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[Matt]

This is the latest version of MC20.  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/v20/latest/MediaCenter200070.exe

20.0.70 (2/12/2015)

1. Changed: Group Channels tool is merged into the Manage Channels tool and removed from Television property page.
2. Changed: In the Manage Channels tool, right clicking menu offers "Group Channels" and "Ungroup channels" that perform simple grouping or ungrouping of selected channels.  The "Group Channels" button offers the old grouping tool that allows more elaborate grouping operation.
3. Changed: Removed "Set up IR Emitter STB channels" tool from Television property pages as it is no longer needed.
4. NEW: The launcher (MC20.exe) takes a /MinMax command to toggle the minimized / maximized state of the program.
5. NEW: Added a /StartMax command to the launcher to start the program maximized (and show and maximize if it's already running).
5. Changed: Simplified Group Channels tool.
6. Changed: Added a "Change default channel type order for grouping" right-click menu item on Manage Channels tool for television channel grouping.
7. Fixed: CD ripping was always using secure mode regardless of user setting.
8. Fixed: Prior to any CD play or rip activity, the options dialog did not always show the installed CD drives.
9. Fixed: If CD ripping was started from the list header button, the initial ripping action window would still show after ripping was complete.

20.0.69 (2/11/2015)

1. Fixed: Starting playback with the play button from a grouped list control with nothing selected wasn't working.
2. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo!).
3. Changed: Made SRC only use the high precision mode for audio playback (because it was causing timing issues for video playback).
4. NEW: Made a toolbar button 'Toggle Tree' that toggles the visibility of the main tree.
5. Fixed: YouTube searching would be slow because we were unintentionally loading the dimensions of all the images.
6. Changed: Moved the buttons on Manage Channels dialog window to the right side to make more room for channels list.
7. Changed: More reshuffling of Television property page (still on-going).

20.0.68 (2/10/2015)

1. Fixed: Catching of YouTube links with the IE engine was not working.  Now it might play in the browser at the same time, so stop that manually if you do something else.
2. Changed: Updated Slovak translation (thanks Peter Lukac).
3. NEW: Added an option in Theater View -> Behavior to disable the Left-Edge jump to the top roller in Grid views.
4. Fixed: Transitioning from an image to a video in a playlist was not working properly.
5. Changed: On Manage Channels dialog window, a checkbox in the "Favorite" or "Hidden" column will toggle only if one clicks on or very near the checkbox, to prevent accidental toggling.
6. Fixed: The additional audio delay from the resampler changes in 20.0.67 was not being compensated properly.

20.0.67 (2/6/2015)

1. Changed: Updated to Monkey's Audio 4.13.
2. Fixed: [Playlist Remaining Time] wasn't zone specific properly.
3. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo!).
4. NEW: The image editor can save PNG files (just use a PNG extension on the save filename).
5. Changed: Made tagging in Theater View optional in Options > Theater View > Behavior.
6. Fixed: The previous / next buttons on a mixed list of images and videos would stall at the images.
7. NEW: Audio input selection during television setup for Set-top Box or Capture-only channels.
8. Changed: Switched the resampler to high precision mode (testing appreciated).
9. Changed: The Tag Action Window no longer shows a full page when editing a list style field but instead uses an inplace edit.

20.0.66 (2/4/2015)

1. Fixed: Doing a play on a grouped artist, etc. tile would expand the files in a fixed way instead of using the sorting of the bottom list.
2. Changed: The WDM driver is only installed on Vista and newer (was probably causing an install issue on XP).
3. Fixed: There was quite a long delay at the start of audio CD burning and the main thread could get stalled for a while.
4. Changed: The string sorter doesn't interpret a dash as a negative sign unless it's right after a space or it's the first character in the line (should fix mystery sort issues with dash delimited data).
5. Fixed: MC could not play ALAC files with very high sample rate.

20.0.65 (2/3/2015)

1. Fixed: Number sorting was broken in 20.0.64.
2. Fixed: The capture device field of a capture-only television channel was erroneously cleared after it was viewed in Manage Channels tool.
3. Fixed: The capture-only television channel could not be edited or added manually in the Manage Channels tool.
4. Fixed: When moving selected channels up or down, on the Manage Channels tool, the selected channels might not stay visible after clicking the Move up/down button, because the list refreshed scrolled to the top.
5. NEW: The TV channels list on Manage Channels tool has two additional columns - "Favorite" and "Hidden".  One can select multiple channels and use the right-click menu to mass-change these attributes.
6. Changed: The buttons "Favorite","Not Favorite", "Hide", and "Unhide" on Manage Channels tool are removed.
7. Fixed: On Manage Channels tool the channel details of Capture-only channels were not completely shown.
8. Fixed: MC incorrectly favored STB channel among a group of channels, even though the STB channel was not on top of the group.
9. Fixed: License authorization wouldn't take a license code.
10. Changed: Updated Italian translation (thanks Matteo!).
11. Fixed: When setting up DVB-S (or DVB-C) tuners, MC displayed checkbox text "The tuner is capable of tuning to DVB-T2" instead of "DVB-S2" or "DVB-C2".
12. Fixed: MC could crash when loading DSP presets on track change while the DSP Studio window was open.
13. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).
14. Fixed: Some M4A files wouldn't decode[ (we're now checking for an 'mdat' header as well as an 'ftyp' header to denote mp4).

