Channels DVR Server — Release Notes

Version 2026.06.29.0212

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

IMPROVED: You can now set how many (1-5) bumpers play between airings on Virtual Channels
IMPROVED: Caching improvements to guide fetching
IMPROVED: HLS playlist target duration is more accurate
IMPROVED: HLS performance
FIXED: Many TVE fixes and improvements
FIXED: Up Next could be incorrect if multiple recordings of the same episode exist
FIXED: Exception that could happen when viewing dashboard

Version 2026.05.18.1824

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: WebVTT support for HLS Custom Sources
IMPROVED: Use DVR UserAgent for m3u HTTP Requests
IMPROVED: ATSC3 audio handling
IMPROVED: Intro Detection could fail to notice a season with a different intro if there were many seasons of a show
IMPROVED: Intro/Credits detection including handling around season-specific intros
IMPROVED: allow for bigger MPEG-TS packets to fix VP9 decode issues
IMPROVED: handling when a filesystem hangs while starting a stream to a custom source
FIXED: The DVR could refresh the guide too often with legacy HDHomeRun DUAL devices
FIXED: a TV episode could be recorded twice if a guide update added an earlier airing of that episode
FIXED: handle corrupted fmp4 files in HLS instead of panicing
FIXED: crash for comskip on macOS on Intel
FIXED: unmarshal errors in the logs when using old Chrome versions
FIXED: deinterlacer on macOS was not functioning properly
FIXED: crash that could happen during Enhanced Commercial Detection
FIXED: crash that could happen while shutting down DVR
FIXED: unusual crash that could happen during reindexing
FIXED: unusual crash that could happen when re-sorting device priority
FIXED: panics in logs when accessing API during startup

Version 2026.02.09.1530

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: Optionally share commercial edits to improve commercial detection
NEW: Hardware accelerated HDR-to-SDR tonemapping for Apple Silicon macs
IMPROVED: Added an option to imported shows to Reimport recordings to handle situations where the import process matching process has been improved
IMPROVED: Playlists are now updated as soon as recordings are marked as watched/unwatched
IMPROVED: update playlist query for CommercialsVerified to also include edited commercials
IMPROVED: Error message on the client when the DVR volume is not mounted or available
IMPROVED: handling of detecting imports when there is a trailing _ in filenames
IMPROVED: handling of Personal Media where TV shows had files in a "SEASON X" (all caps) directory
IMPROVED: handling of situations where the underlying filesystem is improperly hanging and log it
IMPROVED: ATSC3 audio support
IMPROVED: handling of ATSC3 audio with signal reception issues
IMPROVED: performance of Guide in web interface
IMPROVED: loading state for commercial detection settings page
IMPROVED: weird behavior of reloading data when viewing commercial editor
IMPROVED: internal queue handling
IMPROVED: ignore more temporary directories when scanning Personal Media
IMPROVED: error reporting to clients when trying to tune into an unavailable channel from an HDHomeRun
IMPROVED: Error handling in View Details dialog for recordings
FIXED: A large amount of items in a Playlist was overrunning the browser. The list is now truncated to the first 50 items in the Playlist.
FIXED: Movie metadata could not be edited in some instances
FIXED: fetching lineup for HDHomeRun DUAL legacy tuners
FIXED: image cache did not handle non-standard ports
FIXED: timeout that could happen when trying to download very large m3u’s
FIXED: Imports that had commercial detection but were edited to be shown as all show would no longer have the edit dropdown available
FIXED: custom sources would sometimes fetch the m3u even when they were disabled
FIXED: Crash that could happen in comskip with a corrupted recording
FIXED: Hardware Deinterlacer on macOS on Intel would have green lines across the video

Version 2025.10.30.0047

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: Manage backdrops and logos for TV Shows and Movies with the Art Picker
NEW: Movie extras are now scanned in and supported
NEW: Intro and Credit detection (Preview feature)
IMPROVED: Transcoding support for newer intel chipsets
IMPROVED: Transcoder bug fixes
IMPROVED: Windows sleep/wake behavior
IMPROVED: Internal handling of streaming index metadata
IMPROVED: Video Group art can now use Search in the Art Picker
IMPROVED: Image caching
IMPROVED: Podcast was added as an option for Category in the metadata editor
IMPROVED: When importing a large number of videos at once, Deep Video Processing will only process when the DVR is idle to lower the impact on the system
IMPROVED: Deep Video Processing of non MPEG-TS content for better remote streaming
IMPROVED: Increase timeout for diagnostic HTTP requests to allow for handling of large numbers of recordings with low upload speeds
FIXED: TV shows without a proper match would not have all of their episodes listed in Virtual Channels
FIXED: Transcoding did not work properly when the DVR was bound to a specific IP
FIXED: Transcoding issues on older macOS
FIXED: Troubleshooting DNS check would sometimes fail
FIXED: Timeout that could happen for m3u fetch if Tailscale was enabled but not logged in
FIXED: JS error on API Explorer in some case

