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[bob]

This is the latest build of MC28 for Linux.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted.

Download:
amd64  https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-28.0.64-amd64.deb
i386      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-28.0.64.deb
arm64   https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-28.0.64-arm64.deb
armhf    https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-28.0.64-armhf.deb

Also in the BETA repo.

28.0.64 (9/14/2021)

1. Fixed: MC could hang if TV recording was started on a channel with no signal.
2. NEW: Video uses the Vulkan API in place of OpenGL. See the wikipedia entry for details. Feedback needed.
3. NEW: Added a description field to custom database fields.
4. Changed: Added mime types "application/vnd.apple.mpegurl" and "application/x-mpegurl" to be associated with m3u playlist.
5. Fixed: Non-HLS IPTV streams in transport stream format could not be played in TV engine.
6. NEW: The field description is shown in the column header tooltip.
7. NEW: Updated to Monkey's Audio 7.02 for greatly increased performance (thanks to Robert Kausch).
8. Changed: Removed left-click handling from the text area of the program.  Only right-click shows the menu now.
9. Changed: After successfully completing a rip using MakeMKV, eject the disc if requested.
10. Changed: Reverted the VST scaling support changes because reports are that it's not better.
11. Fixed: Transitioning between images and videos in a playlist would crash.
12. Changed: When IPTV is automatically paused due to buffering, OSD "Buffering..." is shown briefly.
13. Fixed: Loading saved views was not always working properly.

28.0.61 (9/9/2021)

1. Fixed: Editing files could not work properly when none were selected (which should show as all selected).
2. Fixed: Improved the ordinal code because 11 would show 11st instead of 11th.
3. Fixed: Some date lookups would fail because a full date was returned and we were expecting only a year.
4. Changed: Improved error handling in IPTV playback.
5. Changed: IPTV playback will automatically pause if data downloading is slow and playback will resume if enough is buffered.
6. Fixed: Returning from Cover View would not restore the window size and position properly.
7. Fixed: When flipping composer names between first and last, an extra space could stay at the front (might cause lookup problems).
8. Fixed: Lyrics lookup could return results with empty newlines at the end.
9. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
10. Changed: Updated all language files to have the latest strings from the source code.
11. Changed: OPUS files are detected even if they're named OGG.
12. Changed: Added the 1x, 2x, etc. markers after the sample rate in the bitstreaming dialog for DSD.
13. Changed: Revised the tab lock image so it will show better on dark skins.
14. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
15. NEW: Made a dedicated "Set skin" choice in scheduler so the command line isn't needed.
16. Fixed: Playing a currently recording IPTV channel did not work correctly.
17. Changed: When saving recent searches, if only one character is changed (even in the middle of a string) it will replace the entry instead of add a new one.
18. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
19. Changed: The math evaluator accepts pluses in front of numbers to denote them being positive.
20. NEW: Added the MCWS function Settings/Skin to allow changing skins (allows scheduler to be used to schedule skin switches by running something like MC28.exe /MCWS/v1/Settings/Skin?Skin=Noire).
21. Fixed: IPTV channel could not be viewed if a recording had been started on the channel.
22. Changed: IPTV channels start up is significantly faster.
23. Changed: VST effects report to the system that they don't support scaling of the monitor independently so they are scaled by the system (feedback appreciated).

28.0.55 (8/26/2021)

