Dizquetv

Hot on the heels of dizqueTV's 1.0.0 release

New dizqueTV features replicated
- Cyclical shuffle
- Pad times
- Channel at Night creation
- Rerun support
- Replicate
- Replicate and Shuffle
- Delete a specific show (or a specific season of a show)

Additional features
- Convert a PlexAPI PlexServer object into a dizqueTV PlexServer object

**Please note that dizqueTV is a rapidly-evolving project, and as a result, this library could break with future releases.** I will try my best to keep up with dizqueTV's development cycle. For simplicity's sake, version numbers of this library will match version numbers of dizqueTV.

- favicon for the web ui.
- New Channel Editor Tools: Replicate and Replicate+Smart Shuffle. They make the channel lineup repeat.
- Reddit icon to link to the sub-reddit.

Improvements:

- Channel Editor will now use virtual scroll for the programs. This should reduce lag when editing large channels and also means that akward horizontal bar is no longer needed to move around large channels. Instead all programs are accessible by scrolling down or up. This also means program durations are now represented by a horizontal bar instead of a vertical one.
- New channel tool: "Save/Restore TV show positions".

Minor:

- The tool buttons in the channel editor now have icons.
- Added a link to the discord server.
- Upgraded icons to font-awesome 5.
- It is now impossible to enable subtitles when Plex direct play is forced. Otherwise it would crash.


Bug Fixes:

- Fix issues with the error stream sometimes failing and exhausting the queue instead of playing.
- Fix 95 Redirects to Stealth channels not rendering correctly in TV guide.
- Fix 96 "Channel at night" using the redirect to pad time, instead of Flex time.
- Fix 103 Memory usage peaking when generating/updating the TV guide.
- Fix readme pointing to wrong unraid template repo.


Installation

Docker users go here: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/vexorian/dizquetv/tags

For native executable files look below:

* 0.0.67 is a hotfix release, released to fix some critical bugs in 0.0.66.
* Fixed xmltv location setting being ignored by new TV guide service.
* Fixed xmltv cache setting being ignored by new TV guide service.

Improvements:

* TV Guide in the web UI. This allows you to preview the channels and their programming without having to wait for clients. It also has an experimental play button that will do its best to let you play streams in your computer's media player without requiring other programs. This is mostly intended for testing the streams without interference of players.
* Stealth mode for channels. When this is enabled, the channel won't be visible in m3u, spoof hdhr device, tv guide or xmltv. It can still be used by channel redirects or playec directly from end-points though.

Minor:

* Some tooltips in the web UI were fixed.
* FFmpeg now uses the 'billinear_fast' algorithm for scaling. It has fast in the name, so it is hopefully faster and more suitable for streaming.
* When resolution normalization is enabled but ffmpeg still needs to change the resolution (e.g: because original resolution is too big for transcoding) it will no longer add black bars, it will only change the size of the video.

Bug Fixes:
* Fix an issue with anamorphic videos being stretched to wrong aspect ratios when ffmpeg would transcode the video and need to change the resolution.
* Fix bug where there was a chance to have two concurrent instances of the xmltv writer run at once and thus generate a corrupt xmltv file.
* FIx bug with normalize resolution not normalizing some anamorphic videos.

Installation

Docker users go here: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/vexorian/dizquetv/tags

For native executable files look below:

Improvements:

* Remove shows tool: Lets you remove all programs with the selected show titles from the Channel. Thanks to TimeBomb
* Channel redirect tool: Allows to setup periods of time in which a channel will play another channel's stream.
* "Channel at Night" tool : Automatizes the addition of channel redirects so that there's a fixed schedule every day where it redirects to another channel.
* Reruns tool: Enables to repeat blocks in the programming. For example you can setup a channel that every day, plays 12 hours of content and then repeats the same exact 12 hours of content.

Minor:

* Improved the way the xmltv file is written. It's minor but it shouldn't stop the other processes while reading the file anymore.
* Logs that will explain if/when video or audio are being transcoded by ffmpeg.
* Adding exception handling to the API. Would like the API to be a public tool for power users and devs that want more control over dizquetv, so this is a start...


Bug Fixes:
* Removed the ability to change xmltv file location through UI or API, because this actually allowed anyone with access to dizquetv's web ui to download any file in the file system.
* If start time is higher than current time, it will no longer crash the generation of the xmltv or the channel's playbeck, instead it will treat it as if flex time was scheduled.

Installation

Docker users go here: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/vexorian/dizquetv/tags

For native executable files look below: