Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Hendrik]

This is the latest build of MC29 for Linux.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download:
Linux AMD64: https://files.jriver-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.91-amd64.deb
Linux i386: https://files.jriver-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.91.deb
Linux ARM64: https://files.jriver-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.91-arm64.deb
Linux ARMHF: https://files.jriver-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v29/latest/MediaCenter-29.0.91-armhf.deb

Also in the latest repo.

29.0.90 (5/25/2023)

1. Changed: Internal server changes.

29.0.90 (5/11/2023)

1. Changed: Internal server changes.
2. Fixed: Some Thai characters were not being rendered properly.
3. Changed: The MCWS function Files/Search returns a failure if no matching files are found.
4. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 8.51 which switches 24-bit encoding back to the more widely compatible format.
5. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.

29.0.86 (8/11/2022)

1. Changed: Expanded options to repeat EPG loading every 2, 3, or 7 days.
2. Fixed: Handheld filename rules with a dot did not work nicely as everything after the dot was read as the extension.
3. NEW: Zooming and center shifting of video position during live TV playback will get these properties saved for the TV channel so that the same will be applied the next time the channel is played.
4. Fixed: The zooming and center shift properties were not passed to client playback file during client playback of live TV channels.
5. Fixed: Setting allow custom data override would not work properly in Panes if the data type was set to list.
6. Fixed: The combobox to pick library field flags could open again after closing in some cases (may apply to other combos as well).
7. Changed: When you set the view name for a library view, it will no longer be overridden when you select another location or template.
8. NEW: Added a preset button to the Fill Properties From Filename tool.
9. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč).
10. Changed: The cover view toolbar button shows in all views now (Playing Now, Cloudplay, etc.).
11. Changed: Artist Spotlight uses local cover art for albums in your library.
12. NEW: Artist Spotlight shows albums in your library that were not matched in internet search.
13. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
14. NEW: Configuration Profiles for JRVR.
15. Changed: The PlaylistTime expression takes an optional parameter to specify if the value should be formatted (defaults to yes, returns raw milliseconds if not).
16. NEW: Added a User() expression function to return the name of the current user.
17. Fixed: Spotlight button is hidden for media types that are not supported.
18. Fixed: Corrected the list header image for ModernCards Dark (thanks Marko).
19. NEW: Manage Links allows creating a link that's a program on the computer with parameters.
20. Fixed: If a TV station replaces a longer program with two or more shorter programs, EPG update would erroneously delete a valid program and create a "Program info not available" entry.
21. NEW: Added the more play option "Add (album as next to play)".
22. NEW: When unfreezing a column, it will be restored back to the position it was at when it was frozen.
23. NEW: Next to the "Edit in Popup" button in the Tag window, there is also a close button to make the field not expanded.
24. Changed: The entire PlaybackInfo tag, instead of just some of the properties, saved in a TV channel is transferred to TV recordings on the channel.
25. Fixed: Spotlight would sometimes use thumbnails for data files if tagged with same album name.
26. NEW: Scheduler playback can fade the volume up as it starts playback.
27. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep).
28. Changed: Switched the expression syntax so optional parameters don't get broken up for translation (was using optional:, now uses optional,).
29. Changed: Only fields would get ";" replaced with "; " at display time.  Now list style expressions are evaluated as well.
30. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Yasuhide Nagasawa).
31. NEW: Added expand and collapse to the right-click menu for the tree.
32. Fixed: The JRVR Cubic scaling type was not being saved properly.
33. Fixed: Tamil characters would not render properly.
34. NEW: Added a "Reset" button to Convolution.
35. NEW: Added a checkbox to the top of a playlist view "Expand links" that allows turning off link expansion (runtime only, not saved).
36. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
37. NEW: Sat>IP devices whose channel list URLs do not conform to Sat>IP specs will also be supported as Sat>IP devices (previously they can only be supported as IPTV devices).
38. Changed: Enlarged the size of the grab borders during image editing.
39. Changed: Renamed the option "Show a link arrow" instead of "Show a link checkbox" to be more clear about the behavior.
40. NEW: Made a history menu item shown in the view header menu that links to past views.
41. Changed: Full resolution thumbnails will be used when either dimension exceeds 400x400, instead of both.
42. Changed: Thumbnails for groups of files that contain audio will only use audio (instead of also using images and data).
43. Fixed: Some menu items didn't work properly in the tree since adding the expand / collapse item.
44. Changed: Increased the thumbnail compression quality, and removed artificial sharpening which often resulted in emphasized artifacts.
45. NEW: A wait cursor is shown when filling list controls (for slow fills).
46. Fixed: Linking a car radio button to itself would crash.  Fixed the crash and also no longer show car radio choices when linking to a playlist.
47. Changed: Made the thumbnail size threshold for showing the full image bigger (so bigger thumbs still show it).
48. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 8.35.
49. NEW: Experimental support for AC-4 audio in MPEG-TS video files.
50. Changed: Added seconds to Media Network reporting instead of just minutes.
51. NEW: Spotlight added to right-click / context menu for files.
52. NEW: Added MCC_SHOW_SPOTLIGHT (#22041, param 0: current file, 1: current selection)

