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[JimH]

This is the latest version of MC 17.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted or moved.

New Features in MC17

Upgrade Instructions

Download: http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v17/latest/MediaCenter170099.exe

17.0.99 (3/2/2012)

1. Changed: Improved the workaround for the blue-screen crashes in the Thesycon (and possibly other) audio drivers when resetting with Kernel Streaming.
2. Changed: Reworked how full packet Kernel Streaming delivery is handled to work better with video (full packets are required or some drivers stall playback).
3. Changed: If video hardware acceleration is enabled, and Media Center detects an Intel Atom processor, DXVA2 Native mode is preferred over CUVID mode for hardware acceleration.
4. Fixed: DLNA search didn't work properly with servers/renderers that used the same port for both.

17.0.98 (3/1/2012)

1. Fixed: The remote control plugin was not included in build 97, leading to problems.
2. Fixed: Filename truncation could still unnecessarily truncate long fields.

17.0.97 (2/29/2012)

1. Fixed: DVB-S channel scan could produce wrong polarization value ("Linear Horizontal" was set to "Not Defined").
2. Changed: Revised how filenames that are too long for the file system are truncated (previously truncation could be too aggressive).
3. Fixed: The program could crash when the remote control feature was disabled.
4. Fixed: DVB-T/S/C channel scanning could crash in some cases.
5. Fixed: Stopping image playback while audio playback was in progress could cause a crash in build 96.

17.0.96 (2/28/2012)

1. Changed: Updated to madVR v0.81 with Red October HQ.
2. Changed: Gathering playback state and position information for a zone occurs in a background thread so a slow DLNA device or server can not cause user interface issues.
3. Faster: The threaded approach to display information updating allows running updates one tenth as much while providing smoother visual position incrementing.
4. Fixed: URL-based video playback was not working since build 94.
5. Changed: Kernel Streaming output no longer writes partial packets if there's a shortfall or at the end of a track but instead delivers a full packet with some silence (some drivers blue screen on partial packets).
6. Fixed: DVB-S channel scanning did not save modulation type value correctly.
7. Fixed: Theater View > Playing Now > Info could show the wrong track when first entering.
8. Changed: Video conversion for Gizmo / WebGizmo uses MP3 instead of AAC (works better with Android 4.0, maybe others).
9. NEW: Video conversion tool using Red October available on right-click menu (Library Tools/Convert Format).  The UI is mostly finished, the transcode profiles are not fully defined and may not give expected results. More to come.
10. Fixed: After deleting files from Playing Now, the selection could unexpectedly revert to the playing track.
11. Changed: Renamed Options > Media Network > Client Options > to 'Automatically sync changes made on client back to server' to 'Auto sync with server'.
12. Fixed: DVB-T/S/C channel scanning could crash in some cases.
13. Changed: Theater View sheet list style adapts the image aspect ratio like other lists (instead of always using squares).
14. Fixed: A few bugs in the DLNA renderer.
15. Changed: Added Media_Duration to GetMediaInfo for the DLNA renderer.

17.0.95 (2/24/2012)

1. Changed: Updated LAV filters to .48 which fixes a crash with native DXVA2 on hardware that doesn't support decoding all formats.
2. Changed: IIR based DSP effects like low-pass, high-pass, Linkwitz, etc. better handle denormals (numbers very close to zero) so performance slowdowns don't arise from these numbers.
3. Changed: Tuned timing used when switching madVR between Display View and Theater View to (hopefully) fix black-screen hangs.
4. Changed: Updated the RSS feed for Theater View Yahoo! News to point to a new RSS feed that works (Yahoo! still offers the old feed, but it's full of broken links).
5. Fixed: Sometimes when deleting files, especially from Theater View, the remove empty folders prompt would not appear right away.
6. Fixed: Toggling the new DSP option 'Process independently of internal volume' could cause a burst of sound if the internal volume was low.
7. Fixed: Tempo & Pitch DSP did not flush fully, so on seek, etc. a little tail could be heard in some cases.
8. Changed: The text output in the Export Playlist tool creates standard CSV output (RFC 4180 compliant).
9. Fixed: Channel editing tool did not work for DVB-C/S and QAM tuner types.
10. Changed: Removed Output Format option for sources that have an incorrectly mastered subwoofer, use -10dB to the subwoofer in Parametric Equalizer instead if needed (discussed here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=70303.0).
11. NEW: Add DLNA controller switch to ignore transport events (use polling mode) to the Player Zone.

