May 26th, 2012· Changed: Tuned the default Theater View views to use the list styles added to v17.
· Changed: Increased the default Theater View size to 125%.
· Changed: The order of 'Watch' vs 'Watch All' for Theater View TV Show playback is determined based on the last used item.
· Changed: Tuned how Kernel Streaming opens devices to work better with Rigisystems based devices on Windows XP.
May 26th, 2012· Fixed: Theater View backdrops could cause exiting Theater View to be slow in some cases.
· Fixed: Theater View play roller selections were not saving nicely (now saved per media type / media sub type of the file).
· Changed: Cleaned up the Theater View file roller menu for TV shows recorded outside Media Center to work more like the menu used for JTV.
· Changed: Removed ... endings from Theater View roller text.
· Fixed: Cinergy 2400i and Nova-DT DVB-T tuners failed to scan channels.
May 26th, 2012· Changed: Updated LAV filters to .50.5. Several bug fixes since .50.2.
· Changed: Increased maximum CD ripping simultaneous encode processes from 4 to 8.
· NEW: Added subtitle mode 'Always show subtitles'.
· Changed: Television time-shifting reader filter does audio seeking and video seeking separately instead of doing them in one shot.
May 26th, 2012· Changed: Disabled skinning of ASIO driver control panels.
· Changed: Tuned ASIO call ordering for DSD bitstreaming to (hopefully) support more hardware. Feedback appreciated.
· Changed: Audio playback loads and unloads output plugins from the same thread to prevent issues with drivers that didn't like different creation and destruction threads.
· Changed: A SACD with multiple areas will list tracks from both areas on import / play.
· NEW: Added 'DSD Mode' to ASIO settings. To bitstream DSD with a Playback Designs unit, select 'Playback Designs' as the mode (may be necessary with other devices as well).
· Changed: Turning the volume up or down using the mouse wheel, remote control, etc. rounds the volume to the nearest percent so that Internal Volume decibel displays stay at 0.5dB increments.
· Changed: FLAC tagging writes the album artist to both 'ALBUM ARTIST' and 'ALBUMARTIST' instead on only writing to one
· Changed: Removed the discontinued Comedy Central Jokes from Theater View News.
· NEW: Added SACD support for DST compressed tracks.
· NEW: Added SACD support for multi-channel tracks.
· Fixed: Occasionally video could be displayed in a small window in upper left corner when starting up a television program.
· Fixed: Video minimized to Action Window (in standard view) or hidden (in Theater view) when switching channel while watching a television show that was being recorded.
May 18th, 2012· Changed: Improved estimation of audio video bit rates to prevent huge number of small chunk files in television time-shifting folder.
· Fixed: Things that saved files to the desktop (new logging dialog, ringtone creation, etc.) could fail under UAC because they used the shared desktop folder instead of the user's desktop folder.
· Changed: When holding the shift key while switching images (to preserve zoom and scroll), the scroll position will adjust better when the new image is a different size or aspect ratio.
· Changed: Carnac understands 4 digit year values as season values.
· Fixed: When searching for cover art for optical discs in [Cover Art]\Videos\[Name].jpg, invalid characters weren't being replaced with underscores, causing cover art to not be found.
· Changed: Manually running 'Cover Art > Quick Find In File / Cover Art Directory' will replace existing images if a different image is found instead of skipping files that already have an image.
· Changed: Tuning to updated Logging dialog.
· Fixed: The program was not catching the resume from standby notification in some cases, causing Library Server clients to not get new files right away, etc.
· NEW: Added the ability to open the ASIO driver's control panel from Options > Audio > ASIO > Output mode settings...
· Changed: Revised the layout of the ASIO configuration dialog.
· Fixed: Files with Replay Gain but no Peak Level could cause automatic adjustment to Replay Gain levels to be much too loud.
· Changed: Tuned how clips of pure silence are handled so that their Peak Level will show as 0% instead of empty.
May 17th, 2012· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar)
· Changed: DSD bitstreaming using ASIO presents sample rates in two ways, making the feature work with more hardware (feedback appreciated)
· NEW: If the program crashes, a debug dump is created
· Changed: Reworked the Logging dialog to hopefully make getting a log easier and to make it so the logs provided to JRiver are more useful (contain new debug dumps, system info, etc.)
· Fixed: Canceling and restarting an ISO burn could fail because internal burn queue was not cleared
· Changed: Internal plumbing changes in the CD/DVD burning engine
May 17th, 2012· Fixed: Usage of the GetProcessHandleCount(...) function was causing installs to fail on Windows 2000.
· Fixed: Installation on a Windows 2000 machine would show an error trying to install DirectX components (DirectX / 3d accelerated views are not supported on Windows 2000).
· Fixed: Camera import did not show a progress bar in some cases.
· Changed: When moving a data file with a sidecar image, the sidecar image will move along with the data file.
· Fixed: Guide entries for deleted channels could incorrectly appear and overlap valid entries in the Theater View EPG.
· Changed: Subtitle timing changed so that positive numbers make subtitles show later instead of earlier.
· Fixed: Possible expression evaluation bug that could use incorrect integer stack value usage with nested expressions.
· Fixed: DLNA. Remove fields from the Metadata that shouldn't have been there. Was preventing Popcorn Hour 300 from seeing content directory entries. Could have affected other renderers.
· Fixed: UPnP. Non-DLNA servers weren't reporting the L16 mime info properly.
· Fixed: UPnP. Non-DLNA servers weren't providing consistent mimetype mappings for video.
· Changed: DLNA and UPnP. Mimetype mapping for flac files changed from audio/flac to audio/x-flac. While proper, this might cause trouble with some renderers. Need feedback.
· Fixed: WMC (Xbox 360) wasn't working properly with the new default view schemes. Now will work with new and old view schemes. Note: to see Album, Artist and Genre views on the Xbox 360 you need to have DLNA views with those names. If you change them for language purposes, you will lose those views on the Xbox 360.
· NEW: Added basic support for playback of SACD ISO files (two channel only for now).
May 15th, 2012· Fixed: Television subscription recording made in Theater view did not have duration info when shown in "Recording Rules" view.
· Fixed: Television program-based recording scheduled in Theater View did not have channel info when shown in "Recording Rules" view.
· Fixed: Television recordings scheduled in Theater view did not observe user-configured default recording extension minutes (instead, 1 minute before and 1 minute after were used).
· Changed: Broadcom Video Decoder added to whitelist in custom video mode.
May 15th, 2012· Changed: The default television recording extension minutes configuration is moved to television settings property page from schedule recording wizard. The wizard will continue to allow you to modify the values for individual recordings.
· NEW: Option to bookmark television recording at program start time, instead of the beginning of recording (useful when you schedule recording a few minutes early but do not want to have to skip through the extra minutes during playback).
· Changed: DLNA. Modified the UpdateID so that a request of the SystemUpdateID doesn't reset the timer that's looking for database changes that require the ID to be updated. This should help some renderers that were using the SystemUpdateID call often to be more likely to notice changes in the database.
May 15th, 2012· Fixed: Moving the cover art folder to a child folder of itself could cause cover art to be lost instead of moved properly.
· Changed: Hardware based video deinterlacing is now disabled in LAV video when EVR or madVR renderer is being used.
May 15th, 2012· Changed: Custom video mode allows using MainConcept video decoders.
· Changed: Volume settings are available in Options > Audio > Volume (and also still available in Menu > Player > Volume or by clicking the icon next to the volume slider).
· NEW: Added 'Options > Audio > Volume > Maximum volume' for enforcing a maximum level that Media Center will be capable of setting.
· NEW: Default television recording extension minutes can be configured.
· NEW: Added 'Options > Audio > Volume > Internal volume reference level' for specifying what volume level is shown as +0.0dB (all other volumes will be reported relative to that reference level).
· Changed: The OSD and volume slider in Theater View use the same volume display text as other parts of the program (improves support for 'bitstreaming' display, decibels for internal volume, etc.).
May 9th, 2012· Fixed: Visualization Studio columns were not sizing nicely.
· Changed: When playback of a video fails because DSP Studio > Output Format needs configuration, a message will be shown offering to make the change and continue playback instead of automatically making the change (audio already works this way).
· Fixed: Putting a backslash in a user field name could cause trouble.
· Fixed: It was possible to create two fields with the same file-system name by using characters the file system didn't support in the filename, leading to contamination between the two fields.
· Fixed: When creating a ZIP file, the UTF-8 flag was not being properly set (despite filenames being UTF-8 encoded), causing problems in some cases.
· Changed: Added mdx to the list of Disk Image / ISO types.
· Fixed: Panes that had nesting could cause a crash when using dropdown panes mode.
· Fixed: Video playback could use a small rectangle at the top left of the screen in certain cases with build 146.
· NEW: Added support for ID3v2 URL frames. Must manually add a field in Options > Library & Folders > Manager Library Fields... and select 'Store in tags' to use fields using the naming: WCOM: Commercial URL; WCOP: Copyright URL; WOAF: File URL; WOAR: Artist URL; WOAS: Source URL; WORS: Radio Station URL; WPAY: Payment URL; WPUB: Publisher URL
· Fixed: Bookmarking did not work on television shows that were watched while they were still being recorded.
· Changed: Carnac better understands television filenames of the form "series ssee name" where "ssee" is four digits.
· Fixed: Performer store could crash if visited while internet connection was unavailable
May 9th, 2012· Fixed: Playback display painting could show a black screen with build 145.
· Fixed: Expressions that had multiple levels of inlining could show % in the output with build 145.
· Changed: Symlinks are no longer resolved when using the Browse Folder interface, so importing from a symlink will use the symlink path in the library instead of the resolved path.
· Fixed: EVR clean up problem in television playback.
· Changed: A little cleanup in input plugins (makes build a little smaller).
May 9th, 2012· Fixed: Interface leak in television.
· Fixed: Expression inlining could cause problems if the inlined expression used parenthesis or commas outside of a function context.
· Changed: Expression engine allows putting a subexpression in /% %/ to force it to be tokenized independently (used internally for inlined expressions).
· Changed: Several internal class names, pin names, etc. changed from "J. River xyz" to "JRiver xyz" (only relevant if you're scripting or searching for specific window classes).
· Fixed: The import summary would show files skipped because they were previously removed from the library twice.
· NEW: Doing a lookup at TMDb will populate the new field "IMDB ID" when available.
· Changed: Play stats can be copied using Paste Tags.
· Fixed: Importing dates from flac files in weird "yyyy mm" format now works.
· Changed: Removed remaining references to MFC in the playback engine, making JRPlayer about 6% smaller (should be internal change, but please report any issues).
· Fixed: Invalid expressions that reported an error could cause a small memory leak.
· Changed: The Auto-Import fix broken links option 'Yes (protect network files)' is now 'Yes (protect files on missing drives)' and works better with temporary fixed drives.
· Changed: When Auto-Import is dealing with broken links, the 'protect files on missing drives' mode checks for the existence of the drive instead of existence of the owning folder.
· Changed: The 'Clean File Properties' and 'Find & Replace' library tools use the same field picker as 'Paste Tags', which removes fields that are empty or irrelevant for the selected files.
· Changed: Find & Replace remembers the find, replace, and case sensitive options between uses (selected fields have always been remembered).
· Changed: The field 'TheTVDB Series ID' was not available for use in video views.
· Changed: DLNA servers. When enabling the "MPEG video mimetype override", clearing out the "video DLNA override" entry will prevent it from being reported causing the renderer to rely upon the mimetype reported by "video mimetype override"
May 5th, 2012· Fixed: With Library Server sync, sending a delete from a client with no other changes, then closing the client and restarting it, could cause the deleted file to reappear
May 5th, 2012· Changed: Made the FileDBLocation(...) expression function able to output a number or list of readable strings (defaults to strings).
· Fixed: If an expression field referenced itself, the circular reference could cause a crash.
· Changed: When import skips files because the filenames are too long or because files have the system attribute set, the import summary will show this (and 'Show in-depth summary' will list the files).
· Changed: The in-depth summary for an import lists files skipped because they're marked as bad or that have been previously deleted (only a count was shown before).
· Fixed: MC did not make use hardware encoding capability of the analog tuner on Hauppauge HVR-1800.
· Fixed: Starting loopback playback (live://loopback) would crash on XP instead of fail gracefully (loopback requires Vista or newer and WASAPI).
· NEW: Added support for playback of "Shorten" format audio files (SHN).
· NEW: Commercial skipping sidecars (EDL files) work over Library Server.
· Fixed: Using the search box / search suggestions to execute a slow program command like 'Create Test Clips...' could lead to a crash.
· NEW: Added 'Parametric Equalizer' 36 dB/octave and 48 dB/octave slopes to the high-pass filter.
· Faster: Allow caching to work when building DLNA container child container descriptions. Massive speed increase (when browsing the DLNA tree).
· Fixed: It was possible to set a category as 'Grouped', then switch it to an expression (which doesn't support grouping), and then have a broken pane or view.
· NEW: DSP Studio is sizable / maximizable (only some pages respond to sizing, others remain top-left aligned).
May 5th, 2012· Fixed: Manually deleting files with Library Server sync did not work properly with build 141.
· Fixed: When both a client and server imported the same file, Library Server sync could cause two copies to appear (only applies to last couple builds
May 5th, 2012· Fixed: Library Server sync could cause problems with stacks and particles (only applies to 17.0.131 and newer)
· Changed: Library Server sync uses file keys for all merging instead of filenames (makes stacks and particles work nicely)
· 3. Changed: Added FileDBLocation() expression function to view the internal database locations of a file (mostly for internal / debugging use)
· Fixed: Consecutive and overlapping television recordings on the same channel (thus on the same device) did not work correctly. The second recording was stopped and restarted when the first recording ended
· Changed: LAV video is set to "aggressively" de-interlace mpeg-2 video in Red October mode. This should fix broken TV streams that have some interlaced frames marked as progressive
May 2nd, 2012· NEW: Added Tag Pasting feature (Ctrl+Shift+V).
· Fixed: Audio seeking with Ctrl+Left/Right was using too large of a jump size.
· Fixed: If a JPEG failed a lossless rotation, it could cause a crash.
May 2nd, 2012· Fixed: MCWS was not properly handling hexified URL parameter names (only hexified URL parameter values)
· Changed: Czech language translation updated
· Fixed: The 'Format' tag in the Action Window could show an error
· Fixed: Library Server sync could cause problems in certain cases (only applies to the last few builds)
· Faster: Improved the performance of Library Server sync
· Changed: The 'Supported Formats' list for a handheld didn't clean the list until after a restart, so entering extra spaces, etc. could still cause troubles
· Changed: Tuned the safety valve on allowing ASIO hardware resets to stop playback if more than 5 resets occur in 5 seconds
· Changed: When audio playback buffers, like after a seek, the user interface won't switch to "Buffering xx%" unless buffering lasts at least 250ms
· Faster: Seeking audio playback with keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right updates the user interface immediately (previously there was a little delay before changes showed)
May 2nd, 2012· Changed: DSP 'Effects' surround enhancement had a typo in the description.
· Changed: Pane tagging using drag-n-drop is only possible when pane tagging is enabled (F4) (a drop shows the same pane tagging confirmation that clicking checkboxes in the panes shows when pane tagging is disabled).
· Faster: Action Window > Tag > Image could be slow when used with large views.
· Changed: Updated LAV filters to .50.2. Fixed deadlock on dynamic format changes with DXVA2 native. Added YV24 support. Numerous other bug fixes and performance tweaks.
· Fixed: Handheld upload could crash when first starting conversions.
· NEW: Added more database fields to the DLNA metadata.
· Fixed: MPC tagging was failing with the last few builds.
· Changed: Added a Hebrew keyboard to Theater View
May 2nd, 2012· NEW: MC tries to resolve conflict of some hybrid television tuners - e.g. if the device is being used for digital television channel, MC will not try to use it for analog channel, and vice versa.
· Changed: Tuned the safety valve on allowing ASIO hardware resets to stop playback if more than 5 resets occur in 20 seconds (previously only allowed one reset each 30 seconds).
· Fixed: Remote zones would not update their name when the server / device changed its name (user-customized names will still be possible, but will have to be manually reentered one time).
· Fixed: If panes were set to filter in both directions, something was selected, then 'Reset Selection' clicked, then the same thing selected, the list wouldn't update properly.
· Fixed: DLNA zones could cause a hang.
· Changed: Tagging by dropping on a pane value is only possible when Pane Tagging (F4) is enabled.
April 27th, 2012· Fixed: When printing multiple almost full page images, the image would be centered on the first page and top-left aligned on subsequent pages.
· Changed: When in-place editing in a list when the values vary, the first value will be placed in the edit control instead of [Varies].
· Fixed: Editing list-type fields that used a standard (non-list) edit mode would cause the values in the selection set to not appear at the top of the combobox (applies to Artist, Genre, etc. since they are now list fields).
· NEW: Subtitle timing can be adjusted from the OSD when subtitles are on (use up/down/left/right while playing).
· Fixed: Right-clicking in the empty area to the right of all the columns in a list would not work properly.
· Changed: Expression variables used with Load(...) and Save(...) are global, and valid for the run of the program.
· Fixed: Dealing with series images could be unnecessarily slow when a library used a lot of series-based relational fields.
· Faster: Tweaked list filling to be faster for large lists.
April 27th, 2012· Fixed: A rare hang on track switch when two or more zones were switching at exactly the same time (most common with linked zones).
· NEW: Added support for ASIO hardware reset requests, which is used by RME and possibly other hardware.
April 27th, 2012· Fixed: Glass based skins could allow a modal dialog to jump behind the view in some views.
· Changed: Updated webgizmo html5 player.
· Fixed: When downloading a component that showed progress, if the server didn't report a file size the progress could incorrectly show "2GB".
· Fixed: Icons on messages boxes didn't look nice with skins that used an image for a dialog back.
· Faster: Parsing / compiling large expressions is much faster (for example, Marko's 27,000 character thumbnail text expression takes 34ms to compile compared to 20800ms).
· Faster: The expression compiler is smarter about inlining expressions so that it won't inline in cases where it could actually hurt performance.
· Changed: Added Load(...) and Save(...) expression functions to allow using variables.
· Changed: Improved error-handling in television recording.
· Fixed: DLNA server. Correct spelling error for updateID variable. Was preventing PS3 and probably others from working properly. Broken in build 17.0.132
· NEW: DLNA server. Make an educated guess of the container type for playlists, photo albums and audio albums. Solves sorting problem in PlugPlayer (and perhaps others).
April 27th, 2012· Changed: Expression inlining wouldn't inline an expression if the case in the expression didn't match the case of the expression field in the library.
· Changed: An expression that doesn't properly close a function with a right parenthesis will report an error instead of evaluating (since the invalid expression will yield unexpected results if it gets inlined).
· Changed: 'Get Movie & TV Info' allows lookup of files with a Media Sub Type of Trailer.
· Fixed: A skin that used Glass could incorrectly keep a view showing when closing the program to Media Server mode.
· Fixed: Skins that used Glass could have small artifacts on the left or right edge of text.
· NEW: Added support for TV season images (use naming like: [Cover Art Folder]\Seasons\Seinfeld - Season 3.jpg).
· Changed: Increased the probe size used to analyze if a WAV file contains DTS from 16kB to 256kB.
· Changed: Carnac better understands TV episodes that use the naming like "S01E01 - Giotto.avi" (with no series).
April 24th, 2012· Changed: When a commercial skip file (EDL) calls for a skip at the start of playback, the skip is performed before starting playback so that it's faster / smoother
· Changed: Skins that used frame transparency (glass) could show an empty sheet of glass instead of a black screen when first starting video playback fullscreen
· Changed: Tuned how video playback responds to video size change notifications to (hopefully) fix cases of a black screen showing when starting playback
· Fixed: Particles could be corrupted when used with Library Server sync
· Fixed: MC repeatedly ran an unnecessary timer when doing a scheduled recording of an analog television channel
· Fixed: The detailed tag dump for FLAC files was not working for a couple builds
· Fixed: DLNA updateID for DLNA server content directory
April 24th, 2012· NEW: Skins can use transparency in the background of the edit, combobox, and search control.
· Fixed: 2D visualizations were not working in the last few builds.
· Faster: Visualizations are better managed by the framework so that they're loaded and unloaded less often, and their window is not created just to query for modes.
· Fixed: Stopping or deleting a playing video that had changed the display resolution / refresh rate while in Theater View could lead to Theater View no longer drawing.
· Fixed: Mouse selection of DVD Menu buttons didn't work right when "Window / Crop edges" was selected from the right-click menu.
· Fixed: When grouping on a decimal field like FPS, numbers that varied by less than 0.01 could cause the same value to appear in multiple groupings.
· Changed: The search engine considers numbers within 0.01 of a value to be a match (so [FPS]=29.97 returns 29.969, 29.973, etc.).
· Changed: The 'Rename, Move, & Copy Files' dialog will show and do nothing if some rule attempts to output a path that isn't rooted.
· Fixed: ICY metadata was not being read nicely (and could even cause audible clicks) from some online radio stations.
· Changed: Allow book-marking across library server/client for all video types rather than just JTV.
· Fixed: Cover art in the cover art folder was not being found for optical discs or ISOs.
· Fixed: If a combobox contained text that wasn't in the droplist, opening and closing the drop list would switch the text to the first item in the list.
· Changed: When in-place-editing multiple files with varying values, [Varies] will be shown like already done in the Tag Action Window.
· Changed: Library Server sync includes television guide records, stacks, and particles.
April 24th, 2012· Fixed: Setting the day or month field on a file with en empty date could fail.
· Changed: TheTVDB lookup was not putting the original air date into the date field for television episodes.
· Fixed: MCWS would double unescape URL parameters, making it impossible to use a literal & or ?.
· Changed: Merged the APE tagging code for APE, MPC, and WV (should be an internal change, but please report any issues).
· Fixed: DVD playback to Android or from play particles did not work well - video image would often break-up and pixellate.
· Changed: Updated WebGizmo to better size to the full browser for video playback (thanks Scolex).
April 19th, 2012· NEW: Added support for JPEG files that use a CMYK color space.
· Faster: Reworked how strings are handled with the translation engine to be several times faster (helps performance in many areas, even when running in English).
· Faster: Revised import and input plugins to use a faster string passing system.
· Fixed: The option to move the center speaker to the front L/R speakers was not working properly when downmixing.
April 19th, 2012· Fixed: A couple expression engine bugs in build 127
· Faster: Revised how the current time is retrieved from the system to be about 25x faster (helps expressions that use Now(), possibly other areas of the program)
· NEW: Added 'Order channels' filter to Parametric Equalizer for easier ordering of output channels
· Changed: Switched standard message box icons to a skinnable resource (Art\SystemIcons in skin)
· Changed: Users will no long need to scan for analog television channels before scanning for STB television channels
· Fixed: Camera import could appear to hang if the process was canceled
· Fixed: The same camera could appear twice in the camera import drop list, once as removable drive and once as WIA device
April 19th, 2012· Faster: Improved memory management in expression evaluator, resulting in about 5% faster expression evaluation.
· Faster: Improved handling of constants in the expression engine, leading to around 10% faster expression evaluation.
· Faster: Search engine is faster when dealing with expression-based searches.
· Faster: The PadNumber(...) expression function is several times faster.
· Faster: Expression engine pools evaluation of a field so using the same field repeatedly in an expression or subsequent files with the same value is faster.
· Fixed: The expression Right(...) was not working properly in build 126.
· Changed: Updated the html5 audio/image playback script.
· Changed: Hook up slideshow time option to the html5 image slideshow playback.
· Fixed: Some analog television tuners did not work when played in non-time-shifting mode if the user has no appropriate audio decoder installed on the computer.
· Changed: All analog television tuners using hardware MPEG encoding will load LAV Audio Decoder by default in non-time-shifting mode.
· Fixed: Hulu browsing was not working properly.
· Faster: When an expression uses a field that's an expression field, the expression field is inlined, helping performance in these cases.
· Fixed: If an invalid equation was provided to a Math(...) expression it could lead to a leak.
· Changed: Image acquisition in the Camera Action Window now done in background threads.
· Faster: Removed a processing layer when searches evaluate expressions, helping performance.
· Faster: The search engine better sorts multiple expressions so that the fastest expressions get evaluated first (sometimes helping performance of expression-based views immensely).
· Faster: The Math(...) expression uses a caching layer so that evaluating a fixed expression is roughly the same as using a constant (makes expressions with math 10x or more faster).
April 19th, 2012· Fixed: Display of television guide programs could start at the wrong time on locales that didn't use a dot for the decimal character.
· Fixed: Using [Album Artist (auto)] in the path expression for a handheld device did not work nicely with mix albums.
· NEW: Television recording in ts format for certain analog devices (WinTV HDPVR/Colossus and some other devices that use hardware MPEG encoding).
· Fixed: Rating tags were not being properly supported for M4A files.
· Faster: Improvements to the expression engine and expression-based searches to help performance (for example, [=Left([Artist], 4)]=[Abba] evaluates almost twice as fast).
· Fixed: Multiple simultaneous loads on the WebGizmo server could cause a crash.
· Faster: The WebGizmo server builds browsing pages up to 100 times faster.
April 19th, 2012· Fixed: Library server access key would stop hourly renewals if there was a temporary internet disconnection.
· Changed: Shows with empty or 0 for the season number will still be eligible for TheTVDB lookup (since season 0 is used for specials, etc.).
· Changed: Updated input plugin interface version (should be internal change, but please report any issues).
· Fixed: When recording consecutive shows on the same television channel, MC could incorrectly stop recording, if the user started watching the channel and then stopped watching after the first recording had finished.
· Fixed: MC was not using the program name for folder name when recording television shows.
April 19th, 2012· Fixed: YouTube titles with international characters were not being supported nicely
· Fixed: Searching YouTube for international characters did not work properly
· SDK: Added NextFileKey to MCWS/v1/Playback/Info to allow easily getting the next file to play
· SDK: Added MCWS function File/GetInfo to make getting information about a single file easier
· Fixed: Audio Path did not work in television playback
April 19th, 2012· Fixed: Corrupt data in an over-the-air television guide scan could cause a crash.
· Fixed: When bitstreaming DSD over ASIO, silence could be output as 0x00 instead of 0x69, leading to an audible pop.
· Fixed: Video playback with Gizmo of low frame rate videos could show visual artifacts.
· NEW: Image import from cameras (and other devices) now uses WPD sub-system rather than WIA so videos can now be imported as well as photos.
· Fixed: Image import via WPD/WIA wasn't honoring file types list from options dialog. Also, files that were already in library could get re-transferred.
April 10th, 2012· Fixed: 'Move center to front L/R' was not working in build 120 and 121.
· Changed: Analog television tuners/video capture devices that use MPEG hardware compression will use Red October or custom filters settings in time-shifting mode.
· NEW: Option to start analog channels in time-shifting mode. The default is off.
· Changed: Pressing Stop button while time-shifting analog TV channel stops playing the channel, instead of just canceling time-shifting. The behavior is now the same for analog and digital channels.
· Changed: Updates to webgizmo video playing
April 10th, 2012· Fixed: JRSS mixing was not working properly in some cases with build 120.
April 10th, 2012· NEW: Added the ability to DSP Studio > Output Format to output some variants like "2 channels (inside 4 channel container)", "5.1 channels (inside 7.1 channel container)", etc.
· Changed: Revised the JRSS upmixing engine to support more flexible channel arrangements and to offer better performance in some cases (should be an internal change, but please report any issues).
· Changed: Tuned the way television shows the channel and program when changing channels to make it easier to read.
· Changed: The channel up / channel down buttons on the remote would not allow quick channel scanning.
· Changed: When scanning channels quickly, the OSD updates immediately while the tune happens in the background (previously the OSD could lag behind).
· Changed: The television control behaves better when a lot of tune requests are issued quickly.
· Faster: Improved the performance of displaying OSD information for television (which also makes changing channels faster).
· Fixed: Television recording skipped a final importing procedure (resulting in recordings being reported as missing in standard TV view) in the last couple of builds.
· Changed: Find & Replace no longer allows making filename changes (which move files). Use the find & replace feature in Rename, Move, & Copy Files instead.
· Changed: WebPlay and WebRemote have been deprecated in favor of WebGizmo (WebPlay and WebRemote will remain for v17, but they are not shown in Options or on the root Library Server page).
April 10th, 2012· Changed: The TVInfo(...) expression function supports 'ChannelKeywords' to get the keywords of the channel for a guide program or recording.
· Fixed: Some older Real Video clips would not play (RV10/RV20 format).
· Changed: Volume Protection resets the level to 20% instead of 10% if there has been no playback for a long time (better matches Internal Volume changes from 17.0.83).
· Fixed: DLNA Sinkprotocolinfo string had improper syntax.
· Fixed: Using Play Doctor with linked zones could cause a crash.
· Changed: When using Volume Leveling in 'Automatic based on current playlist' mode, a consistent +6.0 dB will be used when playing with Play Doctor (otherwise as Play Doctor changes the playlist it can cause the volume to fluctuate between tracks).
· Fixed: Disconnecting some DLNA devices during playback could cause Media Center to freeze.
· Fixed: Temporary DLNA audio conversion files weren't getting deleted until Media Center closed.
· Fixed: Forced whitespace, indicated by slash space, in expressions was not working properly.
· NEW: Playback of unprotected RTMP streams works with File > Open URL...
· Changed: Clicking 'Resume Playback' on Gizmo when the server's Playing Now was empty would cause the server to show a 'There is nothing to play' error.
· NEW: "Do not record reruns" option for television subscription recording.
· Changed: Added the Media Sub Type 'Trailer' for movie trailers.
· Changed: On the end of a Blu-ray, the menu dialog is no longer shown automatically (use Particles, the Menu button on the remote, the OSD, or the right-click menu to play sub-titles).
April 10th, 2012· Changed: Tag on import rules allow drag-n-drop or right-click reordering.
· Fixed: When picking a search suggestion that didn't change the search text, it would not properly apply the rule to the view.
· Fixed: Column width / order changes were not being saved.
· Fixed: Ctrl+Arrow navigation did not work properly in multi-line edit controls that use plain text instead of HTML.
· Changed: Dates of the form "yyyy mm dd" would not parse (used in some M4A files, maybe others).
· NEW: Consecutive and overlapping TV recordings on the same channel are recorded with the same tuner.
· Changed: The folder browse dialog uses system controls only and no skinning to avoid problems like scrollbars not working, etc.
· NEW: For WebGizmo if a browser supports HTML 5, WebGizmo will try to play music, images and video with an HTML 5 javascript player. If it can't play that specific content using HTML5 it will revert to a flash player. This allows playlists on ios 5 to work in Safari for audio and images. Video is likely to need more changes...
April 3rd, 2012· Fixed: Video playback on Gizmo / WebGizmo could (still) not work in some cases.
April 3rd, 2012· Fixed: If cancelling of an internet read was slow, it could cause a thread to be ungracefully terminated leading to crashes in the system library wininet.dll.
· Changed: Revised how Theater View backdrop loading is handled so that the user interface thread is never waiting on a load to finish.
· Fixed: In certain cases the last frame in an ID3v2 tag would not get removed properly, so a frame could appear twice in the tag.
· Fixed: Viewing a single file search result in Theater View was not working properly.
· Faster: Core value searching engine (Theater View, Gizmo, search suggestions, etc.) is about 15% faster.
· Changed: In Netflix, right and left keyboard arrows or remote buttons now activate Silverlight fastforward/rewind controls correctly. Ok/Pause/Play button control improvement also.
· Changed: WMA tagging using WM/PartOfSet for disc numbers.
· Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks to Gianni).
· Fixed: Video playback with Gizmo / WebGizmo was not working in build 115 due to an HTML escapement issue.
· Changed: Updated to LAV filters .50.1. Fixed crashes due to invalid subtitle data and certain dynamic format changes. Improved Blu-ray stream detection.
· Fixed: Possible leak when scrolling a list that was showing full resolution thumbnails.
April 3rd, 2012· Fixed: Date formatting tokens %W and %U were counting from the first week in the month instead of the first week in the year.
· Fixed: When tagging ID3v2 tags (MP3, WAV, DSF) with images other than just a front cover, the results could be unpredictable (Media Center will replace front and other images with the image in Media Center, and leave other types).
· Fixed: Japanese locale (and maybe others) could have problems loading Podcasts.
· NEW: Audio Path reports the source format (especially useful for seeing if DTS-MA, etc. is being decoded fully).
· Changed: When toggling zones, Playing Now views are only switched to the new zone if they're in the current tab, split view, and not locked (so having multiple splits each showing a different Playing Now works nicely).
· Fixed: With a Search List view category, the sorting could be disabled but stuck on 'Descending' causing the list to sort in reverse.
· Changed: Resuming from standby, a Library Server client will sync with the server (must have 'Options > Media Network > Client Options > Auto sync with server' enabled).
· Changed: A file will not be eligible to transfer to a handheld or burn to a CD/DVD until any queued tagging for that file has finished.
· Fixed: Audio Path text was not readable with some skins.
· Fixed: Right-clicking a non-selected pane item and picking an action could perform the action on the previous selection.
· Changed: Updated LAV filters to .50. Decoding speed increases, RealAudio Lossless support, lots of other improvements.
· Fixed: Unusual behavior when corrupt podcast files were downloaded.
· Changed: Improved visual smoothness when switching into Cover View (also removed black flicker when pressing stop from Cover View).
· Changed: The Smartlist Editor doesn't show a drop list for 'Large Value' type fields like Description, etc.
· Changed: If video playback is paused when entering Theater View, it is not automatically resumed if Theater View is exited to Standard View.
April 3rd, 2012· Changed: When using list fields in Rename, Move, & Copy Files expressions, the full list can be retrieved by using 0 as the second field parameter (example: [Keywords, 0]).
· Fixed: The server core was not supporting HTTP/1.1 pipelining correctly, causing scrambled artwork in WebGizmo on iOS 5, and possibly other problems.
· Fixed: WebGizmo better handles escapement of invalid characters.
· Changed: Tweaks to ensure WebGizmo pages pass W3C validation.
· Fixed: Date formatting was not outputting a literal percentage properly when using %%.
· Changed: Date formatting supports %W and %U.
April 3rd, 2012· NEW: Added support for dual-layer DVD burning.
· Fixed: Scrolling in Theater View 3d lists could crash in some cases.
· Faster: Theater View will run up to 16 concurrent object updates instead of 4 concurrent updates for user interface elements.
· Fixed: Handheld syncing could send duplicate files when one side had a space after semi-colons in a list and the other side had no spaces.
· Fixed: The FormatDate(...) token datetime was not working properly.
· Fixed: XMP tagging would write empty keywords when removing keywords instead of actually removing them from the XMP tag.
April 3rd, 2012· Fixed: List column header text was using the wrong color in build 111.
· Changed: Consolidated and improved date formatting supported by FormatDate(...) expression ( details here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=71000.msg479314#msg479314 ).
· Fixed: All XMP keywords were not being read in some cases.
· Fixed: Some functions in Media Editor were not working properly.
· Changed: MP4 parsing is more forgiving of some types of container corruption.
· NEW: Add DLNA controller option to disable SetNextAVTransportURI support for broken renderers.
· Changed: DLNA controller logic for SetNextAVTransportURI to work around bugs in some renderers.
· NEW: Added support for /Sleep [milliseconds] command to the launcher to allow scripting delays. To sleep one second: MC17.exe /Sleep 1000
April 3rd, 2012· Faster: More SSE speed improvements in image framework.
· Changed: The expression engine trims white space before the first parameter and after the last parameter in a function (you can force white-space output by escaping with a slash).
· Changed: In the expression engine, if a slash (the escape character) is followed by newline, all white space will be discarded (including the newline).
· Changed: Improved support for SSA font face and position tokens.
· Changed: Improved support for SSA command blocks that string many commands or formatting tokens into a single block (ie. {\i1\fnVerdana}).
· NEW: Added an Indonesian translation (thanks to elda).
· Changed: Switched list headers from a skinned system control to a custom JRiver control (please report any issues).
· Fixed: Audio playback using DirectShow filters did not nicely handle mid-stream format changes (could cause problems with DTS WAV files, maybe others).
· Changed: Tuned DTS-in-WAV detector to better handle DTS files with junk between the DTS frames.
· Changed: Carnac better understands MakeMKV filenames (ie. t01_The_Matrix.mkv).
April 3rd, 2012· Changed: Revised the bilinear image portion of JRMark to be more representative of how the program uses bilinear stretching (older JRMark values will be roughly comparable, but not exactly the same).
· Faster: More speed improvements to SSE in image engine.
· Changed: DLNA: the way the updateID is incremented. If a starting index is >0 the updateID is not incremented.
April 3rd, 2012· Fixed: Ripping DVD "Cars 2" would cause a crash.
· Changed: When burning a DVD video disc, if there is a DRM protected file in the burn queue, an appropriate error message is now shown.
· Fixed: EPG loading could load incorrect channel data in certain cases.
· Changed: Carnac better handles SageTV recording filenames that use a 6-digit identifier instead of a 7-digit identifier.
· Changed: Image framework uses SSE for core rendering when possible. Should also be faster.
April 3rd, 2012· Changed: Improvements to Carnac parsing of download filenames.
· Changed: EPG channel auto-match did not run for all DVB variants.
· Changed: Tuned the EPG channel auto-match for non-ATSC channels.
April 3rd, 2012· Fixed: EPG loading was not working properly for some country / postal codes.
· Fixed: Locked views could cause the view state to be lost between program startups.
· Changed: Better error handling during DVD video burning.
April 3rd, 2012· Changed: Updated to madVR v0.82.5 when using Red October HQ.
· Changed: Updated LAV .49. VC1 files now handled by LAV video decoder.
· Fixed: Burn queue track sorting was broken.
· NEW: Added support for DSD bitstreaming using DoP (requires 'WASAPI - Event Style' output and supported DSD hardware).
· NEW: DSD bitstreaming using DoP allows selecting the marker bytes (supports DoP 1.0, and older 0xAA approach used by dCS, Meitner, and others).
· Fixed: In some cases, text based subtitles could appear with multiple subtitles on top of one another.
· Fixed: EPG guide loading was not working properly for countries other than the US.
· Faster: Burning an audio CD when not decoding directly to disc prepares files several times faster.
· NEW: Added expression FileFolder(...) to get the folder of a file: FileFolder(string Filename = [Filename, 0], int LevelsUp = 0).
April 3rd, 2012· NEW: ISO image burning added to CD/DVD burn types. Also, DVD video burning now allows burning an existing ripped DVD from the hard disk.
· Changed: Added DLNA video profiles for devices that only support MPEG-2 audio in MPEG-2 video containers (no AC-3 support).
April 3rd, 2012· Changed: Improved code structure / linkage so that JRWorker is 611kB smaller, Media Center is 353kB smaller, and PackageInstaller is 421kB smaller.
· NEW: Added the ability to auto-create particles for Blu-ray titles.
· Changed: Making changes to a particle no longer does any file tagging.
· Changed: VST plugin loading will accept v1.x VST effects instead of only v2.x effects.
· Changed: When creating a particle, a user interface is shown.
· Changed: Using Rename, Move, & Copy Files will show "" for particles and do no actions on them.
· Changed: When renaming the parent of particles, the particles are automatically updated.
April 3rd, 2012· NEW: Added support for sidecar .SSA/.ASS subtitles (feedback welcome).
· Changed: Added WebM Video (.webm) to the list of supported video types.
· Changed: Added a DoP test clip to the test clip suite.
· Changed: Updated to madVR v0.82.4 when using Red October HQ.
· Changed: When changing resolutions, Media Center always toggles desktop composition to force Windows to update the desktop manager (previously it only did this when starting playback, not when stopping playback).
· Changed: Revised the Help > System Info display (thanks to madshi for his help).
March 8th, 2012· Changed: Improved the workaround for the blue-screen crashes in the Thesycon (and possibly other) audio drivers when resetting with Kernel Streaming
· Changed: Reworked how full packet Kernel Streaming delivery is handled to work better with video (full packets are required or some drivers stall playback)
· Changed: If video hardware acceleration is enabled, and Media Center detects an Intel Atom processor, DXVA2 Native mode is preferred over CUVID mode for hardware acceleration
· Fixed: DLNA search didn't work properly with servers/renderers that used the same port for both
February 22nd, 2012· Fixed: Television channel scanning did not work for the last couple of builds.
· Fixed: Ctrl+F would not select existing text in the search box.
· Changed: Default sorting for television shows will use Series\Season\Episode\Name instead of just Name.
· Changed: Empty sort rules in a view or parent view could cause problems when setting the sort to (Default).
· Fixed: Installing a build manually clears any queued auto-updates.
· Changed: Updated LAV filters to .47 with DXVA Native mode support and other goodies.
· Fixed: Library server and DLNA audio conversions to mp3 were not working.
· NEW: Added DLNA controller function which can change tracks gaplessly. Requires that the renderer supports SetNextAVTransportURI. Works nicely with MC's renderer. Needs testing with other renderers whether they have the function or not (look for breakage on renderers that don't support it).
February 22nd, 2012· Fixed: The OSD window would only draw one line of text in some cases
February 17th, 2012· NEW: Added the HDTracks store including download and search (Services & Plug-ins in the tree).
· Changed: Added extra logging for TV recording.
· Changed: Revised escapement of non-printable characters in XML to work with more XML parsers.
· Fixed: Relative paths that moved up multiple paths with ../.. were not handled properly in some cases.
· Faster: Internal Volume uses SSE when it's available for around 20% - 30% faster volume processing.
· Changed: Reduced wait time for DVB and QAM channel scanning.
· Changed: Added a wait when switching user interface modes while madVR is in use to help with full screen exclusive causing Theater View creation problems.
February 17th, 2012· Changed: Increased the number of allowable Theater View background images that will be cached (now the lesser of 1 GB or 2500 images).
· Fixed: The tooltip for the Compare(...) expression function listed incorrect examples.
· NEW: Added full support for DSF tagging (uses ID3v2 tags at the end of the file).
· Fixed: MC could crash when scanning for DVB-C (and maybe DVB-S) channels.
· Changed: Updated Russian translation file (thanks to Vladimir).
· Fixed: Internal Volume was not working when no effects were enabled in DSP Studio.
· Fixed: Theater View artist backdrops were not working properly when there was a list of artists for a file.
· Fixed: Theater View would incorrectly show backdrops for the first file in a selection with varying series or artists (backdrops only appear if the backdrop would apply to all files in the selection).
· Fixed: DLNA: present proper bitrate in when converting to MP3.
· Changed: Search suggestions don't appear if search syntax is entered into the search box (defined as the characters: []=).
· Fixed: Non-printable characters below 0x20 were not being escaped properly when generating XML.
February 17th, 2012· Changed: Tuned the Internal Volume slider scaling.
· Fixed: DVB-C tuning space was specified incorrectly.
· Fixed: Albums that ended with period characters would unnecessarily have their external cover art saved without the periods.
· Fixed: Random smartlists would not refresh when re-entering a playlist view in Theater View.
· Changed: Tuned DSD to PCM conversion to remove high-frequency aliasing noise.
February 17th, 2012· Fixed: A bad filename for a DVB-C transponder list file.
· Fixed: Theater View backgrounds could cause hiccups in animation when switching between artists, series, etc.
· Fixed: Theater View theme images tied to root item selection would not load when entering Theater View until the selection was changed.
· Fixed: WinTV Nova-T Stick DVB-T Tuner did not work.
· Changed: Carnac understands four digit episode numbers.
· Changed: Minor change in DVB-C/S tuning.
February 10th, 2012· NEW: Theater View themes support showing different images depending on the root roller selection (put images in [Theme Folder]\Root\Audio, [Theme Folder]\Root\Movies, etc.).
· Changed: The 'Don't ask me again' box when prompting about removing empty folders will save both a yes or no answer (previously by design it would only save a yes answer).
· Changed: DLNA:Try to return a valid container ID for browsemetadata.
· NEW: (Clear) QAM digital cable television support.
· Fixed: Internal Volume was not being honored when doing level calibration with Room Correction.
· Fixed: When going back a level in Theater View sometimes the focus could shift unexpectedly to the top roller.
· Changed: Theater View themes use a faster fade when switching to a different set of images (but still the same fade time between images in a slideshow set).
· Fixed: Browsing into a Netflix series entry in Theater View was not working properly.
· Faster: Theater View online theme handling better caches searches to reduce web traffic / overhead.
· Fixed: Changes to Netflix account information were lost if program crashed.
· Changed: Volume mode, internal volume level, and Volume Protection are saved as they are changed instead of on shutdown so settings aren't lost if there's a crash.
· Fixed: It was possible to use Send To to add tracks to a locked playlist.
· Changed: Intel QuickSync is now supported for video acceleration for VC1, AVC, and MPEG-2 formats.
February 10th, 2012· Fixed: Manual TheMovieDB would show the URL to the poster and backdrop in the results.
· Faster: Clicking between entries in Get Movie & TV Info no longer reloads the result from the server.
· Fixed: The level of data in visualizations would be incorrectly reduced by Internal Volume.
· NEW: Theater View animated lists support all the same typed-navigation functionality as standard lists (1: home, 0: end, 2-9: texting style, letters: as expected).
· Fixed: With a Theater View sheet list, zooming into an item could result in the full resolution image being cropped to a square instead of shown with its native aspect ratio.
· NEW: Added 'Timing' to subtitle right-click menu to allow adjusting when subtitles appear (changes saved per-file and applied on subsequent playback as well).
· Fixed: DRM protected wmv files were not playing.
· Fixed: DRM protected wma files could cause a crash during import or audio analysis.
· Fixed: Selecting AVI format for the video conversion type for DLNA playback did not work.
· Fixed: Some view header commands like locking of a playlist would not work as expected if the playlist was showing more than once on the screen (split views, Action Window, etc.).
· Fixed: "Nova-DT DVB-T Tuner" television device did not work.
· Changed: Theater View flow and wall lists use higher quality textures for the unselected items.
· Changed: Theater View animated lists use mip-mapping to improve the visual quality when zooming, moving, etc. (you can configure AA and AF in Options > General > Video Card).
· Fixed: The Editor field was not usable for images as reported in the build 83 change log.
· Fixed: Possible crash while switching between views in Theater View.
· NEW: When customizing Media Network views, the 'All' item can be enabled or disabled per view.
· NEW: Revised the default Media Network (DLNA, Gizmo, etc.) views to work more like Theater View (it's recommended but optional that you use Options > Media Network > Customize views > Reset to get the new defaults).
February 10th, 2012· Fixed: OGG import could crash.
· Changed: ID3v2 tag reading doesn't treat / as a delimiter in ID3v2.3, but instead uses NULL as the delimiter for reading and writing in ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4.
· Changed: Room Correction can be used on the first 8 channels when outputting more than 8 channels of audio.
· Changed: Internal volume is applied before DSP instead of last, so that limiting and clip protection are never applied unless actually required by the hardware.
· Changed: Tuned the logarithmic scale used by internal volume (so 50% is -13.8dB instead of -10.2dB).
· Changed: When building a filename from file information, only the primary / first artist or genre will be used from a list.
· Fixed: Albums with lists of artist values could use the list instead of the primary artist for the 'Album Artist (auto)' field.
· Changed: Updated the copyrights on the splash and about images to 2012.
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
· Fixed: Theater View News and Weather would not appear when running in a language other than English.
· Fixed: Downloading of video podcasts could report an error when moving the sidecar image file.
· Fixed: Playback of AAC streaming radio could fail (or be very slow) to start.
· Changed: Opened up the fields Author, Actors, Director, Editor, Episode, Series, and Series Description for use with audio (useful for audiobooks, Podcasts, etc.)
· Changed: Opened up the field Editor, Series, Series Description, and Track # for use with images.
· Changed: Opened up the field Track # for use with videos.
· Changed: Using the search arrow in the Artist column on a file with a list of artists will search on the first artist instead of the combination of all the artists.
· Changed: To search a view with the wizard, use Ctrl+Shift+F. Ctrl+W / Ctrl+Q no longer do anything in the search box (since Ctrl+Q is a standard shortcut for closing a tab / program).
· Fixed: When playing YouTube from Theater View, the playback bandwidth setting from Options > Services > YouTube was not being honored.
· Changed: When a web media resource can not be played, it will show a playback error instead of showing an empty browser window.
· Fixed: The finish in the installer would hang for 15 extra seconds when performing an automatic update from Update Channels.
· Fixed: In some cases when the 'No subtitles' item was active, the OSD would not work for changing subtitles.
