Topic: Media Center 14.0.19 Preview -- Available Here (Read 5377 times)

JimH · « **on:** June 25, 2009, 12:03:19 pm »

This is an early version of MC 14. Please post bugs here. Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion. Non-bug posts will be deleted or moved.

http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/MediaCenter140019.exe

14.0.19 (06/24/2009)

1. Changed: Sidecar files are moved when media files are moved.
2. Changed: Sidecar files are deleted when media files are deleted.
3. NEW: Clickable zoom/unzoom buttons added to thumbs to enable image preview window.
4. Fixed: Image preview window should only show for image views. (still a work in progress)
5. Changed: Image preview window is now just to the right of the tree.
6. Changed: Image preview window not on by default.
7. Changed: Image not shown in big tooltip if the image preview window is active.

14.0.18 (06/23/2009)

1. NEW: When saving the database, a cleanup process removes any files from the library folder that are not used by the program.
2. Fixed: When adding a playlist to the tree, if the tree scroller to show the new playlist, the in-place edit to allow naming would be canceled.
3. Fixed: When doing a Library Sync from a Library Server client after playlist changes, other playlists in the same playlist group could get corrupted.
4. Optimized: Improved performance of 3D wall style views.
5. Fixed: Television recording files (jtv, jts) could not be played from the Library Server.
6. NEW: Experimental IR blaster support for MCE transceivers. (not working yet)
7. Changed: Internal changes for how remote control commands are stored. You'll have to 're-learn' any remote controls that have been used previously.
8. Fixed: When connected to Library Server, auto-import could incorrectly remove server files from the library.
9. NEW: Experimental system for using images and cover art as the background of Theater View (create playlist "Theater View Background" and put images or audio in it to test)
10. Changed: Image preview window removed (coming back soon).

14.0.17 (06/22/2009)

1. Changed: More changes on data buffering during television (or television recording) playback.
2. Fixed: Build 16 wasn't able to find other running copies of the program, which caused problems in a few areas.
3. Changed: Switched "Description" field to a large-edit style editing field instead of using a single-line control for editing.
4. Fixed: MC rejected video sidecar files in which Title element contained attributes.
5. Changed: Thumbnails for TV recordings are grabbed at one minute into the video instead of the default 5 seconds into the video.
6. NEW: When using T'remote to play content on the server, the server will suppress playback error popups.
7. NEW: Theater View Info Panel shows full page information about movies, television programs, etc.
8. NEW: Image preview window.

14.0.16 (06/19/2009)

1. Changed: Renamed television subscription option "One per day, near prime-time" to "One per day, only prime-time" to more clearly describe what it's doing. (same applies to middle of night wording)
2. Changed: The list grouping "Album (by date)" is available in all views instead of only in image views.
3. Changed: Added MCC commands for zooming Theater View (also possible in Options or with [Ctrl]+[Mouse Wheel]) (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=52539.0)
4. Fixed: Theater View did not nicely support Alt+# style input of international characters.
5. Fixed: Switching the resolution of a monitor while Theater View was showing did not update Theater View correctly.
6. Changed: The TV recording stub file (*.jtv) now references other data files by relative paths, instead of full path. This way the recordings can be moved to different locations and be still playable. They can also be shared and played from other computers.
7. NEW: Audio engine supports WAV files with a bit depth of 64 bits. (internal data path remains 32-bits)

14.0.15 (06/18/2009)

1. Changed: MC television time-shifting reader filter does a better job of buffering data when playing files from a network drive.
2. NEW: Added a new Theater View option "Disable Windows Media Center (useful if it is launching on the Green button, etc.)". (requires UAC elevation)
3. NEW: Added WASAPI option "Present 24-bit data in a 32-bit package". (some audiophile hardware needs 24-bit data while most consumer level hardware needs 24-bit data in a 32-bit package)
4. NEW: Improved web service interface (MCWS) so that all playback functions support zones.
5. NEW: When connecting to a Library Server, the server zones are added to the client zones under Playing Now to allow playback to any zone of the server or any zone of the client. (this replaces the 'Here' / 'There' popup)

14.0.14 (06/17/2009)

1. Changed: Removed the "Finish" page from the television scanning dialog -- the results are shown in the channel list after a scan.
2. Fixed: The Import single-folder wizard would import from the last path used instead of the current path (only applies to build 13).
3. NEW: Added new Handheld playlist format "M3U (relative paths without leading dot)" for devices that don't like relative paths that start with ".\".
3. Changed: Simplified how web media sites are added and removed from Theater View. (use Options > Theater View to configure)
4. NEW: Added YouTube Theater View integration that allows browsing popular, recent, etc. and allows doing searches.
5. Changed: Added a tip to the Monitor Switcher (MC14.exe /MonitorSwitch) for how to switch between two different displays on Windows 7. (requires two calls instead of one like Vista and earlier)
6. Fixed: MC14 would crash on television playback if MC12 had been run.
7. Fixed: Certain color format PSD files could cause a crash.
8. NEW: Theater View allows nesting of root items that will show on a secondary roller.
9. Changed: Renamed "Web Media" to "Connected Media".
10. Fixed: MC could hang when playing FLV video from YouTube in secondary monitor.
11. Changed: Shutting down a TRemote client no longer stops playback on the server.

14.0.13 (06/15/2009)

1. Changed: When user selects a channel in "Edit Channel List" window, MC tries to fill "Channel Number" field with a default value if the field is not already set by user (ATSC digital TV and analog Cable only).
2. NEW: Improved new Import interface when importing a single folder.
3. NEW: Reworked Theater View rollers so they can be grabbed and dragged or flicked to scroll with a mouse / touch-screen (works like other Theater View lists now).
4. Changed: ATSC television channel scanning will use an existing channel in database with identical channel name, instead of creating a new entry (in case the physical channel is different). This change is necessary to avoid creating duplicates, and to preserve existing subscriptions. Many television stations changed their broadcast carrier frequency (physical channel) at the analog broadcast switch-off last week.
5. Fixed: DVB-T channel "Is AC3 Audio" attribute was displayed incorrectly in "Details" section on "Edit Channel List" window.
6. Changed: Miscellaneous changes in "Edit Channel List" window.
7. Fixed: Media Center 13 and Media Center 14 shell extensions could fight with each other (may require manually enabling / disabling shell extensions in each program to get it working).
8. Fixed: Searching for Media Servers did not work (only applies to build 12).
9. NEW: Added more browsable categories to Hulu inside Theater View.

14.0.12 (06/12/2009)

1. NEW: Added Hulu.com support to Theater View. (still a work in progress; for now you must add a Theater View root item in Options > Theater View for the website: http://www.hulu.com)
2. Optimized: Core image MMX assembly rendering engine about 8% faster.
3. Fixed: Possible crash when scrolling in lists.
4. Changed: The text on the installer button "Next" is changed to "Next >", to be consistent with "< Back" button, and to avoid translation confusion with "Next" as in "Next Track".
5. Fixed: Monochrome PSD files that used RLE encoding could cause a crash (monochrome PSD files not currently supported).
6. Changed: "Next / Previous use favorite channels only" check box is moved from Television Options window to Edit Channel List window.
7. Changed: When saving an ID3v2 tag to an MP3, if the new tag is more than 8 KB smaller than the old tag, the file will be rewritten to save space on disk.
8. Fixed: Lists that were grouped into Album Thumbnails were not always working.

14.0.11 (06/10/2009)

1. NEW: Added write support to Library Server to allow bidirectional communication of any number of clients with a single server. When connected to a Library Server, use the command File > Library > Sync Library... to write any changes made on the client back to the server, and also update the client from the server if necessary. Expect automation in a future build.
2. Changed: When connecting the a Library Server, the Filename is no longer updated to show a URL -- instead this happens internally at playback time.
3. Fixed: Playing recorded television show or starting to watch a television channel while MC was doing scheduled recording could have long silence (up to 100 seconds) and (to lesser extent) paused video, if MC was on second monitor when playback started.
4. Fixed: Moving MC from one monitor to another while playing a recorded television show would cause audio and video to pause for a long time.
5. Fixed: MCE remote controls work again (support was temporarily disabled while building new remote system in early builds).

