6.72

Release date 30 December 2021

📘

Fixed

• Failing DEE Audio flow and Dolby Atmos processing for media with Ludicrous Mode
• SSL/TLS for the FTP connection
• AC3 audio codec support in DEE processing

6.71

Release date 23 December 2021

👍

Added

• Alternate Source From External Manifest
• Cablelabs Low Audio Bitrate
• Updated Baton QC version

📘

Fixed

• "Request rate over limit" error for Trial users on media submission in UI
• Missing "Disable EPSV mode" for FTP WatchFolders in UI
• Disabled video frames number check in QC auto if output media doesn't contain any video stream
• Failing thumbnail output in case we can't determine source media height
• Ignore ad_breaks that are out of output media duration

6.70

Release date 16 December 2021

❗️

Disabled

• Disabled access to the old UI.

👍

Added

• Mainconcept AVC Codec for Cablelabs MPEG-TS

📘

Fixed

• Missing data for GetQueueStats API request in some cases
• Incorrect FPS count for output with specified padding
• Unnecessary double URL-encode of special characters in master manifest if basename specified

6.69

Release date 09 December 2021

👍

Added

• UI-users and Sub-users are now consolidated. Now Sub-users can be managed via UI.

📘

Fixed

• Closed Captions muxing step failing with a rerun limit exceeded error in some cases
• Incorrect Closed Captions if the padding or cut_black output parameters were specified
• DEE loudness measurement added for input_speech
• Improved edge case source media parameters check for media with Ludicrous Mode enabled

6.68

Release date 02 December 2021

👍

Added

• Send XML or JSON as Request Body
• Add Closed Captions To Specified Manifests

📘

Fixed

• Failed to create Image Media Playlist thumbnails if output format has encryption
• Error in media processing if source media has a video codec marked as "none+ap4x"

6.67

Release date 25 November 2021

👍

Added

• Use Closed Captions From External Manifest

📘

Fixed

• Failing QC preparation task if master manifest contains relative sub-path
• Extraction of Closed Captions from H.264 elementary stream muxed as user_data_unregistered SEI messages.
• Thumbnail set output progress stuck in some cases
• Error on DEE Loudness measurement in media with Ludicrous Mode
• Unnecessary letter case change in Closed Captions sub_path
• QC Baton task restart in case of internal Baton error
• Proper FTP error check before attempting to apply alternate methods like enabling passive mode etc.
• Missing keyframe before black_padding_end

6.66

Release date 18 November 2021

👍

Added

• HLS and DASH Forced Narrative (FN) subtitle support
• Audio Stream Split Channels Layout

📘

Fixed

• Support of copying VANC Line 12 closed captions from the source file.
• Incorrect behavior of alternate source sub_path if additional_alternate_id specified.
• Missing formatting of WebVTT closed captions on converting to SCC.
• Failing Okta SAML Authentication with "Invalid SSO Data" error.

6.65

Release date 11 November 2021

📘

Fixed

• QC Baton tests failing on initialization step in rare cases
• Muxing of audio stream processed with Dolby Encoding Engine into mainconcept_mxf output format
• Corrupted audio stream if cut-black applied
• Incorrect WebVTT file name indexes for Multi Job media
• Failing 436m Closed Captions extraction from MXF in some cases

6.64

Release date 02 November 2021

📘

Fixed

• Colorspace handling for BT2020 source files in media with HDR10 output
• Letter case preservation in closed captions and alternate sources language and name tags
• Loudness normalization for Dolby Encoding Engine
• Handling of passive FTP error and switch to active mode

6.63

Release date 28 October 2021

👍

Added

• Alternate Source Sub Path
• Multitrack WAV output

📘

Fixed

• Failing upload of multiple files to FTP destinations if the server works in active mode.
• Incorrect PlayReady DRM PSSH box of mpeg_cbcs encrypted output

6.62

Release date 21 October 2021

👍

Added

• AV1 Codecs Support
• Media Stream Validator QC Test

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect audio stream selection for loudnorm for some sources
• Wrong region selection in QC media if processing region selected automatically.
• Missing EXTINF Data in I-Frame Playlist

6.61

Release date 14 October 2021

👍

Added

• Main Manifest Sub Path
• Extraction GXF closed captions from source files

📘

Fixed

• Mainconcept MXF output muxing stuck in some cases.
• Media progress estimation and inconsistent percentage calculation.
• Additional fix of incorrect timecode track copy for media with Ludicrous Mode

6.60

Release date 07 October 2021

👍

Added

• Closed Captions Sub Path

📘

Fixed

• Large source files handling
• Incorrect statistics for multi-bitrate output format if alternate sources specified

6.59

Release date 30 September 2021

📘

Fixed

• Special character escaping in the Nielsen XML Data files
• MXF muxing sync issues for some sources with Ludicrous Mode enabled
• General encoding pre-processing performance improvements

❗️

Deprecated

• End of support of these output formats: roku_hls, roku_800, roku_1200, roku_1800, roku_2700, appletv, appletv_43, 3gp, psp, wowza_multibitrate_mp4, kindle_fire, vp6_flix

6.58

Release date 23 September 2021

📘

Fixed

• Failing QC Auto media if parent media destination file name contains extension
• Failing closed captions extraction from source with empty ANC Essence Container
• Incorrect timecode track copy for media with Ludicrous Mode
• Missing AFD in MXF MPEG Video Essence Descriptor

6.57

Release date 16 September 2021

📘

Fixed

• Mono to 5.1 audio upmixing media failing
• Missing PSSH box for Fairplay DRM
• Optimized preparation of QC tests for manifests
• Failing QC duration tests on some fmp4 source files
• Missing AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH tag in the manifest for EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF
• Incorrect test plan name in Baton QC PDF report