· Fixed: If DLNA eventing was not working, the player could stick at a 'Waiting...' state.
· NEW: Convolution automatically adjusts for filter latency for cases where a delay is baked into the filter files (still preserves intentional timing differences between channels).
February 7th, 2012· Fixed: Theater View could crash when deleting items.
· Faster: Improved Theater View's UI update system (when playback advances, etc.) so that fewer updates happen and updates look smoother when they do happen.
· Fixed: Searching in Theater View could crash with build 80 or 81.
· Fixed: Hulu AdZone clips would not play properly.
· Faster: Improved performance of DSD reading and decoding.
· Fixed: Incorrect message displayed in 'Edit Cd Information' dialog.
· Fixed: The uninstaller could error when finishing.
· NEW: The search language supports putting a hat in front of a keyword to do word matching (so ^car matches "Car Blues" or "My Car Broke" but not "Carolina on My Mind").
· Changed: Hat is an escaped character in the search language, so you must use /^ to search for a literal hat.
February 7th, 2012· Changed: Lots of tuning and fixes to the new Theater View list styles.
· NEW: Theater View shows movie backdrops from TheMovieDB.
· NEW: Animated lists show a caption (and bubbles for DVD / Bluray on the right).
· Changed: The way network servers are broken down upon exit trying to fix hanging exit problems.
· Changed: DLNA: BrowseMetaData was returning no parentID, now returns the root parentID. Could solve problems with some renderers when MC is the controller.
· Fixed: DLNA, if a player zone was associated with a particular DLNA server and that server was deleted we didn't pick up the default (first DLNA server) to use with that zone. Now it defaults back to the first server and one can associate it with a new zone if desired.
February 7th, 2012· NEW: Added animated Theater View list styles 'Flow' and 'Sheet'. Animated 3d lists can now be used in any view of Theater View.
· NEW: Added support for Computer Audiophile playback scrobbling, called 'CA Scrobbles' (configure in Options > Services).
· NEW: DVB-C television support.
· Fixed: TV Configuration did not offer DVB-S as one of tuner types.
· Changed: Added more logging in order to diagnose DVB-S scanning failure.
· Fixed: TV channel scanning did not show a proper message when scanning failed.
· Fixed: Some PSD files with certain format embedded thumbnails could cause a crash.
· Fixed: During DVB-S channel scanning the satellite transponder file failed to open.
February 7th, 2012· Fixed: When 'Show playback zones from the server on the client' was unchecked in options, DLNA zones from the server were still shown.
· Changed: Red October uses the latest LAV filters (v0.45). Support for Intel Indeo 4, MS Video 1, 8BPS, LOCO, ZMBV, VCR1, AASC, plus other new goodies and bug fixes.
· Changed: Removed options for disabling tray icons for ffdshow and Haali filters since Red October removes the need for these.
February 7th, 2012· Fixed: FLAC date tagging bug present in v77.
· Fixed: Using the web service call to set current position during playback was not working properly if called in rapid succession.
· Fixed: In certain cases the Green Button on the remote control did not work correctly.
· Fixed: DLNA, the name of the bitrate field was wrong (it was bitRate).
· Fixed: DLNA, the value of the bitrate field was incorrect if the file WASN'T being converted. This could prevent proper seeking in renderers that used that field (i.e. WhiteBear).
· Changed: All http services, return error 416 when a request was out of range as opposed to an empty partial content response.
· Fixed: In some user's libraries, sequence columns were not sorting correctly.
February 7th, 2012· Changed: Updated YouTube support for latest site changes.
· Fixed: The purchase / trial extension dialog could crash.
· Changed: Automatic movie & tv info lookup will overwrite the name for a television episode using the value in the online database (no other existing data is overwritten in automatic mode).
· Fixed: Editing Artist, Genre, Composer, and Conductor in the Tag Action Window was not working properly.
· Changed: OGG tagging better supports list fields.
· Changed: Updated FLAC plugin -- removed MFC, updated settings dialog, improved support for list-fields, etc.
· Changed: APE tagging supports NULL delimited lists for fields (applies to APE and MPC files).
· Changed: 'Album Artist (auto)' only considers the primary (first in the list) artist for tracks.
February 7th, 2012· NEW: Artist, Genre, Composer, and Conductor are list-type fields.
· Changed: List fields can be configured to use a standard edit or list edit style. Existing user created list-type fields will need to be updated in Options > Library & Folders > Manage library fields > Edit Type > List if you want a list-type editor for them.
· Changed: ID3v2 tagging better supports list fields.
· Changed: All TheMovieDB genres get populated to the genre field.
· Changed: WMA/WMV tagging better supports list fields.
· NEW: Putting a hat in front of a search token does an ordered list compare (so "^[Keywords]=cat" will match "cat; dog" but not "dog; cat").
February 7th, 2012· Fixed: TMDb lookup was not loading all information.
· Changed: Updated DVB-S satellite transponder files.
February 7th, 2012· NEW: DVB-S television support. Please test.
· Changed: Library server access key registration is now updated hourly instead of daily. This should reduce problems with having a dynamic external IP address.
· Changed: DSP plugins are flushed when they're turned on so plugins with a history won't cause old audio to play when turning on.
· Fixed: Media Editor was not opening high bitdepth files properly.
· Faster: Improved how Convolution operates when a filter operates on multiple input channels (should give a 10-25% speedup in these cases).
· Fixed: Playing images and videos at a remote location was not working properly with WebGizmo.
February 7th, 2012· Changed: Carnac better handles videos that are signed with two usernames.
· Fixed: Unimported television shows would not be considered television shows by some tools.
· Fixed: Resolution changes while Theater View were showing were not handled nicely.
· Fixed: With JRSS disabled, bass redirection in Room Correction would not work in some cases.
· Changed: Revised the generic tagging error to say "errors while tagging or moving files" instead of "errors while tagging and moving files".
· Changed: VideoClock no longer considers 2.5x a target ratio between the monitor refresh rate and video frame rate worth deviating the clock to achieve.
· Changed: When looking up movie & TV information automatically as part of auto-import, fields with existing data will never be overwritten (manually running the tool will overwrite existing data).
· Changed: Adding an auto-import folder offers auto-complete of paths when typing.
· Changed: TMDb lookup gets genre for movies.
February 7th, 2012· Fixed: Get Movie & TV Info wasn't properly sorting TheTVDB matches by relevance.
· Fixed: TheTVDB lookup didn't handle multiple directors properly.
· Changed: Sidecar subtitles with no language specifier are used automatically if the video has no other embedded / forced subtitles (unless subtitles are turned off in Options > Video).
· Changed: Updated the default Podcasts (use 'Add Default Podcast Feeds' to get the latest list).
· Faster: When browsing Explorer views, file are analyzed several at a time instead of one at a time (makes browsing unimported files must faster in Standard View and Theater View).
· Faster: DVD analyze / import times are much faster.
· Faster: Improved performance of Theater View 'Explorer' views.
· Fixed: Disabling of the screen saver was not working in Theater View (optional in Options > Theater View).
· Faster: Tuned SSE3 used for Convolution making the engine around 5% faster.
January 18th, 2012· Fixed: Showing Theater View could hang at a black screen in some cases.
· NEW: Improved Hulu integration (login, queue, more titles per category, nicer playback, etc.).
· Faster: Convolution uses SSE3 in the convolution kernel when supported (gives about an 8% speed-up to the convolution engine on supported processors).
· Fixed: When using VideoClock when a large correction was needed (like PAL slowdown), the audio rate could fail to stabilize in some cases, especially when using madVR.
· Changed: VideoClock will target a maximum deviation of 5% instead of 7.5% to achieve an even multiple between the video and display rates (so 28 Hz material on a 60 Hz display won't target 1:2, but 25 Hz material on a 24 Hz display will still target 1:1).
· Fixed: The DVB-T channel scanning problem in build 65 is fixed.
· NEW: The subtitle engine supports sidecar subtitles when playing from a Library Server.
· Changed: In image preview mode, doing something that shows an Action Window (like Share to Web) will close the image preview so that the Action Window will be visible.
· Fixed: The option "Video/Crop edges" wasn't working for non-DVD videos.
· Changed: When DVD playback fails because MS decoder won't connect to splitter, we now fall back to other Mpeg2 decoders rather than failing playback.
· Fixed: Playing multiple videos in a playlist could unnecessarily delay 5 seconds when starting subsequent videos.
January 18th, 2012· Fixed: The DVB-T channel scanning problem found in build 65 is truly fixed.
· Fixed: When moving or deleting video files with an associated image file, if the image file was also imported into the database, the database entry didn't get moved or deleted correctly.
January 18th, 2012· Changed: Library servers without a key (never clicked on access key under Media Network Options) will now show up as a library server instead of a DLNA server under Playing now.
· Fixed: Minor cleanup of a sent user agent string in Media Network.
· Fixed: The DVB-T channel scanning problem found in build 65 is likely fixed.
January 18th, 2012· Changed: Renaming a file or folder in the MC Explorer tree now runs a verification to make sure it wouldn't create any invalid (too long) filenames underneath and fails the rename if it would.
· Fixed: Using the "Rename, Move, & Copy..." tool for a video file with an associated image file was failing.
· Changed: When resampling audio, the resampler delay at the beginning (a small fraction of a second) is removed instead of outputting the silence.
· Changed: When importing videos (or doing quick find cover art), sidecar Folder.jpg images will be used if no [Filename].jpg image is found.
· Changed: Folder.jpg files stored one level above the VIDEO_TS or BDMV folders will be used if no other sidecar artwork is found.
· Fixed: Setting file association for playlist files like m3u wasn't working.
· Fixed: Handle the case of file in database being temporarily non-existent for serving via DLNA. Some renderers (i.e. WDTV) really don't like zero byte files being served (it prevented the WD from reading other files without a reboot).
· NEW: Added 'Convolution' to DSP Studio
January 18th, 2012· Changed: Renaming a file or folder in the MC Explorer tree now runs a verification to make sure it wouldn't create any invalid (too long) filenames underneath and fails the rename if it would.
· Fixed: Using the "Rename, Move, & Copy..." tool for a video file with an associated image file was failing.
· Changed: When resampling audio, the resampler delay at the beginning (a small fraction of a second) is removed instead of outputting the silence.
· Changed: When importing videos (or doing quick find cover art), sidecar Folder.jpg images will be used if no [Filename].jpg image is found.
· Changed: Folder.jpg files stored one level above the VIDEO_TS or BDMV folders will be used if no other sidecar artwork is found.
· Fixed: Setting file association for playlist files like m3u wasn't working.
· Fixed: Handle the case of file in database being temporarily non-existent for serving via DLNA. Some renderers (i.e. WDTV) really don't like zero byte files being served (it prevented the WD from reading other files without a reboot).
· NEW: Added 'Convolution' to DSP Studio
January 18th, 2012· Changed: The default zone is named 'Player' instead of 'Here' (it's recommend that you rename zones to have a name that is meaningful to you).
· Changed: DVD scanning speed (FF/REW) capped at 50x since the playback graph was flaky at higher speeds.
· Fixed: Live digital television playback did not observe Custom Video Mode settings (filter selections). This problem for analog television will be fixed later.
· Fixed: Deleting a DVD movie did not delete an associated image file in the same directory.
· NEW: Added new Netflix browsing category "Recently Watched". This may require re-configuration under Tools/Options/Services.
· Changed: WebGizmo tuning.
January 18th, 2012· Changed: Reverted the publisher in the uninstall to "J. River" from "JRiver" because the change could cause problems when rolling back to an old build.
· Fixed: MCWS/v1/Control/Key was not working in Theater View which made Gizmo Theater View remote mode not work.
January 18th, 2012· Fixed: Image playback (or other hardware accelerated views) could get into a state when an unexpected redraw was issued by Windows where presentation stalled the main thread and prevented timers from being serviced (so image playback could stall).
· Fixed: Customization of Gizmo views in Options > Media Network was not working.
· Fixed: WebGizmo thumbnails would not have text with some browsers.
· Changed: When dealing with output signals with more than 8 channels, the program assumes the first 8 channels follow the conventional L,R,C,SW,RL,RR,SL,SR ordering for the first 8 channels so that Room Correction, Parametric Equalizer, etc. can be used on the first 8 channels.
· Fixed: Netflix search box did not work right after exiting and re-entering the Netflix theater view.
· Fixed: Sound was muted following a DVD seek operation (ff/rew).
· Changed: A cancel button was added to the "Export all Playlists" wait message.
· Fixed: Setting the bitstreaming option would fail in some cases (may require manually reenabling bitstreaming one time).
· Fixed: Image playback was not handling lost Direct3d devices nicely, so locking the screen, etc. could break playback.
· NEW: Added advanced option to Options > Video called "Aspect ratio mode" which allows setting a global default for video aspect ratio handling (choices: no change, stretch, crop, automatic).
· Changed: Some tuning to the look and feel of WebGizmo.
· Changed: Changed copyrights to 2012.
January 18th, 2012· NEW: WebGizmo merges WebPlay and WebRemote and looks like Gizmo for Android (test by navigating to [Library Server URL]/Gizmo).
· Changed: Revised the layout of library server webpage themes in [Install Path]\Data so that all are beneath [Install Path]\Data\Library Server.
· SDK: Library Server's HTML engine supports else clauses in conditionals (see WebGizmo for an example).
· SDK: Merged MCWS Browse/Image and File/GetImage image handling and parameters so sizing control, png, aspect ratio, etc. is available to both.
· Fixed: Transcoding MP3's to burn a CD was failing in some cases because MC was under-estimating the final size of VBR mp3 files.
· Changed: LAV video is now used to play JTV and Mpeg-2 content that used to use the Microsoft video decoder.
· Fixed: Updated LAV video version to fix an issue with AAC in television.
January 18th, 2012· Fixed: Theater View message boxes (or pressing escape to show a message box) could crash in build 58.
· Changed: Using Rename, Move, & Copy for a video file will also move sidecar edl, srt, smi, idx, sub.
· Fixed: Renaming a video file would move a sidecar image but not update the image file field, causing the link to the image to be broken.
· Fixed: Blu-ray titles weren't always showing up in the title menu.
· Changed: Red October uses the latest LAV filters (v0.43). Improved stability on WinXP, improved MKV performance, fixed problems with MPEG2/H264 broadcasts, AMV decoding, various other improvements.
· Fixed: Per-file aspect ratio settings were not being preserved between plays.
· Fixed: Sorting results by match quality wasn't always working well in the Get Movie & TV Info tool.
· NEW: The file rename and move tool now works with JTV titles in the database.
January 18th, 2012· Fixed: In Rename/Move/Copy dialog, VIDEO_TS and BDMV sub-folders were getting doubled up.
· Fixed: In Detached Display mode, some keyboard shortcuts would not work.
· Fixed: Rare dead-lock when updating Podcasts.
· Changed: Renamed the window class names of the playback display (only relevant if you're scripting the program).
· Changed: Blu-ray title menu shown when "dvd menu" button on remote is pressed.
January 18th, 2012· Changed: Updated to madVR v0.80 (fixes issue with black bar cropping in Red October HQ).
· Fixed: When first adding a folder in Configure Auto-Import, file type selections would not be saved properly.
· Fixed: CD ripping would fail if meta-data had invalid filename characters embedded.
· Fixed: Renaming a video with a sidecar image was not working properly.
· Fixed: Full resolution thumbnail overlays, which are used when using large thumbnails, would flicker when used in album thumbnail views.
· Changed: JRSS is now supported when doing 12, 16, 24, and 32 channel output (JRSS will populate 7.1 and the other channels will be silent).
· Fixed: Changes to the bitstreaming mode in Options > Video were not sticking.
· Fixed: Rename/Copy dialog was showing wrong case for file extension on destination DVD names.
November 14th, 2011· Faster: Expression language is faster when dealing with fields (as a result, it's no longer supported to nest functions inside the Field(...) function).
· Changed: Zones are sorted by name in the tree.
· Fixed: Conversion of audio for DLNA and Gizmo could sporadically fail with the last few builds.
· Fixed: Jitter in the high-precision system timer could cause video playback failures (applies to dual-core AMD machines on XP, possibly others).
· Fixed: DVB-T2 television channels (with AAC audio) did not play.
· Fixed: Setting a relational database field could fail to set all members of the relationship in rare cases.
· NEW: TiVo beacon generated internally by MC, solves problems with the TiVo's unsupported beacon API not working on some newer versions of windows.
· NEW: Remark (REM) statements in CUE files are now handled as meta-data. Currently COMMENT, DATE, GENRE are supported.
· Fixed: On screen display text was incorrectly all drawing as bold.
· Changed: The Theater View file list always shows at least two thumbnails horizontally and vertically, regardless of the size setting and ideal thumbnail image aspect ratio.
· SDK: Seeking a video using the web service (MCWS) could lead to problems.
· SDK: Improved MCWS/v1/Library/Values so it can return all values for a given field or search any number of fields for matches.
· Fixed: Remote control keystrokes sent to Media Center from a system like Girder might have been disabled while a pop-up was being displayed.
· Changed: Subtitle images are delivered to EVR from the main thread (fixes possible hangs when detaching or sizing EVR while subtitles were going).
· Fixed: AAC MediaType was specified incorrectly so Hauppauge Colossus video capture device did not have sound.
· Changed: Updated to version .39 of LAV audio, video and splitter directshow filters. Improved seeking on Mpeg-2 and VC-1 files, and playback of raw H.264.
· Changed: Carnac assumes that a file with a television recording extension that's over 70 minutes is a movie instead of a television show.
· Changed: Carnac deals with the uncapitalized word "not" from SageTV naming better.
· Changed: More tweaking to the DLNA nested control fix from builds 29 and 30. Could have caused trouble with some renderers.
November 14th, 2011· Fixed: When installing an update on a non-administrative account the prompted for a different username and password to run the install, the program could report an error when starting after the update.
· Faster: Holding Shift+PgDown in a list is much faster, especially in a large list.
· Changed: Improved ts recording of digital television.
· Faster: Import works 4 files at a time instead of 2 files at a time (background auto-import still works 1 file at a time since it's designed to have a small footprint and run in the background).
· Faster: Tag reading is faster for all file types.
· Faster: ID3v2 parsing is faster.
· Faster: The I/O pattern used for analyzing MP3 files is more efficient -- making MP3 import up to twice as fast.
· Changed: The core filename functions better support filenames in the form "file://C:/My Music/1.mp3".
· Changed: Expressions that work on filenames better handle portable install filenames like "(Install Drive):\1.mp3".
· Changed: Audio type is set to AAC when building a playback graph with Hauppauge Colossus video capture device.
· Fixed: Theater View weather was using Fahrenheit for the Google source, even if Celsius was selected.
· Changed: Revised how text-based subtitle sizing is performed so that it's more consistent across differing fonts, DPIs, etc.
· Fixed: The vertical position of SSA subtitles was not correct in some cases.
· Changed: Added support for vertical text with SSA subtitles.
· Changed: SSA subtitle support honors the scale and font size of the styles section (font size is scaled relative to median font size used in the styles section).
· Fixed: Videos that used non-square pixels would display with the incorrect aspect ratio when played using Gizmo on Android.
November 9th, 2011· Fixed: The list on the left of DSP Studio was not working properly.
November 9th, 2011· Fixed: Entering an out-of-bounds value into the Parametric Equalizer's 'Adjust a frequency' filter could cause problems.
· Fixed: Remote control playback buttons broken for one build.
· Fixed: Filesize was not getting filled in correctly for Blu-ray titles.
· Changed: Replay Gain 'Automatic adjustment' mode uses the 95th percentile so that outliers that are extremely quiet don't cause an entire playlist to have its volume reduced too much.
· NEW: ASIO outputs a little silence when stopping so that hardware that plays its last buffer on the next start won't click. About 1/4 of a second.
· Fixed: Movie name field not being set correctly for DVD/Blu-ray titles on the original disc.
· Faster: Grouping of path-style fields like keywords, location, etc. in panes and category views is faster.
· Changed: Removed Weather.com weather from Theater View due to business model changes by Weather.com (use NOAA and Google instead).
· Changed: Improved handling of MPEG-4 video and AAC audio in digital television.
· Changed: Improved analysis of DVD's on import so FPS, bitrate, resolution, etc. are now shown correctly.
· Changed: Revised ASIO playback flow when starting DSD playback based on feedback from Playback Designs.
· Fixed: XMLTV parsing would only load one channel if the channels and programs were interlaced in the XML.
· Fixed: When playback of a video finished and it returned to Theater View, the monitor could immediately go to sleep in rare cases.
· Changed: Changing values using the new Tag on Import feature will update file tags to match the changes made.
· NEW: Audio and video types (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AC3, AAC, H.264) can be selected during manual editing of television channels. Applicable to DVB-T only.
· Fixed: Tweak DLNA nested control fix from version 29. Could have caused trouble with some renderers.
November 9th, 2011· Fixed: MIDI playback was not working.
· Changed: Improved Carnac's handling of SageTV filenames.
· NEW: Added the option to direct sound to the side speakers only with Direct Sound audio output (for outputting multiple stereo zones from one soundcard).
· Changed: Lineup list style in Theater View could show HTML-like text formatting tokens in some cases.
· NEW: Options > Theater View > Advanced > File Caption supports HTML-like formatting (like 17.0.28 added for Standard View).
· Changed: Improved SSA subtitle support, especially for files that show multiple captions at the same time.
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
· NEW: The subtitle engine supports animated SSA karaoke subtitles.
· Changed: The subtitle engine uses a higher quality outline for text-based drawing.
· Fixed: Media Center could crash if a playback button on the remote control was pressed while the Blu-ray title menu was being displayed.
· NEW: Added ability of DLNA services to work with devices which use a nested control structure.
· Fixed: The library backup filename dialog wasn't offering a default filename or warning when overwriting an existing file.
· Fixed: Canceling television recording did not work when user chose to switch to a different channel on the same tuner.
· Fixed: OSD displayed channel info incorrectly when an STB channel was watched or recorded (it showed "Playing: Input Source 3 -..." instead of "Playing: 55 CNN..." for example).
· Faster: Libraries that use relational fields are faster.
November 9th, 2011· Changed: The right-click menu is no longer disabled in Web views.
· Faster: Improvements to core libraries that help program load performance and size.
· Fixed: Movie name from mymovies.xml file was not being used - instead the movie was named according to the folder above the index.bdmv file.
· Fixed: Video in jtv format captured from HD PVR video capture device did not play in Red October HQ.
· NEW: SSA subtitle engine supports the custom fonts for each style used in the SSA (falls back to user selection when a block of text has no font in its style).
· Changed: When number keys on a remote control are used to change television channel and the original input string does not match any channel, MC removes beginning '0's from the input string and tries again.
· Fixed: Replay Gain information was not being used properly when applying DSP to a handheld conversion.
· Fixed: If DSP is used when converting for a handheld, the new file could have a stale replay gain value written to its tag.
· Changed: Improved handling of numbers, dashes, etc. in the FixSpacing(...) expression.
· NEW: Carnac better understands SageTV filenames (use Fill Properties From Filename in automatic mode to update existing files).
· Changed: The expression function FileName(...) suppoprts an optional parameter for whether to include the extension (to get no extension: FileName(,0)).
· Fixed: TMDb movie lookup was not always getting the highest quality image available.
· Changed: Import will only mark a file as bad if it hasn't been changed on the file system for an hour (so auto-import won't put a fresh file copy in the bad database and then remove it when the copy finishes).
· NEW: Thumbnail text supports basic HTML text formatting tags like bold, underline, italic, and red (remember that slash requires escapement in the expression editor so use , , etc.).
· Changed: WAV & AIFF tagging are enabled by default (use Plug-in Manager > Input > WAVE & AIFF > Configure to change).
November 9th, 2011· Fixed: If audio failed to open (sound card disconnected, etc.) when starting a video, it could cause a crash.
· Changed: Switched the default amount of buffering for DirectSound to 250ms from 500ms (works better with DVD and some other video sources).
· NEW: DSP Studio > Output Format allows setting a different output sample rate for each input sample rate.
· Fixed: Flick scrolling was not working properly in Theater View.
· Fixed: Cover art lookup could stop working after the first 20 albums.
· Fixed: Recording of certain TV channels in jtv format would not play correctly (stalled until a seek operation was performed).
· Fixed: Center-focused JRSS up-mixing was not engaging properly for some video content.
· Changed: Added more Media Network shutdown logging to help troubleshoot a hang switching libraries.
November 9th, 2011· Changed: Display setting changing resolution options in Options > Video are disabled until display setting changing is enabled.
· Fixed: M4A tagging was not working (only applies to last few builds).
· Faster: Improved performance of M4A tagging.
· Fixed: The "clickfree" automatic backup device would cause Media Center to crash.
· Fixed: Workaround for VirtualBox system timer bug that could cause various problems in Media Center.
· NEW: Reworked Theater View's presentation engine so that it's less likely to spend time waiting on vsyncs and works better at low refresh rates.
· NEW: Added the ability to apply volume levelling and other DSP when converting files for use on a handheld.
· Fixed: SUB+IDX subtitles with multiple languages in the IDX were not working properly.
November 9th, 2011· Fixed: Configuring multiple Google or Weather.com weather locations did not work properly.
· Fixed: The bitrate would not be imported for M4A files.
· NEW: Added the ability to specify a separate A/V sync correction for 24 Hz than for other refresh rates (A/V sync correction requires using the JRiver audio engine).
· NEW: Added an expression function FixSpacing(...) to convert camel case to normal spacing. OneWord becomes One Word
· Fixed: Text rendering in some areas of the program could appear blurry on Windows XP.
· Fixed: Mouse wheel scrolling in the Theater View television grid didn't work.
· Changed: Theater View mouse wheel scrolling works more like grab-n-drag or flick scrolling in that it can show partial items.
· NEW: Added support for 3d .jps images (thumbnails and image playback only show the left eye image).
October 19th, 2011· Fixed: Missing digital signature
October 19th, 2011· Fixed: DVB-T digital TV channel scanning could get wrong frequency for certain channels with certain devices.
· Changed: Red October uses the latest LAV filters (v0.37).
· Fixed: Playback of DVD on Android using Gizmo was not working properly in some cases.
· Changed: Reverted this change from 16.0.152: Media Network, updated user agent header to be more standard.
September 29th, 2011· Fixed: Parametric Equalizer could fail to save changes in some cases.
September 28th, 2011· Changed: In digital television the generic Network Provider filter is tried before trying network specific Network Provider filter. Should be internal change only but please report any problems you notice.
· Fixed: VOB playback with no accompanying IFO was not working properly.
· Fixed: VOB subtitle streams that were resized independently of the movie could appear in the wrong location.
· Fixed: JRSS downmixing could have too high of an output level.
September 28th, 2011· Changed: Improved DVB-T channel scanning for UK and other European countries.
· Fixed: The option "Keep only x episodes" of television subscription recordings did not work (no recordings were ever deleted).
· Fixed: Random-type smartlists were not refreshing properly when browsing with DLNA.
· Changed: Red October uses LAV CUVID 0.13.
September 17th, 2011· Fixed: When a file previously marked as bad was later imported, it would not have its name filled automatically.
· Fixed: Having the auto-import option to 'Update for external changes' disabled could (still) lead to problems with files that were marked as bad.
September 17th, 2011· Changed: Red October uses LAV 0.35 filters.
· Fixed: Zooming into the selected thumbnail would not work properly if the scroll position was at the top of the list.
· Fixed: The Theater View file info panel option to hide empty values did not work properly for the rating field.
· Changed: Auto-import works better with removed and bad files when the options to 'Update for external changes' and 'Fix broken links' are disabled.
· Changed: Doing 'Update Library (from tags)' on a file in the bad database will move the file out of the bad location into the main database if it succeeds.
· Fixed: Screen grabbing of videos wouldn't work properly for some types.
· Changed: After tagging Media Center explicitly sets the last modified time of the tagged file instead of assuming the file system will do it automatically (because network file systems are sometimes slow to update automatically).
September 17th, 2011· Fixed: Files that got imported while they were in the process of downloading or copying could get stuck in the 'bad database' location.
· Changed: Media Center is better at automatically selecting forced subtitle streams in videos.
· Fixed: DLNA. A change made in 16.0.111 caused MC to return a slightly different URL in status calls than was originally provided by MC's DLNA server (when the same instance of MC was being used as the server and renderer). This caused undesirable behavior for some control points (i.e. PlugPlayer).
· Changed: Red October nicely handles the case where video acceleration with DXVA or LAV CUVID is supported by the decoder but not the renderer (previously playback would fail in this case).
· Changed: All files & folders are now copied from Blu-ray discs during a rip, rather than just the BDMV files.
· Changed: If a Blu-ray reader isn't available on the system, an informative error message is now displayed when a rip is attempted.
· Changed: Internal change on how television time-shifting player graph is created.
· Changed: Some experimental code and additional logging for DVB-T television channel scanning.
September 17th, 2011· Fixed: MadVR wasn't always getting loaded in Red October mode.
September 17th, 2011· Changed: File locations dialog now has separate entries for "Other Video", "Ripped BD Video", and "Ripped DVD Video".
· Fixed: Disc was not ejecting following a DVD or BD rip, even though option was selected.
· Changed: In the rip action window, pressing the ENTER key after typing a name for a DVD/BD disc will commence the ripping process.
· Changed: When ripping DVD/BD discs, if the rip destination folder already contains files, the user is prompted on whether it's ok to overwrite them prior to starting the rip.
September 17th, 2011· Fixed: DLNA. A change made in 16.0.111 caused MC to return a slightly different URL in status calls than was originally provided by MC's DLNA server (when the same instance of MC was being used as the server and renderer). This caused undesirable behavior for some control points (i.e. PlugPlayer).
· NEW: Blu-ray disc ripping. Same requirements as for disc playback: must have ANYDVD HD or other Blu-ray reader software installed.
· Changed: Media subtype of "Movie" is automatically set on all DVD/BD rips.
· Fixed: When DVD and BD discs were swapped in and out of the drive several times, a Media Center crash could occur.
· Changed: Nicer view header info when viewing BD & DVD discs.
· Changed: DVD/BD rips bring up "Get Movie Info" dialog after clicking the Rip button if no meta-data has been entered for the movie.
· Changed: When the media insertion dialog pops up for a DVD/BD and "Rip" is chosen, the rip action window appears allowing the user to modify the movie name rather than having the rip start up immediately.
September 17th, 2011· Fixed: Some WMV videos (for example the Windows 7 sample video Wildlife.wmv) wouldn't play on Android.
· Changed: Red October will use EVR as the default renderer when it is available on XP (instead of VMR 9).
· Changed: Software deinterlacing is disabled when using EVR in favor of the hardware-based deinterlacing that EVR provides.
· Changed: The choice to rip a dvd as well as play the dvd is now presented when a DVD disc is inserted in the drive
September 17th, 2011· Fixed: Movies weren't showing up under genre categories for Netflix in Theater View (Netflix had changed their genres).
· Fixed: Closing the Smartlist editor while a drop box was open showing its content could lead to a crash.
· Fixed: Rotten Tomatoes JSON parsing could hang when it encountered escaped quotation marks.
· Fixed: DVD bookmark loading wasn't working in some cases.
· Fixed: List style customization could present the wrong choices when using tree navigation of library views.
· Fixed: Netflix TV series not adding to instant queue when requested (still have to restart MC before seeing them in the queue).
September 2nd, 2011· Fixed: DVD playback wasn't working properly on Android (still).
September 2nd, 2011· Fixed: DVD playback wasn't working properly on Android.
September 2nd, 2011· Fixed: WVC-1 content could have an unknown video codec listed in the compression info field (use Update Library from Tags to update existing files).
· Changed: Red October video converter uses LAV CUVID when possible.
· Changed: Red October video converter (Gizmo, etc.) supports the Microsoft MPEG decoder.
· NEW: Ripped DVD plays to Android devices.
August 31st, 2011· Changed: Added the ability to put a graphic under the option buttons in the player window in a Standard View skin (Playerbar\OptionButtonsBackground).
· Changed: Added support for more view header skin colors so the header and body can use different color schemes (HeaderTextColor, HeaderHotTextColor, ActiveTabTextColor).
· NEW: Bad / corrupt files get imported to a special database location so that the files won't get analyzed over and over with each import (smartlist ~d=b shows files).
· Fixed: Showing the import dialog could crash in rare cases.
August 31st, 2011· Fixed: The 'Language' on screen display was not working for DVD playback.
· Fixed: When starting DVD playback, a portion of the display could be cut off in some cases.
· Changed: Red October Standard uses the Microsoft video decoder for WVC-1 content.
· NEW: DSP Studio shows the source and internal audio formats on the bottom of the dialog.
August 31st, 2011· Fixed: Possible memory over read from a corrupt or specially crafted registry setting.
· Faster: Evaluating the same regex over and over in an expression is much faster.
· NEW: Added Rotten Tomatoes as a possible data source to the Lookup Movie dialog.
· NEW: Added string field 'Critic Rating' for storing rating information, like a Rotten Tomato score.
· Changed: Tuned size of view category editing dialog.
· Changed: Automatic media sub type guessing used in Theater View assumes WTV files are television.
· Changed: Removed unneeded "(root)" label shown on location panes with no base path.
· Chagned: Removed the > symbols between drop-down pane items in the view header.
August 26th, 2011· Changed: Removed rotation from cover art in Theater View's Playing Now.
· Changed: Tuned positioning and timing of instructions shown for Theater View and Display View.
· Fixed: Subtitles would not work properly after a seek (only applies to build 159).
· Changed: Video playback has a forced position update two seconds after playback starts to (hopefully) solve black screen issues that can arise with certain file plus renderer combinations.
· Changed: Resuming video playback in full screen after the screensaver was shown while pauses wouldn't always close the running screensaver.
· Fixed: Using an expression in a search (or pane) that included certain special characters could cause the search engine to fail to parse the search.
· Fixed: A rare crash when loading a view that used an expression that used special characters.
August 25th, 2011· Fixed: Empty numeric searches were not working (only applies to 158).
· Fixed: Regular expressions were not working (only applies to 158).
· Fixed: Some math functions would not work properly in expressions (only applies to 158).
· Changed: The mute state of a zone will not be cleared on startup if "Options > Startup > Optimize volume for best sound quality" is not checked.
· Fixed: Naming two Theater View library items the same could cause problems.
August 25th, 2011· Fixed: The expression language could fail to parse some expressions properly due to changes in 16.0.157.
· NEW: Added an optional flags parameter to the Regex(...) expression function. Use the flag "1" to perform case sensitive matching.
· Changed: Czech language translation updated
· Faster: Optimizations to core database search engine. Long searches can be 10 or more times faster to execute.
· Fixed: Panes weren't working properly with dates before 1900.
· Changed: Audio stream selection for videos will preserve the default selection made by a splitter if the language of the selection matches the user's language selection in Media Center's options.
· Changed: Minor tweak to how playback checks for file system permissions and ownership when starting playback.
· NEW: DSP Studio > Parametric Equalizer has two user channels that can be used to hold temporary data. For example, you could combine Left and Right into User 1, equalize User 1, and then add the result to the Subwoofer.
· NEW: Subtitles are fully supported when converting for Gizmo (sizing, position, and subtitle selection honor playback settings).
August 25th, 2011· Fixed: DVD playback could start with a black screen.
· Fixed: Expressions using /# #/ to mark unescaped text could still have certain characters get escaped.
· Changed: Renamed expression function RegexSearch(...) to Regex(...).
· Changed: Regex(...) captures for the last run Regex(...) are accessible with variables [R1], [R2], up to [R9].
· Changed: Regex(...) can be used to perform a test by setting the last parameter to 0 (the default) and it will return 0 or 1.
· Changed: Regex(...) uses case insensitive regular expression matching.
· Changed: Updated the French language translation
· Changed: Reduced how likely Play Doctor is to use the same file again when it's been used recently.
· Fixed: The space bar and backspace key are routed to the search when using the search in Netflix, YouTube, or Hulu in Theater View.
· Fixed: Pressing the space bar could cause two spaces to be output in Theater View > Gadgets > Search.
· Fixed: Returning from Playing Now to a zoomed in file info panel in Theater View could show a remnant of a list.
· Changed: Updated to LAV 0.33 filters with Red October (fixes a possible crash with PCM audio).
· Changed: When pausing or unpausing playback, the system sleep and display timers are reset.
· Changed: The screensaver is allowed while fullscreen playback is paused.
· Faster: Improved performance of search engine when dealing with very long searches.
August 21st, 2011· Changed: Red October uses LAV filters 0.32.
· NEW: The expression language supports putting strings (like regular expressions, etc.) in comment blocks like /#Text/# to remove the need to do escapement.
· Fixed: On a multi-monitor system Options > Video > Display Settings could save a different setting than selected.
· Fixed: Right-click 'Reset Selection' on an individual pane would not update the other panes properly.
· Fixed: Trying to play a DRM protected WMV video with no rights could cause a crash.
· Fixed: Using MC16.exe /MCC 22001,2 would not always work reliably.
· Fixed: Scrolling down in a Theater View grid-style list would not always loop to the last row when pushing down.
· Changed: Browsing back into a smartlist on Gizmo or a DLNA device will reevaluate the search (may depend on device caching).
· Fixed: When drilling into a category thumbnail list, the scroll position of the new list could be strange.
· Faster: Improved the layout performance of the core list / tree UI component used everywhere in the program.
August 21st, 2011· Changed: When a file type that's normally a video has its media type set to audio (normally because it doesn't contain a video stream), it will be played with the audio engine instead of playing as a video with no display.
· Changed: LAV Audio decoder is used for WTV files when possible (may cause WTV playback to fail until the next build when LAV will be updated).
· Fixed: Issuing an image playback command from the web service while audio was playing and images were already showing could cause the view mode to toggle.
· NEW: Reworked how pane filtering works when 'Filter in both directions' is enabled so that each pane is filtered by all other panes and the order filters are applied does not matter (feedback welcome).
· NEW: Added RegexSearch(...) expression function that allows using regular expressions to parse any value.
· Fixed: Possible Red October video converter crash when seeking Gizmo / WebPlay (hopefully, please provide a log if problems persist).
August 21st, 2011· Fixed: Red October video conversion could show a distorted picture in some cases.
· Changed: Updated to a custom build of ffdshow that better supports the Red October video encoder.
· Changed: Tuned quality of Red October video converter so that the output looks better on Android phones and tablets.
· NEW: Added DSP Studio > Output Format resampling mode 'Only sources less than 44,100 Hz'.
· Changed: DSP Studio > Output Format disables the resampling mode selection when doing AC3 output.
· Fixed: The messaging in the right-click menu for screen grab being unavailable with madVR wasn't clear.
· Changed: Chapters are disabled when playing a video that has a playback range (previously chapters could interfere with the playback range).
· Changed: Renamed 'Store in file tags' to 'Save in file tags' on the library field dialog to make the naming more consistent with the field filter selections.
· NEW: Subtitle shift and size can be set per file, and settings will be saved between plays and runs.
· Changed: Mouse panning with click-n-drag and mouse zooming with the mouse wheel works with Ctrl or Shift pressed (previously each required one of the two keys, and the keys were different).
· Changed: Reworked how the 3D drawing redraw mechanism works to hopefully fix an issue where timers could get starved and not run due to the drawing (feedback welcome).
· NEW: The 'Virtual Subwoofer' effect sounds better (includes Subclarity, steeper roll-off, and better clip-prevention).
August 21st, 2011· NEW: Red October video conversion allows fast seeking to any part of the video with WebPlay (on the desktop or Android).
August 21st, 2011· Fixed: The search shortcut for the 'Screewriter' field had a typo.
· Changed: Updated German language file.
· Fixed: Some view header buttons did not get translated when running in a language other than English.
· Fixed: DLNA: removed all SSDP notify message responses. Was breaking some renderers.
· Changed: Media Network, updated user agent header to be more standard.
August 21st, 2011· NEW: Added the ability to lookup movie information from TMDb (themoviedb.org). The tool "Lookup Movie Info From Wikipedia" is now "Lookup Movie Info".
· Changed: Integrated the J. River audio converter into the Red October video encoder instead of using the audio converter as a discrete filter for better performance.
· Changed: The Red October video converter supports videos that do not contain audio.
· Changed: Red October video conversion handles frame rate conversion better.
· Changed: Red October video conversion uses volume normalization when converting.
· Fixed: DLNA, remove superfluous response to reception of a NOTIFY SSDP message. Was crashing some renderers.
· Fixed: Audio stutter during television channel change in certain audio output modes.
· Faster: The core web service engine (MCWS) used by Library Server, DLNA, etc. is more multi-threaded, improving server response times.
· Changed: Red October video converter better supports mid-stream audio format changes.
· NEW: Red October video conversion is used for DLNA when using the MPEG2/DVD video format. Allows playback of Blu-ray, JTV, and most any other video on a PS3, WDTVLive, etc.
· Faster: Red October video conversion uses LAV CUVID when possible for decoding for faster conversion.
· Changed: Updated the French language translation
August 21st, 2011· NEW: New video conversion engine that uses Red October for decoding and works with Blu-ray, TV, etc. (currently used by WebPlay for video playback, but more areas of the program will follow).
· Changed: Updated the French language translation
August 11th, 2011· Changed: The view header for a panes view will show the view name in the view header instead of 'Panes'.
· Changed: When the tree is hidden, the view header menu includes the same 'Library Views' submenu as is in the View menu of the program (a separate breadcrumb is no longer displayed when the tree is hidden).
· Fixed: RemoveCharacters(...) expression with mode 0 was not removing character occurrences from inside the string.
· Changed: Added mode 3 to RemoveCharacters(...) to remove characters from the front and end of the value.
· Changed: For accessing Netflix content, Media Center now uses 'netflix.ca' in the URL rather than 'netflix.com' when the computer's locale is set to Canada.
· Fixed: When grouping numeric values like date, both empty and unassigned could appear in a list.
· Changed: By default the Wikipedia language will track the currently selected language in the program (but can still be customized in Options > Services).
· Fixed: Television playback was broken (video displayed in a separate window) when EVR was not used (build 148 only).
· Fixed: The bitrate displayed in the player area during playback could be doubled the actual bitrate for HE-AAC files.
· NEW: Add alternative way of specifying and receiving AlbumArtist and Performer in DLNA.
· Fixed: Digital ATSC television channel scan could produce channels with wrong physical channel values with some tuner devices.
August 11th, 2011· NEW: Added expression function RemoveCharacters([value], [characters to remove], [mode]).
· Changed: The core function that validates and fixes filenames removes double-slashes.
· Changed: When editing the filename field by hand, the user-entered filename will be cleaned before attempting to apply the filename (previously the change would fail and the value would be reverted).
· Changed: Transparency for glass-style skins is supported in the player bar display area (updated Noire Glass as an example).
· NEW: Playback range is supported for video playback.
· Fixed: When using the Vista / Windows 7 system volume method, the volume would not bind to the proper sound card line in some cases when starting playback until after audio was playing, making it so volume protection could update the volume for the wrong zone.
· Changed: When using internal volume, the volume display will both the volume percentage and also the decibel value.
· Fixed: When switch from HD to SD television channel (or vice versa) the video aspect ratio could stay incorrect for a few seconds.
· Changed: The language of SRT is decoded from the filename when possible so that the user's subtitle settings can be applied for SRT subtitles the same as for internal subtitles.
August 11th, 2011· Changed: By default, FSAA is disabled for all Intel graphics cards due to bugs with the Sandy Bridge drivers. Settings can be manually configured in Options > General > Video Card.
· Changed: Image playback draws error information on the screen when it fails to create a 3D device (as opposed to showing a black screen).
· Changed: User decoder selection and hardware acceleration get used before using madVR's internal video decoding.
· Changed: Disabled write-behind caching when saving database files to make the database more resilient against hardware crashes.
· Changed: With 'Hardware accelerate video decoding when possible', DXVA will be used with EVR or VMR9 (previously only used with EVR).
· Changed: In DSP Studio, clicking a checkbox will not switch what plugin is selected if the control keyboard button is pressed while clicking.
· Changed: Revised television playback video positioning to use a threading model that more closely matches regular video playback (to hopefully fix madVR stalls).
· Changed: Added logging to the VMR 9 subtitle overlay drawer to help troubleshoot subtitle problems.
· Fixed: YouTube support was not working due to YouTube server changes.
August 11th, 2011· Changed: Digital television graph building uses direct connection (not allowing intermediate filters) whenever it is sensible to do so. This will prevent unwanted filters from jumping in and causing crashes.
· Changed: Updated all language files to have the latest strings from the source code, and to remove any orphan strings.
· Changed: An optical Blu-ray disk will not get reanalyzed (which could revert the name to Blu-ray Movie) when reinserted.
· Fixed: The program was not asking for optical discs by name when trying to play an imported disc that wasn't in any drive (only applies to last few builds).
· NEW: Added Options > Video > Hardware accelerate video decoding when possible. It will try LAV CUVID (requires nVidia card), and also DXVA (requires EVR renderer instead of madVR).
August 4th, 2011· Changed: Removed the Subtitles > On / Off menu choice that would appear for videos with no subtitles (ffdshow didn't specify if subtitles existed, but the internal subtitle engine solves this).
· Fixed: When image or video playback was started while in Display View (from a script, SDK, etc.) the display could unexpectedly jump out of Display View.
· Changed: Moved 'Display Settings...' popup dialog options into the main program options (Options > Tree & View > Full Screen).
· Fixed: Switching subtitles while playing could cause a crash in rare cases.
· NEW: Added Options > Video > Subtitle size (changes size of text-based and image-based subtitles).
· Changed: If connection between video decoder and renderer still fails after setting video decoder output format to RGB, Red October inserts Color Space Converter and tries connection again.
· Changed: When madVR is configured to do video decoding, Red October HQ will try to connect to madVR without a video decoder first (video decoding in madVR disabled by default).
· Changed: Updated to madVR 0.73.
· NEW: Added Options > General > Show on screen instructions.
· Faster: Theater View list scrolling using the arrow keys / remote is over 10 times faster.
· NEW: Added DVD video burning.
August 4th, 2011· Fixed: The DVD menu button on the remote would not work while playing a DVD (only applies to the last few builds).
· Fixed: Fast forwarding a DVD to the menu would leave the playback rate display stuck (only applies to the last few builds).
· Changed: Improved performance of hardware accelerated drawing engine used by Theater View, image playback, etc. with devices that could stall when testing for device lost states.
· Fixed: When starting an image slideshow, the caption (if enabled in Options > Images) would not appear for the first image.
· Fixed: Blu-ray (PGS) subtitles that spanned multiple item blocks were not being decoded properly.
· Changed: Added more logging to playlist saving to help troubleshoot a Rockbox upload problem.
· Fixed: Resolutions not explicitly supported by the monitor would not work properly for auto-refresh rate changing.
· Changed: Updated to newer ffdshow (7/31) which reverted a change which caused choppy performance on many video files.
· Fixed: With the option 'Move center to front L/R' enabled, videos that used center-focused mixing could sound bad.
August 4th, 2011· Fixed: YouTube support was not working due to YouTube server changes.
· Changed: Improved how the playback position display works so that it both appears smoother and uses fewer resources.
· Changed: The merge of video and DVD playback code is finished. Please report any problems.
· Changed: Revised the right-click menu layout for video / DVD playback.
· Changed: Updated to version .31 of LAV audio and splitter directshow filters. LAV audio now handles DTS-WAV files nicely.
· Changed: For ffdshow auto-config, we're now setting flag titled 'multiThread' to 1 as well as 'numThreads' to number of processors. May be needed since ffmpeg-mt was merged with libavcodec??
· Changed: Updated German language file
· Changed: Video resolutions not explicitly supported by the display will still be listed in Options > Video > Display Settings.
August 4th, 2011· Changed: Revised threading used by video playback engine, with the goal of improving video startup time and solving madVR hangs / stalls.
· NEW: Television recording option to specify the max number of episodes to keep for a particular subscription.
· Internal: Merging of video and DVD playback engines (still a work in progress, DVD playback may be problematic for a few builds).
July 29th, 2011· Fixed: IR learning was not working properly.
· Changed: Updated madVR to version v0.71 (fixes green tint in Red October HQ).
· Fixed: Google Image click-detection was not working in some cases.
· Changed: Tuning to instructions added in build 140 (only shown once per run, larger font size, better bubble sizing, etc.)
· Changed: JRWorker will try to use EVR in thumbnail building if it is found on the computer. Previously JRWorker only tries to use EVR on Vista or higher OS's.
