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[JimH]

This is the latest version of MC 16.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted or moved.

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Subscribe to one of the Update Channels.

New MC16 Features and Upgrade Instructions


16.0.149 (8/9/2011)

1. Changed: The view header for a panes view will show the view name in the view header instead of 'Panes'.
2. Changed: When the tree is hidden, the view header menu includes the same 'Library Views' submenu as is in the View menu of the program (a separate breadcrumb is no longer displayed when the tree is hidden).
3. Fixed: RemoveCharacters(...) expression with mode 0 was not removing character occurrences from inside the string.
4. Changed: Added mode 3 to RemoveCharacters(...) to remove characters from the front and end of the value.
5. Changed: For accessing Netflix content, Media Center now uses 'netflix.ca' in the URL rather than 'netflix.com' when the computer's locale is set to Canada.
6. Fixed: When grouping numeric values like date, both empty and unassigned could appear in a list.
7. Changed: By default the Wikipedia language will track the currently selected language in the program (but can still be customized in Options > Services).
8. Fixed: Television playback was broken (video displayed in a separate window) when EVR was not used (build 148 only).
9. Fixed: The bitrate displayed in the player area during playback could be doubled the actual bitrate for HE-AAC files.
10. NEW: Add alternative way of specifying and receiving AlbumArtist and Performer in DLNA.
11. Fixed: Digital ATSC television channel scan could produce channels with wrong physical channel values with some tuner devices.

16.0.148 (8/5/2011)

1. NEW: Added expression function RemoveCharacters([value], [characters to remove], [mode]).
2. Changed: The core function that validates and fixes filenames removes double-slashes.
3. Changed: When editing the filename field by hand, the user-entered filename will be cleaned before attempting to apply the filename (previously the change would fail and the value would be reverted).
4. Changed: Transparency for glass-style skins is supported in the player bar display area (updated Noire Glass as an example).
5. NEW: Playback range is supported for video playback.
6. Fixed: When using the Vista / Windows 7 system volume method, the volume would not bind to the proper sound card line in some cases when starting playback until after audio was playing, making it so volume protection could update the volume for the wrong zone.
7. Changed: When using internal volume, the volume display will both the volume percentage and also the decibel value.
8. Fixed: When switch from HD to SD television channel (or vice versa) the video aspect ratio could stay incorrect for a few seconds.
9. Changed: The language of SRT is decoded from the filename when possible so that the user's subtitle settings can be applied for SRT subtitles the same as for internal subtitles.

16.0.147 (8/4/2011)

1. Changed: By default, FSAA is disabled for all Intel graphics cards due to bugs with the Sandy Bridge drivers ( http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=65662.0 ).  Settings can be manually configured in Options > General > Video Card.
2. Changed: Image playback draws error information on the screen when it fails to create a 3D device (as opposed to showing a black screen).
3. Changed: User decoder selection and hardware acceleration get used before using madVR's internal video decoding.
4. Changed: Disabled write-behind caching when saving database files to make the database more resilient against hardware crashes.
5. Changed: With 'Hardware accelerate video decoding when possible', DXVA will be used with EVR or VMR9 (previously only used with EVR).
6. Changed: In DSP Studio, clicking a checkbox will not switch what plugin is selected if the control keyboard button is pressed while clicking.
7. Changed: Revised television playback video positioning to use a threading model that more closely matches regular video playback (to hopefully fix madVR stalls).
8. Changed: Added logging to the VMR 9 subtitle overlay drawer to help troubleshoot subtitle problems.
9. Fixed: YouTube support was not working due to YouTube server changes.

