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[JimH]

This is the latest version of MC 13.0.  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 MC13.0 is here:
ftp://ftp.jriver.com/pub/downloads/MC13/MediaCenter130091.exe


13.0.91 (12/12/2008)

1. Fixed: Launching the program with the "/Library" switch could cause a crash.
2. Changed: Removed "Clear" from Theater View keyboard.
3. Fixed: When recording a TV program from the EPG, the program name was not used in recorded file's filename and database entry.
4. Fixed: When viewing images with full-resolution view-sized thumbnails, scrolling through a list of subsequent images could keep too many decoded images in memory.
5. Changed: Theater View message boxes draw their buttons using list skin art instead of button skin art.
6. Changed: Beta Theater View skin "Obsidian Beta" is removed during install.
7. NEW: Introducing new Obsidian Theater View skin (will automatically become default).
8. Optimized: Many enhancements to performance in Theater View.
9. Changed: Theater View rollers work with the mouse wheel.

13.0.90 (12/11/2008)

1. NEW: It is possible to change more view settings like the "View By" in the view header menu.
2. NEW: When saving changes to a locked library view, a confirmation will be shown that offers to save the changes to a new view. (views can be unlocked in Customize View > Advanced)
3. Changed: Additional tuning of TV recording/time-shifting filename and database name.
4. NEW: The main "View" menu in the program lists related library views at the top.
5. Changed: Theater View root roller doesn't wrap tail items to the left for a cleaner look.
6. Fixed: Theater View rollers could draw incorrectly in some cases.
7. Changed: Pressing right on the "Play All" roller item in Theater View will not execute a Play All.
8. Changed: Renamed "Edit" to "Edit Commands" in the right-click menu.
9. Changed: Theater View "More" play menu changed to "More Play Options" to match Standard View.
10. NEW: The playback menu for images in Theater View is simplified.
11. Fixed: Playing from a grouped list could clear the list selection.
12. Fixed: MP3 ID3v2 tagger would not correctly parse tag fields that contained a data length in the frame. (Foobar v2.4 APIC frame)

13.0.89 (12/10/2008)

1. Changed: Theater View breadcrumbs roller doesn't allow rolling, so pressing right at the last level won't go home.
2. Fixed: In Theater View skins that used a roller instead of buttons for navigation, the focus would not start on the roller.
3. Fixed: Weather Theater View plugin would tell a user to configure using the Configure button on the left, even though the button could be on the top of the screen.
4. Changed: Revised Theater View roller layout to remove "View By" and unnecessary location rollers that were shown in Playing Now, News, etc.
5. Changed: The main navigation roller in Theater View (i.e. back   Audio   play all) doesn't loop, so a right on play all won't go back.
6. Changed: Added a gap in Theater View rollers to better indicate where they roll from last to first item.
7. Changed: In a Theater View skin that uses a navigation roller, pressing

at the left of a list will put the focus on the navigation roller.
8. Changed: Playing Now is after the media library in Theater View by default.
9. Changed: Theater View message boxes use fade-away animation instead of explode-away.
10. Changed: Enlarged root Theater View roller in Obsidian Beta.
11. Changed: Pressing right on a menu item that does not have a child menu will act like pressing enter (also in Theater View).
12. Changed: "All" items now contain label like "All Artist (32)" in the tree, Theater View, etc. (plural intentionally not used to avoid translation / user field issues)
13. NEW: Theater View skin "Obsidian Beta" shows an information panel with larger art, etc. on the right in file lists.
14. Fixed: Flickr set creation with reserved symbols (like "&") would fail.
15. Changed: Keyboard in Theater View autosizes better based on skin placement and text sizing.
16. Fixed: MC some times crashed/hang at the end of TV channel scanning.
17. NEW: Theater View "Search" added as root view (still under construction -- only partly works).

13.0.88 (12/09/2008)

1. NEW: Many changes to experimental Theater View skin "Obsidian Beta".
2. Fixed: Some mp3 streams did not show up after scheduled recording.
3. Fixed: JPEG files with invalid EXIF tags could cause a crash.
4. Fixed: Custom sorting specified when configuring a Theater View view would not be honored.

13.0.87 (12/08/2008)

1. NEW: Added expression FormatDate(...) type "minute" and "hour" for getting the time from a date.
2. Fixed: In panes, clicking an item, then expanding a different item could cause the expanded item to not contain all the correct children.
3. Changed: The mouse wheel can be used on JRiver droplists to change selection.
4. Changed: Improved how the television programming guide is displayed.
5. Fixed: When recording a television subscription, the default start one minute early / go one minute extra was not being honored.
6. Fixed: When fine-tuning an individual program inside a subscription, the customized start early / extend extra times would be ignored.
7. Fixed: When scheduling a one-time television recording and using large record after values like 8 hours, the recording could stop prematurely.
8. NEW: The TV recording system will service back-to-back recordings on the same channel that overlap by less than 3 minutes with a single tuner (splits to two recordings and puts half the overlap in each program).
9. Fixed: Progress bar on TV channel scanning window was not properly updated.
10. Fixed: TV channel list was not scrolled up during scanning, so the new channels could not be seen after the list window was filled up.
11. Changed: Removed "Time-shifting folder" from TV configuration. Time-shifting files and recording files will be saved in the same folder as before.
12. Fixed: Images uploaded to a flickr set were being uploaded in reverse.
13. Changed: Theater View uses the grouping name instead of "Files" as the location for the last level of a view.
14. NEW: Theater View includes new experimental skin that uses horizontal rollers for control. (named "Obsidian Beta")

