Xbox One Update: October 2014


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New Snap and Friends functions

o    Snap Updates ? We?ve updated the Snap Center to include quick access to many of the things our fans wanted faster access to when playing a game ? Friends, Messages, Game DVR, clock, and battery indicator ? as well as making it easier to close and open new snap apps when playing a game. A double tap of the Xbox button on your controller will bring up a menu that allows you to open a new app in snap mode, close the current snapped app, or switch focus between your game and your running snapped app. Additionally, two apps have been optimized for Snap mode:

  • Friends Snap App ? Access your friends list without leaving the game. Quickly check your friends list to see who?s online right now and take actions like send message, invite or join.
  • Messages Snap App ? You?ll be able to open, read and respond to messages in Snap mode, and messages will now be displayed in a threaded conversation view.

o    Achievements App ? Updated to enable sharing of achievements you?ve unlocked with captions, see a list of friends who have unlocked specific achievements, and an updated achievements Snap landing page that that shows Achievements on recently played games, when a user is not actively playing a game.

o    Friends section ? The new Friends section enables you to see at a glance what?s going on with your friends. You can stay up-to-date with their current activities, the most popular games your friends are playing, and a Gamerscore leaderboard to see who has improved their Gamerscore over the last 30 days. The new Friends section has been available for select preview members for a few weeks and now we?re bringing it to everyone in the program, with plans to roll out this feature for all Xbox One owners with the October system update.

o    New SmartGlass features ? You can now see a list of your top games in your profile. You can also see a list of your friend?s most popular games in the Friend?s section of SmartGlass.

Improvements for TV and video

o    Media Player DLNA and MKV support ? Members of the preview program who have also downloaded the latest version of the Media Player app will now have support for DLNA streaming. With this update, you will be able to easily access and play music, watch photo slideshows or movies stored on home media servers and devices that support the DLNA server protocols. Additionally, you will now be able to playback MKV files stored on a USB device or a device on your home network that supports DLNA streaming.

o    Live TV Trending ? Within the next week, you will be able to see what Live TV is trending based on your country and OneGuide settings.  A new tab will be available in OneGuide that displays the top 10 most watched TV shows, with the list filtered down to the shows that are currently available to you based on your OneGuide settings.  You will be able to tune to a specific show by pressing the A button. The Live TV Trending list will be updated approximately every minute, so you can easily discover shows that are popular with other viewers.  This feature will initially be made available to preview users in the U.S., Canada and the UK.

o    Xbox One Digital TV Tuner ? Previously announced in August, this new accessory will be available for purchase in UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain on October 21.  This USB-attached TV Tuner will enable users to watch TV on Xbox One, and pause Live TV for up to 30 minutes.  There are a limited number of preview participants in this program due to hardware requirements needed for testing.

  • Stream TV to SmartGlass ? If you have an Xbox One Digital TV Tuner, you will be able to stream TV across your home network to your smartphone or tablet using the Xbox SmartGlass app. You can also pause, play, rewind and change channels, without interrupting gameplay.

o    Live TV MiniGuide ? For markets where OneGuide is available, a new MiniGuide on the bottom of the screen will display details about the TV content that is currently playing. You can quickly change channels, see what?s on other channels, and tune to the previous channel or other recent channels.

o    OneGuide in 12 new countries ? Live TV listings and schedules will be made available to preview members on Xbox One and SmartGlass for Belgium, Chile, Columbia, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and Russia in the next few days.

o    Internet TV Apps ? Apps with live TV channels can now include their TV listings within OneGuide.  In addition, other Xbox TV features such as channel changing using speech and Miniguide will work with these apps. These features are enabled automatically the first time you sign into a supported app. The first app to support this feature in preview will be Zattoo, a TV provider available in several European markets. We will be sharing more details soon with members of the public preview.

o    Universal Remote Control in SmartGlass ? If you are in one of those 12 countries, you will also be able use your mobile device to control your Xbox, TV, and/or Cable/Satellite box.

Other user requested features

o    Updated Devices & Accessories page ? To access the new page, go inside Settings, where you can Find, Assign, and Update Xbox One accessories.  You can now more easily ?assign? accessories to specific users, such as assigning a headset to a specific gamer.

o    Firmware updates ? You can update the firmware for an individual device. And, you can also more easily find (or identify) a controller by making it vibrate.

o    Hide Games & Apps on your console ? You can now hide items in the ?Ready to install? list under My Games & Apps. This is a per-console setting and items will reappear in the list if they are installed again from the Xbox Store. To access the shortcut to temporarily show ?hidden? items, press X while holding down both triggers and it will show all hidden items until you exit My Games & Apps.

