ErsatzTV/ErsatzTV v0.8.3-beta

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Release Notes

Added

• Add Scaling Behavior option to FFmpeg Profile
  • Scale and Pad: the default behavior and will maintain aspect ratio of all content
  • Stretch: a new mode that will NOT maintain aspect ratio when normalizing source content to the desired resolution
  • Crop: a new mode that will scale beyond the desired resolution (maintaining aspect ratio), and crop to desired resolution
    • This mode does NOT detect black and intelligently crop
    • The goal is to fill the canvas by over-scaling and cropping, instead of minimally scaling and padding
• Include inputstream.ffmpegdirect properties in channels.m3u when requested by Kodi
• Log playout item title and path when starting a stream
  • This will help with media server libraries where the URL passed to ffmpeg doesn't indicate which file is streaming
• Add QSV Capabilities to Troubleshooting page
• Add language_tag and seconds fields to search index
• Allow synchronizing Plex TV Show libraries that use Personal Media Shows agent
• Include Noto CJK Fonts in docker images to support those characters in generated subtitles like songs and music video credits
• Support show fallback metadata with folder names like Show.Name(1992)

Fixed

• Fix playout bug that caused some schedule items with fixed start times to be pushed to the next day
• Fix playout bug that prevented padded durations from fitting within a schedule item of the same duration
  • For example, filler that padded to 30 minutes would often not fit in a 30 minute duration schedule item
• Fix VAAPI transcoding 8-bit source content to 10-bit
• Fix NVIDIA subtitle scaling when scale_npp filter is unavailable
• Remove ffmpeg and ffprobe as required dependencies for scanning media server libraries
  • Note that ffmpeg is still always required for playback to work
• Fix PGS subtitle pixel format with Intel VAAPI
• Fix some cases where Copy button would fail to copy to clipboard
• Fix some cases where ffmpeg process would remain running after properly closing ErsatzTV
• Fix QSV HLS segment duration
  • This behavior caused extremely slow QSV stream starts
• Fix displaying multiple languages in UI for movies, artists, shows
• Fix MySQL queries that could fail during media server library scans
• Fix scanning Jellyfin libraries when library options and/or path infos are not returned from Jellyfin API
• Fix error indexing music videos in File Not Found state
• Fix bug scheduling duration filler when filler collection contains item with zero duration
• Fix bug displaying television seasons for shows that have no year metadata

Changed

• Upgrade ffmpeg to 6.1, which is now required for all installs
• Use new ffmpeg throttling method to minimize cpu/gpu use without impacting audio normalization
• Change FFmpeg Profile Normalize Loudness setting from checkbox to dropdown
  • Off: do not normalize loudness
  • loudnorm: use loudnorm filter to normalize loudness (generally higher CPU use)
  • dynaudnorm: use dynaudnorm filter to normalize loudness (generally lower CPU use)
• Jellyfin collection scanning will no longer happen after every (automatic or forced) library scan
  • Automatic/periodic scans will check collections one time after all libraries have been scanned
  • There is a new table in the Media > Libraries page with a button to manually re-scan Jellyfin collections as needed
• In FFmpeg Profile editor, only display hardware acceleration kinds that are supported by the configured ffmpeg
• Test QSV acceleration if configured, and fallback to software mode if test fails
• Detect QSV capabilities on Linux (supported decoders, encoders)
• Use hardware acceleration for error messages/offline messages
• Try to parse season number from season folder when Jellyfin does not provide season number
  • This may fix issues where Jellyfin libraries show all season numbers as 0 (specials)
• Rework Plex collection scanning
  • Automatic/periodic scans will check collections one time after all libraries have been scanned
  • There is a table in the Media > Libraries page with a button to manually re-scan Plex collections as needed
  • Plex smart collections will now be synchronized as tags, similar to other Plex collections