13.0.86 (12/05/2008)

1. Fixed: TV would hang when user clicked Configure button on some analog devices.
2. Changed: Removed Pop ups that asked user to choose Cable/Antenna, and ATSC/DVB-T. A property page is added to TV configuration for such selections.
3. Fixed: User configured time-shifting file folder was ignored.
4. Changed: Changed how time-shifting folders are named.
5. Changed: Theater View can optionally use a spherical sky box for background animation.
6. Changed: Improved animation quality of Theater View roller.
7. NEW: Theater View uses new, smoother animation scheme with faster transitions, more fading, and less movement.
8. Changed: Theater View skins can use a smoother animated selection overlay for lists (only in Obsidian for now).

13.0.85 (12/04/2008)

1. Fixed: Checkboxes in Rename, Move, & Copy dialog didn't work (only in build 84).
2. Changed: Gridlines no longer extend into the non-item area of a list (causes inconsistent look with grouping, varying item heights, and empty-vs-filled states).
3. Optimized: Improved resource usage and latency of television recording engine (has no overhead if television recording is not scheduled).
4. NEW: Theater View on screen keyboard supports internationalized keyboard layouts. (keyboard layouts defined in [Install Path]\Data\Default Resources\Keyboards.xml)
5. NEW: Added "Delete Playlist" button to playlist views in Theater View.
6. Changed: Internal Changes. Should not effect functionality.
7. NEW: Added roller at top of Theater View views to allow changing views (Obsidian skin only) (experimental -- may not remain).

13.0.84 (12/01/2008)

1. NEW: Improved ladder of logic used when picking a TV card to use for playback.
2. NEW: New TV options dialog. (currently only available by holding [Shift] down while clicking "Options" in the lower left of Television view)
3. Changed: Buttons and checkboxes in many areas of the program are no longer based on Windows controls (should be internal change only).
4. Fixed: Dates before 1601 were not allowed as user input in the date field.
5. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks Benoit de Corn!).
6. Changed: Radio buttons in many dialogs changed to not be based on Windows controls (should be internal change only).
7. NEW: Television channel scanning uses a wizard (actual scanning not yet functional).
8. Changed: Removed AudioLunchbox service from included services.

13.0.82 (11/26/2008)

1. Fixed: New TV recording was unintentionally commented out.
2. Fixed: Closing Theater View with the new "Close" command could leave the program running.

13.0.81 (11/26/2008)

1. Fixed: Sizing a column didn't update the horizontal scrollbar.
2. NEW: The Rename, Move, & Copy Files dialog is sizable, and saves its last position.
3. Fixed: The column header in a list could draw on top of the right border when the list scrolled horizontally.
4. NEW: Added ability to close Media Center to Theater View exit command.
5. Fixed: In some cases, an uselected tab could "bleed through" to the active tab, like at the end of a handheld transfer. (thanks to Marko for repro steps)
6. Fixed: In Theater View, scrolling down the image list, playing an image, then returning to Theater View would not preserve the scroll and selection.
7. Fixed: Doing multi-select in the panes could update more panes than necessary, or reset previously selected panes to an "All" selection.
8. Fixed: Alt+Space to show the system menu on Vista could show a corrupted menu in some cases.
9. Fixed: When entering fullscreen display view, the focus would not be given to the display, causing some keyboard shortcuts to fail to work.
10. NEW: New TV recording system with multiple tuner support is working (but still has some rough edges).
11. Fixed: With logging enabled, connecting a Nano 4G could cause a crash.

[benn600]

Theater view is SO much improved now.  I can guarantee that a lot of visitors this Christmas will see our setup with MC theater view going.  The 3D elements are so much more refined and clean, not to mention all the thought that went into fine tuning the interface.  Great!

[benn600]

My only other request would be to revamp the homepage (another thread)--show what's playing now, what's up next, and today/tomorrows weather.  Ultra clean and simple, though.  AWESOME!

[orennahum]

Hi.

In the new TV configuration, how do I add SVIDEO to the channels list ? Hardware recording is not saving tv programs in MPG format, any news about that subject ?

Thanks,
Oren.

[jack wallstreet]

When you drag and drop a file, the insert line (showing where the drop occurs between files e.g., on a playlist) does not always show up.  I haven't found a pattern to it not showing up.  It seems to tend not to show up more when dragging across panes, but I have also had it do it when moving a file within a list.  Maybe others can help describe situation better.

[ChrisRainman]

see also thread http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=49444.msg339375#msg339375

In views "<field name> thumbnails" the sort command fails in bottom section for custom fields.