16.0.146 (8/3/2011)

1. Changed: Digital television graph building uses direct connection (not allowing intermediate filters) whenever it is sensible to do so.  This will prevent unwanted filters from jumping in and causing crashes.
2. Changed: Updated all language files to have the latest strings from the source code, and to remove any orphan strings.
3. Changed: An optical Blu-ray disk will not get reanalyzed (which could revert the name to Blu-ray Movie) when reinserted.
4. Fixed: The program was not asking for optical discs by name when trying to play an imported disc that wasn't in any drive (only applies to last few builds).
5. NEW: Added Options > Video > Hardware accelerate video decoding when possible.  It will try LAV CUVID (requires nVidia card), and also DXVA (requires EVR renderer instead of madVR).

16.0.145 (8/2/2011)

1. Changed: Removed the Subtitles > On / Off menu choice that would appear for videos with no subtitles (ffdshow didn't specify if subtitles existed, but the internal subtitle engine solves this).
2. Fixed: When image or video playback was started while in Display View (from a script, SDK, etc.) the display could unexpectedly jump out of Display View.
3. Changed: Moved 'Display Settings...' popup dialog options into the main program options (Options > Tree & View > Full Screen).
4. Fixed: Switching subtitles while playing could cause a crash in rare cases.
5. NEW: Added Options > Video > Subtitle size (changes size of text-based and image-based subtitles).
6. Changed: If connection between video decoder and renderer still fails after setting video decoder output format to RGB, Red October inserts Color Space Converter and tries connection again.
7. Changed: When madVR is configured to do video decoding, Red October HQ will try to connect to madVR without a video decoder first (video decoding in madVR disabled by default).
8. Changed: Updated to madVR 0.73.
9. NEW: Added Options > General > Show on screen instructions.
10. Faster: Theater View list scrolling using the arrow keys / remote is over 10 times faster.
11. NEW: Added DVD video burning.

16.0.144 (8/1/2011)

1. Fixed: The DVD menu button on the remote would not work while playing a DVD (only applies to the last few builds).
2. Fixed: Fast forwarding a DVD to the menu would leave the playback rate display stuck (only applies to the last few builds).
3. Changed: Improved performance of hardware accelerated drawing engine used by Theater View, image playback, etc. with devices that could stall when testing for device lost states.
4. Fixed: When starting an image slideshow, the caption (if enabled in Options > Images) would not appear for the first image.
5. Fixed: Blu-ray (PGS) subtitles that spanned multiple item blocks were not being decoded properly.
6. Changed: Added more logging to playlist saving to help troubleshoot a Rockbox upload problem.
7. Fixed: Resolutions not explicitly supported by the monitor would not work properly for auto-refresh rate changing.
8. Changed: Updated to newer ffdshow (7/31) which reverted a change which caused choppy performance on many video files.
9. Fixed: With the option 'Move center to front L/R' enabled, videos that used center-focused mixing could sound bad.

16.0.143 (7/29/2011)

1. Fixed: YouTube support was not working due to YouTube server changes.
2. Changed: Improved how the playback position display works so that it both appears smoother and uses fewer resources.
3. Changed: The merge of video and DVD playback code is finished.  Please report any problems.
4. Changed: Revised the right-click menu layout for video / DVD playback.
5. Changed: Updated to version .31 of LAV audio and splitter directshow filters. LAV audio now handles DTS-WAV files nicely.
6. Changed: For ffdshow auto-config, we're now setting flag titled 'multiThread' to 1 as well as 'numThreads' to number of processors.  May be needed since ffmpeg-mt was merged with libavcodec??
7. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
8. Changed: Video resolutions not explicitly supported by the display will still be listed in Options > Video > Display Settings.

16.0.142 (7/28/2011)

1. Changed: Revised threading used by video playback engine, with the goal of improving video startup time and solving madVR hangs / stalls.
2. NEW: Television recording option to specify the max number of episodes to keep for a particular subscription.
3. Internal: Merging of video and DVD playback engines (still a work in progress, DVD playback may be problematic for a few builds).