20.0.64 (1/29/2015)

1. Fixed: A mixed playlist of images and videos will transition to the next video from the image when flicking.
2. Changed: "Antenna" and "Cable" televsion channel types are renamed "Analog Antenna" and "Analog Cable".
3. Fixed: Some explanation text on "Capture Hardware" page of the television Setup wizard could be truncated.
4. Fixed: Television recording manager accessed disk drives every minute if a user had not configured television recording yet.
5. Fixed: Possible crash when switching sample rates with convolution (only maybe fixed, so please report).
6. Fixed: YouTube video playback was not working.
7. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo!).
8. Changed: The automation call ProcessWebService(...) returns the response instead of just 0 or 1.
9. NEW: Added a new television channel type "Capture only" that can be setup using the Setup wizard.
10. Fixed: "Capture only" and "Camera" type channel setup using the television Setup wizard did not work.
11. Changed: The string sorter handles negative numbers in the special number handling code.
12. NEW: Added MCWS/v1/Files/Current to get the currently selected files.
13. Changed: DSP Studio shows a warning when a Q value greater than one is entered into a shelf filter (and switches back to 1).
14. Changed: On Television properties page, the Devices list is moved to Advanced section, and a new Tuner Profiles list is added in its place.
15. NEW: The text visualization component uses expressions instead of only simple defines.
16. Fixed: The search suggestion box no longer hides when hitting enter to evaluate the search now (remember that Shift+Enter selects the first suggestion).
17. Fixed: When reconfiguring/editing an existing television tuner profile, the guide provider info was not filled in correctly in the wizard.

20.0.63 (1/26/2015)

1. Changed: Switched [Playlist Time Remaining] to [Playlist Remaining Time] for the playing display area.
2. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo!).
3. Changed: Added a "Reconfigure" button on television Setup wizard.  Also added more instruction text.
4. Fixed: In the new Television Setup wizard, de-selecting a tuner from a particular profile did not take effect.
5. Fixed: Floppy drives were seeking continuously.

20.0.62 (1/23/2015)

1. NEW: In the player display, you can use [Playlist Time Remaining] to show the remaining time of the entire playlist.
2. Changed: [Number Plays] is incremented for videos more consistently (at 90% or within 5 minutes of the end, but never before 50%).
3. NEW: Added 'Clear Played From Playing Now' to the right-click in Playing Now.
4. Fixed: The spectrum analyzer area would keep redrawing even once playback had stopped.
5. NEW: A television setup wizard to help users set up televsion more smoothly.
6. Changed: Rearranged some items on Options > Television.
7. Changed: TheMovieDB lookup supports titles in the format "[Name] ([Year])".
8. Changed: Pressing Enter on a field in Theater View File Info will expand it when its cut-off, independent of it containing newlines.
9. Changed: Pressing Enter on an expanded Theater View File Info field will search for files that match this field.
10. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo!).
11. Changed: When both a Windows and a Master license are installed, Media Center now shows the installed license type as Master.

20.0.61 (1/22/2015)

1. Fixed: In registration info dialog, license was sometimes displayed as a "master" type license when it was a Windows only or Mac only type license.

20.0.60 (1/22/2015)

1. Fixed: Both buttons on Options > Remote Control linked to the same thing.

20.0.59 (1/21/2015)

1. Changed: The JRiver WDM Driver can be turned off in General -> Features.
2. Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
3. Changed: Added a 3dB cut to the Headphones effect so that increases from cross-feed won't lead to clipping.

20.0.58 (1/20/2015)

1. Changed: MC will ignore "WM/MediaOriginalBroadcastDateTime" or "WM/OriginalReleaseTime" tags that have values of "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" or "0" when importing wtv / dvr-ms files.
2. Changed: MC will import "WM/WMRVEncodeTime" tag into "Date Recorded" field in wtv / dvr-ms files.
3. Changed: Updated Chinese language files (thanks kelijun!).
4. NEW: Added a right-click 'Controls' section to Playing Now with Play, Pause, Stop, Next, Previous in it.
5. Changed: Switched 'Spinning up hard drive' to 'Spinning up drive' since it could have been a DVD drive, etc.
6. Changed: Switched Google account stuff from HTTP to HTTPS for syncing notes (please report any issues).
7. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo!).
8. Changed: Updated Korean translation (thanks Junghwan!).
9. Changed: Audio only mode remembers features that were disabled originally so turning it off won't restore a previously disabled feature.
10. Changed: Updated Thai translation (thanks Nitinun!).

[DocLotus]

4. NEW: The launcher (MC20.exe) takes a /MinMax command to toggle the minimized / maximized state of the program.
5. NEW: Added a /StartMax command to the launcher to start the program maximized (and show and maximize if it's already running).

"C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MC20.exe" /MinMax
works by itself and
"C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MC20.exe" /StartMax
works by itself.
Tried "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MC20.exe" /MinMax /StartMax
and various combinations but can't seem to find the one to combine them both.
How do I use both 4 & 5 in one command?

[DocLotus]

When I run
"C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MC20.exe" /MinMax
the on screen Visualization (Stereo) is lost & the any window that had the foreground shows up in its place. Also other Visualizations that still show up are frozen & are no longer moving.
"C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MC20.exe" /StartMax
seems to work correctly.

[elderavelas]

1. Fixed: Starting playback with the play button from a grouped list control with nothing selected wasn't working.

Thanks! 

[Trumpetguy]

3. Changed: Made SRC only use the high precision mode for audio playback (because it was causing timing issues for video playback).

Not that I noticed any problem in .68 either, and I a haven't tried .70 yet - but out of curiosity, if the audio track of a movie is (mono/stereo/mch) flac compressed PCM, will this be detected as a video playback? Or as an audio stream using that will trigger SRC HP mode with the potential of timing issues?
 
This would be the case for 98% of my ripped video contents, I always decode the audio and store into mkv as flac.

EDIT: I just tested a few bluray rips in MKVs with flac audio, and there is definitely a sync issue. There may be other reasons, but rolling back to .66 made me watch a whole movie with perfect sync, updating to .70 and sync is a bit off in that and other movies. A very non-scientific test, but nevertheless.

[Matt]

How do I use both 4 & 5 in one command?

You don't.  The launcher only takes one command at a time.

[6233638]

You don't.  The launcher only takes one command at a time.

Please take a look at this topic: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95521.msg658119#msg658119

[6233638]

20.0.66 (2/4/2015)
1. Fixed: Doing a play on a grouped artist, etc. tile would expand the files in a fixed way instead of using the sorting of the bottom list.

This doesn't seem to be working correctly:


Hitting play, as shown in the right pane, is adding the albums alphabetically, as shown in the left.

[weirdo12]

CD burning is still broken. I can go back to MC 19 and burn a CD but after 1 or 2 tracks using MC 20, a lead-out track is written and CD writing stops. The disc shows that it has all the tracks in Explorer. Actually the first 3 tracks work but they are 3 secs of music from track 1 and it repeats. Track 4+ just fail to play.

[JimH]

CD burning is still broken. I can go back to MC 19 and burn a CD but after 1 or 2 tracks using 20 a lead-out track is written and CD writing stops. The disc shows that it has all the tracks in Explorer. Actually the first 3 tracks work but they are 3 secs of music from track 1 and it repeats. Track 4+ just fail to play.

What version of Windows are you running?

[Frobozz]

The dropdown for the Keywords tag in the Tag Action Window extends past the bottom of the screen if you have a lot of keywords.

[JohnT]

CD burning is still broken. I can go back to MC 19 and burn a CD but after 1 or 2 tracks using MC 20, a lead-out track is written and CD writing stops. The disc shows that it has all the tracks in Explorer. Actually the first 3 tracks work but they are 3 secs of music from track 1 and it repeats. Track 4+ just fail to play.

Can you send us a log file following the failure?  logs at jriver dot com
Thanks.

[weirdo12]

What version of Windows are you running?

8.1 Pro - 6.3.9600

[lepa]

Changing videos playing has been started to cause a "Not Responding - have to kill process" for me. It started perhaps with version .068 or maybe .066 (pretty lately anyway).

If I stop the video myself first and then start a new one there is no problem but if I use next or start new video while old one is playing I'll get MC "not responding" from windows. I have tried to disable refresh rate changing but it didn't have effect on this.

Anyone else seeing this?

[lepa]

Changing videos playing has been started to cause a "Not Responding - have to kill process" for me. It started perhaps with version .068 or maybe .066 (pretty lately anyway).

If I stop the video myself first and then start a new one there is no problem but if I use next or start new video while old one is playing I'll get MC "not responding" from windows. I have tried to disable refresh rate changing but it didn't have effect on this.

Anyone else seeing this?

Just went back to .062 and problem disappears. Will try to install .070 again to see if it was only some sort of installation failure.

