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[Matt]

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.

More on Red October

Update: Run Media Center and check for updates (Set the option in Startup/Update Channels to "Latest" to get the build normally found here)
or
Download: http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v16/latest/MediaCenter160103.exe

16.0.103 (6/3/2011)

1. Changed: Improved how VideoClock works with signal breakups on over-the-air broadcasts.
2. Fixed: DSP Studio > Room Correction was using the incorrect channel order for the rear and surrounds with 8-channel output.
3. NEW: Parametric Equalizer can be used to add a configurable delay to any channels.
4. Changed (again): Red October will not use the Microsoft MPEG decoder with madVR because then no deinterlacing is performed for 1080i, etc. signals.
5. Fixed: The 'My TV'. 'My Music', etc. buttons on an MCE remote were not working (note that renaming or moving the stock Theater View layout can break these buttons).
6. NEW: When using the JRiver audio engine for video playback, a fade-in is used after a seek (audibly more pleasant, and makes skipping commercials in television mostly silent).
7. NEW: madVR video renderer is now part of the standard filter pack and is automatically installed when needed. It is used in Red October HQ mode.

16.0.102 (6/2/2011)

1. Fixed: Subtitles would not work correctly with Red October when manually selecting 'ffdshow raw video filter'.
2. Changed: Added support for the DirectVobSub post-processor filter with Red October.
3. Fixed: Theater View backdrops from TheTVDB.com would not work properly for series with multiple database records where only one record was complete (like the Danish show Anstalten).
4. Fixed: When using the LAV source / splitter, subtitles could incorrectly be on by default instead of honoring the settings in Options > Video.
5. Changed: Added Red October support for .tivo file playback using the Tivo source filter.
6. Changed: Renamed the JRiver bitrate monitor filters to "JRiver Audio Monitor" and "JRiver Video Monitor".
7. Changed: Theater View watch marks only appear for Netflix videos.
8. Fixed: When using VideoClock, lip sync could take longer than necessary to achieve after a seek when doing PAL slowdown (especially if a large buffer size was used in the audio output plugin).
9. NEW: Added the ability to move, copy, add, and swap channels to DSP Studio > Parametric Equalizer (use 'Mix channels' filter).
10. Changed: Red October settings are applied to time-shifting on digital television.
11. Changed: Parametric equalizer hides unneeded controls for a particular filter type instead of showing all controls and disabling some.

16.0.101 (6/1/2011)

1. Fixed: Line 21 subtitles would be on by default instead of off by default with Red October (and the state reported by the menu or on screen display would be incorrect at first).
2. Changed: Red October uses a less demanding deinterlacing method by default, which works better with laptops and older computers.
3. NEW: Added 'Red October HQ' option that will use the highest quality settings available, but will only work nicely on a fast computer.
4. Fixed: DVD playback was not working on many Windows XP computers.
5. NEW: Red October HQ methods will default to madVR if it is installed on the system (except for DVD, since madVR doesn't currently support DVD nicely).
6. Changed: Red October will use the Microsoft MPEG decoder with madVR now that current versions of madVR support the Microsoft decoder's output format.
7. Fixed: JRSS downmixing was not working properly when resampling.
8. Fixed: Using merit based filter selection was not working properly.
9. Changed: Video renderer selection is automatic when using Red October, and the option is hidden when appropriate.
10. Changed: Video options does not show per-file type filter selection with Red October on.
11. Changed: Theater View watched marks were not working reliably for non-Netflix files.
12. Changed: Theater View watch marks are only shown for videos longer than 20 minutes.
13. Changed: Red October will use 'ffdshow raw video filter' as a post-processor if it's manually selected.
14. Changed: Revised the wording on DSP Studio > Output Format > Channels to make it more clear that channel downmixing requires JRSS.

16.0.100 (5/31/2011)