Version 2025.08.01.1845

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

IMPROVED: redirect handling for Custom Channels stream URLs
IMPROVED: redirect handling for HLS playlists
IMPROVED: pruned files are now placed in the Trash to make pruning a safer action
IMPROVED: efficiency of loading XMLTV guide data on DVR restart
IMPROVED: efficiency of handling the pruning of a large amount of imports and deleting of an import location
IMPROVED: display error message in Personal Media directory browser for permissions issues
IMPROVED: report scan errors for Personal Media folders in folder list
IMPROVED: guide is automatically updated when a channel is unhidden or mapping is changed
IMPROVED: troubleshooting diagnostics for DNS
FIXED: errors reported with some SD closed captioning transcoding
FIXED: guide data for channels that are no longer active are cleaned up when virtual channel numbers change
FIXED: guide would not properly reflect changes to mappings until re-fetched after 30 minutes or until rebuilding the database
FIXED: error on Sources page when DVR is not enabled

Version 2025.06.01.2212

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

IMPROVED: error message when m3u request times out
IMPROVED: clean up Streaming cache directory on DVR startup
IMPROVED: ensure timestamps are not automatically rewritten for recordings where there are MPEG-TS errors
FIXED: comskip crash on Intel macOS
FIXED: guide data was sometimes missing for some TVE locals
FIXED: Transcoding issues on some streams
FIXED: Some sidecar trailers and subtitles were not working
FIXED: Experimental Segmenter would not work properly if the Live TV Buffer was not adjusted
FIXED: Rare crash on Settings
FIXED: hardware encoding with vaapi would fail on some obscure mp4 files
FIXED: Some random JS errors
FIXED: vaapi hardware encoder would have problems with certain color transfers from OTA sources

Version 2025.04.17.1651

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: Movie collections now have the option to stack their franchises
NEW: You can now apply images to buttons in Personal Sections
IMPROVED: Handling of XMLTV from HDHomeRun for AU and NZ by updating poster image when recording finishes
IMPROVED: Add support for dvvideo codec
IMPROVED: Custom channels support tag - tvc-guide-placeholders-grouping="title"
IMPROVED: Generated XMLTV compatibility
IMPROVED: Propagate tvg-shift through exported m3u
FIXED: Reordering items was not working reliably in Library Collections and Virtual Channels
FIXED: TV Shows without any recordings will no longer be added to Library Collections via Smart Rules.
FIXED: Some JS errors on Pass listing
FIXED: Nvidia transcoder issues
FIXED: Comskip crash on some ATSC3 channels
FIXED: Virtual channels appearing in collection m3u export
FIXED: Error when starting a stream before DVR has finished booting

Version 2025.02.19.1823

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: Added filtering to Channel Collections, Virtual Channels, Library Collections, Playlists, and Personal Sections to help find or jump to items faster.
NEW: Server Side Settings now supports search to find your settings faster.
IMPROVED: Properly tag Dolby Vision content
IMPROVED: Thumbnails of some HDR and Dolby Vision content look more accurate
IMPROVED: Guide items show more metadata in Guide and search results
IMPROVED: XMLTV handling
IMPROVED: Transcoder handling of non-HDR HEVC content on some hardware encoders
IMPROVED: Transcoder support of HEVC input and encoding on qsv, amf and mf encoders
IMPROVED: Transcoder improvements for NVENC on Linux and Windows
FIXED: Channel Collections were showing channels that didn't match correctly
FIXED: Error when skipping queued recording

Version 2025.01.18.0528

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: Optionally show an item's art or thumbnail in the batch editor
NEW: Export M3U channel lists for Channel Collections
IMPROVED: handle "All Tuners In Use" during fast channel changes
IMPROVED: M3U parsing and exporting
IMPROVED: DVR scheduler logging
IMPROVED: Provide troubleshooting warning for very large libraries that could lead to degraded performance
FIXED: DIRECTV login with some accounts
FIXED: Sort order was not being respected for Library Collections in Personal Section rows
FIXED: support for more Verizon FIOS plans
FIXED: guide data for TBD
FIXED: spurious "Stream closed" error reported on successfully completed recording
FIXED: Channel Collection editing was broken

Version 2024.12.10.0055

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

IMPROVED: TVE error reporting

Version 2024.12.07.0453

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

IMPROVED: handling of XMLTV from HDHomeRun for AU and NZ
IMPROVED: error reporting of TVE issues
FIXED: Access Denied error during TVE authentication