6.56

Release date 09 September 2021

📘

Fixed

• Downconvert MCC 708 closed captions to 608
• Improved processing of media with Ludicrous Mode with a source file size over 1TB

6.55

Release date 02 September 2021

👍

Added

• Post Packaging ABR Manifest Updates

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect M3U8 manifest parsing in QC Auto if additional_alternate_id specified
• Updated QC Baton version to 8.1 and fixed minor Baton processing issues
• Incorrect statistics for skipped QC tests

6.54

Release date 26 August 2021

📘

Fixed

• Missing 608/708 Closed Captions in MXF media with Ludicrous Mode
• UI Media stuck in waiting status some cases
• Failing media if output format set to copy closed captions, but source file doesn't contain ones
• Incorrect stopping of Benchmark media
• Wrong values of min and max width and height, framerate for AdaptationSet parameter if manifest has multiple DRM keys
• Media status and parameters update on the Encoding Queue UI page
• Muxing MCC closed captions without re-encode
• Active Format Descriptor insertion without re-encode
• Improved closed captions detection in source file
• Stuck of mixing mainconcept_mxf output format in some cases

6.53

Release date 19 August 2021

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect behavior of <cut_black /> in audio_only streams.
• Not stopping main QC media on preparation stage
• Failing upload to Akamai if destination contains not URL-encoded characters
• Unnecessary output file bitrate lowering if the source contains 608 closed captions

6.52

Release date 12 August 2021

📘

Added

• Video Quality QC Checks

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect Reserved Instances settings handling for sub-users.
• Failing Baton QC tests for some sources
• Wrong sample rate and channels number for raw PCM audio

6.51

Release date 05 August 2021

👍

Added

• Transparent Background for DFXP/TTML closed captions

📘

Fixed

• Wrong Baton QC Test status in some cases
• Incorrect finish notification time for repackage media with Ludicrous Mode

6.50

Release date: 29 July 2021

📘

Fixed

• WMA to AAC conversion audio sync
• Media error messages display
• Missing initial VTT thumbnail file on FTP/SFTP destinations
• Proper audio streams validation after extraction from source
• Unnecessary audio extraction for Repackage media
• Disabled DAMF encode flag for Repackage media

6.49

Release date: 22 July 2021

👍

Added

• Force Interlaced and Timecode Track for dnxhd

📘

Fixed

• Optimized Baton QC processing
• Changed media info and task parameters tooltips on the Encoding Queue UI page.
• Fixed missing media info for repackaging media
• Character encoding error in scc to webvtt closed captions conversion
• Issue with Dolby Encoding for GFX source media files
• Updated error handling for missing closed captions in the source files
• Auto fallback to the default workflow if Ludicrous Mode is not available for the source media.

6.48

Release date: 15 July 2021

👍

Added

• Image Media Playlist Offset

📘

Fixed

• Missing ad break headers in the Multijob Workflow
• Changed order of SupplementalProperty and Role parameters in MPD manifests
• Unsupported Azure SAS upload signature versions
• Optimized audio-only video output formats.
• Missing cea-708 MCC closed captions

6.47

Release date: 08 July 2021

👍

Added

• Auto Audio Trim
• Dolby AAC Encoding
• Dolby Atmos® Support for Common Output Formats

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect media behavior after RestartMediaErrors submission
• Closed Caption section name changed to correct closed_captions in the GetStatus response
• Unnecessary media failing on audio stream extraction from some source files
• Output bitrate if muxed closed captions are empty
• Missing key-frames for black frames padding boundaries

6.46

Release date: 01 July 2021

👍

Added

• Azure Signed URLs support
• Audio Streams Mapping in QC Audio Tests

📘

Fixed

• Issues with mainconcept_mxf output in media with the Ludicrous Mode
• Changed Baton QC report file name
• Dee upmix based on audio channels map
• Missing request metadata in child QC media in notifications
• Slow load time of Connection Speed chart in UI
• Failing source parameters fetching for some ProRes source files
• Unreferenced Closed Captions in HLS playlists
• Incorrect mpeg2video interlaced field order
• Media with Ludicrous Mode fails if output format set to advanced_dash and video codec set to libvpx-vp9
• Audio track extraction for some sources

6.45

Release date: 24 June 2021

👍

Added

• HLS Media group

📘

Fixed

• S3 file upload for non-AWS destinations
• Manifest analyze problems warning in qc_match_cue_inserts QC test
• Stall mainconcept_mxf muxing in some cases
• Missing QC statistics for some sources
• Fixed validation of video clipping parameters
• Incorrect DFXP CLosed Captions style formatting

6.44

Release date: 17 June 2021

👍

Added

• Audio Stream Validation and Automatic Repair

📘

Fixed

• Child QC media stopping
• Incorrect closed captions mux in media with Ludicrous Mode
• Missing request metadata in child QC media

6.43

Release date: 10 June 2021

👍

Added

• Ludicrous Mode for MainconceptBroadcast MXF
• Baton QC report additional fields

📘

Fixed

• Failing MXF muxing in some cases
• Incorrect video bitrate reduce in case Cea closed captions mixing
• Metrics Report tasks failing sometimes for a large source files

6.42

Release date: 03 June 2021

👍

Added

• Mainconcept Broadcast MXF parameters
• Hide Encoding Settings for libx264 video codec
• New Metadata parameters
• Container ID parameters
• AAC Audio Profile

📘

Fixed

• Failing MCC closed captions extractions for some source files
• Output statistics for mainconcept_mxf format