1. Fixed: Quickly switching videos could lead to a crash.
2. Changed: When restoring an old library that does not contain settings, the program will succeed on the library restore (but of course not restore settings) instead of report a failure that required a user to uncheck the option to restore settings.
3. Faster: Editing a field of the type 'Large Value' (like lyrics) for a large number of files is much faster.
4. Fixed: Editing a huge number of files where all tagging would fail (due to a disconnected drive, etc.) could cause a memory leak.
5. Changed: Editing a large number of files uses less memory.
6. Fixed: Red October video playback would crash on some mpeg files, especially on Windows XP when ffdshow was configured to decode mpeg with libmpeg2 (now using libavcodec).
7. Changed: Updated to latest LAV splitter (.28) which better handles MTS files.
8. NEW: EXIF GPS information for latitude and longitude is read more completely (right-click > Update Library from Tags to fill existing files).
9. NEW: Added right-click image option "Locate on Google Maps" (only appears for images that contain GPS information in the Latitude and Longitude fields).
10. Changed:  When possible, video stream selection is made before DirectShow graph is built.
11. Changed: When viewing a playlist of images and videos, the word 'Stop' will no longer appear on the on screen display when transitioning from one to the other.
12. Fixed: VC-1 files (e.g. Blu-Ray MKV's) wouldn't play on many WinXP systems.
13. Changed: Use ffdshow for mpeg-1 decoding rather than using Microsoft. Seems to be higher quality.
14. Changed: When a video starts, the background only shows 'Opening...', etc. if the video takes longer than a second to start playing, making for a smoother visual transition between videos.
15. Changed: DirectShow graph building mode option added to Options/Video page replacing the two Red October checkboxes with a single three state drop box.
16. Fixed: Smartlists could fail to show choices that were logical when the smartlist contained OR conditions or list-type fields.
17. Changed: Red October will attempt to use Power DVD video decoders 9, 10, or 11 if installed on Windows XP where there is no system DVD video decoder.

16.0.99 (5/27/2011)

1. Changed: With Red October turned off, DirectShow graph building is back to the Merit based "smart" rendering style using user selected custom filters.
2. Changed: New option "Use additional custom filters for Red October" under the Red October checkbox in Options/Video. (Whitelist)
3. Changed: Added ffdshow raw video, CoreAVC, and PowerDVD 10 video decoders to whitelist.

16.0.98 (5/26/2011)

1. Changed: Added LAV-CUVID and Power DVD 11 video decoders to the white list.
2. Fixed: Video conversion was broken for DLNA & Library Server video playback.

16.0.97 (5/25/2011)

1. Fixed: During video playback, the channel headroom was not being provided to Room Correction, so the total output level could be lower than necessary.
2. Fixed: AC3 was appearing twice in File Types.
3. Faster: JRSS down-mix processing is 245% faster (i.e. 5.1 to 2.0, etc.).
4. Fixed: Navigating in Theater View could crash when skipping multiple browse levels that only contained a single choice.
5. Fixed: When scanning for television channels, the new channels would show in 'Recently Imported'.
6. Fixed: Shutting down the program could be unnecessarily stalled for a second by the remote control engine.
7. Changed: Updated German language file (thanks Bytestar).
8. Changed: Added the ability to add a 'Mute' filter to DSP Studio > Parametric Equalizer.
9. Changed: With Red October off, user selected audio or video decoders will be used (if a decoder you would like to use does not get used, please report the filter details -- support is currently done on a white-list basis).
10. Changed: With Red October off, when ffdshow is manually selected as a decoder for a file type, auto-configuration of ffdshow will be disabled.
11. Changed: Microsoft's "Stream Buffer Source" filter is used to render dvr-ms and wtv files.
12. Changed: Updated to latest LAV splitter (.27) which better handles TS files.

[lepa]

RO with with ffdshow raw subttles and LAV Cuvid now works. Thanks!

Importing videos seems to take much longer with this build. Also during the import jrworker is trying to make outgoing connection to musicex server. maybe these things are related.

[imugli]

5. Fixed: The 'My TV'. 'My Music', etc. buttons on an MCE remote were not working (note that renaming or moving the stock Theater View layout can break these buttons).

Thanks Guys.

[MrC]

A couple of things:

1) Something isn't working correctly with Netflix and the Play/Pause button.  When I pause, the button turns correctly to the Pause button icon, but only for a split-second and then goes back to the Play button icon.

2) I'm playing a movie in Display mode in the background, and bring the movie forward by clicking once in the title bar.  Display mode maximizes.  Probably it should be more patient and wait for a double click.

[darichman]

Bug: Not sure when this one cropped up, but MC seems to be trying (and failing) to use directshow for playback of mid/midi files. These used to be supported natively.

Bug: If Link display will not update within a session if a file is tagged to meet the criteria for link display. Eg if I want "IMDb" to show up for [Type] = Film and I tag a file as "Film", then the link 'IMDb' will not display on the link bar unless I restart the program. Even changing views will not refresh it.

[rpalmer68]

When watching live TV  and I right-click and select Filters, selecting FFDShow Video or Audio (Auto configured) from the list crashes MC instantly!

I have RO HQ selected but not +Additional filters at this stage.

R

[jmone]

When watching live TV  and I right-click and select Filters, selecting FFDShow Video or Audio (Auto configured) from the list crashes MC instantly!