Version 2024.12.05.1913

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: Batch edit metadata for Movies
NEW: Sources can be temporarily disabled
NEW: M3U/XMLTV channel export now works for Plex
NEW: Expanded Smart Rules.
NEW: Smart Rules added for TV Shows: Contains Imports, Contains Stream Links, Contains Stream Files, Number of Episodes, Number of Imports
NEW: Smart Rules added for Video Groups: Contains Stream Files, Number of Videos
NEW: Smart Rules added for Movies, Episodes, and Videos: Is Stream File
NEW: Channel lineup is now available via the Server API
NEW: CSV is now an available format on the Server API on all content types
NEW: Windows ARM64 is now supported
IMPROVED: Backend support for On Later client changes
IMPROVED: Edit the title of multiple episodes at a time in batch editor
IMPROVED: Added troubleshooting check to warn if multiple network interfaces are up on the same network
IMPROVED: Added Collection rows to some Personal Section templates
IMPROVED: Station ID is now included in the Channel response in the Server API
IMPROVED: Updated intel hardware transcoding drivers
IMPROVED: Updated embedded Tailscale version
IMPROVED: Upgraded transcoder libraries on Windows
IMPROVED: Virtual channels are no longer returned in m3u exports
IMPROVED: Advanced passes would sometimes not look far enough into the future
IMPROVED: Prevent Channels DVR Server from continuing startup process if it cannot bind to the HTTP port
FIXED: Some TV shows would not be imported that should have been due to directory naming
FIXED: Channel numbers were hard to edit for Virtual Channels
FIXED: Personal Sections were being set incorrectly for Server Side Settings like Start Up Section and Remote Shortcuts
FIXED: Not all scheduled jobs were returning via the Server API for the ICS format
FIXED: Issue with matching movies where the directory the movie was in could confuse matching of sequels
FIXED: Some features were not working on new Apple M4
FIXED: On Later page loading would fail in some instances
FIXED: Troubleshooting could hang in some situations on a new install
FIXED: issue when streaming via TVE that would cause a crash
FIXED: troubleshooting could sometimes not report the Chrome version correctly

Version 2024.09.10.2115

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: Support for Personal Sections
IMRPROVED: Improved Sidebar navigation item management

Version 2024.09.04.1754

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: Video Groups can now be included in Up Next.
NEW: Copy M3U and EPG urls directly from sources from their Manage options.
IMPROVED: Channel Collections now show real time previews while editing them
IMPROVED: Virtual Channels now show a sample schedule while editing them
IMPROVED: Quickly create Channel Collections with provided templates
IMPROVED: Playlist items can now be sorted alphabetically
IMPROVED: XMLTV parsing
FIXED: Play button was not working on search results
FIXED: Authentication for various TV Everywhere providers
FIXED: Removed some channels that are no longer available via TV Everywhere
FIXED: Editing modal would not show for some Pluto recordings with bad metadata.
FIXED: Set Section On Start Up setting was not working
FIXED: Content Allowlist, Blocklist, and Sources were broken in Server Side Settings
FIXED: Up Next items on Home were showing thumbnails instead of airing art
FIXED: Rare crash during video scan
FIXED: Extras would not be ignored if there was a directory between the Extras directory and the video file
FIXED: Some channels were missing from some sources when choosing them for Channel Collection

Version 2024.07.18.0352

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: Add bumpers, videos that play between each airing, to your Virtual Channels by picking a Video Group
NEW: Channel Collections can now be re-ordered after applying them
IMPROVED: Labels from TV Shows and Video Groups are adopted by their children (Episodes and Videos) as new ones are added to the library (like Genres & Categories)
IMPROVED: Labels can now be batch edited when batch editing Episodes and Videos
IMPROVED: Personal Media now allows for individual TV Show and Video Group directories to be added
IMPROVED: Added Rating as a Sort Type for Collections and Playlists
IMPROVED: DVR is automatically re-enabled when a subscription is reactivated
IMPROVED: Navigation bar is still visible when there is a javascript exception on the web interface
IMPROVED: Transcoded streaming improvements
IMPROVED: Better behavior when multiple Tuner Sharing clients tune into the same channel at the same instant
IMPROVED: Some improvements to logging into streaming providers
FIXED: If a transcoder session is started and immediately stopped, it could cause the channel that was tuned to never stop
FIXED: Rare JS error when creating a new playlist
FIXED: Rare JS error when marking a scheduled item as skipped
REMOVED: Paramount family of channels from TVE are no longer available
REMOVED: PAC12 network

Version 2024.05.07.1442

Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: Filter the Schedule and Passes lists with text to find things faster
NEW: Playlists & Library Collections are now available via the public API
NEW: Added Seek Gesture setting to Server Side Settings for iOS client
NEW: Server Side Settings update. Library section has been renamed Home.
IMPROVED: Adaptive Bitrate handling for remote streams of HDHomeRun-based channels by more accurately calculating stream bandwidth.
IMPROVED: Jump to Last Channel setting moved to match change on client
FIXED: Comskip logs will no longer include debug output when no commercials are found and more out of memory errors are reported
FIXED: TVE Streaming issues

