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Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« on: December 20, 2012, 09:05:22 am »

This is the latest version of MC 18.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted or moved.

Please read this first.

Download: http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v18/latest/MediaCenter180100.exe

History: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=74442.0

18.0.100 (12/20/2012)

1. Fixed: Subtitles and the OSD were not working with madVR (only applies to builds 98 and 99).

18.0.99 (12/20/2012)

1. Fixed: Television channels would not work after changing language used, if television tuner type string had been translated.
2. NEW: Added type "Disabled" on tuner type selection when configuring a television tuner.
3. Fixed: Transparent overlay windows were not drawing properly in build 98.
4. Changed: Revised the new allocation system used for images so that it's as fast on Win8 as it is on Win7.
5. Changed: When exporting a playlist on a Library Server client to M3U or ASX, the server filename will be used if it's reachable by the client (instead of using a URL to the server).
6. Fixed: The program could start at its default window position (maximized on the primary monitor) instead of the last shutdown position.

18.0.98 (12/19/2012)

1. Faster: Lower resource usage and faster performance due to core image framework improvements.  More here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76576.0
2. Changed: Updated the Indonesian translation (thanks elda).
3. Fixed: The program did not nicely handle a streaming HTTP URL that redirected to an MMS stream (used by SiriusXMStreamer, etc.).
4. Fixed: In certain cases, 'Volume Leveling' with Replay Gain might not be enabled even if it looked enabled in DSP Studio (please double-check your DSP Studio setting with the new build).

18.0.97 (12/18/2012)

1. Changed: Renamed the DoP marker format 'dCS, Meitner, etc. (0xAA)' to 'Legacy format (0xAA)' since it's only required with older devices.
2. Fixed: Build 95 and 96 were not working on machines without SSE 4.1.
3. Fixed: Following a movie rip, the recently ripped playlist would be continually re-displayed until the action window was closed.
4. Fixed: Disk Writer output could hang in some cases.
5. Changed: Disk Writer names files using the time the output started instead of using artist / name fields (which don't really make sense for video).
6. Fixed: Live source like loopback and line-in did not work nicely with disk writer.
7. Changed: When doing live playback, WASAPI and ASIO were using 10ms as the maximum hardware buffer size.  This could lead to audio hiccups, so now the user setting is always honored.  If you do loopback playback, you might try a small buffer size to reduce latency.
8. Changed: Improved buffer allocation scheme used by WASAPI - Event Style, so that lower latency settings will work better.
9. Changed: Updated to madVR v0.85.4.MC (custom update for Media Center) when using Red October HQ.
10. Changed: Czech language translation updated (thanks to Johnny B).
11. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).

18.0.96 (12/17/2012)

1. Fixed: The disc insert dialog could display with no default selection.
2. Changed: Improved support for Blu-ray subtitles where multiple subtitles are supposed to appear on the screen at once.
3. Changed: When doing quick zoom (keys 1-9) while viewing an image, the OSD will show the zoom level.
4. Changed: When zooming an image, the OSD shows the zoom level for the default show time of 3 seconds instead of 7 seconds.
5. Changed: The new right-click while holding the left mouse button action for in-place editing works better when multiple items are selected.
6. Changed: Updated to madVR v0.85.4 when using Red October HQ.
7. Fixed: Blu-ray and DVD discs could not be ripped when selected from the "New Media Action" dialog.

18.0.95 (12/14/2012)

1. Changed: Updated Chinese language file.  Thanks kelijun.
2. NEW: You can in-place edit under the mouse cursor by doing a right-click while holding the left mouse button down (or by pressing the keyboard menu key while holding the left mouse button down).
3. Faster: The core string hash function (used to build library views, run searches, etc.) uses SSE 4.1 when possible and is around 3x faster.
4. Faster: Core library data engine is faster when dealing with fields where only some files have a value for the field (makes searches, view switches, etc. faster).
5. Fixed: Launcher commands like MC18.exe /Mode Theater were not working properly if Media Center as not running.
6. Changed: Updated libav for video encoding.
7. Fixed: bug that could cause trouble with some video transcodings.
8. New: Added mpeg2 1080p transcoding option for DLNA.

18.0.94 (12/11/2012)

1. Faster: When clicking the search box, the search suggestion box appears faster.
2. Fixed: Dates way in the future (like 50,000 AD) could cause performance problems.
3. Changed: Tuned the aspect ratio handling for movies and TV shows.
4. Changed: Made thumbnail aspect ratio standardization optional (Options > Tree & View > Thumbnails > Standardize aspect ratios).
5. Changed: MC will show an information message box when it can not play a television channel due to lack of available tuner.
6. Changed: Updated to madVR v0.85.3 when using Red October HQ.
7. Fixed: Remove Tags did not work for AIFF files.
8. Changed: Merged the blank thumbnail images for video and television.  Added [MC]\Data\Default Art\NoThumbVideo2x3.png that's used for movies and TV series.

