Dizquetv

* 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:

It's recommended you take a backup of .dizquetv or .pseudotv folder (or your docker volume) before trying a new version. Just in case so that you can revert back with no issue. dizqueTV will attempt to migrate your folder to the new version. pseudoTV users please rename the folder to .dizqueTV before running this.

This is a test version. We are approaching 0.1.0 which will be the first stable version. We are currently doing badly in the documentation front, but there are instructions at https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv . You can ask specific questions at join our discord: https://discord.gg/U64P9MR

Hotfix: 0.0.64 is a hotfix of 0.0.63. It has these bug fixes

- Fix a bug that created a ghost server in fresh setups running 0.0.63. Also 64 will detect this ghost server and delete it if necessary during initialization.
- Fix Permanent Spinning Wheel in channels list when there are no channels set up.
- Fix /m3u8 endpoint breaking during episode switching.

It's recommended you take a backup of .dizquetv or .pseudotv folder (or your docker volume) before trying a new version. Just in case so that you can revert back with no issue. dizqueTV will attempt to migrate your folder to the new version. pseudoTV users please rename the folder to .dizqueTV before running this.

This is a test version. We are approaching 0.1.0 which will be the first stable version. We are currently doing badly in the documentation front, but there are instructions at https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv . You can ask specific questions at join our discord: https://discord.gg/U64P9MR

Improvements:
* Docker images with nvidia support are available, append "-nvidia" to the image you want to use. (e.g vexorian/dizquetv:latest-nvidia, vexorian/dizquetv:development-nvidia, vexorian/dizquetv:0.0.63-nvidia)
* genre support in library browser.
* Channel are now stored in individual json files instead of having a single gigantic json.
* Programs no longer have the server information embedded in them. This means that it is now possible to change the server address or access token without having to remake the channels.
* Plex server editor.
* Plex settings tab now shows the status of the plex server connections.
* Improved the channel loading experience in channel editor.
* It's possible to delete a Plex server (Existing programs that use the server will be replaced with Flex time)

Minor:
* tvg-chno tag is now included in m3u, this should improve compatibility with iptv players.
* A small improvement in how streams are moved from ffmpeg to the response. Hopefully it improves playback a bit.
* If normalize resolution is disabled, but ffmpeg transcoding is still used, then the preferred resolution is used as a maximum resolution. This is useful if you were using m3u8 endpoint and didn't have resources to transcode huge videos when overlay was enabled, for example.
* Channels tab will no longer show a message saying there are zero channels for a brief second while it is loading them. Same with servers list in plex settings.

Bug Fixes:
* When adding Plex servers, dizqueTV will now try as hard as possible to pick a server address that works correctly both from the UI and from the backend (for example it can be complex to find an address that works in both directions when using docker)
* Fix 640x360 resolution in ffmpeg options, it was being ignored.


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

If you instead want a native executable file for your OS use the following:

It's recommended you take a backup of .dizquetv or .pseudotv folder (or your docker volume) before trying a new version. Just in case so that you can revert back with no issue. dizqueTV will attempt to migrate your folder to the new version. pseudoTV users please rename the folder to .dizqueTV before running this.

This is a test version. We are approaching 0.1.0 which will be the first stable version. We are currently doing badly in the documentation front, but there are instructions at https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv . You can ask specific questions at join our discord: https://discord.gg/U64P9MR

Improvements:
* Channel Tool : Remove Specials , removes all specials from the channel.
* When videos are played in /m3u8 , normalization other than codecs will be disabled.
* If there are issues when loading specific videos in the plex library browser, a red message will appear to notify you of which videos have problems.

Minor:
* Version tab now shows UI and ffmpeg version.
* "Add Flex" Tool will add the Flex to the current location of the channel schedule instead of always to the very bottom.
* channels in the m3u will be sorted by channel number. This seems to be important to some iptv clients.

Bug Fixes:
* Fix a couple of issues, specially in UNRAID that arose because the main branch was renamed to "main". Please note that there's a new address for the unraid template repository, see readme for more info.
* Loading Screen will no longer play when normalization is disabled, this fixes issue that made playback impossible without enabling normalization.
* Actually fix the bug that made videos shorter than 10 seconds loop forever, for real this time.
* Errors in a single video in plex library will no longer prevent everything else from getting loaded.

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

If you instead want a native executable file for your OS use the following: