Version 1.2.05 – December 3rd, 2008

New:
Email application is now in release version
Web Radio: Allows Web Radio to play in background like regular audio files
Web Radio: Added Previous and Next buttons in the Web Radio player
Web Browser: Gives a choice between “Embedded” and “Fullscreen” playback for Flash Video
Web Browser: Added a vertical scrollbar to scroll the page (Option in the Web Browser settings)
Music: Displays a larger “Album Art” picture in the player
GUI: Allows creation of Home Screen shortcuts for Flash SWF files
GUI: Allows renaming and deleting files in the PDF and Flash Apps browsers
GUI: Displays videos in the Help browser
TV Control: More devices have been added to the Infrared Emitter support list (Fastweb, FranceTelecom, HOT, Noos, Telefonica, …)

Bug fixes:
Music: Search feature was not usable with Remote control
Music: Back from Player to Browser was not working well in playlist mode
Music: Browser was not in playlist mode after resuming a playlist playback
Music: all ARCLibrary categories were empty after playing a Web Radio station
Music: Background Audio Player was stopped when opening a Flash SWF file
Music: when finding the next track in a playlist, skip over up to 10 non-existing tracks before giving up
Music: when starting a playlist and the track doesn’t exist, don’t stop current audio but mark the track as deleted in the playlist
Video: Search feature was not usable with Remote control
Web Radio & TV: Search feature was not usable with Remote control
Web Browser: Map area was reduced too much on http://www.sytadin.fr
MediaClub: Remote control Back button didn’t perform back in history
Contacts: Searching for contacts sometimes returned unexpected results
Contacts: Search could not be used with the Remote control
TV Control: Satellite category stopped after the letter “M”
TV Control: Infrared Emitter used to freeze the device if it had been in Suspend mode before
DVR: Device freezed when removing DVR Snap-on while in CamCorder
FM remote: after a FM recording, the volume slider was not updated anymore when changing the volume
FM remote: Don’t hide touch screen keys when FM remote keys are pressed
USB Host: Allow aborting PTP copy with Back or Home buttons (Back key on the IR Remote)
USB Host: There was a long delay without visual feedback before the File Browser is opened
USB Host: Trying to copy a file that already exists made the device reboot
GUI: Some texts were corrupted after quitting the Demo mode if a non latin font was selected
System: There were some artifacts visible on the screen with some pictures
System: USB transfer was very slow in recovery mode

You can discuss this firmware at http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19581