17.0.94 (2/23/2012)

1. Fixed: WASAPI output mode could lose lip-sync when seeking in video.
2. Faster: Pruning of the Theater View background cache could cause exiting Theater View to be slow (pruning is now around 50x faster and only done once a week).
3. Fixed: LAV Source/Splitter filter would allow viewing configuration pages which is not valid for auto-configured Red October filters and in fact shows the config for a separately installed instance.
4. Changed: Theater View News works better when an article fails to load (like the current Yahoo! failures due to a Yahoo! server problem).
5. Fixed: Volume Protection could engage and turn the volume down on subsequent videos when playing videos back to back.
6. Faster: The HTML parser used by Theater View news is about 10x faster.
7. NEW: Each DSP effect can be set to be processed independently of internal volume (Options button at top right of DSP).
8. NEW: DSP effects can be set to process only when viewed, which is useful for visualization style items like Analyzer (Options button at top right of DSP).
9. Changed: Tuning to some wording in DSP Studio.
10. Changed: DSP Studio keeps 'Output Format' first and 'Volume Leveling' second.  A message explaining this is shown if a user attempts to put other effects before these effects.
11. NEW: Added a second Parametric Equalizer to DSP Studio so it's possible to apply effects on either side of Room Correction, convolution, etc.
12. Changed: One-time reset of DSP effect ordering due to other changes.
13. Fixed: DLNA controller function was assuming it was in control whenever a zone was selected leading to badness if we were only viewing a zone someone else was controlling.
14. Changed: DLNA controller polls for playing state if it thinks it's playing but the position isn't updating from 0. This fixes trouble if an event is missed.
15. Turkey: Moved the search box to the lower-left of the Options dialog as discussed here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=69921.0.

17.0.93 (2/21/2012)

1. Changed: Added support for reading the lens name from XMP.
2. Changed: Improved the HTML parsing engine used in Theater View > News to works better with BBC, possibly others.
3. Changed: Tweaked the list of reasons in the uninstall dialog.
4. NEW: Added The Verge to Theater View News.

17.0.92 (2/21/2012)

1. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
2. Changed: MCWS functions that return a decimal will always use . as the decimal character (unless the value is designed to be displayed to a user like VolumeDisplay, etc.).
3. Changed: Revised how image playback creates hardware accelerated devices to fix stalls before drawing the image on some machines.
4. Fixed: Switching between 3d and regular Theater View lists could cause the number of thumbnails in a row to change.
5. Changed: Minor tuning to thumbnail sizing in Theater View to make a 1080p display more likely to show 3 rows for movies.
6. Fixed: VideoClock was not engaging in some cases so there could be frame repeats / frame drops.
7. Changed: VideoClock will allow up to a 1% clock drift to achieve a perfect 2.5 video to refresh rate multiplier (used for 24 Hz video on 60 Hz display).
8. Changed: Real Media video files (.rm,.rmvb,.rv,.smil) are now played through Red October rather than using the Real Media engine (which wasn't working anyhow).
9. Fixed: DVB-S channel scanning could get channels with wrong frequencies or multiple entries of the same channel with different frequencies.
10. NEW: Added a subtitle mode (Options > Video) that shows a sidecar when it's found, regardless of other settings. (mode: Show subtitles only if selected subtitle language is different from audio language, or if subtitles are in a sidecar file)
11. NEW: Added default field 'Lens'.  Filled automatically from the EXIF tag with Canon cameras.
12. Fixed: Downloading from Library Server for transfer to a handheld might time out if conversion was custom MP3 and audio file was very large (~2 hours).

