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Vuze 4.4

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Play it fast. Play it safe. Play it anywhere.
http://blog.vuze.com/2010/04/06/play-it ... -anywhere/
The past two releases have focused on improving your ability to quickly find and download the content you want to play. With this release, the Vuze team concentrated on improving the ways you play your content – on your PC and Mac, on the other screens in your life (now including the iPad and Connected TVs), and simply by burning a DVD.

More specifically, Vuze 4.4 includes a significant upgrade to both the Vuze HD Player and Device Playback. In addition, we spent some time building three of your most requested features – DVD burning, built-in antivirus protection, and better search – as part of a new offering called Vuze Plus. Intrigued? Read on.

With today’s release, the Vuze HD Player received a significant update, including:

• Higher quality playback: Smoother playback for HD content (including 1080p)
• More formats: Improved format support (including avi, wmv, mpeg, xvid, Quicktime, and more)
• Subtitles: A very cool integration with OpenSubtitles enabling you to pull in subtitles for any content and language the OpenSubtitle community has translated
• Faster and Lighter: Significantly faster launch and lighter weight playback.

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Props to both the MPlayer and OpenSubtitle.org teams for enabling us to stand on the shoulders of the giant that is open source!

Speaking of improved playback, we’ve also updated Vuze Device Playback to significantly improve the quality and speed of device transfers.

Since Vuze launched device support, more than 3 million of you have used Vuze Devices to transfer and playback more than 70 million items on your iPhone, iPod, Xbox, PS3, PSP, and Tivo. You seem to like the ability to drag-and-drop to play back on the device of your choice…

Aside from your rave reviews, we’ve also been listening to your requests to improve device transfer speeds and decrease the failure rates when files don’t successfully transfer to the device of your choice. This release updates the core infrastructure for Vuze Devices to significantly improve device transfer performance — both speed and success rates.

And one more thing on the device playback front… Vuze now supports transfer and playback on iPad and Connected TVs (with DLNA support).

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Introducing Vuze Plus

Beyond improving Vuze’s core features enabling you to find, download, and play, we’ve also heard your requests for a variety of new features. Today, we’re launching a premium version called Vuze Plus that includes DVD Burn, Built-in Antivirus, and Power Search.

Finally, we have an answer for all your questions about how to burn DVDs from Vuze. We’re not talking about crude data DVDs for storage and transport. We’re talking about easily burning playable DVDs for playback on any standard DVD player. Simply drag-and-drop videos from your Vuze Library or anywhere on your desktop, organize your playlist, and click burn.

Downloading from the web can be intimidating. We’ve heard your worries about malware, viruses, and scams. To address your concerns, we’ve teamed with BitDefender to deliver a fully built-in antivirus solution that scans all the files you download with Vuze Plus to proactively protect you before problems occur.

Finally, we consistently hear that you want additional sites added to Vuze Meta Search. Power Search includes twice as many search sites to offer more comprehensive results so you quickly find what you’re looking for.

The new Vuze HD Player and Device Playback features are immediately available in Vuze 4.4 (our flagship app that’s free as always). For those of you that want a little extra spice, DVD Burning, Built-in Antivirus, and Power Search will be offered as Vuze Plus for $24.99. Offering Vuze Plus will enable us to build some of the extra features many of you have been requesting, without adding bloat to the main Vuze app you know and love. In addition, charging a nominal fee for Vuze Plus will enable us to work with leading partners like BitDefender to offer some of the cool features you’ve been requesting.
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Vuze 4.4 Changelog

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New Features:

    * Core | Feature manager
    * Core | Added mechanism to add virtual devices
    * Core | On-demand media analysis
    * Core | Added a few hooks to ease third party use of code
    * Core | Added means to hook into content launch operations
    * Core | Allow devices to be specified as 'no xcode required'
    * Core | Added option to prevent IP filters being cleared on reload
    * Core | Re-attempt torrent download via magnet if possible
    * Plug | Added mechanism for a cache-plugin to reserve pieces for their cache-peer
    * Plug | Added mechanism for plugins to specify executable properties of installed files
    * Plug | Added method for testing if move-on-complete actions are active
    * UI | Toolbar support for selecting files in file-view
    * UI | Feature Manager UI
    * UI | Better Drag&Drop indication on sidebar
    * UI | Better pop-out/pop-up supression from Search Results pages

Changes:

    * Core | Added ability to add xcodes in stopped state
    * Core | When there's only one transcode profile available, don't allow user to make a (non-existant) choice
    * Core | Added country-code to version server response
    * Core | Don't push direct file reads through the file cache
    * Plug | Allow plugins to force their columns to be visible
    * Core | Allow the removal of transcode jobs to be vetoed
    * Core | Take USB detection off init thread in case it hangs
    * Core | Added download property to allow force and direct deletion to be specified
    * Core | Enforce update action ordering
    * Plug | Added swt info to update check to allow different plugin versions for different swt
    * UI | Limit max torrent file size to prevent bad behaviour when large files dropped onto UI
    * UI | Truncation percentages shown for xcode to avoid useless ".0"
    * UI | Restructure Sidebar/Tab system into a common MDI structure
    * UI | Some dialogs now switch Ok/Cancel to Cancel/Ok on OSX