[lepa]

Just went back to .062 and problem disappears. Will try to install .070 again to see if it was only some sort of installation failure.

After installing .070 again videos hang again at the end of the video or if I start playing new video before stopping the currently playing one. Installed 0.062 again and it works fine...

[Matt]

Changing videos playing has been started to cause a "Not Responding - have to kill process" for me. It started perhaps with version .068 or maybe .066 (pretty lately anyway).

If I stop the video myself first and then start a new one there is no problem but if I use next or start new video while old one is playing I'll get MC "not responding" from windows. I have tried to disable refresh rate changing but it didn't have effect on this.

Anyone else seeing this?

This is really a mystery.

What happens if you play a single video in Standard View (switch out of Display View) and wait for it to finish?

Does it finish nicely?

[Yaobing]

Changing videos playing has been started to cause a "Not Responding - have to kill process" for me. It started perhaps with version .068 or maybe .066 (pretty lately anyway).

If I stop the video myself first and then start a new one there is no problem but if I use next or start new video while old one is playing I'll get MC "not responding" from windows. I have tried to disable refresh rate changing but it didn't have effect on this.

Anyone else seeing this?

I am not seeing this problem.  I selected a few video files and started playing.  Then I clicked Next button a few times.  Each time I clicked the next video started playing. 

Any hints on how to reproduce the hang?

[lepa]

This is really a mystery.

What happens if you play a single video in Standard View (switch out of Display View) and wait for it to finish?

Does it finish nicely?

Installed .070 again. Put one video to playing now, started it in Standard View, forwarded it almost to the end and left it playing to the end. Result: MC hangs at the end of the video

As I said if I install .062 on top of this everythig starts to work again.... This started for me in this machine couple of builds ago. On my laptop there is no such issue with .070. So something breaks with the video playback when I install newer build to this machine.

[Matt]

Installed .070 again. Put one video to playing now, started it in Standard View, forwarded it almost to the end and left it playing to the end. Result: MC hangs at the end of the video

As I said if I install .062 on top of this everythig starts to work again.... This started for me in this machine couple of builds ago. On my laptop there is no such issue with .070. So something breaks with the video playback when I install newer build to this machine.

If you disable any resampling in DSP Studio > Output Format, does that change anything?

[lepa]

If you disable any resampling in DSP Studio > Output Format, does that change anything?

Unfortunately it didn't help. I unchecked all the DSP effects and the result was the same. UI shows that there is one second left in the video but I guess it just hangs before UI is triggered to update the last second.

E: I have also tried to disable WDM driver and tried with graphics card (nvidia) sound through HDMI.

E2: This started already before .070. .066 seems to work fine.

E3: 068 worked also fine. Did try to install 070 once again and it hangs again.

[Yaobing]

Unfortunately it didn't help. I unchecked all the DSP effects and the result was the same. UI shows that there is one second left in the video but I guess it just hangs before UI is triggered to update the last second.

E: I have also tried to disable WDM driver and tried with graphics card (nvidia) sound through HDMI.

E2: This started already before .070. .066 seems to work fine.

E3: 068 worked also fine. Did try to install 070 once again and it hangs again.

So it happens with build 70.  And, if I read your posts correctly, it hangs in two cases:

When the next video starts and or when the current video ends naturally.

Does it with all video types and every video file you play?

The next time it happens, please grab a log file.

[lepa]

So it happens with build 70.  And, if I read your posts correctly, it hangs in two cases:

When the next video starts and or when the current video ends naturally.

Does it with all video types and every video file you play?

The next time it happens, please grab a log file.

Thanks for looking this weird problem. Logs attached. Situation was that first video was playing and I had another in queue. Pressed next to start playing the other file in queue which resulted MC (20.070) to hang. I figure the reason is that previous video file doesn't finish graciously?

[rammingspeed]

I've had .70 crash 3 times.  In each case a video playing in Theater mode had ended normally, no intervention, it just played to the end of the file.

[Yaobing]

Thanks for looking this weird problem. Logs attached. Situation was that first video was playing and I had another in queue. Pressed next to start playing the other file in queue which resulted MC (20.070) to hang. I figure the reason is that previous video file doesn't finish graciously?

Thanks for the log.  Hendrik made a fix.  Please try using the following dll and let us know whether it fixes the problem.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5htpfpbdq32ia0q/JRPlayer.zip?dl=0

Download, unzip, and copy into MC installation folder.

[lepa]

Thanks for the log.  Hendrik made a fix.  Please try using the following dll and let us know whether it fixes the problem.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5htpfpbdq32ia0q/JRPlayer.zip?dl=0

Download, unzip, and copy into MC installation folder.

Yup, that did it! No hanging around anymore... Quality service as always. Thanks again!