Release Notes

Added

• Add support for Plex Other Video libraries
  • These libraries will now appear as ETV Other Video libraries
  • Items in these libraries will have tag metadata added from folders just like local Other Video libraries
  • Thanks @raknam for adding this feature!
• Add experimental support for On Demand channel progress
  • With On Demand channel progress, the playout will only advance when the channel is being streamed
  • When the channel is idle, the playout is unmodified and will be shifted forward as needed so no content is missed
  • Setting a channel to On Demand progress will disable alternate schedules
  • The On Demand setting will only be used for Flood playouts (NOT Block or External JSON)
  • It is NOT recommended to use fixed start times with On Demand progress
    • This will probably be disabled with a future update
• Add Default Filler to Deco system
  • After all blocks are scheduled/added to the playout, a second pass will be made to insert filler
  • Default filler will be shuffled and inserted in all unscheduled time between blocks
  • Default filler will stop scheduling when the next item would extend into primary content
  • Alternatively, default filler can be configured to Trim To Fit
    • In this case, the last item that would extend into primary content is trimmed to end exactly when the primary content starts
• Add experimental playout type YAML
  • This playout type uses a YAML file to declare content and describe how the playout should be built
  • Content currently supports search queries
  • Playout instructions currently include count, pad to next, and repeat
    • count: add the specified number of items (from the referenced content) to the playout
    • duration: play the referenced content for the specified duration
    • pad to next: add items from the referenced content until the wall clock is a multiple of the specified minutes value
    • repeat: continue building the playout from the first instruction in the YAML file
• Add channel logo generation by @raknam
  • Channels without custom uploaded logos will automatically generate a logo that includes the channel name
• Add two new API endpoints
  • Reset playout for channel
    • POST /api/channels/{channelNumber}/playout/reset
  • Scan library
    • POST /api/libraries/{libraryId}/scan
• Add Deco setting to Use Watermark During Filler
  • This setting is turned OFF by default, meaning filler will NOT use the configured watermark unless this is manually turned on
• Add Random Count filler mode by @embolon
  • This mode will randomly schedule between zero and the provided count number of items
  • e.g. random count 3 will schedule between 0 and 3 filler items
• Add Random Rotation playback order for block scheduling by @embolon
  • This playback order will pick a random item from a randomly selected group (show or artist)
  • It is somewhat similar to the Fill With Group mode used in flood scheduling

Fixed

• Add basic cache busting to XMLTV image URLs
  • This should help with clients not showing correct channel logos or posters
• Fix artwork in other video libraries by @raknam
• Fix adding items to empty playlists
• Fix filler preset editor and deco dead air fallback editor to only show supported collection types
• Fix infinite loop caused by impossible schedule (all collection items longer than schedule item duration)
• Fix selecting audio and subtitle streams with two-letter language codes
• Fix adding pad filler to content that is less than one minute in duration
• Generate unique identifier for virtual HDHomeRun tuner by @raknam
  • This allows a single Plex server to connect to multiple ETV instances
• Include all language codes from media library in preferred audio and subtitle language options
  • Language codes where an English name cannot be found will be at the bottom of the list
• Fix local libraries to detect external subtitle files with unrecognized language codes
• Fix playback selection of subtitles with unrecognized language codes
• Fix incorrectly removing block items that are hidden from EPG when deco filler is applied
• Fix deco selection when deco is scheduled until midnight
  • Previously, this deco item would be ignored so watermark and filler would be missing
• Fix movies with missing medata by generating fallback metadata
  • This allows these movies to appear in the Trash where they can be deleted
• Fix synchronizing trakt lists from users with special characters in their username
  • Note that these lists MUST be added as URLs; the short-form user/list will NOT work with special characters
• Fix local subtitle scanner to detect non-lowercase extensions (e.g. Movie (2000).EN.SRT)
• Fix adding a single image to a manual collection from search results
• Fix loading manual collection view when collection contains images
• Fix edge case where block playout history would get stuck and repeat an item
• Fix adjusting watermark opacity when watermark already contains alpha channel (is already transparent)

Changed

• Remove some unnecessary API calls related to media server scanning and paging
• Improve trakt list URL validation; non-trakt URLs will no longer be requested
• Prevent saving block templates when blocks are overlapping
  • This can happen if block durations are changed for blocks that are already on the template
• Redirect variant playlist request to proper URL for starting HLS Segmenter session when no session is active
  • This can happen when some clients "pause" long enough for the session to stop in ETV
  • When the client resumes playback, it requests the temp playlist URL which is now invalid e.g. /iptv/session/1/hls.m3u8 (not the original URL /iptv/channel/1.m3u8)
  • To fix, the client will be redirected back to the original URL in this case which will create a new session