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[Matt]

This is the latest version of MC21.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download:
http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v21/latest/MediaCenter210017.exe

21.0.17 (10/20/2015)

1. Changed: Updated Italian translation file (thanks Matteo).
2. Fixed: Sibelius was not running with the ASIO driver installed.
3. Changed: 4K Hardware accelerated decoding is enabled in Red October.
4. Fixed: Streaming video to JRemote or Gizmo could get disrupted near the end of the video in recent versions.
5. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
6. Changed: PercData download cache files are deleted 24 hours after being created.
7. Fixed: LibRAW could crash when opening files.
8. Changed: Doing a delete from the library will not offer the option to delete or recycle the underlying file if the selection set contains a particle.

21.0.16 (10/16/2015)

1. Changed: The height of "Manage Channels" window is reduced so that the buttons in the bottom will not be pushed off screen when a reasonably large font is used.
2. Changed: Added a couple of tool tips in television subscription wizard.
3. Fixed: The "Compare fields:" drop list on television subscription wizard page was not initially grayed out when "Do not record programs that have been recorded in the past" was not selected.
4. Fixed: Hitting Ctrl+P in Theater View's Playing Now could cause start up silence to be skipped.
5. Changed: The output xmltv file of mc2xml will not be deleted until MC is restarted.
6. Changed: When loading EPG in MC2XML mode, the wait message "Loading EPG data.  MC2XML provider token: xxxxxxxx" will remain on display more reliably.
7. Fixed: Images in Theater View could draw improperly in certain cases.
8. Changed: Updated Italian translation file (thanks Matteo).

21.0.15 (10/14/2015)

1. Fixed: DSP presets set for video files didn't load properly.
2. Changed: The PercData genres for TV programs are saved in Keywords tag, to be consistent with treatment of XMLTV data.
3. Changed: Mapped more XMLTV program "categories" to MC Genre field.
4. Fixed: DVB TV channels with video PID equal to 0x1fff were not marked as audio-only (and thus were not played correctly).
5. Fixed: Drop panes weren't working properly.
6. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
7. Fixed: Webpage playback could result in a black screen until the player was resized.
8. Fixed: PercData EPG data had time shifted by a few hours.
9. Changed: Updated Italian translation file (thanks Matteo).
10. Fixed: Made the ASIO driver work with Sony Movie Studio.

21.0.14 (10/12/2015)

1. Fixed: WTV files didn't play on Library Server Clients without direct files access.
2. Fixed: Typing the value [Varies] into a field for editing didn't work.
3. Changed: Stopping video playback when using madVR would paint the splash screen of the video, but now that drawing is disabled.
4. NEW: PercData.com EPG data service is integrated in MC.
5. Fixed: Setting up DVB-S/C or QAM tuners when there are already existing similar hardware profiles could lead to crash.
6. Fixed: Unchecking a Linkwitz-Riley filter wouldn't stop it from processing.
7. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
8. Changed: Theater View only takes sidecar art that's of the name [Name][extra stuff].[extension] so that it won't get false matches when a lot of videos are stored next to each other.
9. Changed: Webpage files (htm and html) play inside the player in the internal browser instead of launching a web browser application.
10. Changed: Switched the naming of the dither mode option to 'Dither Mode (not zone-specific)' so that it's clearly labeled as not zone specific.
11. Fixed: A little typo 'Channel gouping' instead of 'Channel grouping'.
12. NEW: The 'Manage Plug-ins' button in DSP Studio has an option 'Show Always On Top' to make DSP Studio a top-most window.
13. NEW: Expressions can take the data type &DataType=[Day] to be the day of a week name and then the sorting will be correct.
14. Changed: Updated German translation (thanks bytestar).

21.0.13 (10/09/2015)

1. Fixed: Encoding a DVD profile used the wrong video dimensions in 21.0.12.
2. Fixed: Encoding MPEG-2 video did not use multi-threading in 21.0.12 (and was thus slower than expected).
3. Fixed: Deinterlacing was not activated reliably when transcoding.
4. Changed: Updated Slovak translation (thanks Peter Lukac).
5. Changed: Updated Russian translation (thanks Vladimir).
6. Changed: Updated to the latest version of LibRaw.
7. Changed: Tuned the H.264 video conversion profiles to make better use of their allocated bandwidth (slightly increases quality across the board).
8. Fixed: Video Transcoding could get stuck at 0% if opening the encoder failed (instead of showing the failure in the UI).

21.0.12 (10/08/2015)

1. Changed: Picking a smaller number of Car Radio buttons no longer deletes the playlists above that number.  It'll leave them so if you set the count higher they'll come back.
2. Changed: Added an on-screen message "Waiting for signal lock..." when TV waits for signal for longer than 6 seconds.
3. NEW: Added 'Initial Key' field and support for the appropriate tags in MP3/ID3, FLAC, M4A and WMA.
4. Changed: Re-designed video transcoding engine (internal change).

21.0.11 (9/30/2015)

1. Changed: Put a dash in the naming of Linkwitz-Riley.
2. Changed: Reworked the w64 changes from the previous build.
3. Changed: Setting the playback range for a file automatically sets the duration of the file to reflect that change.
4. Fixed: Stopping playback by clearing Playing Now with a big pre-buffer set and a fadeout on stop mode set would hang a little while.
5. Changed: Made some adjustments to the way borders are handled to resolve a compatibility issue with custom skins, and reduced the height of the resizing zone for the bottom border.
6. Fixed: The EPG scheduling time controls were not grayed out when Load Program Guide window was initially displayed with "Automatically load program guide everyday in the background" checkbox unchecked.
7. Changed: On Load Program Guide window, if none of the guide loading modes is selected, the "Run selected profiles now" checkbox will be grayed out.
8. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
9. NEW: RIFF Metadata Tags in W64 files are imported into the library.
10. Changed: Added more diagnostic logging entries for TV recording cleanup.
11. Changed: Marked the strings "Parameters" and "Examples" in the expression tooltip for translation.
12. Changed: Marked the string "Max" for translation in the CD burning options page.
13. Changed: Ran all the translation files through the source code translation engine to update the strings in the file.
14. Fixed: The "Set As Desktop Background" dialog didn't scale nicely on high DPI.
15. NEW: Added a right-click menu to the Car Radio buttons that offers a choice of how many buttons to show.

21.0.10 (9/24/2015)

1. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo Tsuchiya).
2. NEW: Added a Linkwitz-Riley filter to Parametric Equalizer.
3. Changed: When creating a particle with a playback range the range will be used to update the duration (instead of keeping the duration the length of the entire clip).
4. Fixed: An STB TV channel played on a client could be silent.
5. Fixed: A rare crash involving the explorer.
6. Fixed: Taskbar buttons didn't work when MC was run as administrator.
7. Changed: Added a warning to remind users to run EPG loading tool after Auto Grouping is done.
8. NEW: When a user sets up two or more profiles that share the same EPG channel lineup, a popup message box is shown to offer to group channels.
9. Changed: Marked the secure rip report strings for translation.
10. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
11. Changed: Updated the Print Preview window to work nicely with high DPI.
12. Fixed: Printing checks for the no printer condition before opening the dialog and shows an error if that state is found (it was crashing).
13. Changed: Renamed the toolbar button from "Navigation" to "Favorites" (since it's all about favorites).
14. Fixed: Made the quick search box size properly on high DPI.
15. Changed: Red October updated to LAV Filters 0.66.
16. Fixed: The 3D tunnel visualization could stall when playing a file that didn't have many impacts.
17. Changed: MC will be slightly more aggressive in filtering out duplicate programs when doing subscription recordings on all channels.
18. Fixed: A filename with the type w64 would get treated differently than a file with the type wav.
19: Fixed: DLNA: MC's renderer was posting the wrong STOP command which was causing a long delay eventing the STOP when the Audio setting for STOP was FADEOUT
20. Fixed: Television setup wizard did not save the "The tuner is capable of DVB-T2/S2/C2" checkbox state properly.
21. NEW: Ctrl+D opens DSP Studio.

21.0.9 (9/19/2015)

1. Changed: On television setup's mc2xml settings page, the provider token control is changed from an edit box to a combo box, which is filled with previously setup provider tokens.  The current hardware profile name is entered as a suggested name.  Added more details to the instruction text too.
2. Changed: Renamed the Restore and Maximize buttons for the Pearl Bailey skin because they were reversed.
3. Changed: Changed ordering of some television setup pages so that remote control activation page and IR learning page are not far apart.
4. Changed: Added the strings 44,100 Hz, etc. to the translatable phrases list.
5. Fixed: The small icon for the Playing From item would go away when picking a translation.
6. Changed: Added a space between the number and number label in a few places in the code.
7. Fixed: Television recording on STB channels could be silent.
8. Fixed: Playing audio in multiple zones simultaneously could crash since 21.0.7.
9. Changed: Tweaked flushing and presenting in 3D rendering for Theater View to avoid it freezing, testing appreciated.

[IAM4UK]

"3. Changed: 4K Hardware accelerated decoding is enabled in Red October."

No, that still does not work.

Windows 7x64
Nvidia 960GTX
Samsung 65JS9500

[robydago]

21.0.17 (10/20/2015)

7. Fixed: LibRAW could crash when opening files.

Thanks! This fixed my crash issue.

There's still an issue with raw thumbnails auto rotation for portrait shots.

As you can see here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_5axwH_0L1AandQcWdYckI2cjA/view?usp=sharing

For details:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=100841.msg699880#msg699880


Thanks again for your support.

[blisner1]

Downloaded the latest version and having issues running with windows 10. Media starts runs and shuts down with in 5 seconds. I have defaulted the file types to media 21, removed Windows media player and still can not get this to stay running. I cannot keep it running to try and look at the log for issues. Anyone have some ideas to get this to work. All security and fire walls are disabled. Microsoft Groove will  play the FLAC files but it will not let you use the higher 96/192 sample rates.

Anyone have some solutions for this? Thank you

[wer]

Hi Matt,

The ctrl-p bug is fixed, and the album art display/alignment glitch is fixed, thank you!

However, there is still something funny with that list style in theater view.  If there are multiple results the next level down for a line item, it should display a horizontally scrolling list of album art, but it doesn't always.

If you define your levels as Genre/Artist/Album, the top level has scrolling lists on each line, but the artist level only shows one image, even if the artist has multiple albums.

If you define your levels as Year/Genre/Artist/Album, then the top TWO levels have horizontally scrolling lists of multiple album images, but again at the artist level, it only shows one image even for an artist with a dozen albums.

It always shows only one image if the level is Artist, or Album Artist.  It shows an artist image if you have one defined, or it shows a single album cover if you don't.

This seems like the wrong behavior; it's inconsistent with the upper levels.  That list style shows album covers, and if the artist has multiple albums, it should show the list, like the higher levels do.  It should only show a single image where there is only a single object the next level down.  Don't you think?

[Sparks67]

"3. Changed: 4K Hardware accelerated decoding is enabled in Red October."

No, that still does not work.

Windows 7x64
Nvidia 960GTX
Samsung 65JS9500

You might want to update your OS to either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.  I read that there is some issues with Windows 7 64 bit with 4k.
I am currently running Windows 10 64 bit/Nvidia 980 ti/ LG 79" Ub9800 and I don't have any issues with JRiver, but I don't have it enabled.
I have played 4k games, and zero issues. 

[tonyyack]

This is not a major issue and I believe it also occurs in release 20.    When ripping a CD to the MC music library a multi artist album will get recorded as a seperate album for each artist.    I then have to delete the individual albums and close MC.   When I restart MC and rip the album again it correctly records all artists into the single album.

[jherbert]

Not really new, but still annoying: clicking in the program window while performing operations involving high volume disk updates result in mediacenter not responding messages, program window greyed out, status message (writing xxx of yyy) disappear. Task manager shows activity, though, and mediacenter returns after completion most of the time.

[JimH]

Not really new, but still annoying: clicking in the program window while performing operations involving high volume disk updates result in mediacenter not responding messages, program window greyed out, status message (writing xxx of yyy) disappear. Task manager shows activity, though, and mediacenter returns after completion most of the time.

That's probably a Windows issue.

[Mr. Odd]

Still an issue - first song played to my Sonos zone doesn't have it's play stats updated.

[wer]

Night Mode is not working properly.

It is boosting both peaks and quiet parts, causing a dramatic increase in overall volume.

Try the nightclub scene in The Dark Knight.  With Night mode off, peaks are at -14.  With it on, they are at -4.  That's the opposite of what it should do.

I have volume leveling turned on, and the movie file is analyzed.

[Hendrik]

Night Mode is supposed to reduce the dynamics in a track, so that you can lower the overall volume and still hear quiet dialog while not being overwhelmed by explosions.
This whole process still requires you to manually reduce the volume to a comfortable level however.

[wer]

Reducing dynamic range is what it's supposed to do, yes.  Increasing overall volume is not part of that description, yet that's what it does.

Many AV processors and receivers are equipped with Dynamic Range Compression settings to perform this exact function (when bitstreaming).  They all perform that funtion in the standard way, by reducing peaks and boosting quiets, both towards an average level.  It's great that JRiver would want to implement this functionality so that it can be available when not bitstreaming.

