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

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
• 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)

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.