Dizquetv

Details
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This initial release includes the majority of the functionality of dizqueTV, including:
- creating and updating channels
- adding programs and filler items
- adding redirects (Channel at Night)
- sorting programs by release date, season order, duration, alphabetically or randomly
- removing duplicate programs/fillers and specials
- adding and removing Plex servers
- updating all four dizqueTV settings categories

This library also has support for the popular PlexAPI Python library, allowing you to pass in a PlexAPI Video, Movie or Episode object and add it to a channel, with the conversion occurring behind the scenes.

Currently missing (future plans):
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- Cyclical shuffle for programs
- Improved Channel at Night creation
- Rerun support
- Whatever else Vexorian decides to add

**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.

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:

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:
* A loading screen. It displays for 1 second so that some loading can be done in the background (hopefully). Disable FFMPEG transcoding if you want to get rid of it. Though I really think it helps the experience. You can customize it by replacing the picture.
* Collections support in library.
* Ability to add whole libraries in one click.
* Greatly improve performance of plex library browser when adding things. And it also has a progress wheel so that that it is easier to notice when the elements have finished being added.
* FFMPEG concat process uses 1 thread, it doesn't really need more than that and this opens CPU space for the other ffmpeg process.
* probesize argument changed to 32. Maybe it will make streams start faster. But it may also make them more likely to fail completely. Let's see what happens... This will eventually be configurable.
* A new endpoint if you use http://dizqueaddress:8000/m3u8?channel=4 in a media player, it will play channel 4 but will use a playlist, this is likely to be a lot lighter and smoother than using the video? endpoint. So if you use media players to watch, this will be faster and doesn't require normalization. It's a very niche feature, but maybe someone might like it?

Minor:
* Some logs and defaults have been improved.

Bug Fixes:
* Fix bug that made videos shorter than 10 seconds loop forever.
* Fix bug that caused Plex mobile apps to spam notifications endlessly about new devices. Now you might get an occasional notification whenever you break the simultaneous transcodes record in your dizque usage.

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:

Sorry for previously uploading the old executble files by mistake, these should be the correct ones:

v0.0.59-vx
Hello,

This version is unofficial and is intended to let people test some features I am proposing to pseudoTV

Always make a backup of your .pseudotv folder before upgrading, this way you can easily restore the folder and rollback to your current version in case the test version doesn't work for you.

If you are upgrading from 0.0.51 or newer, running this version with your old .pseudotv folder should be able to migrate your existing settings and channels to the new structure. You might need to tweak the Plex and ffmpeg settings afterwards to improve performance. (Also programs added before (< 0.0.53) won't support the direct path playback feature from 0.0.53 unless you remake them).

A short list of Improvements to test:

- "Flex time" . Periods of time in a channel that don't appear in the TV guide and can be used to play Bumpers, Commercials, Trailers, Prerolls and other random filler. And also a fallback video (eg: an stream offline message with a timer)
- New Channel tools for shuffling, adding padding so that programs start at 0:00 or 0:30 , making the channel go offline for certain hours. Or adding breaks (using flex time).
- Performance and Stability fixes.
- Big UI changes to channel UI.
- Old 'commercials' feature removed. Channels including old commercials will be converted to use Flex time instead.
- DB migration to make it possible to keep channels and settings from old version even when upgrading.

Join the discord https://discord.com/invite/D9ckKg4 for questions and also if you need help building the docker image for this version.

**New in 0.0.59-vx:**
- Identical to 0.0.58, but had to make another release because the files uploaded as 58 were not all correct and git tags are permanent.
- New channel UI, removal of old commercials feature and addition DB Migration as mentioned above.
- Fix bug with concurrent streams when both streams need to use Plex transcoding.
- Fix bug with stream stopping automatically after some minutes unless ffmpeg logs are enabled.
- Fix bug with error and offline streams when ffmpeg transcoding is enabled (this situation SHOULD crash the stream, but it was giving a wrong error log).
- Default settings will have normalization enabled by default.

Windows and Linux 64 bits executables have been tested and seem to work. I am using a new build system so I am not entirely sure if Mac OS/X or 32 bits windows executables will work, if you test them and they work, please tell me so that I can remove this warning.