· NEW: The sidecar subtitle selection will persist between plays, just like it does for stream-based subtitle selection.
· NEW: When showing a message box in Display View when the last used user-interface mode was Theater View, the message box will be a Theater View style message instead of a Standard View style message.
· Faster: Artist thumbnail views load much faster (previously switching to an artist view would wait while the cover art folder was analyzed but now this happens in a low-priority background thread; especially helpful if cover art is on a drive that spins down).
· Changed: Display modes with an integer refresh rate of 23 or lower would not appear in Media Center.
· NEW: When multiple playlists are selected in the tree, they can be deleted with a right-click.
July 29th, 2011· NEW: Added on screen instructions that appear when entering Theater View and Display View.
· Fixed: Re-entering Theater View could crash in some cases.
· Fixed: Red October playback could fail if a user installed an older Media Center build, then a new one, then an old one again. The filter pack could get out of sync.
· Fixed: When simply dumping video graph info to a log file, Media Center could set a lock and attempt downloading a filter pack update.
· Changed: When viewing a list of television recordings in Theater View from the same series, 'Watch' plays a single episode and 'Watch All' is offered to play all episodes (starting at the selected episode).
July 27th, 2011· Changed: Updated madVR to version v0.70.
July 27th, 2011· Fixed: Updated handler for Google Images so that setting cover art, downloading images, etc. works with the latest Google Images page format.
· Changed: Updated the French language translation (thanks to Jean-Guy Paquette).
· NEW: Updated madVR to version v0.69 (which brings back the improved VideoClock performance when using madVR).
· NEW: Updated the ffdshow used by Red October to the latest version.
· Changed: Video width and height are filled in during import time, with expectation that more accurate values may be found later at thumbnailing time. Previously we only fill in the values at thumbnailing time.
· Changed: Added LAV Video Decoder to the Red October + Additional Filters white list.
· Fixed: Playing files that could not be found would show an error and then could leave the player in an in-between state.
· Changed: Merged and improved the playback error messaging for Access Control filtering, NTFS permissions issues, optical discs that aren't found, etc.
· Changed: If FFDShow video decoder fails to connect to video renderer, a second attempt is made with FFDShow's output formats narrowed to RGB.
· Changed: When building DirectShow graph for ms-dvr/wtv files, video renderer will be changed to default renderer only if the default is EVR, and the change will not be made when the graph is built for thumbnailing.
· Fixed: Blu-ray (PGS) subtitles could have their red and blue color components switched.
July 26th, 2011· Fixed: Using VideoClock + EVR could cause playback to stall.
· Changed: Export Playlist > Text File (delimited) uses UTF-8 instead of UTF-16.
July 22nd, 2011· Fixed: Party Mode was allowing a user to switch libraries.
· Fixed: If Theater View failed to create a 3D device (due to madVR exclusive mode, etc.) it could lead to a crash.
· Changed: madVR is auto-configured when first installed or when upgraded by Red October (user configuration performed after that will be preserved).
· Changed: When LAV CUVID fails to connect to a video format with Red October HQ, a different decoder will automatically be used (previously it could result in a playback error).
· Fixed: When filters and other dependencies were updated, some old files from the previous install were not cleaned up.
· Changed: Added support for more Sub Station Alpha (ASS/SSA) formatting.
· Changed: When Blu-ray playback fails because a reader is not installed, a more helpful message is displayed.
· Changed: Revised the default color lookup table used for VOB subtitles with no explicit color table.
· Fixed: VOB and EVOB subtitles could be in the incorrect spot with some movies.
July 22nd, 2011· Fixed: Extended ANSI characters could be read incorrectly (only applies to build 134).
· Fixed: DVD playback from a UNC path was not working.
July 22nd, 2011· Fixed: Text based subtitles were not working.
· NEW: Added support for VMR9 to the J. River subtitle engine (quality may not look as good as with EVR or madVR when playing low resolution content due to limitations of VMR overlay drawing).
· Fixed: Dolby Digital Plus bitstreaming was not working properly.
· Changed: Improved error messaging for a few video playback error conditions.
· Changed: Revised how video stopping works to be more efficient and to work better with madVR exclusive, VideoClock, etc.
· Fixed: Gapless playback of HC-AAC files was not working properly.
· NEW: Improved support for touch screen flick scrolling with Theater View.
July 22nd, 2011· NEW: MC will show a warning popup when a user schedules too many television recordings to be handled by the available tuner devices.
· Changed: Updated German language file.
· Fixed: The path combobox on the Import Single Folder page could be tricky to type in while the import was searching for the recommended folders that are shown in the drop box.
· Fixed: Import would not always read tags (only applies to last few builds).
· Fixed: Clicking on a library root on an empty library could cause a crash.
· NEW: Added native support for MicroDVD .SUB files (naming must use [Name]*.sub and be next to the video or in a 'Sub', 'Subs', 'Subtitle' or 'Subtitles' subfolder).
· Changed: Export Playlist > Text File (delimited) uses UTF-16 instead of ANSI for better international character support.
· Changed: Export Playlist > HTML uses UTF-8 instead of ANSI for better international character support.
· NEW: Added support for text-based UTF-8 subtitles that are embedded into a file.
· Fixed: In some cases, text-based subtitles would fail to render.
· Changed: Switched back to previous version of MadVR video renderer because of some instability in the .67 version.
· Fixed: MC could not import tags nor play mp4/m4a files which did not conform to ISO specifications.
July 22nd, 2011· NEW: Added native support for embedded VOB subs.
· NEW: Added support for any number of external SRT subtitle files (naming must be [Name]*.srt where * is an identifier (or empty); if .srt files are in a subfolder the folder name must be 'Sub', 'Subs', 'Subtitle' or 'Subtitles').
· NEW: Added native support for Enhanced VOB (EVOB) subtitles.
· NEW: Updated to version .30 of LAV audio and splitter directshow filters.
· NEW: Updated to version .67 of madVR video renderer filter.
· NEW: VideoClock slaves the audio exactly to the refresh rate of madVR using IMadVRRefreshRateInfo instead of running a separate monitoring thread (better accuracy, better performance, and no need for a device that can cause problems with exclusive mode).
· Fixed: Audio track selection on DVD sources wasn't always working when sending to dlna and handheld devices.
July 22nd, 2011· NEW: Added native support for SSA, ASS, and ASS2 text-based subtitle formats.
· NEW: Added native support for sidecar subtitle files using SRT or IDX+SUB.
· NEW: The new subtitle engine allows choosing between multiple sidecar formats, languages inside the sidecar formats, and multiple streams from the right-click menu and/or on screen display.
· Fixed: The J. River Subtitle Renderer could cause video to stall when first starting.
· Fixed: The J. River Subtitle Renderer works better when switching subtitles on and off.
July 22nd, 2011· NEW: Added J. River Subtitle engine, currently used with Red October for Blu-ray subtitles only
· Changed: Improved the generic playback problem message shown when playback fails (and added a link to the wiki when not in Theater View where a webpage would be unfriendly).
· Changed: If playback of a video from Theater View failed, a playback problem message could be shown with a regular message box instead of a Theater View friendly message box.
· Fixed: If a message box was shown right as Theater View was loading, it could render incorrectly.
· Changed: Live television uses JRSS center-focused mixing for 2.0 to 5.1/7.1 conversion.
July 22nd, 2011· Changed: BDMV import now analyzes the physical file so that compression information, frame rate, duration, etc. are gathered (use Update Library (from tags) on existing BDMV files).
· Fixed: Bookmarking would not be used for videos with no duration.
· Fixed: Pseudo-surround detector could false positive in some cases.
· Fixed: Possible hang from a circular reference when a relational field contained stacked files.
· Fixed: Improved performance of the database when it contains many relational fields.
· Fixed: DLNA conversion to MPEG2/DVD with PS3 compat switch set wasn't working on the PS3.
· Changed: Parametric Equalizer changes are saved as they are made instead of at shutdown (so a crash won't cause settings to be lost).
· Changed: When editing Parametric Equalizer parameters, the changes are applied after a user stops making changes for a bit (so typing "200" won't first load "2" then "20" then "200").
· Fixed: Options > Video > Bitstreaming could show the incorrect value.
· Fixed: Right-click menu did not work properly when time-shifting on certain analog television tuners.
· Changed: Only the most recent "New Media Action" dialog is shown.
· Fixed: With certain subtitle settings, the default subtitle selection for some files could be incorrect.
· Changed: Disabled auto-resume functionality for DLNA renderers (to return as an option later).
July 12th, 2011· Fixed: Subtitles could incorrectly default to on with some videos.
· Changed: Refinement to the center-focus JRSS mixing used for 2.0 to 5.1 / 7.1 video playback that was introduced in 16.0.127.
· Changed: Added MPC-HC video decoder to the white-list for Red October with additional filters.
· Changed: Improved the pseudo 5.1 detector used by JRSS.
· Fixed: Auto-import could import temporary files created while doing file conversion.
· NEW: Red October HQ will use LAV CUVID when possible.
July 12th, 2011· NEW: Added Options > General > Resume playback using bookmarks. Available modes are Automatic, Never, and Ask.
· Changed: Bookmarks are not used for videos that are shorter than 15 minutes.
· NEW: Added support for JRSS 5.0 downmixing to 4.0 and 2.0.
· Fixed: DTS WAV files would play as static.
· Fixed: During conversion and handheld upload, the program could freeze for a couple of seconds while tagging was performed.
· Changed: DLNA control track advancement is more robust, especially for devices that don't nicely support event subscriptions.
· Fixed: WAV plugin was broken since build 122/123.
· Changed: Updated libogg to 1.2.2 and libvorbis to 1.3.2
· Changed: Improved JRSS 2.0 to 5.1 / 7.1 mixing engine when used with videos. Dialog is partially shifted from the main speakers to the center. Audio and music video playback still leaves the front mains untouched.
· NEW: JRSS mixing detects pseudo 5.1 (2.0 content inside a 5.1 container) and upmixes it to 5.1 / 7.1.
· Changed: Using oggenc 2.87.
July 8th, 2011· NEW: Added support for gapless AAC playback (requires iTunSMPB header).
· NEW: Added native DFF and DSF file support. Output is as 64-bit PCM data with an 8:1 resample (normally 352800 Hz).
· Fixed: Re-starting time-shifting after stopping time-shifting on digital television tuners could cause MC to crash.
· Fixed: MC could crash in some instances when starting television in time-shifting mode.
· Fixed: In certain cases customizing Theater View's layout could lead to a crash.
· Fixed: Unnesting a Theater View library view could break navigation in certain cases.
· Fixed: Import of some OGG files could hang.
July 7th, 2011· Changed: Improved internal volume mode handling for television playback.
· Fixed: Right-click menu did not work properly for some analog television/video capture devices.
· Fixed: 'Volume Protection' could incorrectly reduce the volume when starting playback if the previous track was not stopped before starting the new play.
· Fixed: DVD aspect ratio could be incorrect.
· Changed: Updated Russian translation file (thanks to Vladimir).
· NEW: Added a video playback option to allow compensating for audio / video synchronization issues due to input lag, custom DSP processing, etc. (Options > Video > Advanced > A/V sync correction milliseconds).
· Fixed: Analyzing audio with multiple files at a time could lead to a hang.
· Fixed: Pressing TAB in an edit-style option could lead to unexpected results.
· Faster: Improved performance of core audio engine.
July 7th, 2011· NEW: When controlling a DLNA device, if the device is turned off and later turned on, playback will resume. Allows picking a mix playlist and then turning a device on and off to control music without requiring additional user interaction.
· Fixed: Some complex expressions could fail to save properly in the recent list of the 'Rename, Move, & Copy Files...' dialog.
· Fixed: Options > Services listed YouTube playback bitrate twice.
· Changed: If video playback is stopped near the end of the file (within 4%), no bookmark is saved.
· Fixed: Theater View would not stay minimized properly when running external programs.
· Changed: Reduced the maximum allowable primary buffering for DirectSound, Kernel Streaming, WaveOut, and WASAPI from 5 seconds to 1 second (500ms or less is recommended).
· Fixed: Manufacturer name for JRService.exe was showing as "Unknown" in msconfig and other utilities for viewing services.
· Changed: The DLNA server will not try to convert URL's in the database even if conversion is forced. This allows URL's (like streaming radio) to be played on devices that support it (like WDTV).
· Changed: The TiVo server will not try to convert URL's in the database even if conversion is forced. This should allow mp3 URL's (like shoutcast) to be played. Needs testing.
· Changed: Improved internal volume mode handling for video and DVD playback.
July 1st, 2011· Changed: Added handling of DTS-in-WAV files with a .wav extension so that they always get decoded instead of playing as noise (automatic decoding via LAV Audio hopefully coming soon).
· Changed: Better error messages when encountering problems with certain analog television devices.
· Faster: Faster video thumbnailing by about 35%.
· Changed: Improved Red October system used when playing audio-only files with Directshow filters.
· Faster: Faster video import by about 45%.
· Fixed: Thumbnailing could cause the desktop to flicker.
· Fixed: Rare crash when playing music while DLNA zones appeared and disappeared.
· Fixed: The level of redirected bass from Room Correction could be too low.
June 29th, 2011· Fixed: Data file associations (like .exe) were being offered as possible capabilities in Windows File Type management, and would cause problems when associated with Media Center.
· Fixed: Switched Red October MPEG-2 decoding when not using the Microsoft decoder to libavcodec due to libmpeg2 crashes on TS files.
June 29th, 2011· NEW: Purity is a new stock skin
· NEW: The on screen display is drawn into madVR, making madVR exclusive mode work better.
· Changed: Updated Red October HQ to use madVR 0.66.
· Fixed: When starting video playback, the program could be unresponsive for about one second longer than necessary.
· Changed: Minor correction in Chinese language file.
· Fixed: Adding a file to a linked zone would unnecessarily resynchronize the zones to the beginning of the current song.
· Fixed: With analyze audio enabled in Auto-Import, shutdown could take longer than expected in some cases.
· Changed: Removed "Start digital television in time-shifting mode" option. Digital television will always be started in time-shifting mode.
· Fixed: The file system tree in Import > Auto-Import > Add... did not use the correct skinning colors.
· NEW: Added Options > Theater View > Advanced > Turn off NumLock on load (useful for some remote keyboards where numlock causes troubles).
June 25th, 2011· Changed: When using Red October with additional filters, if a selected decoder will not connect, the standard Red October decoder will be used instead (previously playback would just fail).
· Fixed: DLNA Push to WDTV renderers wasn't working. Broken since build 16.0.15
· Changed: Right-click on a playing video always shows a 'Screen Grab' menu and when the commands aren't available (like with madVR, or when not paused with VMR), the menu contains an explanation.
· Changed: Removed DVD option for ffdshow post processing (you can instead use FFDShow Raw as an additional filter if this is desired).
· Fixed: If files were deleted from the database on a Library Server Client while a background library server sync was occurring, it could cause a crash.
· Changed: More efficient loading / unloading of Red October filters.
· Fixed: With Library Server authentication enabled, other copies of Media Center running on the network would not reliably discover the server.
· Faster: Television seeking is faster (applies to recorded and time-shifted playback).
June 25th, 2011· SDK: The skinning engine supports selecting the view header background color when inactive by using ViewHeader::InactiveHeaderBackgroundColor in the skin.
· Changed: Bitrate monitor filters no longer show in the custom filter list (they are managed by Red October instead).
· Fixed: Time-shifted television playback did not honor advanced video filter selection.
· Changed: Moved the submenu arrow on a menu to the left a little so that it doesn't look crowded on skins with a rounded menu selection graphic.
· Fixed: The subwoofer controls could be disabled on DSP Studio > Output Format when using the new 2.1 output mode.
· Changed: MC16.exe /MCC accepts the parameter formatting [value]:[zone index] for easier multi-zone usage. (i.e. MC16.exe /MCC 10020, 25:2)
· Fixed: When switching input formats, the option to move the center channel to the front speakers could work incorrectly.
June 25th, 2011· Changed: Removed obsolete DVD option regarding usage of the bitrate monitors.
· Changed: Cleaned up the video options.
· Fixed: Merit-based video renderering would not always use the selected video renderer.
· Fixed: Right-click 'Color Controls...' was not working for DVD playback.
· Fixed: Positioning of video playback (with OSD or shift+drag) was not working.
· Changed: Simplified how audio and video stream selection work when using the on screen display.
· NEW: Added 'Playlists' column that can be added to any list to show the playlists that a file is in.
June 23rd, 2011· NEW: Blu-ray importing / cataloging works more nicely
· Fixed: In certain passages, JRSS surround channels could be biased towards the left.
· Fixed: In some cases, the first video playback in a zone could fail to start with madVR.
· Fixed: The EVR video renderer was not working nicely with build 115.
· Changed: Removed obsolete video option regarding WMV acceleration (was only needed for old ATI cards when playing protected WMV).
June 22nd, 2011· Fixed: Importing of Windows Media video did not get FPS field.
· Fixed: Some AAC+ internet radio stations would not play.
· Fixed: Some Windows Media ASX-based internet radio stations would not play.
· Changed: Updated to new version of ffdshow (ffdshow_rev3882_20110613_clsid.exe).
· Changed: Added stream selection to Windows Merit Based video playback.
· Changed: In Display View, a status message is now displayed while filter components are being downloaded & installed.
· Fixed: With the Media Network feature disabled in Options > General > Features, the Playing Now portion of the tree would not build correctly.
· Changed: Video positioning happens in the video playback graph thread instead of the main thread (guess as to madVR hanging issue; please report results).
· Changed: When using madVR, only YV12 color space output will be allowed (due to problems reported with NV12 color space converter in madVR).
June 22nd, 2011· Changed: Improved high-precision display refresh rate monitoring in VideoClock so that it works better on multi-monitor systems, through hardware refresh rate changes, etc.
· Fixed: Red October preset had the ffdshow subtitle options hidden.
· Fixed: Red October preset was using the wrong ffdshow decoding thread count setting, resulting in reduced performance on some computers.
· Fixed: Thumbnails for some videos could be solid gray.
· Faster: Improved performance of video thumbnailing.
June 22nd, 2011· Changed: Updated all language files to have the latest strings from the source code, and to remove any orphan strings.
· Changed: Some optimizations to the video engine to make video playback start faster.
· Changed: The timeout used when analyzing a video file is 30 seconds instead of 20 seconds.
· Changed: JRSS downmixing provides higher volume levels in many cases.
· NEW: Option to automatically change display settings according to video frame rate when starting a video.
· Changed: Files with the DTS extension are playable in the audio engine (decoded by Red October).
· Fixed: Direct show filter downloading was causing problems during import and thumbnail creation.
June 22nd, 2011· Changed: Improved support for picking a soundcard for WASAPI, etc. output when multiple soundcards on the system have the same name.
· Faster: Some optimizations to the J. River audio engine when used for video.
· Changed: The 2.1 mixing mode added to build 111 supports 'No mixing' mode better for 5.1 / 7.1 content (silences channels with no speakers attached).
· Fixed: Added file association "trp" so these video files will now play with Red October.
· Fixed: Downloading videos from YouTube would not get the title.
· NEW: Parametric equalizer supports Linkwitz Transform filters (used to extend the frequency response of a sealed subwoofer).
· Fixed: Bitstreaming of DTS-HD and TrueHD formats over HDMI was not working properly.
· Fixed: Some videos were displaying with the wrong aspect ratio in Red October mode on Windows XP.
· Fixed: The ground was not drawing properly in the 3d spectrum analyzer visualization.
June 16th, 2011· Fixed: If you turned off JRSS without first unchecking "Move center to front L/R," it would still move the center to the front L/R even though the check box is greyed out.
· Changed: Selecting chapters from the on screen display (OSD) happens when pushing left and right instead of requiring an enter key.
· Faster: Loading or switching views in Theater View is faster.
· Fixed: Views imported into Theater View from Standard View where 'Populate tree' was off were not working nicely in Theater View.
· Fixed: The FPS field was marked as a user field.
· Fixed: Stopping playback after five or more minutes when using madVR could lead to a crash.
· Changed: Red October HQ uses madVR v0.65.
· Fixed: Stretching Media Center across three monitors could cause the titlebar to stop drawing properly.
· SDK: MCWS/v1/Alive includes the program name (i.e. 'J. River Media Center') in the response.
· Changed: When a single instance of MC is the DLNA server AND renderer, use the local database entry instead of the server provided URL. Greatly simplifies DLNA remote control of MC.
· Fixed: Broken links on "Media Network" and "Drives and Devices" web pages.
· Changed: Quicktime file types mov and qt default to DirectShow.
· Changed: Added documentation for the optional mode parameter of the Clean(...) expression function.
· Changed: LAV Audio is used as the default audio decoder for Red October Standard and Red October HQ (previously only used in HQ mode).
· Fixed: Resuming from sleep or doing Ctrl+Alt+Delete could leave Theater View showing a 'Failed to create' error (only applies to last few builds).
· NEW: Added 2.1 output mode to DSP Studio > Output Format (opens soundcard with 6 channels, and unused channels are silent).
June 11th, 2011· Fixed: Versioning issue with build 109.
June 11th, 2011· Fixed: A component necessary for television playback was corrupt in build 108.
· Fixed: MIDI files could be categorized as video with build 108.
June 11th, 2011· Fixed: Using volume up / down on a remote while the volume was disabled (bitstreaming, Netflix, etc.) and the volume was set to 'Internal' would result in the volume being set to 0%.
· NEW: Added 'Volume Protection' volume option
· Changed: Tuned JRSS 7.1 upmixing algorithm (better energy neutrality, and front mains are not used to generate the rears).
· Changed: Using 'Clone side channels to rear speakers' in Output Format will copy surrounds to the rear speakers in 5.1 to 7.1 mixing.
· Fixed: When connecting to a Library Server that required a password, the program could require clicking 'Retry' to finish the connection even if the entered password was correct.
· NEW: Parametric Equalizer's channel mixer allows applying a volume modification when moving, copying, or adding channels.
· Fixed: Video parameters were not retrieved from files during import or Update the Library (from tags).
· Changed: Updated to latest LAV Splitter and Audio decoders. Splitter is now internally configured (no more registry hacks).
· NEW: Reworked how bitstreaming is configured in Options > Video, and added support for picking individual formats to bitstream.
· Changed: Enhanced Video Renderer will be used for playback of Microsoft wtv or dvr-ms files.
· Fixed: Video thumbnailing did not work.
· Changed: Improved error messages for video playback. Should see fewer cases of the generic error: 0x80004005.
· Fixed: The OSD could fail to report the resolution of a television broadcast when watching time-shifted television.
· Fixed: Black screen when switching television channel in Standard Television view.
· Fixed: Red October was not working nicely with MIDI files.
· Fixed: "Waiting..." message was stuck in the status window after television channel change.
June 11th, 2011· Fixed: Some PGS subtitles were always showing regardless of user selection.
· Changed: Moved television subscription suspension options to the last page of the wizard.
· Fixed: In some cases, picking a different stream or subtitle option from the right-click menu while watching a video would fail.
· Changed: Red October HQ mode now uses the LAV audio decoder rather than ffdshow.
· Faster: Seeking video with the left / right buttons (remote or keyboard) is much smoother.
· Changed: Improved lip-sync when using ASIO, especially with large hardware buffer sizes.
· Changed: Red October HQ uses EVR instead of madVR (probably a temporary change).
· Changed: Theater View and Display View better handle resolution switches while they're running
June 11th, 2011· Fixed: Smartlists with both OR conditions and implied AND conditions would not work nicely with the smartlist editor. Example: ((a b) or (c d))
· Changed: Switched 'Red October' to 'Red October Standard' so that naming is more clear between Standard and HQ.
· Changed: When playback is started remotely (with Gizmo, etc.), popups requesting the installation of an external playback engine like QuickTime will be suppressed.
· Changed: When viewing a playlist using a library view, the order of the playlist will be preserved when possible in Theater View views.
· Changed: DLNA control. If GetVolume fails the volume control will be disabled instead of removing the renderer from the list of zones. This is to accomodate DLNA renderers that can't control volume when plugged into external AV equipment.
· Fixed: Files named with an .ogg extension are now handled just like .ogv files if they contain video. Previously they would not play.
· Changed: Updated to latest LAV splitter which better handles poorly muxed TS files.
· Changed: Red October will always use Microsoft DTV-DVD audio decoder for Microsoft file types WTV and DVR-MS.
· Changed: Added support for TTA audio files (plays using Directshow filters).
June 8th, 2011· Changed: Subtitles named "(auto)" that match the audio language will be enabled by default (instead of selecting no subtitles).
· Changed: Added the Microsoft MPEG audio and video decoders to the Red October white list.
· Fixed: If a video failed to import (because it was corrupt, etc.), it could cause other files of that type to not import until the program was restarted.
· Changed: When a video fails to fully parse, it's less likely to end up being imported as 'Data' instead of 'Video'.
· Fixed: Doing fast seeks on time-shifted television could cause the seeks to queue up instead of pooling, so that video would continue seeking too long after stopping pressing buttons on the remote.
· Changed: Mouse wheel over video seeks instead of zooms (use Ctrl+Wheel to zoom).
· Changed: LAV source/splitter is now configured in Red October mode.
June 7th, 2011· Changed: Red October HQ uses madVR v0.62.
· Fixed: MC crashed when right-clicking on a playing video and selecting ffdshow configuration. It's back to disabled in Red October mode.
· Fixed: madVR would fail to create a 3d device when starting time-shifted television from Theater View.
· Fixed: In Theater View, Netflix genre views were incorrectly using details list style instead of thumbnails.
· Changed: Updated Korean language file
June 4th, 2011· Changed: Improved how VideoClock works with signal breakups on over-the-air broadcasts.
· Fixed: DSP Studio > Room Correction was using the incorrect channel order for the rear and surrounds with 8-channel output.
· NEW: Parametric Equalizer can be used to add a configurable delay to any channels.
· Changed (again): Red October will not use the Microsoft MPEG decoder with madVR because then no deinterlacing is performed for 1080i, etc. signals.
· Fixed: The 'My TV'. 'My Music', etc. buttons on an MCE remote were not working (note that renaming or moving the stock Theater View layout can break these buttons).
· NEW: When using the J. River audio engine for video playback, a fade-in is used after a seek (audibly more pleasant, and makes skipping commercials in television mostly silent).
· NEW: madVR video renderer is now part of the standard filter pack and is automatically installed when needed. It is used in Red October HQ mode.
June 4th, 2011· Fixed: Subtitles would not work correctly with Red October when manually selecting 'ffdshow raw video filter'.
· Changed: Added support for the DirectVobSub post-processor filter with Red October.
· Fixed: Theater View backdrops from TheTVDB.com would not work properly for series with multiple database records where only one record was complete (like the Danish show Anstalten).
· Fixed: When using the LAV source / splitter, subtitles could incorrectly be on by default instead of honoring the settings in Options > Video.
· Changed: Added Red October support for .tivo file playback using the Tivo source filter.
· Changed: Renamed the J. River bitrate monitor filters to "J. River Audio Monitor" and "J. River Video Monitor".
· Changed: Theater View watch marks only appear for Netflix videos.
· Fixed: When using VideoClock, lip sync could take longer than necessary to achieve after a seek when doing PAL slowdown (especially if a large buffer size was used in the audio output plugin).
· NEW: Added the ability to move, copy, add, and swap channels to DSP Studio > Parametric Equalizer (use 'Mix channels' filter).
· Changed: Red October settings are applied to time-shifting on digital television.
· Changed: Parametric equalizer hides unneeded controls for a particular filter type instead of showing all controls and disabling some.
June 2nd, 2011· Fixed: Line 21 subtitles would be on by default instead of off by default with Red October (and the state reported by the menu or on screen display would be incorrect at first).
· Changed: Red October uses a less demanding deinterlacing method by default, which works better with laptops and older computers.
· NEW: Added 'Red October HQ' option that will use the highest quality settings available, but will only work nicely on a fast computer.
· Fixed: DVD playback was not working on many Windows XP computers.
· NEW: Red October HQ methods will default to madVR if it is installed on the system (except for DVD, since madVR doesn't currently support DVD nicely).
· Changed: Red October will use the Microsoft MPEG decoder with madVR now that current versions of madVR support the Microsoft decoder's output format.
· Fixed: JRSS downmixing was not working properly when resampling.
· Fixed: Using merit based filter selection was not working properly.
· Changed: Video renderer selection is automatic when using Red October, and the option is hidden when appropriate.
· Changed: Video options does not show per-file type filter selection with Red October on.
· Changed: Theater View watched marks were not working reliably for non-Netflix files.
· Changed: Theater View watch marks are only shown for videos longer than 20 minutes.
· Changed: Red October will use 'ffdshow raw video filter' as a post-processor if it's manually selected.
· Changed: Revised the wording on DSP Studio > Output Format > Channels to make it more clear that channel downmixing requires JRSS.
June 1st, 2011· Fixed: Quickly switching videos could lead to a crash
· Changed: When restoring an old library that does not contain settings, the program will succeed on the library restore (but of course not restore settings) instead of report a failure that required a user to uncheck the option to restore settings
· Faster: Editing a field of the type 'Large Value' (like lyrics) for a large number of files is much faster
· Fixed: Editing a huge number of files where all tagging would fail (due to a disconnected drive, etc) could cause a memory leak
· Changed: Editing a large number of files uses less memory
· Fixed: Red October video playback would crash on some mpeg files, especially on Windows XP when ffdshow was configured to decode mpeg with libmpeg2 (now using libavcodec)
· Changed: Updated to latest LAV splitter (28) which better handles MTS files
· NEW: EXIF GPS information for latitude and longitude is read more completely (right-click > Update Library from Tags to fill existing files)
· NEW: Added right-click image option "Locate on Google Maps" (only appears for images that contain GPS information in the Latitude and Longitude fields)
· Changed: When possible, video stream selection is made before DirectShow graph is built
· Changed: When viewing a playlist of images and videos, the word 'Stop' will no longer appear on the on screen display when transitioning from one to the other
· Fixed: VC-1 files (eg Blu-Ray MKV's) wouldn't play on many WinXP systems
· Changed: Use ffdshow for mpeg-1 decoding rather than using Microsoft Seems to be higher quality
· Changed: When a video starts, the background only shows 'Opening', etc if the video takes longer than a second to start playing, making for a smoother visual transition between videos
· Changed: DirectShow graph building mode option added to Options/Video page replacing the two Red October checkboxes with a single three state drop box
· Fixed: Smartlists could fail to show choices that were logical when the smartlist contained OR conditions or list-type fields
· Changed: Red October will attempt to use Power DVD video decoders 9, 10, or 11 if installed on Windows XP where there is no system DVD video decoder
May 28th, 2011· Changed: With Red October turned off, DirectShow graph building is back to the Merit based "smart" rendering style using user selected custom filters
· Changed: New option "Use additional custom filters for Red October" under the Red October checkbox in Options/Video. (Whitelist)
· Changed: Added ffdshow raw video, CoreAVC, and PowerDVD 10 video decoders to whitelist
May 28th, 2011· Changed: Added LAV-CUVID and Power DVD 11 video decoders to the white list.
· Fixed: Video conversion was broken for DLNA & Library Server video playback.
May 26th, 2011· Fixed: During video playback, the channel headroom was not being provided to Room Correction, so the total output level could be lower than necessary
· Fixed: AC3 was appearing twice in File Types
· Faster: JRSS down-mix processing is 245% faster (ie 51 to 20, etc)
· Fixed: Navigating in Theater View could crash when skipping multiple browse levels that only contained a single choice
· Fixed: When scanning for television channels, the new channels would show in 'Recently Imported'
· Fixed: Shutting down the program could be unnecessarily stalled for a second by the remote control engine
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar)
· Changed: Added the ability to add a 'Mute' filter to DSP Studio > Parametric Equalizer
· Changed: With Red October off, user selected audio or video decoders will be used (if a decoder you would like to use does not get used, please report the filter details -- support is currently done on a white-list basis)
· Changed: With Red October off, when ffdshow is manually selected as a decoder for a file type, auto-configuration of ffdshow will be disabled
· Changed: Microsoft's "Stream Buffer Source" filter is used to render dvr-ms and wtv files
· Changed: Updated to latest LAV splitter (27) which better handles TS files
May 26th, 2011· Fixed: When JRSS mixed from 51 or 71 to 40 or lower, the subwoofer level could be too low (now respects the option 'Source is correctly mastered for +10 dB calibration')
· Fixed: Videos with low sample rates could fail to play if the sound card did not support a low sample rate (DSP Studio > Output Format is now automatically configured if necessary)
· Changed: Removed skinning from system Font dialog because skinning doesn't nicely support all of the controls used by the dialog on some versions of Windows
· Fixed: DLNA Servers would expose a new ID each run until they were configured once
· Changed: Red October now sets the "threadsnum" parameter for ffdshow to 4
· NEW: "FPS" (frame rate) field for video, filled in during import time
· Changed: Tuned how MC16exe /MonitorToggle works so that it should work with more configurations
· Changed: Allow DLNA server to serve unconverted streaming content
· Fixed: WMV files that contained video that the system Windows Media video decoder filter did not support would not work properly with Red October
· Changed: Red October subtitle handling is improved
· Fixed: Toggling in and out of Theater View could be problematic
· Changed: Android video conversion now uses the Red October system
· NEW: Media Center adds itself to the 'Default programs' list on Vista and Windows 7
· Fixed: At system shutdown time, Media Center could hold up the shutdown because it was trying to communicate with the Service which was already shut down
May 26th, 2011· Fixed: WOL for WAN hosts and fixed to handle multiple interfaces properly
· Changed: Red October will use PowerDVD 9 when available for video decoding on systems where the Microsoft decoders are not available (normally XP systems)
· Changed: Updated to new version of ffdshow (ffdshow_rev3850_20110511_xhmikosr_MSVC2010exe)
· Fixed: VMR 9 was not working nicely with DVD
· Changed: Removed the option DSP Studio > Output Format option 'Something outside Media Center will make the subwoofer +10 dB (standard calibration)' All level calibration should be done using Room Correction
· Changed: Room Correction allows setting levels from -20dB to +20dB (previously it had a range of -12dB to +12dB)
· NEW: The Output Format and Room Correction systems work together better to track the available headroom in each audio channel so that unnecessary attenuation is never performed
· Fixed: DSP Studio > Room Correction would unnecessarily attenuate all channels when they all had negative volume levels (only the relative differences should matter)
· Changed: Library and playlist views do not show a playing overlay on a thumbnail when it's the active playback file but playback is stopped (or else the green play overlay causes confusion with the 'Play' text link)
· Changed: Tuned the slow double click mechanism for in-place list editing so that a fast double-click that just misses being a double-click won't start editing
· Fixed: Thumbnailing and analyzing of video files now works with Red October
· Changed: Enabled more subtitle options in Red October mode, hopefully they improve subtitle activation
May 26th, 2011· Fixed: Video volume normalization did not work nicely with VideoClock enabled
· Changed: Updated ffdshow download to "rev3832 Apr 29 2011 ICL 12"
· Fixed: Video playback of files with AC3 audio (HDTV, DVD, etc) could make goose honking noises on seek
· Fixed: With VideoClock enabled, if the video took more than a couple seconds to start, the lip sync would take longer than expected to lock on
· Changed: Red October will not use madVR for DVD
· Changed: Turned off ffdshow tray icon in auto config mode
· Fixed: The direct show connection info now reports the correct filename path for filters when using auto config
· Changed: Improved the support of WMV files with Red October
· Fixed: Starting TS playback with a bookmark saved could be problematic when using Red October
· Changed: Theater View theme video backgrounds use Red October
· NEW: Video audio volume normalization considers the video type being played so that it can make better decisions about the levels
· Fixed: MC crashed in some cases when playing videos with Red October turned off
May 26th, 2011· NEW: Television time-shifting filters will now properly handle channel switching that involves audio format changes (from AC3 to MPEG and vice versa)
· NEW: Added support for ac3 audio files
· Fixed: Mpeg-1 video from a URL was not playing in auto config mode
· Fixed: The volume control was not updating properly to connect to the proper sound card for video playback
· Fixed: When the audio stream format changes in the middle of a video, the volume control would not be updated to reflect the bitstreaming status
· NEW: DVD playback uses the new video graph building system
· NEW: Added Options > Video > Audio for Video, DVD, & Television > Normalize volume
· Changed: Properties for ffdshow audio/video decoders can no longer be shown when in auto config mode Previously this caused a crash
May 26th, 2011· Fixed: In some cases, an existing installation of ffdshow could cause video playback to fail.
· Fixed: On XP systems, if VMR 9 was not available, video playback would fail.
· Changed: Internal changes to how video playback is configured and played.
May 26th, 2011· NEW: When in Red October automatic config mode for DirectShow video playback, all filters are now directly connected instead of using "smart" connection
· NEW: When in Red October automatic config mode for DirectShow, known safe filters are loaded explicitly instead of using filters registered on the system
· Fixed: DLNA playback was unnecessarily causing conversion stacks to be created for non-MP3 file types
· Fixed: When controlling a DLNA device, Lastfm Scrobbling could trigger twice if the playback server was the same as the controlling machine
· Fixed: The location text used by Theater View skins was not updating correctly in some cases when using the new Theater View navigation components
· Changed: Updated the default Theater View theme to match the new Theater View layout
· NEW: Theater View theme images that are downloaded are cached between runs (previously it used a runtime only cache)
· Fixed: Tivo music playback wasn't working with conversion enabled
May 26th, 2011· Fixed: Possible crash in 16089 related to querying output plugins for their bitstreaming status
· Fixed: Added a workaround that would cause the audio renderer to not get fully released when stopping playback due to an ffdshow leak
· Fixed: After leaving Theater View while in Live TV or Guide view and then returning, navigation could be broken
· Fixed: Library views that only had one item in the root level grouping could cause problems in Theater View
· Fixed: A few bugs regarding Theater View 'Items To Show' customization when using nesting
· NEW: Added Blu-ray support to file associations, auto-run actions, etc (configure in Options > File Types and Options > CD & DVD)
· Fixed: With UAC, auto-run disabling (if selected in Options > CD & DVD) would not always work
May 26th, 2011· NEW: Renamed 'Check for Updates' to 'Update Channels' in the Help menu and added channel selection and other options right there
· NEW: Added the ability to choose a download folder and number of downloads to keep to the update channel system
· Fixed: Changing Update Channel options in Options and clicking 'Cancel' would not discard changes
· Changed: Importing of mp4 videos will use direct parsing method as used in importing of m4a audios
· Faster: MP4 (M4A, ALAC, MP4 video) importing / parsing is 10 to 30 times faster (was about 165 times faster on a test suite of many files)
· Changed: When looking up a series from TheTVDBcom for Theater View backdrops, all languages are searched instead of only English
· Changed: Update Channels will better handle cases where two or more updates are pushed before the user allows installation
· NEW: Added bitstreaming support for Dolby True HD and DTS-HD to the J River audio engine
· SDK: Added support for Location=Next to MCWS/v1/Playback/PlayByKey so that a file can be set as the next to play
· Fixed: When using ASIO, audio format changes in the middle of a video stream were not always supported nicely
· Changed: Added support for the non-standard TXXX(RATING) ID3v2 tag used by some programs
· Changed: The J River audio engine resampler did not cope nicely with 11024 Hz input (used by some cameras in recorded video, etc)
· NEW: While bitstreaming audio during video playback, the volume slider, volume tooltip, and volume menu update nicely to reflect that bitstreaming is occurring
· Fixed: Displaying filter property pages in television would hang MC
· NEW: Many improvements to the automatic filter configuration system for video playback
May 26th, 2011· Fixed: Clicking 'Details' while downloading in the Action Window would show the downloads view but the tab / header would not be labeled 'Downloads'.
· Changed: Improved the quality of the artwork provided to Gizmo when browsing.
· NEW: Added ability to select a different aspect ratio from the OSD menu while viewing Netflix instant videos in Theater View.
· Fixed: Hitting Enter (or OK on a remote) was not working as a pause/play shortcut while viewing Netflix videos.
May 26th, 2011· Changed: The update system uses the standard "MediaCenter16008x.exe" naming instead of "Install (16.0.8x).exe" naming.
· Fixed: The update system could fallback from 'Beta' to 'Development' on a single server failure (now requires multiple failures where Beta fails but Latest works).
· Changed: Tuned the check for update frequency for the 'Latest' channel so that it checks for updates more often.
· Changed: If the update system runs a pending update but it's cancelled or fails for some reason, relaunching Media Center will show a message that allows discarding the update (previously an endless loop was possible with a corrupted download).
May 12th, 2011· Fixed: Downloaded television was being treated like recorded television with respect to the roller options and file caption display in Theater View.
· Changed: Added media sub type 'Adult'.
· Changed: Simplified the play options provided for movies in Theater View.
· Changed: When using DSP Studio > Output Format with the option 'Move center to front L/R' enabled, simulated center sound (like from JRSS) will not be folded into the front speakers.
· Changed: The new build update system keeps the last 5 builds (in AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 16\Install).
· Changed: When watching a video from Theater View in a list of videos where the series is the same (and not empty) for all the videos, the entire set of files will be played so that previous / next can be used to switch episodes.
· Changed: Added support for Library Server client to the Print Wizard.
· Changed: The Print Wizard shows a blank image (black frame with failure message inside) if it fails to load one of the images queued for printing (previously missing files would be removed from the queue).
· Changed: Http server: always return Partial Content for Byte Range requests. Fixed problem with Onkyo receiver when acting as a DLNA renderer.
· Fixed: In Theater View, entering the 'Television' view and leaving would not preserve the root roller selection 'Television'.
· SDK: Added MCWS/v1/File/Rotate function to allow rotating images (requires an authenticated connection).
· NEW: Added the ability to rotate images from a Library Server client (requires an authenticated connection).
· Fixed: In some cases, deletion of television shows from a Library Server client would not remove disk files on the server.
· Fixed: Performing an upgrade of a portable installation could cause thumbnails to be deleted.
· Changed: DirectShow filters needed for video conversions are downloaded at program install/update time if video conversion has been performed in the past.
· Fixed: Pausing time-shifted television playback and then pushing the Green Button would unexpectedly unpause playback.
· Fixed: The Tag Action Window would show a non-functional maximize button when minimized.
May 12th, 2011· Changed: Tuned media sub type guessing.
May 12th, 2011· NEW: Automatic configuration of ffdshow decoder options for DirectShow video playback. First draft, more to come.
· Changed: Simplified connection type in Options > Video > Audio > Connection Type, and use this information when auto-configuring filters.
May 12th, 2011· Changed: Made a few tweaks to DSP Studio > Room Correction to make calibrating with the new 'Level' tool easier.
· Changed: In cases where the subwoofer channel is created using JRSS Subwoofer, bass redirection 'Move bass to subwoofer' will be treated like 'Remove bass'.
· Changed: Revised wording for DSP Studio > Output Format > Subwoofer.
· Fixed: Added special case handling for another Intel GPU that doesn't properly support full screen anti-aliasing.
· Changed: Removed 'Check For Updates' from Start Menu (now integrated into program).
· Changed: Improvements to the new check for updates system.
May 12th, 2011· Changed: Checking 'Solo' in DSP Studio > Room Correction clears the solo state for any other channels.
· Changed: Picking 'Mute' or 'Solo' in DSP Studio > Room Correction could unexpectedly change the channel level in certain cases.
· Changed: Put the 'Distance' section on top of the 'Level' section in DSP Studio > Room Correction, and added a note that distances should be set first.
· Changed: The pink noise test tone generated by DSP Studio > Room Correction for a subwoofer has a 100 Hz lowpass filter so that high frequencies will never be sent to the subwoofer.
· Fixed: DV video in an AVI container was failing to convert for Android when LAV splitter was installed on system.
· NEW: Added 'Level' checkbox to DSP Studio > Room Correction tools. It plays a tone suitable for level calibration out a single speaker.
· Changed: Tones played by DSP Studio > Room Correction are -12 dB so that there's room for level adjustment without concern over clipping (since the level tool temporarily disables clip prevention).
· NEW: Started framing in an improved 'Check for updates' system.
May 6th, 2011· Fixed: Viewing the files inside a Netflix series in Theater View was not possible with the last few builds.
· NEW: The optical drive entry in Theater View can be configured to only show when certain disk types are in the drive.
· Changed: Revised default Theater View layout so that DVD and Blu-ray discs appear under video, and audio discs appear at the root (if there's a disc in the drive).
· Changed: It is possible to browse optical disks using Theater View > Gadgets > Explorer.
· Changed: Revised default Theater View layout (resetting of views is strongly recommended for users of builds 76 - 80, but optional).
· Changed: Theater View will update when an optical disc is added or removed (instead of requiring a manual refresh).
· Changed: Inserting or removing an optical disc does a less disruptive update to views that are not related to optical discs.
· Changed: Removed 'Play All' Theater View top roller option at the root of a video library view and playlists view.
· Fixed: Playlist deletion was disabled in Theater View for the last few builds.
· Changed: Netflix entries under the "Television" category now group TV episodes into series, as in the instant queue.
· Changed: Improved support for XMLTV genre parsing.
· Fixed: Ctrl+O in a web view would show an IE open dialog instead of Media Center's options when using the Internet Explorer engine.
· Fixed: Installing new versions of existing filters wasn't working during android video conversions.
· Fixed: Theater View Weather would not properly display Weather icons in some cases.
· Changed: Added media sub type 'Short'.
· Changed: Revised how filter detection is performed so that the filter is not loaded when testing if it exists on the system.
· Fixed: m4a audio file tagger could not remove embedded cover art.
· Fixed: m4a audio file tagger would not remove disk # and track # fields from the file.
· Changed: Theater View configuration no longer limits adding multiple of the same type of item (i.e. adding a plugin in more than one place, etc.).
· NEW: Added the ability to create Theater View navigation items that point to particular playlist groups instead of the root of playlists.
· Changed: When a television recording is being deleted by user, MC will no longer keep the underlining time-shifting files if the only other reference to these files is the "Saved time-shifting".
May 6th, 2011· SDK: MJZoneAutomation::GetName() was not working properly in certain cases.
· Changed: When editing Smartlist rules, only relevant values are presented in the rule drop boxes (previously relevant values were shown, then a divider, then a list of all values).
· Optimized: Starting video playback is faster in some cases.
· Fixed: Determining the type of optical disk in the drive could cause a handle leak on Windows 7 with certain optical drives.
· Changed: Improved how optical disks are detected (should be an internal change, but please report any issues).
· Fixed: Television component did not handle error conditions properly in the last few builds.
· Fixed: Television component could crash if the tuner device failed in the last few builds.
· Changed: Dutch language translation updated (thanks bennyd).
· NEW: Added 24 bit transcode to wave audio option for the DLNA server.
May 6th, 2011· Changed: Added media sub type option of 'Other'.
· Fixed: Playback of mono video files would not work properly in some cases.
· Fixed: Returning to Theater View could crash (only applies to last couple builds).
· Changed: Improved Television views in Theater View to work better for users that don't record their television (sorting by date imported instead of date recorded, addition of season view, addition of genre view, etc.)
· Changed: Renamed 'My Computer' to 'Explorer' (applies to Standard View and Theater View).
· Fixed: In Theater View, when certain confirmation boxes were shown, it would be possible to arrow the focus out of the dialog.
· Fixed: If a background thread showed a message box while Theater View was showing, it would be skinned by Theater View but then not work properly.
· Changed: Numerous enhancements to the automatic media sub type guessing system used for video categorization in Theater View (remember you can manually set the Media Sub Type for files that are incorrectly categorized).
· Fixed: Connecting to a library via DLNA could hang.
· NEW: Options > Theater View > Theme > Fadeout Cover Art In Playing Now Display is a three-state option: No / Only for online media slideshow (recommended) / Always
· Changed: New stock views for Theater View (requires one time over-write of user customization).
· Faster: Improved performance of Theater View library views.
· Changed: Removed edge fading from Theater View online slideshow images (since they're now cropped to fill the entire screen).
May 6th, 2011· Changed: Default video sorting is by name instead of date / name.
· Changed: Tuned default thumbnail size in Theater View slightly to show 3 wide instead of 2 wide in movie views on a 720p display.
· Changed: When using a secondary roller in Theater View, returning from a view will preserve the focus and selection state of the secondary roller.
· Changed: Merged standard and alternate Theater View navigation modes, and removed advanced Theater View option to toggle (the differences were subtle anyway).
· Changed: When using 'Same as source' for the bitdepth for MP3 and M4A, the output will be 24-bit instead of 64-bit (choosing a higher bit depth manually is still supported).
