Topic: Media Center 16.0.181 -- Available Here (Read 23286 times)

JimH · « **on:** October 18, 2011, 03:25:52 pm »

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.

Update: Run Media Center and check for updates
or
Download: https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v16/latest/MediaCenter160181.exe
or
Subscribe to one of the Update Channels.

New MC16 Features and Upgrade Instructions

16.0.181 (10/18.2011)
1. Fixed: Missing digital signature

16.0.180 (10/07/2011)

1. Fixed: DVB-T digital TV channel scanning could get wrong frequency for certain channels with certain devices.
2. Changed: Red October uses the latest LAV filters (v0.37).
3. Fixed: Playback of DVD on Android using Gizmo was not working properly in some cases.
4. Changed: Reverted this change from 16.0.152: Media Network, updated user agent header to be more standard.

16.0.179 (9/28/2011)

1. Fixed: Parametric Equalizer could fail to save changes in some cases.

16.0.178 (9/26/2011)

1. Changed: In digital television the generic Network Provider filter is tried before trying network specific Network Provider filter. Should be internal change only but please report any problems you notice.
2. Fixed: VOB playback with no accompanying IFO was not working properly.
3. Fixed: VOB subtitle streams that were resized independently of the movie could appear in the wrong location.
4. Fixed: JRSS downmixing could have too high of an output level.

16.0.177 (9/16/2011)

1. Changed: Improved DVB-T channel scanning for UK and other European countries.
2. Fixed: The option "Keep only x episodes" of television subscription recordings did not work (no recordings were ever deleted).
3. Fixed: Random-type smartlists were not refreshing properly when browsing with DLNA.
4. Changed: Red October uses LAV CUVID 0.13.

16.0.176 (9/15/2011)

1. Fixed: When a file previously marked as bad was later imported, it would not have its name filled automatically.
2. Fixed: Having the auto-import option to 'Update for external changes' disabled could (still) lead to problems with files that were marked as bad.

16.0.175 (9/13/2011)

1. Changed: Red October uses LAV 0.35 filters.
2. Fixed: Zooming into the selected thumbnail would not work properly if the scroll position was at the top of the list.
3. Fixed: The Theater View file info panel option to hide empty values did not work properly for the rating field.
5. Changed: Auto-import works better with removed and bad files when the options to 'Update for external changes' and 'Fix broken links' are disabled.
6. Changed: Doing 'Update Library (from tags)' on a file in the bad database will move the file out of the bad location into the main database if it succeeds.
7. Fixed: Screen grabbing of videos wouldn't work properly for some types.
8. Changed: After tagging Media Center explicitly sets the last modified time of the tagged file instead of assuming the file system will do it automatically (because network file systems are sometimes slow to update automatically).

16.0.174 (9/12/2011)

1. Fixed: Files that got imported while they were in the process of downloading or copying could get stuck in the 'bad database' location.
2. Changed: Media Center is better at automatically selecting forced subtitle streams in videos.
3. Fixed: DLNA. A change made in 16.0.111 caused MC to return a slightly different URL in status calls than was originally provided by MC's DLNA server (when the same instance of MC was being used as the server and renderer). This caused undesirable behavior for some control points (i.e. PlugPlayer).
4. Changed: Red October nicely handles the case where video acceleration with DXVA or LAV CUVID is supported by the decoder but not the renderer (previously playback would fail in this case).
5. Changed: All files & folders are now copied from Blu-ray discs during a rip, rather than just the BDMV files.
6. Changed: If a Blu-ray reader isn't available on the system, an informative error message is now displayed when a rip is attempted.
7. Changed: Internal change on how television time-shifting player graph is created.
8. Changed: Some experimental code and additional logging for DVB-T television channel scanning.

