Release Notes

Added

• Add Upload Results button to playback troubleshooting
  • Results are encrypted on your ErsatzTV server so only the ErsatzTV maintainer can read them
  • The upload returns an ID (e.g. etv-xxxx-xxxxxx) to paste into a GitHub issue or Discord thread
  • Uploads are deleted from the upload server after 7 days
  • Download Results still works when ErsatzTV can't reach the upload server
• Detect DolbyVision content from media server libraries
  • This enables the next engine to use the appropriate tonemapping filter

Changed

• Next engine:
  • Watermark-only graphics canvases render just the area the watermarks cover instead of the full frame
    • This reduces CPU use and GPU upload for animated or opacity-expression watermarks
    • This is currently limited to local watermarks; remote/URL watermarks will still send the full frame
  • Remove VideoToolbox h264 encoder workaround that stripped A53 closed captions
    • This is no longer needed with ErsatzTV-ffmpeg 8.1.2-5
• Use ErsatzTV-ffmpeg 8.1.2-5 in docker images, Windows packages and macOS packages
  • Fix transcoding speed drop when burning in image subtitles, especially with TrueHD audio
  • Fix macOS VideoToolbox encoding failure when video contains A53 closed captions
  • Add RKMPP accel support to arm64 docker image and native package; Jellyfin ffmpeg is no longer required

Fixed

• Next engine:
  • Fix active channels falling behind schedule when the playout is updated
  • Fix image subtitles (e.g. PGS) missing or misplaced with hardware acceleration when the subtitle size differs from the video size (e.g. cropped video)
  • Fix QSV stream failing when no Intel device is found; the channel now uses a software pipeline
  • Fix QSV green padding on Windows with certain HDR content
  • Fix slow transcoding of high-resolution video with PGS subtitles until the first subtitle appears
  • Fix RKMPP stream failing with loudness normalization
  • Fix VAAPI blocky, smeared h264 video on older AMD GPUs
• Fix Jellyfin external audio files being added as audio streams with negative indexes
  • These broke playback of the whole playout file with the next engine (expected u32)
  • Affected Jellyfin movies and episodes will be rescanned automatically
• Fix channel troubleshooting Play button being disabled with no explanation
  • Date and time now defaults to the current time and shows an error when it can't be parsed
• Fix some extracted ASS subtitles never being displayed
  • Affected subtitles that were already extracted will be repaired automatically on startup

ErsatzTV Next: v0.2.3