ErsatzTV

Release Notes

Upgrade Notes

• Some bug fixes in this release require a one-time search index rebuild; search results may be empty or incomplete until the rebuild is complete

Added

• Add warning during playout rebuild when schedule has been emptied
• Save Logs, Playout Detail, Schedule Detail table page sizes

Changed

• Show all log entries in log viewer, not just most recent 100 entries
• Use server-side paging and sorting for Logs table
• Use server-side paging for Playout Detail table
• Remove pager from Schedule Items editor (all schedule items will always be displayed)

Fixed

• Fix ui crash adding a channel without a watermark
• Clear playout detail table when playout is deleted
• Fix blazor error font color
• Fix some audio stream languages missing from UI and search index
• Fix audio stream selection for languages with multiple codes
• Fix searching when queries contain non-ascii characters

Release Notes

Added

• Add watermark opacity setting to allow blending with content
• Add global watermark setting; channel-specific watermarks have precedence over global watermarks
• Save Schedules, Playouts table page sizes

Changed

• Remove unused API and SDK project; may reintroduce in the future but for now they have fallen out of date
• Rework watermarks to be separate from channels (similar to ffmpeg profiles)
  • All existing watermarks have been removed and will need to be recreated using the new page
  • This allows easy watermark reuse across channels

Fixed

• Fix crash adding or editing schedule items due to Artist with no name
• Fix many potential sources of inconsistent data in UI

Release Notes

Added

• Add experimental HLS Hybrid channel mode
  • Media items are transcoded using the channel's ffmpeg profile and served using HLS
• Add optional channel watermark

Changed

• Remove framerate normalization; it caused more problems than it solved
• Include non-US (and unknown) content ratings in XMLTV

Fixed

• Fix serving channels.m3u with missing content ratings
• Fix percent progress indicator for Jellyfin and Emby show library scans

Release Notes

Added

• Add artists directly to schedules
• Include MPAA and VCHIP content ratings in XMLTV guide data
• Quickly skip missing files during Plex library scan

Fixed

• Ignore unsupported plex guids (this prevented some libraries from scanning correctly)
• Ignore unsupported STRM files from Jellyfin

Release Notes

Added

• Support (Part #) name suffixes for multi-part episode grouping
• Support multi-episode files in local and Plex libraries
• Save Channels table page size
• Add optional query string parameter to M3U channel playlist to allow some customization per client
  • ?mode=ts will force MPEG-TS mode for all channels
  • ?mode=hls-direct will force HLS Direct mode for all channels
  • ?mode=mixed or no parameter will maintain existing behavior

Changed

• Rename channel mode TransportStream to MPEG-TS and HttpLiveStreaming to HLS Direct
• Improve HLS Direct mode compatibility with Channels DVR Server

Fixed

• Fix search result crashes due to missing season metadata

Release Notes

Added

• Support roman numerals and english integer names for multi-part episode grouping
• Add option to treat entire collection as a single show with multi-part episode grouping
  • This is useful for multi-part episodes that span multiple shows (crossovers)

Changed

• Skip zero duration items when building a playout, rather than aborting the playout build

Fixed

• Fix edge case where a playout rebuild would get stuck and block all other playouts and local library scans

Release Notes

Upgrade Notes

• Whenever new metadata fields are supported, the first library scans with a new release will be slower than normal to ingest the new fields

Added

• Add button to refresh list of Plex, Jellyfin, Emby libraries without restarting app
• Add episodes to search index
• Add director and writer metadata to episodes
• Add unique id/provider id metadata, which will support future features
• Allow grouping multi-part episodes with titles ending in Part X, Part Y, etc.

Changed

• Change home page link from release notes to full changelog

Fixed

• Fix missing channel logos after restart
• Fix multi-part episode grouping with missing episodes/parts
• Fix multi-part episode grouping in collections containing multiple shows
• Fix updating modified seasons and episodes from Jellyfin and Emby

Release Notes

Upgrade Notes

• If you are running outside of Docker, you will want to empty your installation folder (not your config folder) before extracting the latest release
• Whenever new metadata fields are supported, the first library scans with a new release will be slower than normal to ingest the new fields

Additions

• Add content rating metadata to movies and shows
• Add director and writer metadata to movies
• Sync tv show thumbnail artwork in Local, Jellyfin and Emby libraries (not Plex)
• Prioritize tv show thumbnail artwork over tv show posters in XMLTV
• Include tv show artwork in XMLTV when grouped items with custom title are all from the same show
• Cache resized local artwork on disk

Fixes

• Recursively retrieve Jellyfin and Emby items
• Fix incorrect search item counts
• Fix stack trace information in non-docker releases
• Fix crash opening Add to Schedule dialog
• Disable FFmpeg troubleshooting reports on Windows as they do not work properly

Release Notes

Additions

• Show Jellyfin and Emby artwork in XMLTV

Fixes

• Fix path replacements for Jellyfin and Emby, including UNC paths
• Use Emby path replacements for playback
• Fix playback when fps is the only required filter
• Fix resources (images, fonts) required to display offline channel message

Release Notes

Additions

• Add support for Emby
• Use "single-file" deployments for releases
  • Non-docker releases will have significantly fewer files
  • It is recommended to empty your installation folder before copying in the latest release.