16.0.173 (9/9/2011)

1. Fixed: MadVR wasn't always getting loaded in Red October mode.

16.0.172 (9/9/2011)

1. Changed: File locations dialog now has separate entries for "Other Video", "Ripped BD Video", and "Ripped DVD Video".
2. Fixed: Disc was not ejecting following a DVD or BD rip, even though option was selected.
3. Changed: In the rip action window, pressing the ENTER key after typing a name for a DVD/BD disc will commence the ripping process.
4. Changed: When ripping DVD/BD discs, if the rip destination folder already contains files, the user is prompted on whether it's ok to overwrite them prior to starting the rip.

16.0.171 (9/8/2011)

1. Fixed: DLNA. A change made in 16.0.111 caused MC to return a slightly different URL in status calls than was originally provided by MC's DLNA server (when the same instance of MC was being used as the server and renderer). This caused undesirable behavior for some control points (i.e. PlugPlayer).
2. NEW: Blu-ray disc ripping. Same requirements as for disc playback: must have ANYDVD HD or other Blu-ray reader software installed.
3. Changed: Media subtype of "Movie" is automatically set on all DVD/BD rips.
4. Fixed: When DVD and BD discs were swapped in and out of the drive several times, a Media Center crash could occur.
5. Changed: Nicer view header info when viewing BD & DVD discs.
6. Changed: DVD/BD rips bring up "Get Movie Info" dialog after clicking the Rip button if no meta-data has been entered for the movie.
7. Changed: When the media insertion dialog pops up for a DVD/BD and "Rip" is chosen, the rip action window appears allowing the user to modify the movie name rather than having the rip start up immediately.

16.0.170 (9/2/2011)

1. Fixed: Some WMV videos (for example the Windows 7 sample video Wildlife.wmv) wouldn't play on Android.
2. Changed: Red October will use EVR as the default renderer when it is available on XP (instead of VMR 9).
3. Changed: Software deinterlacing is disabled when using EVR in favor of the hardware-based deinterlacing that EVR provides.
4. Changed: The choice to rip a dvd as well as play the dvd is now presented when a DVD disc is inserted in the drive.

16.0.169 (9/1/2011)

1. Fixed: Movies weren't showing up under genre categories for Netflix in Theater View (Netflix had changed their genres).
2. Fixed: Closing the Smartlist editor while a drop box was open showing its content could lead to a crash.
3. Fixed: Rotten Tomatoes JSON parsing could hang when it encountered escaped quotation marks.
4. Fixed: DVD bookmark loading wasn't working in some cases.
5. Fixed: List style customization could present the wrong choices when using tree navigation of library views.
6. Fixed: Netflix TV series not adding to instant queue when requested (still have to restart MC before seeing them in the queue).

16.0.168 (8/31/2011)

1. Fixed: DVD playback wasn't working properly on Android (still).

16.0.167 (8/31/2011)

1. Fixed: DVD playback wasn't working properly on Android.

16.0.166 (8/31/2011)

Internal testing build.

16.0.165 (8/30/2011)

1. Fixed: WVC-1 content could have an unknown video codec listed in the compression info field (use Update Library from Tags to update existing files).
2. Changed: Red October video converter uses LAV CUVID when possible.
3. Changed: Red October video converter (Gizmo, etc.) supports the Microsoft MPEG decoder.
4. NEW: Ripped DVD plays to Android devices.

16.0.164 (8/29/2011)

1. Changed: Added the ability to put a graphic under the option buttons in the player window in a Standard View skin (Playerbar\OptionButtonsBackground).
2. Changed: Added support for more view header skin colors so the header and body can use different color schemes (HeaderTextColor, HeaderHotTextColor, ActiveTabTextColor).
3. NEW: Bad / corrupt files get imported to a special database location so that the files won't get analyzed over and over with each import (smartlist ~d=b shows files).
4. Fixed: Showing the import dialog could crash in rare cases.

16.0.163 (8/26/2011)

1. Fixed: The 'Language' on screen display was not working for DVD playback.
2. Fixed: When starting DVD playback, a portion of the display could be cut off in some cases.
3. Changed: Red October Standard uses the Microsoft video decoder for WVC-1 content.
4. NEW: DSP Studio shows the source and internal audio formats on the bottom of the dialog.

