ErsatzTV/ErsatzTV-legacy v0.8.5-beta

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Release Notes

Added

• Respect browser's Accept-Language header for date time display
• Add new schedule item setting Fill With Group Mode
  • This setting is only available when a Collection, Multi-Collection or Smart Collection is scheduled with Duration or Multiple playout modes
  • Use this setting when you want to schedule a collection containing groups (show or artists), with only videos from a single group (show or artist) being used in each rotation
  • The options are None, Ordered Groups and Shuffled Groups:
    • None: no change to scheduling behavior - all groups (shows and artists) will be shuffled/ordered together
    • Ordered Groups: each time this item is scheduled, the entire Duration or Multiple will be filled with a single group, and the groups will rotate in a fixed order
    • Shuffled Groups: each time this item is scheduled, the entire Duration or Multiple will be filled with a single group, and the groups will rotate in a shuffled order
• Add new playout type External Json
  • Use this playout type when you want to manage the channel schedule using DizqueTV
  • You must point ErsatzTV to the channel number json file from DizqueTV, e.g. channels/1.json
  • For playback, ErsatzTV will first check for the appropriate media file file locally
    • If found, ErsatzTV will run ffprobe to get statistics immediately before streaming from disk
  • When local files are unavailable, ErsatzTV must be logged into the same Plex server as DizqueTV
    • ErsatzTV will ask Plex for statistics immediately before streaming from Plex
• Add new experimental playout type Block
  • This playout type is under active development and updates may reset or delete related playout data
  • Many planned features are missing, incomplete, or result in errors. This is expected.
  • Block playouts consist of:
    • Blocks - ordered list of items to play within the specified duration
    • Templates - a generic "day" that consists of blocks scheduled at specific times
    • Playout Templates - templates to schedule using the specified criteria. Only one template will be selected each day
  • Much more to come on this feature as development continues
• Show chapter markers in movie and episode media info
• Add two new API endpoints for interacting with transcoding sessions (MPEG-TS and HLS Segmenter):
  • GET /api/sessions
    • Show brief info about all active sessions
  • DELETE /api/session/{channel-number}
    • Stop the session for the given channel number
• Add channel preview (web-based video player)
  • Channels MUST use H264 video format and AAC audio format
  • Channels MUST use MPEG-TS or HLS Segmenter streaming modes
    • Since MPEG-TS uses HLS Segmenter under the hood, the preview player will use HLS Segmenter, so it's not 100% equivalent, but it should be representative
• Add button to stop transcoding session for each channel that has an active session
• Add more log levels to Settings page, allowing more specific debug logging as needed
  • Default Minimum Log Level (applies when no other categories/level overrides match)
  • Scanning Minimum Log Level
  • Scheduling Minimum Log Level
  • Streaming Minimum Log Level

Fixed

• Fix error loading path replacements when using MySql
• Fix tray icon shortcut to open logs folder on Windows
• Unlock playout when playout build fails
• Ignore errors deleting old HLS segments; this should improve stream reliability
• Update show year when changed within Plex
• Fix crop scale behavior with NVIDIA, QSV acceleration
• Fix bug that corrupted uploaded images (watermarks, channel logos)
  • Re-uploading images should fix them
• Recreate XMLTV channel list (including logos) when channels are edited in ErsatzTV
  • This bug caused the ErsatzTV logo to be used instead of channel logos in some cases
• Update drop down search results in main search bar when items are created/edited/removed
• Fix green line at bottom of video when NVIDIA accel is used with intermittent watermark
• Fix error starting streaming session when subtitles are still being extracted for the current item

Changed

• Upgrade from .NET 7 to .NET 8
• In schedule items, disambiguate seasons from shows with the same title by including show year
  • Old format: Show Title (Season Number)
  • New format: Show Title (Show Year) - Season Number
• Remove FFmpeg Profile Normalize Loudness option dynaudnorm as it often caused streams to fail to start
• Disable loudness normalization by default in new FFmpeg Profiles
• Use AAC audio format by default in new FFmpeg Profiles