Dirhael · « **Reply #1 on:** June 25, 2009, 12:45:29 pm »

This build (as well as .18, didn't test .16 or .17) does not scroll while typing in lists. What I mean is, let's say you're using the Panes view. Then in one of the panes you start typing the name of an artist (or for that matter genre, album or whatever) that isn't currently in view. The item you're looking for will be selected, but the list in the panes does not actually scroll into view.

The same annoying bug can also be observed by just clicking into any of the panes and start scrolling down with the arrow keys. Items will be selected, but the list does not scroll.

This makes using panes a lesson in frustration, and I hope there's some way to fix this without having to wait days for a new build...?

EDIT: Just thought I should add that the same problem applies to playlists as well.

Pjedro · « **Reply #2 on:** June 25, 2009, 03:59:26 pm »

Since I upgraded to 14, playcount of played files on the client will not be send to
the library server.

The library server machine and the client have both installed the latest version (14.0.19)

Before I run for almost half a year MC13 (evertime latest version) on the library server machine, with different clients with different versions of MC13 installed on it. Play count will always updated on the server, even with different versions.

I hope this is nog a big problem so you can fix this within a few versions...

Sorry for my terrible english

Pjedro

rick.ca · « **Reply #3 on:** June 25, 2009, 05:40:46 pm »

See separate topic Theater View Info Panel.

edladner · « **Reply #4 on:** June 25, 2009, 06:08:41 pm »

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9. NEW: Experimental system for using images and cover art as the background of Theater View (create playlist "Theater View Background" and put images or audio in it to test)

Wow that greatly improves the look, the scrolling is very smooth. I noticed something a few times, it seemed to join pictures for a cycle. Is this by design or ooops?

Matt · « **Reply #5 on:** June 25, 2009, 07:35:57 pm »

Quote from: edladner on June 25, 2009, 06:08:41 pm

Wow that greatly improves the look, the scrolling is very smooth. I noticed something a few times, it seemed to join pictures for a cycle. Is this by design or ooops?

The pictures are transparent, so you can sometimes see the others floating in space.

I think it looks neat, but it's a bit strong. Not moving so fast between images might help.

Using images based on what I'm browsing might also be neat.

mojave · « **Reply #6 on:** June 26, 2009, 12:56:47 pm »

I've been using the laptop to control the HTPC that has Windows XP. I want the System Volume at max and I want to use the MC internal volume control. The internal volume control does not seem to be working when playing in Zone 1 (there).

Shiraz · « **Reply #7 on:** June 26, 2009, 04:11:13 pm »

Tremote Bug:

Installed 14.0.19 on server and client.

Connected successfully from client to server by setting the port manually on server (auto port selection wouldn't work).

However, upon connection, client does *not* ask me whether to play music on client or server ("here or there" is apparently what it's supposed to ask). It always plays on client, ie. works the way it used to.

Is there something else I need to do to turn on Tremote, or is this a bug?

Thanks,
Shiraz

JimH · « **Reply #8 on:** June 26, 2009, 04:36:27 pm »

Quote from: Shiraz on June 26, 2009, 04:11:13 pm

Connected successfully from client to server by setting the port manually on server (auto port selection wouldn't work).

However, upon connection, client does *not* ask me whether to play music on client or server ("here or there" is apparently what it's supposed to ask). It always plays on client, ie. works the way it used to.

Is there something else I need to do to turn on Tremote, or is this a bug?

Not a bug. Open Playing Now. You will see local and remote zones.

Shiraz · « **Reply #9 on:** June 26, 2009, 05:24:44 pm »

Thanks Jim!

Loving MC14! I just love this software generally.

JimH · « **Reply #10 on:** June 26, 2009, 07:15:59 pm »

Quote from: Shiraz on June 26, 2009, 05:24:44 pm

Loving MC14! I just love this software generally.

Thanks!

