diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 10433b92..42e76d1b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -341,9 +341,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "actix-web-lab"
-version = "0.22.0"
+version = "0.23.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2a965e3e826aa4737af33666aa09ed949aa1837706fda2adee07039347be50d6"
+checksum = "ee75923689132fc5fb57ccc5bb98d25bb214796a29cd505844eb3b42daf11df0"
 dependencies = [
  "actix-http",
  "actix-router",
@@ -366,7 +366,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "local-channel",
  "mediatype",
  "mime",
- "once_cell",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "regex",
  "serde",
@@ -380,9 +379,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "actix-web-lab-derive"
-version = "0.22.0"
+version = "0.23.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "008f98f5a68eeacf5e6d44ed74ce03c1b906baa53eabfb41faf0f5f40bd685f8"
+checksum = "4c221da13534b9352f3f79fcbbd6095f6d8aee63bdf1da8a73d36f9eeea17d5a"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -720,9 +719,9 @@ checksum = "1fd0f2584146f6f2ef48085050886acf353beff7305ebd1ae69500e27c67f64b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bytes"
-version = "1.7.2"
+version = "1.8.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "428d9aa8fbc0670b7b8d6030a7fadd0f86151cae55e4dbbece15f3780a3dfaf3"
+checksum = "9ac0150caa2ae65ca5bd83f25c7de183dea78d4d366469f148435e2acfbad0da"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bytestring"
@@ -1233,7 +1232,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "ffprobe",
  "flexi_logger",
  "futures-util",
- "home",
  "jsonwebtoken",
  "lazy_static",
  "lettre",
@@ -1259,7 +1257,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "serde_with",
  "shlex",
- "signal-child",
  "sqlx",
  "static-files",
  "sysinfo",
@@ -1326,9 +1323,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "flexi_logger"
-version = "0.29.3"
+version = "0.29.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "719236bdbcf6033a3395165f797076b31056018e6723ccff616eb25fc9c99de1"
+checksum = "0bc6a1594377eb9de4205e15e33e222c996de8dc047f7c998cc477030bfac48a"
 dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "log",
@@ -2592,9 +2589,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
-version = "1.0.88"
+version = "1.0.89"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7c3a7fc5db1e57d5a779a352c8cdb57b29aa4c40cc69c3a68a7fedc815fbf2f9"
+checksum = "f139b0662de085916d1fb67d2b4169d1addddda1919e696f3252b740b629986e"
 dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
@@ -3011,18 +3008,18 @@ checksum = "61697e0a1c7e512e84a621326239844a24d8207b4669b41bc18b32ea5cbf988b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde"
-version = "1.0.210"
+version = "1.0.213"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c8e3592472072e6e22e0a54d5904d9febf8508f65fb8552499a1abc7d1078c3a"
+checksum = "3ea7893ff5e2466df8d720bb615088341b295f849602c6956047f8f80f0e9bc1"
 dependencies = [
  "serde_derive",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_derive"
-version = "1.0.210"
+version = "1.0.213"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "243902eda00fad750862fc144cea25caca5e20d615af0a81bee94ca738f1df1f"
+checksum = "7e85ad2009c50b58e87caa8cd6dac16bdf511bbfb7af6c33df902396aa480fa5"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -3186,12 +3183,6 @@ version = "1.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "0fda2ff0d084019ba4d7c6f371c95d8fd75ce3524c3cb8fb653a3023f6323e64"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "signal-child"
-version = "1.0.6"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a3184fa464a0128cbcc353100ae752a848bc0067dd5715a50550f31570051150"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "signal-hook-registry"
 version = "1.4.2"
@@ -3715,18 +3706,18 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror"
-version = "1.0.64"
+version = "1.0.65"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d50af8abc119fb8bb6dbabcfa89656f46f84aa0ac7688088608076ad2b459a84"
+checksum = "5d11abd9594d9b38965ef50805c5e469ca9cc6f197f883f717e0269a3057b3d5"
 dependencies = [
  "thiserror-impl",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror-impl"
-version = "1.0.64"
+version = "1.0.65"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "08904e7672f5eb876eaaf87e0ce17857500934f4981c4a0ab2b4aa98baac7fc3"
+checksum = "ae71770322cbd277e69d762a16c444af02aa0575ac0d174f0b9562d3b37f8602"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -3791,9 +3782,9 @@ checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.40.0"
+version = "1.41.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e2b070231665d27ad9ec9b8df639893f46727666c6767db40317fbe920a5d998"
+checksum = "145f3413504347a2be84393cc8a7d2fb4d863b375909ea59f2158261aa258bbb"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/engine/Cargo.toml b/engine/Cargo.toml
index c00355e4..d43362e2 100644
--- a/engine/Cargo.toml
+++ b/engine/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ actix-multipart = "0.7"
 actix-web = "4"
 actix-web-grants = "4"
 actix-web-httpauth = "0.8"
-actix-web-lab = "0.22"
+actix-web-lab = "0.23"
 actix-web-static-files = "4.0"
 argon2 = "0.5"
 chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["clock", "std", "serde"] }
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ faccess = "0.2"
 ffprobe = "0.4"
 flexi_logger = { version = "0.29", features = ["kv", "colors"] }
 futures-util = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
-home = "0.5"
 jsonwebtoken = "9"
 lazy_static = "1.4"
 lettre = { version = "0.11", features = ["builder", "rustls-tls", "smtp-transport", "tokio1", "tokio1-rustls-tls"], default-features = false }
@@ -70,9 +69,6 @@ zeromq = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = [
     "tcp-transport",
 ] }
 
