RELEASE HIGHLIGHT:
Okay, so I added Created Channels. They mix in nicely with the existing streams page, however there is a dropdown there to filter to only Created Channels. You can create a channel from a set of videos, all of them need to be on the same server. I'd recommend making each of the files the same codec so you can string them together without transcoding, something not previously possible with XC.
Another thing you couldn't do with XC is select a Series to loop. If you'd rather, you can select American Dad for example and it will populate the created channel with all episodes of american dad in the correct order. When a new episode is added, either manually or through folder watching, the created channel will update within the hour with the new episode stitched onto the end. The same limitation applies that these have to all be on the same server, otherwise XC won't be able to work with them.
A limitation that exists from XC is that a transcoding profile has to be set in order for this to work, however you can create a transcoding profile with just Video: copy and Audio: copy, and the videos will be copied to a different container without transcoding. This is much faster, takes much less resources, and is highly recommended. I've tested it with various files and it works quite nicely. They don't have to be the same resolution, although I'd guess they need to have the same codecs. Although I didn't test this.
The created channels from series are updated on an hourly basis through a cron job.
Changelog (Official Release):
- Added Created Channels, plus dropdown filters.
- Added extension limiting to Watch Folders.
- Sorted settings dropdown.
- Updated TMDb matching to fix names with hyphens.
- Updated Smarters Reseller API to v1.1.
- Fixed fallback bouquets.
- Fixed GeoIP Load Balancing toggle not turning off.