ErsatzTV/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

Unreleased

Fixed

• Fix subtitles edge case with NVENC
• Only select picture subtitles (text subtitles are not yet supported)
  • Supported picture subtitles are hdmv_pgs_subtitle and dvd_subtitle
• Fix subtitles using software encoders, videotoolbox, VAAPI
• Fix setting VAAPI driver name
• Fix ffmpeg troubleshooting reports

0.5.0-beta - 2022-04-13

Fixed

• Fix HLS Segmenter bug where it would drift off of the schedule if a playout was changed while the segmenter was running
• Ensure clients that use HDHomeRun emulation (like Plex) always get an MPEG-TS stream, regardless of the configured streaming mode
• Fix scheduling bug that caused some days to be skipped when fixed start times were used with fallback filler

Added

• Add Preferred Subtitle Language and Subtitle Mode to channel settings
  • Preferred Subtitle Language will filter all subtitle streams based on language
  • Subtitle Mode will further filter subtitle streams based on attributes (forced, default)
  • If picture-based subtitles are found after filtering, they will be burned into the video stream
• Detect non-zero ffmpeg exit code from HLS Segmenter and MPEG-TS, log error output and display error output on stream
• Add Watermark setting to schedule items; this allows override the channel watermark. Watermark priority is:
  • Schedule Item
  • Channel
  • Global

Changed

• Remove legacy transcoder logic option; all channels will use the new transcoder logic
• Renamed channel setting Preferred Language to Preferred Audio Language
• Reworked playout build logic to maintain collection progress in some scenarios. There are now three build modes:
  • Continue - add new items to the end of an existing playout
    • This mode is used when playouts are automatically extended in the background
  • Refresh - this mode will try to maintain collection progress while rebuilding the entire playout
    • This mode is used when a schedule is updated, or when collection modifications trigger a playout rebuild
  • Reset - this mode will rebuild the entire playout and will NOT maintain progress
    • This mode is only used when the Reset Playout button is clicked on the Playouts page
  • This requires rebuilding all playouts, which will happen on startup after upgrading
• Use ffmpeg to resize images; this should help reduce ErsatzTV's memory use
• Use ffprobe to check for animated logos and watermarks; this should help reduce ErsatzTV's memory use
• Allow two decimals in channel numbers (e.g. 5.73)

0.4.5-alpha - 2022-03-29

Fixed

• Fix streaming mode inconsistencies when mode parameter is unspecified
• Fix startup on Windows 7

Added

• Add option to automatically deinterlace video when transcoding
  • Previously, this was always enabled; the purpose of the option is to allow disabling any deinterlace filters
  • Note that there is no performance gain to disabling the option with progressive content; filters are only ever applied to interlaced content

Changed

• Change FFmpeg Profile video codec and audio codec text fields to select fields
  • The appropriate video encoder will be determined based on the video format and hardware acceleration selections
• Remove FFmpeg Profile Transcode, Normalize Video and Normalize Audio settings
  • All content will be transcoded and have audio and video normalized
  • The only exception to this rule is HLS Direct streaming mode, which directly copies video and audio streams
• Always try to connect to Plex at http://localhost:32400 even if that address isn't advertised by the Plex API
  • If Plex isn't on the localhost, all other addresses will be checked as with previous releases

0.4.4-alpha - 2022-03-10

Fixed

• Fix HLS Direct streaming mode
• Fix bug with HLS Segmenter (and MPEG-TS) on Windows that caused errors at program boundaries

Added

• Perform additional duration analysis on files with missing duration metadata
• Add nouveau VAAPI driver option

0.4.3-alpha - 2022-03-05

Fixed

• Fix song sorting with Chronological and Shuffle In Order playback orders
• Fix watermark on scaled and/or padded video with NVIDIA acceleration
• Fix playback of interlaced mpeg2video content with NVIDIA acceleration
• Fix playback of all interlaced content with QSV acceleration
• Fix adding songs to collections from search results page
• Fix bug scheduling mid-roll filler with content that contains one chapter
  • No mid-roll filler will be inserted for content with zero or one chapters
• Fix thread sync bug with HLS Segmenter (and MPEG-TS) streaming modes
• Fix path replacement bug when media server path is left blank

Added

• Add automated error reporting via Bugsnag
  • This can be disabled by editing the appsettings.json file or by setting the Bugsnag:Enable environment variable to false
• Add album_artist to song metadata and to search index
• Display album_artist on some song videos when it's different than the artist

Changed

• Framerate normalization will never normalize framerate below 24fps
  • Instead, content with a lower framerate will be normalized up to 24fps
• Shuffle In Order will group songs by album artist instead of by track artist

