Release Notes

Added

• Add new collection type Rerun Collection
  • This collection type will show up as two collection types in classic schedules
    • Rerun (First Run)
    • Rerun (Rerun)
  • The playback order for each of these collection types can be set on the rerun collection itself
    • e.g. Season, Episode order for first run, Shuffle for rerun
  • When a first run item is added to a playout, it will immediately be made available in the rerun collection
  • Rerun history is currently scoped to the playout, and only supported in classic schedules
    • This means resetting the playout will reset the rerun history
  • Items will still be scheduled from the rerun collection if it is used before the first run collection
    • Otherwise, the rerun collection would be considered "empty" which prevents the playout build altogether
• Add Rkmpp hardware acceleration by @peterdey
  • This is supported using jellyfin-ffmpeg7 on devices like Orange Pi 5 Plus and NanoPi R6S
• Block schedules: allow selecting multiple watermarks on block items
• Block schedules: allow selecting multiple graphics elements on block items
• Add motion graphics element type
  • Supported in playback troubleshooting and all scheduling types
  • Supports video files with alpha channel (e.g. vp8/vp9 webm, apple prores 4444)
  • 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
  • Template supports:
    • Content (video_path)
    • Placement (location, horizontal_margin_percent, vertical_margin_percent)
    • Scaling (scale, scale_width_percent)
    • Timing (start_seconds)
    • End behavior (end_behavior)
      • disappear (default) - disappear after playing once
      • loop - loop forever
      • hold - hold last frame forever, or hold_seconds
    • Draw order (z_index)
• Add search fields to filter collections, schedules and playouts tables
• Add selected row background color to schedules and playouts tables
• Graphics engine text element: add width_percent and text_fit to support wrapping and scaling text
  • text_fit: none or unspecified will keep existing behavior (render text exactly as configured)
  • text_fit: wrap will wrap text to the given width_percent
  • text_fit: scale will scale text smaller to fit the given width_percent
    • Text that already fits with the configured style will not be adjusted
• Block schedules: add experimental Break Content to decos
  • Break content is similar to filler from classic schedules
  • Break content is currently limited to placement Block Start (play before anything else in the block)
    • Future work will add other placement options
  • Break content is currently limited to playlists (which do not pad - they simply play through the playlist one time)
    • Future work will add other collection options which will pad to the full block duration
• Add page to reorder channels (edit channel numbers) using drag and drop
  • New page is at Channels > Edit Channel Numbers
• Scripted schedules: add setting to configure timeout of scripted playout build
  • New setting is at Settings > Playout > Scripted Schedule Timeout
• Add experimental streaming mode HLS Segmenter (fmp4)
  • This mode is required for better compliance with HLS spec, and to support new output codecs
  • This mode will replace HLS Segmenter when it has received more testing
• Allow HEVC playback in channel preview
  • This is restricted to compatible browsers
  • Preview button will be red when preview is disabled due to browser incompatibility
• Add AV1 encoding support with NVIDIA, VAAPI and QSV acceleration
  • This also requires HLS Segmenter (fmp4)
• Add Stream Selector option to playback troubleshooting tool
  • This can be helpful for validating stream selector behavior with specific content
  • Manual subtitle selection will be disabled when using a stream selector
• Add basic log viewer to playback troubleshooting tool
  • Streaming log level will be forced to Debug during troubleshooting
  • Streaming log level will be restored to its previous value after troubleshooting completes
• Add playout build status to UI
  • Playouts that fail to build will be highlighted yellow in the playouts table
  • Clicking on the failed playout will display the warning or error that caused the playout build to fail

Fixed

• Fix green output when libplacebo tonemapping is used with NVIDIA acceleration and 10-bit output in FFmpeg Profile
• Fix playback when invalid video preset has been saved in FFmpegProfile
  • This can happen when NVIDIA accel falls back to libx264 software encoder for 10-bit h264 output
• Fix 10-bit output when using NVIDIA and graphics engine (watermark or other overlays)
• Fix playback of Jellyfin content with unknown color range
• Block schedules: skip collections (block items) that will never fit in block duration
• Block schedules: skip media items that will never fit in block duration
• Fix HLS playlist generation for clients that actually care about discontinuities (like hls.js)
  • This should resolve most playback issues with built-in channel preview
• Fix deco dead air fallback selection and duration on mirror channels
• Fix fallback filler duration on mirror channels
• Fix slow startup caused by check for overlapping playout items
• Fix green line in most cases when overlaying content using NVIDIA acceleration and H264 output
• Fix non-SRT (e.g. SSA/ASS) external subtitle playback from media servers
• Fix extracted text subtitle playback from media servers
• Fix extracted text subtitles getting into invalid state after media server deep scans
  • Targeted deep scans will now extract text subtitles for the scanned show
• Fix playlist preview
• Use NVIDIA NvEnc API to detect encoder capability instead of heuristic based on GPU model/architecture
• Use NVIDIA Cuvid API to detect decoder capability instead of heuristic based on GPU model/architecture
• Fix filler expression not being respected when using a playlist as filler
• Use "repeat count" metadata from animated GIFs in graphics engine (i.e. watermarks)
  • GIFs flagged to loop forever will loop forever
  • GIFs with a specific loop count will loop the specified number of times and then hold the final frame
    • Note that looping is relative to the start of the content, so this works best with permanent watermarks
• Fix some more hls.js warnings by adding codec information to multi-variant playlists
• Fix hardware decode of h264 constrained baseline content using VAAPI accel
• Custom stream selector: ignore embedded text subtitles that have not been extracted
• Fix cropping Jellyfin and Emby content that is smaller than the crop resolution
• Sync movies with non-file media sources (e.g. http/nfs) from Emby movie libraries by @jasonarends

Changed

• Filler presets: use separate text fields for hours, minutes and seconds duration
• Use autocomplete fields for collection searching in deco editor
  • This greatly improves the editor performance