Version 2024.03.27.1935

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

IMPROVED: Personal Media movies in your library will prevent advanced passes from re-recording an existing movies in your library.
IMPROVED: Improved troubleshooting check for Ad Blocker
IMPROVED: Performance with a large library
IMPROVED: More optimizations for network requests with large libraries
IMPROVED: Handle more types of sidecar subtitles for imported movies and episodes
IMPROVED: Smart ad detect for TVE channels
IMPROVED: Silenced some noisy transcoder logs
IMPROVED: Comskip error now includes more detail with out of memory errors
FIXED: Start Up Section server side setting was missing On Later and Playlists as options
FIXED: Make sure Personal Media scanner will retry when server indicates a rate limit has been hit
FIXED: Connecting to a HDHomeRun would fail if it only had an IPv6 IP
FIXED: Scheduled recordings could be missed if the system clock changed after the DVR had started
FIXED: Malformed JSON could create very long error messages during guide data downloads

Version 2024.02.11.0311

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

IMPROVED: Quiet down netlink error logging
IMPROVED: Don’t import local content that are symlinks pointing to non-existent locations
FIXED: Prune Removed Media was removing all Imported Content
FIXED: TVE authentication with Google in certain circumstances

Version 2024.02.08.0626

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

NEW: Playlists. Create and manage your own lists of episodes, videos, and movies.
NEW: TV Shows and Video Groups now have an Auto Play setting to set their auto play behavior discretely.
NEW: Ability to remove art and thumbnails from TV Shows, Episodes, Videos, and Movies
NEW: webp format now supported on image uploads
NEW: Add /_ping endpoint to provide a simple way to get a HTTP 200 response from anywhere
IMPROVED: Sorting of search results for art searches
IMPROVED: Improve DirecTV error detection
IMPROVED: HDHR diagnostics
IMPROVED: Error messages when streaming remotely now have more detail beyond "Transcoder Reset", now including HDHR errors like "Tuner Unreachable", "All Tuners In Use" and M3U errors like "Stream Limit -eached"
IMPROVED: Channels that are not in a subscription but aren’t properly handled by the HDHR will now be reported as "811 Not Subscribed"
IMPROVED: Error messages for Custom Channels
IMPROVED: Add troubleshooting check to confirm the DVR is up to date with the latest stable release
FIXED: Collections and Playlists were not being sorted correctly on clients
FIXED: Javascript exception that would happen when viewing Sources in admin UI with DVR disabled
FIXED: Regression in fetching XMLTV guide that could cause multiple XMLTV sources to be refetched
FIXED: Panic that could happen when a client request comes in during shutdown
FIXED: Handle errors from DVR searches
FIXED: "no guide data returned" error when fetching guide updates
FIXED: Handle reaching the end of the guide data fetching more gracefully
FIXED: Make sure X-Tuner-Error: header is passed through in all cases for Custom Channels
FIXED: Upgrading would sometimes fail on Windows
REMOVED: Auto Play Videos setting has been removed

Version 2024.01.08.1431

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

SECURITY FIX: This enables added security for servers run via Docker that are using bridged networking. You may be required to use authentication when connected to your server locally now.
NEW: Collections now have a Sort Name (like TV Shows and Movies) allowing you to specify the words used when sorting alphabetically
NEW: Setting to adjust the frequency of scanning for Local Content
NEW: RAM usage display is now a bar chart
NEW: Add safety checks during DVR updates that validate if the new DVR will start before completing the upgrade
NEW: Add a remote connection check to the Remote settings on the DVR to see if remote access and port forwarding are properly enabled
NEW: Troubleshooting check to alert when running an OS version that is too old
IMPROVED: The IP address displayed when Remote Streaming is set to Manual is now the IP of the highest priority network interface
IMPROVED: Better separation of Shows and Video Groups for content picking and Smart Rules
IMPROVED: Internal updates to local network detection
IMPROVED: Perform proxy check on DVR launch to identify misconfiguration
IMPROVED: Provide troubleshooting for when DVR is disabled
IMPROVED: Log a message when the DVR has been disabled due to subscription issues
CHANGE: Show Name has been removed from the Smart Rules.
FIXED: Crash on launch for unsupported Windows 7 while we provide more notification of unsupported Operating Systems
FIXED: Dragging Passes down to re-order them would not work.
FIXED: Panic that could happen when DVR was not enabled
FIXED: Javascript exception when toggling Server Enabled
FIXED: Content would not get added to empty Collections via the dropdown if the collection was empty