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JRiver Media Center 17.0.103 -- Available Here
« on: March 08, 2012, 09:47:22 am »

This is the latest version of MC 17.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted or moved.

New Features in MC17

Upgrade Instructions

Download: http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v17/latest/MediaCenter170103.exe

17.0.103 (3/7/2012)

1. NEW: Added support for sidecar .SSA/.ASS subtitles (feedback welcome).
2. Changed: Added WebM Video (.webm) to the list of supported video types.
3. Changed: Added a DoP test clip to the test clip suite.
4. Changed: Updated to madVR v0.82.4 when using Red October HQ.
5. 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).
6. Changed: Revised the Help > System Info display (thanks to madshi for his help).

17.0.102 (3/6/2012)

1. Changed: Added the expression function ConvertDate(...) to convert a human readable date to the internal date format (example: ConvertDate(3/6/2012) or FormatDate(ConvertDate(3/6/2012), decade)).
2. Changed: Stack members are allowed to have discrete Playback Info, Playback Range, and Bookmark values.
3. Experimental: It's possible to create a particle of a file that plays a certain title, subtitles, aspect ratio, playback range etc. (Stacks > Advanced > Create Particle...).
4. Experimental: Added Stacks > Advanced > Auto Create DVD Title Particles to create a particle for each title on a DVD (so individual titles are playable).  More information
5. Fixed: JRSS mixing was incorrectly handling 6.1 in certain cases (it was assuming L R C LFE BC SL SR instead of reading the channel mask).
6. Changed: Remove obsolete "no server header" advanced DLNA server option.
7. NEW: Add "enable bitrate field" advanced DLNA server option. Disabled by default because some devices break when they get it. Enable it for devices that can use it for seeking.
8. Fixed: prevent MC from trying to update tags on a remote file playing in the DLNA renderer or viewed by the DLNA controller.

17.0.101 (3/5/2012)

1. Changed: Improved television EPG loading interface.
2. Changed: Television view in Standard View shows series images for programs when available, and removes the 'Image...' button that predates automatic series art downloading (part of auto-import).
3. Changed: When using the Internet Explorer engine to render webpages in Standard View, IE's compatibility mode is no longer used.
4. Changed: Updated to madVR v0.82.1 when using Red October HQ.
5. Fixed: Exiting the ASIO configuration dialog could hang in some cases.
6. Changed: DLNA: altered the logic on SetNextAVTransportURI to better support the different possible renderer implementations.
7. NEW: DLNA: When in a DLNA zone AND we are not the controller (we didn't start playback) AND something is playing on the renderer device, try to get and display the MetaData from the renderer.

17.0.100 (3/5/2012)

Internal testing build

17.0.99 (3/2/2012)

1. Changed: Improved the workaround for the blue-screen crashes in the Thesycon (and possibly other) audio drivers when resetting with Kernel Streaming.
2. Changed: Reworked how full packet Kernel Streaming delivery is handled to work better with video (full packets are required or some drivers stall playback).
3. 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.
4. Fixed: DLNA search didn't work properly with servers/renderers that used the same port for both.

17.0.98 (3/1/2012)

1. Fixed: The remote control plugin was not included in build 97, leading to problems.
2. Fixed: Filename truncation could still unnecessarily truncate long fields.

17.0.97 (2/29/2012)

1. Fixed: DVB-S channel scan could produce wrong polarization value ("Linear Horizontal" was set to "Not Defined").
2. Changed: Revised how filenames that are too long for the file system are truncated (previously truncation could be too aggressive).
3. Fixed: The program could crash when the remote control feature was disabled.
4. Fixed: DVB-T/S/C channel scanning could crash in some cases.
5. Fixed: Stopping image playback while audio playback was in progress could cause a crash in build 96.

17.0.96 (2/28/2012)

1. Changed: Updated to madVR v0.81 with Red October HQ.
2. Changed: Gathering playback state and position information for a zone occurs in a background thread so a slow DLNA device or server can not cause user interface issues.
3. Faster: The threaded approach to display information updating allows running updates one tenth as much while providing smoother visual position incrementing.
4. Fixed: URL-based video playback was not working since build 94.
5. Changed: Kernel Streaming output no longer writes partial packets if there's a shortfall or at the end of a track but instead delivers a full packet with some silence (some drivers blue screen on partial packets).
6. Fixed: DVB-S channel scanning did not save modulation type value correctly.
7. Fixed: Theater View > Playing Now > Info could show the wrong track when first entering.
8. Changed: Video conversion for Gizmo / WebGizmo uses MP3 instead of AAC (works better with Android 4.0, maybe others).
9. NEW: Video conversion tool using Red October available on right-click menu (Library Tools/Convert Format).  The UI is mostly finished, the transcode profiles are not fully defined and may not give expected results. More to come.
10. Fixed: After deleting files from Playing Now, the selection could unexpectedly revert to the playing track.
11. Changed: Renamed Options > Media Network > Client Options > to 'Automatically sync changes made on client back to server' to 'Auto sync with server'.
12. Fixed: DVB-T/S/C channel scanning could crash in some cases.
13. Changed: Theater View sheet list style adapts the image aspect ratio like other lists (instead of always using squares).
14. Fixed: A few bugs in the DLNA renderer.
15. Changed: Added Media_Duration to GetMediaInfo for the DLNA renderer.