16.0.162 (8/26/2011)

Internal testing build.

16.0.161 (8/25/2011)

1. Fixed: Possible memory over read from a corrupt or specially crafted registry setting.
2. Faster: Evaluating the same regex over and over in an expression is much faster.
4. NEW: Added Rotten Tomatoes as a possible data source to the Lookup Movie dialog.
5. NEW: Added string field 'Critic Rating' for storing rating information, like a Rotten Tomato score.
6. Changed: Tuned size of view category editing dialog.
7. Changed: Automatic media sub type guessing used in Theater View assumes WTV files are television.
8. Changed: Removed unneeded "(root)" label shown on location panes with no base path.
9. Changed: Removed the > symbols between drop-down pane items in the view header.

4BYE · « **Reply #1 on:** October 19, 2011, 02:22:28 am »

Quote from: JimH on October 18, 2011, 03:25:52 pm

3. Fixed: Playback of DVD on Android using Gizmo was not working properly in some cases.

I got DVD on my Samsung Galaxy SII, but aspect ratio still not good. Doesn't stretch out to both sides, leaving a sort of 4:3 image in the middle.
See my other post about this with images.
.avi plays good but no .srt subs showing.
.mkv plays good, got subs that are included in the file.

zirum · « **Reply #2 on:** October 19, 2011, 02:53:19 am »

I tried to add some new views in Gizmo, and seems like this requires full restart of media center (or media server in my case) in order for the changes to appear in Gizmo.

Arbiter · « **Reply #3 on:** October 19, 2011, 10:53:00 am »

I'm happy to report that DVB-T Mpeg4 digital channels seems to work in the latest update.

Not functional enough (black screen when timeshifting etc) but it's a tremendous improvement over the previous versions in where i simply couldn't playback any mpeg4 channels.

I hope you can fix the blank screen in timeshifting.

Now i can remove windows media center. Thank you so much.

shAf · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2011, 04:35:32 pm »

Installing this version broke the shell integration with Windows 7 (64bit) (re-booting didn't fix) ...

edladner · « **Reply #5 on:** October 27, 2011, 07:16:00 am »

Shell integration lost on Vista 64 too

4BYE · « **Reply #6 on:** October 28, 2011, 01:39:12 am »

Quote from: 4BYE on October 19, 2011, 02:22:28 am

I got DVD on my Samsung Galaxy SII, but aspect ratio still not good. Doesn't stretch out to both sides, leaving a sort of 4:3 image in the middle.
See my other post about this with images.
.avi plays good but no .srt subs showing.
.mkv plays good, got subs that are included in the file.

Updated to the newest GIZMO but still wrong aspect ratio on DVD files.

torpadal · « **Reply #7 on:** November 02, 2011, 01:59:36 pm »

I upgraded to 16.0.181 just now. Not able to enter Tools / options after upgrade (and restart). If I try Ctrl -O the app does not respond to any input. Any ideas?

JimH · « **Reply #8 on:** November 02, 2011, 02:07:02 pm »

Try reinstalling. Please start a new thread if that doesn't work. I don't this is a bug.

torpadal · « **Reply #9 on:** November 03, 2011, 01:13:17 pm »

OK. Maybe a stupid question but what is the easiest way to do this ?

lise · « **Reply #10 on:** November 04, 2011, 01:37:44 pm »

I think something broke in playback.

I'm connected to my server's library, I select an album's thumnail then click on the PLAY button that appears over the thumbnail.

The first file starts playing, as it should, but the 2nd track doesn't play.
If you go to Playing now, all tracks are listed, but once the 1st track has finished playing, the list disappears and you get the "there are no files" message. This is consistent but only when playing back from my server. My local library with the same settings works fine.

General > behavior > Double-click: Add to Playing Now (play now).
Play button: Play Playing Now

EDIT: More information.
There appears to be a new item in the tree called LINK under which there are two options:
- There: Here
- Here.