29.0.66 (6/28/2022)

1. NEW: Add SHOW_THEATER_VIEW_MODE_SPOTLIGHT (13) to MCC_THEATER_VIEW which shows the Spotlight page for the currently playing file.
2. NEW: Using OSD commands (i.e. remote control or keyboard) to change aspect ratio settings during live TV playback will save the settings so that the same setting will be used in the future.
3. Changed: Memory playback disables for URLs that have no length reported.
4. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
5. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
6. Fixed: Handheld transfer when connected to a Library Server was not working in all cases.
7. Changed: A different attempt at smooth progress (local zones only) that's hopefully smoother.
8. NEW: Skins can specify "Gridlines" for the Analyzer.
9. NEW: Add Spotlight functions GetPage and ClearCache to MCWS and make Spotlight work outside of MC. Please clear cache by temporarily switching skin.

29.0.64 (6/23/2022)

1. Changed: Put the top border back in dialogs that are maximizable because removal was causing drawing artifacts in DSP Studio and possibly other areas.
2. NEW: The option to use forward slashes is in the export playlist and export all playlists dialogs.
3. Fixed: When a client plays a live TV channel using a server tuner, the ""PlaybackInfo" tag was not passed to the client and thus not applied on the client.
4. NEW: Implemented muti file selection from a file open dialog. Allows for example the selection of multiple playlists at a time when using the File->Import Playlist function.
5. Fixed: Seeking holding down next or previous wasn't working since the smooth progress addition.
6. NEW: Added a couple of stock Smartlists: "Television -- Channels" and "Television -- Guide".
7. Changed: Spotlight loading page uses skin background and text colors.
8. Changed: Tuner option "Do not show this device in Theater View Tuner Status display" in Standard View tuner configuration dialog.
9. NEW: TV Tuners can be assigned a nickname (created or edited in Standard View) for display in Theater View Tuner Status.
10. Fixed: The smooth player bar would stop being smooth after going to display view and back.
11. NEW: The regular progress bar (not waveform) is smooth as well.
12. NEW: Skins can specify an ANALYZER section and provide a background color (example: <Colors Background="ff00ff" />).
13. Fixed: NVIDIA NVENC hardware video encoding did not work reliably on all newer drivers.
14. Fixed: The smooth progress bar would stop being smooth after going in or coming out of display view.
15. Fixed: Multiple comboboxes could be opened at once (instead of the first closing).
16. NEW: Manage Library Fields remembers the size and position between uses.
17. NEW: Manage Library Fields remembers the filter selection between uses.
18. Changed: Tooltips are hidden in Spotlight when using remote/keyboard navigation.
19. Fixed: Could not select tv show season with remote/keyboard in Spotlight.
20. Changed: Skin change in MC clears out all Spotlight caches.
21. Fixed: ASS/SSA subtitles with unicode characters in their path or name did not load properly.
22. NEW: The position slider moves more smoothly (drawn each time the slider moves a pixel instead of once a second).
23. Changed: There is more space below the rules and modify sections of the search / smartlist dialog.
24. Changed: A little additional tuning of the edit search / smartlist dialog (feedback appreciated).
25. Changed: The Analyzer DSP uses dark grey for a background color.270. Changed: The Analyzer DSP uses the text color for the axis labels instead of a hard coded value.
26. NEW: TV Tuners can be hidden from Theater View's "Tuner Status..." display.
27. Changed: Tried a different approach to get rid of the few pixel borders on windows around the frame.
28. NEW: Added an advanced option to turn off blinking of a new Action Window when it is opened.
29. Changed: Updated libplacebo for JRVR for overall stability and compatibility improvements, as well as more accurate ICC profile handling.

