SnapStream Enterprise TV Release Notes
Version 5.9 | Build 3242 | March 19, 2013
New Features
- Program Guide search in the web interface
- Task filter for failed jobs
- Screen capture button in the Web Player
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Automatically display show information on Web Player page
- Preview image in SnapStream cloud sharing emails
- Show recently completed tasks on home page
- Allow editing of recording times for Manual jobs
- Add Date option to Upcoming, Recent, and Conflicted pages in Recording Manager
- Better handling of proxy servers in cloud sharing
- Display file format in search results
- Replaced “Advanced Options” in Search with Autocomplete
- Fixed- “Return” option from Airing Details page to Program Guide doesn’t return to the airing
- Fixed- Custom Lineup Wizard is slow with a large number of channels
- Fixed- Timeout during guide updates
- Fixed- Node takes too long to shut down if disconnected from master
- Fixed- IIS binding to port 443 is lost on upgrade
- Fixed- Save Priorities takes a long time with large number of jobs
- Fixed- Linking to a specific time in the web player doesn’t work if playback started from a link to a specific time
- Fixed- Clicking on SmartChapters doesn’t work in IE
- Fixed- MPEG-2 Program Streams play back with no video on Mac
- Fixed- Users without the "Create Recordings" permission still have access to the manual job creation links
- Fixed- Web player does not display all lines of CC data
- Fixed- Workflows on recordings with no data generate an extraneous warning e-mail
- Fixed- Temporary inprogress srt files are left on master temp directory until software restart
- Fixed- Resetting a failed task doesn’t work
- Fixed- In the Library, using Select Date to select a Weekly date during a week that spans 2 different months causes an unexpected error
- Fixed- LDAP group fetching on the "Create Group" admin page breaks for a large number of groups
- Fixed- Jump To option in Web Player does not jump to the correct location for clips
- Fixed- Deleting the priority of the top job and clicking elsewhere on the screen causes the job to disappear
- Fixed- Typing certain priority numbers into certain priority positions in Recording Manager causes jobs to disappear
- Fixed- Exceptions when setting destination folder for recordings and tasks
- Fixed- Editing Movie recording jobs results in bogus expiration values
- Fixed- "Edit Guide Data 24/7 Job" page offers an editable title text box
- Fixed- The "within 30 days" field on the edit movie job page displays an incorrect value
- Fixed- Web Player shows view transcript link when there isn't a transcript
- Fixed- Corrupt CC data in a specific transport stream
- Fixed- The Edit Series Recording page for Guide Once jobs offers job limits for a Once recording
- Fixed- Abnormally high CPU usage at the end of H.264 transcodes
- Fixed- Time-Based Guide job including all but 11:00pm hour and start early hard padding misses the 12:00 am show
- Fixed- User settings aren't loaded on startup
- Fixed- Specific file hangs during transcode
- Fixed- EPG in the web interface won’t show more than 1000 channels
Version 5.8 | Build 2921 | January 2, 2013
New Features
- SnapStream cloud sharing
- 5.1 audio support in SnapStream SDI Playout
- Autocomplete in Search
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Added e-mail addresses to user accounts
- “View Transcript” link in web player
- After viewing a search result, hitting back returns to that result in the list of results
- Added “restart tuner” option to tuner management page
- Batched warning e-mails
- Fixed- In IE9, cursor does not return to search field after Enter is pressed
- Fixed- With large numbers of LDAP groups, editing group permissions is slow in Chrome
- Fixed- Adding large numbers of tuners is slow
- Fixed- "View Recordings that will record in place of this item" in Conflicted items does not always display currently recording shows
- Fixed- “Reindex All” option causes the broker service to crash
- Fixed- Priority updating fails when there are jobs with invalid channels
Version 5.7 | Build 2799 | November 30, 2012
New Features
- Time-based recordings with Program Guide data
- Quicktime (.MOV) container for H.264 transcoding
- Silverlight support for custom H.264 profiles
- Ability to “export” recordings
- Trigger for “ShowSqueeze Complete” in Workflows
- Filter for Clips in Workflows
- Ability to run Workflows manually
- “Manual mode” for SDI playout
- Playlist editing for SDI playout
- Return to start/ jump to end buttons in the web player
- SnapStream.Net service for sending warning emails
- New “Account Settings” page for users, including default search options
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Collapsible search results
- Permission option for SDI Playout Node
- “Jump to” option in web player now works on clock time
- Better handling of node shutdown in multi-system clusters
- Faster page loading in web interface
- “Test Alert Now” button for TV Alerts
- Button to restart failed tasks
- Delete option for Upcoming Recordings page
- Added file counts to confirmation boxes (Delete, etc.)