6.41

Release date: 27 May 2021

👍

Added

• Zscale Scaling Library
• Baton QC Prohibited Words

📘

Fixed

• Not working S3 Assume Role for encryption key destination
• Incorrect ACL for encryption key destination if assume role specified
• Incorrect default framerate for dnxhd output format
• Timecode copying for apple_prores output format
• Fixed QC codec declaration test for advanced_dash output format with webm codec
• Validation of format number in QC Check request
• Forced timesacle for eac3 audio codec - 48000

6.40

Release date: 20 May 2021

👍

Added

• Dolby Atmos® Master Files DAMF and ADM BWF
• SRT muxing into mp4 without transcoding

📘

Fixed

• Decryption of muxed streams and mpeg_* encryption in QC tasks
• Validation of use_alternate_id parameter in API request
• Skip pass and nalu-file parameters in video_codec_parameters
• Closed Captions desync for if deinterlacing set to "filter"
• Akamai download in upload processes stuck in some cases
• Incorrect streams mapping in QC tasks if add_audio_only parameter set on format level

6.39

Release date: 13 May 2021

👍

Added

• Video Quality Metrics Report
• Video Quality Metrics Report Statistics

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect mainconcept_mxf output if video codec set to copy
• Detection of the first video stream in EDC encoder
• Empty side channels in mono upmix to stereo or surround
• Processing stuck on VTT playlist generation stage if playlist doesn't contain any elements
• Handling of audio_codec=copy streams in advanced multi-source mapping

6.38

Release date: 06 May 2021

📘

Fixed

• Active Format Description for libx264

6.37

👍

Added

• Select what ad_breaks will split Image Media Playlist

Release date: 29 April 2021

📘

Fixed

• Mainconcept Broadcast MXF

6.36

Release date: 22 April 2021

📘

Fixed

• Select what ad_breaks will split Image Media Playlist

6.35

👍

Added

• Black Frame Padding
• Trim only black frames from video's start and end
• Align Audio Only Stream to Framerate

Release date: 15 April 2021

📘

Fixed

• Select what ad_breaks will split Image Media Playlist

❗️

Disabled

• Non-S3 sources for Ludicrous Mode media

Release date: 09 April 2021

6.34

👍

Added

• Optimized load time of Statistics pages in UI

📘

Fixed

• Non-S3 sources for Ludicrous Mode media

6.33

Release date: 01 April 2021

📘

Fixed

• R3D sources statistics collection
• qc_b_frames_present test behavior in case encryption and byterange
• Peak bitrate calculation in QC tests on small segments
• Missing image media playlists for advanced_hls and fmp4_hls output formats if add_to_manifest specified
• Handling of indirect stream order in mpd manifests with byterange in QC tests
• Incorrect URL to media in support tickets
• Check that webvtt or dfxp files is not empty after closed captions conversion
• Unnecessary VTT manifests in advanced_fmp4 output format if hls_manifests set no
• Akamai FTP upload issue

6.32

👍

Added

• GetMediaList Media Closed Date
• HLG High Dynamic Range Standard
• PCM Split Channels

Release date: 25 March 2021

📘

Fixed

• Baton QC Validation.
• Advanced Multi-Source Clipping.
• Filtering API Request Log in UI by Sub User ID.
• Insert Session-Key tag in master manifest for Atlas DRM

6.31

Release date: 18 March 2021

👍

Added

• GetMediaList Media Closed Date
• HLG High Dynamic Range Standard
• PCM Split Channels

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect inner tasks order in adaptive_intermediate media with Multijob Workflow, that causes long processing time and incorrect statistics collection.
• Incorrect parsing of ludicrous_mode and multijob_workflow parameters in the Request editor on the API-Builder UI page.
• Updated R3D source files processing.
• Incomplete 436m MXF closed captions extraction.
• Not muxed cea-708 MCC closed captions.
• Change major brand for cmaf from iso9 to iso6.

6.30

Release date: 11 March 2021

👍

Added

• GetMediaList Media Closed Date
• HLG High Dynamic Range Standard
• PCM Split Channels

📘

Fixed

• Sometimes source stream dowloading process stuck in QC processing
• Fixed task processing time statistics collecting and displaying in UI
• Ignored initial CC track offset specified in Edit List Box
• Stitch task of media with the Ludicrous Mode fails in some cases

6.29

Release date: 04 March 2021

👍

Added

• Specify QC Report Format
• Hide sensitive data from API Request Log UI page

📘

Fixed

• Empty HLS stream manifest issue for audio-only stream in case of intermediate_destination is set
• Beamr CABR level parameter mapping
• Issues with Closed Captions re-download if the first try was unsuccessful

6.28

Release date: 25 February 2021

👍

Added

• Preserve Alpha Channel with webm outputs

6.27

👍

Added

• Apple ProRes Audio Stream Layout Description
• Consistent Audio Stream Channels Number

Release date: 19 February 2021

📘

Fixed

• Additional MXF parameters for the MPEG2 video codec
• Availability of the Dolby Encoding Engine (DEE) for audio processing
• Advanced EAC3 audio processing with the Dolby Encoding Engine

6.26

Release date: 11 February 2021

👍

Added

• Apple ProRes Audio Stream Layout Description
• Consistent Audio Stream Channels Number

📘

Fixed

• Multisource media sometimes fails if output bitrate is low
• Failing media with EAC3 audio codec and loudnorm parameters
• Error in processing media with 608 closed captions and advanced audio streams
• Request format parsing in UI API Builder
• Incorrect IN statistics for video overlay with keep_audio set to yes
• Incorrect statistics for logo
• Missing data streams in source segments in media with Multijob Workflow
• Wrong audio parameters in apple_prores output if insert_nielsen_watermarks set to yes