26.0.60 (6/10/2022)

1. Fixed: The mouse down button state was incorrect in the skin if the window had been maximized.
2. NEW: Added SHOW_THEATER_VIEW_MODE_NETFLIX (12) to MCC_THEATER_VIEW.
3. Changed: The view extra feature can customize the number of levels to search up from the folder for matches (defaults to no levels, can be set up to three).
4. Fixed: TV playback could crash on non-Windows..
5. NEW: Navigate Spotlight pages in Theater View with remote/keyboard.
6. Fixed: Tabs could blink when changing if an Action Window was open (possibly fixes other visual artifacts).
7. Fixed: Message boxes would be hidden in Theater View when viewing a web page.
8. Changed: Made the minimize, maximize and close buttons respond to the mouse over state in dialogs.
9. Changed: When editing a big field in a popup, the cursor is placed at the beginning of the edit instead of the end.
10. Fixed: Spotlight would not show correct background color for some skins.
11. Fixed: Positioning of the TV playback window.

29.0.58 (6/3/2022)

1. Fixed: When sizing a large edit in the Tag window editor the scroll position could move down.
2. Fixed: Switching between the legacy and modern tag editing windows could crash in some cases.
3. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep!).
4. Changed: Spotlight uses background and text colors from current skin (click Refresh to clear Spotlight cache to see changes).
5. NEW: You can search all library fields by using [all]= at the start of the search.
6. Fixed: During DSD to PCM conversion, the output sample rate reported by Audio Path could be off by 8x.
7. Fixed: The lyrics page could be scrolled incorrectly after resizing.  Now a "Home" is issued whenever the scrollbar requirement changes in an edit.
8. Fixed: Back from Spotlight in Theater View was not returning to file view.
9. Changed: The mouse wheel over large edits or lists in the Action Window will be consumed by that control instead of promoted to the container when a scrollbar isn't needed (which stops editing and scrolls to the next field).
10. Changed: The "Tag Dump" in the new tag Action Window uses the ideal height of the entire dump instead of a fixed number.
11. Fixed: A new template would not load when doing "Refresh" in the Tag Action Window.
12. Changed: Data file image lookup is only done on files with a media sub type of "Book".

29.0.54 (5/27/2022)

1. NEW: Scroll zoom with the mouse wheel or trackpad for image playback implemented.
2.
3. Changed: In image playback, left-clicking the image will no longer zoom in or out.
4. NEW: MCWS function Television/GetRecordingScheduleXML that returns TV recording schedule in a single xml-formatted string, instead of an enumerated multiple return strings that previous function Television/GetRecordingSchedule returns.
5. NEW: Added a Refresh command to the Tag Action Window to reload.
6. Changed: The tag window opens values at the full height of the tag window when editing something big like lyrics.
7. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
8. NEW: Tag windows show an option to switch between the modern and legacy tag editors (the shift shortcut has been removed).
9. Fixed: The new right-click menu to expand and collapse all was taking over for all fields in the Tag window.
10. Changed: Spotlight movie and TV content uses Wikipedia language setting.
11. NEW: MCWS function Television/GetRecordingScheduleXML that returns TV recording schedule in a single xml-formatted string, instead of an enumerated multiple return strings that previous function Television/GetRecordingSchedule returns.
12. NEW: Spotlight for TV Shows and TV Credits for people added.
13. NEW: The tag window offers a right-click menu on group headers with the ability to expand all groups or collapse all groups.
14. Fixed: The mouse wheel in the Tag Action Window would sometimes still not work with the inner most control.
15. Fixed: The new Wikipedia data lookup could crash on lookup failures.
16. Fixed: When playing images, if a Playing Now tab was open, it would just switch to that tab instead of showing Display View.
17. NEW: Data files (like books) can lookup images from the internet.  The name field is used for a Wikipedia search.
18. NEW: Beta build. Many internal changes to increase stability. Report regressions please.