Previous versions: https://github.com/vexorian/pseudotv/releases

v0.0.58-vx
Hello,

This version is unofficial and is intended to let people test some features I am proposing to pseudoTV

Always make a backup of your .pseudotv folder before upgrading, this way you can easily restore the folder and rollback to your current version in case the test version doesn't work for you.

If you are upgrading from 0.0.51 or newer, running this version with your old .pseudotv folder should be able to migrate your existing settings and channels to the new structure. You might need to tweak the Plex and ffmpeg settings afterwards to improve performance. (Also programs added before (< 0.0.53) won't support the direct path playback feature from 0.0.53 unless you remake them).

A short list of Improvements to test:

- "Flex time" . Periods of time in a channel that don't appear in the TV guide and can be used to play Bumpers, Commercials, Trailers, Prerolls and other random filler. And also a fallback video (eg: an stream offline message with a timer)
- New Channel tools for shuffling, adding padding so that programs start at 0:00 or 0:30 , making the channel go offline for certain hours. Or adding breaks (using flex time).
- Performance and Stability fixes.
- Big UI changes to channel UI.
- Old 'commercials' feature removed. Channels including old commercials will be converted to use Flex time instead.
- DB migration to make it possible to keep channels and settings from old version even when upgrading.

Join the discord https://discord.com/invite/D9ckKg4 for questions and also if you need help building the docker image for this version.

**New in 0.0.58-vx:**
- New channel UI, removal of old commercials feature and addition DB Migration as mentioned above.
- Fix bug with concurrent streams when both streams need to use Plex transcoding.
- Fix bug with stream stopping automatically after some minutes unless ffmpeg logs are enabled.
- Fix bug with error and offline streams when ffmpeg transcoding is enabled (this situation SHOULD crash the stream, but it was giving a wrong error log).
- Default settings will have normalization enabled by default.

Windows and Linux 64 bits executables have been tested and seem to work. I am using a new build system so I am not entirely sure if Mac OS/X or 32 bits windows executables will work, if you test them and they work, please tell me so that I can remove this warning.

Previous versions: https://github.com/vexorian/pseudotv/releases

v0.0.57-unofficial-vx
Hello,

This version is unofficial and is intended to let people test some features I am proposing to pseudoTV

Always make a backup of your .pseudotv folder before upgrading, this way you can easily restore the folder and rollback to your current version in case the test version doesn't work for you.

If you are upgrading from 0.0.53 or older, it is recommended you start from scratch with an empty .pseudotv folder

The features to test are:

- "Flex time" . Periods of time in a channel that don't appear in the TV guide and can be used to play Bumpers, Commercials, Trailers, Prerolls and other random filler. And also a fallback video (eg: an stream offline message with a timer)
- Performance improvement: A cache that at least in my testing speeds up channel loading and switching specially when channel db is huge.
- Performance improvement: Saving a channel will remove some unused stuff from the json, this can save up to 33% of the file size.
- av1 codec support in the ffmpeg for the docker image.
- New Channel tools for shuffling, adding padding so that programs start at 0:00 or 0:30 , making the channel go offline for certain hours. Or adding breaks (using flex time).

Join the discord https://discord.com/invite/D9ckKg4 for questions and also if you need help building the docker image for this version.

**New in 0.0.57-unofficial-vx:**
- Fix bug with padding tool, if you didn't select the allowed time slot, it would corrupt the whole channel.
- Fix slow channel loading times in UI when the channels are large. As a result the channel editor can only display 100 programs at once, but you can use a horizontal slider to see more.
- Tweaked the Flex random algorithm again.

Windows and Linux 64 bits executables have been tested and seem to work. I am using a new build system so I am not entirely sure if Mac OS/X or 32 bits windows executables will work, if you test them and they work, please tell me so that I can remove this warning.

Previous versions: https://github.com/vexorian/pseudotv/releases

v0.0.56-unofficial-vx
Hello,

This version is unofficial and is intended to let people test some features I am proposing to pseudoTV

Always make a backup of your .pseudotv folder before upgrading, this way you can easily restore the folder and rollback to your current version in case the test version doesn't work for you.