But Night mode currently makes everything louder.  I am not judging whether this is a bug or a design flaw, but it does not funtion in a generally expected way, nor in a way that matches its description.  It's also counter to the purposes of implementing volume levelling if you have to dramatically change the volume setting whenever your turn night mode on or off.

[daveman]

Bug with Webgizmo - see here http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=101041.0

[blgentry]

Reducing dynamic range is what it's supposed to do, yes.  Increasing overall volume is not part of that description, yet that's what it does.

[...]They all perform that funtion in the standard way, by reducing peaks and boosting quiets, both towards an average level.[...]

But Night mode currently makes everything louder.

I think you misunderstand Dynamic Range Compression.  It's whole purpose is to "make everything sound louder".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Types

It's fairly uncommon for Compressors to reduce the peak level, but it's one of the ways.  The other way is to increase the lower level sounds, leaving the peaks the same.  This makes the *average* sound level louder.   It's the compressor's job:  Make the dynamic range smaller.  NOT make the level lower.  Make the range smaller.

Your example of a level being increased is only meaningful *if* that is the loudest sound in the entire movie.  You'd need to find the loudest part and then turn on night mode and see if the loudest part got louder.  It shouldn't if I understand how MC uses Dynamic Range Compression in Night Mode.  The peak should stay the same.  Everything else should get louder.

If you want both Dynamic Range Compression, *and* overall volume reduction, go to the Parametric Equalizer, and dial down the overall gain by a few dB.  I'm guessing 6 to 10 would suit you based on your description.

Brian.

[wer]

I think you misunderstand Dynamic Range Compression.  It's whole purpose is to "make everything sound louder".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Types

Well, I think perhaps you do.  To quote the very first sentence of the article you just used to support your point:
Dynamic range compression (DRC) or simply compression reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds by narrowing or "compressing" an audio signal's dynamic range.

The purpose is NOT to make everything sound louder.  It's about reducing the gap between peaks and valleys.  And it's indeed fairly common for compressors to both reduce peaks and boost valleys.

No offense intended, and I'm trying not to take any myself.

The approach to compression frequently taken in producing music albums to make albums louder is not the same approach taken by home audio equipment when implementing DRC or Night Mode functions that are applied to Dolby and DTS bitstreams.  JRiver, per the feature description of Night Mode, seems to be aiming for the latter and not the former.  For a better understanding of this concept, rather than Wikipedia try this material from Dolby: http://www.dolby.com/us/en/technologies/all-about-audio-metadata.pdf

But I'm not interested in further debating the definition of DRC with you.  Perhaps the developers could weigh in on whether Night Mode needs adjustment, or is working as designed.  If the latter, then I'll stop trying to use it, since the way it functions is disruptive, and consider going back to bitstreaming so my hardware processor can handle the DRC tasks, although I was looking forward to making better use of the software.  I submit for their consideration that DRC that better preserves average volume level by both cutting peaks and boosting valleys better serves the pursuit of volume leveling for videos by making it less necessary to adjust the volume when you turn night mode on or off.

Could someone at JRiver please address the question of the algorithm's design and whether boosting both peaks and valleys in the pursuit of compressing dynamic range is the correct and appropriate thing for Night Mode to be doing?  Thanks...

[apgood]

Well, I think perhaps you do.  To quote the very first sentence of the article you just used to support your point:
Dynamic range compression (DRC) or simply compression reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds by narrowing or "compressing" an audio signal's dynamic range.

The purpose is NOT to make everything sound louder.  It's about reducing the gap between peaks and valleys.  And it's indeed fairly common for compressors to both reduce peaks and boost valleys.

No offense intended, and I'm trying not to take any myself.

The approach to compression frequently taken in producing music albums to make albums louder is not the same approach taken by home audio equipment when implementing DRC or Night Mode functions that are applied to Dolby and DTS bitstreams.  JRiver, per the feature description of Night Mode, seems to be aiming for the latter and not the former.  For a better understanding of this concept, rather than Wikipedia try this material from Dolby: http://www.dolby.com/us/en/technologies/all-about-audio-metadata.pdf

But I'm not interested in further debating the definition of DRC with you.  Perhaps the developers could weigh in on whether Night Mode needs adjustment, or is working as designed.  If the latter, then I'll stop trying to use it, since the way it functions is disruptive, and consider going back to bitstreaming so my hardware processor can handle the DRC tasks, although I was looking forward to making better use of the software.  I submit for their consideration that DRC that better preserves average volume level by both cutting peaks and boosting valleys better serves the pursuit of volume leveling for videos by making it less necessary to adjust the volume when you turn night mode on or off.

