DVR pre-release build: Web Player edition (v2017.04.20.0012)

tmm1 · April 20, 2017, 12:58am

IMPROVED: Quicker tuning times when watching live TV from web player.
IMPROVED: Web player now says “Remux” when watching existing h.264 video without transcoding.
FIXED: Web playback of live interlaced h.264 channels would stutter.
FIXED: Web player would sometimes fail to play audio or video.
FIXED: Web player would stretch and distort video if aspect changed from 16x9 to 4x3.
FIXED: Web player was not transcoding live h.264 channels to requested bitrate/resolution.
IMPROVED: Increased number of old backups retained by 2x.
IMPROVED: More debug logging when new jobs are created for a rule.
FIXED: Episodes would sometimes fail to record if they were moved to a different time slot in the guide data.
FIXED: Season passes would sometimes pick the second airing of an episode to record.
IMPROVED: Added hidden toggle for better compatibility with Synology Cloud Sync filesystem restrictions.

curl -XPUT http://127.0.0.1:8089/updater/check/2017.04.20.0012

Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Method Put http://127.0.0.1:8089/updater/check/2017.04.20.0012

carlevans32 · April 20, 2017, 11:50am

seems to some juddering on playback and live tv on ATV.
DVR version 2017.04.20.0012.

carlevans32 · April 20, 2017, 4:14pm

Sorry seems to have sorted itself out now, may have been a network problem.
Great work by the way , really enjoying testing this service out.

tmm1 · April 20, 2017, 11:04pm

New build v2017.04.20.2223 with more transcoder changes:

NEW: Hardware deinterlacer option on Linux, which produces better quality video but might use more resources.
FIXED: Hardware transcoder performance improved for Synology NAS w/ 2GB RAM.
FIXED: Up Next items would sometimes move back and forth.

curl -XPUT http://127.0.0.1:8089/updater/check/2017.04.20.2223

Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Method Put http://127.0.0.1:8089/updater/check/2017.04.20.2223

tmm1 · April 21, 2017, 3:41pm

This build has been pushed out to everyone.