[7.6.0.0] 30th May 2012
1. Readon Player now supports BASS API for radio channels. Winamp DSP can be used for BASS playback. In the short future, every radio channels that use WMP or VLC will be changed to using BASS in our database.
2. Fix a bug where disabling MSN message does not work.
3. Fix a bug caused by 7.5.0.0 where there is a problem when reporting new channels with unicode characters.
4. Some other minor changes and bugs fixes.
[7.5.0.0] 18th Oct 2011
1. Fix: users who are unable to play any PPstream video using previous versions of Readon Player may be able to play them using this version. Users who have this problem should go to files->settings and set "force locale conversion for PPS"
2. IMPORTANT: All previous versions of Readon player are now unable to report dead and new channels to our servers. This is because in all previous version, we are using Gmail to send data to us. Google's inability to use back old password and occasional suspicious activity detection has caused alot of troubles for us. This has been replaced by our own SSL email instead.
3. We will disable live sports for all previous versions of Readon Player on an indefinite date in the future. Only version 7.5.0.0 and later will be able to continue using live sports.
4. Certain Windows Media streaming url (constant changing url) will only works in the current version.
5. some minor UI changes.
Please update to the latest version of Readon Player for all current users. Thank you.
Known issue: (all versions) Playing PPS video for the first time after PC has power up may cause Readon Player to crash. Disable "Kill PPSAP process" in the settings may help.
[7.4.0.0] 5th August 2011
1. New feature: News and weather plugin
2. New feature: Audio CD ripper (found under menu->tools)
3. Able to use VLC to play Sopcast channels (activation found in menu->settings).
4. Justin TV channels will no longer show the entire webpage.
5. Some minor UI changes and bugs fixes.
[7.3.0.0] 25th March 2011
1. Pressing ESC key when viewing flash content will now be able to exit full screen for those with flash player v10.2 and above. Users with flash version lower than 10.2 will still be able to exit full screen even with older version of Readon Player.
2. Replace Shoutcast radio list with the shoutcast official website. Shoutcast no longer supports getting theie radio list from their directory service. This will also help NullSoft to earn advertising revenue by displaying their banner ads.
3. Shoutcast will eventually disable their TV channel list from directory service. This version is required for continual usage of shoutcast TV.
4. Readon Player will now be able to show Veetle webpages for livesports. Older version of Readon Player are not able to view Veetle webpages due to a conflict between the VLC and veetle plugin.
5. Fix for expired streamTorrent issue.
[7.2.0.0] 12th May 2010
1. Improved live sports.
2. Some bug fixes.
[7.1.0.0] 9th May 2010
1. Shoutcast no longer works with v7.0.0.0 and below after Shoutcast team has made changes in their XML format. v7.1.0.0 will fix this problem.
2. PPStream partial list will load faster and require less bandwidth.
[7.0.0.0] 9th May 2010
1. Added PPStream as a third paty TV.
[6.3.0.0] 27th March 2010
1. Ablilty to record TV channels into MP4, WMV and FLV format.
2. Ability to record radio stations with VLC into mp3 format.
3. Readon Player can now work as a video converter.
4. Ablilty to rename channel name, genre and country of channels listed in TV/Radio favorites.
5. User can now open a video with SRT subtitle file.
6. Fix a potential crash when stopping a VLC streaming channel.
7. User can now add Freedocast channel to their TV/Radio lists.*
8. Improved method of adding UStream channel.
9. Able to display the current channel playing in MSN messenger's personal message. This feature can be disabled in the settings menu (default is on).
10. Stopping a livestream channel will automatically delete the flash swf file from the cache associated with it.
*To add a Freedocast channel, go to the page where the channel is hosted in and look for the embed player code. look for the fid field and use the field value as channel id.
For example, the embed code is:
the channel is will be 5320426E31D42135109A
[6.2.0.0] 26th Feb 2010
1. Ablilty to record SopCast and TVU channels.
2. Ablilty to record TV and Radio channels into asf and MP4(H264) format.
3. Video download will be able to resume after being aborted.
4. Support for most flash videos using Readon browser. Newer channels which require this feature will not function in older versions.
5. Fix a TVU bug where schedule guide will display the wrong date.
6. Readon Player will now remember the channel column width adjustment made by user.
7. Some minor bugs fixes.
[6.0.0.0] 3rd Jan 2010
1. Added feature: TVU plugin in 3rd party TV.
2. Fix a bug where Readon Player may craash when stopping a VLC channel.
3. Fix a bug where VLC plugin will ignore the proxy settings.
4. User will go through a diagnostic test before submitting bugs.
5. Some minor bug fixes.
[5.9.0.0] 28th Nov 2009
1. Upgraded VLC plugin. This plugin will be based on the latest VLC version 1.xx.
2. Allows users to login into their Justin.TV account (under File menu).
3. Some bugs fixes.
[5.8.0.0] 19th Oct 2009
1. Added feature: Movie search engine plugin.
2. Moved Youtube from channel list to third party TV.
3. Live sports will now support ustream, freedocast and WMP streaming.
4. The minimum time for livesports list refresh is reduced from 5 to 1 minute.
5. Movie on demand will now be able to download most videos.
6. Movie on demand will now support a wider range of videos.
7. Readon Player will not show Windows media player control bar with the latest windows update.
8. User will be able to rearrange the column order in the channel lists.
9. User will be able to add in FlashVars for flash channels.
10. Feature removed: TV show on demand (this section turns out to be quite a failure).
11. Feature removed: Support for VLC activeX. User will revert back to use VLC plugin only.
12. Bug fixed: channel list fails to update in certain situations.
*Lovers of movies and live sports in particular will find this version upgrade useful.