0.4.2-alpha - 2022-02-26

Fixed

• Add improved but experimental transcoder logic, which can be toggled on and off in Settings
• Fix HLS Segmenter bug when source video packet contains no duration (N/A)
• Fix green line at the bottom of some content scaled using QSV acceleration

Added

• Add configurable channel group (M3U) and categories (XMLTV)
• Add Shuffle Schedule Items option to schedule configuration
  • When this is enabled, schedule items will be shuffled rather than looped in order
  • To support this, all playouts will be rebuilt (one time) after upgrading to this version

Changed

• Disable framerate normalization by default and on all ffmpeg profiles
  • If framerate normalization is desired (not typically needed), it can be re-enabled manually
• Show watermarks over songs
• Hide unused local libraries

0.4.1-alpha - 2022-02-10

Fixed

• Normalize smart quotes in search queries as they are unsupported by the search library
• Fix incorrect watermark time calculations caused by working ahead in HLS Segmenter
• Fix ui crash adding empty path to local library
• Fix ui crash loading collection editor
• Properly flag items as File Not Found when local library path (folder) is missing from disk
• Fix playback bug with unknown pixel format
• Fix playback of interlaced mpeg2video on NVIDIA, VAAPI

Added

• Include Series category tag for all episodes in XMLTV
• Include movie, episode (show), music video (artist) genres as category tags in XMLTV
• Add framerate normalization to HLS Segmenter and MPEG-TS streaming modes
• Add HLS Segmenter Initial Segment Count setting to allow segmenter to work ahead before allowing client playback

Changed

• Intermittent watermarks will now fade in and out
• Show collection name in some playout build error messages
• Use hardware-accelerated filter for watermarks on NVIDIA
• Use hardware-accelerated deinterlace for some content on NVIDIA

0.4.0-alpha - 2022-01-29

Fixed

• Fix m3u mode query param to properly override streaming mode for all channels
  • segmenter for HLS Segmenter
  • hls-direct for HLS Direct
  • ts for MPEG-TS
  • ts-legacy for MPEG-TS (Legacy)
  • omitting the mode parameter returns each channel as configured
• Link File Not Found health check to Trash page to allow deletion
• Fix HLS Segmenter streaming mode with multiple ffmpeg-based clients
  • Jellyfin (web) and TiviMate (Android) were specifically tested

Added

• Hide console window on macOS and Windows; tray menu can be used to access UI, logs and to stop the app
• Also write logs to text files in the logs config subfolder
• Add added_date to search index
  • This requires rebuilding the search index and search results may be empty or incomplete until the rebuild is complete
• Add added_inthelast, added_notinthelast search field for relative added date queries
  • Syntax is a number and a unit (days, weeks, months, years) like 1 week or 2 years

0.3.8-alpha - 2022-01-23

Fixed

• Fix issue preventing some versions of ffmpeg (usually 4.4.x) from streaming MPEG-TS (Legacy) channels at all
  • The issue appears to be caused by using a thread count other than 1
  • Thread count is now forced to 1 for all streaming modes other than HLS Segmenter
• Fix bug with HLS Segmenter in cultures where . is a group/thousands separator
• Fix search results page crashing with some media kinds
• Always use MPEG-TS or MPEG-TS (Legacy) streaming mode with HDHR (Plex)
  • Other configured modes will fall back to MPEG-TS when accessed by Plex

Changed

• Upgrade ffmpeg from 4.4 to 5.0 in all docker images
  • Upgrading from 4.4 to 5.0 is recommended for all installations

0.3.7-alpha - 2022-01-17

Fixed

• Fix local folder scanners to properly detect removed/re-added folders with unchanged contents
• Fix double-click startup on mac
• Fix trakt list sync when show does not contain a year
• Properly unlock libraries when a scan is unable to be performed because ffmpeg or ffprobe have not been found

Added

• Add trash system for local libraries to maintain collection and schedule integrity through media share outages
  • When items are missing from disk, they will be flagged and present in the Media > Trash page
  • The trash page can be used to permanently remove missing items from the database
  • When items reappear at the expected location on disk, they will be unflagged and removed from the trash
• Add basic Mac hardware acceleration using VideoToolbox

Changed

• Local libraries only: when items are missing from disk, they will be added to the trash and no longer removed from collections, etc.
• Show song thumbnail in song list

0.3.6-alpha - 2022-01-10

Fixed

• Properly index minutes field when adding new items during scan (vs when rebuilding index)
• Fix some nvenc edge cases where only padding is needed for normalization
• Properly overwrite environment variables for ffmpeg processes (LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME, FFREPORT)

Added

• Add music video artist to search index
  • This requires rebuilding the search index and search results may be empty or incomplete until the rebuild is complete