6.25

Release date: 28 January 2021

👍

Added

• Nielsen Metadata File Destination
• Scaling Parameters

📘

Fixed

• Missing custom audio stream (specified via audio_stream) in media with Ludicrous Mode
• Allowed hyphen sign in add_to_manifest parameter
• Statistics for media with Ludicrous Mode and Multijob Workflow
• Multijob Workflow sources splitting

6.24

Release date: 21 January 2021

❗️

Deprecated

• QC CUE-inserts validation test for MPD manifests

👍

Added

• Media with Multijob Workflow stuck on source preparing for some source files
• Incorrect codec definition in HLS master manifest for HEVC+HDR streams with mixed content

📘

Fixed

• Inconsistent structure of JSON QC report
• Incorrect VP9 codec declaration in advanced_dash output format
• Input Bandwidth calculation for some sources
• Missing watchfolder source and destination match validation
• API error in GetBandwidthStat response
• Incorrect "bucket-url" parameter in output.json
• Upload task fails if destination S3 denies HTTP requests

6.21

Release date: 24 December 2020

👍

Added

• Dolby Atmos passthrough support for HEVC/MPEGTS outputs

📘

Fixed

• Wrong namespaces in MPD manifest for MSPR DRM.
• Incorrect extraction of PSSH data from PSSH box v1
• Output statistics collection for single-bitrate media with Ludicrous Mode
• Edge case 400 upload errors to S3
• Failing CableLabs if output format contains closed captions wit mux type not equal to CEA-608 or CEA-708
• Image media list generation if DAI points are set beyond video duration
• Incorrect closed_captions output filename if destination path contains a dot sign

6.20

Release date: 17 December 2020

👍

Added

• New QC Check: Detect Freeze Frames

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect last segment duration calculation in qc_target_segment_duration test if merge_small_segment set to yes
• Work of some QC tests with byterange fmp4 files
• Failing QC tests for advadced_dash output format with vp9 codec
• Wrong Ludicrous Mode media behavior in case of large segment_duration
• Image playlist generation alghortihm was updetd to respect video keyframe interval on DAI segemtns with short durations

6.19

Release date: 10 December 2020

👍

Added

• New QC Check: Detect Blank Frames
• Dolby Audio Downmix Preferences
• Image Media Playlist Timesacle

❗️

Removed

• YouTube as an output destination

📘

Fixed

• Failing B-frames parsing in QC Tests in some cases
• Incorrect statistics calculation for media with Multijob Workflow with one segment
• Failing encryption key upload to FTP destinations in passive mode (e.g. ?passive=yes set)
• Failing media with Multijob Workflow if byte_range in output stream set to yes
• Handling AVC reorder depth error on CEA-608/708 closed captions mux

6.18

Release date: 03 December 2020

👍

Added

• Support for multiple DRM keys in manifests via CPIX integration

📘

Fixed

• Failing output uploading to FTP destination in some cases
• Incorrect S3 sources handling in UI if URL contains slashes in authentication parameters
• Incorrect main manifest generation in some cases

6.17

Release date: 26 November 2020

📘

Fixed

• QC auto fails if the source DASH manifest file name contains special characters
• The parameter apply_to mistakenly effects advanced_hls and fmp4_hls output formats
• Incorrect chart quantization switch on the Statistics page in UI
• Broken PTS/DTS in the output file within some edge cases
• Wrong stream name specified in advanced_hls and fmp4_hls master manifest if the master manifest basename is specified but manifests is not customized on the stream level
• SegmentTemplate parameter duration attribute in VTT thumbnail manifest if segment_timeline set to no.
• Incorrect output file extension if pack_files set to set to yes and the output file name is not specified

6.16

Release date: 19 November 2020

👍

Added

• RSA Keys for SFTP Sources and Destinations
• Caption To Caption conversion in Luducrous Mode
• Accessibility Scheme and Timescale for Closed Captions
• HEVC video codec for Adaptive Intermediate

📘

Fixed

• Suspended Account UI rendering error
• Missing space character before i and u tags is SCC to SRT or WebVTT closed captions conversion
• Incorrect bufsize for VBR video when muxing captions
• Issues with sidecar files downloaded with Ludicrous Mode

6.15

Release date: 12 November 2020

👍

Added

• Segment Timeline for thumbnails in DASH manifests

📘

FIxed

• Improve UI Encoding Queue page loading time.
• Wrong EXT-X-TARGETDURATION value in HLS manifests if the media has Ludicrous Mode, HEVC video codec, and split_segments set to no.
• Incorrect statistics collection for image_media_playlist.
• Sub-users password change via UI.
• Incorrect merge_small_segments behavior with segments that have a duration 1 second.
• Missing whitespaces in dfxp to scc closed captions conversion.

6.14

Release date: 05 November 2020

📘

Fixed

• Multi-source media fails with a large quantity of source files
• Wrong caption-to-caption media status if the conversion fails

6.13

Release date: 29 October 2020

👍

Added

• Support for Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing Services

📘

Fixed

• Inaccessible output file of the media with Ludicrous Mode if <destination /> not specified
• CableLabs mpegts error with invalid rateadjustment
• Dash media fails on the segmentation step in some edge cases
• Incorrect single_segment_template behavior
• Allowed oktapreview subdomains as SSO URL for the Okta SAML SSO

6.12

Release date: 22 October 2020

👍

Added

• Audio-only MPEGTS
• Fractional segment duration for advanced multi-bitrate formats
• QC Check: Validate DASH (.mpd) manifests

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect Akamai URL parsing on QC preparation stage if it contains special characters
• Failing qc_b_frames_present test in some cases
• Incorrect position of EventStream tag position in the output MPD manifest
• Issue with stopping of media with Ludicrous Mode if transoding process not started
• QC tests failing sometimes on load test results stage

6.11

Release date: 15 October 2020

👍

Added

• MPEGTS Audio Descriptors

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect manifest name in QC auto if basename contains a file extension
• Advanced Multi-bitrate media fails in some cases if pack_files set to yes

6.10

Release date: 13 October 2020

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect file name for advanced_fmp4 and fmp4_hls output formats if <pack_files /> set to yes.
• Zero HLS bandwidth value in manifest in some cases.