I think perhaps There: Here was selected when I was having those issues.
However, I selected "Here" and the same issues happened.
I VNCd into the server and saw that it was playing the same songs and had the same Playing Now even when I changed it on the client (in "here" mode).
I stopped MC on the server, selected different items for the server's Playing Now, added new items to my client's Playing Now and things seemed ok but...

OK, now I see. After the first song finishes playing on the client, the "HERE" button gets greyed out. So both buttons under "Link" are greyed out. Then you either get "there are no files to play" or the "Here" button becomes green again and the previous song in Playing Now starts playing. The funny thing is that when the "Here" button on the client goes gray, and the "Play Doctor" appears above the file list in Playing now, the exact same thing happens on the server at the same time.

lise · « **Reply #11 on:** November 04, 2011, 02:48:30 pm »

Re unintelligible post above (I had no clue what was going on...)

I had mistakenly checked "Show playback zones from the server on the client" and that's what was causing all the issues. I unchecked (and also unchecked "play local file if one that matches...", rebooted, and all is well again.

Still, I wonder if showing the plaback zones is supposed to cause such issues, especially when "here" is selected on the client.

JimH · « **Reply #12 on:** November 05, 2011, 06:29:17 pm »

Image Deletion Problem was split here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=67520.0

vvcepheus7 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 16, 2011, 08:36:02 am »

Embedded cover art in mp4 files is not used for thumbnailing. This bug now is fixed in MC17 beta. Will be fixed also in MC16?? please solve it, I need this function!!

thk

ralle_beck · « **Reply #14 on:** January 12, 2012, 05:06:48 am »

With newer Media Center versions than 16.0.164 my Olive2M doesn't find the media server anymore.
It shows me on display: No Media Server.
But on Media Center itself the Olive is shown in Playing Now List.
Playing music is also possible by using Media Center.
Another problem is that unfortunately my last "stable" version was deleted so
I can't check out wether this problem is solved now with Media Center 16.0.181.
If it doesn't work I'm not able to do a fallback to the old version.
How can I get Media Center 16.0.164?

Frank221 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 14, 2012, 06:36:22 am »

I am trying to install my current Media Center 16 on another computer. I requested a new activation code. I got the mjr file in email but it says my Media Center "14" has expired. I have attached a screen shot of my Media Center 16 registration page as well as the mjr file. Please help me get an activation code for Media Center 16. I understand that I have 10 re-activations in 12 months. Thanks.

Here is the mjr file that I got in email. Notice it references Media Center 14. I have attached

[License removed. Posting a license will result in revocation.]

JimH · « **Reply #16 on:** May 14, 2012, 06:45:58 am »

Do NOT post your license.

If you have a license for MC14, you will need to install MC14. See "Old Versions" on our wiki.

See "Purchase" above for details.

Use "New Topic" to start a thread.

JimH · « **Reply #17 on:** May 14, 2012, 08:29:12 am »

You used a different e-mail address for MC16. It's frank @ k....

If you would like me to change it, I can. I'm jimh at jriver.

Vincent Lau · « **Reply #18 on:** August 13, 2012, 05:36:46 am »

I have a MC 16 and reasonly I buy the upgrade to MC 18 last week. But the install key can't works when I install it in my MC16. The second problem is that when I rip the Chinese song CD in MC 16 it come funny symbol and when I use DB power to rip it come out nicely in the same computer. Please advice me how to solve these 2 thing for me.

JimH · « **Reply #19 on:** August 13, 2012, 06:59:40 am »

Quote from: Vincent Lau on August 13, 2012, 05:36:46 am

I have a MC 16 and reasonly I buy the upgrade to MC 18 last week. But the install key can't works when I install it in my MC16. The second problem is that when I rip the Chinese song CD in MC 16 it come funny symbol and when I use DB power to rip it come out nicely in the same computer. Please advice me how to solve these 2 thing for me.

Download and install MC17 from the "Download" link above. I can use an MC18 license.

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