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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/MediaCenter210066.exe

21.0.66 (3/25/2016)

1. Changed: Added more logging for CableCARD television tuners.
2. Fixed: Hidden tree items don't get reshown as a search result in Options.
3. Fixed: The minimum size of the Rename, Move, & Copy Files tool wasn't big enough on high DPI.
4. Changed: Updated the Slovak translation (thanks Peter Lukac).
5. Fixed: Shifting Text Subtitles up did not work properly in all cases.
6. Fixed: GroupCount(...) (and other file group based expressions) didn't work properly when outputting the playlist.

21.0.65 (3/23/2016)

1. Changed: Subtitles can be shifted down a bit further to the edge of the screen.
2. Fixed: Manually updating television guide data using EPG wizard failed in some cases.
3. Changed: Red October HQ uses madVR v0.90.16.
4. Changed: Added a link to the madVR settings from the Video settings page.
5. NEW: 3D Blu-ray and MKV 3D support.
6. Fixed: Scheduler views didn't work nicely on high DPI.

21.0.64 (3/21/2016)

1. Fixed: DVD subtitles could show up in the wrong position with Red October HQ in recent builds.
2. Changed: Text Subtitles in Red October HQ are rendered at a higher resolution for improved quality.
3. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
4. Fixed: Pasting cover art from the clipboard didn't clear the image height and width fields like other setting of the cover art.
5. Changed: Updated Italian translation file (thanks Matteo).
6. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo Tsuchiya).
7. Fixed: Revert change from 21.0.54 that resulted in extra calls to get the volume of DLNA devices which could make the GUI sluggish with slow responding devices.

21.0.63 (3/20/2016)

1. Changed: Added some crash prevention measures in television engine involving CableCARD tuners.
2. Fixed: Cover art "Get From Internet" could crash since 21.0.61.

21.0.62 (3/18/2016)

1. Changed: Updated the default podcast feeds (thanks for the help!) (right-click Podcasts in the tree and pick Add Default Feeds).
2. Fixed: Doctor Who playlist post-processing was running too often and wasn't canceling properly so could cause a deadlock.
3. Fixed: No video on screen for Hauppauge HD PVR series of devices since build 56.

21.0.61 (3/18/2016)

1. Changed: Text Subtitles are rendered with proper Anti-Aliasing.
2. NEW: Fading on pause now fades in when pause lifts.
3. Fixed: Zone switch rules could take longer than expected to switch from one zone to another.

21.0.60 (3/17/2016)

1. Fixed: Visualizations didn't update properly when switching tracks (only applies to the last few builds).

21.0.59 (3/17/2016)

1. Changed: The logic that takes the selected files for the Action Window will allow none to be selected if the entire set of files is one album (otherwise it'll still say no files selected).
2. Fixed: Occasional crashes in DSP Studio window when a menu is being shown while the close button is clicked.
3. Changed: The LFE low-pass in the Output Format DSP handles the settings for downmix and upmix separately (with separate defaults as well).
4. Changed: When switching channels while watching TV live, the existing tuner will not be used if the new channel prefers another device, or if the current device is preferred by other channels than the new channel.
5. Changed: When doing TV tuner device sorting, the tuners that are preferred by some channels will be put to the bottom of the list to avoid them being picked up by channels that do not have a preferred device.
6. Changed: Updated the Chromium Web Engine to the latest version.
7. Fixed: Amazon Prime video playback did not work when using the Chromium Engine.
8. NEW: In Theater View television guide, a vertical line is drawn to indicate current time.
9. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo Tsuchiya).

21.0.58 (3/14/2016)

1. Changed: Red October updated to LAV Filters 0.68.
2. Fixed: Standard view television EPG "Description", "Season", and "Episode" columns were mixed up since build 55.
3. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo Tsuchiya).
4. Changed: You can move the mouse a little more between button down and button up and still register a click (especially on high DPI).
5. Changed: When a channel-changing call into Hauppauge's IRbast API fails, we will recreate and retry.
6. Changed: Changed how television guide grid in Theater View is updated when the Record button on the remote control is pressed.  The grid will no longer shift and put the selected cell at the corner.
7. Fixed: Some WMV/ASF video files would not import successfully.

21.0.57 (3/10/2016)

1. Fixed: Cover art "Get from Internet" could crash.

21.0.56 (3/9/2016)

1. Fixed: Smartlist editor leaked memory.
2. NEW: Support for Hauppauge's new HD PVR60 device.
3. Changed: In standard view, television EPG allows display of data for up to 21 days in the future (including current day) instead of only 17 days.
4. NEW: Support added for saving/restoring Media Center customized views to the JRiver "cloud" using the "Doctor Who" user login.  Use the "Also save to Doctor Who..." checkbox when saving a view.  There is a "Browse views on Doctor Who" option as well.

