Theater view will always start in the same place (first position) on initial launch: i.e. first launch of theater view after MC has been started. If you are toggling back and forth between theater view and standard view, MC tries to remember your position. This is intentional, and JRiver think they're doing you a favor. You notice when you toggle from theater view to standard view, your standard view positions is NOT changed: it's exactly where you left it. I doubt you'd be happy if MC reset your standard view position every time you returned from theater view.
There is however an option to reset your standard view position when you first launch MC, as you probably know.
Interestingly, the behavior in theater view is not completely consistent (or perhaps the word buggy could be used). You perhaps don't notice it because of your menu configuration. The way theater view position recall ACTUALLY behaves:
- If the position is on the main roller, it will return to the last position on the main roller that triggered a transition (by returning from a sub-roller, or by hitting enter), not necessarily the last position that the cursor was on.
- If the position is on a sub-roller, it will return to the first position on that sub-roller.
So it does NOT always leave you at the last menu position your cursor was resting. That would be intuitive, but that's not what it currently does. The current behavior is it
might leave you at your last cursor position, or it might leave you somewhere else.
There is no way through the GUI to change the Theater View behavior.
However, you can go to your preferred view by issuing the MCC command MCC_THEATER_VIEW
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_Core_CommandsThe 0 and 1 options (toggle, and home) on this command sound promising, but I tested and neither one does exactly what you hope. You cannot assign these commands to a toolbar button, but you can assign them to a hotkey.
Personally, I think the way it behaves now is unintuitive, so I would prefer if it always started at the first position on the main roller. But perhaps someone else can think of a good reason why it shouldn't be changed to that behavior.