Changed

• Remove HLS Hybrid streaming mode; all channels have been reconfigured to use the superior HLS Segmenter streaming mode
• Update MPEG-TS streaming mode to internally use the HLS segmenter
  • This improves compatibility with many clients and also improves performance at program boundaries
• Renamed existing MPEG-TS mode as MPEG-TS (Legacy)
  • This mode will be removed in a future release

0.3.5-alpha - 2022-01-05

Fixed

• Fix bundled ffmpeg version in base docker image (NOT nvidia or vaapi) which prevented playback since v0.3.0-alpha
• Use software decoding for mpeg4 content when VAAPI acceleration is enabled
• Fix hardware acceleration health check to recognize QSV on non-Windows platforms

Changed

• Treat setsar as a hardware filter, avoiding unneeded hwdownload and hwupload steps when padding isn't required

0.3.4-alpha - 2021-12-21

Fixed

• Fix other video and song scanners to include videos contained directly in top-level folders that are added to a library
• Allow saving ffmpeg troubleshooting reports on Windows

0.3.3-alpha - 2021-12-12

Fixed

• Fix bug with saving multiple blurhash versions for cover art; all cover art will be automatically rescanned
• Fix song detail margin when no cover art exists and no watermark exists
• Fix synchronizing virtual shows and seasons from Jellyfin
• Properly sort channels in M3U

Changed

• Use blurhash of ErsatzTV colors instead of solid colors for default song backgrounds
• Use select control instead of autocomplete control in many places
  • The autocomplete control is not intuitive to use and has focus bugs

0.3.2-alpha - 2021-12-03

Fixed

• Fix artwork upload on Windows
• Fix unicode song metadata on Windows
• Fix unicode console output on Windows
• Fix TV Show NFO metadata processing when year is missing
• Fix song detail outline to help legibility on white backgrounds
• Optimize song artwork scanning to prevent re-processing album artwork for each song

Changed

• Use custom log database backend which should be more portable (i.e. work in osx-arm64)
• Use cover art blurhashes for song backgrounds instead of solid colors or box blur

0.3.1-alpha - 2021-11-30

Fixed

• Fix song page links in UI
• Show song artist in playout detail
• Include song artist and cover art in channel guide (xmltv)
• Use subtitles to display errors, which fixes many edge cases of unescaped characters
• Properly split song genre tags
• Properly display all songs that have an identical album and title
• Fix channel logo and watermark uploads
• Fix regression introduced with v0.2.4-alpha that caused some filler edge cases to crash the playout builder

Added

• Add song genres to search index
• Use embedded song cover art when sidecar cover art is unavailable

Changed

• Randomly place song cover art on left or right side of screen
• Randomly use a solid color from the cover art instead of blurred cover art for song background
• Randomly select song detail layout (large title/small artist or small artist/title/album)

0.3.0-alpha - 2021-11-25

Fixed

• Properly fix database incompatibility introduced with v0.2.4-alpha and partially fixed with v0.2.5-alpha
  • The proper fix requires rebuilding all playouts, which will happen on startup after upgrading
• Fix local library locking/progress display when adding paths
• Fix grouping duration items in EPG when custom title is configured

Added

• Add experimental Songs local libraries
  • Like Other Videos, Songs require no metadata or particular folder layout, and will have tags added for each containing folder
  • For Example, a song at rock/band/1990 - Album/01 whatever.flac will have the tags rock, band and 1990 - Album, and the title 01 whatever
  • Songs will also have basic metadata read from embedded tags (album, artist, title)
  • Video will be automatically generated for songs using metadata and cover art or watermarks if available
• Add support for .webm video files

0.2.5-alpha - 2021-11-21

Fixed

• Include other video title in channel guide (xmltv)
• Fix bug introduced with 0.2.4-alpha that caused some playouts to build from year 0
• Use less memory matching Trakt list items

Added

• Build osx-arm64 packages on release

Changed

• No longer warn about local Plex guids; they aren't used for Trakt matching and can be ignored

0.2.4-alpha - 2021-11-13

Changed

• Upgrade to dotnet 6
• Use scale_cuda instead of scale_npp for NVIDIA scaling in all cases

0.2.3-alpha - 2021-11-03

Fixed

• Fix bug with audio filter in cultures where . is a group/thousands separator
• Fix bug where flood playout mode would only schedule one item
  • This would happen if the flood was followed by another flood with a fixed start time

Added

• Support empty .etvignore file to instruct local movie scanner to ignore the containing folder

0.2.2-alpha - 2021-10-30

Fixed

• Fix EPG entries for Duration schedule items that play multiple items
• Fix EPG entries for Multiple schedule items that play more than one item

Added

• Add fallback filler settings to Channel and global FFmpeg Settings
  • When streaming is attempted during an unscheduled gap, the resulting video will be determined using the following priority:
    • Channel fallback filler
    • Global fallback filler
    • Generated Channel Is Offline error message video

