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[JimH]

This is the latest version of MC19.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download: http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v19/latest/MediaCenter190117.exe

Please use the Problems and Questions thread if you need help.

19.0.117 (2/14/2014)

1. Fixed: The Display Settings changer didn't properly set 24 or 60 Hz resolutions on Windows 8 or 8.1, always resulting in 23 or 59 Hz instead.
2. Changed: The Custom Display Settings changer configuration lists the available modes in a hierarchical fashion instead of a long list, for easier access.
3. Fixed: In television Guide in Theater view, moving down the guide grid from the last row would wrap over to the second row instead of the first row.
4. Fixed: Punctuation or Numbers could draw in the wrong position in Right-to-Left scripts like Hebrew or Arabic.
5. Changed: Updated Chinese language files (thanks kelijun).
6. Changed: When scheduling television recordings, the conflict warning message will include name, channel, and start time of the conflicting programs.
7. Fixed: Interface Plug-ins were broken in 19.0.116 and could cause MC to crash.

19.0.116 (2/12/2014)

1. NEW: MC supports importing videos with XBMC metadata contained in .nfo files.
2. Changed: Video playback option "Enable Automatic Display Settings changing" is changed to a drop list of three selectable modes: Off, On, and Custom.  Custom corresponds to the old "checkbox checked" mode, On is a new automatic mode.
3. Changed: Added a "sorting mode" combo box on television channel-to-xmltv match window, to make it easier to do manual match.
4. Changed: Disabled DXVA2 Native Hardware Acceleration in Red October HQ due to stability issues (affects mostly AMD users).
5. Changed: Media subtype of television recordings will be set to "Movie" or "TV Show" according to the info available in guide data.
6. Fixed: The MCWS/v1/File/SetInfo function did not properly handle double quotes in string values when using the List=CSV mode.
7. Changed: Pressing the "i" button on an MC remote control while a television channel is showing will cause the OSD to cycle through three modes: position bar, current/next program title, and program description (provided that the OSD menu is not showing at the time).

19.0.115 (2/6/2014)

1. Changed: Revised how DirectShow handles Stop/Play to increase stability when skipping to the next file.
2. Changed: The Subtitles -> Browse... option is always available, not only when subtitles are already present.
3. Changed: DLNA Mimetypes for dff,dsf,sacd for compatibility with Oppo (and others hopefully).
4. Fixed: SACD ISOs were always detected with external changes and their metadata re-imported during auto-import, overwriting any changes in the library.
5. NEW: Added support for Hauppauge HD PVR 2 for video capture.

19.0.114 (2/3/2014)

1. Fixed: HLS segments could incorrectly start on a non-key frame, causing playback breakups on some devices.
2. Fixed: Seeking in a HLS stream could result in playing from a wrong position.
3. NEW: Added new TVInfo() expressions IsTVChannel and ChannelProgramNow.

19.0.113 (1/31/2014)

1. NEW: Support for streaming video to Gizmo using HTTP Live Streaming.
2. Changed: GoPro Cineform decoder added to Custom video mode whitelist.
3. Fixed: Scanning for STB television channels did not work because the analog device channels list was not properly populated.
4. Fixed: When recording ATSC television shows in TS format data for multiple channels in the same transport could be erroneously saved, resulting in multiple videos in the same file, which sometimes could confuse video players.

19.0.112
Testing build not released to the public.

19.0.111 (1/29/2014)

1. Fixed: When playing a video file, pressing down arrow did not show Playing Now OSD.
2. Changed: XML-based Office documents are imported as Data Files, in addition to the "classic" Office documents.
3. Fixed: Added list member null checking to file stacks code.  MC was crashing on running stack error checking.
4. NEW: In television playback, while OSD is showing program names under "Programs", pressing the "info" (or "i") button on the  remote causes MC to display the description of the current program.
5. Fixed: MC could crash when using Hardware Accelerated video decoding with Red October HQ on some systems.

19.0.110 (1/25/2014)

1. Changed: When recording a television show in TS format, MC will use buffering to reduce the number of IO hits.  This should fix the video quality issue in television shows recorded in TS format.
2. Fixed: Subtitles were always shown in the last few builds, even if configured not to.
3. Fixed: Subtitle stream names in the Theater View OSD were not always properly shortened.

