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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/MediaCenter200074.exe

20.0.74 (2/19/2015)

1. Changed: Additional date metadata tags are read from AVI files.
2. NEW: Added Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Enable OSD to allow turning off the OSD.
3. Changed: Added a popup message box when HDHomeRun tuner is selected to scan for television channels in Television Setup wizard, that one should setup firewall to allow Media Center network access through the firewall.
4. Changed: Added additional instruction message in Television Setup wizard, when the device list for CableCARD tuners is empty, that one should setup firewall and turn on "Use Media Network to share this library and enable DLNA" option.
5. Fixed: TheMovieDB image lookup was not working anymore.
6. Fixed: A CUE parsing issue where the last track would not work because the playback range was parsing incorrectly if the CUE file spanned multiple tracks.
7. Fixed: Rotten Tomatoes wasn't downloading cover art.

20.0.73 (2/17/2015)

1. Fixed: If one (re-)ran television Setup wizard from the Television property page, some settings set on the wizard were not transferred to the property page.
2. Changed: Red October updated to LAV Filters 0.64 (Hardware Acceleration improvements, bugfixes).
3. Changed: The intelligent number handling in the string sorter understands commas in numbers now.
4. Fixed: Starting video playback could hang.
5. Changed: Minor edits to the included webpages.

20.0.72 (2/17/2015)

1. Fixed: Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 (and maybe 250 too) analog television tuner did not work.
2. Fixed: Reading a SACD ISO with empty data packets could cause a crash.
3. Changed: Made the SACD ISO parser a little more forgiving.
4. NEW: Added a 'Total Tracks' field to the library.  Currently updated from MP3 files, MP4 files, FLAC files, and during CD ripping.
5. NEW: Added a 'Total Discs' field to the library, which is updated from MP3, MP4, and FLAC files.
6. Changed: Updated German translation (thanks Bytestar).

20.0.71 (2/16/2015)

1. Changed: Added "Auto Group this channel" right-click menu on Manage Channels tool, to automatically find matching channels to group with.
2. Changed: Added "Auto Group" button on Manage Channels tool, to automatically group all channels.
3. NEW: Double-click on the headers of a grouped list control fires a double-click on the entire grouping, which normally starts playback (but depends on the setting).
4. Fixed: Television Setup wizard complained about not having remote device even though the user was not setting up Set-top Box profiles.
5. NEW: Added an IR Device Activation page on Televsion Setup wizard, so one can make sure IR devices are activated before trying to set up an STB profile.
6. Changed: When a television channels is designated "hidden", it is automatically removed from its group (if previously grouped).
7. NEW: On Manage Channels tool, the "Channel" column header carries a sorting code, to indicate current sorting mode of channels in the list.  "Channel (Custom)" - custom sorting; "Channel (12-3 ABC)" - sorted by full channel name; "Channel (ABC)" - sorted by channel name without number in front; etc.
8. NEW: Added one more television channel sorting mode: Favorite, which puts favorite channels above regular channels.
9. NEW: Support for playing HTTP Live Streaming streams (both video/audio and audio-only).
10. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo!).
11. Fixed: On some systems, audio CD burning was failing while writing the lead-in.  This was much more prone to happen if the CD-Text option was disabled.

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).

[Matt]

Music visualizations are slow in full screen.work ok in JRiver 20.0.66

They're running normally here.

What visualization are you testing exactly?  Are other scripts (if you're using 2d) better?

[Matt]

Music visualizations are slow in full screen.work ok in JRiver 20.0.66

Did you erase your own post?  Does that mean it's working, or something else?

[DocLotus]

2. NEW: Added Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Enable OSD to allow turning off the OSD.

Tried it on & off; see no difference.

OSD (On Screen Display?).  On Screen of what? What am I looking for?

[DocLotus]

Clicking on Tree items...
Performance.
Podcasts.
Playlists.
Driver & Devices.
Services & Plug-ins.

All cause MC to hang up.
Other items in tree are OK.

[Matt]

Clicking on Tree items...
Performance.
Podcasts.
Playlists.
Driver & Devices.
Services & Plug-ins.

All cause MC to hang up.
Other items in tree are OK.

Switch the web browser engine in Options > Tree & View > Web browser.

Wait a few minutes for the package to install.

[kstuart]

Switch the web browser engine in Options > Tree & View > Web browser.

Wait a few minutes for the package to install.

Is there any visual indication that a package is installing ?

Will it install just by switching the web browser engine choice as above ?

OR do you need to display something that requires it ?

[DocLotus]

Clicking on Tree items...
Performance.
Podcasts.
Playlists.
Driver & Devices.
Services & Plug-ins.

All cause MC to hang up.
Other items in tree are OK.

Switch the web browser engine in Options > Tree & View > Web browser.

