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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/MediaCenter170136.exe

17.0.136 (4/25/2012)

1. Fixed: When printing multiple almost full page images, the image would be centered on the first page and top-left aligned on subsequent pages.
2. Changed: When in-place editing in a list when the values vary, the first value will be placed in the edit control instead of [Varies].
3. Fixed: Editing list-type fields that used a standard (non-list) edit mode would cause the values in the selection set to not appear at the top of the combobox (applies to Artist, Genre, etc. since they are now list fields).
4. NEW: Subtitle timing can be adjusted from the OSD when subtitles are on (use up/down/left/right while playing).
5. Fixed: Right-clicking in the empty area to the right of all the columns in a list would not work properly.
6. Changed: Expression variables used with Load(...) and Save(...) are global, and valid for the run of the program.
7. Fixed: Dealing with series images could be unnecessarily slow when a library used a lot of series-based relational fields.
8. Faster: Tweaked list filling to be faster for large lists.

17.0.135 (4/25/2012)

1. Fixed: A rare hang on track switch when two or more zones were switching at exactly the same time (most common with linked zones).
2. NEW: Added support for ASIO hardware reset requests (kAsioResetRequest), which is used by RME and possibly other hardware.

17.0.134 (4/24/2012)

1. Fixed: Glass based skins could allow a modal dialog to jump behind the view in some views.
2. Changed: Updated webgizmo html5 player.
3. Fixed: When downloading a component that showed progress, if the server didn't report a file size the progress could incorrectly show "2GB".
4. Fixed: Icons on messages boxes didn't look nice with skins that used an image for a dialog back.
5. Faster: Parsing / compiling large expressions is much faster (for example, Marko's 27,000 character thumbnail text expression takes 34ms to compile compared to 20800ms).
6. Faster: The expression compiler is smarter about inlining expressions so that it won't inline in cases where it could actually hurt performance.
7. Changed: Added Load(...) and Save(...) expression functions to allow using variables.
8. Changed: Improved error-handling in television recording.
9. Fixed: DLNA server. Correct spelling error for updateID variable. Was preventing PS3 and probably others from working properly. Broken in build 17.0.132
10. NEW: DLNA server. Make an educated guess of the container type for playlists, photo albums and audio albums. Solves sorting problem in PlugPlayer (and perhaps others).

17.0.133 (4/23/2012)

1. Changed: Expression inlining wouldn't inline an expression if the case in the expression didn't match the case of the expression field in the library.
2. Changed: An expression that doesn't properly close a function with a right parenthesis will report an error instead of evaluating (since the invalid expression will yield unexpected results if it gets inlined).
3. Changed: 'Get Movie & TV Info' allows lookup of files with a Media Sub Type of Trailer.
4. Fixed: A skin that used Glass could incorrectly keep a view showing when closing the program to Media Server mode.
5. Fixed: Skins that used Glass could have small artifacts on the left or right edge of text.
6. NEW: Added support for TV season images (use naming like: [Cover Art Folder]\Seasons\Seinfeld - Season 3.jpg).
7. Changed: Increased the probe size used to analyze if a WAV file contains DTS from 16kB to 256kB.
8. Changed: Carnac better understands TV episodes that use the naming like "S01E01 - Giotto.avi" (with no series).

17.0.132 (4/20/2012)

1. Changed: When a commercial skip file (EDL) calls for a skip at the start of playback, the skip is performed before starting playback so that it's faster / smoother.
2. Changed: Skins that used frame transparency (glass) could show an empty sheet of glass instead of a black screen when first starting video playback fullscreen.
3. Changed: Tuned how video playback responds to video size change notifications to (hopefully) fix cases of a black screen showing when starting playback.
4. Fixed: Particles could be corrupted when used with Library Server sync.
5. Fixed: MC repeatedly ran an unnecessary timer when doing a scheduled recording of an analog television channel.
6. Fixed: The detailed tag dump for FLAC files was not working for a couple builds.
7. Fixed: DLNA updateID for DLNA server content directory.

17.0.131 (4/19/2012)

1. NEW: Skins can use transparency in the background of the edit, combobox, and search control.
2. Fixed: 2D visualizations were not working in the last few builds.
3. Faster: Visualizations are better managed by the framework so that they're loaded and unloaded less often, and their window is not created just to query for modes.
4. Fixed: Stopping or deleting a playing video that had changed the display resolution / refresh rate while in Theater View could lead to Theater View no longer drawing.
5. Fixed: Mouse selection of DVD Menu buttons didn't work right when "Window / Crop edges" was selected from the right-click menu.
6. Fixed: When grouping on a decimal field like FPS, numbers that varied by less than 0.01 could cause the same value to appear in multiple groupings.
7. Changed: The search engine considers numbers within 0.01 of a value to be a match (so [FPS]=29.97 returns 29.969, 29.973, etc.).
8. Changed: The 'Rename, Move, & Copy Files' dialog will show <invalid change> and do nothing if some rule attempts to output a path that isn't rooted.
9. Fixed: ICY metadata was not being read nicely (and could even cause audible clicks) from some online radio stations.
10. Changed: Allow book-marking across library server/client for all video types rather than just JTV.
11. Fixed: Cover art in the cover art folder was not being found for optical discs or ISOs.
12. Fixed: If a combobox contained text that wasn't in the droplist, opening and closing the drop list would switch the text to the first item in the list.
13. Changed: When in-place-editing multiple files with varying values, [Varies] will be shown like already done in the Tag Action Window.
14. Changed: Library Server sync includes television guide records, stacks, and particles.

