Finding your Syndication Publishing jobs has never been easier.
You can now view all of your jobs in one place, check their status and jump to the relevant channel with a click of a button.
Documentation available here.
Contact Sales to enable Syndication Publishing.
As part of a certificate audit, one of the SSL certificates used by the slicer's live event endpoint is expiring January 3, 2022.
We have since updated the certificate.
In order for the slicer to use the new certificate it needs to be restarted. For uninterrupted use of the Live Event Dashboard, please restart any slicers used for Live Events prior to the January 3, 2022 expiration time.
We've added the ability to send Syndication Publishing notifications using Amazon SNS. These notifications will inform you of activities related to your jobs in different severities, including restarts, failures, etc.
Documentation available here.
Contact Sales to enable Syndication Publishing.
Slicer Failover has been enhanced to have multiple Hot backups when using Hot-Warm Failover. This allows having a primary Slicer backup that will do near-instantaneous failover while having additional Slicer Warm backups on standby. It is currently recommended to use this feature using Priority Mode to avoid any possible ambiguity because Flat Mode may choose any Slicer, even if it is Warm. This will be changed in the future to remove this ambiguity.
Documentation available below: * (#) Hot Backup(s)
Contact Support or your Technical Account Manager with any questions.
Live Slicer Monitoring now offers a new view called "Penalty Box". This view allows you to quickly review all Live Slicers that are experiencing issues, all in one place.
Documentation can be found here.
Ad pod and boundary durations can now be found in the Control Center under assets' "breaks" tab, as well as via the /api2/asset/get endpoint.
A sample API response with the new "break_offsets" property can be found HERE.
The following Google Ad Manager (GAM) & INVIDI ad server parameters are now searchable in the Ad Server Debug search & query results screens. These fields are found in the Transaction-Request screen under Ad Request URL.
Google Ad Manager (GAM)
INVIDI
Household Identifier
Targeting ID
Device Type
Note: These fields will be viewable even if you aren't using GAM or INVIDI integrations.
New channel and linear blackout APIs have been made available so you can integrate external channel management systems into Edgecast Control. To find out more navigate over to the updated documentation found here.
Fixes:
Fix static luminance monitoring that converged on 1 or more fixed values when using nvenc encoder.
Fix muting and blank audio insertion on dolby subtracks.
Fix dolby stereo downmix routing from dolby decoder to dolby stereo encoder.
Fix slicing of WindowsMedia VOD file with 5.1 WMA Pro audio.
Use correct time base to calculate frame pts/dts/dur when multiple audio tracks with different sample rates are present.
Fix incorrect gain applied to AAC tracks when slicing with Dolby output option.
Fix UDP liveslicer ingest of 5.1 AAC when liveslicer config doesn’t specify PID’s.
Other changes:
Reduce slicer latency caused by unnecessarily long padding audio on the trailing edge of the slice.
Change interpretation of [[gain1, gain2]] from [[aac, dolby]] to [[stereo, surround]].
Take advantage of the render_608_buffer to aggregate CC updates.
Add -suppress_608_input (same as -no608), and -suppress_608_output options to slicer and liveslicer.
Prerequisites:
Due to the slicer being built on CentOS 7 it picks up a new library dependency on libnl-3.200, which is not included in the base install of Ubuntu 18.04. You may need to pre-install it: sudo apt install libnl-3-200
Nvidia driver 418 or later is required for HEVC 4K HDR/SDR.
Due to CentOS 6 reaching EOL in November 2020 this slicer release requires CentOS 7 or newer.
Bulk Delete is now available for the Channel Scheduler UI.
When clicking the Bulk Delete button above your channel schedule, all scheduled entries that start and end within the selected range will be deleted. Entries currently live or in the past will not be affected.