Could someone at JRiver please address the question of the algorithm's design and whether boosting both peaks and valleys in the pursuit of compressing dynamic range is the correct and appropriate thing for Night Mode to be doing?  Thanks...

My AVR makes everything louder when Dynamic range compression (i.e. Dolby Volume) is enabled, and results in me turning the volume knob down to compensate. Sounds to me like jriver's DRC is doing basically the same thing, so it does like it is a bug. At most it would be an implementation method choice.

[wer]

Dolby Volume is their name for a licensed implementation of a different algorithm that performs volume normalization.  It's not exactly the same thing as DRC, althoug DRC is implemented as part of Dolby Volume. 

[RoderickGI]

There seems to be a problem with CARNAC interpreting files that have both a disambiguation year and space in the name.

See thread here for details: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=101071.0

Specific examples here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=101071.msg701141#msg701141

[BernhardS]

possible bug

I use smartlists based on user but it doesn't work

(see picture)

[adolfotregosa]

Zoneswitch is not working correctly (when other zone is already active) over here if the files are not part of the tabs "audio" or "video". If I open a video file from windows explorer while jriver is playing music the zoneswitch fails because it does not stop my "music" zone. Like wise the same happens if I open some audio file while some video is playing on the "video" zone.
The zoneswitch only works correctly if no zone is playing at that time ( if I press stop on the active zone ) or if you start the playback from jriver tabs "audio" or "video". Anything else and the zoneswitch fails.

The problem seams only to be because the active working zone is not stopping like it should before attempting playback on another zone when file is sent/open externally to jriver.

Hope I explained correctly how to reproduce the problem.
(version 19 of jriver works correctly. It stops the active zone before starting playback on another zone)

[Audionut11]

Bug: With a video file selected, selecting tag from the edit menu causes JRiver to crash.

Having the tag window open (say after selecting tag on an audio file), and selecting the video option on the left hand side of standard view causes JRiver to crash.

[BradATIMA]

Bug: With a video file selected, selecting tag from the edit menu causes JRiver to crash.

Having the tag window open (say after selecting tag on an audio file), and selecting the video option on the left hand side of standard view causes JRiver to crash.

You may want to try uninstalling and reinstalling Media Center. The crash dump file you attached is giving me some strange information. It lists the Module name as Media Center 20.exe, but the Module version is listed as 21.0.6. On top of that, the version of JRTools is 21.0.17, so it seems like something strange might have happened during the install or update.

[Hendrik]

You may want to try uninstalling and reinstalling Media Center. The crash dump file you attached is giving me some strange information. It lists the Module name as Media Center 20.exe, but the Module version is listed as 21.0.6. On top of that, the version of JRTools is 21.0.17, so it seems like something strange might have happened during the install or update.

I agree, something is wrong with his install. I was trying to analyze the crash and its just weird stuff going on.
I would strongly recommend to completely uninstall and delete the folder in Program Files in this particular case, since something seems to have gone wrong badly.

[RoderickGI]

With the upgrade from MC20 to MC21 lots of people reported that file associations weren't all updated. I had that issue as well, and still occasionally when I double click on a new file type outside MC, I get MC20 start up while I am actually using MC21 Server or Client. ( It is probably about time I uninstalled MC20.  )

That could be what is happening with Audionut11. JRiver says in several places that two versions of MC can be run at the same time, or the old version can be left on the PC without trouble, but actually there are some traps with doing that.

[mwillems]

It looks like a number of people were reporting that recent builds were interacting negatively with Dirac (crashing Dirac or JRiver or both), and three of them solved their issue by disabling the ASIO input driver: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=101068

Based on the info in that thread, recent changes to the ASIO driver (for Sony compatibility) may have created issues with Dirac.  I don't use Dirac so can't test, but it seems suspicious that several people all started seeing issues with recent builds and disabling the ASIO driver was the fix for several folks.

[BernhardS]

possible bug

I use smartlists based on user but it doesn't work

(see picture)

No idea? Do you need a fuller description?

[BradATIMA]

possible bug

I use smartlists based on user but it doesn't work

(see picture)

This should be fixed in an upcoming build.

[cristofori]

Good Morning,

Possible Bug

In version 17 it is impossible to change in the DSP window the sample rate. Only the less then 44.1k and the more than 768k can be changed.

I use windows 10 and 8.1 and the french language in MC.

Regards