1. Changed: Updated all language files to have the latest strings from the source code.
2. Changed: Made matches in suggestion boxes promote matches that start with what is typed.
3. Fixed: VST effects could cause a click when playback was restarted.
4. NEW: A tab lock image is shown when tabs are locked.
5. Changed: Tuned the search suggestion logic a little more so typing in the middle of a word won't trigger as much of a match.
6. Changed: Moved the escapement for ListMix to after evaluating as a child expression.
7. Changed: ListMix takes parameter value of 8 which tells it to do no unescape after everything.
8. Changed: TV Options > Advanced > Show status... dialog window is now scrollable so that the text will not be truncated.
9. Changed: Increased HLS playlist refreshing retry count, to reduce chances of IPTV stalling due to server being slow to update playlists.
10. Fixed: Starting playback with Playback/PlayByKey of a whole album would not start with the selected file.
11. Changed: ListMix checks for all functions and things in brackets to decide if it should re-evaluated the inner as an expression.
12. Changed: ListMix allows specifying flag value of 4 to not evaluate the inner portion as another expression.
13. Fixed: If a VST effect had a zero byte preset, it could cause a crash.
14. NEW: Locked tabs are saved between program runs.
15. Changed: Loading a saved view will clear all the tab locks.
16. Changed: Tuned expression escapement for the ListMix functions so they only evaluate if certain functions are found in the new expression instead of anything with a parenthesis.
17. Changed: Added handling of encrypted HLS streams in IPTV.  Still does not work for all such channels.  For those channels that work fine, time-shifting and recording are available now.
18. Fixed: MC did not handle HLS files with finite size (i.e. not live TV, such as VOD) so that those IPTV channels could not run in time-shifting mode.
19. Fixed: IPTV URLs with redirect was not handled properly.
20. Fixed: Some IPTV channels with relative URLs were not handled properly.
21. Fixed: When MC wrote to EXIF Datetime Original tag, afternoon time was messed up because 12-hour format was used, instead of 24-hour format.
22. Changed: Navigation history is now saved for each set of views in tabs separately.
23. Changed: Saving navigation history could cause problems in some cases.
24. NEW: Added the option to lock a tab (View > Split View) so opening another view will create a new tab instead of replacing the locked tab.
25. NEW: Clicking to close a locked tab will show a prompt to confirm.
26. NEW: Added tab locking to the main drop menu shown for the tab.
27. Changed: Updated libass for better ASS/SSA subtitle performance and conformance.
28. Changed: Added the menu item "Exit Error Free Mode" to turn off error free mode (appears in the Help menu when in error free mode).
29. Changed: Loudness modes didn't take effect as you changed them right away.
30. Fixed: In some cases, thumbnail text would not draw with an ellipsis at the end to show it was cut off even if it was.
31. NEW: The navigation history is saved between runs (capped at 20 deep) so navigating back (or using the links in the link bar) will work.
32. Changed: Series/Season Artwork filenames are no longer swapped around when the Series name contains a comma.
33. Changed: Log when a file doesn't exist as we build the filename (to help debug a Portable Library problem).
34. NEW: The field "Last Lyrics Lookup" is set during lyrics lookup and auto-import will no longer try again if the file has a lookup date.
35. Fixed: Theater View recorded TV show delete confirmation, and a whole lot of other confirmation or configuration dialogs related to TV in Theater View, were not showing if MC had been in error free mode.
36. Fixed: Theater View non-TV file deletion confirmation was not shown if MC was in error free mode.

28.0.48 (8/5/2021)

1. Fixed: While a recording on a DMS channel or an IPTV channel was going on, watching the channel might not show the entire available video if the recording is longer than the default time-shifting window.
2. Changed: ListFilter(...) string comparison is no longer case sensitive.
3. Changed: Removed the space from the ListFilter(...) delimiter.
4. Changed: When launching to mini view, returning to standard view now shows the playing file in Playing Now.
5. Changed: The new 20 band equalizer uses narrower band settings so presets will more closely match their old behavior.
6. Changed: Date lookup from Google properly escapes the information so something like "Ashford & Simpson" won't cause problems.
7. NEW: Added the ListFilter(...) expression function.
8. Fixed: Recording of a DMS or IPTV channel would be canceled if the user watches and stops watching the channel two times while recording was going on.
9. Fixed: The SetField expression could show the tooltip for the Field expression in some cases.
10. Changed: Updated Norwegian translation (thanks Řistein RIan).
11. NEW: Added the desktop resolution to the crop aspect ratios (so you can crop and then save as wallpaper).
12. NEW: Added the Google Pixel 4a to the list of image crop aspect ratios.
13. Changed: Picking ascpect ratios to crop by in image editor selects as much of the image as possible instead of an arbitrary rectangle.
14. NEW: Typing a custom field into the Fill Track Numbers From List Order tool will save the fields for future use (up to ten are saved).
15. NEW: Added mode 6 to the clean function which removes leading numbers (including spaces, decimals, and commas).
16. Changed: The between tracks mode "Use gapless for sequential album tracks" will only engage when reaching the end of the file (so manual transitions will not use it).
17. NEW: Added the SetField(...) expression function.
18. NEW: Added an expression to be evaluated after playback to Options > Library & Folders.
19. Fixed: TV time-shifting and recording options were disabled on Mac and Linux.

