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[JimH]

This is the latest version of MC 16.  Please post bugs here.  Please start a new thread for anything requiring discussion.  Non-bug posts will be deleted or moved.

Update: Run Media Center and check for updates
or
Download: http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v16/latest/MediaCenter160122.exe (this build was misnumbered 123)
or
Subscribe to one of the Update Channels.

New MC16 Features and Upgrade Instructions

16.0.122 (6/29/2011)

1. Changed: Added handling of DTS-in-WAV files with a .wav extension so that they always get decoded instead of playing as noise (automatic decoding via LAV Audio hopefully coming soon).
2. Changed: Better error messages when encountering problems with certain analog television devices.
3. Faster: Faster video thumbnailing by about 35%.
4. Changed: Improved Red October system used when playing audio-only files with Directshow filters.
5. Faster: Faster video import by about 45%.
6. Fixed: Thumbnailing could cause the desktop to flicker.
7. Fixed: Rare crash when playing music while DLNA zones appeared and disappeared.
8. Fixed: The level of redirected bass from Room Correction could be too low.

16.0.121 (6/28/2011)

1. Fixed: Data file associations (like .exe) were being offered as possible capabilities in Windows File Type management, and would cause problems when associated with Media Center.
2. Fixed: Switched Red October MPEG-2 decoding when not using the Microsoft decoder to libavcodec due to libmpeg2 crashes on TS files.

16.0.120 (6/27/2011)

1. NEW: Purity is a new stock skin (thanks to Cristian Arellano for his excellent work).
2. NEW: The on screen display is drawn into madVR, making madVR exclusive mode work better.
3. Changed: Updated Red October HQ to use madVR 0.66.
4. Fixed: When starting video playback, the program could be unresponsive for about one second longer than necessary.
5. Changed: Minor correction in Chinese language file.
6. Fixed: Adding a file to a linked zone would unnecessarily resynchronize the zones to the beginning of the current song.
7. Fixed: With analyze audio enabled in Auto-Import, shutdown could take longer than expected in some cases.
8. Changed: Removed "Start digital television in time-shifting mode" option.  Digital television will always start in time-shifting mode.
9. Fixed: The file system tree in Import > Auto-Import > Add... did not use the correct skinning colors.
10. NEW: Added Options > Theater View > Advanced > Turn off NumLock on load (useful for some remote keyboards where numlock causes troubles).

16.0.119 (6/24/2011)

1. Changed: When using Red October with additional filters, if a selected decoder will not connect, the standard Red October decoder will be used instead (previously playback would just fail).
2. Fixed: DLNA Push to WDTV renderers wasn't working. Broken since build 16.0.15
3. Changed: Right-click on a playing video always shows a 'Screen Grab' menu and when the commands aren't available (like with madVR, or when not paused with VMR), the menu contains an explanation.
4. Changed: Removed DVD option for ffdshow post processing (you can instead use FFDShow Raw as an additional filter if this is desired).
5. Fixed: If files were deleted from the database on a Library Server Client while a background library server sync was occurring, it could cause a crash.
6. Changed: More efficient loading / unloading of Red October filters.
7. Fixed: With Library Server authentication enabled, other copies of Media Center running on the network would not reliably discover the server.
8. Faster Television seeking (applies to recorded and time-shifted playback).

16.0.118 (6/23/2011)

1. SDK: The skinning engine supports selecting the view header background color when inactive by using ViewHeader::InactiveHeaderBackgroundColor in the skin.
2. Changed: Bitrate monitor filters no longer show in the custom filter list (they are managed by Red October instead).
3. Fixed: Time-shifted television playback did not honor advanced video filter selection.
4. Changed: Moved the submenu arrow on a menu to the left a little so that it doesn't look crowded on skins with a rounded menu selection graphic.
5. Fixed: The subwoofer controls could be disabled on DSP Studio > Output Format when using the new 2.1 output mode.
6. Changed: MC16.exe /MCC accepts the parameter formatting [value]:[zone index] for easier multi-zone usage. (i.e. MC16.exe /MCC 10020, 25:2)
7. Fixed: When switching input formats, the option to move the center channel to the front speakers could work incorrectly.

