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[Matt]

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.

Download: http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v18/latest/MediaCenter180063.exe

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

18.0.63 (10/25/2012)

1. NEW: Added DSD encoder with support for 1x and 2x DSD stored in a DSF file (encoding uses 64-bit data path, JRiver's audiophile-grade upsampler, and 7th order noise shaping + dither).
2. NEW: Added the ASIO option 'Play silence on pause (instead of performing a hardware level pause)' to workaround devices that don't nicely pause or resume.
3. Fixed: Lyrics was truncated to 255 bytes when tagging mp4/m4a files.

18.0.62 (10/25/2012)

1. NEW: Added the ability to output 32-bit integer (configure with DSP Studio > Output Format > Bitdepth).

18.0.61 (10/24/2012)

1. Changed: Updated simplified Chinese language file (thanks kelijun).
2. Changed: Sometimes a channel identifier could change in the automatic EPG loading system and cause the channel to no longer load guide data.
3. Changed: Changed jump behavior when starting a television channel that is currently being recorded.  If user starts from the channels list, playback jumps to live time.  If user starts a program in Guide, or the jtv file that is currently recording, playback starts at the program start time or bookmark (if exists).
4. Fixed: Pressing escape to close a dialog could crash in some cases.
5. Changed: When an edit control on a dialog has the focus and is being edited, the escape key will stop editing and a second click of escape will close the dialog.
6. Fixed: The print preview dialog was not showing the preview.
7. Changed: Television jtv source filter notifies downstream decoder filters about format change on channel switching, even if it did not detect any audio or video format changes.
8. Changed: Updated to madVR v0.84.3 when using Red October HQ.
9. Changed: Updated [LAV filters to .52.
10. Fixed: If the rip action window was closed by clicking the 'x' rather than the 'Close' button, the secure rip log would not be shown.
11. Changed: Simplified conversion cache settings in Options / File Locations.
12. Changed: Turned on one extra log entry in television time-shifting writer filter.
13. NEW: SACD ISO playback uses gapless mode instead of exactly honoring the track offsets in the disc table of contents (which might not be perfectly gapless).
14. Changed: When editing an auto-import folder, it's possible to change the path (so you no longer have to remove all rules and add them again to switch drives).
15. Changed: Added new media sub-types: Music, Ringtone, Educational, Stock, System, Photo, Book.
16. Fixed: Left / right arrow navigation to flip between panes was not working.
17. Fixed: Drag-n-drop was not showing a nice drag image when dragging from a list.
18. SDK: Added MCWS/v1/Playback/EditPlaylist function for moving or removing tracks from the current playlist.

18.0.60 (10/16/2012)

1. Changed: Updated simplified Chinese language file (thanks kelijun).
2. Fixed: Blu-ray title menu would not show up again after switching titles.
3. Fixed: Font for text-based subtitles would not change to the one selected in options.
4. Fixed: Changes to "Option Tools / Options / Audio / Settings / Disable display from turning off" would not "stick".

18.0.59 (10/12/2012)

1. SDK: Added MCWS/v1/Playback/Repeat function to get or set the repeat state of the program.
2. SDK: Added MCWS/v1/Playback/Shuffle function to get or set the shuffle state of the program.
3. Fixed: DSF files that zeroed part of the last channel cluster could cause an audible pop between tracks.
4. Fixed: Stretch mode and aspect ratio overrides were not working properly with EVR.
5. Fixed: Truncation tooltips were not showing for multi-line values in lists.
6. Fixed: DLNA GetMute needed caching. Was getting called too often.
7. Fixed: The expression FixSpacing(...) better handles quotes, parenthesis, etc.

18.0.58 (10/11/2012)

1. NEW: Added support for OGG files that have more than two channels.
2. Fixed: Linking to a Netflix account could crash after the link was established.
3. Fixed: Theater View's File Info customization dialog could leave orphaned labels showing when switching between fields.
4. Fixed: Customizing the subtitle font in Options > Video was not working properly.
5. Fixed: Multi-line text that got truncated would not draw an ellipsis at the end (like in the Tag Action Window, etc.).
6. Faster: More speed improvements to the television recording / subscription algorithm that runs in the background to evaluate what programs to record.
7. Changed: Television engine detects whether time-shifting has successfully started more reliably.