29.0.50 (5/19/2022)

1. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
2. Changed: Spotlight: display year in Movie Credits and ignore credits without a year.
3. Changed: Spotlight: display birth and death dates for actor/director.
4. Changed: Spotlight: increase height of horizontal scroll bars and make some caption text bold.
5. Fixed: Spotlight: Similar Artists are retrieved in English.
6. Fixed: Allow seeking to the end byte of a buffered internet file. The previous behavior broke opus playback over media network (and probably others).
7. Changed: Rebuilding the thumbnail on a library server client will make a rebuild request to the server so it won't just return the same cached thumbnail (testing appreciated).
8. Changed: Quick Find Cover Art on a client issues the request to the server.
9. Changed: When scrollable edit controls are inside scrollable windows (like Manage Library Fields) the mouse wheel will only operate the inner most window.
10. Changed: The Tag window has the same scroll behavior where the mouse wheel will run something like Tag Dump if it's over that instead of the outer container.
11. Changed: Spotlight shows "recommended" movies instead of "similar".
12. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
13. Fixed: MC could hang if there have been consecutive errors on a TV tuner in a short period of time.
14. Fixed: Duplicate set of DMS channels were created if manual channel setup was run after MC already created the DMS channels automatically (for HDHomeRun devices).
15. NEW: Spotlight for Actors/Directors added and displayed when you click on a cast member in movie Spotlight.

[Hendrik]

This build is not currently in the APT repository, so you'll need to grab it manually to install.

[mwillems]

Sorry I missed the call for smoke testing yesterday.  I just did a new license install and the new license appears to work fine with this build.  One wrinkle is that the "Registration info" dialog box still shows it as an MC29 license rather than as a new license.  Not sure if that's expected?

After twenty minutes or so of testing everything seems to be working normally in this build, otherwise.  I'll report back if I see any breakage.

[HaWi]

This build is not currently in the APT repository, so you'll need to grab it manually to install.

Is it going to make it to the APT repository at some point? I'm asking because I don't know how to install manually on my Pi4.
many thanks,

Hans
EDIT: Got it installed. Was easier than I thought

[hongson]

Coming back to mediacenter29 after a long absence.
I'm running KDE Neon6 and successfully restored license.
BUT it won't run or show its face. If started via the task launcher, it shows up in the System Monitor but no UI.  If started in console, Segmentation fault (core dumped).

I'm pretty certain it ran just fine on Kubuntu before.
Perhaps MC29 is not compatible with Wayland?
Please advise.

[Awesome Donkey]

MC in general isn't compatible with Wayland, it relies on XWayland in those setups and should run more-or-less fine through XWayland.

Chances are MC29 is too old and the distro is running newer dependencies and/or required dependencies are missing. As a test try installing the latest MC33 and see if that installs and more importantly runs. If so, that could mean MC29 is too old for a more cutting edge distro like KDE Neon.

[hongson]

no luck with MC33 either.

[Awesome Donkey]

Not sure what distro KDE Neon is based on, but it's worth pointing out that JRiver only officially supports Debian. You could try deleting the hidden .jriver folder in the /home directory to reset everything to see if the segfault goes away, but it's hard to diagnose those type of issues unfortunately as there's no error other than a generic segfault and debugging it can also be a pain.