16.0.141 (7/27/2011)

1. Fixed: IR learning was not working properly.
2. Changed: Updated madVR to version v0.71 (fixes green tint in Red October HQ).
3. Fixed: Google Image click-detection was not working in some cases.
4. Changed: Tuning to instructions added in build 140 (only shown once per run, larger font size, better bubble sizing, etc.)
5. Changed: JRWorker will try to use EVR in thumbnail building if it is found on the computer.  Previously JRWorker only tries to use EVR on Vista or higher OS's.
6. NEW: The sidecar subtitle selection will persist between plays, just like it does for stream-based subtitle selection.
7. NEW: When showing a message box in Display View when the last used user-interface mode was Theater View, the message box will be a Theater View style message instead of a Standard View style message.
8. Faster: Artist thumbnail views load much faster (previously switching to an artist view would wait while the cover art folder was analyzed but now this happens in a low-priority background thread; especially helpful if cover art is on a drive that spins down).
9. Changed: Display modes with an integer refresh rate of 23 or lower would not appear in Media Center.
10. NEW: When multiple playlists are selected in the tree, they can be deleted with a right-click.

16.0.140 (7/26/2011)

1. NEW: Added on screen instructions that appear when entering Theater View and Display View.
2. Fixed: Re-entering Theater View could crash in some cases.
3. Fixed: Red October playback could fail if a user installed an older Media Center build, then a new one, then an old one again. The filter pack could get out of sync.
4. Fixed: When simply dumping video graph info to a log file, Media Center could set a lock and attempt downloading a filter pack update.
5. Changed: When viewing a list of television recordings in Theater View from the same series, 'Watch' plays a single episode and 'Watch All' is offered to play all episodes (starting at the selected episode).

[MrC]

This has probably been around for a while...

The Screenwriter search keyword has a transliteration typo in its Library Fields > Screenwriter field definition:

  screenwirter=

[phoenix91]

16.0.148 (8/5/2011)
3. Changed: When editing the filename field by hand, the user-entered filename will be cleaned before attempting to apply the filename (previously the change would fail and the value would be reverted).

Please, can you add this for manually edited path-names (i.e. in the tree)

[The Mastermind]

The screen grab option seems to have vanished when I right click on an image. This is the case regardless of filter set up.

[HiFiTubes]

Silence is not being removed at start/end. Tried the stable and beta. Works on some songs, not others. Have looked at the wavforms....this should be working with these tracks.

EDIT - works as desired with same settings and songs in MC15

[mark_h]

STILL crashing regularly when moving around smartlist editing windows:

4094246: 7024: General: TopLevelExceptionFilter: Unhandled exception -- program crashing
4094246: 7024: General: TopLevelExceptionFilter: Message: 33769, wParam: 303931776, lParam: 1, Window class: MJFrame
4094246: 7024: General: TopLevelExceptionFilter: MCC: 21026, Param: 916067025
2830950: 5100: General: JRWebApp::Destroy: Start
2830950: 5100: General: JRWebApp::Destroy: Finish (0 ms)
2830950: 5100: General: JRWebApp::Run: Finish (2830872 ms)
2830950: 5100: General: JRWebApp::ExitInstance: Start
2830950: 5100: General: JRWebApp::ExitInstance: Stopping web engine
2830950: 5100: General: JRWebApp::ExitInstance: Stopping callback server
2830950: 5100: General: JRWebApp::ExitInstance: Stopping interface server
2830950: 5100: General: JRIpcServerThreaded::ServerStop: Start
2830950: 5100: General: JRIpcServerThreaded::ServerStop: Cancelling thread
2830950: 5100: General: JRIpcServerThreaded::ServerStop: Cancelling pending run
2830950: 5100: General: JRIpcServerThreaded::ServerStop: Stopping thread
2830950: 4308: General: JRIpcServerThreaded::Thread: Thread finishing (cancel: 1; errors: 1)
2830950: 4308: General: JRIpcServerThreaded::Thread: Finish (2830872 ms)
2830966: 5100: General: JRIpcServerThreaded::ServerStop: Cancelling response threads
2830966: 5100: General: JRIpcServerThreaded::ServerStop: Deleting response threads
2830966: 5100: General: JRIpcServerThreaded::ServerStop: Closing notification window
2830966: 5100: General: JRIpcServerThreaded::ServerStop: Finish (16 ms)
2830966: 5100: General: JRWebApp::ExitInstance: Finishing

