Release Notes

Added

• Graphics engine:
  • Add template data (like MediaItem_Title) for other video files
  • Add MediaItem_Path for movies, episodes, music videos and other videos
  • Add get_directory_name and get_filename_without_extension functions for path processing
  • Add text_align property to text graphics elements (values: left, right and center)
  • Add MiddleCenter value to location property on all graphics elements
    • Positive and negative margins can be used to offset from center as desired
  • Add line_height property to text element style definition
    • This is a multiplier that defaults to 1.0 when unspecified
  • Add halo_color, halo_width and halo_blur properties to text element style definition
    • These can be used to "outline" text with the configured color (e.g. #000000), width (e.g. 10) and amount of blur (e.g. 2)
• Add Block Playout Troubleshooting tool to help investigate block playout history
• Add sequential schedule file and scripted schedule file names to playouts table
• Add empty (but already up-to-date) sqlite3 database to greatly speed up initial startup for fresh installs
• Add button to copy/clone block from blocks table
• Add playback speed to playback troubleshooting output
  • Speed is relative to realtime (1.0x is realtime)
  • Speeds < 0.9x will be colored red, between 0.9x and 1.1x colored yellow, and > 1.1x colored green
• Add episode thumbnail artwork URL to XMLTV template
  • By default, poster will be added as image with type "poster" and thumbnail will be added as image with type "still"
  • Poster will continue to be added as icon by default
• Add buttons to edit Jellyfin and Emby connection information in Media Sources > Jellyfin and Media Sources > Emby
• Add audio format aac (latm) for DVB-C compatibility; aac uses ADTS by default which is required in most cases
• Add deep scan option for external collections (Plex, Jellyfin, Emby)
  • Jellyfin and Emby collection scans have always been deep scans
  • Now, by default, they will be quick scans that trust Jellyfin and Emby's etags for detecting changes
  • If a quick scan misses updating a collection, deep scans can be triggered manually

Fixed

• Fix NVIDIA startup errors on arm64
• Fix remote stream durations in playouts created using block, sequential or scripted schedules
• Fix playback troubleshooting selecting a subtitle even with no subtitle stream selected in the UI
• Fix intermittent watermark opacity
• Improve reliability of live remote streams; they should transcode closer to realtime in most cases
• Dramatically improve stream startup time
• VAAPI: fix scaling image-based subtitles (e.g. dvdsub)
• VAAPI: fix overlaying picture subtitles with scaling behavior crop
• Fix HLS Segmenter (fmp4) on Windows
• Playback troubleshooting: wait for at least 2 initial segments (up to configured initial segment count) to reduce stalls
• Fix Trakt List sync
• Fix QSV audio sync
• Fix QSV capability detection on Linux using non-drm displays (e.g. wayland)
• Fix playlist filtering bug that made HLS Segmenter more likely to fail when streaming for multiple hours
• Fix NVIDIA overlaying text subtitles and permanent watermark on 10-bit content
• Fix UI error adding deco
• Fix UI error editing watermarks and graphics elements on blocks
• Fix showing playout build failure details when resetting a playout
• Fix scheduling auto-generated trakt list playlists that contain shows
• Fix playout builder getting stuck (forever) on block item with an empty collection
• Fix HLS Direct playback when using custom stream selector or preferred audio language/title
• Fix selecting embedded subtitles (text and picture) with HLS Direct
• Fix building scripted schedules across a UTC offset change

Changed

• Do not use graphics engine for single, permanent watermark
• Rename YAML Validation tool to Sequential Schedule Validation
• Greatly reduce debug log spam during playout builds by logging summaries of certain warnings at the end
• Remove experimental HLS Segmenter V2 streaming mode; it is not possible to maintain quality output using this mode
• Remove experimental HLS Segmenter (fmp4) streaming mode; this mode only worked properly in a browser, many clients did not like it
• Change how scanner process and main process communicate, which should improve reliability of search index updates when scanning