ErsatzTV/legacy v26.11.2

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Release Notes

Changed

• Graphics engine: decode image and watermark elements with SkiaSharp instead of ImageSharp
  • TIFF, TGA, PBM and QOI images are no longer supported
• Next engine:
  • Software scaling now defaults to bicubic instead of fast_bilinear, which reduces aliasing when downscaling
    • This can be changed using normalization.video.filters.scale.flags in a channel config overlay
  • Log messages from next channels now include the channel number, e.g. [next::channel 7]
• Warn that the legacy streaming engine will be removed in ErsatzTV 26.12
  • The Channels page lists channels that still use the legacy engine
  • The channel editor shows a warning when the legacy engine is selected
  • Starting a legacy engine stream logs a warning

Fixed

• Fix sequential schedules silently skipping nested sequence instructions inside pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll sequences
• Fix local show libraries ignoring episode NFO tag and genre changes after the first scan
• Fix playback from Jellyfin-compatible servers (e.g. Silo) that require authentication for media streams
  • The Jellyfin API key is now included on stream and subtitle requests
  • Jellyfin itself does not require it but continues to play successfully with the API key included
• Next engine:
  • Linux/macOS: fix channels failing to locate playout items after the config folder is copied or restored with a tool that replaces symlinks with real folders (e.g. cp -L, rsync -L)
    • Failures to link the current playout folder are now logged instead of silently ignored
  • VAAPI: fix playback freezing at the end of some items on channels with an Intermittent watermark
    • Most common with music videos, whose audio often runs slightly longer than their video
    • The log showed channel ... terminated after ffmpeg stall
  • VAAPI: fix hevc streams hanging on content with embedded (A53) closed captions with Mesa before 26.2.3
    • Captions are left out of hevc output on those Mesa versions; update Mesa to keep them
  • Always encode 4:2:0 output, which many clients require
    • Still images and song backgrounds were previously encoded as 4:4:4 by software encoders
  • NVIDIA: fix streams failing with a watermark in yuva420p (e.g. lossy WebP with transparency) and opacity below 100%
  • NVIDIA: fix streams with a watermark failing when encoding with software (e.g. mpeg2video)
  • VideoToolbox: fix streams failing to encode to h264 when they contain embedded (A53) closed captions
  • QSV: fix completely green output with legacy Intel encoders
  • Fix fallback filler playback with filler content that has no audio
  • Fix crop scaling mode so it always scales to cover the output before cropping, even when the source content is larger than the target resolution
• Fix errors logged when quickly navigating to search results
  • The log showed Navigation failed when changing the location to search?query=...
  • Searches from the search bar and smart collection targets no longer reload the whole page

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