[ohyeah]

Hi
I have downloaded 149 and a dvd rip (kund fu panda) is not working anymore
It has been a big issue for my children !!!
went back to a former version and is ok

bd rip (black swan) has lag between image and sound

[mark_h]

Neither Ctrl C  nor right click->copy work within tabbed explorer browser...

[MarkGrigsby]

Just upgraded from 128 - am using Red October (HQ) settings, and I can no longer seek in an audio-only .ts file.  I checked the filter graph in both the old and new versions (see below) and it looks identical - seems like a bug?

Filter Graph Info:

    Filter 'JRiver Audio Renderer'
        CLSID: {A4002F8E-510F-442C-8AD3-F9C7B23FB394}
        Host:
        Input Pin 'In'
            Connected to pin 'Output' of filter 'LAV Audio Decoder (auto-configured)'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_IEEE_FLOAT, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

    Filter 'LAV Audio Decoder (auto-configured)'
        CLSID: {E8E73B6B-4CB3-44A4-BE99-4F7BCB96E491}
        Host: C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 16\Plugins\lav\LAVAudio.ax
        Input Pin 'Input'
            Connected to pin 'Output' of filter 'JRiver Audio Monitor'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_MPEG2_AUDIO, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx
        Output Pin 'Output'
            Connected to pin 'In' of filter 'JRiver Audio Renderer'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_IEEE_FLOAT, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

    Filter 'JRiver Audio Monitor'
        CLSID: {A4207487-E7D8-406B-9882-B66370DE2492}
        Host:
        Input Pin 'Input'
            Connected to pin 'Audio' of filter 'LAV Source Splitter'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_MPEG2_AUDIO, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx
        Output Pin 'Output'
            Connected to pin 'Input' of filter 'LAV Audio Decoder (auto-configured)'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_MPEG2_AUDIO, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

    Filter 'LAV Source Splitter'
        CLSID: {B98D13E7-55DB-4385-A33D-09FD1BA26338}
        Host: C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 16\Plugins\lav\LAVSplitter.ax
        Output Pin 'Audio'
            Connected to pin 'Input' of filter 'JRiver Audio Monitor'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_MPEG2_AUDIO, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

[mniec]

Dear Team,
I have problem upon purchase of NEW licence of J River Media 16. I alway get redirected on restore page where password is needed. Please help or send me link on paypal purchase of NEW licence.

With regards
Martin

[MrC]

You don't need a new license if you already own this version.  You can restore (i.e. regenerate) you current license file.  It will be valid for 14 more days for installation on your systems.  You'll get 10 restores, after which it is up to the goodness of JRiver for more.  They're good people.

[imugli]

Have saved a youtube link to my library on the server PC, am now attempting playback on a client and getting following error:

Something went wrong with playback

Details:
Failed to find or open file (hr=0x80004005)

[globetrotters1]

still a bug in version 149:

The Info Panel view within Theater View doesn't get updated regularly. For me it shows the movie we saw yesterday evening although I play some classical music. This on a tablet which runs Media Center as a remote control, zone "There: House"

Can't you please make this work? Please...

Why is "Playing Now" ALWAYS correct, but the "Info" panel is 80% just old stuff or empty??? Why not simply call a info panel update when you update "playing now" (on ALL connected touchpanels/tablets which show this zone!)?