*The promised Podcast support will only be completed in future version.
[5.5.5.0] 21st June 2009
1. Bug fix: Player will fail to resize after enlarging the channel list panel.
2. Bug fix: Player will crash if the user right click on certain flash channels.
3. SopCast and ShoutCast TV channel list will be automatically downloaded from our server if player fails to retrieve the list from the SopCast/ShoutCast server. (This enhancement is not available for ShoutCast Radio).
4. Readon Player will not crash when using VLC 1.0.0RC ActiveX. For some security reason, VLC development team has removed the ability to record Video for VLC 1.0.0RC ActiveX. There is also a bug in this ActiveX that does not allow user to parse playlist URL (e,g, .asx, .m3u, shoutcast etc).
[5.5.0.0] 15th June 2009
1. Added feature: Shoutcast channels.
2. Added VLC ActiveX support.
3. User can now set aspect ratio for VLC.
4. Updating channel list will require lesser bandwidth and therefore faster than any previous versions.
5. Update support for changes in mOvies on demand. Previous version of Readon Player will not be able to play most of the movies on demand.
6. Some minor bug fixes.
[5.0.0.0] 3rd May 2009
1. Added feature: Music on demand plugin.
2. Added proxy server support (under settings menu).
3. Improved Movie on demand capability.
4. SopCast list will be downloaded from Readon server instead of SopCast server during periods when SopCast server is busy (This feature may not be activated until late May 2009).
5. Updating channel list will be faster with this version.
6. Now Readon Player will not auto delete cookies and Internet temporary files upon exit. However, Readon Player will delete Justin TV related cookies and files after viewing any Justin TV channel.
7. Some minor bug fixes.
[4.5.0.0] 15th March 2009
1. Added feature: User are able to add Ustream TV channels on their own.
2. Ability to download video from movie on demand list.
3. Added functionality for Readon Technology to track the popular channels (Experimental).
4. Previous list of SopCast channels will be loaded while trying to get the latest update from SopCast server.
5. When a user reports a dead or new channel, automated system will be informed of the changes. This will save the developers some effort in maintaining the channel lists (Experimental).
6. Some minor bug fixes.
[4.2.0.0] 15th Feb 2009
1. Added feature: Includes all Sopcast channels.
2. Added feature: User are able to add Justin and Mogulus TV channels on their own.
3. Improved movies on demand capabilty. Some newer movies cannot be shown with older version of readon player. (Yes, we try to improve on this area again).
4. Make changes the new changes in Justin.tv to solve the "invalid embedded security" error.
5. Readon browser will have its own user-agent and header.
6. Some minor bug fixes.
*Note: This version should have never been released. 4.2.0.0 is a "rushed out" build to cater for the changes made by Justin.TV. As much of our live sports channels are running on Justin.TV, we have to make sure that they are working before the Champion League resumes.
This version WILL NOT have the ability to download movies. We are still working on that feature to make sure that bugs are kept to a minimum.
[4.0.0.0] 10th Jan 2009
1. Added feature: Live sports
2. Added feature: Flash games search engine.
3. Improved movies on demand capabilty. Some newer movies cannot be shown with older version of readon player.
4. FIx a bug where search engine plugin still uses the old version even when a newer version is available.
5. Some minor bug fixes.
[3.6.0.0] 30th Nov 2008
1. Added feature: TV on demand.
2. Added feature: DIVX movies support.
3. Added feature: hotkeys.
4. Added feature: full screen mode.
5. Improved movies on demand capabilty. Some newer movies cannot be shown with older version of readon player.
6. Fix a bug where Flash cannot go into full screen mode on certain PC
7. FIx a bug where adult channels will be shown after deleting a customized channel even when a password is being set.
8. Some minor bug fixes.
9. Some minor UI changes.
[3.0.0.1]26th Oct 2008
1. fix a bug where right click on the channel does not work.
[3.0.0.0]25th Oct
1. Improved movies on demand capabilty. Some newer movies cannot be shown with older version of readon player.
2. Added feature: VLC plugin
3. Added feature: Adult on demand plugin
4. Some minor bug fixes.
5. Some minor UI changes.
[2.1.0.0]17th Sep 2008
1. Fixes the issue where adult on demand and movie on demand unable to play on Vista-64 or XP-64 OS.
[2.0.0.0]15th Sep
1. Added feature: Movies on demand
2. Added feature: Adult on demand
3. Some minor bug fixes.
4. Some minor UI changes.
[1.1.0.0]1st Sep
1. Some minor bug fixes.
2. Some minor UI changes.
[1.0.0.0]27th Aug
1. Initial release.