6.09

Release date: 08 October 2020

🚧

Changed

• HEVC encoding pricing

👍

Added

• QC media statuses in UI

📘

Fixed

• SAML SSO authentication issue in the Chrome browser
• Incorrect stream manifests name if alternate sources specified
• Incorrect frame-rate parsing in qc_cue_insert test
• Disable Ludicrous Mode for unsupported source types in UI
• Advanced DASH output file name extension duplicated if it's specified in basename
• Incorrect B-frames and DTS grow check in qc_b_frames_present and qc_bframe_dts_grow tests
• Sub-Users account management in UI

6.08

Release date: 01 October 2020

👍

Added

• OIDC Refresh Token API Authentication
• Image Media Playlist for Repackaging
• Filter data by Media ID on the UI API Request Log page.

📘

Fixed

• Issue with sorting by Type and IP on the UI API Request Log page.
• fMP4 files duration calculation in the related QC tests.
• Issues with output duration in some cases when used Closed Captions mux.

❗️

Removed

• Temporarily disabled data filter by Source on the UI Encoding Queue page.

6.07

Release date: 24 September 2020

👍

Added

• Dolby Atmos Support for advanced multi-bitrate output formats.
• Media BuyDRM CPIX parameters management in UI

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect qc_pid_interal workflow
• Advanced multi-bitrate media upload failing if <pack_files /> set to yes and and one of the streams is an audio_only, but source doesn't contain audio track.
• Incorrect QC Media response for GetMediaStatius request in case of retry.
• More accurate segment duration calculation in qc_match_cue_inserts test.

6.06

Release date: 17 September 2020

📘

Fixed

• Unnecessary QC tests in manifests contain absolute and relative paths
• Bandwidth statistics for the technical watermarks
• Media with multiple closed captions mux in rare cases
• SRT to SCC closed captions conversion when the source contains more than 4 lines
• Unexpected thumbnail output failure for some source medias
• Unnecessary Upload Notifications for media with QC or pack_files.
• Incorrect work of the framerate parameter for the closed_captions output format while converting SCC to WebVTT
• Missing EAC3 segments in the audio-only streams
• Overall output bit-rate of the cablelabs_mpegts format overage 15 Mbps

6.05

Release date: 10 September 2020

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect frame-rate parsing in the qc_match_cue_inserts test.
• Failing media with <pack_files /> set to yes and destination contains dash sign.
• Missing encoded audio stream files in media with Ludicrous Mode in some cases
• Incorrect output duration if framerate set to one of these values: 24000/1001, 30000/1001, 60000/1001
• Advanced audio mapping for video only sources
• Multi-source with a single-source part processing

6.04

Release date: 03 September 2020

👍

Added

• Color Space and GOP structure for XDCAM video codec
• Color Space for MOV output format

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect data collection in QC Auto for video or audio-only sources.
• QC Auto for MP4 output formats with Nielsen metadata or ftyp = 3gp5
• Missing width/maxWidth, height/maxHeight, frameRate/maxFrameRate to DASH AdaptationSet
• Closed Captions time_offset for ISMT mux type
• Incorrect startWithSAP value "true" instead of "1".
• Media with Ludicrous Mode fails if source duration shorter than chunk size.

6.03

Release date: 27 August 2020

❗️

Removed

• External ID for S3 Assume Role moved from URL in API to the account settings

🚧

Fixed

• Unnecessary auto audio bitrate QC tests for video-only streams.
• Empty audio-only manifest in output repackage media with multijob workflow
• fMP4 output sidx box if <cmaf_conformant > set to yes.

6.02.1

Release date: 21 August 2020

👍

Added

• Skip #EXT-X-TILES tag

6.02

Release date: 20 August 2020

👍

Added

• SCTE-20 Closed Captions Mux

🚧

Changed

• Allowed values for qc_idr_interval test

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect manifest parsing in qc_match_breakpoints test
• Support of absolute URIs in manifests in QC tests
• Multi-Source media with a cablelabs_mpegts output format failing if <closed_captions /> are specified
• Destination ignored for a waveform output format
• Media with a cablelabs_mpegts output format failing if low bitrate set
• Faulty auto deinterlace of non-progressive source

6.01

Release date: 13 August 2020

👍

Added

• Okta SAML SSO integration.
• Frame-Rate for qc_match_cue_inserts.
• Check i-frame and captions manifest in the qc_match_cue_inserts test.

📘

Fixed

• Missing automatically generated encryption key.
• Not performed QC tests in qc_check media with several sources. Tests list: qc_bitrate_declaration, qc_codec_declaration, qc_target_segment_duration, qc_discontinuity_tags, qc_match_breakpoints, qc_validate_segment_duration, qc_match_durations, qc_proper_sample_aes_encryption_declared, qc_match_cue_inserts.
• Media with Beamr CABR fails if small resolution specified.
• Incorrect segment size of the advanced_hls output format with beamr4avc video_codec.
• Issuers with Force Keyframes in Beamr CABR media.
• Issues with special characters like ¡ and ¿ in SCC to SRT closed captions conversion.
• Incorrect font loading for burnt-in closed captions
• Zero bandwidth in the HLS stream manifest for small segments

6.00

Release date: 06 August 2020

📘

Fixed

• Bitrate calculation in qc_bitrate_decloration QC test.
• "Rerun limit exceeded" error on long time processing media.
• Inconsistent frame-rate for media with Ludicrous Mode and 608/70 closed captions in some cases.
• Incorrect Input Bandwidth statistics for media with alternate_sources

5.99

Release date: 30 July 2020

👍

Added

• Alternate source as Descriptive Video Service

📘

Fixed

• Wrong channel count in encrypted eac3 DASH manifests.
• Unnecessary source files reload on the UpdateMedia request.

