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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/channels/v28/latest/MediaCenter-28.0.84-amd64.deb
i386      https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v28/latest/MediaCenter-28.0.84.deb
arm64   https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v28/latest/MediaCenter-28.0.84-arm64.deb
armhf    https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v28/latest/MediaCenter-28.0.84-armhf.deb

Also in the latest repo.

28.0.84 (11/16/2021)

1. Fixed: The TV feature added in build 83 did not quite work correctly.
2. Changed: When playing a ATSC TV recording, MC will try to honor "Subtitles & Language" settings "Show subtitles in selected language if available", "Show subtitles only if selected subtitle language is different from audio language", "Show subtitles only if selected subtitle language is different from audio language, or if the subtitles are in a sidecar file", if Closed Captioning metadata had been saved in database during recording (i.e. the recordings are done using the latest version of MC).
3. Fixed: Redraw triggered before video play started caused a crash
4. Changed: Updated all translations to the latest strings from the code.
5. Fixed: Delay instruction window start since video play window overwrote it, now it works for video and theater view.
6. Fixed: The instruction window for video playback was stealing and not returning focus to the video playback window so one had to click on it to get keyboard and mouse responses.
7. Changed: Updated Greek translation (thanks Panagiotis).
8. NEW: Added the option Options > Audio > Advanced > Stop after a long pause.
9. Changed: On receiving a xconfigure event suppress the un-necessarily generated expose events.
10. Changed: Updated linux .deb package control files.
11. Changed: When doing immediate and child window redraws (which aren't handled by the X api), do them directly.

28.0.83 (11/12/2021)

1. Fixed: Some static text controls would load colors initially then not update with skin changes.
2. Fixed: Some list controls wouldn't update text colors when skins changed.
3. Changed: Improved timeout in JRVR when detecting rendering glitches to allow a more graceful recovery.
4. NEW: When recording an ATSC TV channel (with tuners using DirectShow), the program's Closed Captioning metadata is saved in the database for the recorded file (in PlaybackInfo field).
5. Changed: Improved JRVR timing accuracy when using NTSC-style display refresh rates (eg. 23.976 Hz).
6. Changed: UI window redraws (which get called frequently on scrolls, etc) on windows with children draw directly instead of through events which speeds up UI response.

28.0.81 (11/9/2021)

1. NEW: Enabled context menu items "Go To Earliest Time" and "Go To Latest Time" in time-shifted TV playback with DMS and IPTV channels.
2. Fixed: The "Tuner Type" drop-down on Configure Device dialog window did not offer proper choices with IPTV tuner.
3. Changed: "Disabled" is removed from choices in "Tuner Type" drop-down if the TV type is "IPTV" since there is no real device to be disabled.
4. Changed: The option "Disable VideoClock when not time-shifting" is no longer shown if the devices are DMS, or IPTV since non-time-shifting mode is not offered for these types.
5. NEW: "This device uses a separate audio capture filter" option in TV tuner configuration dialog window, for analog TV tuners or video capture devices.
6. Fixed: When running an analog TV tuner or a video capture device with Closed Caption option on, and video could fail to play if Closed Caption rendering failed.  With this fix, video will play without CC when CC rendering failed.
7. Changed: When playing an ATSC TV recording, the video option "Always show subtitles" in "Subtitles and Language" section will be obeyed and Closed Captioning will be shown (if available) unless the file's PlaybackInfo tag specifically says to turn it off.  This is applicable only when playing videos using DirectShow filters.
8. Changed: Moved the Gammut and Gamma JRVR options into an "Advanced" section, as well as re-factored the Gamma option to properly indicate the intent and suggested use.
9. Fixed: JRVR would process SDR video with a HDR brightness adaptation, resulting in boosted black levels.
10. Changed: The DLNA server defaults (when no server existed previously) to original formats since many modern renderers have greater capabilities than in the past.
11. NEW: Added a DLNA server template for Original Format.
12. Fixed: The "Tuner Type" drop-down on Configure Device dialog window did not offer proper choices with IPTV, and OpenCable/RTSP tuners.
13. Changed: "Disabled" is removed from choices in "Tuner Type" drop-down if the TV type is "IPTV" since there is no real device to be disabled.
14. Changed: The option "Disable VideoClock when not time-shifting" is no longer shown since non-time-shifting mode is not offered.
15. Changed: More tweaking of exposure event handling.

