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MediaPortal 2 Spring of '16 Release
Summary of changes
Compared to the Summer'15 Update 1 Release, this release brings a lot of fixes and features:gear-icon
Skin engine:
New window mode, toggle between them by "ALT-Enter":
Windowed always on top
Windowed (normal)
Fullscreen
Windowed modes keep aspect ratio of Skin and position/size will be restored after restart
Fixed wrong MP2 window size after sleep/resume cycle due to resolution changes
Added feature to prevent focus stealing during startup phase
Updated freetype library to fix occasional crashes
Switched texture loading back to GDI (with fallback to FreeImage) to improve decoding performance
Added new feature to specify Texture alignment in images sources
Extended IScreenControl to allow temporary disabling "TopMost" behavior of MP2 main form (used for OnlineVideos)
Fixed logging of shader load errors
Video playback:
Updated TsReader for smoother playback of TV and recordings
Refresh Rate Changer got extended configuration options to allow custom refresh rate mappings (i.e. 25 fps -> 50 Hz, or 23 fps -> 24 Hz)
Added support for external subtitles by xy-VSfilter
Added new shortcuts to video fullscreen: "Yellow" to toggle subs, "Blue" to toggle audio streams
Media Library:
Major improvements to Image Player: player starts in "still" mode, allows skipping forward/backward through images. "Play" starts the known slide show. Automatically create playlist to play all audio or image items from current view.
New filter for audio "Album Artist"
Extended support for IMDB-id detection of non-xml .nfo files
Extended online lookup support at TheMovieDb by using tmdb ids
Hide "playlists" action from non-media screens
Extended SeriesMetadataExtractor to support user defined regular expressions and pre- and post-match text replacements (to clean up filenames)
Fixed possible NRE in MKV tag handling
Fixed potential crash for imports of UNC locations when checking for IsVirtualSource
Improved memory caching logic to avoid "out of memory" for large imports
Fixed Resource Server that could return wrong url in some cases (fixes loading of fanart / channel logos)
Changed streaming parameters for remote resource bridge (trying to fix interruption of media playback in multiseat)
Updates and fixes for SlimTV / TVE 3:
Updated core to MP1.14 version
Added option to hide "All Channels" group
Added new feature to show episode information in TV guide and recording planning
Improved schedules management: added scheduled programs list / series view
Extended recordings screen to show more details (channel, recording times),
Fixed occasional synchronisation issue of channels when switching groups
Fixed page up/down, home/end navigation inside EPG view
Fixed tuning details filenames due to wrong zip encoding
Internal changes to use ILocalFsResourceAccessor for files, while rtsp streams still use INetworkResourceAccessor
Reworked group / channel / zap handling to use correct group and channel indexes
Changes to UPnP system (removed IP affiinity in some calls to improve device detection, sending UPnP "update configuration" after resume from standby to improve reconnection)
Fixed user priorities (solves conflicts with EPG grabber and tuning requests)
Fixed recording/canceling of programs of series schedules
Disabled redundant TV Thumbnail creation (done by MP2)
Fixed endless loop in recording management if folder is missing
Fixed storing/reading of some settings due to case-sensitive DB storage.
BlueVision skin:
Implemented animated page transitions and seamless navigation between home pages
Fixed help label overlapping
Fixed flickering of "currently playing" group button and changed the icon
More fine tuning in all themes
Using new ImageSourceWrapper for smooth transitions of fanart images
Moved player controls into new "currently playing" screen (right button in top group menu), so they don't overlap footer contents
Added help texts for menu items to make features clearer to new users
New "Windows 10" theme
OnlineVideos 2
Added BrowserPlayer support for MP2, sites like Amazon Prime and Netflix should be working fine
Added support for placing BrowserPlayer above the MP2 GUI
New plugins:
Added UPnP renderer plugin
Emulators plugin available for download
Installer:
Fixed detection of x86 VC redistributables on x64 systems.
Removed license link from initial dialog
MCE remote support:
Fixed duplicated "next" / "previous" key handling
Reduced logging to log unmapped keys only once
Improved compatibility with some remotes by handling "Windows" keys properly