17.0.130 (4/18/2012)

1. Fixed: Setting the day or month field on a file with en empty date could fail.
2. Changed: TheTVDB lookup was not putting the original air date into the date field for television episodes.
3. Fixed: MCWS would double unescape URL parameters, making it impossible to use a literal & or ?.
4. Changed: Merged the APE tagging code for APE, MPC, and WV (should be an internal change, but please report any issues).
5. Fixed: DVD playback to Android or from play particles did not work well - video image would often break-up and pixellate.
6. Changed: Updated WebGizmo to better size to the full browser for video playback (thanks Scolex).

17.0.129 (4/17/2012)

1. NEW: Added support for JPEG files that use a CMYK color space.
2. Faster: Reworked how strings are handled with the translation engine to be several times faster (helps performance in many areas, even when running in English).
3. Faster: Revised import and input plugins to use a faster string passing system.
4. Fixed: The option to move the center speaker to the front L/R speakers was not working properly when downmixing.

17.0.128 (4/16/2012)

1. Fixed: A couple expression engine bugs in build 127.
2. Faster: Revised how the current time is retrieved from the system to be about 25x faster (helps expressions that use Now(), possibly other areas of the program).
3. NEW: Added 'Order channels' filter to Parametric Equalizer for easier ordering of output channels.
4. Changed: Switched standard message box icons to a skinnable resource (Art\SystemIcons in skin).
5. Changed: Users will no long need to scan for analog television channels before scanning for STB television channels.
6. Fixed: Camera import could appear to hang if the process was canceled.
7. Fixed: The same camera could appear twice in the camera import drop list, once as removable drive and once as WIA device.

[AoXoMoXoA]

After switching Libraries, when I return to my Main Library I find that my Playing Now queue has been cleared.

To make matters worse the "Recent Playing Now" playlists have all been cleared making it impossible to restore the queue I had taken the time and effort to create.


Please resolve this as it is very annoying.   

[lepa]

musepack tagging seems to be broken again?

2. Changed: When in-place editing in a list when the values vary, the first value will be placed in the edit control instead of [Varies].

thank you very much

[Alex B]

musepack tagging seems to be broken again?

Has it been broken recently? However, it seems to be now.

I tested a few formats. MC cannot write tags to MPC files. The same is true for WV (WavPack).

MP3, APE, OGG and WMA work normally.

[Matt]

Has it been broken recently? However, it seems to be now.

I tested a few formats. MC cannot write tags to MPC files. The same is true for WV (WavPack).

MP3, APE, OGG and WMA work normally.

Fixed next build.

It started here:
17.0.130 (4/18/2012)
Changed: Merged the APE tagging code for APE, MPC, and WV (should be an internal change, but please report any issues).

Sorry for the trouble.

[lepa]

Rotate picture from right click menu crashes MC. Tried with jpg.

Also could OSD be written over the subtitles? Now it is hard to see OSD when new subtitles are written over it.
Thanks for the time adjustment by the way.

[PaulSinnema]

Hi Matt,

Your change in 17.0.130 - 3 now makes MC Remote crash terribly. I'll try and analyse what is the problem.

Regards
Paul

[PaulSinnema]

Hi Matt,

I've changed the parameters class to only escape the data (behind the '='). Now it seems to work again.

Code: [Select]

/// <summary>
/// Return all the parameters as a string in format "?parameter1=value&parameter2=value&etc..."
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
public override string ToString()
{
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
string separator = "?";

foreach (KeyValuePair<string, object> parameter in this)
{
result.Append(separator).Append(parameter.Key).Append("=").Append(Uri.EscapeDataString(string.Format("{0}", parameter.Value)));
separator = "&";
}

if (MCStatic.CurrentZone != null)
{
string zoneString = Uri.EscapeDataString(string.Format("Zone={0}&ZoneType=ID", MCStatic.CurrentZone.Id));

result.Append(separator).Append(zoneString);
}

return result.ToString();
}

Regards
Paul

[221bBS]

Whatever you guys did fixed my hanging issue from the past 2 builds

[Matt]

I've changed the parameters class to only escape the data (behind the '='). Now it seems to work again.

You shouldn't have to do that.

It's like Goldilocks -- we were escaping too much, now not enough, and hopefully next build will be just right.

[wig]

17.0.136 (4/25/2012)

2. Changed: When in-place editing in a list when the values vary, the first value will be placed in the edit control instead of [Varies].

So did you change this back to the way it previously worked? Only the first value is being updated when I multi-select, as I described here

[Matt]

Rotate picture from right click menu crashes MC. Tried with jpg.

I haven't been able to reproduce this.

Please email the picture that crashes to matt at jriver dot com.

Thanks.

[lepa]

I haven't been able to reproduce this.
Please email the picture that crashes to matt at jriver dot com.

I removed IPTC with irfanview and crashing stopped. Updated tags from library again in MC and no crash anymore. I have copy of the original file still around if you want to take a look.

[Matt]

I removed IPTC with irfanview and crashing stopped. Updated tags from library again in MC and no crash anymore. I have copy of the original file still around if you want to take a look.

Please.  If you can send it soon, we might be able to get it fixed for the weekend's build.

I'm matt at jriver dot com.

Thanks.

[arrowc]

     
     Thank You  The "support for ASIO hardware reset requests (kAsioResetRequest), which is used by RME and possibly other hardware" is very much appreciated, works great now.      Thanks again