-[target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "windows"))'.dependencies]
-signal-child = "1"
-
 [build-dependencies]
 static-files = "0.2"
 
diff --git a/engine/src/api/routes.rs b/engine/src/api/routes.rs
index 978f87eb..6dc31898 100644
--- a/engine/src/api/routes.rs
+++ b/engine/src/api/routes.rs
@@ -984,10 +984,10 @@ pub async fn process_control(
         }
         ProcessCtl::Stop => {
             manager.channel.lock().unwrap().active = false;
-            manager.async_stop().await;
+            manager.async_stop().await?;
         }
         ProcessCtl::Restart => {
-            manager.async_stop().await;
+            manager.async_stop().await?;
             tokio::time::sleep(tokio::time::Duration::from_millis(1500)).await;
 
             if !manager.is_alive.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {
diff --git a/engine/src/player/controller.rs b/engine/src/player/controller.rs
index 40acca75..e1c42883 100644
--- a/engine/src/player/controller.rs
+++ b/engine/src/player/controller.rs
@@ -11,9 +11,7 @@ use std::{
     time::Duration,
 };
 
-#[cfg(not(windows))]
-use signal_child::Signalable;
-
+use actix_web::web;
 use log::*;
 use m3u8_rs::Playlist;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
@@ -26,7 +24,7 @@ use crate::player::{
 };
 use crate::utils::{
     config::{OutputMode::*, PlayoutConfig},
-    errors::ProcessError,
+    errors::{ProcessError, ServiceError},
 };
 use crate::ARGS;
 use crate::{
@@ -203,11 +201,6 @@ impl ChannelManager {
         match unit {
             Decoder => {
                 if let Some(proc) = self.decoder.lock()?.as_mut() {
-                    #[cfg(not(windows))]
-                    proc.term()
-                        .map_err(|e| ProcessError::Custom(format!("Decoder: {e}")))?;
-
-                    #[cfg(windows)]
                     proc.kill()
                         .map_err(|e| ProcessError::Custom(format!("Decoder: {e}")))?;
                 }
@@ -258,7 +251,7 @@ impl ChannelManager {
         Ok(())
     }
 
-    pub async fn async_stop(&self) {
+    pub async fn async_stop(&self) -> Result<(), ServiceError> {
         self.is_terminated.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst);
         self.is_alive.store(false, Ordering::SeqCst);
         self.ingest_is_running.store(false, Ordering::SeqCst);
@@ -272,12 +265,16 @@ impl ChannelManager {
         };
 
         for unit in [Decoder, Encoder, Ingest] {
-            if let Err(e) = self.stop(unit) {
+            let self_clone = self.clone();
+
+            if let Err(e) = web::block(move || self_clone.stop(unit)).await? {
                 if !e.to_string().contains("exited process") {
                     error!(target: Target::all(), channel = channel_id; "{e}")
                 }
             }
         }
+
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     /// No matter what is running, terminate them all.
diff --git a/frontend/components/PlaylistGenerator.vue b/frontend/components/PlaylistGenerator.vue
index 847df9f2..a0b0c774 100644
--- a/frontend/components/PlaylistGenerator.vue
+++ b/frontend/components/PlaylistGenerator.vue
@@ -420,6 +420,7 @@ async function generatePlaylist() {
     resetCheckboxes()
     resetTemplate()
 
