SnapStream Updates Beyond TV to v4.5 & Intros New DVD Burning Plug-In

By Alexander Grundner | November 17th, 2006

Below are the release notes for version 4.5 of Beyond TV, SnapStreams premier personal video recorder software product. In brief, users will now have a refined Web Admin to manage TV recordings (with lots of the improvements coming from the user community) and a better on-screen media navigation for users with large content libraries. Also available is Beyond TV’s new DVD burning plug-in that creates custom, high-polished DVDs that retain all your show’s information (i.e. show name, episode title and original air date) and provides navigation menus (includes 10 sec. thumbnail video previews) with the look of the Beyond TV interface. More details are available on SnapStream Blog.

Version 4.5 Release Notes

Build 3600 | November 16, 2006 | Download Update | Download Trial

New Features

• Integrated DVD Burning Plug-in added (optional) – [see screenshots]

Improvements & bug fixes

• Improved performance of library when more than 100 shows are present.
• Increased reliability of library settings during power failure.
• Improved Web Admin reliability on Windows 2000 systems.
• ShowSqueeze now properly launches only as many jobs as physical cores on the processor.
• Saving metadata for shows during file tagging is now significantly faster.
• Tray icon properly displays channel number for “Any Channel” Jobs.

Community Supported WebAdmin Release Notes – [see screenshots]

• Added new page called “Today.” Shows all recordings made in the last 24 hours, all upcoming recordings in the next 24 hours and any conflicted recordings over the next 24 hours.
• Time remaining is displayed based on the selected folder (if you are viewing by folder).
• All shows that cannot be played will have a Download link (remote connections to Recorded Shows).
• ShowSqueeze page updates every 60 seconds if there are currently running ShowSqueezes.
• Upcoming conflict display shows on main status display.
• Setup Recordings page shows conflicting recordings and the reason why it will not record.
• Multiple shows can be added to ShowSqueeze.
• Library can hide shows based on their ShowSqueeze status.
• In progress recordings on the Recorded Shows page now cannot be deleted, edited, or selected.
• Added Delete confirmation boxes on several pages.
• Significantly overhauled aesthetic look of Recorded Shows page.

* Special Offer: Through Novemeber 30th, SnapStream is offering their Beyond TV / Hauppauge PVR-150MCE Bundle for only $99.99 (reg. $139).