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:
http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/MediaCenter130151.exe13.0.151 (04/13/2009)
1. NEW: MC supports
Hauppauge HD PVR Capture Device.
2. Changed: Added MTS to file types list, and put it together with M2TS file type into a new category - AVCHD Video.
3. Fixed: Theater View Television view did not properly allow switching views. (only applies to build 150)
4. Changed: Theater View file commands roller doesn't wrap tail elements to the left on wide screens since left goes back instead of to the tail.
5. Changed: Merged Theater View roller configuration for Default and Alternate navigation modes for file and Playing Now views.
6. Changed: Theater View information panel has tighter vertical spacing.
7. Changed: Tuned sizing used in Theater View information panel.
8. Changed: 'Park' and 'Back' roller item in default Theater View navigation only shows when backing out with the left arrow; roller scrolling is undone when unfocusing the roller.
9. Fixed: With some non-default double-click modes, double-clicking in a playlist could reset the scroll position to the playing track.
13.0.150 (04/10/2009)
1. Changed: Theater View's file info panel shows the playback display (picture-in-picture) any time the playing file is selected instead of only doing so in Playing Now.
2. Changed: Theater View's file info panel also shows in thumbnail file lists.
3. Changed: The full resolution image is used (loaded in background thread) when showing Theater View's file info panel.
4. Changed: Reflections in Theater View's file info panel could overlap above the reflection plane.
5. Fixed: Obsidian Theater View skin could have slight visual banding in the background.
6. Changed: Improved support for waking from standby for television recording, and added logging to better track standby / wake actions.
7. Fixed: Holding down Enter key on a selected file in Video library would cause MC to crash.
8. Changed: When exiting Theater View, when reentering it no longer selects the last button, which was "Exit".
9. Changed: If television recordings exist in the library, Theater View's Television view will start with the 'Recordings' page instead of the 'Guide' page.
10. NEW: Theater View file menus are replaced with a new roller (and popup dialog when necessary) system.
11. NEW: Theater View file info panel shows metadata like actors, producers, description, etc. for movies.
12. Fixed: When navigating back from the top roller in Theater View, the animation could hiccup during the transition.
13. Fixed: Theater View on screen keyboard could use too few rows on large displays.
14. Changed: Theater View file info panel uses smoother animations.
13.0.149 (04/07/2009)
1. Fixed: Theater View file info panel could cause a crash in some cases.
2. Optimized: Improved threading of Theater View file info panel.
3. Changed: Reworded the message shown when running a second instance of Media Center when the first instance can't be shown due to it being in a different user account, etc.
4. Fixed: Disabling the link bar in Options > General > Advanced > Features could cause library views to crash.
5. Changed: The Send To > Playlist menu no longer caps at showing only the first 500 playlists.
6. NEW: Added expanded option to control Media Center and Media Server startup with Windows (Options > Startup > Windows Startup).
7. Optimized: The Audio Analyzer is more intelligent about what files it resamples for analysis so that 48 KHz and 32 KHz material analyzes faster.
8. Fixed: MPL import of CD / DVD files did not work nicely.
9. Fixed: Creation / rename of a folder in My Computer did not update the user interface right away.
13.0.148 (04/06/2009)
1. Fixed: It was not possible to manually skip recording of a single episode of a television subscription in some cases.
2. NEW: Added an option for television subscriptions to require an exact match of the name. (so a subscription to 'Lost' won't record 'Lost in Space')
3. NEW: Added preset "DLNA (Philips NP2500, etc.)" to UPnP server to make serving to DLNA devices easier.
4. NEW: Added option: Options > Theater View > Behavior >
Pause video playback when entering Theater View.
5. Fixed: The "Delete" right-click option would not always show up for files on a drive-style handheld.
6. NEW:
Revised Theater View's Playing Now to show the current playback display in place of the large 3D image. (only shown when the display is something other than just cover art)
7. Fixed: Failed television recording could prevent system from going into sleep mode.
8. Fixed: Translation could cause the Media Library portion of the Quick Play feature to not work nicely.
13.0.147 (04/02/2009)
1. Changed: In DirectShow video playback, code for setting audio volume is moved to a worker thread.
13.0.146 (04/01/2009)
1. Optimized: Improved performance of creating / refershing a column-style list.
2. Changed: Renamed "PSP" video conversion profile to "MPEG-4" in handheld options.
3. Changed: Added a more descriptive label to the handheld options sync list.
4. Changed: When manually removing a file from a handheld transfer that was included as part of the sync, a warning will be shown.
5. Changed: Pressing page up / page down (channel buttons on MCE remote) with Theater View focused on a roller above a list, the command will route to the list.
6. NEW: A debugging tool, "Copy television related filter info to clipboard" button, on TV settings dialog window.
7. NEW: Options > General > Advanced >
Clear recent playlists now allows: Remove old tracks (default), Remove all tracks, Leave all tracks.
8. Changed: Simplified Theater View scrollbar skinning. (see included skins for an example)
9. Changed:
Improved New
Theater View Playing Now.
10. Changed: Theater View fades in from black when first loading.
11. Changed: MP4 amd M4V video types are now separated from other Quicktime types.
12. Fixed: Minor logging bug in television code.
13.0.145 (03/30/2009)
1. NEW: Movie entries in My Movies that are individual files are imported from My Movies xml data, in addition to ripped DVDs in VIDEO_TS folders.
2. Changed: Director field is changed to list type.
3. Changed: Improved handling of some WinTV PVR series analog TV tuners (such as PVR 150), so that it will work even if "WinTV Color Format Converter" fails to load.
4. NEW:
System sleep is disabled during television recording.
5. NEW:
Media Center will wake the computer from sleep for scheduled television recordings.
6. NEW: Shutting down the computer while Media Center is recording, burning, ripping, etc. will display a warning (and also a Vista / Windows 7 'shutdown blocking reason').
7. Fixed: Hauppauge HVR-1300 (Hauppauge WinTV 88x Video Capture) television tuner device did not work.
8. Changed: MC will reload television tuner lists every time the user goes to Options/Settings... to configure television, so that any usb tuner devices that are plugged in after MC has been started will be picked up.
9. Fixed: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-2250 (Hauppauge WinTV-7164 Analog Capture) television tuner devices did not work.
10. NEW:
Resource.xml can create keyboard shortcuts (and global keyboard shortcuts) that run programs. (
http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/User_Defined_Global_Keyboard_Shortcuts )
11. Changed: Updated internal APE decoding to use Monkey's Audio 4.07 (prerelease) SDK which has a few fixes for handling of corrupt files.
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