Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The builds 170-171

13.0.171 (05/27/2009)

1. Fixed: When doing a license restore for Media Center 13 with a Media Center 14 license, the registration information dialog would not show the correct information.
2. Fixed: With MC set to use Internal Volume, television volume was not properly set when starting or stopping time-shifting.
3. Fixed: After manually starting television time-shifting, OSD message "Waiting..." stayed on forever.
4. Fixed: Analog television sometimes could be displayed in a tiny window.
5. Fixed: For some analog television devices, the Crop Edges setting failed to take effect on initial start up of television playback.
6. Fixed: Switching monitor during television time-shifting would cause MC to lose its Internal Volume setting, creating loud sound in some instances.

13.0.170 (05/20/2009)

1. Fixed: MC crashed when failing to play an audio file in J. River audio engine (using DirectShow filters).
2. Fixed: Rare re-entrance problem related to television playback when exiting MC.
3. Fixed: OSD menu drawing problem when switching from a memu item of larger size to one of smaller size.
4. Fixed: When building thumbnails in a list of grouped thumbnails, sometimes a thumbnail wouldn't fill in until it was redrawn by mousing over.
5. Updated: German language files courtesy bytestar.
6. NEW: Will work with an MC v14 license.
7. Fixed: If multiple files were selected the EXPAND and COLLAPSE stack options would not always appear.
8. Fixed: Search for stack files was broken.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

The builds 167-169

13.0.169 (05/12/2009)

1. Fixed: French DVB-T television tuning did not work.
2. Fixed: Changing television channel using OSD menu did not work unless Enter key was pressed within 2 seconds of displaying the channel info. Now it should work as long as the channel info is in display (5 seconds).

13.0.168 (05/11/2009)

1. Changed: Increased the maximum memory size of loadable PNG images from 256 MB to 1 GB.
2. Fixed: Installer now displays J. River when viewed in explorer.
3. NEW: OSD Menu handles Enter key. It can be used to execute certain commands when OSD menu is in display. Only implemented for televison channel switching and for showing DVD Menu.
4. Changed: Television "Programs" OSD menu will no longer automatically switch to last displayed program.
5. Changed: OSD menu stays on screen for longer time.
6. Fixed: When converting CUE files, the resulting filename could be incorrect.
7. Fixed: Converting using the external encoder could use a .dat extension instead of the extension specified in options.
8. Fixed: Some VST Plug-ins could crash or work incorrectly.
9. Fixed: The help links on pages like "Playlists" didn't jump to the correct location in the wiki.

13.0.167 (05/07/2009)

1. Fixed: ID3v2 tagging could discard the # tracks / # discs portion of the track # and disc # when tagging.
2. Fixed: When first installing a VST Plug-in, it was not possible to enable it for processing without restarting playback.
3. Fixed: VST Plug-ins that exposed more inputs and outputs than the current output format could crash.
4. Fixed: When pausing audio playback, if it performed buffering while paused, it could switch the playback state back to play.
5. Fixed: Setting the mute value to -1 (to mean true) from the automation SDK did not work nicely.
6. Fixed: Television channel scanning did not work for the last few builds.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

The builds 162-166

13.0.166 (05/06/2009)

1. Fixed: With the ripping option to overwrite existing files enabled some encoders would not work. (only applies to last few builds)
2. Fixed: Using incomplete math syntax like "3 /" or "2+1+" could cause problems in expressions.
3. Changed: DSP Plug-ins are always loaded from the main user interface. (solves problems with plugins that create user interface at load instead of when requested by Media Center like DFX)
4. Optimized: Improved performance of J. River edit / expression controls.

13.0.165 (05/05/2009)

1. Changed: Upgrades to HTML parser used for RSS feeds in Theater View. (Yahoo! News, The Onion, etc.)
2. Changed: Improved Theater View's support of The Onion in the News plug-in.
3. Changed: The burn complete dialog that prompts for Burn / Print Label / Quit is not shown if the burn completes while in Display View or Theater View.
4. Changed: When Theater View is showing, Standard View style wait messages will not appear.
5. Changed: Pressing the space bar on a J. River style button, checkbox, etc. will be considered a click.
6. Fixed: Theater View's Weather configuration dialog did not support tabbed navigation.

13.0.164 (05/04/2009)

1. Fixed: Showing Theater View on systems without DirectX 9 (or later) installed could cause a crash.
2. Fixed: WMA encoding would not work properly on a fresh install (only applies to the last few builds).
3. Fixed: Encoding could crash in certain cases (only applies to the last few builds).
4. Changed: If television is configured to automatically refresh the programming guide, it will do so once a day OR if there are no programs available (retries every 30 minutes if there are no programs).
5. Changed: Shortened the portable install description in the installer so it fits better with larger fonts.
6. Changed: Switched the Austria country code used for mc2xml to AT.
7. NEW: Added CD burning in Theater View. (use "Burn" item in roller of any file view)
8. NEW: Added CD ripping in Theater View. (pick "DVD" with an audio CD in the drive and then select "Rip disc")
9. Fixed: Corrected a typo on the new Converter options page.
10. Changed: Reverted to also looking in the legacy Media Jukebox location for DSP Plug-ins to better support DFX, etc.
11. Fixed: When installing a new skin from a webpage, the change did not take effect until restarting the program.
12. Fixed: Album grouping / album expansion could cause problems when using Google Images from the Links bar to set the cover art for a video.

13.0.163 (05/01/2009)

1. NEW: Revamped Converter, so that it has nicer options and the ability to process up to 8 files at the same time.
2. NEW: Added a "Programs" OSD menu item for television. Left/right arrows cycle through Favorite Channels (or all channels if you have no favorite channels) with Now/Next program info. MC automatically switches to the last channel you stop at.
3. Fixed: Playing Now / playlists lists could empty and not refresh properly in certain cases. (only applies to last couple of builds)
4. Changed: Revised the internal system that provides ideal sizes for controls when laying out user interface. (should be internal change, but please report any issues)
5. Fixed: Extremely loud sound was produced when playing an audio track that was mistyped as non-audio while Volume Leveling was turned on.

13.0.162 (04/30/2009)

1. NEW: Added native support for VST plug-ins. Add plug-ins in Plug-in Manager and configure inside DSP Studio.
2. Changed: Television OSD channel/program info display uses bold and italic font for words "Playing now:"/"Recording now:" and "Next:".
3. Changed: The "Add Plug-in" button in Plug-in Manager will prompt for UAC elevation so plugins get registered as administrator (where they have proper HKLM registry access).
4. Changed: Renamed "out_MJ.dll" to "out_Main.dll" and "dsp_MJMain.dll" to "out_Main.dll" for consistency. (should be internal change, but please report any issues)
5. Optimized: DSP plug-ins are only loaded when enabled or viewed, so having a long list of installed DSPs (VST, Winamp, or J. River) has no performance impact.
6. Changed: Revised how plug-ins that contain multiple plug-ins inside a single DLL register themselves to accommodate #5. (each plug-in uses its own registry key instead of all plugins sharing a key and the program loading and enumerating at run time)
7. Changed: DSP plug-ins installed to the legacy location (Media Jukebox) are no longer loaded.
8. NEW: Added a status in DSP Studio to show if a plug-in is processing data, if it failed to load, if it doesn't support the input format, etc.