Changed

• Allow per-episode folders for local show libraries
  • e.g. Show Name\Season #\Episode #\Show Name - s#e#.mkv

0.2.1-alpha - 2021-10-24

Fixed

• Fix saving dynamic start time on schedule items

0.2.0-alpha - 2021-10-23

Fixed

• Fix generated streams with mpeg2video
• Fix incorrect row count in playout detail table
• Fix deleting movies that have been removed from Jellyfin and Emby
• Fix bug that caused large unscheduled gaps in playouts
  • This was caused by schedule items with a fixed start of midnight

Added

• Add new filler system
  • Pre-Roll Filler plays before each media item
  • Mid-Roll Filler plays between media item chapters
  • Post-Roll Filler plays after each media item
  • Tail Filler plays after all media items, until the next media item
  • Fallback Filler loops instead of default offline image to fill any remaining gaps
• Store chapter details with media statistics; this is needed to support mid-roll filler
  • This requires re-ingesting statistics for all media items the first time this version is launched
• Add switch to show/hide filler in playout detail table
• Add minutes field to search index
  • This requires rebuilding the search index and search results may be empty or incomplete until the rebuild is complete

Changed

• Change some debug log messages to info so they show by default again
• Remove tail collection options from Duration playout mode
• Show localized start time in schedule items tables

0.1.5-alpha - 2021-10-18

Fixed

• Fix double scheduling; this could happen if the app was shutdown during a playout build
• Fix updating Jellyfin and Emby TV seasons
• Fix updating Jellyfin and Emby artwork
• Fix Plex, Jellyfin, Emby worker crash attempting to sync library that no longer exists
• Fix bug with Duration mode scheduling when media items are too long to fit in the requested duration

Added

• Include music video thumbnails in channel guide (xmltv)

Changed

• Automatically find working Plex address on startup
• Automatically select schedule item in schedules that contain only one item
• Change default log level from Debug to Information
  • The Debug log level can be enabled in the appsettings.json file for non-docker installs
  • The Debug log level can be enabled by setting the environment variable Serilog:MinimumLevel=Debug for docker installs

0.1.4-alpha - 2021-10-14

Fixed

• Fix error message/offline stream continuity with channels that use HLS Segmenter
• Fix removing items from search index when folders are removed from local libraries

Added

• Add Other Video local libraries
  • Other video items require no metadata or particular folder layout, and will have tags added for each containing folder
  • For Example, a video at commercials/sd/1990/whatever.mkv will have the tags commercials, sd and 1990, and the title whatever
• Add filler Tail Mode option to Duration playout mode (in addition to existing Offline option)
  • Filler collection will always be randomized (to fill as much time as possible)
  • Filler will be hidden from channel guide, but visible in playout details in ErsatzTV
  • Unfilled time will show offline image
• Add Guide Mode option to all schedule items
  • Normal guide mode will show all scheduled items in the channel guide (xmltv)
  • Filler guide mode will hide all scheduled items from the channel guide, and extend the end time for the previous item in the guide

0.1.3-alpha - 2021-10-13

Fixed

• Fix startup bug for some docker installations

0.1.2-alpha - 2021-10-12

Added

• Include more cuda (nvidia) filters in docker image
• Enable deinterlacing with nvidia using new yadif_cuda filter
• Add two HLS Segmenter settings: idle timeout and work-ahead limit
  • HLS Segmenter Idle Timeout - the number of seconds to keep transcoding a channel while no requests have been received from any client
    • This setting must be greater than or equal to 30 (seconds)
  • Work-Ahead HLS Segmenter Limit - the number of segmenters (channels) that will work-ahead simultaneously (if multiple channels are being watched)
    • "working ahead" means transcoding at full speed, which can take a lot of resources
    • This setting must be greater than or equal to 0
• Add more watermark locations ("middle" of each side)
• Add VAAPI Device setting to ffmpeg profile to support installations with multiple video cards
• Add experimental RadeonSI option for VAAPI Driver and include mesa drivers in vaapi docker image

Changed

• Upgrade ffmpeg from 4.3 to 4.4 in all docker images
  • Upgrading from 4.3 to 4.4 is recommended for all installations
• Move VAAPI Driver from settings page to ffmpeg profile to support installations with multiple video cards

Fixed

• Fix some transcoding edge cases with nvidia and pixel format yuv420p10le

0.1.1-alpha - 2021-10-10

Added

• Add music video album to search index
  • This requires rebuilding the search index and search results may be empty or incomplete until the rebuild is complete

Changed

• Remove forced initial delay from HLS Segmenter streaming mode
• Upgrade nvidia docker image from 18.04 to 20.04

