v26.7.0

Release Notes

Added

• Show Legacy, Next and FFmpeg versions in Troubleshooting > General

Changed

• Upgrade all bundled versions of ffmpeg from 7.1 to 8.1.2
  • Other versions (linux64 and linuxarm64) are available at https://github.com/ErsatzTV/ErsatzTV-ffmpeg/releases/tag/8.1.2

Fixed

• Update Plex movie and other video titles when changed from Plex
  • The first library scan after updating will act like a deep scan due to adding title to the Plex etag calculation
  • Future periodic scans will update titles in ETV automatically (deep scans will not be required to update titles)
• Randomize start points on playlist items in classic schedules when setting is enabled
  • Playlists ignored this setting in earlier builds
• Always randomize start points for all collections the first time they are used
  • Previously, only collections scheduled during the first day of a playout build had their start points randomized
• Allow multiple ETV instances when multiple config folders are used
• Maintain collection progress when refreshing a classic playout
  • Classic playouts save a checkpoint for each day they build, and refresh rewinds to the checkpoint for the current day
  • Checkpoints were only saved when a build happened to stop on a day boundary, so playouts with long items (movies, long blocks) were often missing the checkpoint for the current day, and refreshing those restarted every collection from the beginning
  • Checkpoints are now saved whenever a build crosses midnight
• Fix case where shuffled collection progress would reset early
  • This only happened when also grouping episodes (e.g. Keep Multi-Part Episodes Together)
  • More groups made it more likely to happen
• Fix marathons and playlists that would never pick a new order
  • Marathon Shuffle Groups and Shuffle Playlist Items choose a new order every time everything has played once
  • Content that can never play was still counted as waiting to play, so that never happened and the order stayed the same forever
  • This was caused by specials (season 0), which are skipped by Season, Episode order; marathons grouped by show or season use that order unless Marathon Shuffle Items is enabled
  • Affected playouts also became slower to build the longer they ran
• Fix shuffled playlists and marathon groups changing order when a playout is rebuilt (continued or refreshed)
  • Existing playlists and marathons will change order once after updating
• Fix playlists used as filler skipping content
  • When something doesn't fit, ETV puts the filler back where it was and tries again, but playlists were only partly put back
  • This could skip playlist content, and could cause the next playout build to resume in the wrong place
• Fix case where block playouts would occasionally get stuck building forever
• Fix green line sometimes seen with NVIDIA and AMD/VAAPI encoding
  • Both bugs were in ffmpeg, and ETV's patched ffmpeg 8.1.2 is required for the fixes
• Pass extracted subtitle paths to next engine; this fixes text subtitle burn-in when extraction is enabled
  • Embedded text subtitles will otherwise be ignored and unused (when extraction is disabled)
• Fix next engine music video playback when music video credits are disabled
• Fix playback when seeking into content beyond final text subtitle cue