17.0.91 (2/20/2012)

1. Fixed: Television channel scanning did not work for the last couple of builds.
2. Fixed: Ctrl+F would not select existing text in the search box.
3. Changed: Default sorting for television shows will use Series\Season\Episode\Name instead of just Name.
4. Changed: Empty sort rules in a view or parent view could cause problems when setting the sort to (Default).
5. Fixed: Installing a build manually clears any queued auto-updates.
6. Changed: Updated LAV filters to .47 with DXVA Native mode support and other goodies.
7. Fixed: Library server and DLNA audio conversions to mp3 were not working.
8. NEW: Added DLNA controller function which can change tracks gaplessly. Requires that the renderer supports SetNextAVTransportURI. Works nicely with MC's renderer. Needs testing with other renderers whether they have the function or not (look for breakage on renderers that don't support it).

17.0.90 (2/16/2012)

1. Fixed: The OSD window would only draw one line of text in some cases (hopefully fixed, please let us know).

17.0.89 (2/15/2012)

1. NEW: Added the HDTracks store including download and search (Services & Plug-ins in the tree).
2. Changed: Added extra logging for TV recording.
3. Changed: Revised escapement of non-printable characters in XML to work with more XML parsers.
4. Fixed: Relative paths that moved up multiple paths with ../.. were not handled properly in some cases.
5. Faster: Internal Volume uses SSE when it's available for around 20% - 30% faster volume processing.
6. Changed: Reduced wait time for DVB and QAM channel scanning.
7. Changed: Added a wait when switching user interface modes while madVR is in use to help with full screen exclusive causing Theater View creation problems.

[phusis]

(from the build 0.98 thread)

Please try this build and let us know if it solves the problems (I think it will):
http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v17/latest/MediaCenter170099.exe

Thanks.

Just installed 0.99; one of the Blu-ray discs(the recently released UK Blu-ray of The Conformist) that made the Kernel Streaming sound go nuts via the 0.96-0.98 builds, now plays like a charm

Will try out some other films, but it seems the issue has been fixed!

Thanks for the quick follow-up on this, Matt - will return on this if any issues re-surfaces..

[Belarathon]

Did the shell extension stop working a build or two ago?  I'm on Windows 8 CP, but I'm sure I had it was working with build '95.

Windows 8 x64

[cmbe]

Hi,

I don't know if this issue was introduced with release .99 or .98 , maybe with the fix for Videoclock not engaging correctly under some circumstances. But I now have this behavior (ROHQ):

1) If "automatic display settings changing" is set for playing 23.876fps and 24fps material at 24Hz ("Cinema" speed). Videoclock appears to engage fine most of the time resulting in a frame repeat/drop for several days.

2) If "automatic display settings changing" is set for playing 23.876fps material at 23.976Hz and 24fps at 24Hz, same as original source speed. Videoclock behaves erratically, sometimes engaging well and resulting in a frame repeat/drop for several days, some other times seems like not engaging correctly and results in a frame repeat/drop after some seconds or a few minutes. This happens even on the same movie and it doesn't seems have to do with the encoding, as happens with H.264, VC-1 or MPEG2 material.

I have crossed with this situation as in one of my HTPCs, I want to bitstreaming or send the processed PCM (I was trying both to then decide) to my AV Processor. So I "need" to have similar play speed and source speed to do this (bitstreaming).

[JimH]

Did the shell extension stop working a build or two ago?  I'm on Windows 8 CP, but I'm sure I had it was working with build '95.

Windows 8 x64

Try rebooting.

[lise]

When you create a new field, it is immediately accessible to add as a column header in list view, but it is not accessible in the drop-down when editing rules for a view.

To reproduce:
Create new field.
Right-click on a view and select Customize View and Set Rules for File Diplay.
Add a new rule. Your field is not displayed (until you exit MC).

