ErsatzTV/legacy v0.8.6-beta

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Release Notes

Added

• Add show_studio and show_content_rating to search index for seasons and episodes
• Add two new global subtitle settings:
  • Use embedded subtitles
    • Default value: true
    • When disabled, embedded subtitles will not be considered for extraction (text subtitles), or playback (all embedded subtitles)
  • Extract and use embedded (text) subtitles
    • Default value: false
    • When enabled, embedded text subtitles will be periodically extracted, and considered for playback
• Add sub_language and sub_language_tag fields to search index
• Add /iptv request logging in its own log category at debug level
• Add channel guide (XMLTV) template system
  • Templates should be copied from _channel.sbntxt, _movie.sbntxt, _episode.sbntxt, _musicVideo.sbntxt, _song.sbntxt, or _otherVideo.sbntxt which are located in the config subfolder templates/channel-guide
    • Copy the file, remove the leading underscore from the name, and only make edits to the copied file
  • The default templates will be extracted and overwritten every time ErsatzTV is started
  • The templates use scribian template syntax
  • The templates contain comments describing which fields are available for use in the templates
• Add experimental and incomplete Images library kind
  • Image libraries have fallback metadata added like Other Video libraries (every folder is a tag)
  • Image library items currently default to a duration of 15 seconds
    • The Media > Images page can be used to configure image durations at a folder level
    • Child folders with unset durations will inherit the closest ancestor's duration
• Add experimental new streaming mode HLS Segmenter V2
  • In my initial testing, this streaming mode produces significantly fewer playback warnings/errors
  • If it tests well for others, it may replace the current HLS Segmenter in a future release
• Add setting to change XMLTV data from Local time zone to UTC
  • This is needed because some clients (incorrectly) ignore time zone specifier and require UTC times
• Support .ogv video files in local libraries

Fixed

• Fix antiforgery error caused by reusing existing browser tabs across docker container restarts
  • Data protection keys will now be persisted under ErsatzTV's config folder instead of being recreated at startup
• Fix bug updating/replacing Jellyfin movies
  • A deep scan can be used to fix all movies, otherwise any future updates made to JF movies will correctly sync to ETV
• Automatically generate JWT tokens to allow channel previews of protected streams
• Fix bug applying music video fallback metadata
• Fix playback of media items with no audio streams
• Fix timestamp continuity in HLS Segmenter sessions
  • This should make some clients happier
• Fix Other Video, Song and Image fallback metadata tags to always include parent folder (folder added to library)
• Allow playback of items with any positive duration, including less than one second
• Fix VAAPI transcoding of OTA content containing A53 CC data
• Fix AV1 software decoder priority (libdav1d, libaom-av1, av1)
• Fix some stream failures caused by loudnorm filter
• Fix multi-collection editor improperly disabling collections/smart collections that haven't already been added to the multi-collection
• Fix path replacement logic when media server paths use inconsistent casing (e.g. \\SERVERNAME AND \\ServerName)
• Fix many search queries, including actors with the name Will
• Fix sqlite database is locked error that would crash ETV on startup after search index corruption
• Fix bug where replacing files in Plex would be missed by subsequent ETV library scans
  • This fix will require a one-time re-scan of each Plex library in full
  • After the initial full scan, incremental scans will behave as normal
• Fix edge case where some local episodes, music videos, other videos, songs, images would not automatically be restored from trash
• Fix MPEG-TS playback when JWT tokens are enabled for streaming endpoints

Changed

• Log search index updates under scanner category at debug level, to indicate a potential cause for the UI being out of date
• Batch search index updates to keep pace with library scans
  • Previously, search index updates would slowly process over minutes/hours after library scans completed
  • Search index updates should now complete at the same time as library scans
• Do not unnecessarily update the search index during media server library scans
• Use different library for reading song metadata that supports multiple tag entries
• Update /iptv routing to make UI completely inaccessible from that path prefix
• Use CUDA 11 instead of CUDA 12 in NVIDIA docker image to significantly lower required driver version
• Allow block durations with 5-minute increments (e.g., 5 min, 10 min, 15 min, etc.)