28.0.42 (7/16/2021)

1. NEW: Track transitions of any length are supported (previously it would be capped by the buffer size).
2. Changed: When editing the track transition duration, it will empty if you are in gapless or no mode.
3. Changed: Switching the track transition mode to gapless will empty the duration.
4. Changed: The new transition method and duration are saved to the tags.
5. Fixed: IPTV time-shifting buffering file could grow indefinitely because the buffering size limit was not honored.
6. Fixed: Certain streaming audio / video playback might run up disk space usage indefinitely until playback stopped.
7. Changed: Gapless transitions no longer suppress silence (even if the option is enabled).
8. NEW: Recording is enabled on IPTV channels.  Works only if time-shifting works.
9. NEW: Track transitions can be selected per file by editing the "Track Transition" and "Track Transition Duration" fields.
10. Changed: Library fields are reloaded on language changes so translated strings get recalculated.
11. Fixed: Some IPTV channels would not have duration info during time-shifting.  We fixed this by changing how we collect time stamp info.
12. Fixed: When MC fell back to non-time-shifting mode during IPTV playback, the position counter still advanced (instead of staying at 0).
13. Fixed: Returning from Theater View could make the window fill the screen instead of snapping back to the old size.
14. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
15. Fixed: Various Theater View message box prompts could be hidden in error-free playback mode.
16. Changed: Made double-click to play and drag and drop into the player always reanalyze the file even if it's already been analyzed.
17. NEW: IPTV channels will be played in time-shifting mode.  Does not work for all URLs.  If time-shifting fails, MC automatically falls back to non-time-shifting mode.
18. Changed: Made W64 file opening a little more forgiving of the headers.
19. Changed: Moved the high resolution checkbox in Analyzer to the right of the top line.
20. Fixed: Google lyrics lookup could contain extra stuff at the end.
21. Fixed: Genius lyric lookup was not working.
22. Changed: Pressing OK out of options on the DLNA page only switches the zone if a DLNA zone is selected (instead of always).
23. Fixed: The ListMath expression could crash if an empty string was passed in.
24. Changed: Tuned the equalizer size so the text should fit below the sliders better in normal configurations.
25. Changed: Made the EQ up / down increment less (0.1 dB now).

28.0.35 (7/2/2021)

1. Fixed: Crash caused by bad Opus input plugin (AMD64).

28.0.34 (7/1/2021)

1. NEW: Added 8x to the DSD encoding options.
2. NEW: Made the DSD to DSD conversion more direct when outputting at a lower rate to support bitstreaming.
3. Changed: Added sorting to the view extras menu instead of just sorting using the file system.
4. Changed: Disabled the stop after choices for DLNA devices (may return later).
5. Changed: Cloudplay server calls happen in a loop so a sporadic failure will try again.
6. NEW: Added a zone diversion MCWS (MCWS/v1/Playback/Divert).
7. Changed: Made the VST buffer a little bigger because the Dirac VST could report no signal with the current size.
8. Fixed: Switching from Display View to Standard View didn't change the size back because of a change a couple builds back.
9. Fixed: The (newline) in expressions was going into the wrong part so the expression itself could be changed.
10. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
11. Fixed: A corrupt wav format file (or aiff) with bad metadata could have caused a crash on import.
12. Fixed: The Cloudplay filter would not apply when playing from the Play Doctor search box.
13. Changed: Made the VST sample size optional in Options > Audio > Advanced (takes a restart for the change to take effect).


28.0.29 (6/24/2021)

1. Fixed: The TreeNode() expression is more reliable when used in the main navigation tree.
2. Changed: DSD encoding now asks the output whether it wants DSD or DoP (instead of assuming DSD).
3. Changed: Made the EQ resize nicely with the window (so you can size it taller).
4. NEW: Added the new S-Curve cross-fade modes.
5. Fixed: When playing videos, the player could return to the previous size and position as it advanced tracks.