18.0.57 (10/9/2012)

1. Changed: Updated code signing certificate (please report if UAC warnings show an unverified publisher, etc.).
2. NEW: When registering for an access key or testing an access key, the program will offer to configure the Windows firewall to allow Media Center through (requires UAC prompt).
3. Fixed: User could not manually create a QAM channel.
4. Changed: Switched 'JRiver' to 'JRiver' in the EULA.
5. Changed: Video shifting is limited so that at least a small percentage of the video will remain visible.
6. Fixed: In rare cases, the program could start video playback with a black screen and the video shifted far off the screen.
7. Faster: The television recording / subscription algorithm that runs in the background to evaluate what programs to record is several times faster.

18.0.56

Internal testing build.

18.0.55 (10/4/2012)

1. Fixed: Some DVB-C channel parameters were not parsed during channel scanning.
2. NEW: DLNA: If supported by the renderer, use renderer muting functions.
3. NEW: Added BD quality mp4ts encoding profile. Works great to the PS3. Needs a lot of CPU for realtime rendering.

18.0.54 (10/3/2012)

1. Fixed: Converting audio to ALAC could cause a crash in the last build.
2. Changed: DLNA: SSDP conformance, will allow other devices to better detect MC's server state change upon startup and close.
3. Fixed: Cleanups in http server code.
4. Fixed: Converting multiple audio files at one time could fail.
5. Fixed: Closing the program or loading a new library while converting was not messaging nicely.
6. Fixed: Modulation type drop-down list did not include all choices for DVB-C and possibly for QAM television channel editing/adding tool.
7. Changed: Updated MP3 encoder to LAME 3.99.5.
8. Fixed: If Internal volume was used, then the volume mode switched, in some cases the internal volume could be incorrectly applied during that run of the program.
9. Fixed: Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab was not always switching between tabs.
10. Changed: When the mouse-over view header menu shows, it will activate the view if it's not the active split view.
11. Fixed: When customizing the top and bottom toolbars, the window would not immediately update to show the changes.
12. Fixed: Up / down drop-list navigation was not working while in-place editing.

18.0.53 (10/1/2012)

1. Fixed: Fonts that were not TrueType, like those used by Sleep Timer, could cause a crash.
2. Fixed: In-place editing in a list like DSP Studio > Output Formats would not work properly when clicking away from a drop list.
3. Fixed: Some low sample rate AAC files that didn't explicitly specify SBR would not play properly.
4. Faster: Improved the performance when bitstreaming DSD.
5. Fixed: When bitstreaming DSD using ASIO, the end of a track could stutter.
6. Fixed: DLNA: updateID wasn't eventing properly. This could have prevented dynamic content updates on devices that relied upon eventing for this (instead of polling).
7. Fixed: MC could crash when sending a file to a DLNA zone that vanished during the send.

18.0.52 (9/28/2012)

1. Changed: The border around search suggestions / Play Doctor suggestions is one pixel wide instead of two pixels wide.
2. Fixed: Minimizing the program while playing, then restoring, would cause stale values to be displayed for a little bit in the player bar.
3. Changed: Text outline and drop-shadow is supported on CPU's without SSE 4.1 (by using an MMX assembly fallback).
4. Fixed: Opening 'Visualization Studio' could crash.
5. Fixed: Theater View backgrounds could switch images a couple times when entering a view (probably visually not noticeable, but was a waste of resources).
6. Changed: Updated Simplified Chinese language file (thanks kelijun).

[drhyoung]

I am running MC17 and MC18 on Windows 8 x64, with dual AMD GPU's.

