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[bob]

This is the latest BETA version of MC24 for Linux.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download:
amd64      http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-24.0.46-amd64.deb
i386      http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-24.0.46.deb
arm      http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-24.0.46-armhf.deb

Also in the BETA repo.

24.0.46 (8/10/2018)

1. Fixed: Crash under some DM's (Cinnamon, perhaps others) when the file select dialog is closed.
2. Fixed: MC would leave around some files in /run/shm which could cause unexplained behavior and crashes when they accumulated and the process numbers recycled and MC reused them.
3. Fixed: Changes to make the running of the Chromium browser more stable.
4. Fixed: The wavepack plugin was missing from some builds which resulted in unexplained crashes.
5. Changed: Added the libnss3 dependency and removed the webkit dependency for the Chromium builds.

24.0.45 (7/27/2018)

1. NEW: The web browser uses chromium now (except for ARM). A chromium plugin is downloaded and installed on first run (MC will take a while to come up depending on your connection speed, it's 45 megs to DL).

24.0.42 (7/10/2018)

1. Changed: Improved internal web browser operation.

24.0.39 (6/29/2018)

1. Changes from the main branch mainly dealing with JRiver Radio.

24.0.37 (6/26/2018)

1. NEW: Linux implement key release handling. Detect whether a key is being held down (key repeat).
2. Fixed: Crash on right-click release in some context menus.
3. Fixed: A key sending function in MC was sending 2 keypresses instead of a press/release.

24.0.36 (6/22/2018)

1. Fixed: In some cases, converting an audio file would leave the file type set to the old file's type.
2. Fixed: OpenGL Theater View could use more CPU then expected since 24.0.34.
3. Fixed: SRT subtitles with non-breaking spaces did not render properly.
4. Changed: DLNA, change SetNext controller option disabling so that device errors don't disable SetNext only disable it if the renderer reports that it's not implemented.
5. Changed: DLNA. Want to make sure that if a resubscribe fails we clear and do a subscribe. Have seen http error codes of 412 on resubscribe.
6. Changed: DLNA, Add a code that will do a manual transport state update if we look frozen at the end of a track (missed an event..)
7. Changed: Radio JRiver playlists will end after playing for two hours without any Media Center user interaction.

24.0.35 (6/15/2018)

1. Fixed: Licensing on i386/amd64 builds. Hopefully for the last time, will require re-entering your registration code.
2. Changed: Implemented some missing low level windowing functions.

24.0.34 (6/12/2018)

1. Fixed: A couple of memory leaks in ALSA and in the Windowing code.
2. Changed: Removed the Register function from the desktop entry because it was preventing mime type associations from working.
3. Changed: The internal web browser is more resiliant and should work better with some desktops.

24.0.32-4 (6/5/2018)

1. Fixed: On some systems we couldn't open the ALSA hardware devices.

24.0.32-2 (6/3/2018)

1. Fixed: Covert art thumbnails were not working on some platforms.

24.0.32 (6/1/2018)

1. Changed: Licensing on Intel platforms. Will require re-entering license key again.
2. Fixed: ALSA, the audio device descriptions would not line up with the device name when there was a default device in the list (no description).
3. Changed: ALSA change the order of hardware parameter settings when opening the device.

24.0.31 (5/29/2018)

1. NEW: Implemented the startup options for linux. Works with any desktop manager.
2. Fixed: A memory leak in the ALSA driver.
3. NEW: Implemented the internal browser. Needs testing.

24.0.28 ( 5/14/2018)

1. NEW: Added info to the Reporter Advanced Information showing the system memory and free memory.
2. Changed: For Linux ARM, disable multithreaded drawfast code (used in resizing) until neon is fully implemented.
3. Changed: For Linux ARM, cap maximum threads and weight for thumbnailing until neon is fully implemented.
4. Fixed: Linux ALSA output device, wasn't configuring local zones other than the default zone properly.
5. Changed: Updated the gtk dependencies from libgtk2.0 to libgtk-3-0

24.0.26-2 (5/10/2018)

1. Changed: Switched the default skin to Modern Cards: Grey Edition.
2. NEW: Implemented support for direct DSD for devices that support DSD_U32_BE (i.e. iFi iDSD and other xmos based devices). See the device options under the Audio device config.

