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[JimH]

This is the latest version of MC 16.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted or moved.

Update: Run Media Center and check for updates
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Download: http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v16/latest/MediaCenter160121.exe
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Subscribe to one of the Update Channels.

New MC16 Features and Upgrade Instructions

16.0.121 (6/28/2011)

1. 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.
2. Fixed: Switched Red October MPEG-2 decoding when not using the Microsoft decoder to libavcodec due to libmpeg2 crashes on TS files.

16.0.120 (6/27/2011)

1. NEW: Purity is a new stock skin (thanks to Cristian Arellano for his excellent work).
2. NEW: The on screen display is drawn into madVR, making madVR exclusive mode work better.
3. Changed: Updated Red October HQ to use madVR 0.66.
4. Fixed: When starting video playback, the program could be unresponsive for about one second longer than necessary.
5. Changed: Minor correction in Chinese language file.
6. Fixed: Adding a file to a linked zone would unnecessarily resynchronize the zones to the beginning of the current song.
7. Fixed: With analyze audio enabled in Auto-Import, shutdown could take longer than expected in some cases.
8. Changed: Removed "Start digital television in time-shifting mode" option.  Digital television will always be started in time-shifting mode.
9. Fixed: The file system tree in Import > Auto-Import > Add... did not use the correct skinning colors.
10. NEW: Added Options > Theater View > Advanced > Turn off NumLock on load (useful for some remote keyboards where numlock causes troubles).

16.0.119 (6/24/2011)

1. 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).
2. Fixed: DLNA Push to WDTV renderers wasn't working. Broken since build 16.0.15
3. 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.
4. Changed: Removed DVD option for ffdshow post processing (you can instead use FFDShow Raw as an additional filter if this is desired).
5. 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.
6. Changed: More efficient loading / unloading of Red October filters.
7. Fixed: With Library Server authentication enabled, other copies of Media Center running on the network would not reliably discover the server.
8. Faster: Television seeking is much faster (applies to recorded and time-shifted playback).

16.0.118 (6/23/2011)

1. SDK: The skinning engine supports selecting the view header background color when inactive by using ViewHeader::InactiveHeaderBackgroundColor in the skin.
2. Changed: Bitrate monitor filters no longer show in the custom filter list (they are managed by Red October instead).
3. Fixed: Time-shifted television playback did not honor advanced video filter selection.
4. 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.
5. Fixed: The subwoofer controls could be disabled on DSP Studio > Output Format when using the new 2.1 output mode.
6. Changed: MC16.exe /MCC accepts the parameter formatting [value]:[zone index] for easier multi-zone usage. (i.e. MC16.exe /MCC 10020, 25:2)
7. Fixed: When switching input formats, the option to move the center channel to the front speakers could work incorrectly.

16.0.117 (6/22/2011)

1. Changed: Removed obsolete DVD option regarding usage of the bitrate monitors.
2. Changed: Cleaned up the video options.
3. Fixed: Merit-based video renderering would not always use the selected video renderer.
4. Fixed: Right-click 'Color Controls...' was not working for DVD playback.
5. Fixed: Positioning of video playback (with OSD or shift+drag) was not working.
6. Changed: Simplified how audio and video stream selection work when using the on screen display.
7. NEW: Added 'Playlists' column that can be added to any list to show the playlists that a file is in.

16.0.116 (6/21/2011)

1. NEW: Blu-ray importing / cataloging works more nicely ( http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=64795.0 ).
2. Fixed: In certain passages, JRSS surround channels could be biased towards the left.
3. Fixed: In some cases, the first video playback in a zone could fail to start with madVR.
4. Fixed: The EVR video renderer was not working nicely with build 115.
5. Changed: Removed obsolete video option regarding WMV acceleration (was only needed for old ATI cards when playing protected WMV).

16.0.115 (6/20/2011)

1. Fixed: Importing of Windows Media video did not get FPS field.
2. Fixed: Some AAC+ internet radio stations would not play.
3. Fixed: Some Windows Media ASX-based internet radio stations would not play.
4. Changed: Updated to new version of ffdshow (ffdshow_rev3882_20110613_clsid.exe).
5. Changed: Added stream selection to Windows Merit Based video playback.
6. Changed: In Display View, a status message is now displayed while filter components are being downloaded & installed.
7. Fixed: With the Media Network feature disabled in Options > General > Features, the Playing Now portion of the tree would not build correctly.
8. Changed: Video positioning happens in the video playback graph thread instead of the main thread (guess as to madVR hanging issue; please report results).
9. Changed: When using madVR, only YV12 color space output will be allowed (due to problems reported with NV12 color space converter in madVR).

16.0.114 (6/17/2011)

1. 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.
2. Fixed: Red October preset had the ffdshow subtitle options hidden.
3. Fixed: Red October preset was using the wrong ffdshow decoding thread count setting, resulting in reduced performance on some computers.
4. Fixed: Thumbnails for some videos could be solid gray.
5. Faster: Improved performance of video thumbnailing.