16.0.117 (6/22/2011)

1. Changed: Removed obsolete DVD option regarding usage of the bitrate monitors.
2. Changed: Cleaned up the video options.
3. Fixed: Merit-based video renderering would not always use the selected video renderer.
4. Fixed: Right-click 'Color Controls...' was not working for DVD playback.
5. Fixed: Positioning of video playback (with OSD or shift+drag) was not working.
6. Changed: Simplified how audio and video stream selection work when using the on screen display.
7. NEW: Added 'Playlists' column that can be added to any list to show the playlists that a file is in.

16.0.116 (6/21/2011)

1. NEW: Blu-ray importing / cataloging works more nicely ( http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=64795.0 ).
2. Fixed: In certain passages, JRSS surround channels could be biased towards the left.
3. Fixed: In some cases, the first video playback in a zone could fail to start with madVR.
4. Fixed: The EVR video renderer was not working nicely with build 115.
5. Changed: Removed obsolete video option regarding WMV acceleration (was only needed for old ATI cards when playing protected WMV).

16.0.115 (6/20/2011)

1. Fixed: Importing of Windows Media video did not get FPS field.
2. Fixed: Some AAC+ internet radio stations would not play.
3. Fixed: Some Windows Media ASX-based internet radio stations would not play.
4. Changed: Updated to new version of ffdshow (ffdshow_rev3882_20110613_clsid.exe).
5. Changed: Added stream selection to Windows Merit Based video playback.
6. Changed: In Display View, a status message is now displayed while filter components are being downloaded & installed.
7. Fixed: With the Media Network feature disabled in Options > General > Features, the Playing Now portion of the tree would not build correctly.
8. Changed: Video positioning happens in the video playback graph thread instead of the main thread (guess as to madVR hanging issue; please report results).
9. Changed: When using madVR, only YV12 color space output will be allowed (due to problems reported with NV12 color space converter in madVR).

16.0.114 (6/17/2011)

1. Changed: Improved high-precision display refresh rate monitoring in VideoClock so that it works better on multi-monitor systems, through hardware refresh rate changes, etc.
2. Fixed: Red October preset had the ffdshow subtitle options hidden.
3. Fixed: Red October preset was using the wrong ffdshow decoding thread count setting, resulting in reduced performance on some computers.
4. Fixed: Thumbnails for some videos could be solid gray.
5. Faster: Improved performance of video thumbnailing.

16.0.113 (6/16/2011)

1. Changed: Updated all language files to have the latest strings from the source code, and to remove any orphan strings.
2. Changed: Some optimizations to the video engine to make video playback start faster.
3. Changed: The timeout used when analyzing a video file is 30 seconds instead of 20 seconds.
4. Changed: JRSS downmixing provides higher volume levels in many cases.
5. NEW: Option to automatically change display settings according to video frame rate when starting a video.
6. Changed: Files with the DTS extension are playable in the audio engine (decoded by Red October).
7. Fixed: Direct show filter downloading was causing problems during import and thumbnail creation.

16.0.112 (6/15/2011)

1. Changed: Improved support for picking a soundcard for WASAPI, etc. output when multiple soundcards on the system have the same name.
2. Faster: Some optimizations to the JRiver audio engine when used for video.
3. Changed: The 2.1 mixing mode added to build 111 supports 'No mixing' mode better for 5.1 / 7.1 content (silences channels with no speakers attached).
4. Fixed: Added file association "trp" so these video files will now play with Red October.
5. Fixed: Downloading videos from YouTube would not get the title.
6. NEW: Parametric equalizer supports Linkwitz Transform filters (used to extend the frequency response of a sealed subwoofer).
7. Fixed: Bitstreaming of DTS-HD and TrueHD formats over HDMI was not working properly.
8. Fixed: Some videos were displaying with the wrong aspect ratio in Red October mode on Windows XP.
9. Fixed: The ground was not drawing properly in the 3d spectrum analyzer visualization.

[lepa]

MC hangs while certain OGG Vorbis files are being analyzed. Foobar2000 / Audacity opens/plays files with no problem.
I also run MemTest from ultimatebootcd to ensure that there wasn't any problems with my memory.