Fixes

• Fix some cases where Jellyfin artwork would not display
• Fix saving schedule items with duration less than one hour
• Use ffmpeg 4.3 in docker images; there was a performance regression with 4.4 (only in docker)

Release Notes

Additions

• Add option to keep multi-part episodes together when shuffling (i.e. two-part season finales)
• Optimize Plex TV Scanner to quickly process shows that have not been updated since the last scan
• Optimize local Movie, Show, Music Video scanners to quickly skip unchanged folders, and to notice any mtime change
• Add server binding configuration to appsettings.json which lets non-docker installations bind to localhost or change the port number

Fixes

• Properly ignore Other Jellyfin libraries
• Fix bug where search index would try to re-initialize unnecessarily
• Fix one cause of green line at bottom of some transcoded videos by forcing even scaling targets

Release Notes

Additions

• Add support for Jellyfin
• Add support for ffmpeg 4.4, and use ffmpeg 4.4 in all docker images
• Add configurable library refresh interval
• Add button to copy/clone ffmpeg profile

Release Notes

Additions

• Add search button for each library in Libraries page to quickly filter content by library
  • This requires rebuilding the search index and search results may be empty or incomplete until the rebuild is complete

Fixes

• Fix ingesting actors and actor artwork from newly-added Plex media items
• Only show movie and show libraries from Plex. Other library types are not supported at this time.
• Fix local movie scanner missing replaced/updated files

Release Notes

Additions

• Allow enter key to submit all dialogs
• Add actors to movies and shows (Plex or NFO metadata is required)
  • Note that this requires a one-time full library scan to ingest actor metadata, which may take a long time with large libraries.
• Rework metadata list links in UI (languages, studios, genres, etc)

Fixes

• Fix EPG generation with music video channels that do not use a custom title
• Fix lag when typing in search bar, Add To Collection dialog
• Fix collections paging
• Fix padding odd resolutions (this bug caused some items to always fail playback)
• Only update Plex episode artwork as needed

Release Notes

Additions

• Add language buttons to movies, shows, artists
• Show release notes on home page

Fixes

• Re-import missing television metadata that was incorrectly removed with v0.0.32
• Fix language indexing; language searches now use full english name
• Fix synchronizing television studios, genres from Plex
• Limit channels to one playout per channel
  • Though more than one playout was previously possible it was unsupported and unlikely to work as expected, if at all
  • A future release may make this possible again

Release Notes

Additions

• Add All To Collection button to quickly add all search results to a collection
• Add Artists scanned from Music Video libraries
  • Artist folders are now required, but music videos now have no naming requirements
  • artist.nfo metadata is supported along with thumbnail and poster artwork
• Save Collections table page size in local storage

Fixes

• Fix audio stream language indexing for movies and music videos
• Fix synchronizing list of Plex servers and connection addresses for each server
• Fix See All link for music video search results

Release Notes

Additions

• Add documentation link to UI
• Add language search field
• Minor log viewer improvements
• Use fragment navigation with letter bar (clicking a letter will page and scroll until that letter is in view)
• Send all audio streams with HLS when channel has no preferred language
• Move FFmpeg settings to new Settings page
• Add HDHR tuner count setting to new Settings page

Fixes

• Fix poster width
• Fix bug that would occasionally prevent items from being added to the search index
• Automatically refresh the Plex Media Sources page after sign in or sign out

Release Notes

• No longer require NFO metadata for music videos
  • Instead, the only requirement is that music video files be named [artist] - [track].[extension] where the three characters (space dash space) between artist and track are required
• Add library scan progress detail
• Optimize library scans after adding library path to only scan new library path
• Fix bug replacing music videos
• Scan Plex libraries and local libraries on different threads
• Use English names for preferred languages in UI instead of ISO language code

Release Notes

• Apply audio normalization more consistently; this should further reduce program boundary errors
• Replace unused audio volume setting with audio loudness normalization option
  • This can be particularly helpful with music video channels if media items have inconsistent loudness
  • This setting may be less desirable on movie channels where loudness is intended to be dynamic
• Fix XMLTV containing music videos that do not use a custom title
• Fix channels table sorting, add paging to channels table
• Add sorting and paging to schedules table
• Add paging to playouts table
• Use table instead of cards for collections view

Release Notes

• Add basic music video library support
  • NFO metadata is required for music videos - see tags, template and sample
  • Artists can be searched using the artist field, like artist:daft
• Clear search query when clicking Movies or TV Shows from paged search results
• Add show title to playout details
• Let ffmpeg determine thread count by default (signified by 0 threads in ffmpeg profile)
• Save troubleshooting reports for ffmpeg concat process in addition to transcode process
• Simplify ffmpeg normalization options
• Add frame rate setting to ffmpeg profile
  • When video normalization is enabled, all media items will have their frame rate converted to the same value
• Fix some scenarios where streaming would freeze at program boundaries
• Fix bug preventing some Plex libraries from scanning
• Fix bug preventing some local libraries from scanning folders that were recently added