I use AnyDVD to copy my DVDs to hard disk.
I have used Windows 8 Storage Spaces to create a single mirrored volume comprising 2x2 hard disks.
ArcSoft TMT5 plays BluRay and DVD movies from the mirrored volume fine.
MC17 and MC18 play BluRay movies from the mirrored volume fine, but not DVD movies (ie VOB files).
MC18 playing a DVD movie results in it just freezing as it attempts to start the movie (a black screen). The only solution is to kill MC18. (Same happens with MC17.)

If I put a DVD movie on to a non-mirrored disk on my Windows 8 PC, MC17 and MC18 play the movie with no problems.

I have rolled back to the RTM version of Windows 8, MC 17 verion 184 and the earliest reliable AMD/Catalyst driver set, but no improvement.

[sail121j]

I have just loaded windows 8 and have tried to add my license and get an unknown error from MC 18.  I reloaded MC18.0.63 and still get the same error.  Anyone else having problems with the Windows 8 release?

[sail121j]

UPDATE: I got my license to work using the .mjr file.  Putting in the registration code did not - I got the unknown error.

[GuidoW]

As reported in the 18.0.59 thread.
The multi channel OGG implementation is unusable.
center and left are exchanged
sub and rear right are exchanged

if you reverse these two then the issue is fixed.

And it is a playback only issue, the encoder seems to produce correct output.

please fix it, it really is important to me.

Thanks a lot!
 

[Domi]

Hi,
since the first public beta available here of MC18 I've noticed a little bug in Theater View full screen with my mini Keyboard Logitech DiNovo mini.

Pause, Stop, Previous, Next keys don't work until I make appear the player at the top of the screen once. After that, these keys are working fine.

This little bug doesn't appear on MC17.

[psam]

This problem persists, and makes MC18 unusable for me.

I have all files on a Synology NAS. They play fine from the HTPC acting as a Media Center Server, but only the first track plays from the client. The client skips the rest of the tracks , every 2 -3 seconds.

[AoXoMoXoA]

Netflix will not show my Queue in Theater View, matter of fact it shows "No Items To Display" under every heading . . . but it works fine in Standard View or in my browser.

Yes, I have the correct login info in the Theater View Options.

[vulture_g7]

I'm not sure if it's intentional, but when you change the font size not all font elements are resized. More importantly the text in tabs and the Alphabet are still at the old/default size. I think that at least those two elements should be resizable.

[mramsden]

I finally got around to starting version 18, after installing Windows 8 pro on my machine. Although the upgrade advisor said media center 17 was compatible, after upgrading it said it needed to be reinstalled, so I figured I'd delete 17 and move up.

I set up 18, (licensed, a bit of a trial initially) and set it up using Wasapi mode for output audio. I'm running the sound via USB to a W4S DAC2.

It seemed to run fine, but then stopped playing, became unresponsive, and seemed stuck in memory. Even though the windows dialog pop up came up saying it was not responding, and I clicked <close>, it was still in memory: I couldn't close it with Task Manager, and something like 35 MB was resident in memory. I tried re-running it, and got a message saying it was already running ..

It started running again after retrying, and then Blue screened out of Windows, with a message saying it was doing a memory dump, and there were page faults ... didn't get a chance to write it down.  I did see something like W4s??.sys mentioned.

After restart it was cleared out of memory. Tried again and the same thing happened.  Tried opening it, not playing anything, and closing it: still stays in memory.

Finally changed output options to WASAPI Event style ... and it now runs fine.  Opens and closes, clears out of memory, seems back to normal.

So ... seems the WASAPI output is not behaving properly? I wondered about that reference to page faults, and possibly the w4s driver? The output is set to "SPDIF Interface (W4S) " which is how the device is specified, even though it is USB out.

Or is this what can happen with the wrong output mode?  .... I don't believe we should be seeing pagefaults crashing a system.

..Mike

[JimH]

A blue screen is a hardware or driver problem.  Please start a new thread if you need help.

[AoXoMoXoA]

I plugged in my Portable hard drive with my Lossless files on it and changed MC to my Lossless Library. I then ran an import, did some tagging, played some tunes, etc.
Afterwards I changed back to my Local Library, and removed the portable drive.

