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:
Fix several intermittent crashes caused by thread termination race conditions.
More graceful error handling for invalid parameters passed in to -csp_xform, -fadein.
Fix several memory leaks.
Fix with spurious ad break start.
Fix inaccurate slice duration for last slice in a range.
Fix a crash in Software based color conversion.
Avoid creating an empty slice due to slice duration alignment correction.
Changes:
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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:
Live Event metadata lost following the 1st /content_start when slicing with use_brokers=4
Rapid calls to slicer API /blackout + /content_start put liveslicer in a bad state
Rapid slicer start/shutdown sequence can cause a spurious beam start
Additions:
Ad prefetch signaling
Liveslicer configuration file support for imagebug
An option to workaround liveslicer sample rate misdetection causing slow-motion video
Removals
Notice: Unresolved Issue
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Fixes:
Additions:
Notice: Unresolved Issue
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
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
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
Rapid slicer start/shutdown sequence can cause a spurious beam start. This is addressed in the upcoming October slicer release candidate
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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:
Non-0 first PTS VOD regression
Beam description changes
Live Slicer file mode regression
Trimming of MPEGTS captures that start from non-0 PTS
Dolby alternate track CMS designation
Additions:
Notice: Unresolved Issue
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Fixes:
Assertion failure triggered by -timecode flag
Slicer not applying description from config or CLI to beam
Slicer stalling when using web socket connection to the broker
Potential crash due to log formatting error
Duplicate keyframe when using frame by frame delivery to the broker
Additions:
Notice: Unresolved Issue
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Fixes:
Lipsync issue for mp4 export when video starts later than audio
Longer timeout for beamstart that increases with failures
Incorrectly adding second language track as primary for TTML
Additions:
8 channel audio routing with DD+ Audio and AAC
DVB-TTML ingest for VOD
Fragmented TTML output option with DASH (VOD only)
DVB-Teletext subtitles ingest
RTP-FEC optimizations
Websockets enhancements
Enhancements to frame rate reducer
Notice:
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Syndication publishing is now available in the Control Center UI and API as an optional, value-added capability. Live events and live channels can now be published to multiple RTMP(S)-capable endpoints, including Facebook Live, Youtube Live, Twitch, and Twitter/Periscope. Documentation available below:
Contact Sales to enable syndication publishing.