[JIMV]

I have a new quirk...the program runs great for a couple of hours (and the laptop is not overheated but cool to the touch), then, and always after a song has completed(different songs), it simply stops and cannot be accessed from the icon on the start bar. A control-alt-delete advises the program has stopped responding and it closes fine from that prompt. I can then reopen the program without problem and it runs as though it had never stopped...for another few hours...

The PC stats are a 64bit windows 7 i3 machine with 8gb of ram

[Sandy B Ridge]

Changing font size (Tree & View->Select Font) whilst audio playing causes an application crash in CSkinManagerDlg:LoadMegaSkin

SBR

[Beamer]

I am experiencing a lot of madVR reports Creating Direct 3D Device Failed (8876086c) since the most recent updates. It may have started with the madVR update in .96 but certainly my playbacks were rock solid prior to .96

All .mkv files are initialized through Theater view and are 1080p files.

If I exit MC and restart MC the failed file plays just fine. The issue is most common when I play a second .mkv file, the first plays and the next one is selected I get the error until as mentioned I exit and re-start MC and play the file again.

[Beamer]

Rolled back to .95 and madVR failure is not present.

Upgraded to .99 and madVR error returned.

Upgraded .99 with latest madVR v0.82.3 and madVR failure  appears to be fixed.

[Sandy B Ridge]

My MC seems to have a peculiar affinity to showing images of 'Maroon 5'. Here's what happened!

Ivy bought a couple of CDs a few weeks ago and I've just got around to putting them on the PC. One was Maroon 5 and the other Will Young ( ). She was playing the Will Young one last night from standard view and I happened to flick it onto TheaterView onto 'playing now'.  I got fanart images of Maroon 5! Flicking onto Info and back onto Playing Now fixed it.

I thought no more and just a temporary glitch, but later on, again starting from standard view an album by James Blunt and flicking TheaterView onto Playing Now got the Maroon 5 images up again (until I navigated to the Info pane again and back again).

Not sure if I have a cache problem or it is a minor bug/annoyance?

SBR

[JustinChase]

Rolled back to .95 and madVR failure is not present.

Upgraded to .99 and madVR error returned.

Upgraded .99 with latest madVR v0.82.3 and madVR failure  appears to be fixed.

Madshi has been very active in quashing some bugs from his latest build.  He made some very deep changes to madVR v.82 to resolve some resolution changing issues, and it resulted in some problems, as you have described.  I believe he just released .82.4 earlier today, and reports are good that it's resolved most/all issues.  If you're okay now with .82.3, I would just stick with that.  I'm sure Matt will get the most recent version into a new build once madshi determines it's ready.

[Domi]

I am experiencing a lot of madVR reports Creating Direct 3D Device Failed (8876086c) since the most recent updates. It may have started with the madVR update in .96 but certainly my playbacks were rock solid prior to .96

All .mkv files are initialized through Theater view and are 1080p files.

If I exit MC and restart MC the failed file plays just fine. The issue is most common when I play a second .mkv file, the first plays and the next one is selected I get the error until as mentioned I exit and re-start MC and play the file again.

I reported this bug trying to play Depeche mode blu ray disc in a new topic about a week ago  but it received no reply.
So I confirm this issue.

[jdewoody]

My MC seems to have a peculiar affinity to showing images of 'Maroon 5'. Here's what happened!

Ivy bought a couple of CDs a few weeks ago and I've just got around to putting them on the PC. One was Maroon 5 and the other Will Young ( ). She was playing the Will Young one last night from standard view and I happened to flick it onto TheaterView onto 'playing now'.  I got fanart images of Maroon 5! Flicking onto Info and back onto Playing Now fixed it.

I thought no more and just a temporary glitch, but later on, again starting from standard view an album by James Blunt and flicking TheaterView onto Playing Now got the Maroon 5 images up again (until I navigated to the Info pane again and back again).

Not sure if I have a cache problem or it is a minor bug/annoyance?

SBR

Mine seems to have that issue but it's chosen to obsess over 3 Doors down and the sad thing is - I haven't played any. Last night when it happened I was listening to Jeff Scott Soto, the night before that I was listening to Roberta Gambarini...