18.0.93 (12/11/2012)

1. Fixed: Maximizing and restoring the main window could cause it to get confused about its own visibility, leading to problems with in-place editing (and possibly other things).
2. Fixed: If something were to hide the main window while the Tag Action Windows is editing, it could lead to a crash.
3. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
4. Fixed: Searching in Options and then clicking 'OK' after making a change could lead to a crash.
5. Changed: ZoneSwitch was only engaging for files in the main library (so not when dragging and dropping from Explorer, etc.)
6. Changed: ZoneSwitch rules that don't specify zones to stop will always be evaluated, regardless of the current zone (rules that specify play and stop zones only engage when the current zone is in the play + stop zone set).
7. Changed: Updated LAV filters to .54.1
8. Changed: Updated madVR to v0.85.2 when using Red October HQ.
9. NEW: Added 'Reverse polarity' filter to Parametric Filter.
10. Fixed: Line breaking rules for text layout could put a trailing parenthesis on its own line (which didn't look right).
11. Fixed: Aspect ratio enforcement for movies and TV series thumbnails was not working nicely with the small icons (Alexicons) in a list.
12. Changed: When using madVR (i.e. Red October HQ), madVR's custom interface is used for video color control.
13. Fixed: Right-clicking on Action Window > Tag > Playlists would show two menus.
14. Fixed: Cleaned up the right-click menu for Action Window > Tag > Playlists so that it only shows items that make sense there (instead of showing all the items the regular tree shows).
15. Changed: When hardware acceleration option is on, television playback prefers DXVA over QuickSync.
16. Fixed: A few problems when ripping multiple movie discs - canceling didn't work, movie name didn't update in the action window, disc wouldn't eject after ripping.

18.0.92 (12/10/2012)

1. Fixed: Loudness was not working properly for video playback with some output formats.
2. Fixed: The automation SDK was not supporting name-based function lookups properly in IDispatch::GetIDsOfNames.
3. Fixed: OGG channel mapping for 5, 6, and 8 channel files was not correct.
4. Changed: More improvements to Arabic text rendering.
5. Changed: Updated all translation files to include the latest strings from the source code.
6. Fixed: Track Info visualizations would not always switch their image when switching tracks (may have only applied when using the Chromium engine).
7. Changed: When deleting files not included in a sync, the program will only delete files that are at the location it would have placed the file (the previous safety check tried to look at the base path, but didn't work well with complex base path rules that included expression functions).
8. Changed: TV Recordings list in Television Standard view no longer includes TV shows that are not recordings done inside MC.
9. Fixed: There could be a drawing artifact above the quick find toolbar.
10. Changed: TV series images use the same 2:3 aspect ratio enforcement scheme that movies use.

18.0.91 (12/7/2012)

1. NEW: Improved support for Arabic joining and bidi text layout in the font engine.
2. Fixed: Several issues with the COM automation system (only applies to builds after 78).
3. Faster: Drawing in the image editor uses bilinear stretching instead of supersampling to improve performance.
4. Faster: Improved the image editor rendering pipeline when building previews of tool effects.
5. Faster: The image editor 'Crop' tool preview drawing uses a custom SSE routine to darken portions of the image (must faster than a more general purpose method it was using previously).
6. Changed: TV guide entries more than 5 days in advance show the month abbreviated instead of the full name.
7. Changed: Made the Theater View keyboard narrower so that on a 1080p display using default sizing, there's about the same number of rows and columns on the keyboard (makes typing with arrows faster).
8. Changed: Moved the 'Clear' function for Theater View keyboard typing to a key after 'Backspace' instead of putting 'Clear Search' (or similar) on the top roller.
9. NEW: Theater View search supports texting-style typing using the number pad on a remote (1 is backspace, 0 is space, other numbers are letters).
10. NEW: 'Loudness' that applies (roughly) the ISO 226:2003 loudness correction curve as you turn down the volume to provide a more natural volume (requires using Internal Volume, reference level of Internal Volume defines the baseline, no correction is applied at volumes above baseline).

18.0.90 (12/5/2012)

1. NEW: Multiple movie discs (Blu-ray, DVD) can be ripped at once.
2. Fixed: Customizing some burn settings like the between tracks mode would not work properly.
3. Changed: Parametric Equalizer only exposes channels above the standard 8 if DSP Studio > Output Format > Channels is configured to use more (also allows accessing up to 32 channels with Parametric Equalizer when using that many channels).
4. Fixed: When making a change in a Parametric Equalizer filter and then immediately switching to a different filter or DSP, the changes could be lost.
5. Changed: With the low and high shelf filters in Parametric Equalizer, the bandwidth setting alters the slope (previously it was ignored).