· Changed: Added 16-bit output as one of the audio auto-configure formats to try when failing to open a soundcard.
· NEW: Theater View scrollbar sizing is user-configurable in Options > Theater View.
· Fixed: Theater View list style customization was not saving the category and file level independently.
· Changed: New stock views for Theater View (sorry, will require reconfiguration of user customization).
· NEW: Added 'Decade' as one of the date formatting options for the FormatDate(...) expression function.
May 6th, 2011· NEW: New stock views for Theater View (sorry, will require reconfiguration of user customization).
· NEW: Theater View stores all view configuration in the library so that settings move nicely with Library Server Client, library restore, etc.
· NEW: Theater View '3D Wall' style can be used for any list by using 'Toggle List Style' (previously required a special view named 'Showroom').
· NEW: Added new Theater View category style that shows a single root item and puts child items on the top roller once entering.
· NEW: Showing of the 'All ...' items in Theater View browsing is optional on a per-view basis (configure in Options > Theater View).
· NEW: File system browsing is possible in Theater View (under More > My Computer by default).
· NEW: Added expression MediaSubType() that guesses on the sub type of a file if no actual sub type is stored in the database (used to auto-categorize videos in Theater View).
· NEW: The 'DVD' entry in Theater View will say 'Blu-ray' or 'CD' when the corresponding disc types are in the drive.
· Changed: Sorting of categories will always put (Unassigned) last (previously unassigned could show first if descending sort order was used).
· Changed: Improved support for Theater View background images from HTBackdrops.com by using the native API provided by HTBackdrops.com.
· NEW: Theater View shows fan art from TheTVDB.com when viewing a series (configurable in Options > Theater View > Theme).
· Changed: Slowed down the Theater View theme slideshow speed a little.
· Fixed: Pressing Shift+F10 or the menu key while in Display View or Theater View could show the main program menu.
· Fixed: Problem painting border area of video when playing television using EVR (only applies to build 76).
· Fixed: Right-click and double-click in video window did not work when watching television using Enhanced Video Renderer(only applies to build 76).
· Changed: Television component will load zone 1 settings, if available, when doing scheduled recording.
· Fixed: Android video conversion wasn't handling files with only a video stream or only an audio stream.
· Fixed: Made internal ffdshow configuration more bullet-proof for Android video conversions.
May 6th, 2011· Changed: Updated the channel mask provided for 5.1 and 7.1 output to use a more modern Microsoft recommendation
· Fixed: The channel ordering used for the new 6.1 support in build 75 was not correct
· Fixed: In rare cases with large libraries, it was possible for a value to not appear in the panes
· Fixed: Starting television playback while recording could fail when using madVR as the renderer
· Internal: DirectShow graph-building and many related operations in television are done in a worker thread to work better with madVR (should be internal change, but please report any issues)
· Fixed: MP3 playback could output a little hiccup on seek (only applies to last few builds)
· Fixed: The enabled / disabled state for the Output Format DSP was not working properly in certain cases
April 27th, 2011· SDK: MJMixerAutomation equalizer on / off functions were not working properly.
· Fixed: Mono MP3 playback was not working properly since the switch to 64-bit MP3 decoding.
· Changed: 7.1 input and output uses ordering: L, R, C, LFE, RL, RR, SL, SR (previously used less standard: L, R, C, LFE, SL, SR, RL, RR).
· NEW: ASIO supports AC3 encoded surround sound output (DSP Studio > Output Format).
· Fixed: DLNA server providing wrong flags for flac files in content directory.
· Fixed: DLNA server search fixes for xbox 360 (including generic artist/album-artist searches).
· Fixed: AC3 and DTS pass-through over SPDIF for video playback was not working in some cases with the J. River audio engine.
· Fixed: The system to manually rescan auto-import folders periodically when folder watching failed was not working in some cases.
· Fixed: The equalizer DSP could cause audio stalls when processing multi-channel data in small windows.
· Fixed: Aspect ratio of videos during playback could be stretched (only applies to last few builds).
· NEW: Added 'Blu-ray' as a type in Options > Video to allow playing Blu-ray with the LAV Splitter filter.
· NEW: Added support for JRSS up-mixing of 6.1 content to 7.1, and downmixing of 6.1 content to any other format.
· Fixed: The database fields 'Original Title' and 'Country' would incorrectly appear as user fields and allow editing.
· NEW: Added support for playing to Sony television (DLNA) with Media Center.
· Fixed: When playing an image or video to a remote zone (DLNA or Library Server), the program could incorrectly jump to full screen.
· Changed: Playing an unsupported file to a DLNA device could start playback of the previous file instead.
April 27th, 2011· Fixed: Video playback was not working properly when using the J. River audio engine (only applies to build 73).
· NEW: The audio engine will offer to auto-configure DSP Studio > Output Format when playing a surround-sound source on a device that doesn't support more than two channels.
· Changed: Checking a check box in DSP Studio will also select that DSP.
· Fixed: When audio output was auto-configured to a format supported by the soundcard, the DSP Studio > Output Format page would not update automatically if it was showing.
· Fixed: Options > File Location > Cover Art > Folder was not appearing when picking 'In a specified folder'.
· Fixed: Using the Smartlist editor to search for empty values was not working properly.
· Fixed: Saving of column presets would not properly include the column ordering.
· Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio SDK 4.11 for APE playback and encoding.
· NEW: The Chromium web engine (Options > Tree & View > Web Browser) is downloaded on demand when used instead of included in the build.
· Changed: When tagging list-style fields, the full set of possible choices will be shown for lists with 50 items or less (previously the cutoff was at 20 items or less).
· Changed: Conversion cache building is started manually from Options > File Location instead of automatically when closing the options dialog.
· Changed: Improved default Theater View theme image resolution, and made all images 16x9.
April 27th, 2011· NEW: MP3 audio decoder works in 64-bit and outputs 64-bit audio (previously worked in 32-bit and output 16-bit).
· NEW: AAC audio decoder outputs 64-bit (previously output 16-bit).
· Changed: If a lossy decoder delivers 32-bit or 64-bit data, it will be converted to 16-bit when converting to a different format on disk.
· Fixed: m4a audio file tagger did not embed image in file.
· Fixed: m4a audio file tagger did not preserve existing "total number of tracks" and "total number of disks" values when writing "track #" and "disk #" respectively.
· Changed: m4a audio file tagger will not replace existing encoding tool tag ('©too' atom) with "Media Center 16.0.xx". Instead, "Tool Name" and "Tool Version" are written in different atoms.
· Fixed: Some AAC radio / streaming sites were not working.
· Changed: Improved support for Shoutcast servers that return no content type, but instead put the content type in the ICY block of the response body.
· Fixed: MCWS/v1/Control/MCC could fail to support the 'Parameter' passed for non-playback style functions.
· Fixed: m4a audio file tagger did not handle Date field correctly.
· NEW: Gizmo, WebPlay, and WebRemote show artist images in artist views instead of stacks of album images.
· Internal: WebPlay and WebRemote use MCWS/v1/Browse/Image to get browsing images (should be internal change, but please report any issues).
· NEW: Added FileKey() function to expression language to return the integer key of a file in the database.
April 27th, 2011· NEW: MP4 plugin supports AAC radio / streaming using the buffering reading system used by MP3.
· NEW: MP4 plugin supports Icy metadata when playing AAC radio so track names, artists, etc. appear.
· Changed: Settings for hardware accelerated graphics are in Options > General > Video Card (used by Theater View, image playback, 3d views, 3d visualizations).
· NEW: Added 'Automatic' hardware acceleration option which takes the video card into account when configuring graphics options.
· Changed: 'Automatic' hardware acceleration mode disables full screen anti-aliasing for Intel H67 onboard video to workaround black screen issues
· Changed: Updated Russian translation file.
· Changed: Over-the-air EPG scanning option is removed for DVB-T television tuners (it was never implemented).
· Fixed: Pause button wasn't working right during Netflix playback.
· Fixed: Disabling "Options > Media Network > Use Media Network to share this library and enable DLNA" would incorrectly uncheck all DLNA functions, so reenabling the option would leave DLNA off.
· Fixed: Disabling Media Network would leave the SSDP responder running until the program was restarted.
April 27th, 2011· Fixed: 6 and 8 channel AAC files would not play correctly.
· Fixed: MP4 Action Window > Tag > Format page showed "bit" instead of "kbps" for the bitrate unit.
· Fixed: Headerless AAC files were not playing properly.
April 8th, 2011· Fixed: If Internet Explorer was set to 'Work Offline', it would not be possible to connect to a library server.
· Fixed: The fuzzy match search engine could crash in certain cases (used by the search box, Play Doctor, etc.).
· Changed: The 'Add Library' dialog has more robust checking of user data entry in the Access Key / URL box.
· Changed: Playing Now > Playing From is clickable in the tree, and acts as a home page for library management.
· Changed: Added a 'Library Manager...' item to File > Library menu that jumps to the library manager in the tree.
· Changed: It's no longer possible to add a library that fails to load (instead the 'Add Library' dialog will report the problem and stay visible).
April 5th, 2011· Changed: Added more logging to SSDP responder.
· Fixed: Updated YouTube support for recent YouTube site changes.
April 5th, 2011· Fixed: When editing more than 100 files at a time in the Tag Action Window, tabbing after a change would discard the change instead of confirm the change.
April 5th, 2011· NEW: Library Server client wakes a sleeping server when connecting (requires using an Access Key to connect, and also enabling wake on lan / wan on your network).
· Fixed: Manually adding a library location for a library that was previously found on the network but not currently available would not work nicely.
· Changed: Improved video quality settings for Android conversions.
· Fixed: ID3v2 tags with big-endian UTF-16 values were not being read correctly.
March 31st, 2011· Changed: Dutch language translation updated.
· Changed: Updated German language file.
· Fixed: In some cases, the installer could incorrectly reboot instead of launch the program after an install (only applies to builds 53-59).
· Changed: When the installer wishes to restart, clicking 'Finish' with the 'Restart Windows now' box checked will show a confirmation dialog to avoid unexpected restarts.
· Fixed: Aspect ratio on Android video conversions was sometimes incorrect.
· Changed: Video encoding profile simplified somewhat for Android conversions.
March 31st, 2011· Fixed: When registering MAC addresses for wake on lan, the last MAC address would not be included in some case.
March 31st, 2011· Changed: Refined mp4/m4a tag reader so it will get more precise bitrate values. It will also handle very large files (ones requiring 64bit integers).
· Fixed: ID3v2 tag reading and writing of COMM frames was not working properly (only applies to build 53 - 57).
· Changed: Added support for some additional ID3v2.2 frames.
· Fixed: High sample rate ALAC files would play at 44.1 instead of the higher sample rate.
· Fixed: DLNA server, return sane content length when seek is requested past EOF. Fixes stall problem with XBMC and mp3's. Perhaps others...
March 31st, 2011· Fixed: Video encoder for Android was not getting automatically updated to the latest version.
· Fixed: mp4/m4a tag reader got bitrate wrong.
· Fixed: More configuration for Android video conversion.
· Changed: When registering for an Access Key, the server's MAC address is sent so that Wake on WAN/LAN will be possible with Gizmo. Library Server soon.
March 31st, 2011· Fixed: The statusbar could show that a page was loading indefinitely when using the Internet Explorer engine.
· Fixed: The minimize and close buttons could overlap on a skin that used different sizes for the buttons when a frame had no maximize button.
· Fixed: It was not possible to seek ALAC files.
· Fixed: An undo operation (ctrl-z) on a rename of a stacked file would not work for the underlying stacked files.
· Fixed: A rename operation on a stacked file that was named differently from the stack top file would show an incorrect error message.
· NEW: Added tag writing option from Options > General to the main program menu: Edit > Update Tags When File Info Changes.
· NEW: Tag writing option is also available as a toolbar button.
· Fixed: Video conversion for Android would behave poorly on files with a video filetype but containing only audio.
· Fixed: Image playback with a pan and zoom slideshow could sparkle on the edges of images.
· Changed: When viewing an image at 100%, a pixel-perfect overlay will always be rendered once zooming / scrolling have finished.
· Fixed: Mp4/m4a tagging reading could deadlock on some files containing copyright notice.
· Fixed: Transitioning from native audio playback to Directshow audio playback when there was an audio format change could lead to problems.
· Fixed: Some M4A files would not play properly.
March 21st, 2011· Changed: Improved support for skins that have a border above the main menu (specified with Toolbars::TopBar::OffsetY in the skin).
· Fixed: FLAC seeking did not support block accurate seeks, so CUE playback or conversion could be misaligned by a fraction of a second.
· Changed: Tuned the level of hardware image detail used in hardware accelerated image playback.
March 21st, 2011· Changed: Added support for reading TXXX(UNSYNCED LYRICS) from ID3v2 tags (used by some software instead of more standard USLT).
· Fixed: Reading lyrics from ID3v2 USLT frames did not work properly if the frame contained a content description.
· Faster: When playing a video, switching between Display View and Theater View is faster.
· Fixed: Mp4/m4a tag reader did not read bitrate correctly (build 52 ony).
· Fixed: Mp4/m4a tag reader could crash on reading duration (build 52 ony).
· Fixed: Mp4/m4a tag reader did not read embedded cover art (build 52 ony).
· Faster: Mp4/m4a tag reader is faster on files with embedded image.
· NEW: Added optional /NoRun command line support to installer that will cause the installation to stop on the last page and not offer to run the program.
· Fixed: Theater View file info text and news text would wrap to a new line sooner than expected.
· 10. Faster: Artist image views load faster.
March 21st, 2011· NEW: Improved support for Apple files.
· Fixed: The mp4/m4a tagging system did not read replay-gain data correctly in build 51.
· Fixed: Some Play Doctor phrases were not translatable.
· NEW: Added command line tools /RestoreLibrary, /RestoreSettings, and /RestoreLibraryAndSettings. Specify the path to a library backup after the command.
March 21st, 2011· NEW: Artist image views perform better (artist images are now imported as hidden database records so they leverage the existing thumbnail system, etc.).
· NEW: Artist image views will show full resolution images when zooming in on the thumbnails (right-click thumbnail size slider to toggle one artist per page mode).
· NEW: Artist images are used in artist views of Theater View.
· Changed: More improvements to how the search suggestion system handles searches with more than one word.
· Fixed: When starting seeded Play Doctor playback, the variety distribution could be off a little for the first few files.
· Fixed: Starting Play Doctor with an artist or album seed would always start playback with the same file by the artist.
· Fixed: Renaming a library in the tree would cause the selection state to be lost.
· NEW: Added 'Adjust the volume' as one of the available parametric equalizer types.
· Fixed: Sizing web pages when using the Internet Explorer engine would flicker.
· Changed: When starting with Media Server enabled, more aggressive window visibility checking is performed so that if the window is off the screen due to a resolution change, etc. it will be reset to a default position.
· Fixed: In some cases, ripping could start with the second track[ instead of the first track.
· Fixed: When using the IE engine, if you had a browser on a tab you never viewed, the web sandbox for that tab would not shutdown gracefully (but instead get hard killed).
· Fixed: Play Doctor would not start on the expected track or have the expected track distribution with shuffle mode enabled.
· Fixed: The new mp4/m4a tagging system did not read replay gain data into MC's replaygain fields.
· Changed: Added a more graphical view header to library management views (Playing Now > Playing from in the tree).
March 21st, 2011· Fixed: Improved handling of single character search tokens in the search suggestion system (used by Play Doctor, search box, Gizmo, etc.).
· Changed: Tuned search suggestion system to provide more relevant results when entering searches with more than one word.
· Fixed: Switching away from a web view could crash.
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
· Fixed: Bug in video conversion for Android could cause conversions to stall out.
· Fixed: Switching tabs with Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab was not working.
· Fixed: The new mp4/m4a tagging system did not handle BPM and Date fields correctly.
· Fixed: Aspect ratio was often wrong on Android video conversions.
· Fixed: Video conversions (for Android and others) could stall out if some Directshow components needed to be downloaded.
· Changed: Updated splash screen to use jriver.com as the web address.
· NEW: Clicking on a library in the tree (Playing Now > Playing from) will show library information and offer tools (still a work in progress).
March 11th, 2011· Fixes a crash with some 32 bit versions of Windows.
March 11th, 2011· NEW: The web browser engine used by the program can be selected in Options > Tree & View > Web Browser (default to Internet Explorer, and should work with IE9 RC).
· Changed: Video converter configures h.264 encoding through an internal interface rather than using the registry.
February 8th, 2011· Changed: When acquiring images from a camera, the file system dates of the acquired files are set to exactly match the dates of the files on the camera.
· Changed: Obsidian Touchscreen (or other skins derived from Base 3.xml) will use left-alignment of rollers inside views.
· Fixed: When switching playback engines (like from a natively supported audio file like an MP3 to a Quicktime file like an M4P) could block waiting for the first file to finish.
· Changed: Refined how some Quicktime file types are routed to different playback engines.
· Fixed: A typo on the Output Format DSP page.
· Fixed: Scheduling recordings and doing file deletes from a library server client would not always sync back to the server.
January 21st, 2011· Fixed: If thumbnails were not built for files, Action Window > Tag > Image could incorrectly report .
· Fixed: Pausing playback on DLNA to the J. River Id didn't work.
January 6th, 2011· Fixed: "DVD Menu" item on OSD menu was shown without any text or graphics during DVD playback.
· Fixed: Build 171 did not contain a digital signature.
December 22nd, 2010· Changed: Minor license changes.
· Fixed: Audio CUE files were being read with ANSI encoding so non-English characters were not displayed correctly.
December 22nd, 2010· Fixed: On a fresh install, a 'Default' entry would not always be available in the list of libraries, making it hard to switch back to the default library after creating a custom library.
· Changed: When connected to a DLNA library, the program will consider itself connected and show 'Disconnect From Library' in the menu instead of requiring selection of the last library from the libraries menu to disconnect.
· Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks to KANEY).
· Changed: Google Nexus S appears with the proper name and image instead of showing as a generic Android (may require a redetect of devices).
· Fixed: Track Info visualizations shows a missing image instead of the logo when playing tracks with no cover art.
· Fixed: DLNA Server, subtitles (.srt and perhaps .sub) for some BD players requiring the DLNAExtra setting (i.e. Samsung BD-Cx500). May help others as well.
December 18th, 2010· Fixed: Restoring library backup settings would not work properly (only applies to last few builds).
· Changed: OSD menu items are reordered.
· Changed: On initial invocation of OSD menu, up arrow shows Position OSD, down arrow shows Playing Now (Programs for TV) OSD. Subsequent invocation of OSD menu behaves the same as before - showing menu item last shown. Additional pressing of arrows while the menu is on cycles through the menu as before.
December 18th, 2010· Changed: "Change Display Settings" context menu in video engine will list monitor frequencies as low as 24 Hz.
· Changed: Added "Desktop Settings" to the top of "Change Display Settings" context menu in video engine.
· Changed: Revised wording of access key option in Options > Media Network.
· Fixed: Stopping of UDP-based servers for Media Network would sometimes hard-kill a server thread instead of gracefully close it (please report any issues with DLNA device detection).
· Fixed: Volume OSD was displayed at the beginning of video playback if video was played right after stopping television playback.
· Changed: Television Programs OSD will display channel name alone if there is no programming info, instead of showing "".
· Fixed: It was possible to rip a CD while connected to Library Server by using the view header rip button, even though the Action Window would correctly report that the feature is disabled when connected to a library.
· SDK: Targeting an invalid zone with an MCWS playback command could cause a crash.
· SDK: ZoneType was not supported properly for some MCWS functions.
· NEW: The player display area at the top of the program allows the token [Volume] to show the current volume level.
December 15th, 2010· Fixed: Cover Art lookup / submission was not available in build 165 and 166.
· NEW: MCWS/v1/Values uses fuzzy matching and can sort matches by relevance (used by Gizmo).
December 15th, 2010· Changed: Improved handling of AIFF files with an invalid block size specified in their SSND header (affected samples from Bravura Records).
· Fixed: WAV playback issue (only applies to build 165).
December 15th, 2010· Fixed: Television playback was broken in build 164.
· Changed: Made DLNA engine more tolerant of device failures, so a device is less likely to be removed.
· Changed: Television program cleanup of old programs as specified by subscription options happens each 8 hours instead of only on program shutdown (only happens when no recording or playback is taking place).
· Fixed: The response to SSDP UDP notifications would unnecessarily return a 500 server error code.
· Fixed: The program could create unnecessary C:\My Music, C:\My Pictures, and C:\My Videos folders on run.
· Fixed: Playback of live HTTP WAV or L16 streams did not work nicely (used when acting as a DLNA renderer).
December 15th, 2010· Changed: Reworked code that validates the main program's size and visibility so launching after changing monitor configurations will not result in a hidden or oversized window.
· Fixed: M4a audio was played in video engine instead of audio engine if Playback Method was set to "Automatic".
· Fixed: M4a audio failed to convert to other formats due to the bug in item 2 above.
· Fixed: When playing to a DLNA renderer that does not reliably support eventing, playback would not always advance if the renderer was not the active zone.
· Changed: Reduced the time between track changes for DLNA devices that do not support eventing.
· NEW: The amount of edge cropping (with the "Crop Edges" option, which is now also available in DVD playback) is now configurable (under General Video Settings).
· Fixed: Possible dead-locks when switching tabs that contained certain views.
· SDK: Update MCWS/v1/Library/Values so that it can filter matches, return multiple fields, and sort matches by quality (allows [search suggestions in Gizmo, etc.).
December 9th, 2010· Changed: Czech language translation updated (thanks to Johnny B).
· Changed: Improved support for DLNA device volume control for devices that use a volume range other than 0 to 100 (Philips NP2500, etc.).
· Fixed: The MCWS volume calls would allow setting the volume to more than 100% (Spinal Tap).
· Fixed: Attached DLNA devices could fail to appear or could take a few minutes to appear, especially when running a local media server.
· SDK: Changed MCWS/v1/Playback/Playlist to a standard files function so it can return MPL (use &Action=Serialize to return previous serialized format).
· SDK: Changed MCWS/v1/Library/Values to use 'Item' instead of 'Value' to be more consistent with other functions.
· Fixed: Switching from Theater View or image playback to Standard View to certain threaded views could hang (only a problem in last few builds).
· NEW: Added support for MSB byte-ordered integer audio formats to the ASIO output plugin (Int16MSB, Int24MSB, Int32MSB16, Int32MSB18, Int32MSB20, Int32MSB24, Int32MSB).
· Changed: DLNA server, more accurate detection of videos that can be played without transcoding for WMC compatible devices (Xbox 360).
· Fixed: DLNA server, WMC compatible devices (Xbox 360) were not presenting all avi's that could be played without conversion.
· Fixed: Enabling Dolby Digital output in DSP Studio when using ASIO could cause a crash.
· Changed: Improved efficiency of ASIO buffer filling system.
· Changed: Significantly improved performance of J. River URL Reader filter for YouTube playback.
· Fixed: When deleting a list item in Theater View, the file info panel image could go away until manually selecting a different item.
December 8th, 2010· Fixed: Doing a fresh install with build 160 or 161 would not work (uninstall, reboot, and reinstall this build if you have this problem)
· Fixed: The uninstaller could have visual gaps on the window border using the Noire skin.
· Changed: Samsung Galaxy Tab appears with a full name and image instead of as a generic Android (may require redetect of devices).
December 6th, 2010· Fixed: DLNA Server, PS3 video "convert when necessary" add xvid as natively playable media.
· Fixed: Possible rare crash when DLNA devices left the network.
· SDK: Added 'AccessKey' to MCWS/v1/Alive response.
· Changed: Reverted to using a simple reader instead of a more sophisticated buffering reader for Library Server audio playback (new reader to return later).
December 6th, 2010· Fixed: On some CD/DVD burners, enabling 'test mode' could still result in the disc getting written to.
· Fixed: In CD/DVD burning, the order of transmitting certain commands to the burner was changed which seems to improve reliability on certain burners, namely Samsung.
· Changed: DLNA Server, more tweaking of video conversion autodetect, especially for the PS3.
· Changed: Reworked how paths are stored in options so that they are user account relative when possible.
· Changed: Restoring a library with settings from a different OS or different user account will work better.
· Faster: Improved core browsing system of database for lower memory usage and better performance (helps program navigation performance and Gizmo performance).
· Faster: Servers that power DLNA, WebPlay, Gizmo, etc. will use gzip compression for clients that support it.
· Fixed: DLNA server, mkv files with h264 video will now play properly on the WDTV (and others that support this format).
· Fixed: When resampling, startup silence for hardware synchronization durations would not be adjusted properly.
· Fixed: WAV playback was not working over Library Server.
· Changed: Added smartlist location specifier 'r' to show removed files (i.e. ~d=r).
· Changed: Added smartlist location specifier 'g' to show television guide files (i.e. ~d=g).
· SDK: When making an MPL request from MCWS, a list of desired fields can be specified (makes Gizmo file requests much faster).
· SDK: MCWS file requests can optionally suppress returning filenames that point to local files while still getting URL filenames (makes Gizmo faster).
· Changed: DLNA playback of video files on the XBox with conversion enabled now uses a higher 720x480 resolution.
November 26th, 2010· SDK: Added 'FriendlyName' to the MCWS/v1/Alive response so a client can show a friendly name for a server.
· SDK: Added the ability for MCWS/v1/Browse/Children to skip levels with only one choice.
· Changed: Changing the volume doesn't put the on screen display into a mode where left / right change the volume until the display goes away.
· Changed: The position on screen display is part of the regular on screen display rotation (so pressing up / down will can show it).
· Fixed: The search editing dialog could popup as modeless in some cases, leading to a crash if a dialog behind the search was closed before closing the search.
November 24th, 2010· SDK: Added 'NextToPlay' as a possible PlayMode when using any MCWS play function.
· Fixed: DLNA video playback with conversion was broken for a couple of builds.
· Fixed: Television recording silently failed if the user had selected a "Folder for recording and time-shifting files" on a disk to which the user had no write access.
· Changed: DLNA server, even more precise determination of when to transcode if "convert if necessary" is set for video conversion for the PS3 and Xbox360 especially.
November 24th, 2010· SDK: Added 'ProgramVersion' to MCWS/v1/Alive function return.
· Fixed: If conversion was enabled for handheld transfer, converted files could be placed on the device even if they weren't in the supported file type list for the device.
· Fixed: When doing a handheld sync as a Library Server client, the user interface could be unresponsive.
· Changed: Doing Ctrl+F while drilled down in the library tree will switch to the root of the current library selection (Ctrl+E focuses the search box with no switching).
· 5: Changed: DLNA server, improved determination of when to transcode when "convert if necessary" is set for video conversion, especially applies to the Xbox 360 and PS
November 24th, 2010· SDK: Added browse functionality to MCWS (currently uses browse tree configured for WebPlay).
· SDK: Reworked MCWS functions that return files so that they can be used to get MPL, start playback, or more.
· SDK: Removed MCWS/v1/Playlist/Play since MCWS/v1/Playlist/Files can now do the same (and more).
· Faster: Improved performance of list drawing when analyzing audio, converting files, or syncing a handheld.
· Changed: CD/DVD burning now works on a library server client.
· Changed: Improved J. River URL Reader filter's buffering performance.
· NEW: DLNA server. Added video options to convert always, never and when necessary. When necessary looks at codecs, file type and device to decide. It's currently only making device decisions based on PS3 and Xbox360 configurations.
November 24th, 2010· Changed: APL files are natively supported using Library Server (requires latest version on server and client).
· Changed: Playback of audio with a Library Server Client uses a more sophisticated reader that can seek more nicely.
· Changed: The volume on screen display shows a graphical bar instead of showing only text.
· Changed: Changing the volume and using the 'Volume' on screen display look and work the same way (previously the displays differered slightly).
· NEW: DLNA server converts multichannel sources to 2 channel when using "always convert" and a fixed sample rate conversion (enables any DLNA device to play multi channel sources).
· Fixed: DLNA server, when using "always convert" to L16 and sample rate "same as source" provides the DLNA flags necessary to allow multichannel L16 output. This allows multichannel output on DLNA devices that can handle it (i.e. PS3).
November 24th, 2010· Fixed: A library server client would wake up from sleep when the server was scheduled to record a television program.
· Changed: ffmpeg conversion profiles modified for better dlna experience.
November 24th, 2010· NEW: DLNA Server video mpeg 4 transcoding happens on demand. Allows the use of seekable mp4 transcoding on the Xbox 360, PS/3, etc.
· NEW: DLNA Server video mpeg 2 transcoding profiles enabled.
November 24th, 2010· SDK: The MCWS/v1/UserInterface/Info function could cause a deadlock with Theater View showing in certain cases.
· SDK: Added MCWS/v1/File/SetInfo function to allow setting database values with the SDK (requires an authenticated connection or the server will return a failure).
· Changed: Brightness, Hue, and Saturation controls on the on screen display are more graphical for live television playback.
· Changed: On screen display of Brightness, Contrast etc. during adjustment using keyboard is shown with nicer graphics for all video playback types.
November 24th, 2010· SDK: Added MCWS/v1/UserInterface/Info function for getting the current state of the user interface.
· Changed: Reworked how Theater View positions are reported so that it's easier to make skins with context sensitive images.
· Changed: When pausing playback, the on screen position disappears after 10 seconds.
· Changed: The on screen position display does not appear when pausing image playback.
· Fixed: Rotating through Theater View with the green button could skip the home view in some unexpected cases.
· Fixed: DLNA devices could fail to appear under certain network configurations.
· Changed: Brightness, Hue, and Saturation controls on the on screen display are more graphical (except for live television playback).
November 12th, 2010· Internal: If logging itself causes a slowdown, it will be logged.
· Changed: Added the time to the on screen display position window.
· New: DLNA server added more video mpeg2 transcoding profiles, not entirely operational yet.
· Changed: DLNA server more precise flag determination for WMV video files.
· Changed: DLNA server tries to transcode transparently for mpeg2 profiles.
November 12th, 2010· Optimized: Rewrote the logging (Help > Logging) engine to improve performance with logging enabled.
· Changed: Log files are UTF-8 encoded instead of UTF-16 encoded (so logs are normally about half the size).
· Fixed: After doing a search of a specific field by clicking an artist, album, etc. link, a view refresh could discard the field part of the search.
· Faster: When starting audio playback, reduced the number of times an input plugin will be loaded and unloaded.
· Changed: Programs OSD menu shows currently playing television program, instead of the live program for currently playing channel.
· Fixed: No programming info was displayed if televison is paused exactly at a time between two programs.
November 12th, 2010· Fixed: Pausing right at the start of a television program would have position OSD vacillate between the last and the new program while paused.
· Changed: Improved how seeking with the left / right remote buttons works when holding the buttons down.
· Fixed: Possible deadlock when a DLNA device was removed from the network.
· Optimized: Improved efficiency of video playback engine.
· Fixed: The on screen display could blink off right away during image playback.
· Optimized: Drawing the on screen display or other semi-transparent windows is faster.
November 12th, 2010· SDK: Corrected a typo in the documentation for the MCWS/v1/Control/Key function, and also added the list of special keys available.
· Fixed: The on screen display could overflow its text when pausing near the beginning of playback.
· Changed: During television playback, the program on screen display is first instead of last.
· Fixed: If Theater View theme online images failed to load (due to no internet, etc.) it could crash or lead to runaway memory usage.
· Changed: The cover art in Theater View Playing Now doesn't automatically fadeout if there are no online images showing behind the cover art.
· Fixed: Fonts that used overhangs (Tahoma italic, etc.) could draw truncated.
· Changed: Slow double-click only starts an edit if the mouse doesn't move too much between clicks.
· Changed: Updated Chinese translation (thanks to Allen Tse).
· Fixed: The image option 'Disable transitions during manual playback' was not working.
· Fixed: Image caption on screen display was not working (only applies to last few builds).
· Changed: On screen position display behavior during transition from FF or REW to Play is now uniform across all video types.
· Fixed: The picture-in-picture display could become orphaned on the screen in Theater View in some cases.
· NEW: Added more subtitle mimetype support for the DLNA server.
November 12th, 2010· Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks to KANEY).
· Fixed: Pausing near the beginning of a program could truncate text on the new on screen position display.
· NEW: Made showing the tree and showing the Action Window at startup optional (Options > Startup > Startup Interface). Both must be hidden manually.
· Changed: Removed 'Playing Now' on screen display menu choice when watching television since it's redundant with the more informative 'Programs' item.
· SDK: Added command to show on screen display MCC_SHOW_ON_SCREEN_DISPLAY.
· Changed: When editing a list-type field that uses 20 or less choices (either acceptable values, or used by library), all the values will be shown in the list with the checked items at the top.
· NEW: Added 'Copy All To Clipboard' and 'Paste All From Clipboard' option to right-click list menu for the list editor.
· Changed: "i" (Info) button on MCE remote now shows on screen display when in display mode. Otherwise it goes to Theater View playing now.
· Fixed: When Conversion Cache folder was changed in options/file locations, other changed folders would revert to defaults.
· Changed: Switched the default 'WASAPI - Event Style' buffering from 50ms to 100ms.
· Fixed: When using the scheduler to record web radio, the statusbar could get stuck on 'Saving tag changes' until the recording finished.
· Changed: Moving the mouse away from a popup suggestion (search or tagging) will hide the suggestions.
· Fixed: In some cases, the Theater View file info panel wouldn't update its image after a thumbnail was built.
· Changed: When getting Last.fm artist images for Theater View's background, images that are smaller than 1/4 of a megapixel are not used.
November 12th, 2010· NEW: New and improved on screen display is shown when jumping or seeking in Display View.
· Changed: Removed 'Position' from on screen display choices available with up / down. Instead, press left / right to seek any time OSD is not showing.
· Changed: Removed unnecessary 'Play' display from on screen display that would show when pausing and unpausing.
· Changed: When pausing playback, the on screen display will show the position bar (with paused state) until playback is unpaused.
· Changed: Remote control special MCE buttons like "My TV" can now be trained to do any MC function.
· Changed: Changed on screen position display for television playback to include richer information.
· Changed: In sound recorder, tracks button is now enabled after Stop is pressed so user can edit track names and restart recording.
· Changed: DLNA renderer reports more capability via getprotocolinfo. Could convince some controllers to give us more stuff non-transcoded.
· Fixed: Audio info for transcoded audio and video files were being reported from the original file even when being transcoded to something else. Could confuse some renderers.
November 12th, 2010· Changed: A position bar is displayed whenever playback position is shown on screen (pause, seek etc.) in video, television, and DVD playback.
· Fixed: Silence suppression could cause a crash (only applies to build 143).
· Fixed: Cancelling creation of a new library view could cause a crash.
· Changed: Removed broken Podcast.net link from Podcasts homepage.
· Changed: The image in Playing Now tracks the file that would play instead of the last played file (and resets to a logo if Playing Now is cleared).
· Changed: Improved Wikipedia video lookup compatibility with non-English wikipedia pages.
· Fixed: Tile lists could show one aspect ratio for images when first viewing them, and another aspect ratio right after scrolling.
· Fixed: Playback duration was not updated while playing a television recording in Library Server client if the Library Server was still actively recording the show.
November 12th, 2010· Fixed: Individual zones could not be picked for assigning remote control 'Set Zone' commands. Also improved selection of playlists and display modes.
· Changed: Improved performance of television playback using a library server client.
· Changed: The option 'Use gapless for sequential album tracks' will disable leading / trailing silence suppression when it engages.
· Fixed: On remote control command learning screen, next/previous playlist commands were not working.
· Changed: Added several more Android devices to the device table, so more will show by name with an appropriate image.
· Fixed: Import failures would not be reported on the import results dialog.
· Fixed: The DLNA controller (when used with a different DLNA server) passes along URLS to a renderer without processing them first. If a DLNA server was running on the same PC as the controller, previously that machine would process the content before passing it to the renderer.
October 30th, 2010· Fixed: Rare deadlock when searching for DLNA devices and a previously found device was not found.
· Fixed: Corrupt JPEG files could take a long time to analyze.
· Fixed: On Windows XP, watching some types of network drives with auto-import could cause deadlocks when stopping auto-import.
· SDK: Added MCWS/v1/Television/SeekInformation function that is used by television playback from a client to provide faster seeking.
· Optimized: Revised split file engine used by television to use ranged requests when possible to improve library server client performance.
· NEW: On screen position indicator for video playback (video, television, DVD) when in Fast Forward or Rewind mode.
· Fixed: Some WAV tags could cause problems.
· Optimized: Reduced the amount of network traffic when playing television with a library server client.
October 30th, 2010· Changed: Renamed Options > General > Features > "DLNA" to "Media Network (Library Server, DLNA, etc.)".
· Fixed: Watching folders for auto-import could cause a hang in some cases.
· Fixed: Images without stacks were having (broken) stacks built when dlna clients were connected.
· Optimized: Improved how DLNA notifications are handled to reduce network activity and improve performance.
October 30th, 2010· NEW: Television recording subscriptions can be suspended.
· Fixed: Thumbnails would not be built rotated (only applies to last few builds).
· Changed: Tweaked how the timings work for when the green button switches between display / Theater View and when it rolls three views including Theater View home.
· Fixed: After playback from a DLNA device, a file on the server could stay locked until different playback was started.
· Changed: Editing numeric / date fields uses a combobox with a drop list, but does not offer suggestions when typing.
· SDK: Added MCWS/v1/Authenticate call to allow establishing authentication and getting token.
· Changed: Recording Rules view can be sorted. It defaults to sorting by rule names.
· Fixed: Syncing from a library server client to a library server that used stacks could cause problems.
· Fixed: The DLNA server was not applying replay gain (when set to "always convert" and "volume leveling) if converting to MP3 WHEN the source file was also MP3 OR if there was a MP3 for that source file in a stack.
October 30th, 2010· SDK: Added a return variable "Display" to MCWS/v1/Playback/Volume so a displayable volume is available without a follow-up call to Playback/Info.
· Fixed: Background library server syncing could show a 'searching for changes' popup.
· Fixed: DLNA browsing with conversion set to mp3 was causing stacked up lame.exe processes.
· Fixed: Library server clients could have problems with changed passwords.
October 30th, 2010· Changed: To apply additional tags to a Flickr upload, the tags must be entered semi-colon delimited.
· Fixed: Flickr upload could apply incorrect tags from keywords.
· Changed: Flickr upload shows progress in the Action Window (instead of a popup).
· Fixed: Image resizing was not working for Flickr upload.
· Changed: Improvements to how DLNA handles devices that do not respond to searches.
· Fixed: Thumbnailing of images did not work over library server (only applies to build 137).
· Fixed: Remote zones (DLNA, Library Server, etc.) could cause program shutdown to take longer than necessary.
· Fixed: Television bookmarks would not work properly on a library server client.
· Fixed: The screensaver would not be disabled on UAC-enabled systems when watching videos in detached fullscreen mode when the focus was on the detached display.
· Changed: Improved how library server clients store server relationships to improve performance and reduce memory.
· Changed: FFDShow installation is now less silent. It will show a progress window during installation, and, more importantly, will prompt user when rebooting is required.
· Fixed: MC could simultaneously attempt to download and install FFDShow (and, similarly, FLVSplitter) in two different threads.
· NEW: DLNA Container art also provided as a resource when DLNAExtra is set.
October 30th, 2010· NEW: 'Sync Changes with Library Server' no longer requires a reload of the client library when the server changes.
· NEW: Library Server clients can automatically (and silently) stay synchronized with the server (Options > Media Network > Library Server Client > Automatically sync changes made on client back to server)
· Fixed: Tabbing out of an in-place edit control did not work properly when a range was selected.
· Changed: Mouse wheeling on top of a combobox will open the drop list if it's closed, and scroll the list if it's open.
· Fixed: Mouse wheeling a list while its in-place editing combobox was showing its drop list could cause problems.
· Changed: In-place editing a list-style field will shift the editor up when at the very bottom of the list instead of cropping part of the editor.
· Changed: Bookmarks are shared (and synchronized) across Library Server and its clients.
· Fixed: Auto-import could attempt to get cover art or analyze audio when run as a library server client.
· Internal: Reworked how cover art and thumbnails are handled with Library Server to better support syncing (please report any issues).
· SDK: Add type parameter to MCWS File\GetImage function to allow getting the full resolution display image.
· Optimized: Improved performane of Library Server / MCWS when serving thumbnails.
· Changed: The bookmark value is updated for a file when playback is stopped instead of continuously during playback (changed to work better with library server sync).
· Fixed: Loading a library server could fail on a client if no changes had been made on the server since the previous load.
· NEW: A "Recording Rules" view in Television view that shows all previously scheduled television recording rules.
· Changed: Added a 120x120 icon size for the DLNA server Device Description.
· Changed: Better handling of DLNA devices that report services that support subscription but then fail or refuse subscription requests.
· Changed: If a DLNA device doesn't respond to searches for five minutes, it will be removed from the list of connected devices.
October 20th, 2010· Fixed: Comboboxes and drop lists could be positioned too narrow on some dialogs (only applies to last few builds).
· Changed: List editor does not auto-accept when selecting a suggestion or drop list value (requires double-enter, but also allows customizing a selection)
· Fixed: It was not possible to tab out of the list editor (in-place editing or Action Window editing).
· Fixed: When failing to load a connected library using the 'Connect To Library' dialog, the program could crash.
· Changed: Improved detection of Android devices (folders \DCIM\100ANDRO or \Android on an SD card will trigger Android code)
· Changed: Added several new Android phones with images (please help us identify additional Androids: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=60070)
· Changed: Added right-click 'Info Dump' command for handheld devices to aid with debugging.
· Fixed: Resetting all devices in Options > Handheld would not reset user conversion settings.
· New: The Library Server conversion caching system now handles video as well as audio.
· Fixed: Options > Theater View > Advanced > Show home button was not working.
October 20th, 2010· Fixed: The edit suggestion system did not allow changing capitalization.
· Fixed: Changing an edit-style option would close options with an enter key instead of accepting the option change.
· Changed: Before showing the "No handheld available" message when clicking Action Window > Sync Handheld, the program will no another search for attached devices.
· Changed: A drive-style handheld (Android) will only show files in the configured sync paths instead of searching the entire device for files.
· Changed: Revised edit popup suggestion system so suggestions are not selected by default, but instead require down + enter or tab to select.
· NEW: Pressing Shift+Enter when a suggestion popup is showing will accept the first suggestion and close the suggestion popup.
· Changed: To play search results from the search box, Ctrl+Enter is the shortcut (previously was Shift+Enter).
· Fixed: The handheld engine could display a warning about removing tracks already in the transfer about sync mode tracks.
· Changed: Conversion cache options moved from the 'handheld options' page to the 'file location' options page and generalized for handheld transfers, library server, etc.
· NEW: Conversions on Library Server now utilize the conversion cache system which uses a stack file if available, otherwise a stack file is created.
· NEW: Add a "small artwork" option to DLNA advanced options that will present all artwork as 120x120 (required by some devices). Only implemented for stacked icons in this build.
· NEW: DLNA server. Serve specific generic container icons for Audio, Images, and Video.
October 20th, 2010· NEW: Added f4v to supported file types.
· Changed: At startup, registering for a Library Server access key is done in a low priority background thread instead of the main thread.
· Internal: Improved logging of server requests, and removed unnecessary logging output.
· Fixed: When resetting logging, an error could be reported even if the log was actually reset.
· Changed: Updated Last.fm scrobbling to use the final v2.0 web service (was using the beta v2.0 web service during v2.0 development).
· Faster: Numerous optimizations to make the new list editor and edit suggestion systems faster.
· Fixed: When playing an MP3 purchased from the Performer Store, the store could be unnecessarily loaded after playing the track.
· Faster: Starting an in-place edit is faster.
· Changed: Renamed DSP Studio phantom center option from "Move center to side speakers" to "Move center to front L/R".
October 20th, 2010· NEW: Library Server clients can delete or recycle server files (changes take effect when committing changes to server).
· Changed: Library Server will only accept changes from library server clients when authentication is enabled on the server.
· Changed: Video buffering message is displayed on OSD as well as status window, so it can be seen when video is played fullscreen.
· Fixed: Keywords could be uploaded to Flickr incorrectly.
· Changed: Editing of numeric fields (like Track #) will use a simple edit instead of a combobox with suggestions.
· Changed: Popup suggestions are not shown when editing a field until there are only a manageable number of possible matches (normally after typing two or three letters).
· Changed: When using the list editor, selecting a value combobox list or selecting a suggestion when typing will immediately add the value to the list below.
· Fixed: DVD playback over DLNA had problems with some discs which resulted in visible macroblocks during playback.
· Fixed: MC did not return failure code from J. River audio engine when DirectShow graph-building produced a partial graph without connecting J. River audio renderer.
· Fixed: Some lists could appear blank (i.e. remote control configuration).
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
· Faster: Large Podcasts (with 1000+ episodes) are much faster.
· Fixed: Facebook photo upload.
· Changed: Improved J. River URL Reader filter's handling of video buffering.
October 20th, 2010· Changed: Read-only library error from build 130 is automatically corrected if found.
· Changed: Revised how up / down keys navigate in conjunction with in-place editing suggestions to make it easier to use up and down to navigate a list. (use Shift+Down to open drop lists)
October 20th, 2010· NEW: Library Server clients can delete or recycle server files (changes take effect when committing changes to server).
· Changed: Library Server will only accept changes from library server clients when authentication is enabled on the server.
· Changed: Video buffering message is displayed on OSD as well as status window, so it can be seen when video is played fullscreen.
· Fixed: Keywords could be uploaded to Flickr incorrectly.
· Changed: Editing of numeric fields (like Track #) will use a simple edit instead of a combobox with suggestions.
· Changed: Popup suggestions are not shown when editing a field until there are only a manageable number of possible matches (normally after typing two or three letters).
· Changed: When using the list editor, selecting a value combobox list or selecting a suggestion when typing will immediately add the value to the list below.
· Fixed: DVD playback over DLNA had problems with some discs which resulted in visible macroblocks during playback.
· Fixed: MC did not return failure code from J. River audio engine when DirectShow graph-building produced a partial graph without connecting J. River audio renderer.
· Fixed: Some lists could appear blank (i.e. remote control configuration).
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
· Faster: Large Podcasts (with 1000+ episodes) are much faster.
· Fixed: Facebook photo upload.
· Changed: Improved J. River URL Reader filter's handling of video buffering.
October 12th, 2010· Fixed: iTunes export could fail in some cases.
· Fixed: On a fresh install, the program would incorrectly open the library in read-only mode.
· Fixed: The first item in the new list editor would incorrectly in-place edit on click.
· Changed: Updated Spanish translation.
· Fixed: Downloading in Performer store was broken in previous build.
· Fixed: Pagination was not working properly in WebPlay / WebRemote.
· Fixed: Reading of the TDRL ID3v2 tag was not working properly, causing dates to appear as 1905.
· Fixed: Bullet marks would sometimes appear in the Wikipedia movie data in lists of actors, directors, producers, etc.
· Changed: When connecting to a DLNA server, a timeout of 60 seconds is used for each 1000 file request instead of 10 seconds (10 seconds was too short for some servers, causing load failures).
· NEW: When playing m4a audio (including ALAC) in DirectShow engine, MC will install some DirectShow filters when necessary to facilitate smoother playback.
· Changed: Search suggestions are accepted with the tab key and the top match is selected by default. (enter only works after arrowing up / down so that type+enter will never search for something other than what was typed)
· Changed: Inline auto-complete is disabled when popup suggestions are showing.
· Changed: Connecting to a DLNA server via file->library->connect to library now asks for images and video as well as audio. This works connecting to another instance of MC and also to WMP. YMMV with other servers.
October 10th, 2010· NEW: Added Ringtone Maker (available with Right-click > Library Tools > Ringtone... or Tools > Advanced Tools > Ringtone...).
· NEW: Added DSP Studio > Output Format > Move center to side speakers option for configurations with no center speaker.
· Changed: Silent files will analyze to a replay gain of 0 instead of +51 dB.
· Fixed: In rare cases, the audio resampler could introduce a tick when first starting.
October 10th, 2010· Fixed: Scrolling down in a non-focused list, then clicking could scroll up a little (only applies to build 128).
· Fixed: Clicking a suggestion with the mouse when in-place editing did not work.
· Changed: Multi-selection list field editing allows ordering if all selected files have the same list of items.
· NEW: DLNA server add Artist to yet another DLNA field.
· Changed: DLNA server, always serve album art if asked. If the thumbnail doesn't exist, serve a generic icon.