0.1.0-alpha - 2021-10-08

Added

• Add experimental streaming mode HLS Segmenter (most similar to HLS Hybrid)
  • This mode is intended to increase client compatibility and reduce issues at program boundaries
  • If you want the temporary transcode files to be located on a particular drive, the docker path is /root/.local/share/etv-transcode
• Store frame rate with media statistics; this is needed to support HLS Segmenter
  • This requires re-ingesting statistics for all media items the first time this version is launched

Changed

• Use latest iHD driver (21.2.3 vs 20.1.1) in vaapi docker images

Fixed

• Add downsampling to support transcoding 10-bit HEVC content with the h264_vaapi encoder
• Fix updating statistics when media items are replaced
• Fix XMLTV generation when scheduled episode is missing metadata

0.0.62-alpha - 2021-10-05

Added

• Support IMDB ids from Plex libraries, which may improve Trakt matching for some items

Fixed

• Include Specials/Season 0 episode-num entry in XMLTV
• Fix some transcoding edge cases with VAAPI and pixel formats yuv420p10le, yuv444p10le and yuv444p
• Update Plex movie and episode paths when they are changed within Plex
• Always use libx264 software encoder for error messages

0.0.61-alpha - 2021-09-30

Fixed

• Revert nvenc/cuda filter change from v60

0.0.60-alpha - 2021-09-25

Added

• Add Trakt list support under Lists > Trakt Lists
  • Trakt lists can be added by url or by user/list
  • To re-download a Trakt list, simply add it again (no need to delete)
  • See Logs for unmatched item details
  • Trakt lists can only be scheduled by using Smart Collections
• Add seasons to search index
  • This is needed because Trakt lists can contain seasons
  • This requires rebuilding the search index and search results may be empty or incomplete until the rebuild is complete

Fixed

• Fix local television scanner to properly update episode metadata when NFO files have been added/changed
• Properly detect ffmpeg nvenc (cuda) support in Hardware Acceleration health check
• Fix nvenc/cuda filter for some yuv420p content

0.0.59-alpha - 2021-09-18

Added

• Add Health Checks table to home page to identify and surface common misconfigurations
  • FFmpeg Version checks ffmpeg and ffprobe versions
  • FFmpeg Reports checks whether ffmpeg troubleshooting reports are enabled since they can use a lot of disk space over time
  • Hardware Acceleration checks whether channels that transcode are using acceleration methods that ffmpeg claims to support
  • Movie Metadata checks whether all movies have metadata (fallback metadata counts as metadata)
  • Episode Metadata checks whether all episodes have metadata (fallback metadata counts as metadata)
  • Zero Duration checks whether all movies and episodes have a valid (non-zero) duration
  • VAAPI Driver checks whether a vaapi driver preference is configured when using the vaapi docker image
• Add setting to each playout to schedule an automatic daily rebuild
  • This is useful if the playout uses a smart collection with released_onthisday

Fixed

• Fix docker vaapi support for newer Intel platforms (Gen 8+)
  • This includes a new setting to force a particular vaapi driver (iHD or i965), as some Gen 8 or 9 hardware that is supported by both drivers will perform better with one or the other
• Fix scanning and indexing local movies and episodes without NFO metadata
• Fix displaying seasons for shows with no year (in metadata or in folder name)
• Fix "direct play" in MPEG-TS mode (copy audio and video stream when Transcode is unchecked)

0.0.58-alpha - 2021-09-15

Added

• Add released_notinthelast search field for relative release date queries
  • Syntax is a number and a unit (days, weeks, months, years) like 1 week or 2 years
• Add released_onthisday search field for historical queries
  • Syntax is released_onthisday:1 and will search for items released on this month number and day number in prior years
• Add tooltip explaining Keep Multi-Part Episodes Together

Fixed

• Properly display watermark when no other video filters (like scaling or padding) are required
• Fix building some playouts in timezones with positive offsets (like UTC+2)
• Fix Shuffle In Order so all collections/shows start from the earliest episode
  • You may need to rebuild playouts to see this fixed behavior more quickly

0.0.57-alpha - 2021-09-10

Added

• Add released_inthelast search field for relative release date queries
  • Syntax is a number and a unit (days, weeks, months, years) like 1 week or 2 years
• Allow adding smart collections to multi collections

Fixed

• Fix loading artwork in Kodi
  • Use fake image extension (.jpg) for artwork in M3U and XMLTV since Kodi detects MIME type from URL
  • Enable HEAD requests for IPTV image paths since Kodi requires those

0.0.56-alpha - 2021-09-10

Added

• Add Smart Collections
  • Smart Collections use search queries and can be created from the search result page
  • Smart Collections are re-evaluated every time playouts are extended or rebuilt to automatically include newly-matching items
  • This requires rebuilding the search index and search results may be empty or incomplete until the rebuild is complete
• Allow Shuffle In Order with Collections and Smart Collections
  • Episodes will be grouped by show, and music videos will be grouped by artist
  • All movies will be a single group (multi-collections are probably better if Shuffle In Order is desired for movies)
  • All groups will be be ordered chronologically (custom ordering is only supported in multi-collections)