21.0.55 (3/9/2016)

1. NEW: Ctrl+Shift+Mouse Wheel will adjust the thumbnail size.
2. Fixed: The menu was too far right with the Thunderstorm skin.
3. Fixed: The maximize, minimize, and close buttons are placed better on the Thunderstorm skin.
4. NEW: Added a ListContains(...) expression function.
5. Changed: In standard television view the Season, episode columns, if displayed, are displayed before the Description column.
6. Fixed: Audio analysis could stall on some WAV files.
7. Changed: Removing cover art from items will reset the height and width fields.
8. Fixed: Playing a capture-only television channel on a client did not work.
9. Changed: The comment from a Podcast would still get added below a custom tooltip, but no longer does.
10. Fixed: The LFE low-pass when downmixing produced noise in some situations.

21.0.54 (3/1/2016)

1. Fixed: Ripped 3D Blu-ray movies were going to the wrong directory.
2. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo Tsuchiya).
3. NEW: Added version 3 uPnP controller support. (fixes Jongo Pure T2 rendering control)
4. NEW: When subscribing to television shows, one can specify video quality preference (HD vs. SD) so MC will pick correct channel among channels that air the same show at the same time.
5. Changed: When HD or SD preference is not specified, MC will favor Favorite channels when dealing with subscription TV recordings.  For channels with identical favorite status, the custom channel ordering is used to pick a channel.

21.0.53 (2/29/2016)

1. Fixed: Theater View background images were not working reliably on Intel GPUs since 21.0.51.
2. NEW: Output Format DSP can lowpass the LFE/Subwoofer when downmixing, or exclude it from the downmix entirely.
3. Changed: Backed out the Ctrl + mouse wheel thumbnail size adjustment from 21.0.50 since it prevents multi-selection and scrolling in a view.

21.0.52 (2/25/2016)

1. Fixed: MCE remotes weren't working.

21.0.51 (2/25/2016)

1. Changed: Zone links are tied to the zone GUID instead of the zone ID (so linking to a DLNA device should work better).
2. Fixed: Case-only changes weren't being written to M4A/ALAC tags.
3. Fixed: Television recording folder could be erroneously reset to default without user input.
4. Fixed: Web media sites didn't live through a library backup / restore.
5. NEW: Subtitles in Red October HQ are rendered with more accurate timing using a dedicated subtitle rendering interface.
6. NEW: Added the option "Use gapless for manual track changes" to switch to gapless from whatever is configured when switching manually.
7. Changed: Confusing error message when "Next" was clicked in remote control options window, if you were missing a blaster capable "transceiver", it used the word "receiver" rather than "transceiver".
8. Changed: Mouse wheel will be honored over the volume slider in Theater View's Playing Now.
9. Changed: Mouse wheel will be honored over the position slider in Theater View's Playing Now.
10. Changed: Disabled D3D9Ex rendering in Theater View in favor of traditional D3D9 to potentially work-around hangs on some GPUs. Please report any new issues.
11. Changed: Made the mouse wheel over Theater View Playing Now's display area switch the display types.
12. Changed: Updated the Slovak translation (thanks Peter Lukac).

21.0.50 (2/22/2016)

1. Fixed: The uninstaller could be a wacky size on high DPI monitors.
2. Changed: Setting up recording in Theater view with the record button on remote control will no longer cause the guide to reset to default position.  The selected show will remain selected and visible.
3. NEW: When setting up recording with the remote control record button, an on-screen overlay message will show the action just taken ("Record"/"Subscribe"/"Subscription canceled").
4. Changed: If a data file is played over library server and it's less than one megabyte, it will be downloaded locally and then played.
5. Changed: Doing a Cover Art > Quick Find in File / Cover Art Directory on data files now works.
6. NEW: Slow-double click on tree items will rename them (if they're renamable).
7. Changed: Broken web links included with Media Center can be fixed without modifying the links.xml file.
8. Fixed: It was possible to configure a zone switch rule so that it was stopping the same zone that it was playing in (and that didn't make any sense).
9. Changed: Initialization of CableCARD TV channel playback is serialized to avoid hanging.
10. NEW: Ctrl + mouse wheel will adjust the thumbnail size in a list.
11. Changed: Made clicking the 'Report problem...' button in the Logging dialog close the window.
12. Fixed: Shuffling a playlist that was linked didn't update the other playlists in the link.

21.0.49 (2/18/2016)

1. Changed: If shuffle mode is enabled, when the current playlist completes it will reshuffle before continuing.
2. Changed: Updated Italian translation file (thanks Matteo).
3. Fixed: Right-clicking on tab buttons (Back/Forward/Refresh) in standard view could crash.
4. Changed: Updated File Associations for SSIF (Stereoscopic Interleaved Files), a MPEG-TS variant
5. Fixed: Background EPG loading could be repeated every 20 minutes if the process took longer to complete.
6. Changed: MC will wake up the system in sleep to perform EPG loading tasks.
7. Changed MC will try preventing the system from going to sleep if there is an EPG loading task being performed or if there is going to be a TV recording or EPG loading within the next 30 seconds.
8. NEW: Middle-click on a tab header will roll through the list styles.

21.0.48 (2/12/2016)

1. Changed: It takes half as much flick to switch images as before.
2. NEW: In standard television EPG view, the date column display format is configurable.  Right click the Date column header to choose.  "All Programs" and "To Be Recorded" views share the same setting, and "Recordings" view is configured separately.
3. Fixed: "Get Movie & TV Info" lookup by Episode Name was broken in recent builds.
4. Changed: Updated the Chinese translation (thanks SunYanJun!).
5. Fixed: Using the Tag Action Window could crash.