October 10th, 2010· Fixed: Minor issues filling audio properties (32000Hz and other uncommon sample rates were not filled, 11025Hz were imported as 110250Hz, etc.) when importing Windows Media files.
· Fixed: Wiki web links within Performer store use the new and improved wikipedia artist/album lookup.
· SDK: Added web service function Library/Values to get a list of artists, albums, etc.
· NEW: When typing in a combobox, a suggestion popup will appear (similar to the suggestion popup used by the main search control).
· Fixed: Thumbnails weren't showing up for Netflix instant queue when connected to a library server.
· Internal: Reworked internal eventing system used by J. River user interface controls (should be internal change only, but please report any issues).
October 10th, 2010· Fixed: In some cases, cancelling auto-import could take a while.
· Fixed: The option to automatically delete a single television recording would not work reliably with times over 15 days.
· Changed: Connecting to a DLNA server no longer requires that 'DLNA Controller' be enabled for detection of servers.
· Changed: When connecting to a library server using the 'Search...' button on the Connect to Library dialog, it is no longer necessary to click 'Connect' a second time.
· Changed: Connections to a library server will be automatically reestablished on restart of the program (use Library > Disconnect from Library to disconnect).
· Changed: When importing videos, audio properties BitDepth, Channels, and SampleRate (on the audio stream) are filled whenever possible.
· Changed: Updated new list-field editor to be more keyboard friendly and to require fewer clicks to add values.
· Changed: When adding list values to a list that is not sorted, new values are added at the end.
· Changed: When adding multiple list values at once (by typing for example a;b;c) the typed order will be preserved if the current list of values is empty or unsorted.
October 10th, 2010· NEW: When syncing a handheld from a library server, transcoding of audio files takes place on the server rather than the client.
· Fixed: Podcast updating could cause a crash.
· NEW: Added "show caption resources" option to the DLNA server advanced options. Needed for some devices to show subs. Needs to be disabled for other devices to prevent crashing of the renderer.
· Changed: For the DLNA server, album art served is independent of the existence of an image file (will use thumbs).
September 30th, 2010· Fixed: Thumbnails would not work when a user's application data folder resided on a UNC path.
· Fixed: Camera acquisition was not working from some types of cameras (WIA).
· Fixed: Double-clicking an image in a mixed image + audio playlist when the image was at the end could cause a playback error message to be shown.
· Changed: Improved support for renaming and moving files using a Portable Install.
· Fixed: Changed how Flickr uploader sends keywords to the server to (hopefully) fix a problem with an extra keyword being added.
· Changed: Moving a folder with drag-n-drop in the My Computer area of the tree no longer renames on collisions (letting the system rename could cause broken links for moved files).
· Fixed: Multi-threaded access of input plugins at import time could cause a crash.
· Changed: DLNA video flag changes for Sony TV and Blu-Ray. May help others as well. Required advanced option "MPEG video mimetype override".
September 30th, 2010· Internal testing builds.
September 30th, 2010· Internal testing builds.
September 30th, 2010· Changed: Theater View's default audio 'Recent Albums' view sorts tracks by track number inside an album instead of date imported. (only changes for fresh install or if Theater View views are reset in Options > Theater View)
· Fixed: A fullscreen detached display could not be restored (only applies to build 118).
· Fixed: Renamed WASAPI outputs to more compact names: "WASAPI" and "WASAPI - Event Style".
· Fixed: The about box link for J. River was broken.
· NEW: Added support for M3U8 playlists (both to File > Export Playlist, and also to import).
· Faster: Improved the performance of the program when running in a language other than English.
· Changed: When doing a sync with Google using Notes, failures are listed in the results popup.
· Fixed: The mc2xml link in TV > Load Program Guide was broken.
· Changed: Added more video types to DLNA protocol info for the DLNA server.
September 28th, 2010· Changed: Double-clicking a single list file in a grouped list will play the grouping instead of the entire list / entire library (starting at the double-clicked file).
· Fixed: Searching with the search window could crash (only applies to build 117).
· Changed: When editing in the Tag Action Window, edits happen on top of (instead of on a line below) the clicked value.
· NEW: Editing long values in the Tag Action Window extends the edit when necessary outside the bounds of the Tag window.
· Changed: When in-place editing (Tag Action Window or lists), drop lists will size to fit the current text instead of the widest text of any choice in the drop list (since the drop list opens wider than the edit when necessary).
· Changed: When zooming in on images during image playback, the aspect ratio will remain fixed during animation.
· NEW: Detached Display has a right-click option 'Hide Borders'.
· NEW: When writing tags for podcasts, will also write iTunes proprietary tags so the podcast will show up in the right category in iTunes or on an iPod when used with the File->Export to iTunes and iPhone function.
· Fixed: MPEG override switch in DLNA server options was not working properly.
September 28th, 2010· Changed: When showing a purchase or restore page, the default web browser is used instead of always using IE.
· Changed: Plurals of field names are now included in the translation file.
· Changed: Updated all translation files to include latest language from the source code.
· Changed: Similar artist view in Performer store is populated on demand.
· Changed: Improvements in Wikipedia artist/album lookups.
September 28th, 2010· Faster: Image framework flood filling system uses MMX assembly for faster filling.
· Faster: Numerous small image framework optimizations resulting in slightly faster rendering.
· Changed: New notes are no longer added to 'Recently Imported'.
· Fixed: When streaming a WAV from a Media Network server, the header would not be correct until conversion finished, causing playback errors on some devices.
· Fixed: Uncompressed WAV did not work properly when selected as a Library Server client conversion option.
· NEW: Added support for L16 (uncompressed little endian PCM) so Media Center works nicer when playing from DLNA servers that provide this format.
· Changed: Allow conversion to WAV in the DLNA server (in addition to L16). Some renderers like this better (i.e. the popcorn).
· Changed: DLNA server, set L16 converted files to seekable as well as transcoded (transcoded flag is required by some renderers.
September 28th, 2010· Faster: More big optimizations to core libraries -- database benchmarks about 20% faster, many other areas of the program also faster.
· Fixed: Thumbnails were not updating properly after rotating images.
September 28th, 2010· Faster: Huge speedup to core database -- benchmarks about 12% faster than v113.
· Faster: Thumbnail style library views load faster.
· Fixed: Using Ctrl+F from Playing Now while playing could result in the search box losing focus.
· Fixed: Netflix thumbnails in Theater View were not always working nicely.
· Changed: Netflix box art is now high resolution.
· Changed: Improved Wikipedia data for Performer store.
· Fixed: Netflix queue wasn't showing TV episodes.
· Fixed: DLNA server, subtitles for LG Blu-Ray (and probably others). Requires DLNAExtra and Present Subtitle resources set in advanced options as well as having the corresponding .srt or .sub file named the same as the original movie in the same folder as the original movie.
· Fixed: DLNA server, was crashing on WDTV when "present subtitle resources is set". Note the WDTV still won't display subtitles on non-transcoded video files.
September 18th, 2010· Fixed: Filename searches could be unreliable (only applies to build 112).
· Fixed: When using gapped playback modes, a little burst of the previous song could sometimes be heard after the silence.
· Changed: Improved lip-sync of video when using 'Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI) [event style]' output.
· Fixed: In some cases, at the end of a video started from Theater View, the program could return to Standard View instead.
· Changed: When jumping to Display View, tooltips are hidden immediately (previously could show on top of Display View briefly).
· Fixed: Starting Media Server, then showing Theater View, then starting playback, then switching back to a multi-view Standard View configuration (splits or tabs) could be problematic.
· Changed: Library Views could use unnecessarily verbose view header names when they were on inactive tabs.
· Changed: View header names for thumbnail category views use plural names when possible. (ie. Rock Artists instead of Rock Artist)
September 18th, 2010· Changed: Wikipedia information is now used for albums and artists in Performer store.
· SDK: When MCWS (web service) functions return MPL, they include the file key for each file using the XML name "Key".
· Faster: Improved optimizations introduced in build 106, making the core media database faster.
· Faster: The television engine could cause slowdowns when dealing with subscriptions configured to skip previously deleted programs.
· Faster: The TVInfo(...) expression functions are faster.
· Fixed: The Counter(...) expression function would start at zero instead of one when no start index was specified.
· Changed: 'Expression' type categories in Panes views treat backslashes as nesting (so expressions can create dynamic browse trees).
· Fixed: Editing the name of an expression column did not show in the column header until leaving and returning to a view.
September 18th, 2010· Fixed: 'Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI) [event style]' would stall playback on flushes.
September 18th, 2010· NEW: Core audio engine uses "Multimedia Class Scheduler Service" on Vista and newer to promote the main audio delivery thread to a higher priority.
· Changed: Secure CD rip report now includes program name/version and CD drive model and settings info.
· NEW: Added more DLNA server info to enable playing of video files on Sony TV's and Blu-Ray players. Probably will also help with other DLNA devices.
· Fixed: When playback would fail to start, the error message could show a format that the engine tested (that also didn't work) instead of the user's format selection.
· NEW: Added new audio output 'Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI) [event style]'.
September 18th, 2010· NEW: Netflix now includes 'Add' and 'Remove' from instant queue.
September 7th, 2010· NEW: Last.fm has a configurable submission filter available in Options > Services > Last.fm.
· NEW: Added a no cover art mode to Theater View > Playing Now > Display (use left / right with overlay selected to change).
· Changed: Added the ability to manage the Netflix account in Options > Services.
· Changed: When switching zones, any Playing Now views on active tabs will switch to the new zone (inactive tabs will not be changed).
· NEW: Added Playing Now view header option 'Lock Display To This Zone' to prevent the display from switching with zone changes.
· NEW: Added search function for Netflix in Theater View / Connected Media.
· Faster: Core database engine is roughly 5% faster (shows in Help > Benchmark).
· Changed: Handle head requests with byte range (0-0) in the http server. Affects among other things, the DLNA server.
· Changed: DLNA server mimetype mappings (mostly video) for DLNA compatible rendering devices.
September 7th, 2010· Changed: Revised message shown when picking Player > Playing Now > Scrobble 'Listening To' to reflect the removal of the old plugin.
· Fixed: The tooltip for the expression FormatNumber(...) listed the singular and plural labels in reverse order.
· Fixed: The [Channels] expression was not working properly when customizing the player display area.
· Fixed: Gapped playback options were not working consistently in all cases.
· Changed: Reworked 'suppress silence' system in the audio engine so that it will support all bitdepths, channels, etc. (previously only worked with 16-bit data).
· Fixed: When disk writing, the between track mode gapping / fading could be ignored in some cases.
· Faster: Database ~dup and ~nodup operations are faster.
· Faster: Core string engine used across entire program is faster.
September 7th, 2010· Fixed: The expression IsPlaying(...) could cause a dead-lock in some cases.
· Faster: The expression IsPlaying(...) is much faster.
· Fixed: Importing a mymovies.xml file that didn't explicitly point to a file from Windows Explorer could cause a crash.
· Fixed: The 'Add Default Feeds' button in the Podcast system was not working (since recent jriver.com webpage changes).
· Changed: Removed legacy Last.fm plugin. Please use new, native Last.fm features.
· NEW: The duration of the 'Gapped Fade' between tracks mode can be configured in Options > Audio (requires manually reselecting Gapped Fade option again if you were using it already).
· Fixed: Theater View > Playing Now > Display background visualization (click left / right on cover art) were not working properly.
· Changed: Theater View background images are cropped to preserve the top of the image instead of cropping equally from the top and bottom.
· Fixed: Theater View lists would not always update after building the first thumbnail in the list.
· Fixed: When near the edge of the screen, a click in the title bar area could cause a maximization of the program.
· Fixed: Recording a stream with the scheduler that contained invalid characters in the name would cause problems.
· Fixed: When editing the last field in the Tag Action Window, the display would not always scroll to show the full edit control.
· Fixed: Last.fm personal radio stations were using the Last.hq user account instead of the user account linked to Media Center.
September 7th, 2010· Changed: DSP Studio > Output Format has better handling of 5.0 sources (supports upmixing to 5.1 / 7.1, and provides better channel mapping when doing 5.1 / 7.1 output with no mixing).
· Changed: When choosing 'No mixing' for the surround mode in DSP Studio > Output Format, mono will still be converted to dual channel mono.
· Fixed: Path names with semi-colons in them could be problematic.
· NEW: Last.fm playback allows playing tag radio, top fans radio, neighbors radio, loved radio, etc.
· NEW: Last.fm remembers the last several stations used, and automatically fills in the last used station when choosing 'Play Last.fm Radio...'.
· NEW: Added real-time Last.fm scrobbling to show what is currently playing (must enable scrobbling here: Player > Playing Now > Scrobble 'Listening To').
· NEW: Added Options > Services page, added Last.fm configuration.
· Changed: Added the ability to select Amazon country code in Options > Services.
· Changed: Added the ability to manage the Twitter account in Options > Services.
· Fixed: DLNA type descriptions for video in non-transcoded files.
September 7th, 2010· Faster: Searching options is much faster.
· Changed: Using the expression function ListCombine(...) with an empty string no longer outputs an empty list item.
· Changed: Added optional 'Output delimiter' parameter for ListCombine(...) function so the input and output can use different delimiters.
· Changed: ListItem(...) and ListCombine(...) expression functions eat white space surround delimiters when building / analyzing lists.
· Fixed: Publisher and organization flac and ogg tag writing and reading.
· Fixed: Ogg tag case sensitivity.
· Fixed: DFX plugin was not working properly since the switch to a 64-bit audio path (DFX operates on 32-bit data).
· Changed: DSP Studio > Output Format has better handling of quadrophonic (4.0) sources (supports upmixing to 5.1 / 7.1, and provides better channel mapping when doing 5.1 / 7.1 output with no mixing).
· Changed: Mimetype mapping in the DLNA server. This area is undergoing a lot of changes, this will have an effect on playable video files.
August 29th, 2010· SDK: When the playback state changes in a non-active zone, it still events through the SDK notifications.
· NEW: Added 'Add All (as next to play)' choice to Theater View play roller.
· Fixed: The Onion was not working in Theater View > News.
· NEW: Last.fm artist images can be used for Theater View theme background images.
· NEW: Theater View allows turning on / off each individual website used for Theater View theme images (Options > Theater View > Theme > Online media slideshow).
· NEW: Fading out the playing cover art in Theater View > Playing Now is optional (Options > Theater View > Theme).
· Changed: When scanning for television channels, MC uses and updates existing channels with matching channel names, instead of creating new channels, in case the channel parameters change. The change applies to DVB-T channels as ATSC channels already behave this way.
· Changed: DLNA server mimetypes. The last several builds may have prevented playback of previously playable video files. Need feedback!
· Changed: Added MPEG video override for weird DLNA TV's that always want video/mpeg mimetype regardless of the file type. This has been separated from the DLNAExtra flag so if you need this you'll have to check the new option.
· Fixed: Saving presets was not working with some VST plugins
August 29th, 2010· Changed: Last.fm should only require authorization one time.
· Fixed: When failing to start Last.fm radio playback, the files already in Playing Now would play instead.
· Fixed: Some DVB-T television recordings made in build 99 would not play because MC was too agressive in filtering out unwanted subchannels.
· Changed: DLNA subtitle support. Add description text that triggers subtitle requests on some renderers (i.e. Dlink DSM-320, etc). Subtitle resource presentation only occurs if the subtitle option is set AND DLNAExtra is set. Otherwise the device must ask for the subtitle resources.
· Fixed: DSP Studio > Effects > Environment effects were not working properly since the switch to a 64-bit data path.
· Changed: When using the 'Tone' option in DSP Studio > Channels, the subwoofer tone will be attenuated by 10dB if "Something outside Media Center will make the subwoofer +10dB" is selected in DSP Studio > Output Format.
· Fixed: When playing a 5.1 or 7.1 source with the build subwoofer option in DSP Studio > Output Format set to 'Silent', the LFE channel would be incorrectly silenced.
· Fixed: Doing a YouTube search in Theater View with the alternate navigation option selected did not work properly.
· Changed: Theater View skinning allows specifying the scrollbar size (as a percentage of the screen width.
· Changed: Obsidian Touchscreen Theater View skin uses a wider scrollbar (you can also flick lists with a touchscreen).
· Changed: Changed how DVB-T digital television updates channel group information for transport stream recording. Please test and report problems. A complete rescan of channels is needed.
· Changed: Removed root web media links, to return later as more integrated connected media sites.
August 29th, 2010· Fixed: DirectShow filter DSP plugin did not handle 64 bit floating point audio correctly.
· Fixed: Strange behavior when a DirectShow filter failed to load into DSP chain.
· Fixed: Cover art reading and writing for the WavPack format.
· Changed: CD Information dialog is not shown for an unrecognized CD when automatic online lookup is deselected.
· NEW: Added website links to root of tree.
· NEW: Added Last.fm radio playback (Menu > Player > Play Last.fm Radio...).
· NEW: Added Last.fm scrobbling (Menu > Player > Playing Now > Scrobble 'Listening To'...).
· Fixed: When switching to a new track that was slow to start, 'Buffering...' could blink in the player window.
· Fixed: When recording television in transport stream format, some recordings included all subchannels.
· Changed: Ogg and flac tags map database PUBLISHER to ORGANIZATION, database ORGANIZATION (if existing) to JR_ORGANIZATION, and if there's an ALBUM ARTIST write it out as both ALBUM ARTIST and ALBUMARTIST. Read either, ALBUM ARTIST preferentially.
· Changed: (internal) streamlined a bunch of code in the flac input plugin.
August 29th, 2010· Fixed: Bass removal with Room Correction was not working properly since the switch to a 64-bit audio data path.
· Changed: Updated DLNA to show a friendly comment in Windows networking for J. River DLNA servers and renderers.
· Fixed: Ripping wouldn't work on certain cd drives that didn't handle sub-channel reading in the standard way. Ripping would report "parameter out of range" errors. (actually fixed in build 94)
· Fixed: In rare cases, auto-import folder watching could cause problems when it was stopped.
August 29th, 2010· Fixed: ASIO output on cards that used 32-bit floating point format was not working with build 96.
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
· Changed: Updated Russian translation file (thanks to Vladimir).
· Fixed: "Copy mode" and "Read speed" were not translatable in Options > CD & DVD.
· Changed: Tuned the timings used in the new 'Gapped Fade' switch tracks mode.
· Fixed: MP3 gapless playback would not work perfectly with resampling enabled.
· Changed: Switched DLNA root container artwork to use JPEG format to improve compatibility with DLNA devices that don't support PNG images.
· Changed: The high-quality image overlay is only used during image playback if it provides more detail than the hardware accelerated view (prevents visible image shift from the overlay when not needed).
· Optimized: Improved performance of starting playback from a Library Server.
· Fixed: Media Editor could hang when saving a file.
August 29th, 2010· NEW: Media Center uses a purely 64-bit (double) audio data path, including format conversion and all included DSPs.
· NEW: VST DSP plug-ins use 64-bit processing when the plug-in supports it.
· NEW: Media Center is bit-perfect when playing 64-bit input files.
· Changed: Updated Russian translation file (thanks to Vladimir).
· Fixed: Television subscription recording did not allow multiple subscriptions of the same program at different times.
· New: Ogg images in tags. Read and write new style METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE (front cover type 3 only). Read old style COVERART if METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE doesn't exist. On write, remove old style COVERART tag. On write non-supported images will be converted to losslessly to a jpeg.
August 16th, 2010· Fixed: Showing split views of multiple Playing Now zones could cause problems at startup and shutdown.
· Optimized: Improved performance of Playing Now views.
· Fixed: The ListCombine(...) expression function did not work properly with single item lists. (only applies to last few builds)
· Optimized: Improved handling of tagging engine when dealing with files that can't be tagged.
· Fixed: Several strings that were not translatable.
· Changed: Updated all translation files to include latest language from the source code.
· Fixed: Revised WMA shutdown sequence to possibly fix stalling on stop of certain web media streams.
· Fixed: Television recordings in non-jtv format could not be deleted from disk.
· NEW: Added 'Gapped Fade' switch tracks mode (fades out previous track, plays a little silence, then starts new track).
August 16th, 2010· NEW: When playback fails, the player will see if configuring the Output Format DSP could fix the failure, and if so, it will offer to automatically make the adjustments.
· Fixed: The 'Help' button on the 'File Types' options dialog went to the wrong topic.
· Optimized: Reworked ASIO pipeline to improve buffer fill performance and remove any thread locking -- fill callback over 15% faster on a multi-core system, more on a single-core system.
· Changed: Process memory cleanup performed when switching views or minimizing the program could cause a playback hiccup with some audio hardware (cleanup no longer done while playing).
· NEW: Netflix in Theater View "Connected Media" now shows individual TV shows from a season disc rather than one entry for the entire season.
· Fixed: If MC is scheduled to record a television program with extended end time that is more than 5 minutes beyond the program end time, the next program could not be scheduled to be recorded.
· Fixed: Ogg tagging fixes. Wasn't reading REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN properly and wasn't writing the mapped tags properly.
· Changed: Ogg and FLAC tag writing does DISCNUMBER instead of DISC #, on writing, if DISC # exists, it's deleted. On reading if DISCNUMBER doesn't exist we look for DISC# (as well as the MEDIAJUKEBOX: variants).
· NEW: Added ability to dither output when outputting 8-bit or 16-bit data (selectable in DSP Studio > Output Format > Bitdepth).
· Changed: MC no longer requires the presence of "Recording Rule ID" tag in a video file to treat it as a television recording. MC now requires Genre field to be filled with "TV Recordings" for a video to be considered recorded television show.
August 16th, 2010· Fixed: MC would crash as a Library Server client when user tried to cancel a television subscription recording (build 92 only).
· Changed: Saving and loading of VST plugin settings and presets works nicely with more plugins like Span, Console, or other chunk-based setting plugins.
· Changed: Camera enumeration used by Action Window > Camera does enumeration in a low priority background thread so devices that are slow to enumerate do not cause the user interface to be unresponsive.
· Changed: If the WIA subsystem has a critical failure when enumerating cameras, it will not be used again for the remainder of the program run.
· Changed: Ogg tags. Incorporate JR_DATE precision date if the date is not just a year.
· Fixed: Ogg replay gain was set from the tags even if it didn't exist.
August 9th, 2010· Changed: When zooming into a file in Theater View, the title is shown on the top roller to remove unneeded visual noise from file views.
· Fixed: When playing a mono file with DSP Studio > Output Format set to 'No mixing', mono could still get mixed to stereo.
· Changed: Added support for m4a and ogg files when connecting to a DLNA serverp.
· Changed: When connecting to a DLNA server, more fields are retrieved (track #, etc.).
· Changed: When acting as a DLNA server, if the automatic album artist is '(Multiple Artists)', this will be provided to clients connecting to the server.
· NEW: Television recordings can now be scheduled on a Library Server client, and the actual recording will happen on the Library Server.
· Changed: If a user does not explicitly pick a channel output mode with DSP Studio > Output Format, mono will automatically be output as two channel mono (can still force one channel output by enabling and configuring Output Format DSP).
· Changed: Improved energy preservation math in Room Correction bass redirection system.
· NEW: DLNA Controller will work without the DLNA server enabled. This means you can load a library (read DLNA server) and direct the output to a DLNA renderer with MC doing the controlling.
August 9th, 2010· Changed: Room Correction no longer considers channels with no data (because of 2.1 mixing) when calculating the maximum possible gain.
· Fixed: After snapping the program to the edge of the screen, a single-click of the titlebar would unsnap it.
· Changed: Snapping to the edges of the screen only happens if the mouse is stopped near the edge for a little delay, so dragging quickly between screens won't cause the program to jump around.
· Changed: When connected to a Library Server, zones from the server will not appear as DLNA zones if they're also "There: " zones.
· Changed: Library Server zones will get the same zone ID each connection so that settings like zone link timing persist between runs.
· Fixed: After loading a different library, the Media Network engine (servers, DLNA control, etc.) would not be restarted automatically.
August 9th, 2010· Changed: Reworked zone presentation so that they are more hidden until there is more than one zone.
· Changed: High resolution tooltips use Media Server client conversion settings, making display of RAW or other large images much faster (enable conversion in Options > Media Network).
· Fixed: Right-clicking a non-active zone and picking 'DSP Studio...' or 'Playback Options...' would show dialogs for the current zone instead of the clicked zone.
· Changed: DSP Studio shows a zone name instead of a zone ID in the titlebar.
· Changed: When linking zones, if only one is playing, whatever is playing will begin playback in both zones.
· NEW: When linking zones, if both are playing, a dialog will ask what zone to keep playing from.
· Fixed: Zone linking could lose sync at track boundaries (only applies to build 88 and 89).
· Fixed: When first linking two zones, the master zone would not update its playback settings to not suppress silence until switching to the next track.
· Fixed: When linked zones drifted apart, they would not always be restarted after stopping them when the current track finished.
· Fixed: Theater View did not work nicely on a touch screen where a mouse move was not simulated before a click.
August 9th, 2010· Changed: Updated Russian translation file (thanks to Vladimir).
· Fixed: Removing a pane when another pane already had a selection could cause a crash.
· Changed: When adjusting the timing of linked zones, a sync will happen after no changes are made to the slider for 2 seconds (was previously 1 second).
· Changed: Visualization Studio is available again for 2D visualizations.
· NEW: Chapters support for audio played in DirectShow.
· Changed: OGG tags: Write new style replay gain and peak level tags with +-6db adjustment from MC's internal values. When writing the new tags, removes any old style tags. When reading tags and new style doesn't exist, uses the old style tags.
· Changed: Scrolling a list with the mouse wheel without moving the cursor would not properly show tooltips when scrolling stopped.
· Changed: Loading of high-resolution image tooltips is better threaded to avoid lags while an image loads.
· Faster: Loading of PSD files is many times faster.
August 9th, 2010· Fixed: Spectrum analyzer visualizations did not move.
· Fixed: The time was not appearing at the root of Theater View.
· Fixed: The program would allow a user to delete all zones, causing a crash.
· Fixed: It is no longer possible to delete a DLNA or Library Server zone. (use Options > Media Network to configure if remote zones should appear)
· Changed: Added Options > General > Advanced > Reset saved Internet passwords... to allow clearing any stored internet passwords.
· NEW: A new password dialog is shown when connecting to protected sites or Library Servers. Choosing 'Save password' will save the password between runs (previously it asked once each run for the password).
· Fixed: Connecting to a Library Server from behind a passworded proxy did not always work nicely.
· Changed: When downloading a resource in the background (Podcasting, Online Slideshow, etc.) URLs that require passwords will silently fail instead of showing password prompts.
· Changed: The dialog for adjusting link timing is wider and has a smaller range (-2 seconds to +2 seconds) to allow easier control.
· Fixed: When stopping linked zones, they could restart again.
· Changed: Previous / Next commands work properly with linked zones.
· Changed: When syncing linked zones, if any of the zones in the link are remote the delay before resuming is longer so that the remote zone has a chance to do any prebuffering.
· Changed: When first creating a zone link, a DLNA zone from another Media Center could stay paused instead of starting playback.
· Changed: When using linked zones, if any of the zones are remote, playback stops after each file and then starts up again in a few seconds (since controlling cross-fading, etc. isn't possible with remote zones).
August 5th, 2010· Fixed: Television recordings in transport stream format did not show up in Television > Recordings views.
· Changed: When playing to linked zones, playback statistics are no longer counted multiple times.
· Changed: When zones are linked, the between tracks and seek modes will inherit from the first zone in the link.
· Changed: Leading and trailing silence suppression is disabled when zones are linked, as the amount of trailing silence removed can vary slightly based on buffer states, making it cause sync problems.
· Changed: Seeking in linked zones works more reliably.
· NEW: Linked zones monitor drift and if too much drift occurs, playback is stopped at the end of the current file and then the next track is started in sync. (a user can force a manual sync any time by pausing playback)
· Changed: MCWS Control/Key function supports key combinations like Ctrl;C, Ctrl;Shift;Left, etc.
· Fixed: After the initial setting of the values of audio jump behavior (number of seconds to jump forward or backward), subsequent changes were ignored.
· Changed: Added 5, 15, 25, 35, 45, and 55 seconds choices to audio and video jump behavior selection.
· Faster: Core speed improvements that can make loading views or working with the database a few percent faster.
August 5th, 2010· NEW: Added webservice functions for remote controlling the program: Control/MCC, Control/CommandLine, Control/Key.
· Changed: Options > Audio > Alternate Mode Settings has option 'Use these alternate settings (use Alt+M to toggle)'; no longer appears in menus.
· Changed: Removed 'Zone Manager'; all zone configuration can be done from Menu > Player > Zones or directly in the tree with right-clicks.
· Changed: When linking a zone to another zone, the zone being linked in will automatically start playing the same output as the other zones in the link.
· Fixed: In place editing would get disrupted if an update message caused the display to be redrawn (from ripping, importing, etc.).
· Changed: Disabling of DirectShow filter tray icons (FFDShow and Haali) is now optional. The option is under Startup.
· Changed: Removed 'Find CD' and 'Artist Info' and merged them into the links bar. (sorry, links storage format has been reset and user customization must be redone)
August 5th, 2010· Changed: Linked zones work better with DLNA devices.
· Changed: DLNA zones have the same ID each run of the program so settings like link timing persist nicely.
· Fixed: When playing to linked zones, one or more of the zones in the link could remain paused.
· Changed: Playing files directly from Playing Now now syncs when using linked zones.
· Changed: Recording digital television programs in transport stream format will not include unwanted subchannels.
· Changed: Worked on improving right-click menu for Playing Now zones in the tree (still in progress).
· Changed: Zone links have a unique icon in the tree.
· Changed: Zones can be renamed in the tree (F2 / right-click rename).
August 5th, 2010· NEW: Added ability to link zones together to keep their playback synchronized.
· Changed: Theater View News changes sites when navigating the second roller instead of requiring an explicit 'Enter' press on the remote.
· Changed: YouTube in Theater View uses higher quality thumbnail images.
· Changed: Improved YouTube search in Theater View (remembers searches, doesn't use a popup window, etc.)
· Changed: WebMedia views in Theater View load their files in a background thread[/b], making browsing faster and smoother.
· Fixed: Netflix metadata was not getting retrieved.
· Changed: Theater View online media slideshow images are cropped to fill the entire screen instead of top-left aligned with all image borders visible.
· Fixed: Main toolbars weren't supporting glass-based skins (only applies to last couple builds).
· Fixed: Image pan & zoom could move in notches at small sizes.
· Changed: Theater View location text used in skinning no longer includes roller selection.
· Changed: Submitting track information to YADB runs in a background thread with progress in the Action Window (previously it would block the program).
· Changed: Collapsing a library tree item with a child item selected no longer changes the selection to the parent.
· Changed: Revised layout of zones in under Playing Now in tree.
· Changed: Drag-n-drop of zones in the tree can be used to link and unlink zones.
August 5th, 2010· Fixed: Build 81 would report the trial had expired right after a fresh install.
· Fixed: In some cases, the Playing Now 'List' selection would not track the playing file.
· Changed: Updated Theater View online media slideshow to support newer Google images layout.
· Changed: Tuned how Theater View reader-style lists work with single line items so that they're not expandable.
· Fixed: Expanding a Comedy Central joke in Theater View would show no text.
· NEW: Hardware accelerated image playback uses mipmapping to eliminate aliasing during pan & zoom, etc. (uses hardware accelerated mipmap generation when possible)
· Fixed: J. River URL Reader filter's buffering was too aggressive.
· Fixed: FreeDB CD lookups could truncate some disc & track titles - especially long classical titles
August 5th, 2010· NEW: Playback jump behavior (Jump forward 30 seconds, backward 10 seconds) is now configurable. The amount of jump is can be configured separately for forward jump and backward jump. Audio and video are configured separately
· Changed: Minor layout changes in "Video" property page
· NEW: MCWS function Playback/PlayByKey has optional "Album" parameter to allow playing the entire album
· Fixed: Theater View online media slideshow could pause for the current online request to finish before allowing Theater View to exit
· NEW: At the end of the 30 day trial period, a user can request a trial extension to lengthen the trial
· Changed: The 'Add...' button when configuring auto import shows a custom folder browsing dialog instead of the system dialog. [testing and feedback would be appreciated]
· Faster: DLNA engine is more efficient when dealing with duplicated 'alive' broadcasts from DLNA devices
· Changed: Visualization data pipeline revised to be more efficient; updated visualization SDK coming later
· Changed: WebPlay / WebRemote paginate at 100 items for more manageable pages on slow devices (previously was at 200 items)
· Changed: Loading, restoring, or clearing a library no longer switches views (unless the view is no longer valid in the new library)
· Fixed: Remote control receiving was not working properly with a portable install
· Fixed: Television recordings ("jtv") sometimes were imported as Data and sidecar files were not created
· NEW: Bass Management redirection does energy preserving accumulation of redirected bass so the total dB level, assuming a calibrated system, will be unchanged from redirection
· NEW: Reworked Output Format DSP for nicer bass configuration
· NEW: Room Correction DSP has a clip prevention stage, so no user settings will create clipping. (i.e. turning up a single channel will turn other channels down)
· Changed: Some DirectShow audio and video files will have less chance of being imported as Data
· Fixed: DLNA video conversion caching was not working properly
· Fixed: An image slideshow could crash
· Fixed: Resetting logging could fail in some cases, leaving the full log still present
· Fixed: Clearing Playing Now using the web service could lead to a hang
· Changed: Added buffering mechanism to streaming video using J. River URL Reader filter. MC will pause when the network can not keep up
· FASTER: Calculated fields are faster
· FASTER: Optimizations to string and expression engine, helping view loading times for views that use expressions
· Changed: When DVD playback fails, the error dialog now includes a "More info..." button which takes you to a wiki page with troubleshooting tips
· Changed: Merged stock visualizations into a single vis_Main.dll plugin. (Visualization Studio removed, slated to return later)
July 24th, 2010· NEW: FreeDB support. When a CD is not found at YADB, we now attempt to look it up at FreeDB.
· Fixed: Requesting the WSDL from the web service (MCWS) would return an empty document.
July 24th, 2010· Fixed: Using the search box just after switching from a grouped library view to a smartlist that showed all database locations could lead to a crash.
July 24th, 2010· Fixed: Remote control receiving was not working properly with a portable install.
· Fixed: DLNA video conversion caching was not working properly.
· Fixed: An image slideshow could crash.
· Fixed: Resetting logging could fail in some cases, leaving the full log still present.
· Fixed: Clearing Playing Now using the web service could lead to a hang.
July 24th, 2010· Changed: FFDShow audio and video decoder filters are temporarily excluded from stream selection interface query due to crashing of FFDShow builds 3461 and up. Note that FFDShow filters are still used as needed. This change will not break anything for you if you rely on FFDShow.
July 24th, 2010· Fixed: When no online images are found in Theater View Playing Now, the default theme images would run as a slideshow instead of showing a fixed picture.
· Changed: Tuned the fade in and out speeds of some of the Theater View Playing Now components.
· Changed: The splash screen is hidden when connecting to a library server at startup so it won't collide with authentication requests.
July 24th, 2010· Fixed: DirectShow filters selection drop-down boxes did not always show up in File Types configuration.
· Changed: When adding an auto-import folder, a dialog is shown that allows typing a path (with auto-complete) intsead of going straight to the system browse dialog.
July 24th, 2010· Changed: By default JRSS and Bass Management will use 48 dB/octave cross-overs for the LFE / subwoofer.
· NEW: Bass Management in Output Format DSP allows selection of cross-over slopes per channel (independently configurable slopes for speaker and redirected bass).
· Faster: Improved performance of Tempo & Pitch DSP plugin.
· Fixed: A DSP plugin that worked in chunks (instead of continuously) could cause playback stutters. (applies to included Tempo & Pitch plugin)
· Changed: The confirmation about deleting disk files when removing cover art offers a cancel button.
· Fixed: Cover View would incorrectly show a maximize / restore button in the popup player at the top of the screen.
· Changed: WebPlay does no video conversion, so only videos supported natively by the device being used can be played (may change if a compatible streaming encoding format can be found).
· Changed: Theater View Playing Now cover art only fades out automatically if the online media slideshow option is enabled.
July 11th, 2010· NEW: Theater View Playing Now fades out the album cover and increases the prominence of the background theme slideshow 15 seconds into a track (only applies if theme support is enabled).
· NEW: The display in Theater View's Playing Now can be changed by selecting it and using left and right on the remote.
· Changed: Theater View Playing Now command 'Big Screen' changed to 'Display View' to match terminology used elsewhere.
· Changed: Increased the number of images used in a Theater View theme online media slideshow.
· Changed: Theater View uses a replacement table to provide better a better online slideshow for artists like Kansas and Bush. (please submit improvements made to [MC Install Path]\Data\Default Resources\ArtistSearch.txt back to us)
· NEW: "Services & Plugins/Amazon" now supports international Amazon stores - use button in upper right to switch among them. Defaults to current Locale country.
· Changed: CUE files now include the file type (e.g. "WAVE") following the filename on the "FILE" line.
· Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks to KANEY).
· Changed: When recording television programs using transport stream format, the subchannel info is saved so correct stream will played during playback.
· Changed: Theater View Playing Now has a 'Play' control on the second roller when stopped.
· Changed: J. River URL Reader filter cleans up temporary buffer files when closed, instead of waiting until MC restarts.
· Changed: Internally the duration field can support floating point values so the database can store a block-perfect length of an audio file. (requires Update Library from Tags to fill durations with higher precision; only supported by APE, FLAC, and WAV)
· Faster: DLNA Media Servers are much faster at responding to searches.
July 11th, 2010· Fixed: Some 3gp videos would play without audio. Used by Android phones.
· Changed: Streaming mov videos from Library Server will load "J. River URL Reader" filter, if the client is configured to play mov videos in DirectShow.
· Fixed: Right-click commands that only apply to certain lists (like 'Uncheck all' in a CD list) will only appear in the MRU list in those lists. (previously a blank spot could appear in the MRU list)
· NEW: Added a search to WebRemote and WebPlay.
· Changed: Audio, Images, and Video roots with WebPlay and WebRemote use media-type specific artwork.
· Changed: If a DSP plugin is both a Winamp 2 and VST plugin, it will be used as a VST instead of as a Winamp 2 plugin.
· Changed: Start can be added to the tree using Options > General > Features > Show Start in Tree.
July 11th, 2010· Fixed: WebRemote was not listing the last file on a library files list.
· Fixed: The time was not showing at the root of Theater View.
· Changed: Added support for [Date] keyword in Theater View text skin items.
· Fixed: Switching libraries could cause a crash (only applies to build 70).
· Fixed: Renaming a keyword (or other library item) to an empty string in the tree could cause a crash.
· NEW: WebPlay and WebRemote paginate long lists (>250) into multiple pages. (see included templates or http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/WebEngine_SDK for more information)
July 6th, 2010· NEW: (Experimental) Digital television recording can be done in transport stream format (.ts).
· Faster: Thumbnail lists load and operate faster, especially with large numbers of thumbnails.
· Faster: Improved memory usage of one of the core data structures used by the program.
· Faster: Improved performance of toolbar / breadcrumb user interface pieces.
· Faster: View switching destroys the previous view only after the new view is showing, making view switches faster.
· Faster: Reduced the amount of user interface layout done when switching views.
· Changed: When Playing Now is empty, the double-click to play action will shuffle all files instead of playing them in sorted order.
· Changed: 'Start' is no longer listed in the tree although the program will, by default, still start at the view (can be customized in Options > Startup).
· Changed: Pressing F11 will no longer include Cover View in the cycle of views.
· Changed: Cover View is considered a 'user input mode' like Standard View and Mini View so that returning from Theater View, closing Display View with escape, etc. will return to Cover View instead of Standard View.
· Changed: The into links on a category thumbnail did not show the hand / link cursor when the mouse was over them.
· Changed: Increased time-shifting reader filter's video buffer size. This should fix the television time-shifting error when Microsoft video decoder is used.
· Fixed: When Playing Now displayed "no search results" because a search returned nothing, double-clicking the list would play everything.
· Fixed: WebPlay audio conversion was not working with an iPhone, iTouch, etc.
· Fixed: Using the keyboard shortcuts Alt+3..5 to switch library views didn't properly handle non-selectable view schemes.
July 6th, 2010· Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks to KANEY).
· Fixed: If the program was started in Mini View, returning to Standard View would show Cover View instead of Standard View.
· Changed: The Theater View location string includes the root roller selection when at the root (used by skins).
· Changed: Theater View Theme system uses the selected skins Background.jpg or Background.png image automatically instead of a solid color.
· Changed: Updated Theater View skins to all support Themes.
· Changed: Theater View Themes are the only mechanism for providing a Theater View background. (media slideshow and animation section of skin are obsolete)
· Changed: Theater View skinning now at version 2.4 (will require update of non-stock skins).
July 2nd, 2010· Fixed: Audio problem with Hauppauge WintTV HD PVR device.
· Fixed: Bass management was not handling moving bass to the LFE channel properly.
· Optimized: The low-pass and high-pass filters used for Bass Management, JRSS, etc. are about 38% faster.
· Changed: A confirmation is shown when doing an 'Unstack' command on more than one stacked file (has 'Don't show this message again' box).
· Changed: Auto-import will attempt to silently reconnect to any disconnected network drives before flagging a file as 'missing'.
· Fixed: Ripping could show an 'Unknown encoder error' in rare cases. (hopefully fixed, feedback appreciated)
· Changed: When viewing a file grouping, the 'Date Imported' will show the most recent import date of any file in the group instead of the average import date.
· Changed: Added the 'Add View' command back to the tree right-click menu for a library view.
· Changed: Putting the system to sleep will not stop playback automatically. (system will still allow a manual deep sleep (S3) while playing, but Media Center will prevent an automatic sleep)
· Fixed: Some types of searches would not preserve the sequence number properly.
· Changed: The 'Rename, Move & Copy Files' dialog auto-sizes columns on load and resize.
· Changed: DLNA, Advanced options. If "present subtitle resources" is not checked subtitle resources will not be presented in the Content Directory under ANY condition, even if explicitly asked for. Prevents hard resets on some renderers.
· NEW: Added DVB-T frequency table for Greece. Thanks to Arbiter for providing the info.
· Changed: Ignore anything past the first 4 digits in a FLAC vorbis DATE tag.
July 2nd, 2010· Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks to KANEY).
· NEW: Bass management in DSP Studio > Output Format allows specifying a bass routing mode of remove, move, or copy.
· Changed: Bass management uses a 24 dB/octave lowpass for creating redirected bass (previously used a 12 db/octave slope).
· Changed: Tuned JRSS mixing level used when creating a LFE channel.
· Changed: The previously selected file in Theater View > Playing Now > List will no longer be drawn bold if the list is not focused.
· NEW: AVI videos can be streamed from Library Server using "J. River URL Reader" filter, so one does not have to wait for the entire file to be downloaded before playback starts.
· Changed: Improved messaging of import when it's importing a large library as it, by design, works in batches of 10,000 files.
· NEW: Added Output Format subwoofer crossover choice "Silence (use Room Correction or other DSP to fill)".
· Changed: Made the 'Output Format' DSP a two-column layout with more verbose explanation of settings.
· Fixed: Closing the program with Media Server running could stop playback in attached DLNA / Library Server zones.
· NEW: Preliminary .srt and .sub subtitle support for the DLNA server. The subtitle file should be the same name as the original video file in the same path with either a .srt or .sub extension depending on what your renderer supports. Tested working with Popcorn hour. Needs more testing. The number of renderers that support this seem limited.
July 2nd, 2010· Fixed: DLNA video conversion works now - was broken.
· Changed: Improved the ordering of 'Bass Management' effects chain in 'Room Correction' DSP.
· Changed: The 'Tone' Room Correction tool plays the tone adjusted by all other adjustments. (previously played full amplitude, unadjusted tone)
· Fixed: 'Bass Management' settings were not properly persisting between sessions.
· Changed: Improved Bass Management high-pass / bass redirection filters to offer higher quality. (done as two independent intersecting filters to allow curve tuning on each)
· Fixed: MC would crash when it failed to convert certain audio formats.
June 25th, 2010· Changed: Playback prevents automatic system sleep, but does not disable a full manual sleep (S3).
· Changed: Putting the system to sleep manually will stop any playback.
· NEW: DLNA servers allow selection of a video conversion mode.
· Changed: When closing Options with the 'X' at the top right, the save / discard message has a 'Always use this answer' checkbox.
· Changed: The Browse... button in auto-import folder list allows typing a folder name.
· Changed: When typing a folder name in a Browse folder dialog, the tree will auto-synchronize with the typed path.
· Fixed: With a fresh library, the automatic import countdown in the Action Window could run even when manually picking 'Import...' from the menu.
· Fixed: Doing a 'Restore Library' and only restoring the settings would not work properly.
· Changed: After restoring settings during a 'Restore Library', the success message informs the user to restart the program for setting changes to take effect.
· Fixed: When saving a file with encoding in Media Editor, a temporary WAV file could be left behind.
· Changed: Cross-over used for LFE channel during JRSS mixing uses a 24db/octave slope. (previously used a lesser slope)
· Fixed: Library Server, client, and J. River URL Reader filter did not handle streaming of files larger than 2 GB correctly.
· NEW: Added 'Bass Management' section to DSP Studio > Room Correction.
· Changed: External dependencies such as lame, gogo, ogg, mpc, and ffmpeg are now silently installed on demand into AppData to avoid UAC prompts.
· Fixed: Closing a dialog while a combobox was open could cause a crash.
June 25th, 2010· Changed: More improvements to image conversion system used by DLNA, WebPlay, etc.
· Fixed: When starting playback, album art could be loaded twice instead of only once.
· Fixed: Playing YouTube video in Theater View did not work, causing MC to trigger downloading the video outside of MC.
· Optimized: Starting playback with a Library Server client is faster when converting to MP3.
· NEW: Gizmo pauses playback when a phone call arrives, and unpauses when the call is finished.
· NEW: Gizmo holds a partial wake lock during playback to prevent the phone from going to sleep or from turning off the data connection.
· NEW: Improved Gizmo image playback.
· NEW: Added video conversion options for Library Server clients. (still a work in progress)
June 25th, 2010· Fixed: DLNA playback of images with conversion enabled would not honor EXIF rotation.
· NEW: DLNA image conversion is done in such a way that a device will not know the image is being converted -- full content length provided, ranged requests supported, etc. (should make image conversion work for all DLNA devices)
· Internal: Library Server, MCWS, and DLNA server code for handling media files and conversion merged.
June 25th, 2010· NEW: Added caching layer for media file serving to Library Server so requesting the same file multiple times in a short time frame won't require multiple analysis or conversion processes.
· NEW: Added Library Server client option to convert images.
· NEW: When using WebPlay / Gizmo, images are converted to a lower resolution.
· Changed: When playing images from Library Server, the previous / next caching was not working nicely
June 25th, 2010· Changed: Improvements to hardware accelerated image playback.
June 25th, 2010· Changed: Updated DCRaw to latest (v9.02).
· Optimized: Search optimizer introduced in build 57 better weighs the evaluation time of calculated fields vs regular fields to aid search performance.
· Changed: Sharing recorded television over Library Server no longer requires additional configuration of white-list share paths
· Changed: Backup, Restore, and Clear Library commands are disabled when connected to a Library Server.
· Changed: Replaced 'Search For Media Servers' with 'Connect to Library...' in Library menu.
· Changed: When connected to a library, the 'Connect to Library...' command is replaced by a 'Disconnect from Library' command.
· Changed: Added new command 'Sync Changes with Library Server' to Library menu to allow manual sync of client changes. (no longer use 'Sync Library...' command -- that is for downloading a library and playlists from a server)
· Changed: Simplified the 'Connect to Library...' dialog so there's only one choice for connecting to a Library Server.
· NEW: Image playback is hardware accelerated, providing smoother visuals when zooming and scrolling. [experimental]
· NEW: Image playback draws a pixel-perfect overlay when zooming and scrolling stop (most noticeable on systems with low supported texture sizes or when zooming in on huge images)
June 25th, 2010· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
· Changed: Updated Theater View News for better support of The Onion, Comedy Central Jokes, BBC, Interact, etc.
· Fixed: Big endian TIFF files could have the incorrect dimensions listed in the database.
· Changed: Better (hopefully) way of obtaining video dimensions in JRWorker.
· Fixed: Trouble switching channels with some DVB-T television devices.
· Changed: In digital television, extra output pins of MPEG-2 Demultiplexer filter are deleted instead of being rendered to NULL renderer.
