Release Notes

Added

• Graphics Engine:
  • Add script graphics element type
    • Supported in playback troubleshooting and all scheduling types
    • Supports arbitrary scripts or executables that output graphics to ETV via stdout
    • Supports EPG and Media Item replacement in entire template
      • EPG data is sourced from XMLTV for the current time
        • EPG data can also load a configurable number of subsequent (up next) entries
      • Media Item data is sourced from the currently playing media item
    • All template data will also be passed as JSON to the stdin stream of the command
    • Template supports:
      • Script and arguments (command and args)
      • Draw order (z_index)
      • Timing (start_seconds and duration_seconds)
      • Data format (format)
        • raw format means full frames of BGRA data to stdout
        • packet format means ETV graphics packets to stdout
  • Add framerate template data
    • RFrameRate - the real content framerate (or channel normalized framerate) as reported by ffmpeg, e.g. 30000/1001
    • FrameRate - the decimal representation of RFrameRate, e.g. 29.97002997
  • Add Channel_StartTime template data
    • This indicates the time that the transcode session started for the current channel
• Add remote stream metadata
  • Remote stream definitions (yaml files) can now contain title, plot, year and content_rating fields
  • Remote streams can now have thumbnails (same name as yaml file but with image extension)
  • This metadata will be used in generated XMLTV entries, using a template that can be customized like other media kinds
• Add Download Media Sample button to playback troubleshooting
  • This button will extract up to 30 seconds of the media item and zip it
• Add Target Loudness (LUFS/LKFS) to ffmpeg profile when loudness normalization is enabled
  • Default value is -16; some sources normalize to a quieter value, e.g. -24
• Add environment variables to help troubleshoot performance
  • ETV_SLOW_DB_MS - milliseconds threshold for logging slow database queries (at DEBUG level)
    • e.g. if this is set to 1000, queries taking longer than 1 second will be logged
  • ETV_SLOW_API_MS - milliseconds threshold for logging slow API calls (at DEBUG level)
    • This is currently limited to Jellyfin
  • ETV_JF_PAGE_SIZE - page size for library scan API calls to Jellyfin; default value is 10
  • ETV_JF_ENABLE_STATS - enables logging timing information related to Jellyfin show library scans
• Add Select All button to media pages by @Erotemic

Fixed

• Fix startup on systems unsupported by NvEncSharp
• Fix detection of Plex Other Video libraries using Plex Personal Media agent
  • If the library is already detected as a Movies library in ETV, synchronization must be disabled for the library to change it to an Other Videos library
  • A warning will be logged when this scenario is detected
• Graphics Engine:
  • Optimize graphics engine to generate element frames in parallel and to eliminate redundant frame copies
  • Match graphics engine framerate with source content (or channel normalized) framerate
  • Fix loading requested number of epg entries for motion graphics elements
• Fix bug with mirror channels where seemingly random content would be played every ~40 seconds
• Fix chronological sorting for Other Videos that have release date metadata
• Fix playout sorting after using channel number editor
• VAAPI: Only include -sei a53_cc flags when misc packed headers are supported by the encoder
  • This should fix playback in some cases, e.g. AMD VAAPI h264 encoder
• AMD VAAPI:
  • work around buggy ffmpeg behavior where hevc_vaapi encoder with RadeonSI driver incorrectly outputs height of 1088 instead of 1080
  • fix green padding when encoding h264 using main profile
• Automatically kill playback troubleshooting ffmpeg process if it hasn't completed after two minutes
• Fix playback of certain BT.2020 content
• Use playlist item count when using a playlist as filler (instead of a fixed count of 1 for each playlist item)
• NVIDIA:
  • Fix stream failure with certain content that should decode in hardware but falls back to software
  • Fix stream failure with content that changes color metadata mid-stream
• Fix stream failure when configured fallback filler collection is empty
• Fix high CPU when errors are displayed; errors will now work ahead before throttling to realtime, similar to primary content
• Fix startup error caused by duplicate smart collection names (and no longer allow duplicate smart collection names)
• Fix erroneous downgrade health check failure with some installations that use MariaDB
• Sequential schedules: fix count instruction validation to accept integer (constant) or string (expression)
• Fix multi-part episode grouping logic so that it does NOT require release date metadata for episodes within a single show
  • When Treat Collections As Shows is enabled (i.e. for crossover episodes) release date metadata is required for proper grouping
• Fix many cases of duplicate names; enforce case-insensitive unique names at the db schema level
• Fix playback when using ETV_BASE_URL by @JamesDearlove

Changed

• No longer round framerate to nearest integer when normalizing framerate
• Allow playlists to have no items included in EPG
• Change how fallback filler works
  • Items will no longer loop; instead, a sequence of random items will be selected from the collection
  • Items may still be cut as needed
  • Hardware acceleration will now be used
  • Items can "work ahead" (transcode faster than realtime) when less than 3 minutes in duration
• Optimize Jellyfin database fields and indexes
• Optimize Jellyfin show library scans by only requesting People (actors, directors, writers) when etags don't match
  • This should significantly speed up periodic library scans, particularly against Jellyfin 10.11.x
• Lazy load media item images in UI
• Align alternate schedule and template handling (between classic schedules and block schedules)
  • Both systems now support limiting to a date range
  • This date range can be repeating (when year is not specified for start or end dates)
  • This date range can be exact (when year is specified for start and end dates)