TVS 5.4.0-beta (10-25-2025)

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Update Notes - 10/25/2025 (5.4.0)

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✨ New Features

• Added Picture-In-Picture (PiP) layout. You can use it to overlay one piece of content on top of another in a smaller window. You can specify the position and size of the PiP window, including a border color and thickness.

- number: 132
  name: PIP Layout
  pip:
    a:
      image: placeholders/example-program.webp
    b:
      generator: test-pattern

- number: 134
  name: Lots of Layouts
  pip:
    borderColor: yellowgreen
    borderSize: 8
    bottom: 40
    right: 20
    a:
      h-split:
        gapSize: 8
        gapColor: white
        splitPercentage: 0.75
        a:
          v-split:
            splitPercentage: 0.75
            gapSize: 8
            gapColor: white
            a:
              image: placeholders/example-ad.webp
            b:
              color: red
        b:
          color: yellow
    b:
      generator:
        type: test-pattern
        volume: false

• Added configurable split percentages (0.0 -> 1.0) for HSplit and VSplit layouts.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Custom aspect ratios are supported for Mix layout.
• Fixed a bug in calculating layer sizes regarding quoted numbers.
• Abstract backgrounds cover their available container size.
• Updated web.config for IIS deployments to set correct MIME types for WebP files.

⚙️ Other Changes

• Updated demo config file with examples of animateChannelChange and changeChannelNoise.

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This discussion was created from the release TVS 5.4.0-beta (10-25-2025).