+    playlistStore.scrollToItem = true
     playlistStore.isLoading = false
 }
 </script>
diff --git a/frontend/components/PlaylistTable.vue b/frontend/components/PlaylistTable.vue
index d47823d1..21e2047d 100644
--- a/frontend/components/PlaylistTable.vue
+++ b/frontend/components/PlaylistTable.vue
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ const playlistContainer = ref()
 const sortContainer = ref()
 const todayDate = ref($dayjs().utcOffset(configStore.utcOffset).format('YYYY-MM-DD'))
 const { i } = storeToRefs(useConfig())
-const { currentIndex, listDate, playoutIsRunning } = storeToRefs(usePlaylist())
+const { currentIndex, listDate, playoutIsRunning, scrollToItem } = storeToRefs(usePlaylist())
 
 const playlistSortOptions = {
     group: 'playlist',
@@ -175,10 +175,14 @@ watch([listDate, i], () => {
     }, 800)
 })
 
-watch([playoutIsRunning], () => {
-    setTimeout(() => {
-        scrollTo(currentIndex.value)
-    }, 400)
+watch([playoutIsRunning, scrollToItem], () => {
+    if (playoutIsRunning.value || scrollToItem.value) {
+        setTimeout(() => {
+            scrollTo(currentIndex.value)
+
+            scrollToItem.value = false
+        }, 400)
+    }
 })
 
 defineExpose({
diff --git a/frontend/pages/logging.vue b/frontend/pages/logging.vue
index 00c8342e..4f074a8d 100644
--- a/frontend/pages/logging.vue
+++ b/frontend/pages/logging.vue
@@ -34,10 +34,9 @@
             </div>
         </div>
         <div class="px-3 inline-block h-[calc(100vh-140px)] text-[13px]">
-            <div
-                class="bg-base-300 whitespace-pre h-full font-mono overflow-auto p-3"
-                v-html="filterLogsBySeverity(formatLog(currentLog), errorLevel)"
-            />
+            <div id="log-container" class="bg-base-300 whitespace-pre h-full font-mono overflow-auto p-3">
+                <div id="log-content" v-html="filterLogsBySeverity(formatLog(currentLog), errorLevel)" />
+            </div>
         </div>
     </div>
 </template>
@@ -88,7 +87,16 @@ watch([listDate, i], () => {
 })
 
 const calendarFormat = (date: Date) => {
-   return $dayjs(date).locale(locale.value).format('ddd L')
+    return $dayjs(date).locale(locale.value).format('ddd L')
+}
+
+function scrollTo() {
+    const parent = document.getElementById('log-container')
+    const child = document.getElementById('log-content')
+
+    if (child && parent) {
+        parent.scrollTop = child.scrollHeight
+    }
 }
 
 function filterLogsBySeverity(logString: string, minSeverity: string): string {
@@ -121,6 +129,10 @@ async function getLog() {
         .then((response) => response.text())
         .then((data) => {
             currentLog.value = data
+
+            nextTick(() => {
+                scrollTo()
+            })
         })
         .catch(() => {
             currentLog.value = ''
diff --git a/frontend/pages/media.vue b/frontend/pages/media.vue
index be8022a9..dc93e634 100644
--- a/frontend/pages/media.vue
+++ b/frontend/pages/media.vue
@@ -330,14 +330,6 @@ useHead({
     title: `${t('button.media')} | ffplayout`,
 })
 
-watch([width], () => {
-    if (width.value < 640) {
-        horizontal.value = true
-    } else {
-        horizontal.value = false
-    }
-})
-
 const horizontal = ref(false)
 const deleteName = ref('')
 const recursive = ref(false)
@@ -384,6 +376,14 @@ onMounted(async () => {
     }
 })
 
+watch([width], () => {
+    if (width.value < 640) {
+        horizontal.value = true
+    } else {
+        horizontal.value = false
+    }
+})
+
 watch([i], () => {
     mediaStore.getTree('')
 })
diff --git a/frontend/stores/playlist.ts b/frontend/stores/playlist.ts
index 5c530341..c7c8286b 100644
--- a/frontend/stores/playlist.ts
+++ b/frontend/stores/playlist.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ export const usePlaylist = defineStore('playlist', {
         playoutIsRunning: false,
         last_channel: 0,
         firstLoad: true,
+        scrollToItem: false,
     }),
 
     getters: {},