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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/MediaCenter170117.exe

17.0.117 (3/29/2012)

1. Fixed: Video playback on Gizmo / WebGizmo could (still) not work in some cases.

17.0.116 (3/29/2012)

1. Fixed: If cancelling of an internet read was slow, it could cause a thread to be ungracefully terminated leading to crashes in the system library wininet.dll.
2. Changed: Revised how Theater View backdrop loading is handled so that the user interface thread is never waiting on a load to finish.
3. Fixed: In certain cases the last frame in an ID3v2 tag would not get removed properly, so a frame could appear twice in the tag.
4. Fixed: Viewing a single file search result in Theater View was not working properly.
5. Faster: Core value searching engine (Theater View, Gizmo, search suggestions, etc.) is about 15% faster.
6. Changed: In Netflix, right and left keyboard arrows or remote buttons now activate Silverlight fastforward/rewind controls correctly.  Ok/Pause/Play button control improvement also.
7. Changed: WMA tagging using WM/PartOfSet for disc numbers.
8. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks to Gianni).
9. Fixed: Video playback with Gizmo / WebGizmo was not working in build 115 due to an HTML escapement issue.
10. Changed: Updated to LAV filters .50.1.  Fixed crashes due to invalid subtitle data and certain dynamic format changes.  Improved Blu-ray stream detection.
11. Fixed: Possible leak when scrolling a list that was showing full resolution thumbnails.

17.0.115 (3/27/2012)

1. Fixed: Date formatting tokens %W and %U were counting from the first week in the month instead of the first week in the year.
2. Fixed: When tagging ID3v2 tags (MP3, WAV, DSF) with images other than just a front cover, the results could be unpredictable (Media Center will replace front and other images with the image in Media Center, and leave other types).
3. Fixed: Japanese locale (and maybe others) could have problems loading Podcasts.
4. NEW: Audio Path reports the source format (especially useful for seeing if DTS-MA, etc. is being decoded fully).
5. Changed: When toggling zones, Playing Now views are only switched to the new zone if they're in the current tab, split view, and not locked (so having multiple splits each showing a different Playing Now works nicely).
6. Fixed: With a Search List view category, the sorting could be disabled but stuck on 'Descending' causing the list to sort in reverse.
7. Changed: Resuming from standby, a Library Server client will sync with the server (must have 'Options > Media Network > Client Options > Auto sync with server' enabled).
8. Changed: A file will not be eligible to transfer to a handheld or burn to a CD/DVD until any queued tagging for that file has finished.
9. Fixed: Audio Path text was not readable with some skins.
10. Fixed: Right-clicking a non-selected pane item and picking an action could perform the action on the previous selection.
11. Changed: Updated LAV filters to .50.  Decoding speed increases, RealAudio Lossless support, lots of other improvements.
12. Fixed: Unusual behavior when corrupt podcast files were downloaded.
13. Changed: Improved visual smoothness when switching into Cover View (also removed black flicker when pressing stop from Cover View).
14. Changed: The Smartlist Editor doesn't show a drop list for 'Large Value' type fields like Description, etc.
15. Changed: If video playback is paused when entering Theater View, it is not automatically resumed if Theater View is exited to Standard View.

17.0.114 (3/26/2012)

1. Changed: When using list fields in Rename, Move, & Copy Files expressions, the full list can be retrieved by using 0 as the second field parameter (example: [Keywords, 0]).
2. Fixed: The server core was not supporting HTTP/1.1 pipelining correctly, causing scrambled artwork in WebGizmo on iOS 5, and possibly other problems.
3. Fixed: WebGizmo better handles escapement of invalid characters.
4. Changed: Tweaks to ensure WebGizmo pages pass W3C validation.
5. Fixed: Date formatting was not outputting a literal percentage properly when using %%.
6. Changed: Date formatting supports %W and %U.

17.0.113 (3/23/2012)

1. NEW: Added support for dual-layer DVD burning.
2. Fixed: Scrolling in Theater View 3d lists could crash in some cases.
3. Faster: Theater View will run up to 16 concurrent object updates instead of 4 concurrent updates for user interface elements.
4. Fixed: Handheld syncing could send duplicate files when one side had a space after semi-colons in a list and the other side had no spaces.
5. Fixed: The FormatDate(...) token datetime was not working properly.
6. Fixed: XMP tagging would write empty keywords when removing keywords instead of actually removing them from the XMP tag.