28.0.80 (10/29/2021)

1. Fixed: When starting an OpenCable / RTSP TV channel, the video could be small and stayed at lower left corner and could not be enlarged.
2. Fixed: During OpenCable / RTSP TV channel playback video could not be resized when MC was resized.
3. Fixed: FF / REW did not work with OpenCable / RTSP TV channel playback.
4. NEW: Implemented the restart launcher (mc28) command (amongst others) which handles switching in and out of audio-only mode.
5. NEW: Enabled context menu items "Go To Earliest Time" and "Go To Latest Time" in time-shifted TV playback.
6. Changed: More MCC functions enabled in the Launcher app (mc28 in the install directory).
7. Changed: UI changes in exposure event handling to speed up responsiveness.

28.0.79 (10/26/2021)

1. Fixed: When switching from one RTSP (OpenCable) TV channel to another channel of the same type without stopping the first channel first, MC would hang.
2. NEW: Added DCI-P3-D65 to the available target gamuts in JRVR.
3. Changed: Adjusted the JRVR HDR tonemapping defaults for a better out-of-the-box experience.
4. Changed: You can grab and drag any tab instead of only the active one.
5. Fixed: Dragging tabs in a split view was not working nicely.
6. Changed: Temporarily removed the audio path information from transcoding DLNA files since under some rare circumstances it could cause a crash.
7. Changed: Enabled the JRVR settings for Target Gamut and Gamma, and added more advanced tonemapping settings.
8. Changed: Added a debugging mode to JRVR to log frame timings for diagnosing frame pacing issues.
9. Changed: Reworked when HDCD processing is done to avoid possible volume changes during a track transition.

28.0.78 (10/22/2021)

1. Changed: Made toggling the tooltips with the toolbar button roll through all three states.
2. Fixed: Google lyrics lookup could contain HTML spans.
3. Fixed: A crash or blank screen from Redraw changes in build 28.0.78.

28.0.77 (10/21/2021)

1. Changed: Made number trimming include more characters when it trims the start and end of a string so "ABC (4:03)" will become "ABC".
2. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
3. NEW: Added the ability to add a clock to the toolbar.
4. NEW: Made the tooltip option three states with one being all tooltips off.
5. NEW: Initial settings panel for JRVR (in Settings -> Video -> JRVR Settings...)
6. NEW: Added modes 7 and 8 to the Clean(...) expression to remove numbers from the end of the string ( 7 ) or either side of the string ( 8 ).
7. NEW: Added removing leading and trailing numbers to the Clean File Properties tool.
8. Changed: Updated Czech translation (thanks Jan Boháč!).
9. Changed: Twilight gets darker during the night and doesn't get brighter than default during the day.
10. Fixed: In Standard TV View, show logos do not show up after a channel was selected until the user left the channel and then came back to the same channel.
11. Fixed: Once a file was flagged as HDCD, analyzing again would not see the HDCD.
12. Fixed: The new calculated unless filled fields didn't work well in all cases in panes or searches.
13. Fixed: Spacebar to pause wasn't working if the tree was focused.
14. Changed: In Standard TV View the show logo images reserved a fixed width rectangle so that the text and buttons on its right side will not be shifted around whenever the image's aspect ratio changes.
15. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
16. Changed: Audio analysis will engage HDCD processing if it's enabled (you might need to reanalyze your HDCD files).
17. NEW: Added an information message box to the skin to show sunrise, sunset, and the current effect.
18. Changed: The spacing between rows in a list would add room for the image column even if it wasn't there.
19. Changed: Setting HDCD to "1" will clear the audio analysis results so they run again (since enabling processing changes the results).
20. Changed: Improved handling of timestamps when dealing with Transport Stream streaming TV channels (DMS channels, some IPTV channels, and CableCARD channels on Linux/Mac).
21. Fixed (probably): Playback of Transport Stream streaming TV channels could be messed up if the stream changed its Program Clock Reference (outside of regular resetting due to counter overflow).
22. Changed: The spacing between item rows in a list would leave space for an image column even if it wasn't there.
23. Fixed: Some expression code was slowing things down.
24. Changed: Twilight is lighter between sunrise and sunset then darkens at sunset (gradual fading for 30 minutes on either side).
25. Fixed: MHT support in View Extras wasn't fully implemented.
26. NEW: Added a checkbox to library fields "Allow custom data to override the expression" that will allow editing the value of an expression and then show the edited value instead of the expression (just empty to bring the expression back).
27. Changed: The Twilight skin no longer changes the skin effects.
28. Changed: The Twilight skin fading would not take effect until a little while after it was loaded.
29. NEW: JRVR supports video size, aspect ratio and position adjustments.
30. Changed: Redraw code tweaked. Please report regressions.
31. Fixed: A clock function was displaying seconds when it shouldn't and wasn't locale compliant.
32. Fixed: The watch/record/cover art in Standard mode TV display wasn't updating.

28.0.73 (10/8/2021)

1. Changed: HDCD files no longer get +6 dB applied to them by volume levelling.
2. NEW: Added a new skin Twilight that varies with the time of day (based on the default skin).
3. Changed: DLNA flags set for album art and images to be more compliant with the standard.
4. Changed: When waking from a deep sleep mode, MC will send a M-Search to ask DLNA devices on the network to re-announce their presence.
5. Changed: The expression engine was short-circuiting field functions, but it no longer does that if there are enough parameters to indicate another file so Field(Name, 0, [Reference]) works.
6. Changed: Added an optional third parameter to the Counter expression function to set when to start over.
7. Fixed: For IPTV playback a "Window" context menu (for aspect ratio, zooming etc.) was displayed in error as it's not supported.
8. Changed: A pane right-click menu would be really limited if "Enable pane tagging" was not enabled.  Now it is the same either way.
9. NEW: Added mht to the list of types searched for viewing extras.
10. NEW: Added "Lock Tab" to the main view menu so it appears for all views even if they don't have a header menu (like television and notes).
11. Changed: Copies are limited to 256 MB instead of 16 MB.
12. Changed: Made the Field expression function take an optional third parameter to specify a file key (defaults to empty which evaluates the current file).
13. Changed: The brackets for fields also support the new third parameter.
14. NEW: When setting a field to an expression, a "this" variable is saved so doing something like =RemoveLeft([this], 3) will work.
15. Changed: The MCC_SYNC_WITH_LIBRARY_SERVER command takes a silent parameter (optionally).
16. NEW: Made FieldQuery take a Scope of 2 to match files of the same media type (the list is gathered one time, so you will need to restart to see newly imported files).
17. Changed: Updated German translation file (thanks Bytestar).
18. Fixed: Removing cover art from FLAC files could fail if the picture was saved as FLAC__STREAM_METADATA_PICTURE_TYPE_OTHER.
19. Fixed: "TV Recording" context menu was not shown for DMS or IPTV channel playback.
20. Fixed: For IPTV playback a "Window" context menu (for aspect ratio, zooming etc.) was displayed in error as it's not supported.
21. NEW: CableCARD tuner devices are supported on Linux and Mac using RTSP streaming (OpenCable).
22. NEW: Added a checkbox to library fields "Allow custom data to override the expression" that will allow editing the value of an expression and then show the edited value instead of the expression (just empty to bring the expression back).


28.0.68 (9/24/2021)

1. Changed: Slovak translation updated (thanks Peter Lukac).
2. Fixed: Lyrics lookup could be incomplete from Genius.com.
3. Changed: Updated the Korean translation (thanks Junghwan).
4. Fixed: Typing a space in the search box in Cloudplay would pause instead of enter the space.
5. Changed: A little more tuning to tab creation to hopefully avoid some possible problems.
6. Fixed: MC could hang if TV recording was started on a channel with no signal.
7. Changed: If an OpenCABLE or Sat>IP channel has no signal for 30 consecutive seconds, a notification is sent to TV engine and the tuner will be shutdown.
8. Changed: Made opening a new tab have no history.
9. Fixed: Locking a tab then navigating into an artist, genre, etc. and then going back would open a new tab.
10. Fixed: IPTV channels streaming HLS format might end up not playing if MC failed to get its MIME type during start up, even though the URL contains "m3u8" extension.

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 Vulcan 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.

[RemyJ]

Still having lots of focus issues.
 
If Tree & View Show Tooltips is enabled, whenever a tooltip, including track info, dismisses, the previous application gets focus.