New in version 149 is that sometimes the info panel stays totally EMPTY (on more than one touchpanel/tablet!)... sigh... but I found a workaround: if I switch to another zone (e.g. HERE) and back to the zone playing (THERE: HOUSE) suddenly the info panel is back with the correct information, so it's pretty clear that it is just a missing update call

thanks

[DWAnderson]

Smartlists in MC 16 are not working according to spec, as I have mentioned in a couple threads for several months. The relevant portion of the Wiki entry reads:

To make UPnP devices work well with random smartlists, the UPnP server keeps track of which collections have been queried recently. If a collection is far enough away to mean that the user has browsed to a different portion of the tree, then the next time the smartlist is visited a new order will be returned. Far enough means at least the grandparent of the smartlist, or a nephew or an aunt. Merely browsing to the parent and back is not enough, nor a sibling.

But with MC16 any navigation, no matter where you go in the tree fails to refresh the smartlist.

More here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=63551.msg436172#msg436172

[wer]

One thing I just found... Not sure if it's a bug or an "oops" but:

If you're in theater view and viewing albums in the regular "grid" list style, there is a problem with scrolling.  If you are in a column that does not have a member in the bottom row, MC16 will not display the final row when you scroll down.

To be more clear: assume your albums are displayed in a 4x4 grid.  Now assume you have 22 albums.  5 rows of 4, plus the bottom row of 2.  If you are positioned in the 4th column and repeatedly arrow down, when you get to the 5th row, you then go back up to the top.  The bottom row is not displayed.  In order to see the bottom row, you must be positioned in colum 1 or 2.

This is bad, because you will often not see you final row of entries in your view unless you are positioned in column 1.  This will happen when the number of items is not evenly divisible by the number of columns.

The scrolling behavior should ALWAYS display the last row, even if it has to move the selection box to the left to do it.

[Sheugel]

Hi,
Command "MC16.exe /MCC 22001, 2" (thats triggers the Playing Now menu in Theater View) is broken. I end up with a black screen.
I use it automatically with EventGhost upon System.Idle event to display the artists slideshow...
I come back from holiday, don't know if it's specific to this build.
Thanks already for fixing it.

[MrC]

Hi,
Command "MC16.exe /MCC 22001, 2" (thats triggers the Playing Now menu in Theater View) is broken. I end up with a black screen.
I use it automatically with EventGhost upon System.Idle event to display the artists slideshow...
I come back from holiday, don't know if it's specific to this build.
Thanks already for fixing it.

Confirmed, even w/the latest beta.  It seems you need to hit a controlling key to get the screen to continue (such as Control-P).

[AoXoMoXoA]

Using this build of MC I cloned my main library, after which I loaded the newly created clone. After changing some settings in this new library, including folders to import, I reloaded my main library only to find that it also showed the same changes and wanted to import from the changed folders.

I expected MC to keep the original settings in my Main library while reflecting the changes in the New Library where they were made. Were my expectations incorrect or did MC do something odd?

[mvorgod]

Hi
I have a problem using the new Red October video playback!

Experience tells me that when 15 girls are invited to birthsday party - remember to check that DVD playback is working perfectly - and I did so yesterday  
...but today Media Center updated to 16.0.149 - resulting in no video (black screen) and perfect audio.

After the update the settings was like this:
General video settings
- directshow selection method: red october standard (recommended)
Result: Video NO/ Audio YES

I tried both media center restart and reboot

As there are no possibilities to disable - I tried this in panic:
advanced/red october with aditional filters and selected Playback method: windows media player engine
Result: Video YES/ Audio YES - But this disables most of the very nice right click options (especially subtitles)

Just to check I went back to directshow selection method: red october standard (recommended)
and this i now working - BUT without the right click options I recall from the past

Again just to check I tried this on 4 different computers - all with the same result


It is not my birthsday today - but I have a few items on my wishlist now  
1) That Red October will be working perfectly (It is such a good idea - and I want it very much)
2) Or at least Red October to work with video AND the nice detailed rightclick options of the past


best regards Vorgod