5.98

Release date: 23 July 2020

📘

Fixed

• Several UI security issues.
• Invalid Iframe HLS manifest - the wrong first line.
• Invalid URIs in HLS master manifest - unnecessary encoding of CHANNELS parameter.

5.96 - 5.97

Release date: 17 July 2020

👍

Added

• Output Summary (Output JSON)
• Ludicrous Mode in UI

📘

Fixed

• Removed unnecessary file duplicates from packed output
• Start time of ad_breaks/cue_inserts in DASH output.
• API error if response body is too large

5.95

Release date: 09 July 2020

📘

Fixed

• QC Issues with parsing HLS manifests without media segments

5.94

Release date: 02 July 2020

❗️

Removed

• Removed mp4_hdr and mpegts_hdr output formats

📘

Fixed

• QC issues with advanced_hls output encrypted with sample_aes
• SCC to WebVTT conversion issues if Roll-Up bottom line position is changing
• Slideshow media failing if Beamr CABR is used
• SCC to WebVTT conversion charset encoding to UTF-8
• Statistics calculation for closed captions extraction and conversion, multisource Black Frame Detection
• Skip audio-only stream if source file doesn't countain audio date

5.93

Release date: 25 June 2020

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect work of the qc_validate_segment_duration and qc_short_segment tests for advanced_fmp4 media with byte-range.
• Missing Accessibility tag in MPD manifests for the repackage media
• Failing <color_range /> for non-HDR media
• Incorrect srt to scc closed captions conversion when there are 5 lines in srt.
• Failing advanced_dash and advanced_fmp4 media with <single_segment_template  /> specified and webvtt closed captions
• Incorrect MPD manifests parsing if <single_segment_template  /> and <sub_path  /> are specified

5.92

Release date: 19 June 2020

👍

Added

• 2-Factor authorization for UI.

📘

Fixed

• Upload Error for some destinations that contains %20.
• Fixed qc_match_cue_inserts QC test if <drop_segments /> specified.

5.91

Release date: 15 June 2020

📘

Fixed

• QC MPD manifests parsing for media with Multijob Workflow
• Incorrect processing if <main_source /> specified but no <alternate_source /> set
• Removed plus sign urlencode requirement for sources and destinations
• Incorrect work of <basename /> if value contains dot sign.
• Support of <bufsize />, <minrate />, <maxrate />, <audio_bufsize />, <audio_minrate />, and <audio_maxrate /> in Advanced Multi-Bitrate output formats.

5.90

Release date: 04 June 2020

👍

Added

• Beamr CABR Encoding

📘

Fixed

• HEVC wrong 2-pass workflow
• Wrong QC Auto profile/vprofile parsing
• QC Process stuck in some cases
• *lt;ignore_cc_absence /> default value set to no for audio_only streams
• Decoding of j2k source files

5.89

Release date: 28 May 2020

📘

Fixed

• Wrong invalid media parameters checking that caused process stuck
• Fixed QC reports link for the non-default region
• QC auto failing if the file name specified in the destination
• <basename /> support for advanced_dash output format
• Missing CUE markers in iframe playlist
• Incorrect MPD manifest for the media with Ludicrous Mode and Multijob Workflow

5.88

Release date: 21 May 2020

📘

Fixed

• QC parsing CHANNEL attribute in M3U8 manifests
• Fixed <apply_to /> issues with advanced_dash** output format
• Wrong user ID in API credentials section on the Account page in UI.
• Issues with **<ad_break /> if multiple CEA-608/708 specified.

5.87

Release date: 14 May 2020

👍

Added

• Replace real bitrate value in MPD manifests with specified in the request
• Add CHANNELS attribute to HLS manifest
• Thumbnails Set

📘

Fixed

• Failing QC for encrypted advanced_fmp4
• QC processing stuc in some cases
• Fixed <alternate_source /> source customization in UI
• WebVTT split on <ad_break /> and <cue_insert />
• Timescale for repackaging
• DFXP to WebVTT incorrect timestamp conversion

5.86

Release date: 07 May 2020

📘

Fixed

• Failing qc_bitrate_declaration test
• Support of 42ni audio in the media source file
• Failing VTT thumbnails generation for short source files

5.85

Release date: 29 April 2020

👍

Added

• DolbyVision HDR Support
• Blank Frames Insertion
• Option to manage sessions in UI

📘

Fixed

• Removed Closed Captions And Subtitles data from EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF tag
• Sometimes media with Ludicrous Mode fails on source file size checking

5.84

Release date: 23 April 2020

👍

Added

• New QC test for cue-insertions
• AWS Assume Role support for sources and destinations

📘

Fixed

• QC parsing HLS manifests with URLs in subpath
• Incorrect segment duration for advanced formats with hevc in stream manifests
• Destination URL 1000 characters length limit
• Incorrect HLS manifests with multitype closed captions
• Media with Ludicrous Mode and byte-range fails

5.83

Release date: 20 April 2020

👍

Added

• Ludicrous Mode support for Adaptive Intermediate
• Media Notification via Amazon SNS

📘

Fixed

• Media with Ludicrous Moed failing if HDR-10 set
• Sped up signed S3 sources
• Missing <use_alternate_id /> parameter in response for GetSatus request.