If you are upgrading from 0.0.53 or older, it is recommended you start from scratch with an empty .pseudotv folder

The features to test are:

- "Flex time" . Periods of time in a channel that don't appear in the TV guide and can be used to play Bumpers, Commercials, Trailers, Prerolls and other random filler. And also a fallback video (eg: an stream offline message with a timer)
- Performance improvement: A cache that at least in my testing speeds up channel loading and switching specially when channel db is huge.
- Performance improvement: Saving a channel will remove some unused stuff from the json, this can save up to 33% of the file size.
- av1 codec support in the ffmpeg for the docker image.
- New Channel tools for shuffling, adding padding so that programs start at 0:00 or 0:30 , making the channel go offline for certain hours. Or adding breaks (using flex time).

Join the discord https://discord.com/invite/D9ckKg4 for questions and also if you need help building the docker image for this version.

Changes from 0.0.55-unofficial-vx (Released July 28-th):
- TV guide will no longer have empty holes where Flex times were programmed. Instead the previous program will be extended. OR the channel's name will be used if the Flex time is longer than 30 minutes. This is to fix some problems that arise in some clients with empty TV guide spaces.
- New padding options that allow programs to start 5 minutes later than the usual start slot to account for a previous program that was too long (For example, if you are trying to have all programs start at :00 or :30, and there's a program that lasts 32 minutes, the next program can start at :35 )
- "Equalize Shows" renamed to "Balance Shows".
- New tool: Weight TV Shows : This allows you to control the total proportion of time dedicated to each TV show in your channel, so that you can make some more or less frequent.
- Tweaks to random filler algorithm.

Windows and Linux 64 bits executables have been tested and seem to work. I am using a new build system so I am not entirely sure if Mac OS/X or 32 bits windows executables will work, if you test them and they work, please tell me so that I can remove this warning.

Previous versions: https://github.com/vexorian/pseudotv/releases

v0.0.55-unofficial-vx
Hello,

This version is unofficial and is intended to let people test some features I am proposing to pseudoTV

Always make a backup of your .pseudotv folder before upgrading, this way you can easily restore the folder and rollback to your current version in case the test version doesn't work for you.

If you are upgrading from 0.0.52 or older, it is recommended you start from scratch with an empty .pseudotv folder

The features to test are:

- "Flex time" . Periods of time in a channel that don't appear in the TV guide and can be used to play Bumpers, Commercials, Trailers, Prerolls and other random filler. And also a fallback video (eg: an stream offline message with a timer)
- Performance improvement: A cache that at least in my testing speeds up channel loading and switching specially when channel db is huge.
- Performance improvement: Saving a channel will remove some unused stuff from the json, this can save up to 33% of the file size.
- av1 codec support in the ffmpeg for the docker image.
- New Channel tools for shuffling, adding padding so that programs start at 0:00 or 0:30 , making the channel go offline for certain hours. Or adding breaks (using flex time).

Join the discord https://discord.com/invite/D9ckKg4 for questions and also if you need help building the docker image for this version.

Changes from 0.0.54-unofficial-vx (Released July 27-th):
- Binaries should actually work now.
- Fix upstream bug that caused pseudotv to some times generate an empty xmltv file.
- Fix 0.0.54 bug that made it impossible to create channels.

Windows and Linux 64 bits executables have been tested and seem to work. I am using a new build system so I am not entirely sure if Mac OS/X or 32 bits windows executables will work.

v0.0.54-unofficial-vx
Hello this version is unofficial and is intended to let people test some features I am proposing to pseudoTV
In short:

- "Flex time" . Periods of time in a channel that don't appear in the tvguide and can be used to play Bumpers, Commercials, Trailers, Prerolls and other random filler. And also a fallback video ('eg an stream offline message with a timer?'
- Performance improvements - A cache that at least in my testing speeds up channel loading and switching
- av1 codec support in the ffmpeg for the docker image.
- Channel tools for shuffling, adding padding so that programs start at 0:00 or 0:30 , making the channel go offline for certain hours. Or adding breaks.

Join the discord https://discord.com/invite/D9ckKg4 and ask me more or if you need help building the docker image for this version.