The folks over at FireCore have been really busy this year improving their aTV Flash (black) software for the Apple TV. Last month they released version 1.2 with a number of fixes. And today they’re back with even more improvements.

Most notably, the program now offers automated backups which will allow users to restore to the firmware of their choice with a single click. FireCore also added a number of new translation languages. Keep reading for the full change log…

Added automated firmware signature backups

Added Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish translations

Added support for advanced (learned) remote commands

Added support for multiple external subtitles (movie.en.srt, movie.de.srt, etc…)

Added support for folder based organization/playback

Added support for embedded DVD chapters

Added chapters section heading to Playback Menu

Added global zoom setting

Improved playback performance for movies with invalid timestamps

Improved appearance of VobSub subtitles

Improved metadata fetching for localized file names

Improved audio track filtering

Improved playback bar to match native player

Improved metadata and bulk folder fetching stability

Improved Media>Settings menu layout

Resolved issues with folder name changing on metadata fetching

Resolved issues with buffering

Resolved rare DVD related crash

Resolved floating AFP issue that was causing connection issues

Resolved floating buffer overflow in software decoder

Minor changes to Grid View appearance

Minor UI improvements

Other miscellaneous bug fixes

If you already own aTV Flash (black), you can install the update by going into the app on your Apple TV and selecting Maintenance > Manage Extras. If you don’t have the software yet, you can find out the benefits of it and other reasons to jailbreak your ATV here. We also have a step-by-step tutorial on how to jailbreak your Apple TV using Seas0nPass.