 

Source: http://majornelson.com/2014/09/08/xbox-one-system-update-preview-improvements-snap-tv-experiences/

 

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The updates each month to the Xbox One since the launch have just been crazy. I can't believe they keep adding all these requests that everyone is making so quickly....seems like Phil Spencer is the one making it happen. I suspect once we get everything we want, the updates will become much smaller and less frequent. That is good though.

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The updates will have to show down at some point in time. As the list of things to add shrinks then we could see monthly updates turn into bimonthly instead.

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WOW.... What an amazing update.  I thought September was nice (and the previous ones).

 

Where's that stick I had, need to beat this dead horse again.  Microsoft may want to revisit that original vision (with some alterations to keep as many people happy as possible) they had and get it implemented.

 

They really may want to entertain keeping XES open as well.  Xbox is really starting to show it's true purpose.

 

 

 

Like I said, the games were going to be a given.

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Currently installing the October update as i am on the Preview, just hope DLNA MKV network support works perfectly without any judder in the UK,

Yea I had some problems playing a few movies off of a USB stick (could have been the quality of the stick as it was like $4).  Ill check out some DNLA today

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At this point we have reached exactly how i hoped it was going to be at launch.  They have finally added just about everything i wanted and then some.  Only other things i want might never happen.  Like the ability to rent a digital game for a week and/ the ability to share digital with friends and possiblly the ability to sell your digital rights of a game to someone like a Xbox Live User Auction  and atleast get money on your xbox live so you can use towards purchasing other games.

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After installing the update the Mediaplayer Preview app automatically found my Mybook world twonkymedia server.

 

Currently testing Xvid streaming via wireless and they seem to play pretty well.

 

Will test some MKV and MP4 soon. 

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Definitely going to check out the DLNA support, as that is easily the biggest update for my own use.

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I am a novice at this but i can report MKV currently does not play for me, maybe it is a DTS sound issue that is the problem as i converted an MKV container to MP4 making the sound AAC and it plays without issue, does anyone with knowledge in media formats have an idea if it is the sound causing my issue? :)

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I am a novice at this but i can report MKV currently does not play for me, maybe it is a DTS sound issue that is the problem as i converted an MKV container to MP4 making the sound AAC and it plays without issue, does anyone with knowledge in media formats have an idea if it is the sound causing my issue? :)

Just to clarify, so does it not play at all? Or it plays but there is no sound?

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Just to clarify, so does it not play at all? Or it plays but there is no sound?

Out of the 3 i tried with DTS audio they didn't play at all and gave an error code.

 

Someone on another forum has reported some play and some dont for him, but i don't know what the difference in the files are.

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aac and ac3 will work, no dts. I believe dts was in the list of codecs that were going to be supported by the end of the year. maybe it didn't make the cut this update.

What is the best and easiest software to use to convert the DTS sound in an MKV to aac,ac3 leaving the video untouched, for a novice?

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What is the best and easiest software to use to convert the DTS sound in an MKV to aac,ac3 leaving the video untouched, for a novice?

Avidemux. its so simple. download it here http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

go to file->open to load your video, then on the left part of the ui there will be drop down menus.

for video output,choose "copy". this wont re-encode the video,only copy the original

for audio output, choose aac or ac3.

then for output format, choose what you like. for mp4 you choose mp4 or mp4v2 and for mkv you choose mkv muxer.

file->save and it will only reencode the audio leaving the video untouched and put them in your chosen container.

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Avidemux. its so simple. download it here http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

go to file->open to load your video, then on the left part of the ui there will be drop down menus.

for video output,choose "copy". this wont re-encode the video,only copy the original

for audio output, choose aac or ac3.

then for output format, choose what you like. for mp4 you choose mp4 or mp4v2 and for mkv you choose mkv muxer.

file->save and it will only reencode the audio leaving the video untouched and put them in your chosen container.

Thanks will have to check it out, i have done more testing and MKV seem to play fine winth AC? or AAC audio but not DTS.

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If it's tossing an error out at you but it works if you convert it to mp4 with different audio than the original mkv then it's the audio codec that's not supported.   I expect another update before October officially goes out, or if not then for the November update, that will add in more codec support because it sounds like the list they posted last month isn't all fully added yet.   Just going to have to give it time and let it get another update or two and they should have all the codec support needed.

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