5.82

Release date: 09 April 2020

👍

Added

• CEA-608 data field extraction
• New video parameters

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect QC duration tests on advanced_dash output format
• Non-dropframe timecode conversion for NTSC framerates
• Missing media info for some sources
• Muxing WebVTT closed captions in media with Ludicrous Mode with advanced_fmp4 or advanced_dash output formats

5.81

Release date: 02 April 2020

👍

Added

• New encoder
• Image Media Playlists for advanced-multibitrate output formats

📘

Fixed

• Improved download processing for media with multijob workflow for non-h264 source files
• Wrong mediainfo response for media with multijob workflow for non-h264 source files
• Closed Captions direct copy with framerate upconverting
• Multijob workflow with different source files
• QC Auto minor issues
• UI API-builder formats order
• Media with advanced_dash output sometimes fails on segmentation
• Apple Prores incorrect output with fractional framerate value
• CUE markers overlap

5.80

Release date: 26 March 2020

📘

Fixed

• Wrong DTS check for qc_validate_pts QC test
• QC support of $Time$ placeholder in Dash manifests
• Missing audio streams in media with Ludicrous Mode in some cases
• Reduced output bitrate for cea-608/708 closed captions mux
• Media with advanced_fmp4 output fails if <pack_files  > set to yes and <hls_manifests  > set to no
• SRT with roll-up conversion to SCC caused blinking

5.79

Release date: 19 March 2020

👍

Added

• HDR support
• MP4 output format support for media with Ludicrous Mode.
• SegmentTemplate type for advanced_dash and advanced_fmp4 output formats

📘

Fixed

• Failing QC of encrypted CMAF fragments
• QC Auto parsing of MPD manifest with <single_segment_template/> specified
• Incorrect SegmentTemplate in MPD manifest
• Media with Ludicrous Mode and <ad_breaks/> fails for some cases
• Nielsen Watermarking for mxf output format

5.78

Release date: 12 March 2020

👍

Added

• Ignore Closed Captions Absence on Copy

📘

Fixed

QC:

• Improved bitrate tests
• QC Auto stream mapping for add_audio_only=no manifests
• Failing short segments duration count
• QC Auto qc_captions_presented test
• Init segment attached twice to the whole stream in CMAF test
• QC Auto qc_frame_rate_test test

Processing:

• KMS request timeout for DRM
• Failing media with Multijob Workflow and Ludicrous Mode
• merge_small_segments for advanced_fmp4 output format
• SMPTE-TT captions muxing. Added roll-up captions collapsing.

5.77

Release date: 5 March 2020

📘

Fixed

• Failing Closed Captions mux for media with Ludicrous Mode
• Support of sha-512 for BuyDRM KeyOS CPIX
• Concatenation of multiple sources without audio stream
• Max bitrate calculation for HLS manifests with small segments
• Broken PTS/DTS while closed caption mux
• UI minor layout issues

5.76

Release date: 27 February 2020

👍

Added

• Non-S3 Source Files for Ludicrous Mode

📘

Fixed

• Issues with multiple cea-608 and cea-708 closed captions muxing
• Vid.ly advertisement management in UI
• Empty CODEC tag in HLS manifest for alternate stream for the media with Ludicrous Mode
• Wrong framerate handling for the media with Ludicrous Mode

5.75

Release date: 20 February 2020

📘

Fixed

• Account management for UI-users.
• QC Auto minor fixes
• QC issue with getting information from the first segment of fmp4 files
• BuyDRM KeyOS CPIX support qc_drm_uri test
• Failed QC tests for advanced_dash with libvpx-vp9 codec
• QC Auto for advanced_fmp4 with alternate_sources
• QC issue with non-audio or non-video streams in advanced_dash
• Failing QC reports upload if region specified

5.74

Release date: 18 February 2020

5.73

Release date: 13 February 2020

👍

Added

• Advanced Multi-Source Settings
• Overlay Fade In/Out
• Pre-Signed S3 URL As Destination
• AWS API Gateway URL In Notifications
• Mpeg2video codec support in MXF

📘

Fixed

• Execution time of qc_codec_declaration with many segments in output
• Minor QC statistics issues
• QC Process stuck on big files
• Init segment aes-128 decryption in QC process
• SCC Extraction fail in some cases
• Empty audio manifest for advanced_hls output with <audio_only /> set to yes and <pack_audio_to_mpegts /> set to yes.

5.72

Release date: 07 February 2020

📘

Fixed

• Media fails if empty <bif_destination /> set.
• Wrong QC processing after media restart.
• Optimized download time of media with Ludicrous Mode
• Media with advanced_fmp4 output format audio segmentation with ad breaks.
• Non-S3 overlay sources for media with Ludicrous Mode
• Missing id value in m3u8 manifest if <id />* in <ad_break />* set to 0*.

5.71

Release date: 30 January 2020

👍

Added

• Single SegmentTemplate for Dash Manifest
• Additional duration formats in GetMediaInfo and GetMediaInfoEx

📘

Fixed

• Support ad_breaks and cue_insert in QC auto
• Users management in UI
• Request validation failure on system deployment
• Missing stream manifests in tar file for advanced_fmp4 output with <pack_files /> set to yes.
• Broken advanced_dash output with HEVC <video_codec />
• Support of source media with jpeg2000 codec
• Media with advanced_dash output fails if <video_codec /> set to libvpx-vp9
• Wrong stream extraction in adaptive_intermediate output with <alternate_source /> with <auto /> set to yes.

5.70

Release date: 23 January 2020

👍

Added

• CableLabs output format
• New available value types for <force_keyframes />

📘

Fixed

• Missing RESOLUTION, CODECS attributes in HLS manifest in media with Ludicrous Mode in some cases
• Media with Ludicrous Mode fails if <burnin_timecode /> set
• Bandwidth values for .m3u8 manifest of advanced_fmp4 output format are doubled

❗️

Removed

• GetQCStatus request - QC status moved to GetStatus response.

