NextPVR v5 Releases

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The public builds have been updated (Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker) to v5.1.0.201214

Fixed issue with bad playback in nextpvr.exe with bursty stream sources, like m3u8 IPTV channels
Added the ability to add/remove extra recording directories in the web app (fairly basic UI at this stage, and will be improved further in later releases)
Added experimental support for Digital Devices CI on Windows.
Fixed issue with scheduling an advanced recording from the Search screen with genre as a filter.
Improvements to TVMaze artwork support
Added fallback to use xmltv artwork if artwork cannot be found online.
Fixed issue with editing advanced recurring recordings in the web app
Fixed a couple of security issues with remote access to NextPVR
Tightened default security in NextPVR
Improved logic around time outs reading from m3u8 streams, to minimize missing blocks from source stream
Fixed an issue with IPTV channels with no content-type header supplied
Fixed issue with UI client search screen on Linux
Fxied issue with some keystrokes not working on TV Guide over live tv in NextPVR.exe
Fixed issue with timeline in the web app on daylight savings transition days
Added channel name to the web player for live tv
Added ratings/star_ratings to info available to kodi
Fixed issue on linux that could cause channels to be missing in scan if they have the same channel number
Fixed issue with long show names leading to recordings with filenames too large for the filesystem
Fixed issue with http headers when streaming video over http

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The public builds have been updated (Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker) to v5.1.0.201216

Increased a timeout used while importing IPTV channels from an m3u url.
Fixed a couple of places in the application where it wasn't correctly handling shows with episode/season numbers of more than 2 digits

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The public builds have been updated (Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker) to v5.1.2.210603

Fixed issue which could cause live streams to be slow to start, and to stop after 7 minutes or so.
Added support for VOD for IPTV users. This is accessible via the new VOD menu option in the web app. On the VOD page you can either click an item to watch it, or click download and it'll download it as a recording.
Added support for VOD Extras, for extendable on-demand content from elsewhere
Minor skin improvement to make horizontal menu look better with Direct2D rendering.
Updated versions .net core and dependencies
Minor improvements to date display in search page
Minor improvements to the Settings->Channels page, and group management
Fixed issue with editing existing manual recording in web app
Fixed issue with 'resume' in web app opening a new browser window/tab
QAM channel scan now defaults epg source to 'none', and no longer prompts for EPG update when scanning QAM channels
Fixed bug with QAM channels creating a unique group for every channel
Improvements to CORS support in the web server
Fixed issue with NScriptHelper -rename
Added method=channel.xmltv api for getting listings from NextPVR
Added directoryID to recordings returned from API
Added support different DVB scan file directory on Linux using NEXTPVR_DVBDIR environment variable
Fixed issue with overriding User-Agent on IPTV services that use redirects
Added the ability to force treating a xmltv url as gzipped, by adding &contentType=application%2Fgzip to the url
Improved logging on digital tuners
Fixed a couple of bugs with SAT>IP support
Fixed issue with auto transcode feature
Fixed issue with web server stream seeking behavor
Added new config setting <ScheduleWakeups>, that can be set to 'false' to disable any OS wake up requests
Fixed issue with RollingFile logging, which could cause a scary error message in the log, even though nothing was wrong
Fixed issue with device priority
Fixed issue with channel names that had trailing spaces in channel metadata
Added verbose logging around looking for missing files, to help diagnose issues
Minor tweaks to tuning strings used for DVB-S2 with SAT>IP
Added system.remove.missing api, which can be used from NScriptHelper, to trigger the application to remove missing recordings from the database (when files no longer exist on disk)
Fixed issue with running NScriptHelper on some platforms
Added vod.delete and vod.update.extras api

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The public builds have been updated (Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker) to v5.1.3.210711

Fixed issue where live tv was stopping for some users after 7 minutes (or 1/3 whatever they'd changed their live tv buffer to)
Fixed issue with last build stopping IPTV VOD urls from being imported from m3u source
Added VOD import from XC IPTV sources
Changes to the way nextpvr.exe deals with multiple audio streams in live tv.
Added the ability update XC channels
Minor improvements to the web UI player overlay
Web app now updating browser tab title to reflect what is being played
Fixed issue with web UI showing extra scrollbars on some settings->device pages, and sometimes a long update channel popup
Disabled the auto deletion of recurring recordings when deleting a channel
Now moving recordings over to new channel when merging channels
Changes to the way the application stores side-by-side xml metadata
Added confirmation message when deleting channel group
Fixed a couple of http headers used during streaming that the Android application did not like
Fixed issue with reported file length reported with http content range response headers
Fixed an api crash that could occur with recordings that had been deleted
Added option to automatically delete recurring recordings against channels that are deleted. Disabled by default.
Web app import recording feature will now accept side by side style xml files.
Fixed issue where recording list wasn't being reloaded correctly after an alternative recording time was scheduled
Added a 'none' logging level, so logging can be turned off entirely
Removed some noisey logging

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The public builds have been updated (Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker) to v5.1.4.210802

Fixed issue with multi-record with SAT>IP tuners
Fixed issue with saving recordings in Kodi
Fixed issue with Last EPG Update time api
Improved logging of m3u8 stream handling
Fixed typo in installer
Fixed issue with importing side-by-side xml
Added support for ATSC SAT>IP tuners
Fixed issue with streaming requests with range header specified

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The public builds have been updated (Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker) to v5.2.0.210912

