For those who are interested, I extracted all new functionalities in MC28 from all the change posts regarding this version This is an extended overview compared with the one which is pinned
In my opinion useful for those who want to know what kind of new features have been introduced in case one hasn't updated every version
I did the same for MC26, which you can find here:
https://yabbjrivercom/interact/indexphp/topic,126396msg875800html#msg875800For MC27:
https://yabbjrivercom/interact/indexphp/topic,1324710html- When MCCommand MCC_PLAYBACK_ENGINE_SET_SUBTITLE_TIMING (28037) is used to change the subtitle timing during playback of a video, the new timing will be displayed briefly as an OSD "Subtitle timing: n ms"
- Old time-shifting folders for non-DirectShow TV types (ie DMS and IPTV) can now be cleaned up (either manually or automatically)
- The "Limit percentage to" smartlist modifier can take bracketed expressions just like the size limit
- The "Limit size to" smartlist modifier can take bracketed expressions just like the size limit
- Added Options > General > Advanced > Taskbar Tooltip (leave blank for the default, use an expression like [Artist] - [Name] to customize)
- TV recording can start warming up the tuner a configured number seconds (0 - 60) before the actual recording start
- Made it so you can put expressions in a "Limit number to" Smartlist rule (~n) by putting brackets around it (example: ~n={Load(var)})
- When MC in Media Server mode is recording a TV show, the Tray Icon will have a red dot on it
- A context menu item "Select All Channels" on TV channel list in Standard TV View Clicking it will change selection to "All Channels", so one does not need to scroll all the way back to the top of the list for such selection
- Added the MCWS function Playlist/AddFiles, Playlist/Clear, Playlist/RemoveFiles, Playlist/RemoveDuplicates
- JRVR will show rendering performance metrics on the Info OSD (Ctrl-J)
- Chroma upscaling in JRVR can be enhanced by using Bilateral scaling (Chroma upscaling guided by Luma)
- Image upscaling in JRVR can use advanced Image Doubling algorithms for enhanced quality when playing low resolution videos
- MC's Taskbar icon will change to indicate that it is recording TV
- IPTV channel setup will make use of channel ID (tvg-id) and channel logo (tvg-logo) data if they exist in the channel list m3u file
- Implemented SuperRes Enhancement for upscaling with JRVR SuperRes refines the image after upscaling for more sharpness and reduced artifacts
- Added "Server TV Logs" in Standard TV View, on clients
- In Theater View, videos that are still being recorded in TV engine will have a red dot in front of their names
- TV view in Standard View will have the option to "Show server status" when MC is connected to a server
- HDR10 pass-through with Red October JRVR
- Support for 10-bit output with Red October JRVR
- Added an information on-screen display to JRVR (Ctrl-J to toggle)
- Support for Frame-Stepping (Shift-Right Arrow in Pause) with Red October JRVR
- The Playback OSD is rendered natively with JRVR
- Support for Blu-ray Menu playback with JRVR
- Added Options > Audio > Advanced > Stop after a long pause
- When recording an ATSC TV channel (with tuners using DirectShow), the program's Closed Captioning metadata is saved in the database for the recorded file (in PlaybackInfo field)
- Support for DVD playback with Red October JRVR
- Enabled context menu items "Go To Earliest Time" and "Go To Latest Time" in time-shifted TV playback with DMS and IPTV channels
- "This device uses a separate audio capture filter" option in TV tuner configuration dialog window, for analog TV tuners or video capture devices
- The DLNA server defaults (when no server existed previously) to original format since many modern renderers have greater capabilities than in the past
- Added a DLNA server template for Original Format
- Added DCI-P3-D65 to the available target gamuts in JRVR
- Added the ability to add a clock to the toolbar
- Made the tooltip option three states with one being all tooltips off
- Initial settings panel for JRVR (in Settings -> Video -> JRVR Settings)
- Added modes 7 and 8 to the Clean() expression to remove numbers from the end of the string ( 7 ) or either side of the string ( 8 )
- Added removing leading and trailing numbers to the Clean File Properties tool
- Support for D3D11 Hardware decoding and hardware deinterlacing in JRVR
- Added a checkbox to library fields "Allow custom data to override the expression" that will allow editing the value of an expression and then show the edited value instead of the expression (just empty to bring the expression back)
- JRVR is available integrated with Red October for Video playback (Preview)
- Added a new skin Twilight that varies with the time of day (based on the default skin)
- Added mht to the list of types searched for viewing extras
- Added "Lock Tab" to the main view menu so it appears for all views even if they don't have a header menu (like television and notes)
