ErsatzTV/legacy v26.1.0 on GitHub

Release Notes

Added

Graphics Engine:
- Add script graphics element type
  - Supported in playback troubleshooting and all scheduling types
  - Supports arbitrary scripts or executables that output graphics to ETV via stdout
  - Supports EPG and Media Item replacement in entire template
    - EPG data is sourced from XMLTV for the current time
      - EPG data can also load a configurable number of subsequent (up next) entries
    - Media Item data is sourced from the currently playing media item
  - All template data will also be passed as JSON to the stdin stream of the command
  - Template supports:
    - Script and arguments (command and args)
    - Draw order (z_index)
    - Timing (start_seconds and duration_seconds)
    - Data format (format)
      - raw format means full frames of BGRA data to stdout
      - packet format means ETV graphics packets to stdout
- Add framerate template data
  - RFrameRate - the real content framerate (or channel normalized framerate) as reported by ffmpeg, e.g. 30000/1001
  - FrameRate - the decimal representation of RFrameRate, e.g. 29.97002997
- Add Channel_StartTime template data
  - This indicates the time that the transcode session started for the current channel
Add remote stream metadata
- Remote stream definitions (yaml files) can now contain title, plot, year and content_rating fields
- Remote streams can now have thumbnails (same name as yaml file but with image extension)
- This metadata will be used in generated XMLTV entries, using a template that can be customized like other media kinds
Add Download Media Sample button to playback troubleshooting
- This button will extract up to 30 seconds of the media item and zip it
Add Target Loudness (LUFS/LKFS) to ffmpeg profile when loudness normalization is enabled
- Default value is -16; some sources normalize to a quieter value, e.g. -24
Add environment variables to help troubleshoot performance
- ETV_SLOW_DB_MS - milliseconds threshold for logging slow database queries (at DEBUG level)
  - e.g. if this is set to 1000, queries taking longer than 1 second will be logged
- ETV_SLOW_API_MS - milliseconds threshold for logging slow API calls (at DEBUG level)
  - This is currently limited to Jellyfin
- ETV_JF_PAGE_SIZE - page size for library scan API calls to Jellyfin; default value is 10
- ETV_JF_ENABLE_STATS - enables logging timing information related to Jellyfin show library scans
Add Select All button to media pages by @Erotemic

Fixed

Fix startup on systems unsupported by NvEncSharp
Fix detection of Plex Other Video libraries using Plex Personal Media agent
- If the library is already detected as a Movies library in ETV, synchronization must be disabled for the library to change it to an Other Videos library
- A warning will be logged when this scenario is detected
Graphics Engine:
- Optimize graphics engine to generate element frames in parallel and to eliminate redundant frame copies
- Match graphics engine framerate with source content (or channel normalized) framerate
- Fix loading requested number of epg entries for motion graphics elements
Fix bug with mirror channels where seemingly random content would be played every ~40 seconds
Fix chronological sorting for Other Videos that have release date metadata
Fix playout sorting after using channel number editor
VAAPI: Only include -sei a53_cc flags when misc packed headers are supported by the encoder
- This should fix playback in some cases, e.g. AMD VAAPI h264 encoder
AMD VAAPI:
- work around buggy ffmpeg behavior where hevc_vaapi encoder with RadeonSI driver incorrectly outputs height of 1088 instead of 1080
- fix green padding when encoding h264 using main profile
Automatically kill playback troubleshooting ffmpeg process if it hasn't completed after two minutes
Fix playback of certain BT.2020 content
Use playlist item count when using a playlist as filler (instead of a fixed count of 1 for each playlist item)
NVIDIA:
- Fix stream failure with certain content that should decode in hardware but falls back to software
- Fix stream failure with content that changes color metadata mid-stream
Fix stream failure when configured fallback filler collection is empty
Fix high CPU when errors are displayed; errors will now work ahead before throttling to realtime, similar to primary content
Fix startup error caused by duplicate smart collection names (and no longer allow duplicate smart collection names)
Fix erroneous downgrade health check failure with some installations that use MariaDB
Sequential schedules: fix count instruction validation to accept integer (constant) or string (expression)
Fix multi-part episode grouping logic so that it does NOT require release date metadata for episodes within a single show
- When Treat Collections As Shows is enabled (i.e. for crossover episodes) release date metadata is required for proper grouping
Fix many cases of duplicate names; enforce case-insensitive unique names at the db schema level
Fix playback when using ETV_BASE_URL by @JamesDearlove

Changed

No longer round framerate to nearest integer when normalizing framerate
Allow playlists to have no items included in EPG
Change how fallback filler works
- Items will no longer loop; instead, a sequence of random items will be selected from the collection
- Items may still be cut as needed
- Hardware acceleration will now be used
- Items can "work ahead" (transcode faster than realtime) when less than 3 minutes in duration
Optimize Jellyfin database fields and indexes
Optimize Jellyfin show library scans by only requesting People (actors, directors, writers) when etags don't match
- This should significantly speed up periodic library scans, particularly against Jellyfin 10.11.x
Lazy load media item images in UI
Align alternate schedule and template handling (between classic schedules and block schedules)
- Both systems now support limiting to a date range
- This date range can be repeating (when year is not specified for start or end dates)
- This date range can be exact (when year is specified for start and end dates)