Overview

MP 2.1 Pre Release was published on 31.12.2016 with a breakthrough in media management.

Changes

Added new aspects (genre, transient, ) and overworked existing ones; added connections between the aspects
Importer settings allowing to specify online sources or usage of local information
A lot more media information and FanArts (albums, artists, series, directs, descriptions...)

Overworked "BlueVision" skin and "Win10" theme
Added slide menus for better navigation with remote or keyboard
Removed "Titanium" skin, added "Titanium Extended" theme for "BlueVision" skin
Improved header and menu texts and translations
Added new "WMC" skin
Home menu with WMC typical navigation
Home Menu Editor, that allows you to configure the Home Menu to your needs
Skin Settings, that allow to configure the visual appearance to your needs, e.g. switch between poster and banner in most views
Fixed: BV slide menu doesn't work with mouse
Fixed: WMC top menu not updating on items change (playback items remain visible)

Added support for Text Trimming
Added support for Smooth Scrolling
Added virtual item indicators
Added IsRecording indicator
Support for Scroll Margins allowing to see the next scrollable media items as preview
MP2-532: Add RestoreFocus property to ItemsControls
MP2-521: Added support for MultiTrigger
MP2-517: Implement texture alignment in ImageSource
MP2-538: Allow trigger, if value equal null
MP2-541: Improved fanart allocation in skins
Fixed: Potential OOM exception when trying to load certain textures
Fixed: saved sorting not restored
Fixed: sorting of filter items not working
Fixed: Incorrect FanArt being shown on client
Fixed: Flag/icon for manually set media information not updated
Fixed: registration of routed events
Fixed: MP2-529 Exception when switching from maximised window to fullscreen
Fixed: trigger exit-action bug that prevented starting actions (e.g. animations on exit)

Added (Partly-) Watched flags
Added Percentage Played indicators
Added quick "remote filters" inside all media views like in Moving Pictures, "starts with" and "contains" filters (number keys, (, *, #, §, Escape)
Hide "Series" and "Movies" from "Videos" section, also "Recordings"
Extended search screens to use fast attribute based search (instead of global approach)
Fixed: latest movies and recordings thumbnails not displayed on home screen
Fixed: downloading of episode thumbnails
Fixed: wrong local FanArt used
Fixed: MediaInfo returning decimal values for mkv duration
Fixed: Possible race condition in FanArt count
Fixed: Possible NRE in GetHashCode info helpers
Fixed: series metadata overwritten by incorrect online match
Fixed: language settings are ignored for Importer Language
Fixed: duplicate episode entries in TvDB library and naming issues in GUI
Fixed: missing Series attributes
Fixed: FanArt downloads not ending
Fixed: parsing incorrect year from some Imdb ids

Added support for Closed Captions in video players
Added MPC Subtitle engine allowing usage of external subtitles
Added support for Clickable Progress Bar in players
Rearranged some settings (removed "DvdPlayer" section and moved entries to generic "Video Player" part)
Added ComSkip support in VideoPlayer
Prepare rendering for multi-plane video player (for BD Player integration)

Improved navigation inside EpgGrid when moving up/down through programs
Added support for Argus and WMC recordings, they will be added to recordings section
Added group button to switch between channel groups
MP2-528: Added EPG time axis
Added IsRecording indicator for WMC and BV skin
Added support for zapping by channel index or logical number (configurable by user)
Fixed: NRE when stopping live TV (related to resume position and multi part playback)
Fixed: live TV subtitles not enumerated and always enabled
Fixed: crash on TV stop
Fixed: exception thrown when zapping
Fixed: ComSkip chapter reading
Fixed: DirectShow filter loading (TV, Recordings) on Win7
Fixed: TV / recording playback on Windows 7 systems
Fixed: subtitle settings not respected in TV player

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