- When setting a field to an expression, a "this" variable is saved so doing something like =RemoveLeft([this], 3) will work
- Made FieldQuery take a Scope of 2 to match files of the same media type (the list is gathered one time, so you will need to restart to see newly imported files)
- Added a description field to custom database fields
- The field description is shown in the column header tooltip
- Updated to Monkey's Audio 702 for greatly increased performance (thanks to Robert Kausch)
- When ripping using MakeMKV, individual title items are now able to be selected as well
- Made a dedicated "Set skin" choice in Scheduler so the command line isn't needed
- Added the MCWS function Settings/Skin to allow changing skins (allows scheduler to be used to schedule skin switches by running something like MC28exe /MCWS/v1/Settings/Skin?Skin=Noire)
- A tab lock image is shown when tabs are locked
- Added the option to lock a tab (View > Split View) so opening another view will create a new tab instead of replacing the locked tab
- Clicking to close a locked tab will show a prompt to confirm
- Added tab locking to the main drop menu shown for the tab
- The navigation history is saved between runs (capped at 20 deep) so navigating back (or using the links in the link bar) will work
- The field "Last Lyrics Lookup" is set during lyrics lookup and auto-import will no longer try again if the file has a lookup date
- Added the ListFilter() expression function
- Added the desktop resolution to the crop aspect ratios (so you can crop and then save as wallpaper)
- Added the Google Pixel 4a to the list of image crop aspect ratios
- Typing a custom field into the Fill Track Numbers From List Order tool will save the fields for future use (up to ten are saved)
- Added mode 6 to the clean function which removes leading numbers (including spaces, decimals, and commas)
- Added the SetField() expression function
- Added an expression to be evaluated after playback to Options > Library & Folders
- Made waveform analysis optional in Options > Library & Folders
- Added a confirmation when switching the language out of English (to hopefully avoid some of the posts asking how to switch back)
- Added the number 4 to the TrimLines expression function to replace triple new lines with double
- IPTV channels will be played in time-shifting mode Does not work for all URLs If time-shifting fails, MC automatically falls back to non-time-shifting mode
- Added 8x to the DSD encoding options
- Made the DSD to DSD conversion more direct when outputting at a lower rate to support bitstreaming
- Added a zone diversion MCWS (MCWS/v1/Playback/Divert)
- Added the new S-Curve cross-fade modes
- When bitstreaming DSD at a higher rate than bitstreaming supports, it will just down convert the DSD so it will still be a DSD bitstream
- Track Info plugins are copied during an upgrade install
- Added s-curve modes to the cross-fade options (instead of piggy backing) You can pick standard (in and out) or aggressive (which only fades out)
- The equalizer is 20 band instead of 10 band
- Added a "Last Played (album)" field that is set album wide for plays
- Opus input plugin, with full tag reading/writing support
- Tag() expression function will return any image XMP tags that are not JRiver database fields, for example, Tag(XMP: Label) Also, Tag(EXIF: Make) and Tag(EXIF: Model) will return make and mode of the camera, individually (whereas [Camera] returns a combination of the two as before)
- Tabs support dragging to re-order (and dragging also takes the views so you can drag a tab to Playing Now to play, etc)
- Added the ability to include thumbnails in a library backup
- Added a menu option "Divert Here" to divert from playing zones
- Added the feature "Divert" to zone right-clickto move playback to a different zone
t will change selection to "All Channels", so one does not need to scroll all the way back to the top of the list for such selection
- Added the MCWS function Playlist/AddFiles, Playlist/Clear, Playlist/RemoveFiles, Playlist/RemoveDuplicates
- JRVR will show rendering performance metrics on the Info OSD (Ctrl-J)
- Chroma upscaling in JRVR can be enhanced by using Bilateral scaling (Chroma upscaling guided by Luma)
- Image upscaling in JRVR can use advanced Image Doubling algorithms for enhanced quality when playing low resolution videos
- MC's Taskbar icon will change to indicate that it is recording TV
- IPTV channel setup will make use of channel ID and channel logo data if they exist in the channel list m3u file
- Implemented SuperRes Enhancement for upscaling with JRVR SuperRes refines the image after upscaling for more sharpness and reduced artifacts
- Added "Server TV Logs" in Standard TV View, on clients
- In Theater View, videos that are still being recorded in TV engine will have a red dot in front of their names
- TV view in Standard View will have the option to "Show server status" when MC is connected to a server
- HDR10 pass-through with Red October JRVR
- Support for 10-bit output with Red October JRVR