NextPVR UI image rendering has been updated from System.Drawing to Skia. This is the UI used by nextpvr.exe and remote UI clients (nlite etc). It should look largely the same to users, but be a bit quicker in places. This change was required since Microsoft will no longer support System.Drawing on future versions of .net, and we're intending to move NextPVR to .net 6.0 in the near future.
Direct3D and Direct2D no longer required or used by NextPVR.exe.
Minor skin improvements and tweaks
Minor improvements to how the background behaves when showing popups in nextpvr.exe
Added detailed stream information to player. In nextpvr.exe you can see it with ctrl-i key combo. In web app you can hit the 'i' in the UI.
Added token to Schedules Direct artwork requests. This will soon be required by SD.
Added ability to specify a preferred bitrate when importing an m3u, by adding "|preferred_bitrate=1000000" to the end of m3u url. This setting will only matter in situations where multiple bitrate versions of the stream were available.
Added ability to change audio stream in the web app
Added ability to force an m3u import to treat all streams as VOD (by adding "|forcevod" to the url)
Added ATSC SAT>IP support
Improved support for themoviedb and tvmaze for artwork.
Improved logic for selecting streams to use when m3u8 stream has separate audio/video streams.
Now storing recording size, so that kodi can display this information
Fixed issue with handling of Schedules Direct artwork.
Fixed issue stopping screensaver from functioing on remote UI clients.
Fixed issue with IPTV scanning sometimes not showing status updates
Fixed IPTV bugs with some m3u8 streams
Fixes and improvements to SAT>IP support
Fixed issue with linux DVB EPG update hanging
Fixed issue with fanart background in nextpvr.exe
Fixed issues with a couple of api calls
Fixed issue with DVB LCN parsing that could cause channels to not be picked up on a frequency
Fixed issue with icon missing from button on main menu on remote UI served by Linux backend.
Removed thetvdb artwork source

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The public builds have been updated (Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker) to v5.2.1.211003

Fixed issue with ClosedCaptions not working in last build.
Fixed issue with resuming from UI client when a comskip file was present.
Improved error handling while starting DVB/ATSC streams on Linux when signal is missing/poor
Added "-nogl" parameter that could be used with nextpvr.exe to run without using opengl
Now dismisses mini guide if you click outside of the popup
Added ability to do multiple connections from an extra source
Better logging around SAT>IP discovery
Removed a couple of unnecessary log messages
Better logic for clientstore files with UI clients
Serveral small skin tweaks to fix layout issues
Added api to allow UI clients to retrieve clientstore settings
Added a menu for UI clients with minimal remotes, to able to choose between different audio and subtitle streams
Fixed issue where UI clients could end up with some oversized text if you were running multiple UI clients at different resolutions.
Fixed issue stopping the Search screen freetext from working correctly with UI clients
Fixed screen saver issues with UI clients
Fixed name of tuning file to resolve install issue a small number of users had encountered
Fixed a few issues with text clipping in UI renderer introduced in last build
Fixed a few places that square boxes would appear in the place of newline characters
Fixed issue with Hebrew and other unicode strings not displaying correctly
Fixed scanning issue with some IPTV sources, that would result in non-working channels
Fixed issue with installing to machine with user folder on drive other than the default C:\
Fixed issue where SAT>IP servers specified on environment variable would not be discovered if there was an issue with the discovery port.

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The public builds have been updated (Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker) to v5.2.2.211017

Improvements to text rendering and text clipping in nextpvr.exe and UI clients
Added logic to allow Schedules Direct users to have different art work for shows with the same name
Minor improvements to nextpvr / UI client skin
Improvements to Extras recorder to allow multi-rec + multi-instance
Now showing year (when known) next to movies in nextpvr.exe and the web app
Fixed issue with higher than expected GPU/CPU usage in nextpvr.exe
Fixed issue with popups sometimes not completely appearing in nextpvr.exe or UI clients, requiring a keypress to make them appear
Streaming APIs now provide more options for clients wanting to tweak the way streaming of in-progress recordings is done
Fixed issue that could cause stuttering / AV sync issues with playback in nextpvr.exe
Fixed issue not allowing paging through long show descriptions
Fixed an issue with skipping accuracy of skipping during playback of in-progress recordings
Fixed issue where invalid character in DVB prvoider name could cause channels to be missed during channel scan
Fixed issue that could cause artwork to missing for some shows.

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The public builds have been updated (Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker) to v5.2.3.211114

More artwork fixes and improvements
More improvements to NLite (Windows version can be downloaded from https://nextpvr.com/client.zip)
Added ability to disable manual recurring recordings in the web app
Added support for a couple more season/episode number formats in xmltv files.
Fixed issue where lease renewal failure on UI client wasn't letting the user know
Fixed issue that could cause recording to be deleted when watching in progress recording.
Fixed issue with default HDPVR bitrates being too low.
Fixed a couple of NPVRTSReader5.ax playback issues with http streams (this is mainly used for NLite)
Fixed issue with 'vertical' style main menu
Removed unused TV mode setting in NextPVR.exe
Fixed issue with archive feature on Linux
Fixed an issue with IPTV m3u8 support for a specific type of stream
Fixed bug with 'spread' recording on Linux

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The public builds have been updated (Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker) to v5.2.5.220111

Added ability to toggle view in the Recordings screen. (between artwork and list view)
Fixed issue with rendering multi-line paragraph text in nextpvr.exe and ui clients on Linux.
Fixed cast/crew overflowing show details popup in nextpvr.exe and ui clients.
Fixed issues with newline characters in Linux that could cause boxes to show in text
Fixed issue where text in nextpvr.exe could appear blocky when started in fullscreen mode
Fixed typo in web app
Changed left/right key behaviour on screens showing poster artwork work, like the new recordings screen.
Added logic to work around size attribute not always being available with Schedules Direct artwork.
Improved construction of DVB-S/DVB-T BDA graph construction on windows. (may be quicker with some tuners)
Fixed issue where recording service could crash, or nextpvr.exe could crash when large number of recordings with artwork were present
Fixed issue when OSD TV Guide could be incorrect size after resizing nextpvr.exe window