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http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v17/latest/MediaCenter170031.exe17.0.31 (11/8/2011)
1. Fixed: The list on the left of DSP Studio was not working properly.
17.0.30 (11/7/2011)
1. Fixed: Entering an out-of-bounds value into the Parametric Equalizer's 'Adjust a frequency' filter could cause problems.
2. Fixed: Remote control playback buttons broken for one build.
3. Fixed: Filesize was not getting filled in correctly for Blu-ray titles.
4. Changed: Replay Gain 'Automatic adjustment' mode uses the 95th percentile so that outliers that are extremely quiet don't cause an entire playlist to have its volume reduced too much.
5. NEW:
ASIO outputs a little silence when stopping so that hardware that plays its last buffer on the next start won't click. About 1/4 of a second.
6. Fixed: Movie name field not being set correctly for DVD/Blu-ray titles on the original disc.
7. Faster: Grouping of path-style fields like keywords, location, etc. in panes and category views is faster.
8. Changed: Removed Weather.com weather from Theater View due to business model changes by Weather.com (use
NOAA and Google instead).
9. Changed:
Improved handling of MPEG-4 video and AAC audio in digital television.
10. Changed: Improved analysis of DVD's on import so FPS, bitrate, resolution, etc. are now shown correctly.
11. Changed: Revised ASIO playback flow when starting DSD playback based on feedback from Playback Designs.
12. Fixed: XMLTV parsing would only load one channel if the channels and programs were interlaced in the XML.
13. Fixed: When playback of a video finished and it returned to Theater View, the monitor could immediately go to sleep in rare cases.
14. Changed: Changing values using the new Tag on Import feature will update file tags to match the changes made.
15. NEW: Audio and video types (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AC3, AAC, H.264) can be selected during manual editing of television channels. Applicable to DVB-T only.
16: Fixed: Tweak DLNA nested control fix from version 29. Could have caused trouble with some renderers.
17.0.29 (11/4/2011)
1. Fixed: MIDI playback was not working.
2. Changed: Improved Carnac's handling of
SageTV filenames.
3. NEW: Added the option to direct sound to the side speakers only with Direct Sound audio output (for outputting multiple stereo zones from one soundcard).
4. Changed: Lineup list style in Theater View could show HTML-like text formatting tokens in some cases.
5. NEW: Options > Theater View > Advanced >
File Caption supports HTML-like formatting (like 17.0.28 added for Standard View).
6. Changed:
Improved SSA subtitle support, especially for files that show multiple captions at the same time.
7. Changed: Updated German language file (
thanks Bytestar).
8. NEW: The subtitle engine supports
animated SSA karaoke subtitles.
9. Changed: The subtitle engine uses a higher quality outline for text-based drawing.
10. Fixed: Media Center could crash if a playback button on the remote control was pressed while the Blu-ray title menu was being displayed.
11. NEW: Added ability of DLNA services to work with devices which use a nested control structure.
12. Fixed: The library backup filename dialog wasn't offering a default filename or warning when overwriting an existing file.
13. Fixed: Canceling television recording did not work when user chose to switch to a different channel on the same tuner.
14. Fixed: OSD displayed channel info incorrectly when an STB channel was watched or recorded (it showed "Playing: Input Source 3 -..." instead of "Playing: 55 CNN..." for example).
15. Faster:
Libraries that use relational fields are faster.
17.0.28 (11/3/2011)
1. Changed: The right-click menu is no longer disabled in Web views.
2. Faster: Improvements to core libraries that help program load performance and size.
3. Fixed: Movie name from mymovies.xml file was not being used - instead the movie was named according to the folder above the index.bdmv file.
4. Fixed:
Video in jtv format captured from HD PVR video capture device did not play in Red October HQ.
5. NEW: SSA subtitle engine supports the custom fonts for each style used in the SSA (falls back to user selection when a block of text has no font in its style).
6. Changed: When number keys on a remote control are used to change television channel and the original input string does not match any channel, MC removes beginning '0's from the input string and tries again.
7. Fixed:
Replay Gain information was not being used properly when applying DSP to a handheld conversion.
8. Fixed: If DSP is used when converting for a handheld, the new file could have a stale replay gain value written to its tag.
9. Changed: Improved handling of numbers, dashes, etc. in the FixSpacing(...) expression.
10. NEW: Carnac better understands
SageTV filenames (use Fill Properties From Filename in automatic mode to update existing files).
11. Changed: The expression function FileName(...) suppoprts an optional parameter for whether to include the extension (to get no extension: FileName(,0)).
12. Fixed: TMDb movie lookup was not always getting the highest quality image available.
13. Changed: Import will only mark a file as bad if it hasn't been changed on the file system for an hour (so auto-import won't put a fresh file copy in the bad database and then remove it when the copy finishes).
14. NEW:
Thumbnail text supports basic HTML text formatting tags like
bold,
underline,
italic, and <font color="FF0000">red</font> (remember that slash requires escapement in the expression editor so use <//b>, <//i>, etc.).
15. Changed:
WAV & AIFF tagging are enabled by default (use Plug-in Manager > Input > WAVE & AIFF > Configure to change).
17.0.27 (11/1/2011)
1. Fixed: If audio failed to open (sound card disconnected, etc.) when starting a video, it could cause a crash.
2. Changed: Switched the default amount of buffering for DirectSound to 250ms from 500ms (works better with DVD and some other video sources).
3. NEW:
DSP Studio > Output Format allows setting a different output sample rate for each input sample rate.
4. Fixed: Flick scrolling was not working properly in Theater View.
5. Fixed: Cover art lookup could stop working after the first 20 albums.
6. Fixed: Recording of certain TV channels in jtv format would not play correctly (stalled until a seek operation was performed).
7. Fixed: Center-focused JRSS up-mixing was not engaging properly for some video content.
8. Changed: Added more Media Network shutdown logging to help troubleshoot a hang switching libraries.
17.0.26 (10/31/2011)
1. Changed: Display setting changing resolution options in Options > Video are disabled until display setting changing is enabled.
2. Fixed: M4A tagging was not working (only applies to last few builds).
3. Faster: Improved
performance of M4A tagging.
4. Fixed: The "clickfree" automatic backup device would cause Media Center to crash.
5. Fixed: Workaround for VirtualBox system timer bug that could cause various problems in Media Center.
6. NEW: Reworked Theater View's presentation engine so that it's less likely to spend time waiting on vsyncs and works better at low refresh rates.
7. NEW: Added the ability to apply
volume levelling and other DSP when converting files for use on a handheld.
8. Fixed: SUB+IDX subtitles with multiple languages in the IDX were not working properly.
17.0.25 (10/28/2011)
1. Fixed: Configuring multiple Google or Weather.com weather locations did not work properly.
2. Fixed: The bitrate would not be imported for M4A files.
3. NEW: Added the ability to specify a
separate A/V sync correction for 24 Hz than for other refresh rates (A/V sync correction requires using the JRiver audio engine).
4. NEW: Added an expression function
FixSpacing(...) to convert camel case to normal spacing. OneWord becomes One Word
5. Fixed: Text rendering in some areas of the program could appear blurry on Windows XP.
6. Fixed: Mouse wheel scrolling in the Theater View television grid didn't work.
7. Changed: Theater View mouse wheel scrolling works more like grab-n-drag or flick scrolling in that it can show partial items.
8. NEW: Added support for
3d .jps images (thumbnails and image playback only show the left eye image).