Slicer Failover 1.0 is now available for all Streaming customers. This feature allows for Hot-Hot and Hot-Warm failover of Live Slicers directly from the new Slicer tab in the CMS. It supports the ability to prioritize Slicers for failover and to enable/disable automatic failback. There are configurable thresholds to add precise control of failover conditions. Please review the User Documentation and API Documentation to learn more. Pre-existing failover methods (e.g. Acuity) are still supported, but should eventually be migrated to Slicer Failover 1.0. Please contact your Technical Account Manager with any questions.
Live linear syndication publishing added the option of "integrated authentication" for YouTube and Facebook live streaming. Rather than requiring URI and streamkey user (or API) entry, this feature now allows your Verizon Media Platform account to be linked to a Facebook or YouTube account to allow direct streaming from Live Channels or Live Events. It allows designation of a Facebook page. For YouTube, it automatically creates a scheduled live stream in YouTube Studio.
Documentation available below:
Contact Sales to enable syndication publishing.
CMS Notifications: We've introduced a notification feature to inform users when a new library has been shared with them. In the upper right hand corner, users will see a notification icon when they should be aware of this action.
Live linear syndication publishing now allows for a cloud region (AWS or Azure) to be designated as the originating physical location for a syndicated stream. This can maximize the reliability of the stream when selecting geographically or network-quality optimal locations, close to the target's location.
This applies to all live linear syndication publishing protocols. Documentation available below:
Contact Sales to enable syndication publishing.
Fixes:
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Fix several intermittent crashes caused by thread termination race conditions.
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More graceful error handling for invalid parameters passed in to -csp_xform, -fadein.
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Fix several memory leaks.
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Fix with spurious ad break start.
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Fix inaccurate slice duration for last slice in a range.
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Fix a crash in Software based color conversion.
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Avoid creating an empty slice due to slice duration alignment correction.
Changes:
- Assume input colorspace is BT.709 if source doesn't signal any color specs, even if the source is 10-bit.
Prerequisites
- Nvidia driver 418 or later is required for HEVC 4K HDR/SDR
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This will be the final release of slicer to be supported on CentOS 6.X software, which ended maintenance November 30, 2020.
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Today we released an enhancement to the Clipping Tool for customers creating clips from live feeds. Now, the video player can easily be refreshed with the latest video content by clicking the "Refresh Video" button in the lower right corner of the main player.
With this new button, the operator can stay within the Clip Editor, and refresh the player with the most recent video. This leads to a more efficient workflow, for those attempting to cut clips close to live and reach their audiences faster.
Fixes:
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Live Event metadata lost following the 1st /content_start when slicing with use_brokers=4
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Rapid calls to slicer API /blackout + /content_start put liveslicer in a bad state
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Rapid slicer start/shutdown sequence can cause a spurious beam start
Additions:
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Ad prefetch signaling
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Liveslicer configuration file support for imagebug
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An option to workaround liveslicer sample rate misdetection causing slow-motion video
Removals
- Broker to Encoder Frame by Frame implementation has been disabled (use_brokers=4)
Notice: Unresolved Issue
- Intermittent crash on beam end/rollover mitigated by running liveslicer as a service: systemd, upstart, or anything else that can restart liveslicer after abnormal termination
Prerequisites
- Nvidia driver 418 or later is required for HEVC 4K HDR/SDR
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Fixes:
- Loss of important Ad metadata associated with a malformed slice
Additions:
- Support for Adobe .cube RGB LUTs for HDR/SDR conversion
Notice: Unresolved Issue
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Intermittent crash on beam end/rollover mitigated by running live slicer as a service: systemd, upstart, or anything else that can restart liveslicer after abnormal termination
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Live Event metadata is lost following the 1st /content_start when slicing with use_broker=4. This is addressed in the upcoming October slicer release candidate
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Rapid calls to slicer API /blackout + /content_start can put live slicer in a bad state. This is addressed in the upcoming October slicer release candidate
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Rapid slicer start/shutdown sequence can cause a spurious beam start. This is addressed in the upcoming October slicer release candidate
Prerequisites
- Nvidia driver 418 or later is required for HEVC 4K HDR/SDR
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Updating your slicer keeps you on the cutting edge of what our platform has to offer. Don't delay
New SmartPlay Ad Profile Matching has been successfully rolled out across the Verizon Media Platform. Ad and content encoding profiles are now automatically matched to enhance the broadcast-quality user experience and ensure consistent transitions between ad breaks and programming for each viewer.
Fixes:
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Non-0 first PTS VOD regression
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Beam description changes
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Live Slicer file mode regression
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Trimming of MPEGTS captures that start from non-0 PTS
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Dolby alternate track CMS designation
Additions:
- UDP configuration options
Notice: Unresolved Issue
- Intermittent crash on beam end/rollover mitigated by running liveslicer as a service: systemd, upstart, or anything else that can restart liveslicer after abnormal termination
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Updating your slicer keeps you on the cutting edge of what our platform has to offer. Don't delay