16.0.113 (6/16/2011)

1. Changed: Updated all language files to have the latest strings from the source code, and to remove any orphan strings.
2. Changed: Some optimizations to the video engine to make video playback start faster.
3. Changed: The timeout used when analyzing a video file is 30 seconds instead of 20 seconds.
4. Changed: JRSS downmixing provides higher volume levels in many cases.
5. NEW: Option to automatically change display settings according to video frame rate when starting a video.
6. Changed: Files with the DTS extension are playable in the audio engine (decoded by Red October).
7. Fixed: Direct show filter downloading was causing problems during import and thumbnail creation.

16.0.112 (6/15/2011)

1. Changed: Improved support for picking a soundcard for WASAPI, etc. output when multiple soundcards on the system have the same name.
2. Faster: Some optimizations to the JRiver audio engine when used for video.
3. 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).
4. Fixed: Added file association "trp" so these video files will now play with Red October.
5. Fixed: Downloading videos from YouTube would not get the title.
6. NEW: Parametric equalizer supports Linkwitz Transform filters (used to extend the frequency response of a sealed subwoofer).
7. Fixed: Bitstreaming of DTS-HD and TrueHD formats over HDMI was not working properly.
8. Fixed: Some videos were displaying with the wrong aspect ratio in Red October mode on Windows XP.
9. Fixed: The ground was not drawing properly in the 3d spectrum analyzer visualization.

[davhj]

8. Changed: Removed "Start digital television in time-shifting mode" option.  Digital television will always be started in time-shifting mode.

Unfortunately being able to disable this option was the only way I could previously watch DVB-T channels.

Now Media Center 0.121 crashes whenever I select a channel (as it used to when the option was selected in older versions).

[Robo983]

I am not able to get "Hide Media Center while program is running" to work for running an external program from Theater view.

This is not a problem I am having just with version 121. I have/had a pc running on V111 Vista, V116 Win 7, and V119 Win XP and none of them seem to work with this feature as I know it did in the past. I upgraded the v119 XP and v116 Win 7 to v121 but did not correct the problem. I noticed this a few weeks ago but did not have time to look at it and thought I just needed a PC reboot so can't specifically say when this problem showed up.

I have used this feature as far back as maybe MC13 to launch Beyond TV. It has worked perfectly to launch BTV and relaunch MC on exiting BTV until recently.

It use to appear to minimize MC and load BTV full screen. After exiting BTV it didn't seem to be reloading MC but maximizing it from the task bar. This no longer works. BTV loads and it looks like MC is minimized then maximized and takes the focus. BTV is running in the back ground but has lost the focus at which point the only way to get to it is to exit MC.

I have tried other programs like note pad, chrome, and windows explorer with the same results. I do not do windows updates and the only program I can think that I have even added to the HTPC was the Blockbuster video player but always update MC. The blockbuster player is not on any of the other PCs running other versions so I eliminated that as a possible problem.

I can consistently reproduce this problem but haven't found any other posts of people having this problem so is there a new setting I have missed in one of the updates?

[petrossa]

Since the last few builds the display switches modes every time between exclusive and standard when you touch a key. This causes all my displays to reset very time. Any setting i should change?

[Arbiter]

Since the last few builds the display switches modes every time between exclusive and standard when you touch a key. This causes all my displays to reset very time. Any setting i should change?

Try to disable "Enable automatic fullscreen exclusive mode", in madVR settings (Rightclick while playing a video file -> Directshow filters -> MadVR) . Although it's there for a reason and i would not really recommended to disable it.

madVR has an integrated automatic fullscreen exclusive mode, which automatically detects when the media players goes into fullscreen mode. When that happens, madVR automatically switches Direct3D into fullscreen exclusive mode, which increases rendering performance and totally gets rid of any tearing. It also helps with multi monitor setups, where Aero often has trouble with smooth playback. Fullscreen exclusive mode will also be necessary for things like DeepColor (30bit, 48bit) output, frame packed 3D output etc...

[Yaobing]

Unfortunately being able to disable this option was the only way I could previously watch DVB-T channels.

Now Media Center 0.121 crashes whenever I select a channel (as it used to when the option was selected in older versions).

Email me a log.  I will try to figure out what is causing the problem.  I am yaobing at jriver dot com

[petrossa]

Try to disable "Enable automatic fullscreen exclusive mode", in madVR settings (Rightclick while playing a video file -> Directshow filters -> MadVR) . Although it's there for a reason and i would not really recommended to disable it.

Tnx for the tip. I'll have a go at it. It's very annoying if you are watching a girlie movie and everytime you skip to the tearjerk parts the whole screen jumps up and about. (women and their soppy movies  )

[jmone]

Unfortunately being able to disable this option was the only way I could previously watch DVB-T channels.

Now Media Center 0.121 crashes whenever I select a channel (as it used to when the option was selected in older versions).

Another idea.  Trying running MC as an "Administrator" and see if it will now play.  If it does then you are fine from now on (eg you don't need to run as administrator each time, just the first for some reason)

[EpF]

Search Rule weirdness:

I have a viewscheme with a series of search list filters. Somewhere in the middle is a list which includes ~dup=[BPM]. It shows no files when selected, even when the file list is filtered from the search bar with the exact same filter.