19.0.109 (1/23/2014)

1. Fixed: Playback of AIFF files with unknown 'chunk' types over library server would fail to play.
2. Changed: The television channels lists in "Group Channels" and "Edit Channel List" tools can now be sorted by clicking the Channels list header.
3. Changed: Updated Chinese language files (thanks kelijun).
4. Changed: MC will try to determine the television tuner type (ATSC, DVB-T/S/C) by scanning the device name for keywords if the user has not configured the type.  This will not work for all devices.
5. Fixed: Transcoding Video to specific dimensions could crash.
6. Fixed: H264 Video Transcoding profiles could exceed their intended bitrate targets.

19.0.108 (1/17/2014)

1. Fixed: Potential crashes in BufferingInternetReader. Seen on Mac when playing high-def files with memory playback on Library Server clients.
2. NEW: Option to add channel number in front of channel name when scanning for television channels.  The default is to add.  This only affects DVB channels as most other types of channels already add a number in the name (now it is optional for all channel types).
3. Changed: DXVA2 Hardware Accelerated video decoding is used in RO HQ when no other acceleration options are available (on AMD graphics cards and older Intel graphics chips).
4. Fixed: Loading images for Theater View Media Slideshow from Google was broken since October, due to a change in Google's website.
5. NEW: Television channels in standard view can be sorted.  Click the channel list header repeatedly to sort by different parameters (by Name as is, by Name disregarding the number in front, by Channel Number, by channel type).

19.0.107 (1/15/2014)

1. Fixed: MP4 files would hang when played on a Library Server Client without direct file access.
2. Fixed: MC behaved badly when user dismissed the popup window that told the user that MC was currently recording a different television channel than what the user wanted to watch.
3. Changed: Red October updated to LAV Filters 0.60.1 (primarily fixes for playback issues of a few Blu-ray discs, and decoding improvements for DTS audio)
4. Fixed: Seeking in videos streamed from a library server with video conversion active did not work.
5. Fixed: Album Cover Art was mistakenly only applied to the first file of an album in the last couple builds.

19.0.106
Testing build not released to the public.

19.0.105
Testing build not released to the public.

19.0.104 (1/9/2014)

1. Changed: "Favorite Channels" and "Hidden Channels" attributes can be set on "Edit Channel List..." window, where you can select multiple television channels and then click buttons to set them all at once.
2. Changed: "Delete All Channels" button on "Edit Channel List..." window is removed as it is not needed.
3. NEW: Customize text alignment for columns in Standard View file lists by right-clicking on the column header.
4. Changed: The "Mark as (not) Played" library tools are only shown when they are useful (ie. Mark as Played only on files not played before, and vice versa).
5. Changed: Updated Chinese language files (thanks kelijun).
6. Fixed: "Hidden channels" and "Favorite channels" drop lists were not updated after scanning television channels, or after running "Group channels" tool.
7. Changed: Updated the FFmpeg version used for transcoding.
8. NEW: Option to populate "Channel Number" field when scanning for television channels, if such number can be found or constructed.
9. Changed: MC will not treat different audio streams on the same DVB service as separate channels when scanning for channels, and will ignore any service without a name (instead of using "(null)" as name).
10. NEW: On scanning for DVB television channels, MC will add a "DVB-T2/S2/C2" flag to indicate that a channel is or is not a T2/S2/C2 channel.  On tuner device configuration, a checkbox is added to indicate whether a tuner is capable of tuning to T2/S2/C2 channels.
11. Changed: Standard television view will list guide data for 24 hours per page, instead of 18 hours.
12. Fixed: Television channel scanning wizard did not show all option controls for scanning STB channels because the wizard window was too small.
13. Changed: Minor changes on "Edit Channel List" dialog window.

19.0.103 (1/6/2014)

1. Changed: In television options, "Edit Channel List" window includes non-anchor group members in the channel list, so they can be edited.
2. Changed: TV Series in the "Get Cover Art" dialog are sorted by Series and Season.
3. Changed: Expression columns with DataType=[Number] are drawn right aligned.
4. Changed: Only stock decimal fields render with a fixed number of decimal places.
5. NEW: "Mark as Played" and "Mark as not Played" library tools to quickly set or clear the played status of a file.
6. Fixed: Cover Art download could crash in some cases (ie. after a CD Rip).
7. Fixed: Subscription recording of consecutively aired television show episodes would end up in one big recording instead of separate recordings.
8. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).

19.0.102 (1/2/2014)

1. NEW: TV season cover art is downloaded from TheTVDB.com.
2. Fixed: Handle leak in network functionality.
3. Changed: Numeric database fields are drawn right-aligned in Standard View.
4. Changed: Decimal database fields always show a fixed number of decimal places.
5. Fixed: Suggested choices in the dropdown when editing a decimal field are properly grouped, and don't show duplicate entries anymore.
6. Fixed: Downloaded Performer Store subscription tracks would sporadically show a licensing error (103).