17.0.95 (2/24/2012)

1. Changed: Updated LAV filters to .48 which fixes a crash with native DXVA2 on hardware that doesn't support decoding all formats.
2. Changed: IIR based DSP effects like low-pass, high-pass, Linkwitz, etc. better handle denormals (numbers very close to zero) so performance slowdowns don't arise from these numbers.
3. Changed: Tuned timing used when switching madVR between Display View and Theater View to (hopefully) fix black-screen hangs.
4. Changed: Updated the RSS feed for Theater View Yahoo! News to point to a new RSS feed that works (Yahoo! still offers the old feed, but it's full of broken links).
5. Fixed: Sometimes when deleting files, especially from Theater View, the remove empty folders prompt would not appear right away.
6. Fixed: Toggling the new DSP option 'Process independently of internal volume' could cause a burst of sound if the internal volume was low.
7. Fixed: Tempo & Pitch DSP did not flush fully, so on seek, etc. a little tail could be heard in some cases.
8. Changed: The text output in the Export Playlist tool creates standard CSV output (RFC 4180 compliant).
9. Fixed: Channel editing tool did not work for DVB-C/S and QAM tuner types.
10. Changed: Removed Output Format option for sources that have an incorrectly mastered subwoofer, use -10dB to the subwoofer in Parametric Equalizer instead if needed (discussed here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=70303.0).
11. NEW: Add DLNA controller switch to ignore transport events (use polling mode) to the Player Zone.

17.0.94 (2/23/2012)

1. Fixed: WASAPI output mode could lose lip-sync when seeking in video.
2. Faster: Pruning of the Theater View background cache could cause exiting Theater View to be slow (pruning is now around 50x faster and only done once a week).
3. Fixed: LAV Source/Splitter filter would allow viewing configuration pages which is not valid for auto-configured Red October filters and in fact shows the config for a separately installed instance.
4. Changed: Theater View News works better when an article fails to load (like the current Yahoo! failures due to a Yahoo! server problem).
5. Fixed: Volume Protection could engage and turn the volume down on subsequent videos when playing videos back to back.
6. Faster: The HTML parser used by Theater View news is about 10x faster.
7. NEW: Each DSP effect can be set to be processed independently of internal volume (Options button at top right of DSP).
8. NEW: DSP effects can be set to process only when viewed, which is useful for visualization style items like Analyzer (Options button at top right of DSP).
9. Changed: Tuning to some wording in DSP Studio.
10. Changed: DSP Studio keeps 'Output Format' first and 'Volume Leveling' second.  A message explaining this is shown if a user attempts to put other effects before these effects.
11. NEW: Added a second Parametric Equalizer to DSP Studio so it's possible to apply effects on either side of Room Correction, convolution, etc.
12. Changed: One-time reset of DSP effect ordering due to other changes.
13. Fixed: DLNA controller function was assuming it was in control whenever a zone was selected leading to badness if we were only viewing a zone someone else was controlling.
14. Changed: DLNA controller polls for playing state if it thinks it's playing but the position isn't updating from 0. This fixes trouble if an event is missed.
15. Turkey: Moved the search box to the lower-left of the Options dialog as discussed here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=69921.0.

17.0.93 (2/21/2012)

1. Changed: Added support for reading the lens name from XMP.
2. Changed: Improved the HTML parsing engine used in Theater View > News to works better with BBC, possibly others.
3. Changed: Tweaked the list of reasons in the uninstall dialog.
4. NEW: Added The Verge to Theater View News.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 17.0.103 -- Available Here
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2012, 02:25:16 pm »

themoviedb lookup does not return the movie rating.  I thought it did previously.  The rottentomatoes lookup correctly returns the rating.

Also, having a mixture of rottentomatoes ratings and normal 1-10 ratings messes with sorting.  All rt ratings come first,being betwen 0-100 on the first number.  Sorting on this term needs some special behaviour. Perhaps it should be limited to the critic rating, rescaled between 0-10.

