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[bob]

This is the latest build of MC31 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/v31/latest/MediaCenter-31.0.24-amd64.deb
Linux ARM64: https://files.jriver-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v31/latest/MediaCenter-31.0.24-arm64.deb
Linux ARMHF: https://files.jriver-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v31/latest/MediaCenter-31.0.24-armhf.deb
Linux i386: https://files.jriver-cdn.com/mediacenter/channels/v31/latest/MediaCenter-31.0.24.deb

Also in the latest repo, note, the BULLSEYE branch.

31.0.24 (6/20/2023)

1. NEW: Added the chapter list to Playback/Info.
2. Fixed: TIFF files with JPEG encoding did not work properly.
3. NEW: Contrast Recovery for tone mapping HDR video in JRVR, which enhances the details of tone mapped video.
4. Changed: Various improvements to JRVR tone mapping, improving perceived saturation and other color issues.
5. Changed: Dynamic Tone Mapping (Peak Detection) in JRVR is now on by default, as well as in the Balanced and Quality presets.
6. Changed: When matching, Spotlight will ignore any extra user data in movie or tv show titles enclosed in brackets.  For example, "Avatar [3D]" will match just Avatar.
7. Changed: Loading and saving views also restores the tab locked state.
8. NEW: If more than one tab is open, the option to lock and unlock all the tabs is in the header menu.

31.0.23 (6/15/2023)

1. Fixed: The "Prefer DVD Order" option for TV Show lookup did not work properly with TheMovieDB lookups.
2. Changed: Black bar analysis skips more frames after a seek for decoding to stabilize before checking for black bars.
3. Fixed: Cloudplay would go to home page when there was an edit in another tab.
4. Fixed: Corrected the typo so the field is now "State/Province".
5. NEW: Added the tags City and State/Province and mapped them to the same IPTC fields for images.
6. Fixed: Seeking a video close to the end would cause playback to stop.

31.0.19 (6/6/2023)

1. Fixed: Loading big fields like the waveform data from APE files could fail.
2. Changed: Made the response from MCWS Playback/Info list the fields as members of the XML instead of all in a block.
3. Fixed: When playing live TV in time-shiting mode, the progress bar sometimes would not update.
4. Changed: Changed the progress bar updating code to reduce the amount of up and down jumps at the beginning of live TV playback.
5. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukáč).
6. NEW: The latency of VST3 plug-ins is queried for so lip-sync with videos will be more accurate.
7. NEW: Added the MCWS function UserInterface/OSD to allow turning the OSD on or off.
8. Changed: Added confirmation when right-click closing tabs if the close includes locked tabs.
9. NEW: Added a Fields parameter to the MCWS Playback/Info so you can request any number of additional fields for the playing file.
10. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 10.15 -- fixes stalling on playback of corrupt files.
11. Changed: Updated the new / improved this version link to v31.
12. Changed: Auto-import will now run black bar analysis on all unprocessed files, similar to audio analysis.
13. NEW: Added "DCI-P3-D65 in BT.2020" as a screen gamut configuration to JRVR.
14. NEW: When performing HDR to HDR tone mapping, the gamut can be reduced to DCI-P3 in BT.2020.
15. Fixed: When closing multiple tabs, it was not working nicely when selecting a non-selected tab.
16. Fixed: Remote control playback buttons were not working in Amazon Music.
17. NEW: When playing ATSC, OpenCABLE, or SatIP live TV, the "Audio Programs" context menu will include audio program type description (for example "Audio description for the visually impaired") if such info is found.
18. NEW: Metadata-driven automatic black bar cropping in JRVR, based on the "Video Crop" database field, which can be filled with the Video Analysis tool.
19. NEW: Consolidated all aspect ratio settings in the JRVR Output -> General settings, allowing per-device and profile-based configuration.
20. Changed: The option "Crop Sides of Video to Fill Screen" in the Crop Black Bars context menu has been removed, use "Crop" aspect ratio mode instead.

31.0.13 (5/23/2023)

1. Changed: Split the JRVR Output settings into individual pages for HDR and Calibration for easier navigation.
2. Changed: The JRVR HDR configuration page will show the reported max HDR brightness of the detected displays.
3. Fixed: Submitting cover art was not working since the server changes.
4. Fixed: Track info submit and get was not working since the server changes.
5. Changed: Picking Player > Playing Now > Show Playing Now will activate an inactive Playing Now tab instead of switching the current view.
6. Changed: Tooltips that complete large fields in the Tag window always show regardless of the tooltip option.
7. Changed: Made car radio button tooltips show the default delay instead of much quicker.
8. Changed: Added *.xmltv as a possible file extension (in addition to .xml) when selecting an xmltv file for TV setup.