Fixed

• Generate XMLTV that validates successfully
  • Properly order elements
  • Omit channels with no programmes
  • Properly identify channels using the format number.etv like 15.etv
• Fix building playouts when multi-part episode grouping is enabled and episodes are missing metadata
• Fix incorrect total items count in Multi Collections table

0.0.55-alpha - 2021-09-03

Fixed

• Fix all local library scanners to ignore dot underscore files (._)

0.0.54-alpha - 2021-08-21

Added

• Add Shuffle In Order playback order for multi-collections.
  • This is useful for randomizing multiple collections/shows on a single channel, while each collection maintains proper ordering (custom or chronological)

Fixed

• Fix bug parsing ffprobe output in cultures where . is a group/thousands separator
  • This bug likely prevented ETV from scheduling correctly or working at all in those cultures
  • After installing a version with this fix, affected content will need to be removed from ETV and re-added

0.0.53-alpha - 2021-08-01

Fixed

• Fix error message displayed after building empty playout
• Fix Emby and Jellyfin links

Changed

• Always proxy Jellyfin and Emby artwork; this fixes artwork in some networking scenarios

0.0.52-alpha - 2021-07-22

Added

• Add multiple local libraries to better organize your media
• Add Move Library Path function to support reorganizing existing local libraries

Fixed

• Fix bug preventing playouts from rebuilding after an empty collection is encountered within a multi-collection

0.0.51-alpha - 2021-07-18

Added

• Add Multi Collection to support shuffling multiple collections within a single schedule item
  • Collections within a multi collection are optionally grouped together and ordered when scheduling; this can be useful for franchises
• Add Playout Days To Build setting to control how many days of playout data/program guide data should be built into the future

Changed

• Move Playback Order from schedule to schedule items
  • This allows different schedule items to have different playback orders within a single schedule

Fixed

• Fix release notes on home page with -alpha suffix
• Fix linux-arm release by including SQLite interop artifacts
• Fix issue where cached Plex credentials may become invalid when multiple servers are used

0.0.50-alpha - 2021-07-13

Added

• Add Linux ARM release artifacts which can be used on Raspberry Pi devices

Fixed

• Fix bug preventing ingestion of local movies with fallback metadata (without NFO files)
• Fix extra spaces in titles of local movies with fallback metadata (without NFO files)

0.0.49-prealpha - 2021-07-11

Added

• Include audio language metadata in all streaming modes
• Add special zero-count case to Multiple playout mode
  • This configuration will automatically maintain the multiple count so that it is equal to the number of items in the collection
  • This configuration should be used if you want to play every item in a collection exactly once before advancing

Changed

• Use case-insensitive sorting for collections page and Add to Collection dialog
• Use case-insensitive sorting for all collection lists in schedule items editor
• Use natural sorting for schedules page and Add to Schedule dialog

Fixed

• Fix flooding schedule items that have a fixed start time

0.0.48-prealpha - 2021-06-22

Added

• Store pixel format with media statistics; this is needed to support normalization of 10-bit media items
  • This requires re-ingesting statistics for all media items the first time this version is launched

Changed

• Use ffprobe to retrieve statistics for Plex media items (Local, Emby and Jellyfin libraries already use ffprobe)

Fixed

• Fix playback of transcoded 10-bit media items (pixel format yuv420p10le) on Nvidia hardware
• Emby and Jellyfin scanners now respect library refresh interval setting
• Fix adding new seasons to existing Emby and Jellyfin shows
• Fix adding new episodes to existing Emby and Jellyfin seasons

0.0.47-prealpha - 2021-06-15

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

0.0.46-prealpha - 2021-06-14

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

0.0.45-prealpha - 2021-06-12

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

0.0.44-prealpha - 2021-06-09

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

0.0.43-prealpha - 2021-06-05

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

0.0.42-prealpha - 2021-05-31

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

0.0.41-prealpha - 2021-05-30

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

0.0.40-prealpha - 2021-05-28

Added

• 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

Fixed

• 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

0.0.39-prealpha - 2021-05-25

Added

• Show Jellyfin and Emby artwork in XMLTV

Fixed

• 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

0.0.38-prealpha - 2021-05-23

Added

• 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.

