ErsatzTV/legacy v0.5.0-beta

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Release Notes

Fixed

• Fix HLS Segmenter bug where it would drift off of the schedule if a playout was changed while the segmenter was running
• Ensure clients that use HDHomeRun emulation (like Plex) always get an MPEG-TS stream, regardless of the configured streaming mode
• Fix scheduling bug that caused some days to be skipped when fixed start times were used with fallback filler

Added

• Add Preferred Subtitle Language and Subtitle Mode to channel settings
  • Preferred Subtitle Language will filter all subtitle streams based on language
  • Subtitle Mode will further filter subtitle streams based on attributes (forced, default)
  • If picture-based subtitles are found after filtering, they will be burned into the video stream
• Detect non-zero ffmpeg exit code from HLS Segmenter and MPEG-TS, log error output and display error output on stream
• Add Watermark setting to schedule items; this allows override the channel watermark. Watermark priority is:
  • Schedule Item
  • Channel
  • Global

Changed

• Remove legacy transcoder logic option; all channels will use the new transcoder logic
• Renamed channel setting Preferred Language to Preferred Audio Language
• Reworked playout build logic to maintain collection progress in some scenarios. There are now three build modes:
  • Continue - add new items to the end of an existing playout
    • This mode is used when playouts are automatically extended in the background
  • Refresh - this mode will try to maintain collection progress while rebuilding the entire playout
    • This mode is used when a schedule is updated, or when collection modifications trigger a playout rebuild
  • Reset - this mode will rebuild the entire playout and will NOT maintain progress
    • This mode is only used when the Reset Playout button is clicked on the Playouts page
  • This requires rebuilding all playouts, which will happen on startup after upgrading
• Use ffmpeg to resize images; this should help reduce ErsatzTV's memory use
• Use ffprobe to check for animated logos and watermarks; this should help reduce ErsatzTV's memory use
• Allow two decimals in channel numbers (e.g. 5.73)