17.0.112 (3/22/2012)

1. Fixed: List column header text was using the wrong color in build 111.
2. Changed: Consolidated and improved date formatting supported by FormatDate(...) expression ( details here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=71000.msg479314#msg479314 ).
3. Fixed: All XMP keywords were not being read in some cases.
4. Fixed: Some functions in Media Editor were not working properly.
5. Changed: MP4 parsing is more forgiving of some types of container corruption.
6. NEW: Add DLNA controller option to disable SetNextAVTransportURI support for broken renderers.
7. Changed: DLNA controller logic for SetNextAVTransportURI to work around bugs in some renderers.
8. NEW: Added support for /Sleep [milliseconds] command to the launcher to allow scripting delays.  To sleep one second: MC17.exe /Sleep 1000

17.0.111 (3/21/2012)

1. Faster: More SSE speed improvements in image framework.
2. Changed: The expression engine trims white space before the first parameter and after the last parameter in a function (you can force white-space output by escaping with a slash).
3. Changed: In the expression engine, if a slash (the escape character) is followed by newline, all white space will be discarded (including the newline).
4. Changed: Improved support for SSA font face and position tokens.
5. Changed: Improved support for SSA command blocks that string many commands or formatting tokens into a single block (ie. {\i1\fnVerdana}).
6. NEW: Added an Indonesian translation (thanks to elda).
7. Changed: Switched list headers from a skinned system control to a custom JRiver control (please report any issues).
8. Fixed: Audio playback using DirectShow filters did not nicely handle mid-stream format changes (could cause problems with DTS WAV files, maybe others).
9. Changed: Tuned DTS-in-WAV detector to better handle DTS files with junk between the DTS frames.
10. Changed: Carnac better understands MakeMKV filenames (ie. t01_The_Matrix.mkv).

17.0.110 (3/19/2012)

1. Changed: Revised the bilinear image portion of JRMark to be more representative of how the program uses bilinear stretching (older JRMark values will be roughly comparable, but not exactly the same).
2. Faster: More speed improvements to SSE in image engine.
3. Changed: DLNA: the way the updateID is incremented. If a starting index is >0 the updateID is not incremented.

17.0.109 (3/16/2012)

1. Fixed: Ripping DVD "Cars 2" would cause a crash.
2. Changed: When burning a DVD video disc, if there is a DRM protected file in the burn queue, an appropriate error message is now shown.
3. Fixed: EPG loading could load incorrect channel data in certain cases.
4. Changed: Carnac better handles SageTV recording filenames that use a 6-digit identifier instead of a 7-digit identifier.
5. Changed: Image framework uses SSE for core rendering when possible.  Should also be faster.

17.0.108 (3/15/2012)

1. Changed: Improvements to Carnac parsing of download filenames.
2. Changed: EPG channel auto-match did not run for all DVB variants.
3. Changed: Tuned the EPG channel auto-match for non-ATSC channels.

17.0.107 (3/14/2012)

1. Fixed: EPG loading was not working properly for some country / postal codes.
2. Fixed: Locked views could cause the view state to be lost between program startups.
3. Changed: Better error handling during DVD video burning.

17.0.106 (3/13/2012)

1. Changed: Updated to madVR v0.82.5 when using Red October HQ.
2. Changed: Updated LAV .49.  VC1 files now handled by LAV video decoder.
3. Fixed: Burn queue track sorting was broken.
4. NEW: Added support for DSD bitstreaming using DoP (requires 'WASAPI - Event Style' output and supported DSD hardware).
5. NEW: DSD bitstreaming using DoP allows selecting the marker bytes (supports DoP 1.0, and older 0xAA approach used by dCS, Meitner, and others).
6. Fixed: In some cases, text based subtitles could appear with multiple subtitles on top of one another.
7. Fixed: EPG guide loading was not working properly for countries other than the US.
8. Faster: Burning an audio CD when not decoding directly to disc prepares files several times faster.
9. NEW: Added expression FileFolder(...) to get the folder of a file: FileFolder(string Filename = [Filename, 0], int LevelsUp = 0).

17.0.105 (3/9/2012)

1. NEW: ISO image burning added to CD/DVD burn types.  Also, DVD video burning now allows burning an existing ripped DVD from the hard disk.
2. Changed: Added DLNA video profiles for devices that only support MPEG-2 audio in MPEG-2 video containers (no AC-3 support).

17.0.104 (3/8/2012)

1. Changed: Improved code structure / linkage so that JRWorker is 611kB smaller, Media Center is 353kB smaller, and PackageInstaller is 421kB smaller.
2. NEW: Added the ability to auto-create particles for Blu-ray titles.
3. Changed: Making changes to a particle no longer does any file tagging.
4. Changed: VST plugin loading will accept v1.x VST effects instead of only v2.x effects.
5. Changed: When creating a particle, a user interface is shown.
6. Changed: Using Rename, Move, & Copy Files will show "<file not supported>" for particles and do no actions on them.
7. Changed: When renaming the parent of particles, the particles are automatically updated.