[chaznet]

FYI -- playing a DVD switches my system out of Aero mode with Vista -- not a big deal, but surprising for a brand new product not to be fully compatible with the OS now that it's replacement is in beta

[Dirhael]

FYI -- playing a DVD switches my system out of Aero mode with Vista -- not a big deal, but surprising for a brand new product not to be fully compatible with the OS now that it's replacement is in beta

It's not a problem with the product, you just need to configure DVD playback to use either VMR9, EVR or the Haali video renderer. This will happen with any program with video playback if it tries to use the old overlay mixer.

[chaznet]

It's not a problem with the product, you just need to configure DVD playback to use either VMR9, EVR or the Haali video renderer. This will happen with any program with video playback if it tries to use the old overlay mixer.

I'm not sure what you mean, and, the average user shouldn't have to configure anything to have a basic operation like DVD playback work correctly.  WMP works without this happening, as does Nero Showtime and WinDVD -- having to perform this type of configuration isn't untuitive, or the norm.  Thanks for your input though

[Dirhael]

I'm not sure what you mean, and, the average user shouldn't have to configure anything to have a basic operation like DVD playback work correctly.  WMP works without this happening, as does Nero Showtime and WinDVD -- having to perform this type of configuration isn't untuitive, or the norm.  Thanks for your input though

Oh I do agree that it probably should default to something else (in the case of Vista, EVR and VMR7/9 in XP). I was just trying to point out that MC13 is fully compatible with Vista (and so is MC12), it's only a question of how you configure it.

EDIT: In case you're wondering how/where to configure this, see the screenshot below:

[chaznet]

Oh I do agree that it probably should default to something else (in the case of Vista, EVR and VMR7/9 in XP). I was just trying to point out that MC13 is fully compatible with Vista (and so is MC12), it's only a question of how you configure it.

EDIT: In case you're wondering how/where to configure this, see the screenshot below:

Thanks for that screenshot -- changed it.

[imugli]

It scanned my TV channels without crashing!

Haven't tried anything else with it yet, but that was the only real problem before.

Hurrah! to you guys.

[Yaobing]

Hi.

In the new TV configuration, how do I add SVIDEO to the channels list ? Hardware recording is not saving tv programs in MPG format, any news about that subject ?

Thanks,
Oren.

Video inputs were inadvertently left out of TV channels. They will be added back soon.

MPG format is more difficult. It will not be available until we have a reliable MPEG-2 multiplexer filter. As an intermediate step, I will add recording in dvr-ms format when other things are smoothed out.

[dlmax63]

Importing m4a files is still broken. MC indicates in the recently imported playlist that the file has been imported, however, if I look for the file in the library, the file is not there.

[Edit] When dragging files to playing now, I noticed that the line indicator to show where you're dropping the file(s) still doesn't work right.

Going back to 13.0.61

[Edit-2] v54 from ftp (shows v61) works for importing m4a'a. v61 from ftp (also shows v61) does not work for importing m4a'a. It also displays a different thumb when imported....it shows a white page with the round MC logo instead of a note.

[BrianD]

Hi,

I have been able to successfully scan for my digital TV stations and they appear in the channel list in the main TV right pane but selecting any of them does not enable the Watch or Record buttons in the top pane.  double clicking on the channel opens it in full screen view mode and says I have an 80% signal strength but the screen is just black.

Any ideas?

Brian

[Yaobing]

Hi,

I have been able to successfully scan for my digital TV stations and they appear in the channel list in the main TV right pane but selecting any of them does not enable the Watch or Record buttons in the top pane.  double clicking on the channel opens it in full screen view mode and says I have an 80% signal strength but the screen is just black.

Any ideas?

Brian

The buttons are enabled only if you select a particular program on the programming guide.

Regarding black screen, if you wait a little while, would you get any video? Was there any sound?

Somethings to try:  go to Options and try selecting a different video decoder, or a different video renderer.

[eba]

1. NEW: It is possible to change more view settings like the "View By" in the view header menu.

It's good to have this functionality back

Just one thing:  If you use it to change to 3D, you then can't change back.  Unless you use the back button, which then doesn't save it.  Also 'Customize View' seems to be greyed out on the 3D view header?  The combination of these 2 could potentially give someone a hard time getting the normal view back if they didn't realise they could right click on the tree icon...

[zirum]

Small bug:
In theater view with new obsidian, items not in focus on the 2nd line listing the views, is always lowercase.

[patstack1]

Not really sure if I'M posting this in the right place but ..I'm having serious problems with trying to launch the tv tuner ... first i was getting fault with  MJTVControl.dll and after installing the latest version of mc13 i was getting a fault with  AppHangB1 any helm would be greatly appreciated ... the tuner I'm using is a Pinnacle  pc330e hybrid stick both analogue and digital.. thanks in advance....

[Matt]

Small bug:
In theater view with new obsidian, items not in focus on the 2nd line listing the views, is always lowercase.

This is intentional.  Case is used as a stylistic way to emphasize and de-emphasize rollers.

[Dutch Peter]

Found that that Playing Now in the new Theater View does not update when a new song starts.
Going ' back' and re-entering Playing Now shows the correct list.
I am using the Play Radio function at that moment.