[newHAPPYuser2015]

When editing a smartlist, if you delete a rule then a checkbox 'set notes to description of smartlist' will shift up and get partially covered by one of the modifiers.

[Matt]

When editing a smartlist, if you delete a rule then a checkbox 'set notes to description of smartlist' will shift up and get partially covered by one of the modifiers.

You're right.

I'm confused about why because it was already doing a layout of the view.

But I'll just add another view layout after everything because that causes it to start working.

[Ninouchka]

Shift up for subtitles works great now. Thanks a lot.

[jack wallstreet]

This is probably me (usually is), but after updating to 66, I can't unlock a playlist unless I go to the dialog box and click "unlock".  The displayed unlock button no longer works.  Have I changed something or has a new setting been added or behavior changed?

[Matt]

This is probably me (usually is), but after updating to 66, I can't unlock a playlist unless I go to the dialog box and click "unlock".  The displayed unlock button no longer works.  Have I changed something or has a new setting been added or behavior changed?

I'm testing and clicking "Lock" and "Unlock" in the view header is working perfectly.

I wonder what might be different?

[RoderickGI]

User "whatwhat" appears to have found a bug using the right click "Cover Art>Save Cover Art to External Location Specified in Options" function for audio files.

He found it in MC21.0.66, and I duplicated it in MC21.0.68.

See http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=104231.msg724672#msg724672

[globetrotters1]

Since version 066 I get an automatic window reload after a certain amount of seconds when I want to fill in tag data for movies (in the "unassigned" genre)

That breaks my working flow, the movie in the works just disappears from my screen, including the tag I'm working on

Very disturbing! Didn't happen before version 066

Thanks

[globetrotters1]

I use Red October Standard Video mode (happens also with HQ, tried it)

When I set within Options <Video>-<Display Settings> to automatic change mode "On"
my movies get blanked out sometimes for some seconds (=black screen), no display,
not always at the same positions, more or less randomly. The sounds works all the time

If I set the option to "Off" everything works just fine

Thanks

[phusis]

3. Changed: The LFE low-pass in the Output Format DSP handles the settings for downmix and upmix separately (with separate defaults as well).

Using JRSS downmix to 2 channels (no separate sub). With this build I heard a significant impact on the bass reproduction in a sequence towards the end of INTERSTELLAR (Blu-ray) where Cooper heads into the black hole by himself. Prior to build 21.0.66 when using .50, the bass "growl" in this sequence is much more pronounced compared to .66 with the latters LFE low-pass setting at default 120Hz. When choosing 'Downmix all frequencies (not recommended)' the bass "growl" is restored, as I heard it via .50 (and also how I remember it from the theatrical showing). What is meant by "not recommended" - why not? What was, in effect, the LFE low-pass default setting of build .50?

[jack wallstreet]

This is probably me (usually is), but after updating to 66, I can't unlock a playlist unless I go to the dialog box and click "unlock".  The displayed unlock button no longer works.  Have I changed something or has a new setting been added or behavior changed?

A little more on this:
1. I reinstalled and rebooted - no change in behavior
2. I usually use a 2 level split view.  I tested single view and the unlock/lock buttons do not work there either.  Doing more testing in split view, I found the following weird stuff.
3. If I have two different locked playlists open at same time, clicking on unlock of playlist A, unlocks the second playlist B, but not the playlist A.  Then clicking on the lock of Playlist B, locks Playlist B while unlocking Playlist A.  Then clicking on the unlock of Playlist B has NO effect on either unlocking Playlist B or locking Playlist A.  However, I can click on the now exposed lock command of Playlist A to unlock Playlist B.  
4.  When I bring up a new playlist A (AND no playing file is selected as is always the case when a new playlist is brought up), then clicking the unlock (it was locked to begin with), unlocks playlist B, AND cycles the cover art to the next cover art.  Continuing to push unlock on Playlist A does nothing except cycle the cover art.  If a file has been selected in Playlist A, then pushing the unlock button cycles the coverart in Playlist B.
5. Changing skin did not change behavior nor did changing the view

IMPORTANT FOLLOW-UP EDIT BELOW (SKIP all the above weirdness)

6. Reverting as far back as .51 did not change behavior - and I know things were working back then. (A century or two ago in MC time)
7. Went to an earlier library - problem disappeared in 51.  
8  Reinstalled 66 - works fine on old library
9. Reminded me that a week or so ago, I had weird crashes of MC when I tried to delete files.  I believe these crashes were not due to MC, but rather some issue with computer since the problem went away on a reboot.

 
Hypothesis: The database got corrupted on these crashes?  Is there some setting that might do this.  I hate to go back to an old library, but I can.  Any alternatives?

EDIT 2:  I restored an old library, then restored the current library WITHOUT settings.  Everything seems good.  I figured that's what smarter people than me would say to do.

[HiFiTubes]

Every time I try to close MC it hangs at won't respond. This is somewhat repeatable for me. Sending log files now.