· Changed: DLNA container type for videos to try and get it working for some TV's that don't see them. Needs testing to make sure it doesn't mess up devices that currently work.
· Changed: Added an approximate size to DLNA images when converting as some renderers need to know the size in the content directory or they won't try to display the image.
June 17th, 2010· Changed: JRSS improvements to matrixing algorithms used for rear channel creation. (applies to 2.0 -> 7.1 and 5.1 -> 7.1 conversion)
· Changed: The 'hardware style previous' button mode will use a 10 second cutoff when controlling a DLNA device unlike the 1.5 second cutoff during regular playback.
· Changed: The 'Play / Pause' command for WebRemote plays the current file instead of visible files if playback is stopped.
· Fixed: WebRemote commands like 'Play' could get cached by the browser and stop working.
· Fixed: Using WebRemote with an Android, links could fail to work properly after navigating back due to AJAX caching.
· Optimized: Improved cache-ability of WebRemote / WebPlay webpages, helping browsing performance.
· Fixed: In rare cases, a core string function could read one character too far and cause a crash.
· Fixed: When syncing content from Library Server to a handheld, extra unneeded numbers could end up in the final filename that were used during download time.
June 17th, 2010· Optimized: Search engine uses more sophisticated logic for deciding the order to evaluate pieces of a database query, providing substantial speed improvements in some cases.
· Optimized: Database search engine can better discard duplicate search terms, helping performance in applicable cases. (stacking of similar searches is common in nested views, etc.)
· Changed: Numerous Gizmo improvements: loads images in background thread, adds ability to enter a library server access key to get to library, etc.
· Changed: Gizmo should be installed from the Android Market (it's free). Search for "Gizmo" in Market on your phone.
· Fixed: WebPlay was not showing Play / Shuffle buttons for playlists.
· Fixed: Mouse wheeling on a horizontal scrollbar could scroll diagonally.
· Fixed: The player window buttons could highlight on mouse over, even when the mouse was actually over a window on top of the player.
· Changed: Increased maximum boost / gain available in DSP Studio > Volume Leveling to 18 dB from 12 dB.
· Fixed: The in-place edit available choices for fields with a fixed list of acceptable values was not working properly.
· Changed: Reworked how link bar at top right of view is loaded so that it is pulled from disk less often.
· Changed: Link bar allows creating link rules like '[Genre]=[Rock]' and the available links nicely update as different files are selected.
· Optimized: Improved performance of link bar system, so that evaluating what links should be shown is much faster.
· Optimized: Revised view header update system works to provide better view performance.
· Fixed: The 'Previous' button did not seek to the beginning of the current track when controlling a DLNA device.
· Optimized: Improved performance of seeking when controlling DLNA devices.
· Changed: The /MCWS/v1/Alive function does not require password authorization to make checking for running servers possible from MC, Gizmo, etc. without requiring a password prompt.
· Changed: Added additional handling to prevent DLNA control from skipping two (or more) files when pressing 'Next'.
June 10th, 2010· Changed: Added PlayingNowPosition, PlayingNowTracks, and PlayingNowPositionDisplay variables to MCWS/v1/Playback/Info function.
· Changed: Added .FileKey variable for WebPlay / WebRemote file objects.
· Fixed: During DLNA control, a manual Next or Previous could causes multiple files to be skipped depending on network timing.
· Changed: Removed timeout.
· Fixed: Column changes made while drilled into a library view in the tree were not saved.
· NEW: Added 'Author' database field, used for author metadata when importing documents. (previously used 'Artist' field)
· Changed: Import of document title, keywords, etc. from the filesystem better handles UTF-8.
· Optimized: Loading the default 'Artists' view with a huge library is about 5% faster. (speed increases should help smaller libraries and other views as well)
· Fixed: VST plugins that exposed a standard DLLRegisterServer(...) function in addition to the standard VST plugin export would not install properly.
June 10th, 2010· Changed: Media Type specification for DVB-T television's MPEG-2 audio and AC3 audio is updated.
· Changed: MC configures DVB-T television's video format before connecting a filter graph so the video media type conforms to DVB-T's PAL standard.
· NEW: Added new video file type wtv.
· Fixed: WebRemote did not work nicely with Library Server authorization enabled.
· Fixed: Quicktime files (mov, qt) could not be thumbnailed if they were set to play in DirectShow.
· Changed: When playing files externally to MC (i.e. double click a file in Win explorer), windowed playback is now an option in General options.
· Changed: Improved DLNA track advancement system to be less dependent on DLNA events. (events are used to help performance, but system functions fine even if device doesn't event properly)
· Fixed: Webpage style stores would just show 'Installing' instead of a webpage. (since build 51)
· Fixed: Theater View > Playing Now > Info view would not advance properly as tracks changed.
June 10th, 2010· NEW: The player automatically detects the arrival of a Google Android (previously required a program restart if the Android was mounted while Media Center was running).
· Changed: Options > Media Network > Advanced Server Settings > Authentication password is no longer in plain text.
· Fixed: Leaving Theater View's Hulu view could be slow.
June 10th, 2010· Changed: Renamed network options and view to 'Media Network'.
· NEW: New 'Media Network' view under 'Services & Plug-ins' in the tree.
· Fixed: Possible resource leak when switching views.
· Fixed: Certain podcast streams were failing to download because of a 307 redirect status. We handle them like other redirects now.
· Changed: Gizmo could unnecessarily load the same image multiple times. (Gizmo updated to 15.0.53)
· NEW: Added Russian translation.
June 10th, 2010· Fixed: Playing different audio file types consecutively without clicking the stop button could cause some audio types to output noise.
· Fixed: The background behind a video would be glass instead of black when using a glass-enabled skin.
· NEW: Library Server, WebPlay, and WebRemote use a token-based authorization system so that once a client is authorized, it won't have to authorize again on subsequent requests. (fixes issues using Gizmo with authorization enabled, etc.)
· Changed: List management windows no longer hide their list when disabled now that lists can nicely render a disabled state (applies to Options > Network, etc.).
· Changed: Revised naming and versioning of Gizmo Android application.
· Changed: WebPlay and WebRemote no longer show Play, etc. buttons at the view scheme level.
· Changed: Reversed change #6 in build 51.
· Changed: Added 'Statistics...' button to Network Servers view (a precursor to revised network servers overview page)
June 10th, 2010· Fixed: "Type" field in MyMovies data file could not be imported.
· Changed: Updates (or initial install) of the Performer Store happen in a background thread when the store is viewed.
· Optimized: Improved caching of server hits done by Performer Store for better performance.
· Changed: Playing a Performer track from the local library (or Playing Now) will login so that full length version is played.
· Fixed: Fixed possible dead-lock from audio engine parallelization improvements of build 50.
· Changed: Television will try using generic Microsoft Network Provider filter first, instead of individual ATSC/DVB-T Network Providers.
· Fixed: Making changes to Playing Now just as a song was ending (and the next track was prebuffering) could cause the visual play indicator to disappear.
· Fixed: The 'Media Editor' start menu shortcut was not working (will recreate start menu group at stock location; later upgrades will not).
· Fixed: Converting multiple audio files to mp3 did not work properly due to temporary filename conflict.
June 10th, 2010· Changed: Improvements to MC15.exe /MonitorSwitch to work better with certain configurations.
· Optimized: Core audio data path 8% faster (used for playback, burning, conversion, etc).
· Optimized: Disk Writer output plugin operates faster.
· Optimized: Improved parallelization of audio playback engine to provide faster and more robust playback, especially when doing channel or sample rate conversion.
· Optimized: Improved core audio engine data delivery mechanism to provide more skip resistant playback.
· Changed: When clipping list or tree items that are outside the current scroll position, soft faded edges are used instead of hard edges.
· Changed: Numerous improvements to J. River Gizmo Android application. (requires reinstallation from WebPlay homepage)
June 10th, 2010· Changed: Improved detection of Windows Mobile 6.5 devices for WebPlay, WebRemote, etc.
· Fixed: CD Ripping with the external encoder was causing crashes.
· Changed: Improved audio conversion options in DLNA server settings. Added low/medium/high bandwidth mp3 options and removed options that didn't make sense.
· Fixed: WebPlay conversion was not always working properly.
· Changed: The J. River Gizmo Android application is used for WebPlay playback of single files and playlists instead of just for playback of playlists.
· NEW: The J. River Gizmo Android application shows cover art and metadata during playback. (requires reinstallation from WebPlay homepage)
May 25th, 2010· Optimized: When changing the volume of a server zone while connected as a Library Server Client (TRemote), the response is faster.
· Optimized: Improved performance of communicating with a Library Server from a client.
· Optimized: Better performance of core server engine that powers Library Server, DLNA, WebPlay, etc.
· Changed: When closing the program with a zone that's no longer available selected, the program will revert to the first zone instead of the last zone on restart.
· Changed: Quicktime file types (mov and qt) will be played using DirectShow if Playback Method for these file types is set to "Automatic" AND Quicktime has not been installed.
· Fixed: The Theater View online media slideshow could show a slideshow for the previously played file instead of the currently playing file.
· Fixed: The Send To mode 'Add (shuffle remaining)' did not work logically when playback was stopped.
· Changed: The Tag Action Window's vertical scroll position is preserved when zooming in on a list-type field like Keywords, and then returning.
· Fixed: Editing the last field in the Tag Action Window would not automatically move the scrollbar down to ensure the edit control was visible.
May 25th, 2010· Changed: Updated DCRaw to latest, including patch for Canon T2i / 550D support.
· Changed: Added a the most common raw image types to the default list of types acquired with the 'Camera' Action Window.
· Changed: The default ripping mode is now 'Secure' (can be changed in Options > CD & DVD)
· Changed: The default ripping encoder is 'Monkey's Audio (APE)' instead of 'Windows Media'. [Thanks, Matt!]
· Fixed: Formatting text in a note could result in mismatched tag pairs in the HTML, causing the note to be discarded.
· Changed: When embedding artwork in WMA tags, the image is flagged as 'Front album cover' instead of 'Other'.
· Fixed: Viewing 'Notes' could create extra root library views that would appear in the navigation menu when the tree was hidden. (must visit 'Notes' one time for cleanup to occur)
· Fixed: The Flickr upload dialog could overflow with some font sizes.
· Changed: List-type fields with a user-specified list of acceptable values did not allow setting multiple values to a single file.
· Changed: When syncing changes from a client back to a Library Server, the server will update the tags for any changed files.
· Fixed: When changing a rating in the Tag Action Window, the other fields could go away until a size / scroll.
· Fixed: If a star rating was clicked while editing a field in the Tag Action Window, the changes to the in-place edit would be discarded.
· Fixed: Using WASAPI exclusive output with certain DACs to play HDTV or other video could cause a crash when starting playback.
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar & Daniel2k).
May 25th, 2010· Fixed: DLNA streaming with MP3 conversion enabled was not working properly.
· Changed: Moved 'Library Server Client' options to 'Network' options page.
· Fixed: Possible sporadic crashes (only applies to last few builds).
· NEW: Video subtitle option "Show subtitle only if selected subtitle language is different from audio language".
May 25th, 2010· Changed: Improved threading, messaging, and cancelling for 'Lookup Movie Info From Wikipedia...' tool.
· Changed: Enabled up / down keyboard navigation to switch images when zoomed in on an image in 'Image Preview' mode.
· Fixed: Auto-complete was not working properly for non-list fields that used semi-colon delimitation in their values.
· Fixed: In a network with a lot of DLNA devices and Library Server connections, zones could get reflected multiple times (i.e. zone with a name There: Jim: There: Jim: Speakers)
· Optimized: Improved performance when connected to a Library Server.
· Optimized: DLNA and Library Server zones that are not active are no longer queried across the network to keep their playback state fresh. (could have third-party SDK implications if plugins are trying to display status of non-active remote zones)
· Optimized: Improved performance of loading images from a server.
· Fixed: MP3 files purchased from the Performer Store could fail to play over Library Server.
May 25th, 2010· Fixed: Quick Find of cover art would not always work properly.
· Changed: Revised how a Library Server client specifies audio conversion in Options > Libraries & Folders. (uses new encoder profiles that builds on more sophisticated conversion engine of v15)
· NEW: When controlling DLNA devices, playback will advance between tracks even if the device is not sending subscription events properly.
May 25th, 2010· Fixed: List style tagging in the Action Window was not working (only applies to build 42).
· Fixed: When in a library view, the locate commands would not work.
· Fixed: Using UNC paths for the handheld conversion cache did not work nicely.
· Changed: Improved compatibility with Kernel Streaming 24-bit audio to Bel-Canto and other similar DACs.
· Changed: Disabled 32-bit floating point output support for Kernel Streaming -- most (all?) cards claim to support it, and then treat the data as 32-bit integers so the sound is heavily distorted.
May 25th, 2010· Fixed: DLNA server wasn't reporting resolution for images when converting/shrinking.
· Fixed: DVD video discs would not get recognized under certain conditions.
· Optimized: Many improvements to help performance when dealing with list type fields like Keywords, Actors, etc.
· Optimized: The Tag Action Window for list type fields is several orders or magnitude faster.
· Changed: Reverted launcher back to Windows program as console program caused issues for some users.
· Changed: Import system will still import zero-byte .txt, .log, and .dat files; other types of zero byte files are still ignored.
· Internal: Auto-import will remove files with no filename that are in the 'previously removed' database location. (cleanup for possible bug from years past)
· NEW: Add support for different conversion sizes for images in the DLNA server options.
· Fixed: Web Media view header buttons could cause a crash.
May 25th, 2010· Changed: Added command MCC_QUERY_UI_MODE (32000) to allow querying the user interface mode of the program from a batch file.
· Changed: MC15.exe is a console application so it's easier to use in batch files or with other scripting.
· Changed: MC15.exe /MCC will exit the process with the result of the call. (so in a batch file, %ERRORLEVEL% will be the result after a call)
· Fixed: MP3 encoding was always using a default configuration of VBR 160kpbs (last several builds only).
· Internal: Consolidated file naming used by YouTube! Podcasts so they match WebMedia file naming. (i.e. webmedia://youtube/[id] instead of youtube://[id])
· Fixed: Streaming FLV files could fail to play in some cases.
· Changed: The import system will ignore zero byte files.
· NEW: Added 'Collapse All' choice to the right-click menu for a pane. (only shows for list style fields that support nesting)
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks to Bytestar and Daniel_2k).
· Optimized: Numerous improvements to help performance with list-style fields, especially when there are huge numbers of values used. (ie. a database with 50,000 actors, etc.)
May 25th, 2010· Fixed: When decoding non 16-bit audio data, up to 0.006 seconds of silence could be unnecessarily appended to the end.
· Fixed: ASIO playback for 32-bit integer style cards had a possible overflow (only applies to last few builds).
· Changed: Stock smartlists will dynamically change names with language changes (stock smartlists will be updated / recreated as a result)
· Fixed: At the file list level with WebPlay, the last item in the list would not be shown.
· Fixed: When a ripped DVD and the associated cover art was on a drive that was temporarily removed, Media Center could disassociate with the broken cover art link. (it should only disassociate with a broken cover art link if the media file is available and the art is not available)
· Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+F in an image or video library view could switch to Audio. (remember that Ctrl+E will focus the search box in any view)
· Fixed: CUE parser was not properly loading the playback range of the last track.
· NEW: Added ASIO option for channel swapping C/LFE with SL/SR during surround sound playback. (needed with Creative and possibly other cards)
· Fixed: MC could crash in J. River audio engine (using DirectShow filters) when it failed to load an output plug-in (such as ASIO) in a worker thread.
· Changed: Updated splash screen no longer says 'beta'.
May 19th, 2010· Fixed: Library Manager did not allow creating a new library entry that pointed to an existing library.
March 31st, 2010· Changed: Add the file extension for image and audio files served by the DLNA server to fix troubles with some renderers.
· Fixed: DLNA, transcoded music files could be from 1-8095 bytes short if not falling on a 8096 byte boundary.
March 31st, 2010· Fixed: Some AIFF files created in dBpoweramp played with a brief noise at the end.
· Fixed: The French language was corrupted.
March 26th, 2010· Fixed: Turn off video support by default for UPnP devices that don't support video.
· Fixed: Return sane DLNA strings for the MC renderer which didn't have the full information needed to do so.
· Fixed: A crash while playing images at the same time as audio in the same zone could leave a dangling 'Images' zone that would cause issues.
· Changed: Toggling through zones will no longer stop at the internal 'Images' zone used during simultaneous audio and image playback.
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks to Bytestar).
· Changed: Updated French translation (thanks Benoit de Corn).
· Fixed: If a DirectShow DSP property page was already showing in DSP studio when playback was started, the page appeared to be inactive, until DSP studio was closed and reopened.
· Fixed: If there was a failure contacting the Netflix API, it would keep trying every 1/4 second forever.
March 19th, 2010· Fixed: Content-Range in partial content in the http server. Messed up end of files when serving files to some DLNA renderers.
March 19th, 2010· Fixed: Some DLNA renderers were not showing up as zones under playing now. (like wdtvlive).
March 19th, 2010· Fixed: Scheduled television recording of an analog television program would cause MC to crash if J. River Audio Renderer feature was enabled.
· Fixed: Edge snapping did not work nicely in some multimonitor configurations.
· Changed: If all the pieces of DLNA are disabled, no SSDP multicast responder server will be started. (could cause spurious firewall prompt)
· Fixed DLNA image handling problem (resolution wasn't being sent).
· Changed: DLNA image shrinking to handle all file types (converted automatically to jpegs).
· Changed: DLNA reports more accurate (based on codec if possible) video for WMC compatible (xbox 360) profiles. (requires updating library from tags for video files).
March 5th, 2010· Changed: Improved J. River Audio Renderer clocking method to improve lip-sync.
· Fixed: If WAV tagging was disabled (the default), setting cover art to the WAV files could still result in the database incorrectly switching the image field to "Inside File".
· Fixed: Netflix feature could fail to authorize user if the computer's clock was off quite a bit.
March 2nd, 2010· NEW: Added jump on play option "Theater View Playing Now" so playing from Standard View will show Theater View. Under General/Behavior.
· Fixed: Right-clicking television playback and selecting "Select Filters..." could crash.
· Changed: Playback will no longer attempt to support files that report a sample rate less than 0 or greater than one million (corrupt files could cause crashes).
· Fixed: The rollup state of playlist and podcast view headers was not being saved between view switches and program runs.
· Fixed: On a fresh install, a 'Default' library entry would not get created in Library Manager, making it difficult to switch back to the default library after loading a different library.
· Fixed: Zone settings for obsolete zones (like DLNA devices that have been disconnected, etc.) could accumulate in options.
· Fixed: When looping through a list during in-place editing, the column headers could become mis-aligned with the columns.
· NEW: Added DSP Studio > Output Format option "For stereo sources, only mix to 2.1".
· Fixed: Right-clicking television playback and selecting "Select Filters..." resulted in a dialog window with empty drop-down lists.
· Optimized: Improved internal data movement performance of J. River Audio Renderer.
· NEW: When a Blu-ray disc is in the drive, it will appear more nicely inside the program and playing the entry will launch the bdmv in the default player for bdmv files.
March 2nd, 2010· NEW: Ripped DVD's can be streamed to DLNA renderers .
· Fixed: Seeking using the J. River audio renderer could cause a crash.
· Fixed: MC could fail to play a DVD using FFDShow Video Decoder due to the decoder's lack of Closed Captioning support.
· Changed: Relaxed the requirement that audio PID must be positive, to allow 0 to be entered, when manually adding a DVB-T channel.
· Optimized: Reduced chances of WASAPI hiccups when using very low buffer latency settings.
· Changed: Improved smoothness of the clock provided by the J. River audio renderer during video playback.
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks to Bytestar).
· Fixed: The DSP Studio Output Format setting "Surround mixing" was disabled when selecting "Stereo", making it impossible to select JRSS v2.0 for 5.1 or 7.1 downmixing.
February 25th, 2010· Fixed: During television playback, the J. River audio renderer would not be used.
· Fixed: A timeout when reading from an internet resource could cause a crash.
· Optimized: When using the J. River Audio Renderer for video playback, the DSP Studio is managed by the renderer instead of inserting a discrete DSP Studio transform filter in the playback graph.
· Changed: Revised how clocking in J. River Audio Renderer works so that it nicely supports tempo and rate changes in DSP Studio (or other similar VST, etc. plugins).
· Fixed: J. River audio renderer caused some videos to repeat the last sound byte forever.
February 25th, 2010· Fixed: Some WAV tags could cause the program to hang.
· Fixed: Switching between a Directshow audio filter and a Media Center plugin for audio decoding would unnecessarily do a full-stop transition, making cross-fading, gapless, etc. impossible.
· Changed: Improved lip-sync when using J. River audio renderer (may require one seek before lip-sync is correct).
· Changed: Theater View's Playing Now looks and works better when playback is stopped.
· Changed: Improved support of mu-law encoded AU files.
· Fixed: Slim view would incorrectly do Windows 7-like edge snapping. (still snaps to edges, just doesn't fill half the screen)
· Changed: Playing a physical DVD when connected to a library server that had also played that DVD would not work.
· Changed: J. River audio renderer can be used for DVD, TV, and video playback.
· Fixed: The more sophisticated resampling options from build 148 were not being honored during video playback.
February 25th, 2010· Fixed: Theater View list selection wouldn't properly reset to the beginning of a list when navigating into an item.
· Optimized: Improved program shutdown performance.
· Fixed: The new Playing Now in Theater View could hide the first file in the list view.
· Internal: Revised how output plugins are loaded (should be internal change only, please report any issues).
· Changed: Scheduled television recording will stop a low priority recording if a higher priority recording is scheduled.
February 25th, 2010· Fixed: Loading a DLNA library from some NAS drives would not support FLAC files.
· Changed: Tightened up item spacing at bottom of Theater View's Playing Now.
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
· Chef's Recommendation NEW: Added ASIO 'Volume' option to allow customization of the system volume device controlled during ASIO playback (since ASIO device names do not always match Windows device names).
· Changed: Improved volume matching mode during ASIO playback when the volume option is set to 'Automatically try to choose at playback time'.
· Changed: When replacing Microsoft DTV-DVD audio decoder with another decoder during video, DVD, and television playback that involves AC3 audio decoding, a prominent message is displayed to show user of progress.
· Fixed: MC could repeatedly download and install FLV splitter filter on Windows 7 due to failure to access registry.
· Chef's Recommendation NEW: Output Format in DSP Studio allows more sophisticated resampling settings, making it easier to leave sample rates supported by your hardware untouched while resampling unsupported formats.
· Changed: Updated copyright years on about and splash images.
· Fixed: When playing a video, incorrect values could show in DSP Studio > Volume Leveling (replay gain not available for videos)
February 19th, 2010· NEW: Theater View's Playing Now has functional position, volume, and star ratings (all items have left, right, enter functionality -- currently requires a remote or keyboard for functionality)
· Fixed: The new Theater View Playing Now 'Info' panel was not tied to the correct file.
· Changed: When Theater View jumps to Playing Now, it does it relative to the current view so "Back" will return to the previous view.
· Changed: Theater View will jump to Playing Now when starting audio playback, a single
· click will return. (can still be customized in Options > Theater View)
February 19th, 2010· NEW: Theater View has a new and improved Playing Now. (still a work in progress)
· Changed: Pressing [Delete] at the end of an edit control no longer acts like pressing [Backspace].
· Fixed: Windows 7 taskbar playback buttons would not be visible after restarting Media Center with Media Server already running.
· Changed: By default, DLNA servers use relative URLs in their descriptions instead of full URLs. (can be changed in Options > DLNA > Server > Advanced > Use full URLs instead of relative URLs)
February 19th, 2010· NEW: Added Windows 7 snap-like functionality to the main application. (snaps to sides of displays, snaps to internal edges of multi-monitor systems, maximizes when snapping to top, works on any operating system)
· Fixed: The mode 'Always active' vs 'Active when visible' displayed in Plug-in Manager for an interface plugin could be incorrect.
· Changed: Dutch language translation updated. (thanks bennyd!)
· Fixed: When using the search box in 'Wizard' mode, the 'Wizard' link in the middle of the search box and clear button was not correctly clickable.
· Fixed: The volume slider would not reliably connect to the correct sound card for a zone during DVD playback with analog sound output.
· Changed: When being externally controlled by a DLNA controller, Media Center will disable continuous without permanently changing the continuous setting.
· Changed: When rendering a disabled version of a button with no disabled art, a faded version of the normal image will be used instead of a faded version of the pressed image.
· Optimized: Improved startup performance.
· Fixed: Fixed a case where loading a corrupt JPEG could cause a program crash.
February 15th, 2010· NEW: Added support for Windows 7 taskbar buttons. Hover over MC on the taskbar to see playback control buttons on the application thumbnail.
· Fixed: WASAPI exclusive pause could be unreliable after synchronizing multiple zones.
· Changed: WASAPI option "Present 24-bit data in a 32-bit package" works more intelligently so less cards should need to change the option.
· (option off by default but will use 32-bit packages if 24-bit packages fail to open; only force 32-bit packages if your hardware is failing to play 24-bit content)
· Fixed: last.fm did not persist its running state properly when running under UAC.
· Changed: Revised how DLNA renderer exposes metadata so that it works even with no DLNA server running.
· Changed: When controlling DLNA devices, a shorter timeout is used for control functions to better handle spotty / disconnected devices.
· Optimized: When using TRemote or DLNA control zones, the volume gets queried from the server less often.
· Changed: Image tooltips will show the same information whether the large preview is in the tooltip or not. (things like camera, focal length, etc.)
· Changed: Image tooltips wouldn't nicely format volume names in the filename, so a CD drive would show the hex volume ID.
February 15th, 2010· Changed: MC will attempt to use a known good decoder if automatic graph-building fails for DVD playback.
· Fixed: Possible resource leak when stopping video playback.
· Fixed: Drop panes would not properly filter the items in the list based on a view's search criteria.
· Fixed: When using an Aero Glass enabled skin, views that did not support transparency (like Start) did not work properly with tabs.
· Fixed: DSP Studio 'Output Format' subwoofer controls would be incorrectly enabled when 'No mixing' was selected for 5.1 and 7.1 output.
· NEW: Added 12, 16, 24, and 32 channel output modes to DSP Studio > Output Format. (requires hardware capable of these modes; only 'no mixing' available for surround mixing)
· NEW: DSP Studio 'Output Format' accepts any number of input and output channels when using 'No mixing' surround mixing. This makes it possible to play 12, 16, 24, 32, etc. channel WAV files with lesser hardware.
· NEW: More Netflix metadata (synopsis, actors, director, etc.). [requires Options > Theater View > Customize file info panel... > Manage... > Reset All Templates To Default)
· NEW: Added WASAPI option: Flush device buffers on startup (use if you hear a tick or miss part of the start).
· Fixed: Possible race condition on fast multiple core machines that could cause WASAPI pause to be unreliable.
February 15th, 2010· Changed: MC will quietly deal with Microsoft DTV-DVD Audio Decoder's AC3 decoding issue by trying to substitute a known working decoder.
· Fixed: Mouse capture was not working correctly in the player window, so grabbing the volume slider and moving the mouse out of the window wouldn't allow movement of the slider.
· Changed: Clicking 'Configure...' in Zone Manager will show the audio, image, and video configuration pages (instead of just audio).
· Fixed: During DLNA Server / Library Server conversion, temporary files could be left on disk until the program was restarted.
· Fixed: Sorting specified in DLNA Server views using "Customize Views.." would not be honored.
· Fixed: Scheduled television recording would not work if recording folder was specified in UNC.
· Fixed: DLNA could advertise a bye-bye on shutdown for found devices (instead of just renderers / servers we were running).
· Optimized: DLNA discovery broadcasts are handled more efficiently.
· NEW: More DLNA metadata is supported like album artist, composer, track number, etc. (also includes Twonky extensions like rating, number plays, etc.)
· Fixed: When syncing a portable device with library server files which needed conversion, the filenames on the device got truncated (e.g. ".mp3", "(2).mp3", etc.)
· Changed: When calling SetAVTransportURI(...) on the DLNA renderer, it will start playing the new file right away if it was playing the old file.
February 15th, 2010· Changed: VST visualizers will receive data in smaller, smoother increments improving visualization quality. (requires low-latency playback like ASIO or WASAPI with the "Output mode settings..." buffering slider set to a small value)
· Changed: Made Television options its own page in Options.
· Changed: Reworked television options dialog to better fit in the Options dialog.
· Changed: Moved image playback settings to its own Options page instead of using a popup.
· Changed: Moved video playback settings to its own Options page, and reworked considerably.
· Fixed: Configuring Options > File Types for a zone that wasn't active would not work properly.
· Changed: Slight increase in vertical spacing of options dialog items.
· Changed: During video playback, an option 'Color Controls...' is now available in the right-click menu which shows a popup with color controls.
· Changed: The right-click video playback option 'Select Filters...' shows the same options dialog as 'Video playback settings...' since the newer options dialog supports all settings.
February 8th, 2010· Fixed: WASAPI playback could fail to resume from a paused state in some cases with build 139 only.
· Fixed: DSP Studio for video could result in the wrong renderer being used if the decoder output a format the renderer didn't support (even though the DSP could have converted it).
· Changed: When doing a manual 'Recheck Sync' on a device, errors with transfer rights will be displayed instead of silently handled.
· Fixed: Netflix and Hulu playback were broken.
February 8th, 2010· NEW: In "Theater View/Connected" there is a Netflix entry which will display and play the instant viewing queue for Netflix subscribers. More to come... (if Netflix doesn't appear for you, you can add it in Options > Theater View > Items To Show)
· Fixed: ASIO playback with cards that used huge hardware buffers could pause periodically.
· Changed: ASIO playback option 'Use large hardware buffers' caps the buffer size at a reasonable amount for better support of cards like the Asus Xonar that support huge hardware buffer sizes.
· Changed: When using ASIO output, hardware latency is accounted for so that visualization data is more perfectly synchronized.
· Fixed: When an output has a large hardware latency, visualizations could show data not yet heard during the buffering stage.
· Fixed: DSP Studio during video playback didn't nicely handle a format switch from 32-bit integer to 32-bit floating point.
· Fixed: DLNA function responses could use the wrong namespace (only applies to build 138).
· Fixed: DLNA was not working nicely with devices on the non-primary network interface in a configuration with multiple network interfaces.
· Changed: Revised the DLNA broadcasting of alive notifications to every 5 minutes instead of every minute. (please report if PS3 seems sluggish to find servers)
· Fixed: Wasapi support was not showing up on XP systems.
· Fixed: Saving television EPG programs to database took too long in the last few builds.
· Fixed: madVR video renderer was not used even though the user chose to use it.
· Fixed: Television playback was not using the correct video renderer selected by the user.
· Fixed: With some audio hardware, in rare cases WASAPI playback could become garbled.
· Fixed: Transparency of skinned controls in the search wizard would not work properly.
· Fixed: The button and background of a combobox were not always drawn in step with regards to mouse-over and mouse-down states.
· Fixed: In rare cases the position slider could draw outside its bounds when seeking to the end of a track.
· Fixed: Some wait messages like 'Analyzing devices...' could appear even if Media Center was minimized.
· Changed: [DLNA] server provides a more explicit list of supported content, enabling Sony Blu-ray player support and possibly others.
· Changed: The mouse wheel on some horizontal sliders could move the handle in the opposite direction expected.
February 8th, 2010· Changed: Improved device description of X_MS_MediaReceiverRegistrar DLNA service for better XBox360 compliance.
· Changed: DLNA service function responses will always return information in the same order as specified by the service description, aiding compatibility with some controllers.
· Changed: Revised internals of DLNA server content directory to aid with standards compliance.
· Changed: Improved DLNA renderer eventing so that it events more variables, making it work better with controllers that depend on this.
· Fixed: DSP Studio did not work if the audio format from the decoder was 32-bit integer PCM.
· Changed: If initial graph-building failed to connect user selected audio renderer, the renderer is removed from the graph and reloaded before MC attempts to connect it with DSP Studio filter.
· Changed: Streamlined graph-building for "AF9015 BDA Filter" television tuner.
· Fixed: Resampling from very high sample rates to lower sample rates could cause the output to loop on itself. (Affected Hrx content)
February 3rd, 2010· Changed: DLNA 'Renderer' option no longer takes a program restart to take effect.
· Changed: DLNA does a better job of sending bye-bye messages when shutting down servers.
· Changed: MC will reattempt using the user-selected audio renderer during DSP Studio filter insertion if initial graph-building fails to connect the selected renderer.
· Fixed: DSP Studio filter was not applied to analog televison that is not in time-shifting mode.
· Changed: DLNA renderer supports the function SetNextAVTransportURI for controllers that can use it, enabling gapless, cross-fading, etc.
· NEW: If installed, madVR is made available in MC
· Fixed: Clipboard could be overwritten with debugging data. (only applies to last couple builds)
· Changed: Improved DLNA renderer volume and mute support to work with more DLNA controllers.
· Fixed: Video renderer selection list was not available on the filter selections popup window.
· Fixed: Adding a new library could show an incorrect error that a library already existed at the selected location.
January 31st, 2010· Fixed: Some tooltips would not appear in build 135.
· Fixed: Library Field Manager dialog would not correctly enforce a minimum height, so controls could overflow.
· Changed: When starting Media Center with a /Library command line, it no longer loads the previous library before switching to the new library.
· Changed: Video DSP can be enabled / disabled in Options > General > Advanced > Features > Video DSP. (disabled by default)
· Fixed: AC3 output in DSP Studio was not accepted by some audio renderers/sound cards.
· Fixed: DLNA renderer was not properly eventing changes to subscribed controllers, which could cause issues like tracks not advancing.
· Changed: DLNA servers more nicely handle devices that make multiple event subscription requests with the same URL.
· Changed: When running Media Center elevated, shell extensions and launcher commands from non-elevated applications can still control Media Center.
January 31st, 2010· Changed: DSP Studio Filter will not be inserted if Dolby AC3 SPDIF is the current output format of the upstream decoder filter.
· Fixed: Raw input plugin wasn't getting enabled on systems running without administrator privilege.
· Fixed: Sorting control used in the Smartlist Editor could draw with a black background.
· NEW: DSP Studio 'Output Format' supports downmixing from 7.1, 5.1, and 4.0 to any configuration with less channels. (i.e. 5.1 to 2.0)
· Changed: Improved the messaging at the top of DSP plugins to show the audio format, and better message playback types that don't support DSP.
· Fixed: DSP Studio was causing problems with some types of videos.
· Fixed: Statusbar text could draw too large with some skins.
· Optimized: Tooltips are created on demand and destroyed once hidden instead of being always created.
· Changed: Editable comboboxes use combobox colors instead of edit colors.
January 31st, 2010· Fixed: Artist biographies were not appearing in the Performer store.
· Fixed: DSP Studio Filter connection problem for some input-output combinations.
· Changed: Improved appearance of several areas of the program when using skins that have gradient dialog backgrounds like 2nd Stage, etc.
· Optimized: Improved rendering performance with skins that use gradient dialog backgrounds.
· Optimized: Dialogs with static text controls use fewer render cycles in certain cases.
· Fixed: J. River audio engine (using DirectShow filters) could build a wrong DirectShow graph and fail to play an audio file if the audio decoder was set to use SPDIF passthrough mode.
January 31st, 2010· NEW: DSP Studio for video supports 'Output Format' settings, including upmixing to 5.1 and output as AC3.
· NEW: Artwork in the "Default Art" or "Custom Art" directories can be localized by adding a " - [Language]" to the filename. (example: Recorder - German.png, Recorder - Spanish.png, etc.)
· Fixed: Package installer / updater would not always honor a user's language selection.
· Changed: Improved volume support when controlling DLNA devices.
· Changed: Improved eventing of playback information when being controlled by a DLNA controller.
· Changed: DLNA controllers will see what's playing, including metadata, even if Media Center is not under DLNA control.
· NEW: DSP is now available for DVD and television.
January 31st, 2010· NEW: DSP Studio is now available in video playback when using J. River video engine (using DirectShow filters). [note that Volume Levelling and Output Format do not work]
· NEW: Added the ability to browse other DLNA servers and play content from them locally or to a different DLNA renderer. (works like Library Server, so pick the DLNA server in Menu > File > Library)
· Fixed: The on screen volume would blink every time a file started playback when using Internal volume.
January 23rd, 2010· Changed: Changing of video position in its window using mouse drag requires SHIFT key being held down. Applies to all video types played in DirectShow (television, DVD, video files).
· Fixed: Check for Updates dialog could appear behind other programs.
· Changed: Improved DLNA standards compliance of SSDP, server, and renderer components.
· Fixed: ATSC over-the-air EPG scan produced entries that were duplicates of XMLTV entries.
· Changed: EPG scan (OTA or XMLTV) purges old programming entries that conflict current scan results.
· Changed: Media Center better handles local file URLs like file://c:1.mp3.
· Fixed: The ASIO output option to use large hardware buffers could cause hiccups during playback.
· NEW: Numerous improvements to DLNA renderer for nicer support of remote controlling Media Center zones with other programs.
· Changed: All DLNA servers, renderers, etc. use ports from 52100 to 52199, choosen automatically based on availability.
· Fixed: Controllable DLNA devices would not always appear on systems with multiple local network interfaces.
· Fixed: Several DLNA fixes relating to systems with multiple network interfaces.
January 20th, 2010· Changed: Digital television decoder selection is merged with jtv file decoder selection
· Fixed: Color control was not available on television's Display property page when digital television was playing.
· Changed: DLNA renderer name changed to "hostname[:optional zone]"
· Fixed: DLNA renderer discovery didn't work on Windows XP (no zones showed up in Playing Now).
January 20th, 2010· Fixed: In build 128, the on screen volume would blink every time a file started playback when using Internal volume.
· Changed: The 'Playing Now' database location flag would not get cleared when a file was removed from Playing Now, causing problems with some Smartlists and SDK usage.
· Fixed: JRSS v2.0 stereo to 4.0 mixing was not working properly (only applies to build 128).
· Changed: Tuning of some JRSS surround sound mixing parameters.
· Changed: Room Correction and Headphones DSP settings are stored per-zone like other DSP settings(sorry, but settings will have to be reentered)
· Fixed: DLNA server could use stock views instead of customization views from Options > DLNA.
· Fixed: DLNA clients built using the Intel .NET UPnP stack would not show Media Center DLNA servers and renderers.
· Changed: Simplified the warning message about Microsoft Audio Decoder and AC3 decoding.
· NEW: Windows Media Player 12 can see Media Center's DLNA servers.
· Changed: Improved formatting of dollar amounts in Performer store.
January 20th, 2010· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks to Bytestar).
· NEW: Improved Room Correction distance correction to include level changes based on relative speaker distances.
· NEW: Added 'Mute', 'Solo', and 'Tone' options to Room Correction DSP.
· Changed: Volume increment when using keyboard / remote hotkeys is 1% instead of 5%.
· Changed: Renamed "Subwoofer cutoff" to "Subwoofer crossover" in Output Format DSP.
· Changed: Renamed "Speakers" DSP to "Room Correction".
· Changed: When the volume changes and the volume mode is set to "Internal", the on-screen-display will show the volume level just like when the volume is set to "Application" or "System".
· Changed: The Microsoft audio decoder AC3 decoding warning now has a "Configure Playback (requires keyboard and mouse)" button, to let users change configuration which can then be applied the next time the same file type is played.
January 17th, 2010· Fixed: Subclarity could cause a thump to be output on initial startup of playback.
· Changed: Renamed "Internal Volume (audio only)" to "Internal Volume" since it works with videos when doing analog output.
· NEW: Added 7.1 support to DSP Studio > Output Format selection.
· Fixed: 'Effects' DSP plugin did not properly report when the output format was not supported.
· Fixed: When changing output formats, it was possible for a DSP plugin to report it was processing data even though it wasn't able to handle the new format.
· NEW: 'Effects' DSP works with 4.0, 5.1, and 7.1 sound.
· Changed: Tuned DSP Studio > Effects > Surround Field effect and naming.
· Changed: The Microsoft audio decoder AC3 decoding warning is shown for television and video playback as well as DVD playback.
· NEW: Added new Speakers DSP plugin.
January 17th, 2010· Optimized: Improved DLNA threading so that service and subscription threads get destroyed instead of waiting idle.
· Optimized: Revised HTTP/1.1 pipe-lining code in all servers to require fewer threads in play during activity.
· Fixed: WASAPI output plugin was showing up as a choice in the playback option on Windows XP systems.
· Changed: When controlling other DLNA devices, full track metadata including cover art is provided.
January 17th, 2010· NEW: DLNA can expose zones as DLNA Renderers so that remote controls and other DLNA devices can control Media Center(Options > DLNA > Renderer) (still under development)
· Optimized: DLNA device discovery is better threaded and performs fewer network hits per found device.
· Changed: When playing with Tremote or DLNA control, the position slider will move more smoothly.
· Fixed: Some codecs (flac for example) were reported as "Unknown Media Type" in Compression field (build 124 only).
· Changed: DLNA servers and renderers provide more formats of images for support in more devices.
· Fixed: DLNA information packets didn't contain the DLNA namespace, causing parsing errors with some devices.
· Optimized: Switched DLNA view to a dynamic-data list control for better performance.
· Optimized: DLNA device control subscription renewal is handled by a background thread instead of the main thread.
January 17th, 2010· NEW: DLNA server supports container art and uses fanned thumbnails for file-list containers like Theater View.
· NEW: Added full music, image, and video search support for DLNA server(works with Western Digital, D-Link, etc.)
· Changed: Compression field is available for video as well as audio.
· NEW: Compression field is filled with codec info during import of video and audio that are played in DirectShow engine.
· Fixed: ReClock Audio Renderer was not available for selection.
January 17th, 2010· NEW: DLNA views are customizable per server. (Options > DLNA > [Select server] > Customize views...)
January 17th, 2010· NEW: DLNA improvements -- renaming, integrated with main program options, control works with servers on any port, revised artwork, etc.
· Fixed: Huge delay at startup for Silicondust HDHomerun and DNTV Live! Tiny USB2 BDA television tuners.
· Changed: Removed cancel choice from performer store account menu, since 'change subscription' can do the cancel by choosing 'Purchase only'.
· Changed: Doubled the number of songs shown for the "top songs" search.
· Changed: Some logging adjustment to speed up television startup.
January 7th, 2010· Fixed: Playing audio and images at the same time could crash.
· Fixed: Viewing the television view when it spanned from one year to the next could result in not all programs being shown.
· Changed: If DirectShow fails to analyze mts and m2ts files, MC will still import them as video.
· Changed: Improved internal structure of server foundation for better socket management, faster shutdown, and improved stability.
· Changed: DLNA Control must be enabled in Options > General > Advanced > Features > DLNA. (UPnP server not affected by this setting)
January 7th, 2010· Fixed: Analog television audio rendering problem on some tuner devices when not in time-shifting mode.
· Optimized: MC can better deal with occasional corrupt time-stamp data during playback of television time-shifting/recording files.
· Fixed: UPnP server was passing the wrong file size for files > 2 gigs. Resulted in truncated playback on some UPnP renders.
· Changed: UPnP server doesn't return resolution when asked unless it's non-zero.
January 7th, 2010· Changed: DirectShow DSP filter enumeration is moved to JRWorker and bad-behaving filters are black-listed, to avoid crashes caused by bad filters.
· Internal: Reorganization of DLNA internals.
December 25th, 2009· Changed: When searching for controllable DLNA devices, devices appear as they're found instead of after the search completes.
· Changed: When a zone is added or removed (i.eDLNA device found) 'Playing Now' will be expanded in the tree to show the change.
· Changed: Searching for DLNA devices happens periodically instead of only at startup.
· Changed: When controlling a DLNA device, metadata is provided to the device for display during playback.
December 25th, 2009· NEW: DLNA devices will appear as zones and allow playing, stopping, and other remote control functionality with Media Center (requires DLNA device to support control interfaces; currently requires DLNA server running on port 2869)
· Changed: Relaxed FLV Splitter downloading requirement, allowing the version installed with CCCP to be used.
· Changed: UPnP server temporarily disable Container Art, was causing unnecessary network traffic with some devices if the container had no art.
· Changed: UPnP server validate item art existence before passing it in Content Directories (see #3).
December 25th, 2009· Fixed: Audio tracks decoded using DirectShow filters, such as m4a, ac3, could not be burnt to audio CDs.
· Changed: In video playback audio renderer list no longer includes WaveOut devices.
· Fixed: Television could crash when MC tried to start scheduled recording (bug introduced in build 112).
· Fixed: Since build 82 Record button in standard television view has been unavailable for a channel, if there were no EPG data associated with the channel.
· Optimized: Improved XMLTV ID to television channel auto-matching algorithm The match rate is greatly improved(ATSC only.)
· Fixed: UPnP server, size passing in transcoding video content directory (resulted in playing stopping on some DLNA devices)Bug introduced in 14.0.114.
· New: Separated images and video options in the UPnP server.
December 25th, 2009· Changed: "DirectShow video playback settings..." is renamed to "Video playback settings..." The corresponding settings dialog window is revamped.
· NEW: Added experimental (and sparse) DLNA control support to allow playing, pausing, etca DLNA device('Control' button on right of UPnP server view)
December 25th, 2009· Fixed: Cover art was not imported from MyMovies data file.
· NEW: UPnP server, support multiple rendering devicesCan create customizable profilesNew options dialogNeed Feedback!
· Fixed: UPnP server NOTIFY wasn't working properly.
December 25th, 2009· Fixed: Stop button could stop working during television playbackIn build 112 only.
· Added: UPnP server, supply image height and width if requestedSupply date information for all files if requested (for example, shows up under image properties on a PS3)
· Changed: Removed existing UPnP multiple device support which depended on autodetecting the device via the user-agent header which was unreliablePreparing the way for device profiles.
December 25th, 2009· Changed: When tagging note text that's already tagged, empty portions from the old tag are removed.
· Changed: Any note tagged as a 'Google Contact' will sync to Google, allowing sync of non-contact items.
· Fixed: The last.fm plugin Buddy system could crash.
· Changed: Revised Google contact data parsing rules, particularly in regards to how notes and custom fields are handled.
· Fixed: Pressing Stop button immediately after starting to play a digital television channel could lead to crash.
· NEW: Smartlist editor supports 'contains' and 'does not contain' when working with keyword lists.
· Fixed: Empty parenthesis on a function like Now() could cause problems when used in an expression search.
December 15th, 2009· Changed: After navigating back in a library view, Album Artist (auto) categories could change their display name from 'Artist' to 'Album Artist (auto)'.
· Changed: Saved television time-shifting files are now imported.
· Changed: When copying HTML between notes, context like what field, formatting, etcis better preserved.
· Fixed: After playback, WMV files could remain locked.
· Changed: Added workaround for blue-screen bugs in ATI 46xx driver under Windows 7 during concurrent DirectShow video graph building.
· Changed: When deleting text in a note, empty fields are removed.
December 15th, 2009· Fixed: Video renderer selection and configuration controls on File Types option window could be cropped when user selected higher text font.
· NEW: Skins can optionally support resizing the main playerbar for large fonts(see property AllowEnlargeForFont in main.xml of Noire for an example)
· Changed: The art for the display area of the playerbar can specify it should surround only the text by setting Style="1"(see Noire for an example)
· Changed: The Action Window titlebar better supports large fonts.
· Changed: Action Window skin art can specify that the template image is 'HeaderOnly'(see Noire for an example)
· Changed: Statusbar caps font size to avoid overflowing text when using very large fonts.
December 15th, 2009· Fixed: Clearing remote control learning could fail to work in some cases.
· Changed: Revamped DVD settings dialog window It now includes a "Connection Type" selection for audio renderers, for users to indicate whether the audio output is connected to a digital amplifier capable of decoding AC3 audio.
· Fixed: Some text was cut off in DVD error dialog window.
· Fixed: Asking the math evaluator to evaluate the expression "-" could crash the program.
· Changed: Empty notes are deleted on save.
· Fixed: HTML clipboard format from edit controls could have incorrect value offsets.
· Changed: Notes view better preserves scroll and pane selection when making edits.
· Fixed: When tagging selected text in a note, not all field properties would be preserved (i.e'PhoneWork' could become just 'Phone').
· Changed: A warning/info popup when DVD playback encounters Microsoft audio decoder and non-passthrough audio output.
· Fixed: When installing some components during install, the display text could show the word components twice in a row.
