Release Notes

Added

• Automatically rebuild search index after improper shutdown
• Add experimental support for Elasticsearch as search index backend
  • No query changes should be needed since ES is backed by lucene and supports the same query syntax
  • This can be configured using the following env vars (note the double underscore separator __)
    • ELASTICSEARCH__URI (e.g. http://localhost:9200)
    • ELASTICSEARCH__INDEXNAME (default is ersatztv)
• Add experimental support for MySQL/MariaDB database provider
  • There is no functionality to migrate data between providers
  • This can be configured using the following env vars (note the double underscore separator __)
    • PROVIDER - set to MySql
    • MYSQL__CONNECTIONSTRING - (e.g. Server=localhost;Database=ErsatzTV;Uid=root;Pwd=ersatztv;)
• Add option to use shared Plex servers, not just owned servers
  • This can be enabled by setting the env var ETV_ALLOW_SHARED_PLEX_SERVERS to any non-empty value
• Show Plex server names in Libraries page

Fixed

• Fix subtitle scaling when using QSV hardware acceleration
• Fix log viewer crash when log file contains invalid data
• Clean channel guide cache on startup (delete channels that no longer exist)
• Fix Emby movie libraries so local file access is not required
• Fix adding alternate schedule
• Fix parsing show title from NFO file that also contains season information

Changed

• Optimize transcoding session to only work ahead (at max speed) for 3 minutes before throttling to realtime
  • This should greatly reduce cpu/gpu use when joining a channel, particularly with long content
• Allow manually editing (typing) schedule item fixed start time
• Use different control for editing schedule item duration, and allow 24-hour duration
  • This is needed if you want a default/fallback alternate schedule to fill the entire day with one schedule item
  • The schedule item should have a fixed start time of midnight (00:00) and a duration of 24 hours
• Use Direct3D 11 for QSV acceleration on Windows