Release history and updates for SichboPVR.

Releases are rolled out in either testing or stable form. You can receive test builds under Setup > Check for update > enable test builds, or you can download them directly here. Stable releases always have a '0' revision number on the end (eg 4.0.1.0) whilst testing builds always have a non-zero revision (4.0.1.2)

Download SichboPVR for Windows 4.0.20.4 (Testing Build)

4.0.20.4 (2025-04-09)

• This release fixes a problem with Windows 7 caused by Google's BoringSSL library dropping support for it.
• Improved audio/video sync accuracy.
• Channel views can now also automatically recover when they've been interrupted by other TV tuner tasks.
• Added a workaround for slightly changing episode IDs, which are causing an "EPG Changed" status from a broadcaster.

4.0.20.0 (2024-12-11)

• This release fixes a loading issue that has been reported by a few people on Windows 11 from a recent Windows Update.

4.0.19.0 (2024-11-17)

• Addresses a few stability issues identified in the 4.0.18 release for both Windows and Linux platforms.

4.0.18.0 (2024-11-06)

• Thanks to Anthony for figuring out an intermittent packet loss issue when the PC is running under resource strain.

• There's finally a proper user guide pdf that people can download or print over at sichbopvr.com/manual. It's available in only a handful of languages for the time being because it's a lot of work to do each. Please let me know if you'd like to see your language added so I can gauge demand.

• You can now more easily toggle OpenGL mode underneath Setup > UI > Tweaks. Some newer NVidia drivers are having a problem with my D3D11 video processing engine it seems, so I'll need to save up for a card someday. In the meantime, feel free to give OpenGL a try if your video isn't smooth.

• Improved video smoothness for Direct3D 11 users.

• Added a new Ubuntu 24.04 release pipeline. Thanks to Laurent for his help with testing.

• Fixed a problem with HDHomeRun devices sometimes losing channel info resulting in an "off air" message.

• Watch/record now changes the station in the window that you set the watch/record in, assuming it's still open, otherwise the main window.

• Fixes an issue where progress was not saved when watching videos.

• You can now use "quotes" when searching in the guide.

• Fixes a few other issues that have come up since the last release.

4.0.17.0 (2023-12-05)

• Setup screen refinements.

• You can now set custom audio levels (+/- gain) on certain TV stations under the mixer > audio tab.

• You can also tweak server settings such as priodic EPG and channel scan intervals, preferred tuners for recording, and other things under setup > channels & users > server options.

• Subtitles can be customised underneath the mixer > video tab, or setup > colors & UI > tweaks.

• Other general UI refinements.

• Fixes a couple of things that came up under the 4.0.16.0 release.

4.0.16.0 (2023-11-04)

The freemium experiment back in June was a disaster — turns out, not everyone's jazzed about the recording feature. Instead of finding more supporters, I managed to lose over fifty of my usual backers. So in order to keep the project afloat, I've had to hit the brakes and switch back to the paid-only model. Lesson learned! Thank you to the handful of new folks who did sign up to support sichbopvr over these past months.

• Child window locations are now remembered. Closing the primary window will close all other SichboPVR windows and automatically restore upon relaunch. You can tell which window is your primary because the TV guide displays opened windows on the left-hand side.

• Shift + Click on channel logos in the TV guide will now open that channel directly in a new window, whilst Ctrl + Click opens in Picture in Picture mode (consistent with web browser behaviour where Shift + Click is a new window, Ctrl + Click is a new tab.)

• A new option to "Record everything on this station" has been added to channel settings. This allows people to archive entire TV stations without having to configure any recordings.

• You can now edit meta information on recordings by changing titles/descriptions/tags.

• Tags/genres are now listed in the Library for broadcast regions that transmit them.

• You can also now bookmark recordings.

• Added a toggle for audio VU meters and stream information under the Mixer > Video tab.

• Adds preliminary right-to-left language support.

• Fixes a problem with sound no longer time-stretching under 4.0.15 during variable speed playback (mouse wheel over play button.)

• Misc performance and stability tweaks.

4.0.15.0 (2023-06-02)

• SichboPVR is now free with just the recording function requiring a lifetime or yearly supporter account.

• Fixes a lot of performance and stability issues gathered over the past months from the 4.0.14 release.

• Linux install instructions have been updated to avoid Ubuntu's now deprecated apt-key add feature.

4.0.14.0 (2023-02-11)

• Rendering performance improvements.

• On-screen display refinements.

• Channel editor refinements.

• Added better handling of older display drivers.

• Added a Missing channel troubleshooter to the guide menu.

• Accessibility and Text to Speech refinements.

• There are now mappable shortcuts for TTS mute and volume, as well as speech rate control.

• More scheduling refinements and better handling of custom defined shows.

• Thanks again to Michael for debugging a problem with SAT>IP.

• You can now manually type in UNC share paths (\\server\share\folder) for recording/timeshift/library folders. If the SichboPVR4 server is installed as a Windows Service, you'll need to configure the NT service to run under a user account with permission to access the share.

• Thanks to Igor for adding Ukrainian support.

• Improved client sync performance for libraries having tens of thousands of items.

• You can now disable timeshifting under Library > Library Settings > Set Timeshift buffer duration to "No time shifting".

• service-settings.json has a new setting "EpgUpdateOnStart" which can be set to false for folks who don't care about guide data or want to wait on it.

• Added better storing of series/episode info and support for credits/actors from xmltv sources.

4.0.13.0 (2022-05-14)

• Fixes a show search focusing issue and a couple of other oddball problems in build 12.