Messiahs · « **Reply #11 on:** June 27, 2009, 05:47:55 am »

Hi Jim,

small bug in Zone-Manager:
Deleting a Zone is not possible (first add some new Zones).

Thanks
Markus

raldo · « **Reply #12 on:** June 27, 2009, 06:03:56 am »

Thanks for the changes in theater view info panel.

JimH · « **Reply #13 on:** June 27, 2009, 06:38:44 am »

Quote from: raldo on June 27, 2009, 06:03:56 am

Thanks for the changes in theater view info panel.

You're welcome. There are more coming. We hope to make it a little customizable.

)p( · « **Reply #14 on:** June 27, 2009, 06:58:29 am »

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7. NEW: Theater View Info Panel shows full page information about movies, television programs, etc.

I use the line up liststyle with the larger thumbnails to the right of the text. When I select a movie to go to the full page view the text disappears correctly but the thumbnails stay on the screen. The other liststyles seem to work correctly.

peter

Shiraz · « **Reply #15 on:** June 27, 2009, 10:16:49 pm »

couple bugs noticed.

1. Preserving "there" zone. This is a follow up to my last email -- when setting zone via the Playing Now dropdown, setting is not retained after app is closed. Or maybe I'm just missing another setting? This I would consider mandatory as it's not something you'd want to do every launch.

2. Jump on Play -- No matter what I have set on the client and server, the server always switches to Display View. I have it set to "do nothing" for audio files and "display view" for video files. But for audio files it still goes to display view (on the server).

Matt · « **Reply #16 on:** June 30, 2009, 12:07:42 pm »

Quote from: Pjedro on June 25, 2009, 03:59:26 pm

Since I upgraded to 14, playcount of played files on the client will not be send to
the library server.

The library server machine and the client have both installed the latest version (14.0.19)

Before I run for almost half a year MC13 (evertime latest version) on the library server machine, with different clients with different versions of MC13 installed on it. Play count will always updated on the server, even with different versions.

I hope this is nog a big problem so you can fix this within a few versions...

Sorry for my terrible english

Pjedro

You will need to use the new "Library Sync" command to send changes to the server.

This will become more automatic in future versions.

Shiraz · « **Reply #17 on:** July 01, 2009, 04:17:35 am »

another (pretty major) bug:

all video is coming out with gradiation in the colour. It has the appearance of the video card having a low'ish colour depth. Not as low as 256 colours, but not as high as 32K either. It's definitely noticeable but not movie-killing either.

the same videos show no such colour gradiation when played in MC13 or in several alternative players including Media Player Classic.

I use ffdshow and coreavc as my filters and Haali is installed as a splitter (though I'm not sure if it gets used in all cases or if MC does some splitting on its own). The issue occurs both under ffdshow and coreavc, and as such seems unrelated to filter settings, which btw, were imported from (the working) MC13 via a registry key copy.

So it definitely seems to be an issue with MC14 in particular. If there are any settings related to this please advise.

Thanks,
Shiraz

JimH · « **Reply #18 on:** July 01, 2009, 07:09:47 am »

Quote from: Shiraz on July 01, 2009, 04:17:35 am

another (pretty major) bug:

all video is coming out with gradiation in the colour. It has the appearance of the video card having a low'ish colour depth. Not as low as 256 colours, but not as high as 32K either. It's definitely noticeable but not movie-killing either.

the same videos show no such colour gradiation when played in MC13 or in several alternative players including Media Player Classic.

I use ffdshow and coreavc as my filters and Haali is installed as a splitter (though I'm not sure if it gets used in all cases or if MC does some splitting on its own). The issue occurs both under ffdshow and coreavc, and as such seems unrelated to filter settings, which btw, were imported from (the working) MC13 via a registry key copy.

Please copy and paste this to a new thread. It's probably a DirectShow filter problem.

AoXoMoXoA · « **Reply #19 on:** July 01, 2009, 02:36:21 pm »

Selecting "Stop After Current File" during playback, Media Center remains on the last played track when stopped, causing the same track to repeat upon starting playback the next time.

Since I have not activated the Repeat function, shouldn't MC advance to the next track in the sequence, in preparation to begin playback later?

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