18.0.89 (12/5/2012)

1. Fixed: A few command line issues.

18.0.88 (12/4/2012)

1. NEW: ZoneSwitch feature that can route playback to zones based on rules (Menu > Player > Zones > ZoneSwitch...).
2. Fixed: Shell extensions were not working due to command line changes in build 85.
3. Fixed: The Auto-Import dialog could crash in some cases.
4. Changed: When using the automatic EPG download option, genre will be filled.
5. Fixed: Facebook upload was not working properly.
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Re: Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2012, 09:08:30 am »

We're planning to send a newsletter today.

We had hoped to use build 97, but an AVG false alarm caused trouble for us.

So we're trying to see if we can get an updated build working well.  If not, we'll mail on build 97.

Extra testing of this build appreciated.
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Re: Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2012, 11:42:05 am »

Please, two little translation corrections: (German)

1. Theater View:
TV Show->Season<->Jahreszeit (Jahreszeiten) (That would be one of our 4 Seasons in German->Summer,Winter,etc..)

Correct Translation:   Staffel     (Staffeln) or don't translate it at all.We also say Season,too.

2.This one is bad.This could confuse new German MC Users.
Audio (Music) Options:
Bitstream->Datenstrom (That's complete nonsense in connection with audio bitstreaming.)

Correct Translation: We also say bitstream in connection with audio.Don't translate this one.
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Re: Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2012, 07:46:25 pm »

For me building thumbnails of videos is broken on this version, both main installation and portable, reverted back to .94 & all is working..
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Re: Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2012, 07:57:39 pm »

For me building thumbnails of videos is broken on this version, both main installation and portable, reverted back to .94 & all is working..

Confirmed.  It's probably this:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76576.0

We may try to sneak out another build tomorrow with a fix.
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Re: Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2012, 08:08:21 pm »

Thanks Matt, that's dedication working the weekends  :)

Edit: Oops didn't realize the time difference tomorrow is the weekend for me, but may not be 4 you just yet lol
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Re: Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2012, 06:35:32 am »

For me create ringtones is now crashing.   

When I change the directory and filename...before I press OK to start converting to MP3
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Re: Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2012, 07:09:13 am »

The display is broken when ripping multiple disks. For each additional disk past the first one a new "Audio Rip" line is created in the area where the action windows is.
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Re: Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2012, 09:05:37 am »

For me create ringtones is now crashing.   

When I change the directory and filename...before I press OK to start converting to MP3

We don't seem to be able to reproduce this.

Is it only if you pick a certain path?  What if you type a path instead of using the 'Browse' button?  Or what if you leave the default path and just click 'OK'?
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Re: Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2012, 09:47:09 am »

1. The plural form is not possible seasons, there is a string of seasons = seasons already.
It's meant definitely not the time of Year, Season is only for TV and Video available and not for Images and Music.
PS. Die Jahreszeit wird "Saison" geschrieben ist also ein ganz anders Wort "http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saison


2. I have already changed this in the latest version, (for Build 101 or greater) it was not translated from me.

Please, two little translation corrections: (German)

1. Theater View:
TV Show->Season<->Jahreszeit (Jahreszeiten) (That would be one of our 4 Seasons in German->Summer,Winter,etc..)
Correct Translation:   Staffel     (Staffeln) or don't translate it at all.We also say Season,too.

2.This one is bad.This could confuse new German MC Users.
Audio (Music) Options:
Bitstream->Datenstrom (That's complete nonsense in connection with audio bitstreaming.)

Correct Translation: We also say bitstream in connection with audio.Don't translate this one.

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Re: Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2012, 10:20:55 am »

Two bugs found:

1. ALAC transcoding from FLAC:
- 16/44 2-channel host: works great, almost the same filesize
- 24/96 5.1: works great, almost the same filesize
- 24/88 5.1: almost exactly doubles the size of the output file, yet still shows up as 24/88/5.1.

2. On my HTPC, MC18 immediately starts flickering my display every second or two (Win7, HDMI, nVidia graphics).  On my laptop this doesn't happen.  If I minimize MC18 it still flickers; I need to shut down the process to stop the screen from flickering.  Tried disabling features to keep screen alive when playing audio, video sync, etc. with no change.  Will try updating graphics drivers.
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Re: Media Center 18.0.100 -- Available Here
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2012, 01:00:01 pm »

2. On my HTPC, MC18 immediately starts flickering my display every second or two (Win7, HDMI, nVidia graphics).  On my laptop this doesn't happen.  If I minimize MC18 it still flickers; I need to shut down the process to stop the screen from flickering.  Tried disabling features to keep screen alive when playing audio, video sync, etc. with no change.  Will try updating graphics drivers.
Please start a thread on that.  I don't think it's an MC issue.  We used to see something like that when one of the DirectShow filters was updating its notification icon.
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