[bob]

Had to re-upload these. If you already did the apt-update to get it (on the beta channel) please redo it.

[mwillems]

So I just spent twenty minutes kicking the tires on the new video renderer.  This is on my main rig which has an AMD 5700XT on Arch Linux running Gnome. 

I'm very impressed so far!

Notes:

1) Video works and looks really good.
2) I tried seeking around a bunch and paddling around in the OSD and couldn't produce any bad behavior.  The new renderer actually seems to fix an issue I used to have where if I seeked a bunch the audio would get desynchronized; that doesn't seem to happen with the new renderer (there's a slight desync after lots of seeking, but it normalizes within a second or two)
3)  Not sure if I'm imagining it, but the OSD seems much more stable than it did with the old backend?  Like with the old backend, I feel like the OSD would sometimes go away when I was still hovering over it, but I'm not seeing that with the new backend.

No regressions that I could find so far, but I'll test more when I have more time.

[Belarathon]

Wow...phenomenal performance in X11 - perhaps even better than under Wayland.  Snappy in every regard, video is smooth with no artifacting, lag, etc.  No regressions that I can see.  Bravo!

[RemyJ]

Tried on both a Fedora 34 laptop and my Fedora 34 desktop.  I do see _some_ performance improvement playing video but it's overshadowed by the continuing white flashes every time a menu pops up in one of the dark themes.

[BryanC]

I'm not seeing the same thing on Fedora so maybe it is driver-specific (I'm on AMD).

I tested this out on my workstation, I don't normally watch movies on this rig but the 5600G barely flinched. Performance seems great and I can't wait to try it out on my low-powered HTPC.

The only negative thus far is that the 10-bit tonemapping looks very oversaturated and warm, but I won't be able to do a side-by-side on the TV until next week (perhaps it's just oversaturated on my workstation monitors).

[Belarathon]

Nothing special here - ancient Phenom X4, AMD R7 360, fresh KDE Neon install, no proprietary drivers.

[Mike Noe]

I get no OSD to show at all on full screen, either the top or bottom controls that normally show on mouse move/hover.  Performance is very snappy and one fix for sure is lockup when skipping forward or back in a video, now it is dead stable.

I'm on Tumbleweed, Plasma git master all around, Wayland session only, RX560.

[bob]

Maybe try searching for OSD in settings and see if any of those makes a difference?

[Mike Noe]

Okay, so I think it's related to current Plasma5 beta and X apps running on Wayland session. Two X apps, Palemoon and MC and they're both misbehaving recently.  For example, clicking the menu activates the menu, but it shows up behind the main window.  Dialogs too.

X session seems okay.

[((( atom )))]

Hi there, i also did some testing:

Debain 11 / Nvidia 1050 Ti / X11 not Wayland / Pulseaudio 8 ch. bridged to jack via cadence

- Audio works on startup of a movie and gets lost without an error message (started from terminal) the second I start skipping. Audio does not return.
- Movies play for a while then freeze the entire application. Need to kill it then.
- In the upper section of the image displayed, there are some 30 or 50 or so lines which seem to belong to a different frame, since a vertical line would experience an offset there. This is always visible as soon as there is movement in the picture, like panning or cars driving.
- Changes to/from fullscreen produce a white scrren for a few seconds, which hurt my eye using a pretty bright projector. Maybe this could be made into black?

To make sure that the pulse/jack bridge is working correctly, I tested it with mpv. I could skip back and forth as much as I liked without even the slightest glitch, so I assume the setup itself is alright.

If it might matter I could always rerun tests with debugging enabled and provide more information. Since I am new here, I just have to learn to enable debugging logs in the first place..

I'd love to help getting this into a stable state.

[JimH]

The skip forward and back were broken in a build or two recently.  The next build should fix it.

[((( atom )))]

You mean the audio disappearing? That would be cool, because then I could start using it to actually watch a film with it evey now and then and see how it behaves in that scenario.