What's Changed

Hardening

• Startup preflight — the encoder now exits cleanly with a CRITICAL log if SOURCE_FOLDER or DEST_FOLDER is not a valid directory, instead of crashing in PollingObserver.start() with an unhandled FileNotFoundError
• Consistent defaults in compare_encodes.py — now uses /app/source and /app/destination as fallbacks (matching monitor.py), so running it inside the container works without explicit --source/--dest flags

Tests

• Regression tests for default path values and startup preflight behavior (28 total, all passing)

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v1.1.0...v1.1.1

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix default SOURCE_FOLDER/DEST_FOLDER paths — defaults were leftover Windows paths (F:\Series, G:\Series), now correctly default to /app/source and /app/destination matching the Dockerfile and documentation (#5)

Improvements

• Startup config log — all configuration is logged at startup for easier debugging of environment variable issues
• Always append version suffix — encoded outputs now always include the version suffix (e.g., Movie - 720p.mkv) for Jellyfin multi-version detection. See Upgrading from < 1.1.0 for migration instructions.
• Guarded cleanup — orphan cleanup with mount-health checks, persisted source count, and delete-event rate limiter to prevent mass deletion during mount outages
• Smart skip logic — detects files already at 720p or lower via filename heuristics and ffprobe resolution analysis
• Subtitle preservation — copies MKV-native subtitle codecs and converts incompatible ones (MOV text, WebVTT) to SRT
• compare_encodes.py — diagnostic utility to compare source vs destination encoding coverage

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v1.0.0...v1.1.0

Automatic 720p HEVC/AV1 transcoding service for Jellyfin with NVIDIA and Intel hardware acceleration.