31.0.12 (5/16/2023)

1. Fixed: bad dependencies in the Debian control file.

31.0.11 (5/15/2023)

1. Changed: When in Display or Cover View, hide player bar menu items that use Standard View and disable Spotlight launch from press-and-hold.
2. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
3. Changed: Updated the Catalan language (thanks Josep).
4. Fixed: Selecting all on right-click would incorrectly fire in thumbnail lists.
5. Changed: When restoring out of Media Server mode, the same views are used instead of creating the startup views.
6. Fixed: Moving the mouse over list control items with text links would not always update the mouse over states nicely.
7. Changed: Tuned expansion on image column right-click to use the grouping of the list instead of simply album grouping.
8. Changed: Made list grouping on right-click of the album thumbnail only engage when a single file is selected.
9. Fixed: Thumbnails were not being included in auto library backups.
11. Changed: Right-clicking in the album thumbnail column will select all the album files before showing the menu.
12. Fixed: The Spotlight button could show in views without files.
13. NEW: Added MCC_CLEAR_REMAINING_ZONE_SPECIFIC (10071) to clear the remaining tracks from a playlist.
14. NEW: When removing tags from an MP3, APEv2 tags are removed if they are found.
15. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
16. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 10.10.  Handles systems with AVX512 support, but disabled by the OS.
17. Changed: Simplified the filenames of TV recordings if the shows' don't have separate episode names that are different from the series names.
18. Fixed: Playing a SDR video in JRVR with the screen in HDR mode could result in unexpected output if HDR to HDR tone mapping was enabled.
19. Changed: Ran all the translations through the tool to update to the latest strings from the source code.
20. Fixed: Media Center could crash when media files were deleted while Black Bar detection was running on them.
21. Changed: Merged the last backup paths used for library backups (manual and the setting) into one shared setting.
22. NEW: Support for HDR to HDR tone mapping in JRVR.
23. NEW: Advanced geometry correction settings for projectors in JRVR.
24. NEW: HDR10+ dynamic tone mapping in JRVR.
25. NEW: Image sharpening post-processing for JRVR.
26. Changed: Made middle-click on the unused tabs area roll list styles.
27. Changed: When thumbnails are set to be included in library backups, they will also be included in automatic backups.
28. Fixed: When picking extra channels so the output channel count was over eight JRSS channel mixing would not engage properly.
29. NEW: Re-designed the JRVR HDR tone mapping when converting HDR to SDR, for higher quality and better detail retention.
30. NEW: JRVR uses a new dynamic tone mapping algorithm using a re-designed histogram peak detection, enabled by default in the "Quality" preset.
31. Fixed: Improved shader caching in JRVR to reduce stuttering when playing Dolby Vision content.
32. Fixed: Aspect Ratio overrides would not apply properly when starting a video.

[RemyJ]

31.0.23 (6/16/2023)

9. Fixed: Seeking a video close to the end would cause playback to stop.

Oh.  I wonder if it has to do with seeking beyond the end of the track?  I'm using

/Playback/Position?Position=%d&Relative=1

where %d is calculated as a percentage of the track length.  Could this now be failing causing the playback to continue rather than seeking to the end?  I'll have to try and capture it in the logs.

[Hendrik]

There was no change how the position is calculated. There was only a fix where seeking while you were already near the end of the file (eg. the file was already done reading and the remaining parts queued up for playback, usually within ~20-30 seconds of the end) would fail, rather then actually perform the seek.

[RemyJ]

There was no change how the position is calculated. There was only a fix where seeking while you were already near the end of the file (eg. the file was already done reading and the remaining parts queued up for playback, usually within ~20-30 seconds of the end) would fail, rather then actually perform the seek.

I'm doing the calculation myself because there's no built-in "skip percentage" function.   So what should happen if you try to seek beyond the end of the file?  Should it fail or just seek to the end and perform whatever action is set to be done at the end of a track?

[Matt]

Are you hoping to pass a percentage into MCWS?  Would it be from the start or the current?  Thanks.

[RemyJ]

Are you hoping to pass a percentage into MCWS?  Would it be from the start or the current?  Thanks.

HiYa Matt!!  Having the built-in ability to set position by percentage would be great.  The percentage would be a constant based on the total track time.  The idea is that no matter how long or short a track is, the number of seeks to scan a track is always the same.    I have buttons on my Corsair mouse programmed to seek forward or backward based on percent rather than number of seconds which means if I have to scan through a lot of tracks looking for something, my thumb can be on autopilot and I don't have to think about how long a track is so I don't accidentally overshoot with 2 clicks on short tracks or have to click endlessly on longer ones.  Set to 10% and you know there will be 9 seeks per track.   You could choose absolute or relative just like you can today with the /Playback/Position call.  If absolute, you could think of them as dynamic chapter stops.  If relative, then it's from current position.  Make sense?

[Matt]

I'll give it a shot for the next build.  Thanks for your help