Fixed

• 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)

0.0.37-prealpha - 2021-05-21

Added

• 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

Fixed

• 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

0.0.36-prealpha - 2021-05-16

Added

• 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

0.0.35-prealpha - 2021-04-27

Added

• 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

Fixed

• 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

0.0.34-prealpha - 2021-04-17

Added

• 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)

Fixed

• 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

0.0.33-prealpha - 2021-04-11

Added

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

Fixed

• 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

0.0.32-prealpha - 2021-04-09

Added

• 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

Fixed

• 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

0.0.31-prealpha - 2021-04-06

Added

• 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

Fixed

• 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

0.0.30-prealpha [YANKED]

0.0.29-prealpha - 2021-04-04

• 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

0.0.28-prealpha - 2021-04-03

• 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

0.0.27-prealpha - 2021-04-02

• 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

0.0.26-prealpha - 2021-03-30

• Add Custom Title option to schedule items
  • When a custom title is set, the schedule item will be grouped in the EPG with the custom title
• Navigate to schedule items after creating new schedule
• Fix channel editor so preferred language is no longer required on every channel
• Fix bug with audio track selection during non-normalized playback
• Fix bug with playout builds where Multiple or Duration items wouldn't respect the settings over time
• Fix bug that prevented some television folders from scanning

0.0.25-prealpha - 2021-03-29

• Add preferred language feature
  • Global preference can be set in FFmpeg settings; channels can override global preference
  • Preferences require ISO 639-2 language codes
  • Audio stream selection will attempt to respect these preferences and prioritize streams with the most channels
  • English (eng) will be used as a fallback when no preferences have been configured
  • This feature requires a one-time reanalysis of every media item which may take a long time for large libraries and playback may fail until this scan has completed
• Fix channel sorting in EPG
• Fix mixed-platform path replacements (Plex on Windows with ErsatzTV on Linux, or Plex on Linux with ErsatzTV on Windows)
• Fix local television library scanning; this was broken with v0.0.23
• Optimize local library scanning; regular scans should be significantly faster
• Add log warning when a zero-duration media item is encountered
• Fix indexing local shows without NFO metadata.
  • If you have this issue the best way to fix is to:
    • Shutdown ErsatzTV
    • Delete the search-index subfolder inside the ErsatzTV config folder
    • Start ErsatzTV; the full search index will be rebuilt on startup
• Fix updating search index when genres, tags, studios are updated in local libraries
• Adjust artwork routes so all IPTV traffic can be proxied with a single path prefix of /iptv

0.0.24-prealpha - 2021-03-22

• Fix a critical bug preventing library synchronization with Plex sign ins performed with v0.0.22 or v0.0.23
  • If you are unable to sync libraries from Plex, please sign out and back in to apply this fix
• Fallback to folder.jpg when poster.jpg is not present
• Attach episodes to correct show when adding NFO metadata to existing libraries

0.0.23-prealpha - 2021-03-21

• Remove all Plex items from search index after sign out
• Fix fallback metadata for local episodes (episode number was missing)
• Improve television show year detection where year is missing from nfo metadata
• Fix sorting for titles that start with A or An in addition to The
• Properly escape search links containing special characters (genre, tag)
• Add and index Studio metadata

0.0.22-prealpha - 2021-03-20

• Log errors encountered during search index build; attempt to continue with partial index when errors are encountered
• Only search title field by default; genre and tag can be searched with field:query syntax
• Allow leading wildcards in searches
• Keep search query in search field to allow easy modification
• Fix default ffmpeg profile when creating new channels
• Fix multiple bugs with updating Plex servers, libraries, path replacements
• Add release_date to search index

0.0.21-prealpha - 2021-03-20

• Optimize local library scanning to use less memory
• Duplicate some documentation near the schedule item editor
• Fix bug with updating Normalize Video Codec setting
• Rework search functionality
  • Search landing page will show up to 50 items of each type
  • See All links can be used to page through all search results
  • Complex search queries supported (christmas OR santa)
  • Fields that are searched by default:
    • title
    • genre
    • tag
  • Fields that aren't searched by default, but can be included in queries with syntax like (plot:whatever):
    • plot
    • library_name
    • type (movie or show)
  • Add letter bar to all paged search results to quickly navigate to a particular letter

0.0.20-prealpha - 2021-03-17

• Fix NVIDIA hardware acceleration in develop-nvidia and latest-nvidia Docker tags
  • This may never have worked correctly in Docker with older releases
• Fix occasional crash rebuilding playout from ui
• Fix crash adding a channel when no channels exist
• Fix playback for media containing attached pictures

0.0.19-prealpha - 2021-03-16

• Regularly scan Plex libraries (same as local libraries)
• Add ability to create new collection from Add to Collection dialog
• Fix channel logos in XMLTV
• Add episode posters (show posters) to XMLTV
• Fix shuffled schedules from occasionally having repeated items when reshuffling
  • This was more likely to happen with low-cardinality collections like A B C C A B B C A
• Add optional FFmpeg troubleshooting reports
• Allow synchronizing hidden Plex libraries

