This is the latest version of MC 12.0. Any MC12.0 license will work with it. Please post bugs here. Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion. Non-bug posts will be deleted or moved.
This latest build (usually safe) of MC12.0 is here:
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/MC12/MediaCenter120233.exe12.0.233 (5/16/07)
1. Fixed: Picking "Eject" on a drive that was playing in a non-current zone would eject without confirmation.
2. Changed: Stopping of playback when shutting down or switching libraries didn't propagate to all playback zones.
3. Fixed: Video bookmarks would not be preserved for the last playing file when Media Center was closed.
4. Fixed: "1088i" was displayed in OSD when playing 1080i digital TV.
5. Fixed: In DirectX video playback, OSD "Play" was not displayed when changing from Pause to Play (introduced recently).
6. Changed: Revised how Windows Media and Windows Media Device code gets loaded. (hopefully an internal change only, but please report any problems)
7. Fixed: When browsing for Internet Radio sites in Web Media, choices box would pop up prematurely for some sites.
8. NEW: Theater View message boxes can be dismissed by hitting the first letter of a button. (so y/n for Yes/No questions)
9. Fixed: Smarlist Editor wasn't handling URL's correctly.
10. Fixed: Smarlist Editor wasn't handling the 'Year' field correctly.
11. Fixed: Unable to import iTunes playlists saved as txt files.
12. Fixed: YouTube, Google Video, etc. web links (that weren't downloaded) would not transfer to a handheld device properly.
13. Changed: Renamed JRThumb.exe to JRWorker.exe.
14. NEW: Pix01 added to Web Media (Image) featured websites.
15. Fixed: In some cases, having an ignored device connected to the system could cause the player to not get full information for other, non-ignored devices.
16. NEW: Handheld enumeration is handled by JRWorker.exe so bad devices or device drives can't crash or hang Media Center.
17. Fixed: With Startup > Last Location selected, closing the program at a handheld view could cause a crash on restart.
12.0.232 Internal build only
12.0.231 (5/14/07)
1. Fixed: Burst of audio for a couple of seconds at the start of scheduled digital TV recording.
2. Fixed: User selections for file associations are no longer applied during program startup to avoid UAC issues. (go to Options > File Associations and click "OK" to set or remove associations)
12.0.230 (5/14/07)
1. Fixed: DSP Studio had an extra semi-colon in the "JRSS ..." surround sound selection.
2. Changed: The Theater View option for showing the Home button was not being honored.
3. Fixed: In some cases, the player would incorrectly return to Standard View instead of Theater View when stopping in Display View.
4. Changed: Revised some of the wording in File Location and Library & Folders options.
5. Changed: File Associations handled via package installer. Should allow them to be set with Vista UAC. (With a popup.)
6. Fixed: DVD ripping was broken.
7. Fixed: Theater View RSS and Weather plugins use the same font as other areas of Theater View. (fixes bottoms of letters possibly getting cutoff)
8. Changed: Renamed Theater View "RSS" plugin to "News".
9. Fixed: In very large Theater View lists, scrolling wouldn't always work as expected.
10. Changed: Theater View "Playing Now" button will keep the picture-in-picture using a 16x9 ratio when changing font sizes.
11. Changed: Theater View popup dialogs honor size settings, and work better with large font sizes.
12. Fixed: When navigating into an item in Theater View, the list of files will get the focus.
13. NEW: Added Comedy Central Jokes to the Theater View RSS plugin.
14. Fixed: Removing an added "featured" website while it was selected caused a crash.
12.0.229 (5/11/07)
1. Changed: DVD bookmarks are now saved in the "Bookmark" database field instead of as a separate file.
2. Changed: Bookmarks are stored as a file plays so that a sudden crash or loss of power will preserve the last played position.
3. Changed: The "Bookmark" field can be cleared to erase a bookmark for a DVD, movie, etc.
4. NEW: Pressing "Stop" while the player is already stopped will clear the bookmark for the last file that played.
5. Fixed: "Podcasts" wasn't getting translated in the tree.
6. Fixed: Tooltips in the options pages could fight with editing of long values.
7. NEW: Added Now() expression function for returning the current date / time.
8. NEW: The Action Window > Camera > Options path supports expressions with Now() in them. (i.e. C:\My Pictures\FormatDate(Now(), year)\FormatDate(Now(), yyyy-MM-dd)\)
(please note that file-based expression fields likst [Artist], etc. are not available on camera acquire since this information isn't available until AFTER the acquire)
9. Fixed: Visualizations could display a track count that was off by one. (i.e. 0 of 13 instead of 1 of 13)
10. Changed: Panes based on playlists support playlist groups.
11. Fixed: Panes based on playlists could include files of other playlists that started with the same name.
12. Fixed: Issuing an MCC_PLAY_TV command while MC was playing in display view would cause MC to exit to standard view when finished playing TV.
13. Fixed: Issuing an MCC_PLAY_TV command while TV is already playing would cause a message box to erroneously appear saying "No channels are found." (introduced in build 228).
12.0.228 (5/10/07)
1. Fixed: Some actions involving list controls could crash. (introduced in 227)
2. Fixed: Double-clicking a disk location pane to go into a folder no longer keeps the old non-sensical selection in the list.
3. Changed: When using a view scheme with a letter grouping of a list-type field, graphical browsing didn't filter the same as the panes.
4. Changed: Media Center displays a confirmation when adding a virtual device at a location that already contains files.
5. Fixed: When converting CUE file tracks, the resulting output files get tagged from the metadata of the CUE entry instead of the blank metadata from the source file.
6. Changed: Reordered the Options > File Location dialog.
7. Fixed: If TV control is already loaded but not yet playing, the MCC_PLAY_TV command would not start playing a channel (introduced in build 226).
8. Changed: MC will display a message box if MCC_PLAY_TV command is issued when there is no channel to play (i.e. channels have not been scanned yet).
9. NEW: (Web Media) Option to Edit/Remove "Featured" websites that have been added by user.
10. Changed: Options > Playback nests DVD and DirectShow settings under "Video".
11. NEW: Reworked the Options > File Location dialog. (still a work in progress)
12. Changed: "FFDShow Raw Video Filter" is used instead of "FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder" for DVD and TV postprocessing.
12.0.227 (5/9/07)
1. NEW: PackageInstaller.exe and SetupComplete.exe are now signed.
2. Fixed: JRShellExt.dll should be registered (or unregistered) corretly under vista with UAC.
3. Fixed: Transferring Audible files to devices was not working.
4. NEW: Option to Add websites to Web Media Featured websites.
5. Fixed: Import no longer reports dvds have changed when they have not.
6. Fixed: Smartlist Editor: Tab order wasn't working correctly.
7. Fixed: Smartlist Editor: Hitting 'Enter' or 'Escape' will exit the dialog.
8. NEW: Added option "Last Location" to Options > Startup > Location.
9. NEW: When "Last Location" is selected, all tabs are preserved between sessions.
10. Changed: MCC_PLAY_TV command will do nothing if TV is already playing.
11. Fixed: TV would exit to Standard View upon stopping even if it started in Theater View, if an MCC_PLAY_TV commmand was sent to it while it already was playing.
