Release Notes

Added

• Add log warnings when actual transcoding speed is potentially insufficient to support smooth playback
  • Log messages will include media item id, channel number and transcoding speed
• Add UI language setting to Settings > UI
  • A small number of translations have been added for Português (Brasil) and Polski
  • Translation contributions are always welcome!
• Add Troubleshoot button to playout details table to show info that may be helpful in determining the source of a playout item
  • Classic schedule info includes schedule, schedule item, scheduler, filler, playback order, random seed, collection index
  • Block schedule info includes block, block item, playback order, random seed, collection index
  • E.g. items with the same random seed are part of the same shuffle
• Add channel setting Slug Seconds
  • This controls how many (optional) seconds of black video and silent audio to insert between every playout item
  • This will drift playback from the wall clock as slugs are not scheduled in the playout, but are inserted dynamically during playback
  • If this feature turns out to be popular, methods to correct the drift may be investigated
• Add ETV_INSTANCE_ID environment variable to disambiguate EPG data from multiple ErsatzTV instances
  • When set, the value will be used in channel identifiers before the final .ersatztv.org
• Show warning message when selecting audio format aac (latm) for general streaming use when it is only intended for DVB-C

Changed

• Move dark/light mode toggle to Settings > UI
• Use latest (non-deprecated) authorization method with Jellyfin API
• Replace direct Discord links with new contact page https://ersatztv.org/contact which also includes other options like Matrix
• Lower GOP size and keyframe interval from four seconds to two seconds in accordance with HLS2 draft spec recommendations

Fixed

• Improve stability of playback orders Shuffle and Shuffle in Order over time
• Fix Trakt list sync
• Fix some cases of QSV audio/video desync when not seeking by using software decode
  • This only applies to content that might be problematic (using a heuristic)
• NVIDIA: force software decode of 10-bit h264 content since hardware decode is unsupported by ffmpeg until version 8
• Graphics engine: fix stream seek value used throughout graphics engine
  • This should fix loading EPG data when used with chapters/mid-roll
  • This should also fix graphics element visibility when using start_seconds on content with chapters/mid-roll
  • This bug was caused by stream seek including the playout item in-point (the chapter start time)
    • Stream seek should only be non-zero when first joining a channel (i.e. in the middle of a playout item or chapter)