{"id":42,"date":"2007-12-01T23:37:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T04:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/42\/sapphire-browser-beta-4-release-notes\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T00:27:43","slug":"sapphire-browser-beta-4-release-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/42\/sapphire-browser-beta-4-release-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sapphire Browser Beta 4 Release Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Browser listings will ignore leading &#8220;A&#8221;s and &#8220;The&#8221;s from titles when sorting alphabetically.<\/li>\n<li>Movie and TV Show title choosers now have a much wider selection list.  This should help when selecting titles since the user won&#8217;t have to wait for the text to scroll.<\/li>\n<li>Added the ability to hide Video info in the Media Preview.<\/li>\n<li>Added the ability to hide Audio info in the Media Preview.<\/li>\n<li>Appropriate movies will be adorned with an Oscar or IMDB badge for winning an Oscar or being in the IMDB Top250.<\/li>\n<li>Virtual directories are now loaded in the background.  This allows for faster loading from the AppleTV menu.  The user will be stalled with a load screen if they aren&#8217;t ready when selected.<\/li>\n<li>Settings menu now has some more appropriate icons.<\/li>\n<li>Added ability to join together multiple files into one.  Great for movies which were segmented. Access this through the mark menu.<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire is now compatible to run on Leopard (10.5).  This compatibility is processor independent.<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire now has Virtual Directories.  These directories are compiled directly from the metadata and are independent of a files actual directory location.\n<ul>\n<li>TV Shows &#8211; All recognized episodes are displayed here with the following structure:\n<ul>\n<li>Show Name\n<ul>\n<li>Season\n<ul>\n<li>Episode Titles (sorted by episode number)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Movies &#8211; All recognized movies are displayed here with the following structure:\n<ul>\n<li>All Movies\n<ul>\n<li>Movie Titles (sorted by name)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>By Genre\n<ul>\n<li>Genre\n<ul>\n<li>Movie Titles (sorted by name)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>By Cast\n<ul>\n<li>Actor  Name (sorted by name)\n<ul>\n<li>Movie Titles (sorted by name)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>By Director\n<ul>\n<li>Director (sorted  by name)\n<ul>\n<li> Movie Titles (sorted by name)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>IMDB Top 250 (must be ranked)\n<ul>\n<li>Movie Titles (sorted by rank)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Academy Award Winning (must have won an Oscar)\n<ul>\n<li>Movie Titles (sorted by number won)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire Media Preview now displays movie specific information.\n<ul>\n<li>Release Date<\/li>\n<li>Director<\/li>\n<li>Genre<\/li>\n<li>Cast (first 3 &#8211; headliners)<\/li>\n<li>IMDB User rating<\/li>\n<li>Plot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Added a Poster Chooser that lets the user choose which poster they want displayed for their movie files (ATV 1.1 &amp; Front Row only).<\/li>\n<li>Added a new import tool for fetching  data for movies.\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"missing wiki\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/trac\/wiki\/MovieImporter\"><\/a>Collecting the movie&#8217;s release date from IMDB.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"missing wiki\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/trac\/wiki\/MovieImporter\"><\/a> Collecting the movie&#8217;s genres from IMDB.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"missing wiki\"> Collecting<\/span> the movie&#8217;s director(s) from IMDB.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"missing wiki\"> Collecting<\/span> the movie&#8217;s writer(s) from IMDB.<\/li>\n<li> Collecting the movie plot from IMDB.<\/li>\n<li>Collecting the movie&#8217;s oscar count from IMDB.<\/li>\n<li>Collecting the movie&#8217;s IMDB rating.<\/li>\n<li>Collecting the movies MPAA rating.<\/li>\n<li>Collecting the movie&#8217;s IMDB Top250 rank.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire Meta Data is now using a binary format &#8211; this dramatically reduces the size if the stored metaData file.<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire is  now capable of seeing all mount points &amp; displaying them in the browser.<\/li>\n<li>Added settings that allow  Allows the hiding and skipping of collections.<\/li>\n<li>The Sapphire Pill has been replaced: the Left button now changes predicates and the Right button now goes to mark menu.<\/li>\n<li>Skipping during playback has been improved to allow for finding a particular place a bit nicer.<\/li>\n<li>Added support for playing audio files.<\/li>\n<li>TV Show files are now sorted by show first, then season, then episode.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the menu dividers to be more compatible with ATV 1.1.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an issue when playing a video where skipping forward and then back would cause the player to crash.<\/li>\n<li>Import Tool titles should be a little more informative to what they do.<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire now has the ability to enable\/disable AC3 passthrough on a per file basis.  Enable this feature in the settings menu.<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire should now display more accurate sample rate information.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Ticket <a class=\"closed ticket\" title=\"Formatting in description can lead to missing text on TV data import (closed)\" href=\"http:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/trac\/ticket\/5\">#5<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fixed Ticket <a href=\"http:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/trac\/ticket\/6\">#6<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fixed Ticket <a href=\"http:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/trac\/ticket\/9\">#9<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Added Enhancement Ticket <a href=\"http:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/trac\/ticket\/12\">#12<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Changed the Sapphire <span class=\"missing wiki\">ApplianceIcon<\/span>.png to a smaller &amp; better looking image<\/li>\n<li>Changed the <span class=\"missing wiki\">DefaultPreview<\/span>.png to the new image<\/li>\n<li>Added the TV show&#8217;s name to the S\/E preview display<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire Import tools are more verbose giving the user a better idea what it&#8217;s currently doing.<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire Meta Data structure is more robust &#8211; allowing multiple paths and subpaths for a single file.<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire Import tools will now play nicely with watchdog.  This should solve issues with the importers freezing and\/or never starting.<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire is now using  localizable strings &#8211; Time to get some translators!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browser listings will ignore leading &#8220;A&#8221;s and &#8220;The&#8221;s from titles when sorting alphabetically. Movie and TV Show title choosers now have a much wider selection list. This should help when selecting titles since the user won&#8217;t have to wait for the text to scroll. Added the ability to hide Video info in the Media Preview. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appletv.nanopi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}