ErsatzTV/legacy v25.9.0

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Release Notes

Added

• Show playout warnings count badge in left menu
• Graphics Engine:
  • Add MediaItem_Resolution template data (the current Resolution variable is the FFmpeg Profile resolution)
  • Add MediaItem_Start template data (DateTimeOffset)
  • Add MediaItem_Stop template data (DateTimeOffset)
  • Add ScaledResolution template data (the final size of the frame before padding)
  • Add place_within_source_content (true/false) field to image graphics element
  • Add name field to all graphics elements to display in the UI
• Classic and block schedules: add collection type Search Query
  • This allows defining search queries directly on schedule items without creating smart collections beforehand
  • As an example, this can be used to filter or combine existing smart collections
    • Filter: smart_collection:"sd movies" AND plot:"christmas"
    • Combine: smart_collection:"old commercials" OR smart_collection:"nick promos"
• Scripted schedules: add custom_title to start_epg_group
• Add MPEG-TS Script system
  • This allows using something other than ffmpeg (e.g. streamlink) to concatenate segments back together when using MPEG-TS streaming mode
  • Scripts live in config / scripts / mpegts
  • Each script gets its own subfolder which contains an mpegts.yml definition and corresponding windows (batch) and linux (bash) scripts
  • The global MPEG-TS script can be configured in Settings > FFmpeg > Default MPEG-TS Script
• Add .avs AviSynth Script support to all local libraries
  • .avs was added as a valid extension, so they should behave the same any other video file
  • There are two requirements for AviSynth Scripts to work:
    • FFmpeg needs to be compiled with AviSynth support (not currently available in Docker)
    • AviSynth itself needs to be installed
• Add Troubleshoot button to classic schedule list
  • This generates JSON representing the entire schedule which can be shared when requested for troubleshooting
• Add Settings > FFmpeg > Probe For Interlaced Frames
  • When enabled, this will probe local content for interlaced frames on demand (immediately before playback)
  • This will be used as a more accurate check for interlaced content
  • The result will be cached (only probed once and stored) in the database along with all other media item statistics (e.g. duration)
  • This feature will currently ignore content that is not streamed from disk
• Add error/offline background customization
  • Default error background is now named _background.png
  • Error streams will prioritize using background.png if it exists
    • Replacing this background.png file will allow custom error/offline backgrounds
• Add Troubleshoot Playback buttons on movie and episode detail pages
• Add song background and missing album art customization
  • Default files start with an underscore; custom versions must remove the underscore
• Expose arbitrary EPG data to graphics engine via channel guide templates
  • XML nodes using the etv: namespace will be passed to the graphics engine EPG template data
  • For example, adding <etv:episode_number_key>{{ episode_number }}</etv:episode_number_key> to episode.sbntxt will also add the episode_number_key field to all EPG items in the graphics engine
  • All values parsed from XMLTV will be available as strings in the graphics engine (not numbers)
  • All etv: nodes will be stripped from the XMLTV data when requested by a client
• Add channel troubleshooting button to channels list
  • This will open the playback troubleshooting tool in "channel" mode
  • This mode requires entering a date and time, and will play up to 30 seconds of one item from that channel's playout starting at the entered date and time
• Block schedules: add copy template button to templates table

Fixed

• Fix HLS Direct playback with Jellyfin 10.11
• Fix remote stream scripts (parsing issue with spaces and quotes)
• Fix block history being removed when it is still needed for mirror channel
  • This caused playout build errors like "Unable to locate history for playout item"
• Fix crashes due to invalid smart collection searches, e.g. smart_collection:"this collection does not exist"
• Fix UI crash when editing block playout that has default deco
• Fix playback failure when seeking content with certain DTS audio (e.g. DTS-HD MA)
• Properly set explicit audio decoder on combined audio and video input file
• Fix building sequential schedules across a UTC offset change
• Fix block start time calculation across a UTC offset change
• Fix classic schedule start time calculation across a UTC offset change
• Fix XMLTV generation for channels using on-demand playout mode
• Fix some file not found songs missing from trash view
• Fix error/offline screen generation
• Fix subtitle title sync from Jellyfin libraries
  • Deep scans will be required to update subtitle titles on existing media items
• Fix saving subtitle title changes to the database
  • This fixes e.g. where stream selection would continue to use the original title
  • This fix applies to all libraries (local and media server)
• Fix (3 year old) bug removing tags from local libraries when they are removed from NFO files (all content types)
  • New scans will properly remove old tags; NFO files may need to be touched to force updating during a scan
• Fix bug where looping motion graphics wouldn't be displayed when seeking into second half of content
• Fix content_total_duration value in graphics engine opacity expressions
  • This bug caused some graphics elements to display too early after first joining a channel
• Optimize database calls made for search index rebuilds and updates
  • This should improve performance of library scans
• Add toggle to hide/show disabled channels in channel list
• Add disabled text color and (D) and (H) labels for disabled and hidden channels in channel list
• Graphics engine: fix subtitle path escaping and font loading
• Fix corrupt output (green artifacts) when decoding certain 10-bit content using AMD Polaris GPUs
• Work around sequential schedule validation limit (1000/hr by Newtonsoft.Json.Schema library)
  • Playout builds now use JsonSchema.Net library which has no validation limit
  • Validation tool in the UI still uses Newtonsoft.Json.Schema (with 1000/hr limit) as the error output is easier to understand
• Fix editing scripted and sequential playouts when using MySql
• Fix HLS Direct streams remaining open after client disconnect
• Always log scanner exit code when it is non-zero

Changed

• Classic schedules: Refresh classic playouts from playout list; do not Reset them
  • This mode maintains progress; progress can be reset by editing the playout and clicking Erase Items and History
• Use smaller batch size for search index updates (100, down from 1000)
  • This should help newly scanned items appear in the UI more quickly
• Replace favicon and logo in background image used for error streams
• Block schedules:
  • Auto scroll day view to block item time when adding and removing block items from template
  • Allow keyboard selection of
    • Block groups in block list
    • Template groups in template list
    • Block groups and blocks in template editor
  • Replace template tree view with searchable table (like blocks)
• Upgrade to dotnet 10