J. River Media Center 21.0.86

J. River Media Center 21.0.86

JRiver Media Center 21 – all-in-one media management app turns any Windows PC into an entertainment hub for complete control of your digital media: Audio, Video, Images, and Television. It connects PC to stereo, TV, remote control devices, digital cameras, scanners, and portable MP3 players. It plays all media, rips, burns, and organizes all your music, images, and video. MC encodes and plays all popular media formats. Powerful utilities include Media Server for streaming music and images to remote PCs. Media Center is more than a world class player. It’s also a Media Network, a whole house music, movie, TV, and photo solution. The leader in audiophile quality sound. The most powerful media database available; an essential tool for large collections.

 

Features:

Audio
* Native support of DirectShow DSP filters
* Audiophile – WASAPI exclusive output using high-end USB DACs
* Audiophile – Added ability to play files from memory instead of disk
* Audiophile – Support for high end USB DAC’s with WASAPI
* Headphone DSP makes listening more natural and comfortable.
* SoundcardSwitch command for the launcher, allows soundcard selection
* 3D album view adjusts text size to display more tracks when necessary
* 3D album view allows playing, adding, shuffling, and adding as next to play

Images
* Image Preview allows zoom from a thumbnail to rotate, delete, compare, edit, and more
* Image thumbnail frames (optional)
* Photoshop PSD file support
* Single command copy / send to an editor like Photoshop, and stack new image with original

Video
* Video tagging using sidecar files
* Chapter Support for MKV and MP4
* Chapters added to On Screen Display
* Info Panel displays metadata

Television
* Added new “watched” column to metadata
* EPG can automatically retrieve XMLTV data
* Automatic correlation of XML channel names and MC channel names
* Info Panel displays metadata, including TV program art
* TV program art from YADB

Theater View
* Watch Hulu and YouTube from Theater View
* Customizable nested views in Theater View
* Customizable File Info panel to display metadata
* Speed and quality enhancements
* Custom backgrounds
* Touch screen support
* On screen clock

Remotes and Servers
* Wiki articles: Remotes and Servers
* Remote Relay using IR transceivers for controlling a set top box or receiver
* Remote Setup Wizard
* Media Center Remote learning and blasting
* Media Center can connect to another Media Center to act as a remote (TRemote)
* New HID remote control plug-in – supports shortcuts with keyboard, mouse, & gamepad
* Remote control with REST based Web Service Interface in Library Server
* Library Server supports read and write to allow for shared, multi-user database access
* DLNA added to the UPnP Server
* Library Server clients can write changes back to server
* Library Server connections allow playback on server as Playing Now zones




Changelog:

v21.0.86 (2016-05-31)

• Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo Tsuchiya).
• Changed (internal): Stream lined some code in television engine.  Changed the way DirectShow graph is started.
• Changed: Default TV video format is specified in 16:9 aspect ratio instead of 4:3 so that 16:9 channels will not go through a two-stage video positioning process.
• Fixed: Audio in video files could cut out shortly before the end of the file, instead of playing to the end.
• Fixed: Made TIF files get imported and played as TIF even if they have the JPEG extension.
• Changed: Updated German translation (thanks Andreas!).
• Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo Tsuchiya).
• Changed: Media Center downloads _all_ data files on library server, but shows a progress dialog while it works so that you can cancel if you don't want that.
• Changed: Updated German translation (thanks bytestar!).

v21.0.85 (2016-05-25)

• Changed: Reverted this feature until some issues get sorted: Clicking the header of a full row list item parent (the album name by artist) will select all the files in the grouping.
• Changed: Updated Slovak translation (thanks Peter Lukac).

v21.0.84 (2016-05-25)

• NEW: North American television channels (ATSC) now carry the transport stream ID and audio and video PIDs.  One can now specify which audio stream to be played by default by editing the audio PID on the channel.
• Changed: (Internal change only) DVB television channel parameters are slightly rearranged internally.  No effect should be noticed by users.  Please report any unusual behaviors though.
• Fixed: Theater View could get stuck in a lost device state instead of recovering the device after the screensaver engages.
• Changed: Updated German translation (thanks Andreas!).
• Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks Kazuo Tsuchiya).
• Changed: Updated French translation (thanks p.v.).
• Changed: Switched the limit to download a data file at playback time to 5 MB from 1 MB.
• Changed: Clicking the header of a full row list item parent (the album name by artist) will select all the files in the grouping.
• Changed: The "TV Logs" for standard television view can be sorted by clicking column headers.
• Changed: The "TV Logs" view is displayed in reverse chronological order by default, with the latest entries on top.
• Changed: Added more events (no tuners found for recording, lower priority recording stopped to allow higher priority recording to start, etc.) that are logged in "TV Logs".
• Changed: The "Show name" column in "TV Logs" will include Series name if it exists.
• Fixed: A portable install would fail doing tag updates if the file was on the same drive as the install.
• Changed: Red October updated to LAV Filters 0.68.1 (minor fixes and improvements only).
• Changed: Red October HQ updated to madVR 0.90.20.

Homepage: http://www.jriver.com
Changelog: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=105266.0

Release Date: 2016-06-02

OS: Windows / Mac OS X / Linux
Language: Multilingual
Download Page: http://www.jriver.com/download.html

DOWNLOAD (Windows):
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Installer (28.04 MB): http://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v21/latest/MediaCenter210086.exe

Patch (910 KB):