I have RO HQ selected but not +Additional filters at this stage.

R

Can confirm that FFDShow(Autoconfigured) is not greyed out and if you select it it crashed (RO + Additiona Features on my test box)

[jmone]

FYI we seem to be missing the ability to "Add" TV in the Items to Show for Theater View

[kensn]

When watching MKVs (ripped from DVDs with Handbrake) with RO in HQ mode, I have experienced "brief stopping of the video" until clicking into the window, and when going "back" in theater view playback stopping.

These items were not an issue with previous versions...

But I must say ... when playing looks really, really good....

Ken

[xplain]

Backdrops for danish tv series is now working, thank you very much guys.

Subtitles is also now working on my MKV files if i set RO in HQ, if I set set
it to RO (Standard), they are not showing.

Thomas

I'm on win 7

[Yaobing]

When watching live TV  and I right-click and select Filters, selecting FFDShow Video or Audio (Auto configured) from the list crashes MC instantly!

I have RO HQ selected but not +Additional filters at this stage.

Confirmed.  With RO, we need to disable the property pages, just like we do in playing other video types.

[vagskal]

When having a file path category pane no distinction is made in the file list between a folder named "Björk" and A folder named "Bjork", i.e. the albums in the "Björk" folder show up in the "Bjork" folder and vice versa. When expanding the folders in the pane only the sub folders in the parent folder are displayed. It is a bit hard to explain in words so I attach a screen shot.

[JohnT]

Can confirm that FFDShow(Autoconfigured) is not greyed out and if you select it it crashed (RO + Additiona Features on my test box)

Darn, I think I broke this.  Fix coming on Monday.

[petrossa]

When watching MKVs (ripped from DVDs with Handbrake) with RO in HQ mode, I have experienced "brief stopping of the video" until clicking into the window, and when going "back" in theater view playback stopping.

similar issue with avi's. (no mkv in it). The video stops for a few seconds but the sounds goes on. Later the video catches up with the sound if you don't do anything. Happens about 6 to 10 times in a standard length video.

[maid]

MC stops responding and then shuts down when pressing stop during a movie.

[petrossa]

MC stops responding and then shuts down when pressing stop during a movie.

Here too. Was in theater view.

[BryanC]

Here too. Was in theater view.

This happens to me sometimes. I get an error "Failed to Open Direct3D Playback Device" when leaving theater view.

[lise]

I'm having major issues with this version.

When I select Rename, Move & Copy Files and rename them such that they are moved onto a networked drive, MC is taking a good 5 minutes per track if not more and consistently crashes Windows Explorer if I try using the latter during the move.  If I wait it out, I am notified that the move has not taken place and the filename reverts to what it was.  Granted, the network speed between my laptop and the networked computer isn't the greatest, but it hasn't changed and I never encountered this issue.  I checked network settings and the other computer is accessible.

It's almost as though MC is on hold while it moves the files (unsuccessfully), whereas it never was before. I guess the move is no longer being done in the background or something.

Win7, 64bit.

[Matt]

I'm having major issues with this version.

When I select Rename, Move & Copy Files and rename them such that they are moved onto a networked drive, MC is taking a good 5 minutes per track if not more and consistently crashes Windows Explorer if I try using the latter during the move.  If I wait it out, I am notified that the move has not taken place and the filename reverts to what it was.  Granted, the network speed between my laptop and the networked computer isn't the greatest, but it hasn't changed and I never encountered this issue.  I checked network settings and the other computer is accessible.

It's almost as though MC is on hold while it moves the files (unsuccessfully), whereas it never was before. I guess the move is no longer being done in the background or something.

Win7, 64bit.

You might test moving files outside Media Center, because this sounds like a hardware problem.

Start a new thread if we should dig deeper.

Thanks.

[JimH]

I'm having major issues with this version.

When I select Rename, Move & Copy Files and rename them such that they are moved onto a networked drive, MC is taking a good 5 minutes per track if not more and consistently crashes Windows Explorer if I try using the latter during the move.  If I wait it out, I am notified that the move has not taken place and the filename reverts to what it was.  Granted, the network speed between my laptop and the networked computer isn't the greatest, but it hasn't changed and I never encountered this issue.  I checked network settings and the other computer is accessible.

It's almost as though MC is on hold while it moves the files (unsuccessfully), whereas it never was before. I guess the move is no longer being done in the background or something.

Win7, 64bit.

Double check all the relevant settings. 

Try rebooting everything.  I'll move this to a new thread.  I don't think anything has changed that could affect this.