· Fixed: UPnP PS3 video conversion streaming.
· Fixed: UPnP image support on some DLNA devices wasn't working properly (i.eStreamium 300i).
December 15th, 2009· Changed: Removed dvd cover art lookup which was returning too many incorrect results.
· Fixed: 303 redirects in Podcasts were not working.
· Changed: Dutch language translation updated(thanks bennyd!)
· Internal: Revised search box mechanism used when in 'Wizard' mode to build on HTML system from notes(please report any issues)
· Changed: More complete mapping of Google phone types for Notes.
· Changed: Note field labels show the type (i.ework) instead of field (i.ephone) when available.
· Changed: Translation is applied to display of library category names and search lists so stock English views are better translated(has the side-effect of making it impossible to intentionally use English if an English to [Current Language] translation exists)
· Changed: Notes with fields marked as a website allow opening the website with a control+click anywhere on the link (like Word, Frontpage, etc.).
· Changed: When editing a note, the list of notes updates and sorts right away after clicking away from a change.
· Changed: Notes don't show field labels by default(right-click allows toggling)
· Changed: Notes CSV import better formats incoming data.
· Changed: UPnP transcode to wmv when windows media compat (xbox) is set and mpeg2 dvd profile when PS3 compat is setOnly the quickest of computers will keep up with the mpeg2 transcode currentlyNeeds updated plugins/ffmpeg.xmlDelete the current plugins/ffmpeg.exe and when the conversion happens it'll download a new versionYou can play with the profile in the xml file if you want to mess with the transcoding.
· Fixed: UPnP update playstatsA bit tricky because some devices do multiple GET's when reading a video stream (like the PS3).
· Added: UPnP container artworkWhen past the first level, if the device requests artwork, we return the first artwork file from the database for that view if it exists.
· Added: UPnP support mimetypes for artwork that isn't .jpg.
· Fixed: UPnP send connection type KEEPALIVE instead of CLOSED when streaming a transcoded fileHopefully this will prevent some devices from timing out (and not cause other trouble)Need Feedback.
· Fixed: UPnP, PS3 requires a -1 size in the content directory for transcoded video files.
· Fixed: YouTube downloads were not always working.
December 15th, 2009· Fixed: iPod parsing could crash (only applies to last few builds).
· Changed: Updated all translation files to include latest language from the source code.
· Changed: Import through the Action Window does not start when loading the program with an empty library if the option 'Run auto-import in background' is disabled.
· Changed: Google login is preserved for the run of the program (up to 4 hours).
· Fixed: Backspace / delete in HTML editing control could corrupt the HTML.
· Changed: Unified Google import / export in Notes to a single "Sync With Google" command (also available as 'G' button).
· Fixed: Dates with a decimal in the seconds could parse incorrectly.
· Changed: Program is marked as large address aware so that it can address ~3GB memory on a 32-bit OS and ~4GB memory on a 64-bit OS. (useful when dealing with huge images, etc.)
December 2nd, 2009· Fixed: Store navigation could crash in some cases.
· Changed: Minor application manifest change that should disable any UAC redirection (and the problems associated with redirection).
· Fixed: Several edit control fixes and improvements.
· Changed: Notes hide internal Google data.
· Fixed: UPnP audio transcoding broken in build 14.0.104
· Added: UPnP, more mimetype support for mp4/m4v files for DLNA devices like the PS3This will enable mp4/m4v files supported by the device to be played without transcoding.
December 2nd, 2009· NEW: Edit control for notes supports formatting (font size, color, bolding, etc.).
· Changed: Notes stored as HTML instead of XML.s.
December 2nd, 2009· Optimized: Spell checking engine is loaded in a background thread when using a spell-checking edit control.
· Changed: Improved how edit control breaks data into words so that control+arrow, double-click on a word, spell-checking etcdo a better job with contractions, hyphenated words, etc.
· Optimized: Improved edit control redrawing system to make fewer and smaller redraws.
· Changed: Enumeration of available DirectShow DSP filters is postponed until the "Add DirectShow DSP Filter" submenu is selected (in Plug-in Manager and DSP Studio) .
· Added: UPnP DLNA/PS3 and Xbox 360 m4v mimetype supportNot guaranteed to work with all m4v files.
· Added: UPnP video transcoding to WMVNot configurableCheckbox in uPnP optionsConverts everything to a basic wmv formatWorks with Xbox 360, not in PS3 yetNeed feedback for other devices.
December 2nd, 2009· Fixed: When Theater View failed to load due to a graphics failure, it would crash instead of nicely printing an error on the screen.
· Fixed: OSD in video playback only showed the first line (build 102 only).
· Added: aac audio playback and mp4 video playback mimetypes to uPnP serverAllows playback on Xbox 360 with free optional codec from xbox live.
· Added: UPnP server device icon.
· Fixed: UPnP audio transcoding that required direct show filters.
· Changed: Changed how MC handles converting from byte buffer to string when reading tags from WAVE INFO LIST chunks.
· NEW: Added spell checker to Notes (still a work in progress (slow, known bugs); compatible with OpenOffice / Firefox dictionaries; dictionaries go in Languages folder (see English for example)).
December 2nd, 2009· NEW: Full VCD playback support, with ability to jump from track to track.
· Fixed: When recording two consecutive television programs, the second recording could be imported with the program name of the first recording, if the user was watching the show when the second recording started.
· NEW: Notes allows typing freeform and the data is parsed into fields automatically (fields can be changed by selecting text and right-clicking, or clicking the label).
· NEW: Added the ability to create a contact at Google when exporting a contact to Google that didn't already exist.
November 19th, 2009· Fixed: iPod detection could be a problem in the last couple builds.
· Fixed: YouTube-based Podcasts (i.e. feed URL of youtube:cars) were very slow (only applies to last few builds).
November 19th, 2009· Fixed: Playback with visualizations enabled could cause a crash.
November 19th, 2009· Fixed: When doing Restart Player during time-shifting, or start watching a TV show while recording is going on, there could be a loud sound at the beginning.
· Fixed: Video crashed in build 98.
· Fixed: Rotating an image would not always update the thumbnail correctly.
· Changed: Media Center is marked as DPI aware to prevent the buggy Windows Vista / Windows 7 DPI virtualization from running (remember you can set font sizes for Media Center in Options > Tree & View).
· Changed: User font size selections are stored in a DPI-dependent way to provide better scaling as a user changes DPI (user font selection will need to be reset).
· Fixed: Previous/Next button did not move video to previou/next chapter when playing video with chapters.
· Fixed: Hiss in L16 (Big endian wave) conversion. Affected uPnP server conversions to uncompressed wave.
November 19th, 2009· Fixed: DirectShow Filter selection for "DVD Video (ifo, vob)" file type did not have any effect.
· Fixed: Problem playing m3u playlists.
· NEW: CD burning now works in data mode as well as audio mode with data coming over library server.
· Changed: Improved MyMovies support with regard to ripped DVDs' folder specification. MyMovies.xml in the parent folder of VIDEO_TS folder will be used if one is not found in the VIDEO_TS folder itself.
· Changed: If hardware fails to create large ASIO buffers, the program will fallback to the default size. (relates to ASIO option 'Use large hardware buffers (recommended to prevent stutter)'
· NEW: Added album art support to the uPnP server.
· Fixed: Some more mimetypes parsed and passed by the uPnP server (should play more supported media types).
November 19th, 2009· Changed: Some tweaks in video chapter support, including additional logging.
· Fixed: Caret placement in some multiline wrapping edit controls would not work nicely near the end of the control.
· Fixed: Visualizations in Mini View could be hidden in some cases.
· NEW: User specified sorting is possible in 3D views.
· Changed: On screen color controls weren't available when viewing videos on Windows 7.
· Fixed: Fixed a possible date parsing bug with dates from 2010.
November 10th, 2009· NEW: An "Auto Match" button on Load EPG wizard window to automatically match channels to XMLTV IDs (works for ATSC only).
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks to Bytestar).
· NEW: Added Theater View option 'Disable screen saver in Theater View'.
· Fixed: Theater View scrollbars could show an incorrect position.
· Internal: Changed library tools and cover art tools to to use standard command (MCC) and resource.xml scheme.
· Fixed: Party Mode would allow library tools to be run if they were in the MRU list.
· Fixed: MRU menu items didn't always use the correct enabled / disabled state for the command.
· Fixed: WAVE Plugin could not play WAV files containing 32-bit float audio samples.
· Fixed: Deleting all files in a view after a search + pane selection would reset the search.
· NEW: Added experimental support for audio burning when connected to library server (data burning not yet working).
· Fixed: Streaming / seeking in some types of files was not working over a remote connection. (only applies to last few builds)
November 10th, 2009· Fixed: Czech language translation was not working properly. (thanks Johnny B)
· NEW: MC will try to read tags from INFO LIST chunk in WAVE files if ID3v2 tags do not exist. This allows tags to be read from WAVE files created by Windows Media Player.
· Changed: When starting/changing television channel, the OSD showing the channel/program info is displayed without a 3.5 seconds delay (even if the channel change has not yet completed).
· Fixed: Mapping of an XMLTV ID to a television channel did not work for the last few builds.
· NEW: Added UPnP PlayStation 3 preset option selection.
· NEW: It's possible to sync contact changes made in Notes back to Google using Notes > Tools > Export Selected to Google... (proceed with caution). (internal notes format changed -- must erase all notes and start over) BE VERY CAUTIOUS using this -- possible data loss. BACKUP FIRST.
November 5th, 2009· Fixed: On Windows 7, JRService was not shutting down correctly.
· Changed: Czech language translation updated. (thanks Johnny B)
· Fixed: Showing a library view in the tree that contained thousands of items could use too much memory (or run out of memory in extreme cases).
· NEW: Added Customize Store option to store's account menu to provide parental controls and the ability to customize what genres to show.
· Fixed: Editing expression text in an edit control using the popup expression editor would not always properly save changes.
· Fixed: MC could write ID3v2 tags repeatedly at the end of some WAVE or AIFF files and the written tags could not be read, if the original file did not conform to WAVE or AIFF specifications.
· Changed: WAV Plug-in is renamed "WAVE & AIFF Plugin".
· Fixed: WAVE plugin could not play WAVE files created by Windows Media Player.
· Fixed: UPnP browsing improved on the XBox 360.
· NEW: XBox 360, DLNA and PlayStation 3 image (jpeg) and video support (wmv).
November 5th, 2009· Optimized: Reduced the number of system libraries loaded when starting the program.
· Fixed: Using a mouse with DVD menus didn't work well when the video image was zoomed or offset from the player window.
· Fixed: When using a custom font DPI setting with Windows 7, taskbar showed on top of fullscreen view and the player buttons were inactivated following video playback.
· NEW: Added ability to import contacts from gmail. (notes format changed -- please erase all notes and start over)
November 5th, 2009· Changed: When ripping a CD in Theater View, silent lookup operation will be used (no errors, no multi-match, no submissing, etc.)
· Fixed: The auto-rip setting 'If no matches are found, show CD submission dialog' was not being honored.
· Changed: The settings for automatically ripping / playing a CD or DVD will be honored in Theater View and Display View. (but the default 'Ask every time' will lead to no actions)
· Changed: Added advanced Theater View option 'Allow special handling on media insertion' that allows disabling automatic playback of DVDs on insertion while in Theater View.
· Changed: Improvements / fixes to Notes feature.
· Fixed: In panes, the 'New entry' item shown for pane tagging would incorrectly allow a slow-double click to rename.
· Internal: Library backups contain user settings. (for internal use only -- not designed to allow users to restore settings).
November 5th, 2009· NEW: Added experimental XBox 360 support to UPnP server.
· Fixed: Dolby Digital playback in 4.0 mode (instead of 5.1 mode) could crash.
· NEW: Added XML import / export of notes (in MPL format).
· NEW: Added the ability to organize notes by keyword.
October 28th, 2009· Fixed: WAVE/AIFF plugin did not show ID3v2 tags in tag format dump.
· Changed: Changed WAV/AIFF input plugin option "Do not write tags to WAV/AIFF files" to "Write tags to WAVE/AIFF files" with default set to false.
· Fixed: Media Center 14 Service could generate a shutdown error when closing the program on Windows 7.
· Fixed: A few features were not available (only applies to build 89).
· Internal: Revised how redirects are handled when loading Internet resources, so that form post data is preserved across the redirect.
· Fixed: A few store fields could show as user fields in the 'Manage Library Fields' dialog.
· Fixed: Ripping with concurrent ripping disabled could output big endian WAV files instead of little endian files.
· Changed: It's possible to sort a Category in pane view by 'Number of Files'.
· Fixed: Sorting specified on a per-category basis for a view was not being honored when viewing thumbnails.
· Fixed: Wavpack files could have import / playback issues.
· Fixed: Random sorting did not work properly in the panes or Theater View.
October 28th, 2009· NEW: Added experimental notes feature
October 24th, 2009· Fixed: Possible view crash in build 87.
· Fixed: When importing a video with sidecar some fields in the sidecar were ignored if values of the same fields are found embedded in the video file. The possible fields are Name, Album, Artist, Genre, Rating, and Copyright. Please report to us if you have problem with other fields.
October 24th, 2009· Fixed: MC did not write tags to AIFF files correctly in some instances.
· Changed: MC will reclaim space saved by change in tags in WAVE/AIFF files if the saved space is 256KB or larger.
· Changed: When writing tags MC will be more tolerant of incorrectly written AIFF files created by other applications.
· Fixed: The Theater View theme online media slideshow feature was not available.
· Fixed: The television program list in Standard View did not draw its border.
· Optimized: Improved performance of television guide parsing.
· Fixed: View state settings like columns could be lost between runs (only applies to last few builds).
· Fixed: MC could not remove tags in WAVE/AIFF files.
· Fixed: MC could not read lyrics written in an ID3v2 user frame.
· NEW: Added a configuration dialog for the WAVE/AIFF input plugin to turn writing to files on or off (the default is off).
· Fixed: MC could not retrieve an embedded image from an ID3v2 tag in WAVE/AIFF files.
· Optimized: Improvements to Theater View performance. (for example, entering a ~500,000 album view: build 86: gave up after an hour; build 87: 12 seconds)
October 24th, 2009· Fixed: MC could not read ID3v2 tags Tag&Rename (WAVE).
· Fixed: MC could not read ID3v2 tags in AIFF files.
· Fixed: MC did not write ID3v2 tags in AIFF files correctly.
October 24th, 2009· NEW: Added support for Windows Aero / Glass skin 'Noire Glass'. (experimental, may not remain)
· Changed: Changed how ID3v2 tag writing is handled in WAV/AIFF files when the tag data need to be moved from the beginning of the file to the end of the file.
· Fixed: Visualizations embedded on a track info page did not bind to the correct zone. (only applies to build 84)
· Changed: Improved sound quality of 'Tempo & Pitch' DSP.
· Fixed: Smartlist modifiers were not being translated.
· Internal: Removed MFC usage from installer.
· Changed: When a skin requires Windows Aero, a warning is shown at skin load time if the system does not support Aero.
· Changed: When a view that doesn't natively support Windows Glass is shown (like a webpage view) the view will be hosted in a separate window to avoid transparency issues.
· Changed: Updated view header notes controls to be Glass friendly.
October 17th, 2009· Fixed: The method being used to detect the installed version of Internet Explorer was not working properly with IE 6(Media Center requires IE 5 or later for installation)
· Fixed: Installing a license from an mjr file when running unelevated with UAC could cause issues.
· Changed: Installer removes any JRiver UAC-redirection registry keys(redirection is not needed or desirable for current JRiver programs)'
· Optimized: Improved performance of core date handling library(used by many parts of the program)
· Changed: Library Sync over library server allows clearing fields (previously only accepted non-empty changes).
· Changed: Library Sync supports file removal (previously only supported additions / modifications).
· Optimized: Numerous database engine speed improvements.
· Fixed: UPnP server transcode option to uncompressed wave (L16 big endian) for DLNA compatible devices (like the PlayStation 3)
· NEW: ID3v2 tagging in WAVE and AIFF files
· Fixed: Dragging into the player could make the program switch to always-on-top.
· Fixed: Visualizations were not working properly with newly created zones.
· Fixed: WAVE input plug-in did not handle padding byte in chunk data correctly.
October 17th, 2009· Fixed: The program list in Television view would incorrectly allow in place editing(only applies to build 82)
· Fixed: Theater View themes wouldn't show root items (only applies to build 82).
· Changed: Television component will no longer try to grab keyboard focus when a scheduled recording is started.
· Fixed: Performing a 'Clear' in Theater View's Playing Now could cause a crash.
· Fixed: Uninstalling a plugin prompts for UAC elevation (previously could fail with UAC enabled).
· Fixed: High bitrate FLAC files would not display their VBR bitrates during playback.
· Fixed: MPC tagging could crash.
· Fixed: Scheduler playback tasks would not work properly when configured to target newly created zones.
· Changed: Made 'Album Artist (auto)' column show a link icon, just like 'Artist'.
· NEW: Added 'Benchmark' tool to measure system performance and help diagnose performance problems(Help > Benchmark...)
October 17th, 2009· Fixed: When playing a digital television channel with no sound card (or other errors), MC just showed a black screen with no error message Now an error message is displayed on screen.
· Fixed: When playing an analog television channel with no sound card, MC could hang.
· Optimized: Improved performance of television recording engine shutdown.
· Fixed: Television recordings were not properly correlated to their recording rule, preventing automatic deletion(old recordings will need to be deleted manually)
· Changed: Improved messaging when configuring recording for a television program that was scheduled to be recorded, but then was canceled.
· Changed: When emailing images, parametric edits and rotation will be applied even if the option 'Keep the original sizes' is selected.
· Changed: Television view in Standard View allows multiple selection for easier deletion of recordings.
· Changed: Television view supports sorting.
· Fixed: When playing audio in "JRiver audio engine (using DirectShow)", gapless output setting was sometimes not properly honored.
· NEW: Added Theater View theme option for 'Show online media slideshow in artist views'.
· Changed: Theater View themes better support translation (English folder names recommended for custom themes to make sharing possible across languages)
· Changed: Updated the Chinese language file (thanks to Katapa).
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks to Bytestar).
October 11th, 2009· NEW: Uncompressed AIFF audio (*aif, *aiff, *aifc) files can be played natively in "J River audio engine (using input plug-in)"
· Changed: Skinning engine supports 'Indent' rectangle for search and edit boxes for better control over text position in the box
· Changed: Improved saving mechanism and messaging for the image editor
· Fixed: 32-bit uncompressed WAVE file could not be played in "J River audio engine (using input plug-in)"
· Changed: 12-bit uncompressed WAVE file, previously routed to DirectShow when user selected "Automatic" playback method, is now routed to WAVE plug-in
· Changed: Image editing can be invoked without entering the image preview mode
· Changed: Standardized the image tools right-click menu to be more consistent between the file list and image preview modes
· Fixed: Some stock Mini View skins weren't showing text properly
· Changed: Mini View skin parser accepts rectangles entered in reverse order (unnormalized), since this was supported in older versions
· Changed: Reworked how menus and toolbars draw the last item when a chevron appears for a more natural look
· Changed: Improved how view headers perform their layout as they run out of horizontal space
· Fixed: Some singles wouldn't appear in the store
· Changed: Better messaging in the store for albums that haven't been released yet
· Changed: Higher quality cover art is used when streaming from the store
· Optimized: Improved image quality and loading performance of album images on home page
· Optimized: The thumbnailing engine uses filename-based caching so the same filename or URL isn't read over-and-over to display a list of files with the same external image filename (cache items only live a short amount of time)
· Fixed: MC would crash if user attempted to scan television channel while having no television device installed on the computer
· Fixed: Scrolling and sizing of the Tag Action Window could be problematic
· Changed: Editing in the Tag Action Window places the edit below the label with the full width of the window
· Fixed: In rare cases, clicking away from editing in the Tag Action Window could crash
October 11th, 2009· NEW: Added the ability to uninstall a DSP plug-in to the 'Add plug-in' menu in DSP Studio
· Fixed: Stock DSP plug-ins could be uninstalled, possibly causing problems
· Fixed: Output plug-ins / drivers that don't fully play down their queued buffers could stall on the last track, requiring a manual stop to be pressed
· NEW: Added support for MainFrame::MenuBackground skin item to place a skinned background under the main menu
· : Changed: Try to support ipod nano 5g Music only! Need feedback
October 11th, 2009· Fixed: Theater View themes didn't run a slideshow in artist-style views.
October 11th, 2009· Fixed: Theater View themes didn't run a slideshow in artist-style views.
October 11th, 2009· Fixed: With Media Server running, previewing an image from Explorer then closing with the 'x' wouldn't close the program
· Changed: Theater View themes better handle switching between views that resolve to the same theme path
· NEW: When a Theater View theme uses a video, the position of the video will be saved so leaving and reentering the view resumes in the last location
· NEW: Theater View can switch between multiple installed themes in Options > Theater View
· NEW: Theater View themes can be packaged up into a zip files, shared, and installed from a zip file (Options > Theater View > Theme)
· Changed: The view menu at the top of My Computer views allows changing list styles without using the customization dialog
· Fixed: Performer store startup should be quicker - zero initial hits to the Discovery music service
October 11th, 2009· Fixed: If the system was configured to prompt about accepting a cookie, it could show a dialog from Podcasting or Theater View themes Now cookies will be silently rejected in this case
· Optimized: Improved data flow when using Dolby Digital output to remove all memory allocations, and greatly reduce the number of memory copies
· Fixed: Theater View could draw scrollbars for lists that were not scrollable
· NEW: Added soft edges to Theater View theme images
· NEW: Improved aspect ratio handling of Theater View theme images
· NEW: Theater View themes can use videos instead of just images (they cross-fade with other videos or images when using multiple videos)
· Changed: Updated French translation (thanks Benoit de Corn)
· Changed: Improved efficiency and caching used by Theater View theme images
· Changed: Double clicking an image in Windows Explorer will always display in a windowed display view (previously it could go full screen)
October 11th, 2009· NEW: Added new Theater View background system called 'Themes' available in Options > Theater View (experimental -- may not remain).
· Fixed: Some Theater View backgrounds could draw before the rest of the skin would draw.
· Fixed: Theater View scroll / selection could be reset when re-entering Theater View.
· NEW: Added define for ipod shuffle 3g. Need feedback.
· Fixed: Delete temp files created when trying to automatically add cover art to flac files that were read-only.
October 11th, 2009· Fixed: The loading page of the Performer Store did not properly support translation
· Fixed: Navigating back from an external page like Images or Wiki in the Performer Store could show a never-ending 'Loading' page
· Changed: The television guide list shows 18 hours forward instead of 12 hours forward from the start time (in Standard View and Theater View)
· Fixed: A television recording in Theater View with no date would show a spurious comma in the display
· Changed: The television programming guide only says 'Showing' when viewing the current time
· Fixed: Editorial content for Performer store was not getting downloaded
· Changed: Display of home page in Performer store is quicker
· Fixed: Download action window showed a 'Cancel' button even if the download was already completed
· Internal: Reworked how wait messages are shown to better prevent them causing a situation where a pop-up shows under the program
· Changed: If a DVD is inserted while Theater View is showing and nothing is playing, the disc will be played, regardless of the AutoPlay settings in Options > CD & DVD
· Changed: The 'Play' button on the remote will act like pressing enter in Theater View when a non-playable item is selected (allows pressing 'Play' on DVD to start playback, or 'Play' to browse news, etc)
· Changed: Tuned how remote control blasting works when generating repeats to work better on transceivers capable of blasting and receiving simultaneously (like the J River Media Center Remote)
· Changed: When displaying a file size, a decimal is only shown for values less than 100 (ie will show decimal for 485 MB but not for 641 MB)
· NEW: Added define for ipod nano 5g Need feedback
September 23rd, 2009· Fixed: Deleting television recording files from within MC did not work since build 62.
· Changed: DSP Studio no longer refuses to show when playback is stopped, but Playing Now contains images or videos.
· Changed: When enabling or disabling a DSP in DSP Studio, that DSP is shown.
· Changed: Dolby Digital output of 5.1 sound works with DirectSound. (previously only worked with WASAPI)
· Fixed: Entering Theater View at a view that showed a popup, like Hulu or YouTube searches, would show a black screen.
September 23rd, 2009· NEW: Added ability to output music as a 5.1 Dolby Digital stream in DSP Studio > Output Format. (requires S/PDIF connection to surround sound receiver)
· Changed: The file " - Saved Time-Shifting.jtv" will not be imported as part of a folder during auto or manual import. They can still be imported manually by drag individual files to player, or by selecting the individual files and using shell extension.
· NEW: Playback Range can now be applied to audio files that are played in "J. River Audio engine (using DirectShow)".
· Changed: Performer store does better error handling when a user logs in on two computers at the same time.
September 18th, 2009· Changed: ipod defines to work with itunes 9.0.0 database.
· Fixed: gracefully ignore corrupt flac files with insane number of supposed comments in the metadata.
· Changed: When a television recording ends, a sidecar file is automatically created.
· Fixed: The grab on the tree/view splitter would be reset if the Action Window changed height from the size.
· Changed: Performer Store is back. Previous builds had an installation error that prevented the store from working properly.
· Changed: If the user has not selected any transform filter ("Other Filters") except for the "J. River Bitrate Monitor" for MPEG video and J. River television recording files, MC will try to use the Microsoft video decoder.
· Changed: In custom IR blast dialog, import from Pronto hex code is now available on Vista/Win7 as well as XP.
September 18th, 2009· Internal testing build.
September 14th, 2009· Changed: Updated EPG in Standard View to allow viewing further into the future. (allows back 2 days, forward two weeks plus two days)
· NEW: Added command 'Rebuild Thumbnail' to the cover art menu to force thumbnail building. (builds video thumbnails even if the option is disabled in Options > Tree & View)
· Fixed: Television OSD for current and next programs displayed only the sub-titles without the series name.
· Changed: Switched sliders on output plug-in configuration dialogs to J. River sliders; fixed tab navigation issues.
· Fixed: Vista's window presentation engine would not correctly handle displaying multiple subsequent 3D views. (problem fixed by Microsoft in Windows 7, workaround added for Vista)
· Fixed: Syncing a portable device from Library Server did not work correctly.
· Fixed: When canceling time-based subscriptions for a television channel, the subscription's recording start time was displayed as "4:00PM 12/31/1899" (109 years ago). Now it will be shown as "4:00PM every Mon, Tue, Fri", for example.
· Changed: Adding files to the library will run one-at-a-time during a background import, and only two-at-a-time during a manual import.
· Optimized: Auto-import builds thumbnails two-at-a-time when run manually.
· Changed: Auto-import will no longer respond to external file system changes while playing in Display View, but instead wait to reconcile changes until exiting Display View.
· Fixed: Folder watching would not always kick-in right away after making changes with a fresh install.
· NEW: Added 'Run Auto-Import Now' option to Import wizard.
· NEW: Reworked the 'Auto-Import' page of the import wizard to be less intrusive with suggestions.
· Changed: Improved support for shortcuts like right-click and double-click in the Auto-Import wizard.
· Changed: Minor change to ipod detection that could possibly have resulted in an ipod model detection error.
September 14th, 2009· Changed: When a DirectShow graph error occurs in the playback graph during television time-shifting (or during watching while recording), MC no longer aborts the entire operation. It simply attempts to restart playing graph so recording can continue.
· Changed: 'Tempo & Pitch' DSP uses 0.01x steps (previously used much larger steps).
· Changed: 'Tempo & Pitch' DSP allows typing to enter values. (typed values take effect after one second of no typing)
· Changed: Sliders used in DSP plugins are custom controls instead of system sliders (better skinning, better mouse wheel support, etc.).
· Changed: Improve tabbing support in many dialogs.
· Fixed: Canceling television recording by right-click menu "Cancel Current Recording" did not work if the recording was a time-based subscription recording.
· NEW: Ability to schedule recurring recordings (time-based subscriptions) for TV channels with no EPG data
September 10th, 2009· Optimized: Further improvements to user interface updating during playback (also fixes position slider problem with build 64).
· Fixed: Using MCC Theater View commands while zoomed into the File Info panel could cause a crash.
· Fixed: XMLTV parser trims non-printing characters from values for better support of some third-party XML.
· Fixed: Nested Theater View root items wouldn't appear when first entering Theater View.
· Fixed: Filling properties from filenames and using dates didn't always work properly.
· Fixed: A tagless MP3 could show up with a genre of 'Blues'.
· Changed: Improved FileVolume(...) expression support for (Install Drive): style filenames used in portable installs.
· Fixed: In a portable install, settings that ended with escape characters (backslash, equals, etc.) could become corrupted(may require delete and reinstall to fully fix)
· Fixed: In some cases, like when resuming from S3 standby, Media Center could show an 'Analyzing devices...' wait message despite being minimized.
· Fixed: Having a modeless popup tool like 'Convert Files' open would make Theater View disable itself for keyboard and mouse input.
· Changed: Tweaked the 'Repeat Playlist' mode so that it will loop on a single audio file but won't loop on a single image or video.
· Fixed: The Theater View option "Disable Windows Media Center" would always appear unchecked.
· Fixed: Learned remote commands couldn't be tested until exiting the options dialog.
September 10th, 2009· Fixed: Turning off media types in Features in Options > General > Advanced > Features could cause a crash.
· Changed: Showing of library views on the 'View' menu when in a library view is in a nested 'Library Views' submenu.
· NEW: Theater View file info panel templates can use 'Small Image' or 'No Image' styles.
· Changed: Theater View file info panel roller shows in place of secondary roller, allowing more space for content.
· Changed: Revised text formatting of dates for recorded television in Theater View.
· Fixed: Scrolling Recorded television in Theater View with the scrollbar would show internal text formatting tokens.
· Changed: When playing a television recording that is currently being recorded, playback goes to television engine, instead of video file playback engine Note that this change also reverses change 11 in Build 63.
· Optimized: Improved handling of view updates during playback to aid overall performance.
· Optimized: Reworked how Theater View rollers are managed to improve Theater View performance.
· Changed: Theater View rollers no longer show a slide-in-from-the-left animation when first picking a roller.
· NEW: MC will import MyMovies data in the file [mediafilename].mymovies.xml or mymovies.xml residing in the same folder as video file, if the standard JRSidecar file does not exist, provided the data contained in the xml file pertain to the media file.
September 10th, 2009· Fixed: Auto-install after 30 seconds was not working properly (only applies to last few builds).
· Fixed: Silent install from the command line (/Silent) was not working properly (only applies to last few builds).
· Fixed: Television subscription recordings would not have their metadata filled in (only applies to build 62).
· Fixed: 'Search for Library Servers' was not being translated.
· Fixed: Bookmark synchronization in television recording was broken in build 62.
· Changed: 3D wall views could unnecessarily clip other tiles when zooming into a tile.
· Optimized: Loading UTF-8 XML files to memory is more memory efficient (fixes out-of-memory conditions when parsing huge XMLTV files).
· Fixed: On a fresh install, the program could launch behind other programs.
· Fixed: Some commands and messages would not work properly with newly created zones.
· Changed: MCC commands that target specific zones use a zone index (like v13) instead of a zone ID since a zone ID can't always fit in the 6-bits allocated for the zone identifier.
· Changed: When playing a television program or channel that is being recorded, playback automatically switches to play the recorded file
September 10th, 2009· Fixed: Using a playlist reference in 'Access Control' could cause a crash.
· Changed: Reworked the 'Access Control' dialog to be more clear.
· Fixed: Sorting of files inside a category thumbnail in a library view would use the panes file list sorting rules instead of the sorting rules from the bottom list.
· Fixed: When adding a new library view, it could get added as a locked view that showed warnings when making changes. (views can be unlocked in Customize View > Advanced)
· Fixed: Television that was currently recording didn't show up in 'Recordings' view of Theater View.
· Fixed: Importing a television program that was in the process of recording could cause strange results.
· Changed: Revised layout of date / time selection controls in 'Television' view.
· Changed: The Import wizard Auto-Import list puts checked folders at the top of the list.
· Changed: The Import wizard Auto-Import list won't check all folders if a user intentionally selects no folders for auto-import.
September 3rd, 2009· Changed: When loading the Microsoft video decoder, MC will use the correct filter name for each OS (usually "Microsoft MPEG-2 Video Decoder" for Vista or "Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder" for Windows 7.)
· Fixed: 64-bit shell extension registration could effectively unregister 32-bit shell extensions.
· Fixed: Shell extensions could leave JRTools.dll locked, making it necessary to reboot to do an install.
· Fixed: The 'Next' button wasn't properly disabled during the file copying stage of the install(only applies to build 54 and newer)
· Fixed: After finishing with the remote control learning wizard, changes weren't saved (only applies to build 60).
· Fixed: The Library Sync from Library Server wasn't writing all of the fields properly in the local library.
· Changed: Manually switching libraries when using Tremote will no longer stop playback on the server.
· Fixed: Playing Hulu clips could leave the player in a slightly undefined state once playback was stopped.
· Classified
· Fixed: Windows 7 RTM could show some devices twice or show spurious iPod detection warnings.
September 3rd, 2009· Changed: When loading an image for a file fails, the 'Image File' field will only be cleared in cases where the actual file itself can be found(so playing a missing file won't clear cover art)
· Changed: In digital television and DVD playback, if the user does not select a video decoder (i.ethe user chooses "Automatic"), MC tries to use "Microsoft MPEG-2 Video Decoder" if available.
· Changed: In digital television and DVD audio/video decoder selection "Let DirectShow choose a filter for me" and "Automatic selection" are renamed "Automatic" for consistency across the program.
· Fixed: Library sync using library server.
· NEW: Reworked how Remote Control options are presented.
September 3rd, 2009· NEW: Shell extensions are available on 64-bit Windows.
· Changed: Television recording files (*.jtv, *.jts) are not allowed to be moved, renamed, or copied in "Rename, Move, & Copy Files..." tool. One can move the entire folder containing the jtv file to a new location manually and then use the tool to update database to point to the new location.
September 3rd, 2009· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks to Bytestar).
· Fixed: The store database field 'Purchase Description' would show as 'Description', causing confusion.
· Fixed: The [location] token in Theater View skins would not work nicely in some views.
· NEW: Theater View 'Television' view allows viewing recordings by date recorded or by program.
· Fixed: Television view would still show "Cancel Recording" button after a program recording has been canceled (build 57 only).
· Fixed: Television device configuration window was displayed using wrong parent window, causing MC to crash when popup windows were dismissed in wrong order.
· Fixed: [Deleted] store licenses weren't getting retrieved in some cases.
· Fixed: Choosing Tools > Options > Playback > TV Tuner > "Reset TV settings..." while watching a digital channel could cause MC to crash.
· Changed: When playing, Media Center will prevent S3 system sleep.
· Fixed: Television subscriptions nicely handle the updated metadata layout of build 57 (so subscriptions look at series and name for deciding what to record).
· Fixed: Canceling an on-going television recording could take a long time to take effect (build 57 only).
· Fixed: Loading read-only libraries was not working properly(only applies to last few builds)
· Changed: Updated the Chinese language file (thanks to Katapa).
· Changed: is changed to when showing OSD television currently playing/recording channel/program info.
September 3rd, 2009· Changed: Went back to using the default system font instead of an upsized-version of the system font.
· Fixed: Protected WMV files could fail to play due to the bitrate monitor filter.
· Changed: Improved support for external cover art that uses an extension other than .jpg(tiff, gif, jpeg, png, etc.)
· Fixed: Tagging using in-place-editing could stall longer than expected when moving between fields.
· Fixed: The 'Remote Control' configuration wizard could crash if the wizard was advanced while a placement test was running.
· Fixed: Pushing the Green Button while a menu was showing in Theater View could crash.
· Changed: Adjusted the Green Button rolling logic so that slower button presses will still roll through the three views (current, root, display).
· Changed: Playing a video file from Theater View that was already playing but was just paused will show it fullscreen and start playback.
· Fixed: After in-place editing in the panes, the selection would change to nothing selected instead of keeping the edited item selected.
· Fixed: Arrow navigation while doing in-place pane editing could cause problems(arrow navigation not possible since each change could reorder or renumber the list)
· Changed: MC will recognize MyMovies data as an alternate format in a video sidecar file, and will read tags from it Tag writing will always be in MPL format.
· NEW: Upgraded XMLTV television parser to support actors, original release date, rating, series, etc.
· NEW: Television program and recording metadata structure revised for better handling of series and original release dates.
· Changed: NOTE -- Revised default Theater View file info panel defaults so customization must be reapplied(you can use Manage..> Copy Template To Clipboard to backup existing templates before upgrade)
· Changed: Tweaked wording on the new import Action Window to be more clear.
· Fixed: When doing an import of DVD files on disk, the program could do a tag, which would write a sidecar file or show a tagging error.
September 3rd, 2009· Internal testing build.
September 3rd, 2009· NEW: DSP Studio supports ordering of effects(drag items in list to reorder)
· Fixed: In some cases, DSP plug-ins would not draw properly.
· NEW: VST DSP plug-ins remember the program and program settings between runs of the program.
· NEW: Playback Range field is user editable to allow custom cue-in and cue-out points.
· NEW: Playback Range field accepts high resolution times like '1:22.343344 - 3:21.3902013'(still accepts low resolution times like '1:22 - 3:21' or simple millisecond numbers like '82000 - 201000')
· Fixed: In some cases, connected Tremote zones could get saved as a permanent zone(if extra zones exist from this bug, they must be removed in Zone Manager)
· Changed: Default font size one point size larger (font can be changed in Options > Tree & View > Font).
· Changed: Express installs will simply launch the program instead of showing a finish page in the installer.
· NEW: Added new channel mixing mode to DSP > Output Format 'No mixing' that leaves unused channels silent, allowing third-party DSP plug-ins to provide sophisticated channel expansion.
· Changed: Improved support for VST plug-ins that have more channel outputs than inputs.
· NEW: Initial import after a fresh install uses the Action Window and works without user intervention (although intervention is optional).
· Changed: The system that shows the import dialog when loading an empty library will only run on the first library load of the program's run(so switching libraries won't show it)
· New: Wavpack encoder
September 3rd, 2009· Changed: Bitrate Monitors will not be used on protected Windows Media videos.
· Fixed: DSP plug-in names are translated.
· NEW: Added new handheld transfer option "Save video thumbnail to '[File].jpg' file" (enabled by default on WMDM devices).
· Optimized: JRiver edit controls are much faster when dealing with large values.
· Changed: Installer uses JRiver user interface controls instead of Windows controls(please report any issues)
· Fixed: The 'View' menu would crash when viewing the root 'Playlists' item in the tree.
· NEW: Installer architecture revised to allow running Media Center at the end of the install on Vista and Windows 7 with UAC enabled(install split into two components: one elevated and one not elevated)
September 3rd, 2009· NEW: Classified
· Fixed: In rare cases MC would behave badly when the user switched to a television channel with no/weak signal.
· Fixed: If scheduled television recording started while the user was already watching the channel, and if the user stopped watching before the scheduler stopped recording, some redundant graph building took place.
September 3rd, 2009· Changed: On a fresh install (or after resetting Theater View items to show in Options > Theater View), 'Hulu' will be listed before 'YouTube' in Theater View.
· Fixed: Hulu in Theater View called 'Featured Videos' 'Popular Videos'.
· Changed: Theater View navigation works better when the secondary navigation roller is empty(like when stopped in Playing Now)
· Fixed: When Theater View's Playing Now refreshed, the scroll position could be lost.
· Changed: Simplified commands roller showed when viewing a web media video from Hulu or YouTube in Theater View.
· Changed: A playlist's menu will include the command 'Clear [Playlist Name]'.
· Changed: Typed navigation in the tree searches first sibling-level items, than visible child-level items, then parent-level items(so looping is more natural)
· Changed: Revised how 'Recently Imported' is pruned so that it only keeps things 1 day old or newer(previously kept 7 days old or newer and at least 50 items)
· Fixed: Tag changes made in Theater View could apply to the entire list instead of just the selected file.
· Fixed: Lineup list style in Theater View could scroll unexpectedly when moving the mouse near the edges of the list.
· NEW: Added new Theater View skin 'Obsidian Touchscreen' -- more choices on the screen for touchscreen usage(feedback welcome)
September 3rd, 2009· Fixed: If 'Abort' and 'Cancel' had the same translation (like in German), it could cause some confirmation messages to not support cancel(removed usage of 'Abort' on these dialogs -- will always use 'Cancel' instead)
· Changed: When remote control learning is complete a system ding is played.
· Fixed: Remote control engine could crash in some cases.
· Changed: Remote control stops any key repeats after 10 seconds for stuck-down situations.
· Fixed: When learning from a remote control, it would check a stale list of learned buttons to see if the button was already in use.
· Fixed: In rare cases, remote control learning would allow learning the button up code as the code, causing strange behavior.
· Fixed: The remote control wizard setting to power cycle a device was not being remembered.
· Changed: Improved the quality of the remote control image used in the remote configuration wizard.
· Fixed: Typing in the folder box when importing a single folder could be difficult.
· Fixed: The 'Add' function in Theater View would operate on all files instead of just the selected file.
· Fixed: Overlay text in Theater View could be covered by the file info panel.
· Changed: F11 no longer shows Display View when nothing is playing (instead goes between Standard View and Theater View).
· Changed: Theater View list wrapping was not always reliable.
· Fixed: Breakdown the mpc demux on exit.
August 14th, 2009· NEW: The MP3 plugin will respond to 'Gapless Header' and 'Gapless Footer' in Tag(...) expression requests to allow querying for gapless information. (remember that Tag(...) expressions query physical file tags and are 1000s of times slower than database access)
· Fixed: Theater View selection wrapping was not working properly.
· Fixed: Cancelling the remote control learning wizard could crash.
· Fixed: When learning remote control commands on Options > Remote Control, a button press could learn two commands.
· Changed: Improvements to IR blasting performance and repeat handling.
· Fixed: The MP3 plugin will properly handle a "," in the replaygain_track_peak field.
· Changed: Write flac and mp3 replaygain_track_gain to 2 digits of decimal precision and replaygain_track_peak to 6 digits of decimal precision. Add plus sign to replaygain_track_gain when the value is positive.
· Fixed: The sv8 Musepack input plugin now properly reads tag values, displays proper bitrate during playback and fixes the hang on end of file problem while reading sv7 streams.
· NEW: Learning from an IR remote control requires repeated presses until two matching codes are found, providing more reliable learning.
August 14th, 2009· Fixed: The new 'hold control to open in a new tab' for Locate On Disk (inside Media Center) was not working when invoked from the MRU menu.
· Fixed: Theater View 'File Info' panel would overlap list items too much for Hairstyle and other skins with list item backgrounds.
· Changed: The 'Stop After Current File' command will advance to the next track after stopping, so pressing play again will play the next file.
· Fixed: It was not possible to Update from CDPlayer.ini for mixed-mode (audio and data files) discs.
· Changed: Added additional manifesting and digital signatures to the installer flow to aid Windows 7.
· Fixed: Auto-play was not properly disabled while the program was running on some operating systems.
· Fixed: DVD bookmarks were not being properly saved.
· Changed: Adopted the revised MP3 rating specification proposed by AlexB (write with WMP mapping / read v13, v14, WMP, etc.).
· Changed: Sidecar tagging uses the MPL format instead of My Movies format. Use update tags from library to convert.
· Changed: Cleaned up which fields get included during sidecar tagging.
· Changed: During sidecar tagging, old sidecar files (like before extension was part of the filename) will be deleted.
· Fixed: Clearing the library would not clean the library folder up completely.
· Changed: More IR blasting wizard changes.
· Fixed: When building thumbnails from Options > Tree & View > Build missing thumbnails... finished, the program would think the process was still working when trying to shutdown or switch libraries until the 'Close' button was clicked.
· Fixed: When using Tremote and using the Play button to 'Play visible files', it could play the files visible on the server instead of the client.
· Changed: Clearing Playing Now from a Tremote works better (added new MCWS function Playback/ClearPlaylist).
· Changed: Tremote no longer jumps the server to Display View automatically when starting playback.
· Fixed: Fadeout on stop no longer does anything if the volume is muted.
August 14th, 2009· Fixed: Flac tags were not handling a comma in the replaygain fields properly
· Changed: When reading a flac tagged file if the new style replaygain fields don't exist read the Jriver specific tags.
· Fixed: Problems with IR blasting frequencies.
· Changed: Several IR blast wizard changes and fixes.
· NEW: Added new ASIO option 'Use large hardware buffers (recommended to prevent stutter)' that uses the maximum hardware buffer size instead of the default buffer size, which should help alleviate any stuttering issues. (smaller buffers are only desirable in latency sensitive applications like synthesizers)
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks to Bytestar).
· Changed: Cleaned up roller layout in Theater View Playing Now views.
· Changed: Internal changes to how Theater View manages arrow navigation and roller layout (should be internal change, but please report any issues).
· Fixed: Hulu and YouTube Theater View display did not show information about videos. (requires reset of File Info templates in Options > Theater View > Customize file info panel... > Manage... > Reset All Templates To Default)
· Changed: Musepack input plugin upgraded to version 8 (Beta).
August 14th, 2009· Fixed: When burning spanned multiple discs, confusing dialogs would pop-up between discs.
· Fixed: Added "dB" to flac replaygain_track_gain. Handled "," in flac replaygain tagging. Handled empty strings when writing replaygain tags in flac files. Internal string changes in the flac input plugin.
· Changed: Some enhancements and bug fixes in the IR blasting wizard.
August 14th, 2009· Fixed: Video could be displayed in wrong size when starting time-shifting on some analog television/video capture devices (such as WinTV HD PVR).
· Changed: When WASAPI fails to get a soundcard lock, it will retry several times for a second to open the soundcard. (failure to get lock happens on P6T i7 machines running Vista x64, possibly others)
· Fixed: The jump on play setting 'Playing Now (if multiple files)' jumped when Playing Now had more than one file instead of if the play command had more than one file.
· Fixed: When switching between tabs, the search box did not update nicely.
· Fixed: The right-click option 'Import Into Library' was showing for imported files instead of files that were not imported.
· Fixed: Drilling into a thumbnail like 'Rock', searching for something with no results, then double-click the empty list to search the entire library did not work properly.
· NEW: Option added for the external encoder for format conversion to present the file being converted as-is in whatever format it was originally instead of being converted to a temporary wave file first.
· NEW: When doing 'Locate On Disk (internal)' with the control key pressed, the results will be opened in a new tab.
· Fixed: Encoder plugins were not showing in Plug-in Manager.
· Fixed: Starting time-shifting on some analog television/video capture devices could result in loss of audio, due to device resetting audio line from user's selection to default.
· NEW: Wavpack (.wv) input plugin
· Fixed: Write standard flac track replay gain and track peak flags. Remove Jriver specific tags when writing the new tags.
· Changed: Updated Chinese translation (thanks ????).
· Fixed: MC could crash when importing TIFF files that have bad data in it.
· Changed: Vorbis DATE flags in flac files take precedence on reading when the year is different from the higher precision JR_DATE. On writing if the date to be written falls on a year boundry, only the Vorbis DATE tag is written, otherwise both are written.
· Fixed: Certain corrupt TIFF image files could cause MC to hang.
· Fixed: Download list showed 'Cancel' option on completed downloads.
August 14th, 2009· Fixed: Crossfeed DSP plugin for headphones kept enabling itself.
August 14th, 2009· Changed: When loading corrupt / truncated JPEG files, as much of the image as possible will be shown instead of failing to load if at least 80% of the image can be decoded.
· Fixed: More bugs in the IR blasting wizard.
· Fixed: Update Tags (from library) saved tags in a wrong sidecar file for ifo/dvd files.
· NEW: Added 'Headphones' DSP plugin that features a high-quality cross-feed.
August 14th, 2009· Fixed: WASAPI exclusive playback over ATI HDMI connections could stutter on pause / stop. (requires the 'Flush device buffers on pause' option to be set)
· Changed: Renamed television program guide loading option from "Reset" to "Clear program guide".
· Changed: Revised MP3 ID3v2 rating tag writing conversion formula to better match Windows.
· Fixed: Playback section of the right-click menu was missing (builds 39 - 42).
· NEW: OSD "Chapter" menu for video file playback. UP/DOWN to reach Chapter menu. LEFT/RIGHT to cycle through all chapters. ENTER to jump to a chapter.
· Changed: Items in the "Chapter" menu include time info.
· Changed: Simplified television current/next playing channel/program info OSD display.
