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Release Notes Archive 2020

6.21

Release date: 24 December 2020

👍

Added

📘

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

📘

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

❗️

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

🚧

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

6.02

Release date: 20 August 2020

👍

Added

🚧

Changed

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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

📘

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 2019