If video is being displayed in the Player, when the track changes, MC steals focus from the currently focused app.  This does NOT happen in display or detached views.
It also doesn't happen if the player video element isn't actually being shown.  See attached screenshots.

I also have a situation where video tracks will keep playing beyond their end times if the player video element was being shown, then collapsed. See screenshots.

I'm going to try switching from xfce 4.16 to another desktop this afternoon and see what differences it makes.

[bob]

Focus from the tooltip is set to return to the parent window. Since it’s switching to another app your window manager is reparenting the tooltip window. Not a particularity useful behavior IMO.

I haven’t even looked at the video focus grab yet.

[bob]

If you want to keep using that desktop, you could just turn off tooltips in Options.

[RemyJ]

If you want to keep using that desktop, you could just turn off tooltips in Options.

I have.  That was more of FYI report that I discovered during the video testing.

Just some additional info on the video focus stealing...  I tried a clean Gnome session and see the same behavior.  The focus gets stolen when the next track starts playing.

[bob]

I have.  That was more of FYI report that I discovered during the video testing.

Just some additional info on the video focus stealing...  I tried a clean Gnome session and see the same behavior.  The focus gets stolen when the next track starts playing.

Please try this build.
It's the same version number as the one you have installed, just install over it.
Look for regressions too.
Thanks.
http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-28.0.84-amd64.deb

[RemyJ]

Please try this build.
It's the same version number as the one you have installed, just install over it.
Look for regressions too.
Thanks.
http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-28.0.84-amd64.deb

No change with this release but I did notice something that was apparently happening before that I hadn't noticed.  Using the countdown videos as an example, playback starts at "10" then advances to "9" but then seeks forward quickly to "8" in about only 1/4 second, then resumes the rest of the countdown at normal speed.

Here's an ffprobe from one of those files...

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Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'Countdown2_00001.mp4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : mp42
    minor_version   : 19529855
    compatible_brands: mp42isom
    creation_time   : 2015-08-31T16:27:24.000000Z
  Duration: 00:00:11.05, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 12360 kb/s
  Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 191 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2015-08-31T16:27:24.000000Z
      handler_name    : Sound Media Handler
      vendor_id       : [0][0][0][0]
  Stream #0:1(eng): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 12165 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 24k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2015-08-31T16:27:24.000000Z
      handler_name    : Video Media Handler
      vendor_id       : [0][0][0][0]
      encoder         : AVC Coding

Playing one "mov" countdown files results in the first few seconds actually being skipped.

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Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'OldFashionedFilmLeaderCountdownVidevo.mov':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : qt 
    minor_version   : 537199360
    compatible_brands: qt 
    creation_time   : 2013-06-02T01:17:45.000000Z
  Duration: 00:00:12.96, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 14341 kb/s
  Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080, 14333 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 24 tbn, 48 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2013-06-02T01:17:45.000000Z
      handler_name    : Apple Video Media Handler
      vendor_id       : appl
      encoder         : H.264
      timecode        : 00:00:00:00
  Stream #0:1(eng): Data: none (tmcd / 0x64636D74), 0 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2013-06-02T01:19:33.000000Z
      handler_name    : Time Code Media Handler
      timecode        : 00:00:00:00
Unsupported codec with id 0 for input stream 1
I'm not sure if the "Unsupported codec" message has anything to do with it.

Both files play fine in chrome and ffplay.

Logs attached.

[bob]

The scrubber advance doesn't affect anything.
This build worked for me after I duplicated your issue. Not sure why it's not working for you.

[RemyJ]

The scrubber advance doesn't affect anything.

Scrubber Advance?

This build worked for me after I duplicated your issue. Not sure why it's not working for you.

Stupid me.  Since the build number didn't change my script used the cached version of the .deb.
Testing again.

[RemyJ]

OK, The focus stealing thing has been resolved!   THANKS!

I tried switching renderers to see if it affected the anomalies at the start of the videos and it did.  The OpenGL renderer plays them correctly while the JRVR renderer does the skip/seek thing.

[bob]

OK, The focus stealing thing has been resolved!   THANKS!

I tried switching renderers to see if it affected the anomalies at the start of the videos and it did.  The OpenGL renderer plays them correctly while the JRVR renderer does the skip/seek thing.

Great, thanks for the info.