· Fixed: Several bugs in the IR blasting wizard.
· Fixed: Adjusting the size of Theater View (ctrl+mouse wheel, etc.) while viewing an expanded news story could cause a crash.
· Fixed: Some Theater View objects would stop moving while loading / updating in a background thread. (caused stutter when viewing file info panel, etc.)
August 14th, 2009· Optimized: Improved performance of Theater View info panel.
· Optimized: Improved performance of scrolling in large lists in Theater View.
· Fixed: The focus could be lost when returning to the home screen of Theater View.
· Fixed: When quickly entering the File Info panel in Theater View, the list could fail to fade out.
· NEW: Chapter support for video files (e.g. mkv, mp4) that contain chapter info.
· Fixed: Scanner / clipboard acquisition wasn't working properly. (only applies to last few builds)
· Fixed: Theater View list selection mode would stick on even after the list was refilled due to an action on the selection.
· Fixed: Accepting a search suggestion after typing the full word would not update the view properly.
August 14th, 2009· Fixed: Mono files could crash or give bad results in the audio analyzer. (it's recommended that you reanalyze files that match the search [Channels]=[1])
· Changed: Added more logging to WASAPI output to help diagnose problems.
· Changed: Updated German language file (thanks to Bytestar).
· Changed: Wizard added on remote control options page for controlling external equipment. Still experimental...
August 14th, 2009· Fixed: Interface plug-ins that used a string class name for their identifier in the registry did not load with the last few builds
July 22nd, 2009· Changed: Improved handling of &DateType= [ List ] in Theater View File Info templates. (spaces added for forum formatting)
· Fixed: The 'Play from memory' option could cause tagging problems with FLAC files.
July 22nd, 2009· NEW: Integrated the image editor into the Image Preview view. (use 'Edit' command on toolbar when in Image Preview)
· NEW: Added name to the Image Preview.
· NEW: PgUp/PgDn will move to the prior/next item in the list in Image Preview.
· Fixed: When a thumbnail list was updated, it could sometimes not draw thumbnails until scrolled (only applies to build 32).
· NEW: The library backup folder used for automatic backups, backups on upgrade, etc. can be customized in Options > File Location.
· Changed: FLAC files did not fill in the 'Bit Depth' field (requires Update Library (from tags) to correct).
· Changed: When the image preview window hides the tree or files list, there's no longer a splitter shown.
· Changed: Reworked how view layout and sizing is handled (hopefully internal change, but please report any issues).
July 16th, 2009· Fixed: Lists could fail to update nicely on sizing (only applies to build 31)
· NEW: Added better support for mice that do smooth scrolling with the mouse wheel
· Fixed: Double-clicking to hide the image preview could reshow the window if the mouse was in the right spot
· Fixed: Several small fixes to remote control dialogs
· Fixed: The 'Recordings' television list in Theater View could, in cases of back-to-back recordings from the same rule, not allow playback of the program as it was recording the second half
July 16th, 2009· Fixed: When viewing the recordings television list near the end of a recording, it would not always show the programs that were currently recording
· Fixed: In rare cases, the television recordings list could group programs from different weeks but from the same day of the week
· Changed: The recorded television program list in Standard View does a better job of showing dates for old programs
· Fixed: When exiting the full screen Theater View file info panel with the left key, the focus could go back to the top roller instead of the list
· Changed: 3D album views adjust the size of the text used on the back to hold far more tracks when necessary
· NEW: 3D album views allow playing, adding, shuffling, and adding as the next to play
· NEW: Added the ability to add a "Library" toolbar button to the top or bottom toolbar to facilitate faster library switching
· NEW: Added option to play files from memory instead of disk which is useful in high-end audiophile environments (file is loaded in a background thread to system memory (capped at 256 MB) and played from there)
· Optimized: Improved performance of rendering lists
· Optimized: Changes to reduce registry chatter when idle
· Changed: Some IR blast command formats changed again, so you'll need to re-learn any existing ones
· Changed: Can now tweak IR frequency for blasting if your remote control is non-standard
· Fixed: Tagging of Windows Media files was written to sidecar files instead of media files
· Changed: Option to "Store tags in external sidecar files if the file type does not support tagging" (video only for now)
· Fixed: Image Preview didn't force a redraw (Jiggly draw)
· Fixed: The file list returns to its original position after closing image preview
July 16th, 2009· Fixed: The SDK function MJZonesAutomation::GetActiveZone() was returning a zone ID instead of a zone index
· Fixed: List style fields were not working correctly with the Theater View file info panel
· Fixed: Doing a Cover Art > Submit to Internet from the MRU menu on a file that didn't support it would cause a crash
· Changed: Image Preview window now zooms around the mouse point
· Changed: Image Preview window 100% button now centers the image
· Changed: Gapless information is loaded from MP3s encoded wit the ACMENC encoder
· NEW: Image preview zoom information updated on the status bar
· Changed: Image preview tooltip content, lag and duration
· NEW: Tools menu added to Image Preview header (Same menu as right click)
· Fixed: When scrolling in a thumbnail list, the item the mouse was over could wiggle a little
July 14th, 2009· Fixed: When a menu drew scroll arrows, they could draw on top of menu text
· Fixed: On Windows 7 an iPod could show as two devices (may require a redetect of devices to fix)
· Fixed: Improved handling of special / hidden zones like the zone used for image playback when audio is playing
· NEW: Added dialog for adding and editing Theater View Info Panel templates (Options > Theater View)
· Changed: Added 'Watched' information to default Theater View file info template for television programs
· Changed: Options dialog for CD/DVD changed to cleaner format
· Changed: If at the extremities of a list row the left and Right arrows will now jump to the next row (As appropriate)
· Changed: Escape now closes the image preview window
· NEW: Delete added to the image preview right click menu
July 14th, 2009· Fixed: "Play local file when one that matches Library Server file is found" did not work for ripped DVDs
· Fixed: Selection panes were still visible on mouse over in the Image Preview
· NEW: Right click menu added to image preview
· Changed: Television configuration is broken up into several smaller tasks accessible on TV Options button
· Changed: During Television recording, "Cancel Time-Shifting" context menu option is disabled
July 14th, 2009· Fixed: When loading a library, if a message box was shown (to inform about read-only access, etc) it could crash
· Fixed: Cover art wasn't being retrieved for DVD discs
· NEW: Added ListBuild() expression function for building a delimited list of values, possibly suppressing empty values
· NEW: Added TVInfo() expression function for getting television-specific information about TV programs
· Changed: Standardized on "Categories" naming for groupings in a library view (previously also used panes and view scheme item)
· Changed: Theater View file info fields are loaded from "theater view file info templatesxml" in the library folder (user interface to allow editing to come in a later build)
· Changed: Changed the sizing of the Theater View file info panel and News to be based on a number of lines instead of percentage of screen height
· Changed: EPG list in television view is automatically refreshed to current time every half an hour Automatic refreshing is turned off whenever the user manually chooses a date or time from the drop-down lists It is re-enabled whenever the user clicks the "Set To Now" button
· NEW: Viewheader for the image preview window updated to contain fit, 100% and close buttons
· Changed: Image preview window closes the selection panes when opened (Panes selections remain in effect)
· NEW: Close file list button on image preview window
· Changed: Most fields in My Movies xml files are supported if the user creates corresponding custom fields (for example, IMDB, ProductionYear)
· Fixed: Abnormal termination on entering Image Preview
· Fixed: Corrupt MP3 ID3v2 tags that had a negative frame length could cause a crash
July 14th, 2009· Changed: MC will remember user-set column widths of television guide list for current and future sessions
· Fixed: Sweden DVB-T frequency table was not complete Thank you Hans (paronsoda)
· Fixed: The Media Center service would not show a company name in msconfigexe
· Fixed: With Media Center running at Windows shutdown / logoff time, an error about starting JRServiceexe could flash
· Changed: MJP files that installed skins to the old Theater View skin path "FullSkins" will be redirected to the new path (please use the INSTALLSKIN command for future skin submissions)
· Fixed: Using the keyboard to navigate up in a list wouldn't always scroll to show the first item once selected
· Fixed: Theater View keyboard could be disabled in the "Save As Playlist" popup
· Fixed: In advanced remote control commands that issued multiple commands in a row, some commands could get ignored
· Fixed (probably): During television time-shifting, buffering kicked in when user changed channel or when signal was weak
· Fixed: When showing the image preview window, the view header would get corrupted
· Optimized: The image preview window draws faster
July 7th, 2009· Fixed: Trying to play television channel without first running television configuration could sometimes cause MC to crash.
· Fixed: OSD Position display flickered when rapidly seeking forward or backward in video playback.
· Fixed: Inconsistent database filename was used when importing DVDs by "Import Playlist..." tool with My Movies data.
· Changed: Updated the Chinese language file (thanks to Katapa).
· Fixed: Playing recorded television show or starting to watch a television channel while MC was doing scheduled recording could have long silence (up to 100 seconds) and (to lesser extent) paused video, if MC was on second monitor when playback started.
· Fixed: Moving MC from one monitor to another while playing a recorded television show would cause audio and video to pause for a long time.
· Changed: ATSC television channel scanning will use existing channel in database with identical channel name, instead of creating a new entry (in case the physical channel is different). This change is necessary to avoid creating duplicates, and to preserve existing subscriptions. Many television stations changed their broadcast carrier frequency (physical channel) at the analog broadcast switch-off last week.
· Fixed: DVB-T channel "Is AC3 Audio" attribute was displayed incorrectly in "Details" section on "Edit Channel List" window.
· Possibly fixed: Digital television failure on Windows 7.
· Fixed: MC13 would crash on television playback if MC12 had been run.
· Fixed: MC could hang when playing FLV video from YouTube in secondary monitor.
· Fixed: The program could crash when using the 'Back' button after switching libraries.
· Fixed: With the start menu on the right of the monitor and set to auto-hide, maximizing Media Center could interfere with the ability to show the bar.
· Fixed: flac files with "fla" extension could not be played.
· Fixed: Sweden DVB-T frequency table was not complete.
July 4th, 2009· NEW: A "Watched" column in "Recordings" list, in Television View, that indicates whether, or when, or how much you have watched the television recordings.
· Fixed: Bug in the Image Preview mouse move code.
· NEW: Histograms added to Image Preview.
· Fixed: Fit and 100% buttons on Image Preview window would stay selected.
July 4th, 2009· Fixed: Theater View animated backgrounds were not drawing.
· Changed: Adjusted how much Theater View lists fade when showing the overlay file info panel.
· Fixed: In Theater View, adding a root category with a library item under it that had no children would not work logically.
· Changed: Theater View message boxes respect checks of 'don't show again' from Standard View.
· NEW: Added new option: Options > Tree & View > Thumbnails > Draw frames on image thumbnails.
· NEW: Added new option: Options > Tree & View > Thumbnails > Create thumbnails for videos.
· NEW: Library option to "Play local file if one that matches Library Server file is found".
· Fixed: Fixed a few glitches with focus / navigation with the Theater View info panel.
· Fixed: Some MCE remote buttons were not learning properly.
· Changed: Added option on IR blast dialog to suppress system handling of App Commands while an IR blast was taking place.
· NEW: Added Fit, 100% and close buttons to Image Preview window.
· NEW: Added hide tree button to Image Preview window.
· Fixed: Images now properly synchronized on mouse move.
· Fixed: Shift inverts the "sync" checkbox state on mouse move and zoom.
· NEW: Tooltips enabled for ImagePreview. (Name, dimensions and zoom.)
· NEW: Theater View info panel allows entering into large fields and scrolling them (like Theater View News).
· Fixed: With the start menu on the right of the monitor and set to auto-hide, maximizing Media Center could interfere with the ability to show the bar.
· Changed: Pan & Zoom is off by default for image slideshows.
July 4th, 2009· Fixed: With both MCE and HID remote plugins enabled, both would not work reliably.
· Fixed: The Theater View option "Disable Windows Media Center" would not work in some cases.
· Fixed: Theater View's file info panel could overlay a popup message asking for confirmation (like on delete of a television episode).
· Fixed: The "Delete" button was not working in Zone Manager.
· Fixed: Lineup style Theater View lists didn't fade nicely when zooming into the File Info panel.
· Fixed: Pushing dialog buttons using the 'Enter' key could cause the button to execute twice in some places, leading to strange behavior.
· Changed: Several changes in the remote control editing dialogs. Sorry - you'll need to redo any IR blast commands you've created in previous builds.
· Fixed: Remote control learned codes were not taking effect until after restarting Media Center.
· Changed: Streaming mkv files are loaded with "File Source (Netshow URL)" filter explicitly.
· NEW: Multiple Image Previews with synchronized resizing.
July 4th, 2009· Changed: MC will remember currently selected program in television view's programs list. When returning to the list after watching a recorded or live program the same program will remain selected (highlighted).
· Fixed: IR learning wasn't working for HID keys.
· Fixed: Adding a blast command used a generic name for the command rather than the user entered one.
· NEW: IR learning / blasting using MCE receivers will work even with UAC enabled.
· Fixed: Typed list / tree navigation would not scroll.
· Changed: Image preview internals.
July 4th, 2009· Changed: Minor changes to the remote control dialogs.
· NEW: Double Clicking the image preview will close it.
· Fixed: flac files with "fla" extension could not be played.
· NEW: Player installs "Media Center 14 Service" that runs only when the player is running to allow talking to hardware (for remotes, handhelds, etc.) when UAC is enabled.
· Changed: Deleting television recording files is done in a safer way.
· Fixed: Since build 16, television recording files recorded using prior builds could not be deleted cleanly from within MC.
· NEW: Added support for MCE remote learning and blasting on Vista and Windows 7. (requires administrator priveleges for now -- this will change in a coming build)
June 26th, 2009· Changed: Sidecar files are moved when media files are moved.
· Changed: Sidecar files are deleted when media files are deleted.
· NEW: Clickable zoom/unzoom buttons added to thumbs to enable image preview window.
· Fixed: Image preview window should only show for image views. (still a work in progress)
· Changed: Image preview window is now just to the right of the tree.
· Changed: Image preview window not on by default.
· Changed: Image not shown in big tooltip if the image preview window is active.
June 26th, 2009· NEW: When saving the database, a cleanup process removes any files from the library folder that are not used by the program.
· Fixed: When adding a playlist to the tree, if the tree scroller to show the new playlist, the in-place edit to allow naming would be canceled.
· Fixed: When doing a Library Sync from a Library Server client after playlist changes, other playlists in the same playlist group could get corrupted.
· Optimized: Improved performance of 3D wall style views.
· Fixed: Television recording files (jtv, jts) could not be played from the Library Server.
· NEW: Experimental IR blaster support for MCE transceivers. (not working yet)
· Changed: Internal changes for how remote control commands are stored. You'll have to 're-learn' any remote controls that have been used previously.
· Fixed: When connected to Library Server, auto-import could incorrectly remove server files from the library.
· NEW: Experimental system for using images and cover art as the background of Theater View (create playlist "Theater View Background" and put images or audio in it to test)
· Changed: Image preview window removed (coming back soon).
June 26th, 2009· Changed: More changes on data buffering during television (or television recording) playback.
· Fixed: Build 16 wasn't able to find other running copies of the program, which caused problems in a few areas.
· Changed: Switched "Description" field to a large-edit style editing field instead of using a single-line control for editing.
· Fixed: MC rejected video sidecar files in which Title element contained attributes.
· Changed: Thumbnails for TV recordings are grabbed at one minute into the video instead of the default 5 seconds into the video.
· NEW: When using T'remote to play content on the server, the server will suppress playback error popups.
· NEW: Theater View Info Panel shows full page information about movies, television programs, etc.
· NEW: Image preview window.
June 26th, 2009· Changed: Renamed television subscription option "One per day, near prime-time" to "One per day, only prime-time" to more clearly describe what it's doing. (same applies to middle of night wording)
· Changed: The list grouping "Album (by date)" is available in all views instead of only in image views.
· Changed: Added MCC commands for zooming Theater View (also possible in Options or with [Ctrl]+[Mouse Wheel]) (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=52539.0)
· Fixed: Theater View did not nicely support Alt+# style input of international characters.
· Fixed: Switching the resolution of a monitor while Theater View was showing did not update Theater View correctly.
· Changed: The TV recording stub file (*.jtv) now references other data files by relative paths, instead of full path. This way the recordings can be moved to different locations and be still playable. They can also be shared and played from other computers.
· NEW: Audio engine supports WAV files with a bit depth of 64 bits. (internal data path remains 32-bits)
June 26th, 2009· Changed: MC television time-shifting reader filter does a better job of buffering data when playing files from a network drive.
· NEW: Added a new Theater View option "Disable Windows Media Center (useful if it is launching on the Green button, etc.)". (requires UAC elevation)
· NEW: Added WASAPI option "Present 24-bit data in a 32-bit package". (some audiophile hardware needs 24-bit data while most consumer level hardware needs 24-bit data in a 32-bit package)
· NEW: Improved web service interface (MCWS) so that all playback functions support zones.
· NEW: When connecting to a Library Server, the server zones are added to the client zones under Playing Now to allow playback to any zone of the server or any zone of the client. (this replaces the 'Here' / 'There' popup)
June 26th, 2009· Changed: Removed the "Finish" page from the television scanning dialog -- the results are shown in the channel list after a scan.
· Fixed: The Import single-folder wizard would import from the last path used instead of the current path (only applies to build 13).
· NEW: Added new Handheld playlist format "M3U (relative paths without leading dot)" for devices that don't like relative paths that start with ".".
· Changed: Simplified how web media sites are added and removed from Theater View. (use Options > Theater View to configure)
· NEW: Added YouTube Theater View integration that allows browsing popular, recent, etc. and allows doing searches.
· Changed: Added a tip to the Monitor Switcher (MC14.exe /MonitorSwitch) for how to switch between two different displays on Windows 7. (requires two calls instead of one like Vista and earlier)
· Fixed: MC14 would crash on television playback if MC12 had been run.
· Fixed: Certain color format PSD files could cause a crash.
· NEW: Theater View allows nesting of root items that will show on a secondary roller.
· Changed: Renamed "Web Media" to "Connected Media".
· Fixed: MC could hang when playing FLV video from YouTube in secondary monitor.
· Changed: Shutting down a TRemote client no longer stops playback on the server.
June 26th, 2009· Changed: When user selects a channel in "Edit Channel List" window, MC tries to fill "Channel Number" field with a default value if the field is not already set by user (ATSC digital TV and analog Cable only).
· NEW: Improved new Import interface when importing a single folder.
· NEW: Reworked Theater View rollers so they can be grabbed and dragged or flicked to scroll with a mouse / touch-screen (works like other Theater View lists now).
· Changed: ATSC television channel scanning will use an existing channel in database with identical channel name, instead of creating a new entry (in case the physical channel is different). This change is necessary to avoid creating duplicates, and to preserve existing subscriptions. Many television stations changed their broadcast carrier frequency (physical channel) at the analog broadcast switch-off last week.
· Fixed: DVB-T channel "Is AC3 Audio" attribute was displayed incorrectly in "Details" section on "Edit Channel List" window.
· Changed: Miscellaneous changes in "Edit Channel List" window.
· Fixed: Media Center 13 and Media Center 14 shell extensions could fight with each other (may require manually enabling / disabling shell extensions in each program to get it working).
· Fixed: Searching for Media Servers did not work (only applies to build 12).
· NEW: Added more browsable categories to Hulu inside Theater View.
June 26th, 2009· NEW: Added Hulu.com support to Theater View. (still a work in progress; for now you must add a Theater View root item in Options > Theater View for the website: http://www.hulu.com)
· Optimized: Core image MMX assembly rendering engine about 8% faster.
· Fixed: Possible crash when scrolling in lists.
· Changed: The text on the installer button "Next" is changed to "Next >", to be consistent with "< Back" button, and to avoid translation confusion with "Next" as in "Next Track".
· Fixed: Monochrome PSD files that used RLE encoding could cause a crash (monochrome PSD files not currently supported).
· Changed: "Next / Previous use favorite channels only" check box is moved from Television Options window to Edit Channel List window.
· Changed: When saving an ID3v2 tag to an MP3, if the new tag is more than 8 KB smaller than the old tag, the file will be rewritten to save space on disk.
· Fixed: Lists that were grouped into Album Thumbnails were not always working.
June 26th, 2009· NEW: Added write support to Library Server to allow bidirectional communication of any number of clients with a single server. When connected to a Library Server, use the command File > Library > Sync Library... to write any changes made on the client back to the server, and also update the client from the server if necessary. Expect automation in a future build.
· Changed: When connecting the a Library Server, the Filename is no longer updated to show a URL -- instead this happens internally at playback time.
· Fixed: Playing recorded television show or starting to watch a television channel while MC was doing scheduled recording could have long silence (up to 100 seconds) and (to lesser extent) paused video, if MC was on second monitor when playback started.
· Fixed: Moving MC from one monitor to another while playing a recorded television show would cause audio and video to pause for a long time.
· Fixed: MCE remote controls work again (support was temporarily disabled while building new remote system in early builds).
May 27th, 2009· Fixed: When doing a license restore for Media Center 13 with a Media Center 14 license, the registration information dialog would not show the correct information.
· Fixed: With MC set to use Internal Volume, television volume was not properly set when starting or stopping time-shifting.
· Fixed: After manually starting television time-shifting, OSD message "Waiting..." stayed on forever.
· Fixed: Analog television sometimes could be displayed in a tiny window.
· Fixed: For some analog television devices, the Crop Edges setting failed to take effect on initial start up of television playback.
· Fixed: Switching monitor during television time-shifting would cause MC to lose its Internal Volume setting, creating loud sound in some instances.
May 22nd, 2009· Fixed: MC crashed when failing to play an audio file in J. River audio engine (using DirectShow filters).
· Fixed: Rare re-entrance problem related to television playback when exiting MC.
· Fixed: OSD menu drawing problem when switching from a memu item of larger size to one of smaller size.
· Fixed: When building thumbnails in a list of grouped thumbnails, sometimes a thumbnail wouldn't fill in until it was redrawn by mousing over.
· Updated: German language files courtesy bytestar.
· NEW: Will work with an MC v14 license.
· Fixed: If multiple files were selected the EXPAND and COLLAPSE stack options would not always appear.
· Fixed: Search for stack files was broken.
May 14th, 2009· Fixed: French DVB-T television tuning did not work.
· Fixed: Changing television channel using OSD menu did not work unless Enter key was pressed within 2 seconds of displaying the channel info. Now it should work as long as the channel info is in display (5 seconds).
May 14th, 2009· Changed: Increased the maximum memory size of loadable PNG images from 256 MB to 1 GB
· Fixed: Installer now displays J River when viewed in explorer
· NEW: OSD Menu handles Enter key It can be used to execute certain commands when OSD menu is in display Only implemented for televison channel switching and for showing DVD Menu
· Changed: Television "Programs" OSD menu will no longer automatically switch to last displayed program
· Changed: OSD menu stays on screen for longer time
· Fixed: When converting CUE files, the resulting filename could be incorrect
· Fixed: Converting using the external encoder could use a dat extension instead of the extension specified in options
· Fixed: Some VST Plug-ins could crash or work incorrectly
· Fixed: The help links on pages like "Playlists" didn't jump to the correct location in the wiki
May 9th, 2009· Fixed: ID3v2 tagging could discard the # tracks / # discs portion of the track # and disc # when tagging.
· Fixed: When first installing a VST Plug-in, it was not possible to enable it for processing without restarting playback.
· Fixed: VST Plug-ins that exposed more inputs and outputs than the current output format could crash.
· Fixed: When pausing audio playback, if it performed buffering while paused, it could switch the playback state back to play.
· Fixed: Setting the mute value to -1 (to mean true) from the automation SDK did not work nicely.
· Fixed: Television channel scanning did not work for the last few builds.
May 6th, 2009· Fixed: With the ripping option to overwrite existing files enabled some encoders would not work(only applies to last few builds)
· Fixed: Using incomplete math syntax like "3 /" or "2+1+" could cause problems in expressions.
· Changed: DSP Plug-ins are always loaded from the main user interface(solves problems with plugins that create user interface at load instead of when requested by Media Center like DFX)
· Optimized: Improved performance of JRiver edit / expression controls.
May 6th, 2009· Changed: Upgrades to HTML parser used for RSS feeds in Theater View(Yahoo! News, The Onion, etc.)
· Changed: Improved Theater View's support of The Onion in the News plug-in.
· Changed: The burn complete dialog that prompts for Burn / Print Label / Quit is not shown if the burn completes while in Display View or Theater View.
· Changed: When Theater View is showing, Standard View style wait messages will not appear.
· Changed: Pressing the space bar on a JRiver style button, checkbox, etcwill be considered a click.
· Fixed: Theater View's Weather configuration dialog did not support tabbed navigation.
May 6th, 2009· Fixed: Showing Theater View on systems without DirectX 9 (or later) installed could cause a crash.
· Fixed: WMA encoding would not work properly on a fresh install (only applies to the last few builds).
· Fixed: Encoding could crash in certain cases (only applies to the last few builds).
· Changed: If television is configured to automatically refresh the programming guide, it will do so once a day OR if there are no programs available (retries every 30 minutes if there are no programs).
· Changed: Shortened the portable install description in the installer so it fits better with larger fonts.
· Changed: Switched the Austria country code used for mc2xml to AT.
· NEW: Added CD burning in Theater View(use "Burn" item in roller of any file view)
· NEW: Added CD ripping in Theater View(pick "DVD" with an audio CD in the drive and then select "Rip disc")
· Fixed: Corrected a typo on the new Converter options page.
· Changed: Reverted to also looking in the legacy Media Jukebox location for DSP Plug-ins to better support DFX, etc.
· Fixed: When installing a new skin from a webpage, the change did not take effect until restarting the program.
· Fixed: Album grouping / album expansion could cause problems when using Google Images from the Links bar to set the cover art for a video.
May 6th, 2009· NEW: Revamped Converter, so that it has nicer options and the ability to process up to 8 files at the same time.
· NEW: Added a "Programs" OSD menu item for television Left/right arrows cycle through Favorite Channels (or all channels if you have no favorite channels) with Now/Next program info MC automatically switches to the last channel you stop at.
· Fixed: Playing Now / playlists lists could empty and not refresh properly in certain cases(only applies to last couple of builds)
· Changed: Revised the internal system that provides ideal sizes for controls when laying out user interface(should be internal change, but please report any issues)
· Fixed: Extremely loud sound was produced when playing an audio track that was mistyped as non-audio while Volume Leveling was turned on.
May 6th, 2009· NEW: Added native support for VST plug-ins Add plug-ins in Plug-in Manager and configure inside DSP Studio.
· Changed: Television OSD channel/program info display uses bold and italic font for words "Playing now:"/"Recording now:" and "Next:".
· Changed: The "Add Plug-in" button in Plug-in Manager will prompt for UAC elevation so plugins get registered as administrator (where they have proper HKLM registry access).
· Changed: Renamed "out_MJ.dll" to "out_Main.dll" and "dsp_MJMain.dll" to "out_Main.dll" for consistency(should be internal change, but please report any issues)
· Optimized: DSP plug-ins are only loaded when enabled or viewed, so having a long list of installed DSPs (VST, Winamp, or JRiver) has no performance impact.
· Changed: Revised how plug-ins that contain multiple plug-ins inside a single DLL register themselves to accommodate #5(each plug-in uses its own registry key instead of all plugins sharing a key and the program loading and enumerating at run time)
· Changed: DSP plug-ins installed to the legacy location (Media Jukebox) are no longer loaded.
· NEW: Added a status in DSP Studio to show if a plug-in is processing data, if it failed to load, if it doesn't support the input format, etc.
April 30th, 2009· Changed: Picking a zone-specific Playing Now (introduced in build 160) also switches to that zone.
· Fixed: In certain cases, running two J. River players at once could cause some COM-based plugins to fail to work properly.
April 30th, 2009· Changed: Improved Theater View television view for dealing with live television (renamed "Channels" to "Live TV", better integrated guide data, etc.)
· Changed: The "Big Screen" roller item in Theater View's Playing Now no longer appears when nothing is playing.
· Changed: Pressing enter on a navigation roller item in Theater View with no function will do the same as pressing the down button.
· Changed: After loading programming guide data, TV program cover art will be automatically downloaded in the background. (will only run automatically, at most, every 14 days)
· NEW: Added support for command line switch /NoDependencies to installer to bypass installation of third-party dependencies like DirectX tools DLL, etc.
· NEW: Added new repeat mode "Stop After Every Item", which can be useful in DJ settings.
· Fixed: MC would hang when moved to a different monitor while time-shifting on a television channel.
· Fixed: The Rename, Move, & Copy Files tool did not allow semi-colons in output filenames.
· NEW: When multiple zones are configured, each zone will show up under "Playing Now" in the tree. This allows linking tabs or split views to different zones. Activating these views also switches the active zone. [experimental -- may not remain]
· Fixed: A large MP3 of all binary 0's could cause the analyzer to crash.
April 30th, 2009· Fixed: Playing a file from Theater View when another file was playing could just show the playing file in some cases (only applies to build 158).
· Fixed: Deleting a television program or scheduling a recording from Theater View using the roller could cause a crash.
· Fixed: Text spacing in CD ripping progress action window was wrong.
· Fixed: Explorer view would go bonkers when faced with thousands of folders within one directory.
· Changed: Country, Producer fields are available for all media types.
· Changed: Country, Producer, and Screenwriter fields are changed to list type.
· Fixed: Some comboboxes would not properly draw their drop arrow when disabled.
· Fixed: When doing a Quick S
· earch (F3), a partially visible thumbnail would not be made wholly visible.
· Changed: View customization allows list grouping and album thumbnails in smartlists and playlist groups. (but not possible in ordered lists like a playlist or Playing Now since it would fight with the ordering)
· Changed: Added Windows 7 compatibility section to executable manifests; prevents Program Compatibility Assistant popups on install, etc.
· Changed: When importing television recordings, the time of the show is rounded to the nearest 5 minutes to make it better coincide with the program starting time.
April 30th, 2009· Changed: Quick Search highlights matches using edit colors instead of bold.
· Changed: When adding a new library view, the new view name will automatically be set to the name of the selected view instead of always using "New Library View". (can still be customized)
· Fixed: Audio problem on analog TV/capture devices when using an input line (in particular, Hauppauge HD PVR Capture device).
· Changed: Performing an action that requires the Action Window (Tag link on thumbnail, Burn disc, etc.) will unhide the tree if it's hidden.
· Fixed: When loading a Podcast Feed, a content type was specified in the request header, which could confuse some servers.
· Fixed: Using right-click menu or OSD menu to start recording from a video input line (on Hauppauge HD PVR Capture and other devices) did nothing.
· Fixed: Erroneous message box saying "You are watching channel . Do you want to cancel it and start recording" was displayed when MC tried to start scheduled recording on a non-tuner video capture device.
· Fixed: Viewing a large folder in a My Computer view could cause a crash.
· Changed: When updating a 'My Computer' view that takes a while, the list will empty and say 'Working...' instead of showing the last visible items and not indicating that it's working.
· Fixed: When leaving a view in Theater View where the file info panel showed the playing display, the frame would not fade out for a few seconds.
· Changed: Playing a file in Theater View that's already playing will just jump to Display View instead of restarting the file.
· Changed: When viewing a DVD menu fullscreen, the 'Play' button on a remote will act like enter instead of pause.
· Fixed: The Television view in Theater View would not show programs once there was less five minutes left.
· NEW: Added more sophisticated system for specifying when television subscriptions should record. (i.e. once per day, once per week, etc.)
· NEW: A context menu item "Show signal strength on screen" for digital television that allows signal strength info stay on screen until user turns it off. It also works with OSD menu (using left or right arrow to toggle).
· Changed: Moved the television Configure > Show Status command to the Settings dialog instead of the menu. (to work more like the other debugging helpers on the Settings dialog)
· NEW: Added ability to have television recordings automatically deleted after some period of time. (can be set per subscription or per episode inside a subscription)
· Fixed: In certain cases, the selection could be lost off the screen in Theater View.
· Fixed: Search suggestions were not reachable with the down key on the keyboard.
· Changed: Revised layout of television recording wizard.
· Changed: "Repeat Playing Now" no longer loops when there is only a single file in Playing Now. This way, repeat can be left on but not cause television, DVD, etc. playback to loop. "Repeat Current Item" can be used to repeat a single file.
· Changed: Configuring the player to run Media Server on startup in Options > Startup will also start Media Server at that time.
· Changed: Revised how the player buttons at the top right of the player work. They show a menu, right-click and left-click merged, etc.
· Changed: Automatic shuffle mode logic revised so it only shuffles audio, and only when more than one album are being played.
· Changed: The zone menu no longer shows things like "Toggle Zone", "Synchronize Zone", etc. until more than one zone is configured.
· NEW: When loading a library or starting playback of a file on a network (mapped drive or UNC) Media Center will try to reconnect, with a login dialog if needed, to unavailable network resources.
April 30th, 2009· Fixed: Scheduled recordings that had been disabled could still wake the computer from sleep.
· Changed: When inserting a string into an expression edit control, it would always add to the end if some text was selected -- now it replaces the text (unless the entire edit is selected).
· Changed: More tweaks in television graph building.
· Changed: Added some logging to 3D engine (Theater View, etc.) to help troubleshoot problems.
· Optimized: Rewrote core string relpacement function (used widely internally) to be much faster.
· NEW: When doing a Quick Search (Ctrl+Q), the typed phrases will be highlighted (currently with bold) in the list.
April 30th, 2009· Fixed: The installer would launch Media Center after installation on Windows 7, causing possible UAC troubles (since the installer can only run Media Center elevated, but a normal run should not be elevated).
· Optimized: Resaved all included artwork files using a better encoder, reducing the build size and helping program load times.
· Changed: Updated internal APE decoding to use Monkey's Audio 4.08 (prerelease) SDK which has fix for poor APE streaming performance.
· Changed: JTS file type (television time-shifting file) is removed from file types list. Only JTV file type is used for TV recordings.
· Fixed: On a fresh install, the player could ask about using a library from an older version of the player when it shouldn't have asked.
· Changed: The user's font selection (or the default Segoe UI on Vista and Win 7) is used in many more dialogs and the installer.
· Fixed: Deleting a television recording from Theater View could cause a crash.
· Changed: Tweaked digital television graph building in an attempt to fix a problem on Windows 7.
· NEW: Replaced "Quick Search" popup dialog with search integrated into the list. (Ctrl+Q or Edit menu)
April 30th, 2009· Fixed: With media server running, closing the program did not apply user settings for clearing playing now, recently imported, etc.
· Changed: The MP3 parser will accept MP3 files with up to a megabyte of binary 0's before the first frame of audio data.
· Fixed: When removing obsoleted components at upgrade install time, errors could be shown in some cases.
· Fixed: Television would not work with some Windows 7 filters.
April 30th, 2009· NEW: Introduced new encoder plugin system; merged all stock encoders into enc_main.dll plugin
· Changed: Haali Video Renderer is now available for use with digital television. You may need to reset your video renderer selection
· Fixed: If a view title contained an ampersand, it could size tabs incorrectly so that it ended with ... when it wasn't necessary
· Changed: Integrated latest OGG Vorbis libraries into OGG playback / tagging plugin
· Changed: Added "Credits" field. Importing My Movies xml file adds only actor names to Actors field, but actor/role to credits field
April 16th, 2009· Fixed: Setting external programs for file types in options did not always work properly.
April 14th, 2009· NEW: MC supports Hauppauge HD PVR Capture Device.
· Changed: Added MTS to file types list, and put it together with M2TS file type into a new category - AVCHD Video.
· Fixed: Theater View Television view did not properly allow switching views. (only applies to build 150)
· Changed: Theater View file commands roller doesn't wrap tail elements to the left on wide screens since left goes back instead of to the tail.
· Changed: Merged Theater View roller configuration for Default and Alternate navigation modes for file and Playing Now views.
· Changed: Theater View information panel has tighter vertical spacing.
· Changed: Tuned sizing used in Theater View information panel.
· Changed: 'Park' and 'Back' roller item in default Theater View navigation only shows when backing out with the left arrow; roller scrolling is undone when unfocusing the roller.
· Fixed: With some non-default double-click modes, double-clicking in a playlist could reset the scroll position to the playing track.
April 2nd, 2009· NEW: Movie entries in My Movies that are individual files are imported from My Movies xml data, in addition to ripped DVDs in VIDEO_TS folders.
· Changed: Director field is changed to list type.
· Changed: Improved handling of some WinTV PVR series analog TV tuners (such as PVR 150), so that it will work even if "WinTV Color Format Converter" fails to load.
· NEW: System sleep is disabled during television recording.
· NEW: Media Center will wake the computer from sleep for scheduled television recordings.
· NEW: Shutting down the computer while Media Center is recording, burning, ripping, etc. will display a warning (and also a Vista / Windows 7 'shutdown blocking reason').
· Fixed: Hauppauge HVR-1300 (Hauppauge WinTV 88x Video Capture) television tuner device did not work.
· Changed: MC will reload television tuner lists every time the user goes to Options/Settings... to configure television, so that any usb tuner devices that are plugged in after MC has been started will be picked up.
· Fixed: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-2250 (Hauppauge WinTV-7164 Analog Capture) television tuner devices did not work.
· NEW: Resource.xml can create keyboard shortcuts (and global keyboard shortcuts) that run programs. ( http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/User_Defined_Global_Keyboard_Shortcuts )
· Changed: Updated internal APE decoding to use Monkey's Audio 4.07 (prerelease) SDK which has a few fixes for handling of corrupt files.
March 30th, 2009· Changed: It's now possible to select "Watch" on a television program that's going to be on in the next 15 minutes. (watch formerly appeared only when the program was on)
· Changed: Reworked the status messages shown when pressing the Pause / Break in Theater View (and other 3D views) to show the anti-aliasing and anisotropic levels and a few other details.
· Changed: With high-quality drawing enabled, Theater View will use 16x FSAA when the video card supports it (instead of just 4x FSAA).
· Changed: The file info panel in Theater View no longer crops all images to squares, but instead maintains the aspect ratio of the image.
· Changed: Theater View "Base 2.xml" (base of most skins) adds small borders to the edge of the screen so that skins like Glass that have item backgrounds don't look as crowded.
· Fixed: MC would crash if it tried to record, in the background, a digital TV channel with low/no signal.
· Fixed: When using Media Server and then showing Theater View first, when returning to Standard View no view would get loaded until manually switching views.
· Changed: Reworded the confirmation message displayed when TV recording manager starts recording a program on a TV tuner that is already being used for viewing another channel. Also the confirmation message box now self-destructs in one minute and recording starts if the user does not click a button.
· Fixed: If the user clicked Cancel on the confirmation message box for "switching channel and start recording", the message box popped up again and again. Now "Cancel" really means cancel.
· NEW: Option to use favorite TV channels for Prevous / Next buttons. You can edit favorite channels list on "Edit Channel List..." window.
· Fixed: Updated mc2xml support to be more compatible with the latest versions.
· Fixed: When returning to Theater View and then returning to the root of Theater View, a different root could be selected than expected.
· Fixed: Pasting tracks into a list (Ctrl+V) would not honor the selection position if the selection was not currently visible.
· Fixed: If television recording cancelled a recording due to a user requesting to keep watching what is already on, it could delete an entire subscription instead of just the recording of that one program.
· Changed: Improved audio handling on some analog television devices (possibly solving audio problem with Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 MCE).
· NEW: Television recordings can be assigned a priority that will be used if more programs are scheduled than the system has available tuners.
March 16th, 2009· Optimized: More speed improvements to filename-based fields for faster searches and view loading
· Optimized: Album analyzer (fills album artist auto, mix albums, etc) is much faster
· Changed: In J River edit boxes, Shift+Delete did not place the deleted text on the clipboard
· Fixed: When using WASAPI, pausing playback, then starting another track, a little of the previous track could play
· NEW: Reworked how 'Recently Imported' and 'Recently Ripped' are pruned at shutdown -- always keeps things 7 days old or newer, keeps last 50 items (breaks on album boundaries), removes entire playlist after nothing new for 30 days (Options > General > Advanced > Clear 'Recently Imported' playlist skips this logic and deletes the playlists on shutdown)
· Fixed: On a fresh install, the stock smartlist "Recently Played" could show files that had not yet been played if nothing in the library had been played
· Fixed: Using a startup volume setting could cause the setting to unexpectedly get applied when new playback was started in a zone
· Fixed: Television recordings would always be detected as having external changes by auto-import, causing an unnecessary file analysis and rebuilding of thumbnails
· Changed: When navigating left on a secondary Theater View roller, it will skip the blank spot
· Changed: When looping right on a secondary Theater View roller, it will skip the back and blank spots
March 16th, 2009· NEW: Theater View second roller has blank spot and back item
· Changed: Included more complete Spanish translation
· Optimized: Improved performance of core filename parser, making many operations (especially searches and views that are based on paths) faster
· Optimized: Core date handling routines faster
· Fixed: Theater View playlist navigation was not working properly
· Changed: Updated all translation files to include the latest strings, and removed obsolete strings
· Fixed: J River Bitrate Monitor/CoreAVC Decoder/DirectVobSub combination in video playback did not work (black screen)
March 16th, 2009· NEW: Added functions Length(), Left(), and Right() to the expression language
· NEW: Added function Math() to expression language for evaluating mathematical formulas
· Fixed: Spectrum analyzers would not update properly when resizing the player window
· Optimized: Reduced resource usage (slightly) when playback is stopped
· Fixed: Fast forwarding/rewinding television had bursts of sound if audio output was SPDIF
· Changed: Added support for ID3v22 TCO (genre) and TPA (disc number) frames
· Optimized: Numerous core database optimizations to improve performance for libraries with a lot of playlists
· Fixed: Video stream selection changes were not saved to database
March 16th, 2009· Fixed: When viewing Theater View's root with playback stopped, pressing the Green button on an MCE remote will shift the keyboard focus to Media Center in the event that a different program was focused
· Fixed: The default button on a dialog could draw unreadable text with the Noire skin
· Fixed: Media Editor's file save dialog didn't always work nicely on Vista / Windows Server 2008
· Changed: During ATSC digital channel scanning, analog channels (those with minor channel number 0) are ignored
· Fixed: Navigating into some Theater View roots did not work (only applies to build 136)
· Optimized: Many optimizations to improve Theater View view switching performance
· NEW: When using a list management window (like Theater View views, etc) double-clicking an item will edit it, and double-clicking an empty area will add a new item
· Fixed: The Customize View dialog would show a "Commands" button instead of the list of buttons in cases where it didn't need to
· Fixed: Internal Volume control was not available for some analog TV tuners that should have internal volume control
· Fixed: Library views that showed stacks of files based on a date-type field would not work correctly when navigating into the stack
· Changed: Pushing left to go back in Theater View will focus the leftmost item on the secondary roller, another left will go to the top roller, and another left will return to the home view
March 16th, 2009· Changed: Reenabled background cover art lookup by default, but capped how many covers a silent auto-import will get each run
· Changed: Removed page up / page down support in Theater View rollers (also MCE remote channel buttons)
· Changed: Navigating all the way left on a secondary roller in Theater View will shift focus to the main roller
· Changed: Faded the text more of duplicate times in Theater View's television view
· Fixed: With certain hardware, the volume on screen display could flash each pause, seek, etc
· Fixed: Theater View navigation could fail when using a language other than English
· Optimized: Switching between different library views in Theater View is faster
March 16th, 2009· Optimized: When the program is minimized, there is one less user-interface related thread running (albeit the thread was mostly idle)
· Changed: Theater View's Playing Now didn't show the playback commands roller
· Fixed: Reading MP3 tags could crash in rare cases
· Changed: MC will show a message box and put TV tuner device in error state when repeated attempts to record a television channel fail due to low signal or faulty tuner device
· Fixed: "ScreenGrab to File" in DVD/Video did not save image in user specified location
· Changed: By default, auto-import will not analyze audio or get cover art These can still be enabled in Options > Library & Folders
March 16th, 2009· Changed: Added Configure buttons to "Select Filters" window to display DirectShow filter property pages if available
· Fixed: In-place edits could show the edit control shifted down more than expected
· Changed: The FormatDate() expression function accepts a new format "DateTime" that formats using the system format and includes the time ("Date" style doesn't include time)
· Optimized: Removed some file system I/O done at program startup, making startup faster
· Optimized: Switched all stock skins to use only PNG image types for faster skin loading
· Changed: Streamlined television OSD when recording/starting/changing channel
· NEW: Revised Theater View roller layout to make player controls (pause, playback, vol, etc) more visible
· NEW: Added The Onion as a Theater View news site
· Changed: Improved how Theater View news works with roller-based Theater View skins like Obsidian
March 16th, 2009· Fixed: The new "Select Filters" tool from context menu could fail to load and save settings when a video is played from the Internet (such as YouTube)
· Fixed: Input plug-in section of Plugin Manager always showed an empty file types box
· Fixed: Auto-sizing multiline columns like lyrics would not work correctly
· Fixed: When drawing "" at the end of truncated text, sometimes only one or two dots would get drawn instead of three
· Changed: Improved support for external cover art on a portable install
· Fixed: When doing a lossless JPEG rotation on an image, sometimes it could double-rotate by rotating the image data and setting the EXIF orientation to "Normal" (now rotation will always set the EXIF orientation to normal, and then take this into account during actual image data rotation)
· Fixed: When an EXIF tag had multiple rotation tags, only one would be updated during lossless image rotation
· Optimized: Thumbnail database maintenance no longer scans thumbnail database on program shutdown (scanning for orphan thumbnails is done when adding a new thumbnail, where it causes no performance hit since the database is loaded at that time regardless)
· Changed: If Media Center fails to load an image for a file (database says tag has image but it doesn't or database points to missing external file), the image field will get cleared so there isn't a mismatch between the thumbnail and what can actually be loaded
· Changed: Updated APE decoding / encoder to the latest Monkey's Audio code (fixes problem where corrupt frames could play as static instead of silence)
· Fixed: When finishing playback of the last audio file in a playlist, the player could blink "Buffering" a few times in the player bar
· Changed: When changing the "Pan & Zoom" setting using the on screen display during image playback, the setting change is permanent instead of temporary
· Changed: The dialog that (optionally) shows when inserting a new disc is no longer shown when in Display View or Theater View
· Changed: When entering Television view in Theater View, it will focus the Guide, Recordings, etc roller
· Fixed: Incorrect progress indicator while protected WMA tracks were transferring to a device
March 16th, 2009· Changed: Television view in Theater View draws the time in front of program names faded out
· Fixed: The play button on an MCE remote would not toggle pause while playing fullscreen
· Fixed: The Enter key (OK on MCE remote) would not pause DVD playback like it would with other forms of playback
· Changed: When changing the volume, an on screen display will be shown
· Changed: The page up / page down (channel up / channel down on MCE remote) allows looping in Theater View lists (uses timer to prevent loops from key repeats)
· Changed: When selecting a Theater View roller item that navigates (like Back, Playing Now, etc), first the selection will move, then the navigation will occur This makes it more clear what is happening
· Changed: Theater View rollers look smoother when switching views
· Changed: When user starts to record a TV program using right-click or OSD menu, the program name is briefly displayed on screen
· Fixed: Drawing partially transparent text onto a transparent background (Theater View, etc) could result in artifacts
· Changed: MCE remote buttons "Guide" and "Recorded Television" show corresponding view in Theater View
February 21st, 2009· Fixed: If user changed analog TV device's tuner input type ("Antenna "Cable") in build 125, it became inconsistent
· Fixed: Switching channel while watching another channel that was also being recorded was not handled correctly
· Fixed: When scanning for TV channels or ATSC OTA EPG data, MC reported the tuner as "Watching" instead of "Scanning"
· Changed: Improved readability of system info report
· Fixed: Rip failure message text could sometimes be garbled
· NEW: Added new experimental Theater View view "Showroom" (to see, you must create a Theater View view under Audio, Images, or Video named "Showroom")
August 14th, 2006· More skin options than ever From the popular Thunderstorm skin to the new Aruba. Over 400 Mini View skins to choose from.
· Easy-to-use Action Window A graphical way to select commonly used features like burning or tagging or transferring to a handheld. Just select an icon then drag and drop your files to it. Now with quick access to your selected services.
· Media Mode buttons
· Quickly target the media that you want to view.
· Audio, images, video or documents.
· More Visualizations
· Improved internal 2D and 3D visualizations,
· and support for leading edge visualizations like
· WhiteCap and the new G-Force 3.0.
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