Hello,
This version is unofficial and is intended to let people test some features I am proposing to pseudoTV
Always make a backup of your .pseudotv folder before upgrading, this way you can easily restore the folder and rollback to your current version in case the test version doesn't work for you.
If you are upgrading from 0.0.53 or older, it is recommended you start from scratch with an empty .pseudotv folder
The features to test are:
- "Flex time" . Periods of time in a channel that don't appear in the TV guide and can be used to play Bumpers, Commercials, Trailers, Prerolls and other random filler. And also a fallback video (eg: an stream offline message with a timer)
- Performance improvement: A cache that at least in my testing speeds up channel loading and switching specially when channel db is huge.
- Performance improvement: Saving a channel will remove some unused stuff from the json, this can save up to 33% of the file size.
- av1 codec support in the ffmpeg for the docker image.
- New Channel tools for shuffling, adding padding so that programs start at 0:00 or 0:30 , making the channel go offline for certain hours. Or adding breaks (using flex time).
Join the discord https://discord.com/invite/D9ckKg4 for questions and also if you need help building the docker image for this version.
Changes from 0.0.55-unofficial-vx (Released July 28-th):
- TV guide will no longer have empty holes where Flex times were programmed. Instead the previous program will be extended. OR the channel's name will be used if the Flex time is longer than 30 minutes. This is to fix some problems that arise in some clients with empty TV guide spaces.
- New padding options that allow programs to start 5 minutes later than the usual start slot to account for a previous program that was too long (For example, if you are trying to have all programs start at :00 or :30, and there's a program that lasts 32 minutes, the next program can start at :35 )
- "Equalize Shows" renamed to "Balance Shows".
- New tool: Weight TV Shows : This allows you to control the total proportion of time dedicated to each TV show in your channel, so that you can make some more or less frequent.
- Tweaks to random filler algorithm.
Windows and Linux 64 bits executables have been tested and seem to work. I am using a new build system so I am not entirely sure if Mac OS/X or 32 bits windows executables will work, if you test them and they work, please tell me so that I can remove this warning.
Previous versions: https://github.com/vexorian/pseudotv/releases