When I later plugged in my other Portable drive with my Lossy files on it and change MC to my Lossy Library, MC had altered the Import folder settings.


Rather than show the Import Folder settings I had set within the Lossy Library, MC was now showing the Import Folder settings that belonged with the Lossless Library instead.

I do not think I should not need to manually correct these or other settings each time I change Libraries.

[AoXoMoXoA]

SKIN MANAGER is still missing

[Sauzee]

Quite a few issues playing video on laptop (client machine) with MC serving library from main PC.

No external subs.

Can't play mp4 at all.

MC reporting incorrect duration for mkv.

Only tried 4 videos and all had problems, except for an avi file. MC 17 didn't have these issues.

[stewart_pk]

Using a mouse wheel on the volume slider does not constantly show the volume level.
You have to move the mouse cursor at least a little bit to see the new volume value.
Version 17 did not have this problem.

[Tolga]

18. SDK: Added MCWS/v1/Playback/EditPlaylist function for moving or removing tracks from the current playlist.

I have not played with it yet, but this is great for tango-djing add-on I am implementing. I also would like to have related functionalities for:
1) editing any playlists (with playlist id as input)
2) creating new playlists (with parent playlist id as input)

[doug.ca]

DLNA Time-based Seeking is not Working Consistently

Time-based seeking is not working consistently when streaming IFO/VOB DVDs using DLNA to a PS3 . Three of the four videos I tried gave an "Action not allowed" error. One worked fine. All DVDs were originally ripped to my workstation using AnyDVD and then reprocessed using DVD Shrink to remove all but the title track and main audio. The output from DVD Shrink was sent directly to the MC18 Video/DVD folder on my server.

[bob]

DLNA Time-based Seeking is not Working Consistently

Time-based seeking is not working consistently when streaming IFO/VOB DVDs using DLNA to a PS3 . Three of the four videos I tried gave an "Action not allowed" error. One worked fine. All DVDs were originally ripped to my workstation using AnyDVD and then reprocessed using DVD Shrink to remove all but the title track and main audio. The output from DVD Shrink was sent directly to the MC18 Video/DVD folder on my server.

Conversion needs to be on for time based seeks, I assume it is or you wouldn't see one of the rips working.
Can you check to see if there is a reasonable value in the duration field in the database for the ones that don't?
Thanks...

[doug.ca]

Conversion needs to be on for time based seeks, I assume it is or you wouldn't see one of the rips working.
Can you check to see if there is a reasonable value in the duration field in the database for the ones that don't?
Thanks...

I was going from memory before, but to be completely accurate, the error message I'm getting is "This operation is not available here."In all cases the Duration field seems accurate. I've shrunk a number of other movies this evening and they all work correctly. The three that don't work so far are: Captain America; Cowboys and Aliens; and, Thor. JOOI, I tried erasing and re-shrinking Capt America, but this has no effect - the problem remains.

[bob]

I was going from memory before, but to be completely accurate, the error message I'm getting is "This operation is not available here."In all cases the Duration field seems accurate. I've shrunk a number of other movies this evening and they all work correctly. The three that don't work so far are: Captain America; Cowboys and Aliens; and, Thor. JOOI, I tried erasing and re-shrinking Capt America, but this has no effect - the problem remains.

They show up in MC as ifo's ?
Where are you seeing the error message?

[doug.ca]

They show up in MC as ifo's ?
Where are you seeing the error message?

MC catalogues the movies as IFO files (it also adds the VOB files - probably because the auto-import sees them before the final IFO is created(?) -  but I delete them from the library). The error message is displayed on the PS3 when the Square button is pressed (or when the same function is accessed via the Triangle button option menu).

[bob]

MC catalogues the movies as IFO files (it also adds the VOB files - probably because the auto-import sees them before the final IFO is created(?) -  but I delete them from the library). The error message is displayed on the PS3 when the Square button is pressed (or when the same function is accessed via the Triangle button option menu).

Sounds like the aggregate reader is having trouble reading the vobs to transcode it. We may need to reproduce one of your rips here to test it. Thanks for the info.