedule to correctly rotate logs at midnight (Hot Fix 6031)
- Fix RS232 to prevent reporting spurious errors when no serial port is available (Hot Fix 6031)
TRANSLATION STATUS
The Web User Interface of the NTB is supported in a number of langauages.
Note: The Help and User Guide pages are only supplied in English.
Full translation:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
Partial translation:
KNOWN LIMITATIONS
- There are limits to the total amount of text that can be draw by a single item.
- The Web UI has some minor display issues under Windows Internet Explorer 6.
Mozilla Firefox 2 or Windows Internet Explorer 7 do not have these issues.
- When uploading files using Safari it is not possible to show a progress bar.
DETAILED VERSION IDENTIFICATION
The software release version described herein is comprised of a number of sub-packages.
Each sub-package has a build number - in parentheses.
NTB-Signage | NTB Signage Applications | V6.0.2 (11028) |
NTB-System | NTB System | V6.0.2 (11028) |
NTB-WebUI | NTB Web UI Applications | V6.0.2 (11028) |
NTB-library | NTB Library | V6.0.0 (9371) |
NEW IN 6.0.1
The following improvements have been made:
Problems fixed:
- A number of Layout Package conversion problems have been fixed
- Newsfeeds stopped updating after a rare network error
- Reduce the chance that a text item with not play smoothly
- Plasma burn mitigation sometimes got stuck preventing the NTB from Activating new layouts.
- Korean RSS feeds are not handled correctly
- Small improvement in Compositing performance on the NTB3300/NTB3305 models
TRANSLATION STATUS
The Web User Interface of the NTB is supported in a number of langauages.
Note: The Help and User Guide pages are only supplied in English.
Full translation:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish
KNOWN LIMITATIONS
- There are limits to the total amount of text that can be draw by a single item.
- The Web UI has some minor display issues under Windows Internet Explorer 6.
Mozilla Firefox 2 or Windows Internet Explorer 7 do not have these issues.
- When uploading files using Safari it is not possible to show a progress bar.
DETAILED VERSION IDENTIFICATION
The software release version described herein is comprised of a number of sub-packages.
Each sub-package has a build number - in parentheses.
NTB-Signage | NTB Signage Applications | V6.0.1 (11028) |
NTB-System | NTB System | V6.0.1 (11028) |
NTB-WebUI | NTB Web UI Applications | V6.0.1 (11028) |
NTB-library | NTB Library | V6.0.0 (9371) |
NEW IN 6.0.0
The following improvements have been made:
Features:
- NTB3300 and NTB3305 support Compositing (Alpha blending)
- Each item in a play list has its own opacity setting allowing an item to be translucent or opaque
- Images with an alpha channel will be alpha blended on to the screen
- This features provides many creative possibilities to Layout designers
- Text items support rich formatting including Bold, Italic, Underline, Font size and Colour changes
- Thumbnail image of the screen is present on every page showing what is actually playing on the NTB
- Thumbnail images of each Layout are shown.
- Multiple Schedules can be created.
This allows Schedules to be deployed well in advance of when they will be shown.
- Automatic software update feature can keep the NTB up to date with the latest released software from ONELAN
- Currently playing item is indicated by a red square on the play list page
- HTML player has been updated to use Firefox 2 and Flash 9
- New Special item to add silence to a Soundtrack
- New Special item to hide a Zone
- Movie items can be cropped to show only a part of the movie in the zone.
Useful for showing wide screen movies on portrait mode screens
- Channel manager can subscribe to a channel published by a V5 NTB
- Layout Packages created with V5 NTB can be converted to the new V6 NTB format
- Restrictions on naming of Layouts, Tables and etc have been removed
- Editing the value of a colour will take effect every where the colour is use
- Screen Page allows setting any reasonable resolution using the VESA CVT option
- Files with numbers in their name are sorted in numeric order.
- The NTB no longer needs to be rebooted when changing the ethernet cables
between a cross over cable and a user's main network.
- Folder play now allows the duration that a file should be played for to be encoded in the file's name.
For example logo-intro-duration-17.swf will play the flash for 17 seconds.
- 1920x1080 screen resolution is now supported
- Ad hoc folder Page now allows sub folders to be created and used
- Many other small improvements have been made to the NTB
TRANSLATION STATUS
The Web User Interface of the NTB is supported in a number of langauages.
Note: The Help and User Guide pages are only supplied in English.
Full translation:
Note: Italian and Germany translations will be added in the next V6 maintenance update of the NTB software.
KNOWN LIMITATIONS
- There are limits to the total amount of text that can be draw by a single item.
- The Web UI has some minor display issues under Windows Internet Explorer 6.
Mozilla Firefox 2 or Windows Internet Explorer 7 do not have these issues.
- When uploading files using Safari it is not possible to show a progress bar.
- DVB Subtitles use a lot of CPU time on an NTB115.
DETAILED VERSION IDENTIFICATION
The software release version described herein is comprised of a number of sub-packages.
Each sub-package has a build number - in parentheses.
NTB-Signage | NTB Signage Applications | V6.0.0 (10446) |
NTB-System | NTB System | V6.0.0 (10446) |
NTB-WebUI | NTB Web UI Applications | V6.0.0 (10446) |
NTB-library | NTB Library | V6.0.0 (9371) |