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Re: JRiver Media Center 17.0.103 -- Available Here
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2012, 04:08:00 am »

Sorry, but my English isn't that good: what does "3. Experimental: It's possible to create a particle of a file that plays a certain title, subtitles, aspect ratio, playback range etc. (Stacks > Advanced > Create Particle...)" mean?
Is it what I think? That you can select a part of a song and export it as a separate file?
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Re: JRiver Media Center 17.0.103 -- Available Here
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2012, 06:22:28 am »

Sorry, but my English isn't that good: what does "3. Experimental: It's possible to create a particle of a file that plays a certain title, subtitles, aspect ratio, playback range etc. (Stacks > Advanced > Create Particle...)" mean?
Is it what I think? That you can select a part of a song and export it as a separate file?
Nearly.  It marks an existing file and creates a virtual file.

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=70685.msg477037#msg477037

In this build it has no user interface.  Next build does.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 17.0.103 -- Available Here
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2012, 03:50:17 pm »

Hi guys --

Ah, sometime in the past few versions, MC became a real CPU hog when streaming from a remote library. I was on .99 until this morning; can you think of anything introduced over the past few versions that would slow me down so much? I'm not transcoding on the source machine, just streaming MP3s (not even 320k).

Thanks...
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Re: JRiver Media Center 17.0.103 -- Available Here
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2012, 06:59:34 pm »

When using multiple zones for different Media Types, it seems there should be the ability to set a different List Style for each Playing Now Zone without MC changing the other zones.

I find I prefer Thumbnails List Style for Video media and Details List Style for Music media, but MC makes all Zones the same List Style.

Can this be changed?  I've started using MC for video since MC17 and would like to continue.
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Re: JRiver Media Center 17.0.103 -- Available Here
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2012, 07:48:38 am »

Playing videos using either Red October or Red October HD resulted in pixelation.

I have been using Red October HD all along and this has not happened previously. This has occurred with both MKV and AVI files, and I did make sure my laptop was plugged in and not in a power saving mode at the time. I also closed MC and restarted it after switching from ROHD to RO standard.

The same video played without pixelation using VNC so I think it is an MC issue and not the video quality.

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Media Center
    Install Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 17\
    Interface Plugins: TiVo Server (disabled, not running), Sleep Timer (disabled, not running)
    JRMark: never run
    Library: 31802 files, 6.9 MB in library, 696 MB in thumbnails
    Resources: 22.5 MB memory, 418 handles
    Version: 17.0.103.0 registered
Batteries
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Computer
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    USB Input Device (driver 6.1.7601.17514)
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    Ricoh PCIe SDXC/MMC Host Controller (driver 6.10.10.31)
Intel(R) Wireless Display
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Keyboards
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Memory
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    Total Memory: 7.9 GB
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    Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad (driver 15.2.11.1)
Monitors
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Network adapters
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    Intel(R) WiFi Link 1000 BGN (driver 14.0.2.2)
    MAC Bridge Miniport (driver 6.1.7600.16385)
    Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter #2 (driver 6.1.7600.16385)
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    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz (driver 6.1.7600.16385)
    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz (driver 6.1.7600.16385)
    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz (driver 6.1.7600.16385)
Sound, video and game controllers
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    Realtek High Definition Audio (driver 6.0.1.6526)
Storage volume shadow copies
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    Generic volume shadow copy (driver 6.1.7600.16385)
    Generic volume shadow copy (driver 6.1.7600.16385)
    Generic volume shadow copy (driver 6.1.7600.16385)
    Generic volume shadow copy (driver 6.1.7600.16385)
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    ACPI Fixed Feature Button (driver 6.1.7601.17514)
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    ACPI Power Button (driver 6.1.7601.17514)
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    Consumer IR Devices (driver 6.1.7600.16385)
    Direct Application Launch Button (driver 6.1.7601.17514)
    Direct Application Launch Button (driver 6.1.7601.17514)
    Direct Application Launch Button (driver 6.1.7601.17514)
    Direct memory access controller (driver 6.1.7601.17514)
    File as Volume Driver (driver 6.1.7600.16385)
    High Definition Audio Controller (driver 6.1.7601.17514)
    High precision event timer (driver 6.1.7601.17514)
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    Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 - 1C14 (driver 9.2.0.1016)
    Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 - 1C18 (driver 9.2.0.1016)
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    Intel(R) Management Engine Interface
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    Microsoft System Management BIOS Driver (driver 6.1.7601.17514)
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    Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 1C2D (driver 9.2.0.1021)
    Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 1C26 (driver 9.2.0.1021)
    Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller (driver 2.0.34.0)
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