Wait a few minutes for the package to install.

Switched from Chrome to  IE; hang up gone.
Switched from IE back to Chrome; hangs up again.

I also wondered why there is no indication of the package being installed.

[AoXoMoXoA]

not often but occasionally while tagging files for import in MC's Explorer section, Media Center will totally crash and vanish while saving tag changes (especially cover art image related)

What is most irritating is that this will cause my view to be changed and lost, many of my tag columns will be missing and the remainder out of the order I had set. Sometimes I can restore from a saved view, other times those have vanished as well.

[StFeder]

REMAINING_TIME doesn't show the correct time in visualizations any more for most files. More about that glitch there. There is a second display glitch with visualizations I describe in this thread.

[lkk]

I found a problem when 44.1Khz 16bit song up-sampling to 384Khz 32bit having clicking sound on playing, when turn off up-sampling clicking sound gone. I tried downgrade to 20.0.63 don't have this issue too.

[Matt]

Switched from Chrome to  IE; hang up gone.
Switched from IE back to Chrome; hangs up again.

I also wondered why there is no indication of the package being installed.

Do you have your internet connection disabled?  Because we should download a package for Chrome support the first time and then be done.  But it sounds like it's hanging on the download and install.

[Hendrik]

Split glynor's issues here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=95826.0

[kstuart]

Do you have your internet connection disabled?  Because we should download a package for Chrome support the first time and then be done.  But it sounds like it's hanging on the download and install.

Is there normally a visual indication that a web browser package is installing (In other words, something like the message on the bottom of the screen when a download is necessary to play a video) ?

Will it install just by switching the web browser engine choice as above ?

OR do you need to change your display to a page that requires it ?

[DocLotus]

Quote from: DocLotus on Yesterday at 04:57:17 pm
Switched from Chrome to  IE; hang up gone.
Switched from IE back to Chrome; hangs up again.

I also wondered why there is no indication of the package being installed.

Do you have your internet connection disabled?  Because we should download a package for Chrome support the first time and then be done.  But it sounds like it's hanging on the download and install

Internet is working fine, no problems.

I looked at it again today & it is now working. Have no idea why as nothing has changed since updating to 20.0.74. I never saw any indication of a download, is it supposed to work hidden in the background?

[6233638]

I found a problem when 44.1Khz 16bit song up-sampling to 384Khz 32bit having clicking sound on playing, when turn off up-sampling clicking sound gone. I tried downgrade to 20.0.63 don't have this issue too.

The resampler was changed from SSRC to SSRC High Precision.
This presumably requires more CPU power to process.

Try increasing your playback device's buffer size, or reducing the sample rate.

[pschelbert]

Zone-Issue: using zones for various configurations MC20.00.74 and older versions

Configuration
I configured different zones to have multiple configurations, one audio-interface though in one room. I have 3 configurations 1) 2) 3)
-1) one configuration with VST-plugin and all sampled to 44.1kHz by JRiver
-2) one configuration for Headphone Binaural
-3) one configuration for HighRes: here the sample rate follows the input file, i.e. 44.1 up to 192kHz.

I then configure Zoneswitch as to stop playing in any zone less then the one selected

Problem: If 1) is played (44.1kHz), then stopped, and then switched to 3), the audio-interface is not able to switch to 192kHz by JRiver, although the zone 1) is stopped.
It looks, that 1) is still blocking the audio-interface, even if not played.

A workaround ist to shut-down JRiver and restart. Then it works.

While its clear, that only one zone can take ownership for playing, it would be nice if the audio-interface would be relased if the zone's playback is stopped. Then the other zone could own and reset the sample rate.

[lkk]

The resampler was changed from SSRC to SSRC High Precision.
This presumably requires more CPU power to process.

Try increasing your playback device's buffer size, or reducing the sample rate.

First of all my JRMark (version 20.0.74): 4015 & overall CPU usage is only 10% and MediaCenter process usage less the 6% of CPU & I manually set the process priority to High too. Regarding to the buffer I have increased to max also and I don't think is the buffers issue either because I able to play DST 2.8224Mhz, 11.2896Mhz & 22.5792Mhz (either down-sampling to 384k or bit-streaming) which required higher transfer bandwidth without any problem at all.

Finally after I tested all my libraries I found out not all songs are affected, originally 352.8k & 192k up to 384k is fine (may be no enough songs to be problem found), on 96k up to 384k about 5% found affected and worst are 44.1k (which I have a lot to test) more then 15% of the songs are affected. But when change from 44.1k up to 352.8k problem solved, and version 20.0.63 totally don't have this issue at all regardless any sampling rate. May be you can try it out and see.

By the way, can up sampling to higher sampling rate to 768k and DSD up sampling?

Thanks.