17.0.103 (3/7/2012)

1. NEW: Added support for sidecar .SSA/.ASS subtitles (feedback welcome).
2. Changed: Added WebM Video (.webm) to the list of supported video types.
3. Changed: Added a DoP test clip to the test clip suite.
4. Changed: Updated to madVR v0.82.4 when using Red October HQ.
5. Changed: When changing resolutions, Media Center always toggles desktop composition to force Windows to update the desktop manager (previously it only did this when starting playback, not when stopping playback).
6. Changed: Revised the Help > System Info display (thanks to madshi for his help).

[3sideslive]

First, thanks for this - it's very much appreciated.

2. Changed: The expression engine trims white space before the first parameter and after the last parameter in a function (you can force white-space output by escaping with a slash).
3. Changed: In the expression engine, if a slash (the escape character) is followed by newline, all white space will be discarded (including the newline).

I assume this is not expected behavior, but...
If I create an expression column with the multi-line formula

Code: [Select]

a/
b/
cIt shows "abc", as expected.

But if I create a library field and enter the same text via the expression editor, "a/ b/ c" is stored as the formula, and the field displays "a b c".

[221bBS]

2. Changed: The expression engine trims white space before the first parameter and after the last parameter in a function (you can force white-space output by escaping with a slash).

I can't seem to force a white-space. I have the following expression:

Code: [Select]

If(IsEmpty([Disc #-Track #]),,/([Disc #-Track #]/)/ )If(IsEqual([Folder: A],Music,0)IsEqual([Folder: B],Music,0),If(IsEmpty([Artist: Main]),,[Artist: Main]/ -/ ),)[Name: Complete]
The output should be:
(01) Adele - Rolling in the Deep

but I am getting:
(01)Adele -Rolling in the Deep

There should be a space between (01) & Adele
also a space between - & Rolling

Am I missing something?

[MrC]

I can't seem to force a white-space. I have the following expression:

  <snip>

There should be a space between (01) & Adele
also a space between - & Rolling

Am I missing something?

I reported this earlier in the week (113 thread).

A hiccup...

The forced escaped space shown in red is not working:

   ifelse(!isempty([Track #,0]), [Track #]./ )[Name] ([Album]) by [Artist]

Instead of:

  10. The Fish and the Bird...

I get:

  10.The Fish and the Bird...

[gufau]

Since 17.0.115: 4. NEW: Audio Path reports the source format (especially useful for seeing if DTS-MA, etc. is being decoded fully).

Does anyone really get to see if it works. Me on my films there is only "dts" ... while it is in dts hd ma?

[gufau]

Since 17.0.115: 4. NEW: Audio Path reports the source format (especially useful for seeing if DTS-MA, etc. is being decoded fully).

Does anyone really get to see if it works. Me on my films there is only "dts" ... while it is in dts hd ma?

I answer to myself: putting the dll "that goes" well we display dts hd ma, cool

[Wulff]

I got twice a madvr application error yesterday when i played a series here. it gave me a madvr crash report wich i will attach to the post here.

[phalanthus]

further research needed

[Wulff]

I wanted to say sorry for my post cause when i read it again it sounds a bit crappy I purchased j river not so long ago and im very happy with it for sure, specially for playing music its the best player for me by miles in combination with my arcam rdac. With the last stable version i used all was working perfect. i only got the MadVR application error with this last version. if you need any further info from me please let me know. and for the rest big thanx for ur fine program. it was the most well spent money for a while here

[statiker81]

Thanks for the great improvements.

I noticed that 2 stacked video files (part 1 and part 2 of the same movie) do show up in the theater view as a single movie. However, during playback only the top file of the stack is actually played. The total length of the stack also only shows the content of the first file.

I would be great, if stacked video files would be treated as 1 combined file (only 1 database entry, accumulated length,...). Support of stacks during rename would be another great feature (e.g. adding an extension like _partx to the filename according to the name of the stack).

Surely a lot of users have, like I do, a large number of movies that are split into two parts!

[helpme]

I have recently lost the ability to sync my iPod classic via MC17

I receive a message telling me I need to reinitialize, I Select "Yes", my iPod resets (still with original data) and disconnects from MC17. I reconnect and go though the whole process again.

I tried using itunes to reset my iPod but any attempts to reinitialize though MC17 fails

Ipod software has not recently been updated

Stephen