- Added an information on-screen display to JRVR (Ctrl-J to toggle)
- Support for Frame-Stepping (Shift-Right Arrow in Pause) with Red October JRVR
- The Playback OSD is rendered natively with JRVR
- Support for Blu-ray Menu playback with JRVR
- Added Options > Audio > Advanced > Stop after a long pause
- When recording an ATSC TV channel (with tuners using DirectShow), the program's Closed Captioning metadata is saved in the database for the recorded file (in PlaybackInfo field)
- Support for DVD playback with Red October JRVR
- Enabled context menu items "Go To Earliest Time" and "Go To Latest Time" in time-shifted TV playback with DMS and IPTV channels
- "This device uses a separate audio capture filter" option in TV tuner configuration dialog window, for analog TV tuners or video capture devices
- The DLNA server defaults (when no server existed previously) to original format since many modern renderers have greater capabilities than in the past
- Added a DLNA server template for Original Format
- Added DCI-P3-D65 to the available target gamuts in JRVR
- Added the ability to add a clock to the toolbar
- Made the tooltip option three states with one being all tooltips off
- Initial settings panel for JRVR (in Settings -> Video -> JRVR Settings)
- Added modes 7 and 8 to the Clean() expression to remove numbers from the end of the string ( 7 ) or either side of the string ( 8 )
- Added removing leading and trailing numbers to the Clean File Properties tool
- Support for D3D11 Hardware decoding and hardware deinterlacing in JRVR
- The DLNA server defaults (when no server existed previously) to original format since many modern renderers have greater capabilities than in the past
- Added a DLNA server template for Original Format
- Added DCI-P3-D65 to the available target gamuts in JRVR
- Added the ability to add a clock to the toolbar
- Made the tooltip option three states with one being all tooltips off
- Initial settings panel for JRVR (in Settings -> Video -> JRVR Settings)
- Added modes 7 and 8 to the Clean() expression to remove numbers from the end of the string ( 7 ) or either side of the string ( 8 )
- Added removing leading and trailing numbers to the Clean File Properties tool
- Support for D3D11 Hardware decoding and hardware deinterlacing in JRVR
- Added Options > General > Advanced > Taskbar Tooltip (leave blank for the default, use an expression like [Artist] - [Name] to customize)
- TV recording can start warming up the tuner a configured number seconds (0 - 60) before the actual recording start
- Made it so you can put expressions in a "Limit number to" Smartlist rule (~n) by putting brackets around it (example: ~n={Load(var)})
- When MC in Media Server mode is recording a TV show, the Tray Icon will have a red dot on it
- A context menu item "Select All Channels" on TV channel list in Standard TV View Clicking it will change selection to "All Channels", so one does not need to scroll all the way back to the top of the list for such selection
- Added the MCWS function Playlist/AddFiles
- Added the MCWS function Playlist/Clear
- Added the MCWS function Playlist/RemoveFiles
- Added the MCWS function Playlist/RemoveDuplicates
- JRVR will show rendering performance metrics on the Info OSD (Ctrl-J)
- Chroma upscaling in JRVR can be enhanced by using Bilateral scaling (Chroma upscaling guided by Luma)
- Image upscaling in JRVR can use advanced Image Doubling algorithms for enhanced quality when playing low resolution videos
- MC's Taskbar icon will change to indicate that it is recording TV
- IPTV channel setup will make use of channel ID (tvg-id) and channel logo (tvg-logo) data if they exist in the channel list m3u file
- Implemented SuperRes Enhancement for upscaling with JRVR SuperRes refines the image after upscaling for more sharpness and reduced artifacts
- Added "Server TV Logs" in Standard TV View, on clients
- In Theater View, videos that are still being recorded in TV engine will have a red dot in front of their names
- TV view in Standard View will have the option to "Show server status" when MC is connected to a server
- HDR10 pass-through with Red October JRVR
- Support for 10-bit output with Red October JRVR
- Added an information on-screen display to JRVR (Ctrl-J to toggle)
- Support for Frame-Stepping (Shift-Right Arrow in Pause) with Red October JRVR
- The Playback OSD is rendered natively with JRVR
- Support for Blu-ray Menu playback with JRVR
- Added Options > Audio > Advanced > Stop after a long pause
- When recording an ATSC TV channel (with tuners using DirectShow), the program's Closed Captioning metadata is saved in the database for the recorded file (in PlaybackInfo field)
- Support for DVD playback with Red October JRVR
- Enabled context menu items "Go To Earliest Time" and "Go To Latest Time" in time-shifted TV playback with DMS and IPTV channels
- "This device uses a separate audio capture filter" option in TV tuner configuration dialog window, for analog TV tuners or video capture devices
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