Changelog - Cesbo Alta

250603

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Interface

Short guide how to reset password on the login page
Fixed issue with network mask in the IP authentication settings

Receivers

Better receiving stability - could handle many errors in the stream without stopping the receiver
If the receiver stops working, the last full video frame continues to be delivered — the stream doesn’t interrupt in the player and will resume automatically when the source returns

Channels

Pause - Player can pause the channel and continue playback from the last position. In case of a live channel, it will continue playback from archive (if enabled).

Base App

Small fixes for alta init command
Fix issues with app crash in UDP receiver and app restart after crash
Config backup on changes

250314

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Interface

Filter bar for channels, receivers, and dashboard
Config export

Channels

Fixed issue with receiving interruptions due to PTS/DTS handling
Enhanced logging for PTS/DTS errors and demuxer monitoring
Added DirectIO for file writing operations

Important configuration refactoring

Removed options Media Access and VOD Access from the channel settings
Options Media Enable and VOD Enable are now available in the Channels -> HLS Access settings. Use this options only if you want to get access to the content without sessions and authentication (eg. you use Alta as a backend)
Access to the VOD playlist through the index.m3u8 without additional options: http://your-server/channel-path/index.m3u8?start=unix-timestamp&duration=minutes

250205

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Dashboard

Channels and Receivers overview
By clicking on the channel card you can see: bitrate for each variant, storage usage, and active sessions

Receivers

Receiver restart on error with receiving media

Channels

HLS multibitrate, you can add multiple variants for each channel
The "Media Enable" option is now a simple checkbox to turn on direct access to the media playlist. Default URL to the media playlist will be: http://your-server/channel-path/variant-name/media.m3u8
The "VOD Enable" option is now a simple checkbox to turn on direct access to the VOD playlist. Default URL to the VOD playlist will be: http://your-server/channel-path/variant-name/vod.m3u8?start=unix-timestamp&duration=minutes

Catchup

Catchup provides a media player (such as Kodi, Televizo) with information on how to access media content from storage.
If storage is configured for channel, then the catchup options will be added to the exported playlist.
You can configure the tvg_id option in the channel settings to link the channel with related xmltv data.

RTSP

RTSP now supports the ip cameras with the h.265 codec

Other

Better performance and memory management.

241210

This version has breaking changes!Before update please save a copy of your configuration file. Default configuration file is located in /etc/alta/alta.conf

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Receivers

Fix issue with RTSP receiving for most h.264 cameras
Receivers separated from channels. In future updates, the receivers list will also be used for convenient monitoring of all sources