[larss]

Hi
When updating to new version
 
Install Wizard could not copy necessary files to destination folder.

The reason is that a file in the JRiver folder is named JRTools.dll and need to be renamed to JRTools.dll'

After I renamed the file the update works and files can be copied.

This procedure need to be performed at each update.

BR

[JimH]

Hi
When updating to new version
 
Install Wizard could not copy necessary files to destination folder.

The reason is that a file in the JRiver folder is named JRTools.dll and need to be renamed to JRTools.dll'

After I renamed the file the update works and files can be copied.

This procedure need to be performed at each update.

BR

Something is using that file.  Disable/uninstall any third party software.  I'll move this to a new thread.  A similar problem (and solution) can be found near the end of the Weird Problems thread, linked in my signature.

[Gatherum]

The Title and Status fields in the Customise Display window do not accept certain booleans, such as '|' and '&'. I have the following expression written:

Code: [Select]

IfElse(IsEqual([Media Type],Audio),[Collaborator] - "[Name]"Delimit([Track Version],/),/ ()/ ([Album]If(IsEqual([Version],Standard Edition,),,/, [Version])/),IsEqual([Media Type],Video),If(!IsEmpty([Series],0),[Series],[Franchise])If(Math(IsEqual([Media Sub Type],Movie)|IsEqual([Media Sub Type],Short)&IsEmpty([Series],0)),,Delimit([Episode],/: ,/ - Episode/ )[Name]))
However, whenever this is saved, it cuts off and ends up looking like this:

Code: [Select]

IfElse(IsEqual([Media Type],Audio),[Collaborator] - "[Name]"Delimit([Track Version],/),/ ()/ ([Album]If(IsEqual([Version],Standard Edition,),,/, [Version])/),IsEqual([Media Type],Video),If(!IsEmpty([Series],0),[Series],[Franchise])If(Math(IsEqual([Media Sub Type],Movie)
This, of course, produces an expression error.

[Hendrik]

The Title and Status fields in the Customise Display window do not accept certain booleans, such as '|' and '&'.

In the next build:
Fixed: Using a "|" character in an expression in the "Customize Display" dialog in Standard View caused the expression to be cut-off.

[gappie]

mc crashes when im in Theater View, choose a movie which has a bookmark, and choose play from the beginning. it does not happen when i choose resume, and it also does not happen when i playback from standard view. im using ro standard and no video clock or hardware acceleration.

 
gab

[JimH]

mc crashes when im in Theater View, choose a movie which has a bookmark, and choose play from the beginning. it does not happen when i choose resume, and it also does not happen when i playback from standard view. im using ro standard and no video clock or hardware acceleration.

 
gab

Could you try a couple of other skins?

[gappie]

Could you try a couple of other skins?

well that is an idea i switched to obsidian, and that did not help, then i switched to noire (the theater view skin), and it did not crash... but i also did something else also when i used noire, i first choose resume, stopped and then tried start from the beginning. and that took the crash away.. i remembered i saw that before. actually for every movie, but when the crash starts it will do it on every movie with a bookmark.. and im not sure what trickers that.. switching zones while something is playing?.. i will invest a bit more.

[Hendrik]

Split refresh rate discussion here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=87580.0

[IcetomLT]

One more little request-ask. I use AMD HD7770 for movie soundtrack bitstreaming to AV reciever through JRiver Wasapi sound output. If I move with mouse to check what it is beatstreaming it always write that it is only 2 channels. Can this little error be fixed as JRiver properly bitstreams sound, just information is not 100% correct?

For example, in bellow link is screen capture with bitstreaming of 5.1 AC3 soundtrack-> it shows that it is only 2 channels:
http://pics.lt/image.php?di=EWZP

[mhwlng]

MCWS Cover art problem

there is a strange timing issue,

If I call this Browse/Image URL

http://xx/MCWS/v1/Browse/Image?ID=1081&Width=680&Height=1000&Token=PW5J4NTI

I sometimes get high quality artwork and sometimes upscaled low quality artwork

Here, the image on the left is ok and the image on the right is wrong :



After performing another request, now the image on the right is ok and the image on the left is wrong :




Note that MCWS/v1/File/GetImage?File=yyy&Type=Full  always returns the high quality artwork.
Unfortunately, that function can't be used for tv show posters...

[JimH]

In the next build:
Fixed: Using a "|" character in an expression in the "Customize Display" dialog in Standard View caused the expression to be cut-off.

Fixed in 19.0.118:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=87613.0