0.0.18-prealpha - 2021-03-14

• Plex is now a supported media source
  • Plex is not used for transcoding at this point, files are played directly from the filesystem using ErsatzTV transcoding
  • Path replacements will be needed if your shared media folders are mounted differently in Plex and ErsatzTV

0.0.17-prealpha - 2021-03-13

• Fix bug introduced with 0.0.16 that prevented some playouts from building
• Properly set sort title on added tv shows
• Fix loading season pages containing episodes that have incomplete metadata
• Improve XMLTV guide data

0.0.16-prealpha - 2021-03-12

• Fix infinite loop caused by incorrectly configured ffprobe path
• Add more strict ffmpeg and ffprobe settings validation
• Add custom playback order option to collections that contain only movies
  • This custom playback order will override the schedule's configured playback order for the collection

0.0.15-prealpha - 2021-03-11

• Update UI for tv shows
• Fix tv show sorting
• Fix editing channel numbers
• Fix playout timezone bugs
• Add searchable genres and tags from local NFO metadata
• Add multi-select feature to movies, shows, search results and collection items pages

0.0.14-prealpha - 2021-03-09

• New movie layout utilizing fan art (if available)
• New dark UI
• Fix offline stream (displayed when no media is scheduled for playback)
• Add M3U codec hints for Channels DVR
• Allow sub-channel numbers
• Fix bug where ffmpeg wouldn't terminate after a media item completed playback
• Fix time zone in new docker base images
• Fix vaapi pipeline with mpeg4 content by using software decoder with hardware encoder
• Enforce unique schedule name
• Enforce unique channel number
• Fix sorting of collection items in UI

0.0.13-prealpha - 2021-03-07

• Remember selected Collection in Add To Collection dialog
• Automatically rebuild Playouts referencing any Collection that has items added or removed from the UI
• Remove Media Items from database when files are removed from disk
• Add hardware-accelerated transcoding support (qsv, nvenc/nvidia, vaapi)
  • All flavors support resolution normalization (scaling and padding)
  • This requires support within ffmpeg; see README for new docker image tags

0.0.12-prealpha - 2021-03-02

• Fix a database migration issue introduced with version 0.0.11
• Shutdown app when database migration failures are encountered at startup

0.0.11-prealpha - 2021-03-01

• Add Libraries and Library Paths under Media Sources
  • Two local libraries exist: Movies and Shows
  • Local Media Sources from prior versions are now found under Library Paths
• Add Rebuild Playout buttons to quickly regenerate playouts after modifying collections
• Add Add to Collection buttons to most media cards (movies, shows, seasons, episodes)
• Add Search page for searching movies and shows

0.0.10-prealpha - 2021-02-21

• Rework how television media is stored in the database
• Rework how media is linked to a collection
• Add season, episode and movie detail views to UI
• Add media to collections and schedules from detail views
• Easily add and remove media from a collection
• Easily add and reorder schedule items

0.0.9-prealpha - 2021-02-15

• Local media scanner has been rewritten and is much more performant
• Ignore extras in the same folder as movies (-behindthescenes, -trailer, etc)
• Support movie.nfo metadata in addition to matching filename nfo metadata
• Changes to video files, metadata and posters are automatically detected and used

0.0.8-prealpha - 2021-02-14

• Optimize scanning so playouts are only rebuilt when necessary (duration changes, or collection membership changes)
• Automatically add new posters during scanning
• Support more poster file types (jpg, jpeg, png, gif, tbn)
• Add "Refresh All Metadata" button to media sources page; this should only be needed if NFO metadata or posters are modified
• Add progress indicator for media sources that are being actively scanned
• Prevent deleting media source during scan
• Prevent creating playout with empty schedule

0.0.7-prealpha - 2021-02-13

• Rework media items layout - table has been replaced with cards/posters
• Fix bug preventing long folder names from being used as media sources
• Use 24h time pickers in schedule editor

0.0.6-prealpha - 2021-02-12

• Add version information to UI
• Add basic log viewer to UI

0.0.5-prealpha - 2021-02-12

• Fix bug where media scanner could stop prematurely and miss media items
• Add database migrations

0.0.4-prealpha - 2021-02-11

• Fix HDHomeRun routes - this version is required to use as a DVR with Plex, older versions will not work
• Improve metadata parsing for tv, add fallback (filename) parsing for movies

0.0.3-prealpha - 2021-02-11

• Fix incomplete XML issue introduced with v0.0.2-prealpha
• Add .ts files to local media scanner
• Change M3U, XMLTV, API icons to text links

0.0.2-prealpha - 2021-02-11 [YANKED]

• Relax some searches to be case-insensitive
• Improve categorization of tv episodes without sidecar metadata
• Properly escape XML content in XMLTV

0.0.1-prealpha - 2021-02-10

• Initial release to facilitate testing outside of Docker.