Corrected bugs:

    * Core | Fix 'no space' display for offline downloaders
    * Core | Fixed opening torrent from Finder bug under OSX 10.4
    * Core | Magnet download of large torrent files speed up
    * Core | Resource downloader was firing complete events twice sometimes
    * Core | File channel support for 2GB+ files
    * Core | Update pending files in xcode view when files deletes
    * Core | Fix relayout bug in status bar
    * Core | Fix various places where linked files were being ignored
    * Core | Fix rare case where Donation window was popping up too often
    * Plug | Ensure that reloaded plugin's message resources are loaded
    * Plug | Ensure installation failures are reported
    * UI | Extend cell refresh logic to include those with refresh listeners
    * UI | Fix rare case where table sort order is incorrect after raid data updates
    * UI | Patch case where Vuze prevents Windows 7 from shutting down
    * UI | Fix buttons having ugly BG on Win7
    * UI | Fix some columns not showing up in "All Torrents" views
    * UI | Fix clipboard menu not working for some columns (Torrent Name Column)
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Vuze 4.4.0.2 Changelog

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New Features:

      None.

Changes:

    * UI | (OSX) Prep client for SWT 3.6 (M7 and later)
    * UI | (OSX) Use Java calls for moveToTrash and showInFinder
    * UI | Double click in library view on incomplete downloads no longer invokes the launch manager for permission
    * Core | Added some new message types to help diagnose connection speed issues
    * Core | Removal of various useless debug generation
    * Core | Use UTF-8 for debug files

Corrected bugs:

    * Plug | If EMP is disabled fall back to default player
    * Core | Fix deadlock condition in devices view
    * Core | Prevent single key failure from exiting select result processing
    * Core | Fix deadlock when download stopped while move-on-complete in progress
    * Core | Various fixes to handle restarts with non-ascii user directory name
    * Core | Ensure plugin verification works with internationalised plugin dir name
    * UIvz | Fix bug where toolbar was hidden with no way of showing it
    * UIvz | Fix bug where DVD Burn sidebar entry would reappear after removing it and restarting
    * UIvz | When doubleclick in Library is set to show details, don't show AntiVirus warning
    * UIvz | Fix OSX case where client could not be started due to old SWT version
    * UIvz | Fix case where there was nothing downloading, but the download spinner in the sidebar was still present
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Vuze 4.4.0.4 Changelog

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New Features:

      None.

Changes:

      None.

Corrected bugs:

    * Core | Fix PEX bug
    * Core | Fix "Error Running Veto Check" error
    * Core | (*nix) Fix client not launching after launched once
    * UI | Fix late-loading sidebar entries not auto-opening
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4.4.0.6 - June 9, 2010

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New Features:

      None.

Changes:

    * Core | Improved logging

Corrected bugs:

    * Core | Search edge case
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Vuze 4.4.1.0 changelog

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2010.07.31 | Vuze 4.4.1.0

FEATURE: Core | Handle "bc://" URLs [TuxPaper]
FEATURE: Core | Switched to piece-reordering based file storage on OSX by default (option for other OS) [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | Recover out-of-order pieces on recheck [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | Added numeric file priorities to allow more than just 'high' and 'normal' priorities [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | Basic streaming playback support, relegated to CVS only on release due to lack of time to tidy up UI [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | New speed test [Parg,Tux]
FEATURE: Core | Bias upload to incomplete downloads [Parg]
FEATURE: UIvz | Library view entries can now be expanded to see individual files [TuxPaper]
FEATURE: UI   | Added [Reset] button to Torrent->Rename.. dialog [TuxPaper]

CHANGE: Core  | Proxy UDP tracker conns through socks when enabled [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Clear out unused subscriptions [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Grab default SSL certs from Java on init [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Some packeting optimisations with crypto [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Fixed some issues to allow plugins to be network position providers [Parg]
CHANGE: UI    | Show zero length files as completed rather than 0% done [Parg]
CHANGE: Plug  | Various enhancements to facilitate the writing of cache peers [Parg]

BUGFIX: Core  | Better handle torrents with valid UTF8 name, but invalid (to user's locale) non-UTF name. [TuxPaper]
BUGFIX: Core  | Fix slow core closedown caused by subscription updates [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | Fix a few places where only subscribed subscriptions should be used [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | Fix webseed handling for files bigger than 2GB (ish) [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | Ensure all file handles released when closing down streams [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | Removed double timestamps from some logs [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | For trackerless torrents fix to use cached peers on startup [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | Fix bug where DHT wasn't re-publishing values correctly [Parg]
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