24.0.26 (5/10/2018)

1. Fixed: The file browser wasn't working in a few places (i.e. Languages->Browse Translations Folder)
2. Changed: Another tweak to registration. Will require re-entering the license key on intel based linux platforms.
3. NEW: Work on the integrated browser (not implemented yet) requires the addition of webkit2 library dependencies to the .deb
4. Fixed: Added the libgomp dependency to the .deb

24.0.19 (4/29/2018)

1. Fixed: Tooltip box shadows were offsetting the text below the shadow.
2. NEW: Text edit boxes now have a more convenient way to add Latin characters with diacritics.  Press and hold a letter key and a list of choices with diacritical versions for that letter is shown to choose from.
3. Fixed: On ARM the non-sse bilinear rendering wasn't properly handling the alpha channel resulting in some see through icons.

24.0.18 (4/24/2018)

1. Changed: Updated FFmpeg to version 4.0, used for file analysis, transcoding and video playback.
2. Changed: Optimized Video rendering image uploading for better performance and reliability.

24.0.16 (4/17/2018)

1. FIXED: A significant memory leak.

24.0.15 (4/13/2018)

1. NEW: Added support for bilinear image resizing (on ARM which didn't have it before) so that images in the program will look much better.
2. Fixed: A segfault upon startup with systems that have non-standard /dev tree.

24.0.12 (4/10/2018)

1. Fixed: Non-Root users on linux couldn't send WOL packets.
2. Fixed: Removed unsupported print commands from menus.
3. NEW: Much faster FFT code for places where spectrum analysis is used.
4. Changed: Some licensing code. Registration code will need to be re-entered.

24.0.2 (02/03/2018)

1. NEW: First MC24 build for linux

[bob]

We think the browser is pretty solid now so if there are no regressions, we would really like to get this into stable so some feedback would be nice.

Thanks!

[Awesome Donkey]

Hmm, is the Chromium browser working on ARM yet? I'll have to check my Pi.

[bob]

Hmm, is the Chromium browser working on ARM yet? I'll have to check my Pi.

Nope, thats still using webkit (but it should be more stable too). Just not enough horsepower (and ram).
Of course this can change in the future!

[Awesome Donkey]

Hopefully so.

Also, did the Linux Mint Cinnamon test again... and no crashes. It survived over 10 library restores with no issues.

[bob]

Hopefully so.

Also, did the Linux Mint Cinnamon test again... and no crashes. It survived over 10 library restores with no issues.

Thanks for checking!

[Scobie]

Hi Bob, looks like you actually found the cause of the Cinnamon / Import crash...fixed in .46?

Cheers.

[Awesome Donkey]

Hi Bob, looks like you actually found the cause of the Cinnamon / Import crash...fixed in .46?

Looks like it, I can't get MC to crash on Cinnamon anymore.

[mwillems]

So I've been kicking the tires on the browser; navigation seems to work well, but media playback seems to have some issues.  For example, going to Youtube in standard view, if I click on any of the trending videos on the main page, I get the "how do you want to play this?" dialog, but choosing to proceed to the webpage leads to a gray "the web browser is not working properly" screen (ditto with play inside the player and even "cancel").  However, if I click into one of the categories (i.e. music or sports) and select a video there, or search a specific video and navigate to it seems to work perfectly fine.  Maybe some content is DRM encumbered?

Additionally (and this may be a more general issue I haven't used the browser on Windows in a while) the back button at the top of the browser behaves like the normal UI back button (returns to the last place in the JRiver UI) and not as a browser back button (return to the previous page), which makes web navigation a little challenging/confusing. I think when most folks see a back button at the top of a webpage they expect browser-like back behavior, but if it's been that way on Windows forever, nevermind, I just wanted to report it in case it's a Linux oddity.

[Awesome Donkey]

Just a heads up (in case you don't already know), but it looks like the server-side repo .list files are broken.

http://dist.jriver.com/latest/mediacenter/mediacenter24.list
http://dist.jriver.com/beta/mediacenter/mediacenter24.list
http://dist.jriver.com/stable/mediacenter/mediacenter24.list

In all likelihood the .list files for older MC versions are probably broken too.

[bob]

Just a heads up (in case you don't already know), but it looks like the server-side repo .list files are broken.

http://dist.jriver.com/latest/mediacenter/mediacenter24.list
http://dist.jriver.com/beta/mediacenter/mediacenter24.list
http://dist.jriver.com/stable/mediacenter/mediacenter24.list

In all likelihood the .list files for older MC versions are probably broken too.

Thanks, I need to update all of the repo stuff.

[bob]

Thanks, I need to update all of the repo stuff.

Should be back to current.