5.69

Release date: 16 January 2020

📘

Fixed

• Advanced multi-bitrate media with <use_alternate_id /> set stuck if no custom manifests set and fails if <pack_files /> set to yes.
• Video and audio streams duration differ in mov output with pcm_f32be audio codec for sources with long drop-frame
• Processing stuck if media source has zero duration
• Special characters in email notifications for medias with <meta />

🚧

Changed

• Excluded MSS manifests generation for advanced_fmp4 output

5.68

Release date: 13 January 2020

📘

Fixed

Processing:

• MediaInfo process stuck for some sources
• Media with Ludicrous Mode and with muxing capons in cea-608 mode sometimes fails
• Media with Multijob Workflow eventually stuck on downloading

UI:

• "Restricted" error after login
• Usage Chart on the Statistics page not switching between monthly/weekly/daily modes

Release Notes Archive

5.67

Release date: 26 December 2019

👍

Added

• BuyDRM KeyOS CPIX support
• nal-hrd and rc-lookahead advanced H.264 options

📘

Fixed

• Wrong mp3 file size in MediaInfo
• Audio stitching defects with aac, ac3 audio codecs with Ludicrous Mode
• Issues with RAW source files
• Error with rotation with Ludicrous Mode

5.66

Release date: 19 December 2019

👍

Added

• Custom Ad Breaks for *advanced_dash**
• Adaptive Temporal Averaging Denoiser filter
• Widevine and PlayReady DRM for advanced dash manifests

📘

Fixed

• Slow QC task execution
• Wrong MediaInfo result for some mp3 files

5.65

Release date: 12 December 2019

👍

Added

• New Nielsen workflow - Suppor for injecting Nielsen watermarks into audio streams
• Option to pack audio-only streams into MPEG-TS container

📘

Fixed

• Wrong CUE Time attribute value for
• UI API-builder performance fix

5.64

Release date: 05 December 2019

🚧

Changed

• Added support for the <id /> parameter in <ad_break /> and <cue_insert /> blocks

📘

Fixed

• In some cases jobs stuck when encoding audio-only outputs
• QC CMAF test will validate whole concatenated stream
• Error with empty audio-only stream manifest in advanced_hls media with Ludicrous Mode

5.63.2

Release date: 28 November 2019

📘

Fixed

• QC process failing in some cases.

5.63.1

Release date: 27 November 2019

📘

Fixed

• Media with <force_interlace /> fails when <encoder /> set to v3

5.63

Release date: 22 November 2019

👍

Added

• Telecine support.
• Support for video and audio overlays in outputs with Ludicrous mode.

📘

Fixed

• Inaccurate media clipping.
• Incorrect segment count in mpeg-dash manifests for some sources.
• QC report for missing files.

5.62

Release date: 14 November 2019

📘

Fixed

• Missing Nielsen metadata in jobs processed with Ludicrous Mode.
• Wrong cue placement for serial ad breaks.
• cue_insert duplication in some cases.

5.61.1

Release date: 7 November 2019

📘

Fixed

• QC CMAF conformance test stuck in some cases.

5.61

Release date: 7 November 2019

📘

Fixed

• Ludicrous Mode Statistics.
• Media with Ludicrous Mode and external CC file failing.

👍

Added

• Audio signaling mode option for dolby_heeac/dolby_heeacv2 audio codecs.
• QC CMAF Conformance test.

5.60.1

Release date: 4 November 2019

📘

Fixed

• Empty response in GetMediaInfoEx request for some source medias.

5.60

Release date: 31 October 2019

👍

Added

API:

• New ad_breaks and cue_insert options.

QC:

• Support byte_range for hls manifests

📘

Fixed

Processing:

• Optimized audio-only task processing in Ludicrous Mode.
• Minor apple_prores enhancements
• Alternate stream duplication in some cases

5.59

Release date: 24 October 2019

👍

Added

• Ludicrous Mode - advanced split and stitch processing.

📘

Fixed

• Unnecessary additional destination in UI.
• QC issue with m3u8 playlists with webvtt subtitles.
• Wrong SCC to WEBVTT conversion if output framerate differs from 29.97.

5.58

Release date: 17 October 2019

📘

Fixed

API:

• Error in GetQueueTime response if queue is empty.

Processing:

• Wrong iframe placement in fmp4_hls media with ad_breaks and fractal framerate.

UI:

• Several layout issues
• Missing custom request params in API-Builder
• Missing manifest destination field

5.57

Release date: 14 October 2019

📘

Fixed

• QC media status stuck
• Multisource jobs experiencing processing delays

5.56

Release date: 11 October 2019

📘

Fixed

• QC statistics issue

5.55

Release date: 10 October 2019

👍

Changed

• QC processing workflow

📘

Fixed

• GetStatus response for auto_crop and cut_black
• In some cases the last segment is missing in the VTT output directory
• Sometimes media with closed_captions copy=yes fails if the source media doesn't have captions
• Issues with fmp4 output playback in Safari and Edge browsers

5.54.1

Release date: 03 October 2019

📘

FIxed

• Process stuck with some sources with invalid frames

5.54

Release date: 02 October 2019

📘

Fixed

• Loudnorm settings causing audio to cut out after 2 seconds with some sources.
• Incorrect fMP4 segment duration in some cases
• Duplicate links to stream manifests in master HLS manifest with multiple DRM types.

5.53

📘

Fixed

• Negative EXTINF in advanced_fmp4 with split_segments=no.
• Minor issue with media status updates.

5.52

📘

Fixed

• Incorrect time stamp was applied to webvtt captions.