[Bill S]

"1. Changed: Added handling of DTS-in-WAV files with a .wav extension so that they always get decoded instead of playing as noise (automatic decoding via LAV Audio hopefully coming soon)."

I tried playing a dts-in-wav file (where the file has a .wav extension) but still got static.  I also tried with .dts extension and some other things too.  Maybe one of my settings is wrong?  See link below for details.  Thanks!

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=64707.0

[audunth]

Another bug: Youtube videos crash MC when trying to play inside the player with bitrate set above 1 Mbit. They play fine in full quality if I download and then play. I think this bug came with the changes made in .112 to get the filenames back. I noticed it in .116, in .111 they played fine in full quality inside player.

[Blaine78]

Hi, I've posted this in another post 'tags', thought i'd bring it here as i know for sure it's 16.0.123 issue. Issue being, after computer restarts from updating J River to 16.0.123, J river no longer reads WAV file tags, and labels them unassigned when new files being imported. when i revert back to 16.0.121 the problem disappears.

[lepa]

MC hangs while certain OGG Vorbis files are being analyzed. Foobar2000 / Audacity opens/plays files with no problem.
I also run MemTest from ultimatebootcd to ensure that there wasn't any problems with my memory.

Tried same problem files (encoded with MC) with another computer and also on this computer MC hangs when it is analyzing file dropped to the playing now.
Even though there is of course be possibility that something wrong with computer which did the encoding I think MC shouldn't go to the infinite "analyzing" loop if broken file is dropped to playing now.

I can email problem file(s) to test if needed.

[tombert]

Since version 111 my Sony Bravia (DLNA Renderer) completely disappered from the Playing Now.

[AoXoMoXoA]

Using the media server I loaded another MC library on my laptop's MC and was playing music.

When the doing the playing went to standby, my laptop copy of MC crashed trying to control the sleeping computer' MC.

[BryanC]

Using the media server I loaded another MC library on my laptop's MC and was playing music.

When the doing the playing went to standby, my laptop copy of MC crashed trying to control the sleeping computer' MC.

This has happened to me for forever. It would be nice if MC could "time out" and go into a mode that would allow us to reload a different library.

[Sauzee]

MC hangs while certain OGG Vorbis files are being analyzed. Foobar2000 / Audacity opens/plays files with no problem.
I also run MemTest from ultimatebootcd to ensure that there wasn't any problems with my memory.

I've found MC hangs fairly often when analysing audio files over the past couple of weeks. Can't pin it down to a single file type but most of my files are flac or ape. Don't think it's ogg files in my case.

[tombert]

I've found MC hangs fairly often when analysing audio files over the past couple of weeks. Can't pin it down to a single file type but most of my files are flac or ape. Don't think it's ogg files in my case.

Can confirm this as I already posted this topic so often ... when I analyze some 500 files from past weeks it crashes, but nothing special in the debug log.

[JimH]

Can confirm this as I already posted this topic so often ... when I analyze some 500 files from past weeks it crashes, but nothing special in the debug log.

If it's not in the log, it may be a crash in a decoder plug-in or something else outside the program.  When it happens again, click on the button that says "More information" in the Windows message.  It will point at the software where it crashed.

[imugli]

Don't know if this is a bug or intentional or just can't be helped, but here goes...

I have a couple of website roller items nested in Television (Bloomberg.com/tv, cbs.com, tv.com, sesamestreet.org).

When I reach Bloomberg by using the remote arrows, I cannot scroll beyond that to the rest of them.

It seems the website that gets rendered takes focus.

Given that the websites can't really be controlled by remote, could the focus possibly be made to remain on the roller, so one can continue scrolling to the others when needed? 

[bobrap]

Just purchased this and had a few questions.  Is there any easy way of tagging ISO files?  Tagging LOTS of ISO files one at a time isn't very user friendly.  No TVDB or IMDB support?  Wiki is kinda weak.  If a folder.jpg is in the folder with the ISO, shouldn't it be read and displayed in the library.

New to this program, switching from TMT because of MC better player.  Thanks for any help.

Disregard the folder art question, figured that out.

[BryanC]

My playback is freezing when going from Exclusive to Windowed mode after moving my mouse. In some instances, the screen goes black but the audio continues.

Using RO HQ with LAV CUVID 0.9