- User is prompted to confirm if a clip is saved with no title
- Path Selection Algorithm is hidden for folders with only one path
- Various display improvements
- Fixed- Searching logs for recording filenames does not work
- Fixed- Timeout causing guide updates to fail
- Fixed- DVD Burning app allows file addition while burn is in progress
- Fixed- DVD burn app does not copy SmartChapter xml files on a Data DVD
- Fixed- SDI interface doesn’t update the duration of an in-progress show
- Fixed- Switching to Full Mode in web player pauses playback
- Fixed- “Failed to access file system” caused by a deleted custom recording profile
- Fixed- Attempting to submit a SmartChapter job on an in-progress recording results in a failure with no error message
- Fixed- Exception during guide update causes all recordings to stop
- Fixed- H.264 files with 720x480 resolution won’t play in Windows web player or Enterprise TV Link
- Fixed- Start/End Early/Late settings are missing for 24x7 recordings
- Fixed- Software fails to log in to database after reboot
- Fixed- Can’t burn TP files to DVD
- Fixed- Some recordings burn to DVD out of sync
Version 5.6 | Build 2585 | October, 2012
New Features
- In-Progress playback of Transport Streams in Mac web player
- ShowSqueeze to H.264 Transport Stream
- EBU Teletext Support
- Support for DVB-T recordings with Teletext CC data
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- New web interface architecture
- Redesigned Library and Recording Manager in the web interface
- “My Tasks” page in Task Manager
- Task progress popups in the web interface
- Clips are automatically set to Keep Until I Delete
- IR blasting codes for Motorola DCX-3200 and Cisco RNG-100
- Better compatibility with Windows Firewall
- Web interface sessions no longer time out if pages are open
- Support for PAL framerates in SDI playout
- Added date of software revision to System Status page
- Added warning notification for unclean shutdown
- “Contact Tech Support” link in warning e-mails
- Various display improvements
- Fixed- System clock changes cause problems with recordings
- Fixed- With large numbers of series, scrolling through series list lags
- Fixed- Library takes a long time to load in Internet Explorer 8
- Fixed- Index and backup locations allow invalid paths
- Fixed- Folder settings allow invalid paths
- Fixed- Movies are displayed under “Unknown” in Library Series view
- Fixed- Saving a custom transcode profile switches the display back to a different profile.
- Fixed- Write errors during recordings
- Fixed- CC Archive converter crashes when processing large archives or bad files
- Fixed- Multi-term email alerts don't email unless the last term returned results.
- Fixed- Creating a folder with a duplicate name hangs the web interface in IE 8
- Fixed- Recordings die when system clock changes
- Fixed- Cannot save a media item with unknown series
- Fixed- SDI playout installer doesn’t create a directory it needs
- Fixed- Extending an in-progress recording does not work
- Fixed- Adding tuner #X on node A removes tuner #X on node B from available tuners list
- Fixed- E-mail clip in Enterprise TV Link reports that a clip is over the limit when it isn't
- Fixed- "Scheduled By" data missing for some recordings
- Fixed- Some HD recordings burn to DVD at the wrong aspect ratio
- Fixed- Some transcodes to WMV come out short
- Fixed- Master tries to restart tuners on a node that is offline
- Fixed- Disabling and re-enabling an analog that is recording a transport stream causes it to revert to recording a program stream
- Fixed- Broker says it has stopped when it actually hasn’t yet
- Fixed- Pressing the right arrow in the web player causes playback to pause
- Fixed- Guide alerts don’t save right away
- Fixed- Resizing browser causes playback to pause
- Fixed- Custom lineups don’t have station affiliation info
- Fixed- A user who has the “Administer Users and Groups” permission but not the “Administer Server Settings” permission can’t get to the Users and Groups page
- Fixed- Timezone with UTC offset greater than 0 causes problems
- Fixed- User with “Create Alert” permission only can’t save a new alert permission
- Fixed- Logging in makes a noise in IE 9
- Fixed- Alert creation takes too long on systems with large search indexes
- Fixed- Clipping in-progress recordings from the beginning fails
- Fixed- ShowSqueezed files won’t play through SDI node
- Fixed- Resetting one tuner on a two-tuner system doesn’t restart the recording on the reset tuner
- Fixed- Search results from alerts that fail to send aren’t included in subsequent successful alert
- Fixed- Recording stats gives incorrect recording depth when a drive is offline
- Fixed- CC data parsing is missing spaces
- Fixed- DVD Burn app lists “Recorded On” time in UTC
- Fixed- Recordings stop with “Failed in DirectShow” error
- Fixed- “Exception while running the Recorder Loop”
- Fixed- H.264 transcodes have a small amount of video "noise" at the beginning of the video
Version 5.5.1 | Build 2187 | June 21, 2012
New Features
- H.264 support in Mac web player
- Support for Arabic characters
- Ability to generate transcripts in a specific location using Workflows
- Subchannel IR tuning for Contemporary Research QAM-to-analog converter
- “Wake up” command for IR blasting
- Ability to force the recording of episodes that have been recorded recently
- Ability to import CC archives from version 4 into version 5
- User-specific default clip folders in the web player
- Conflicted Recordings page in Recording Manager
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Clips are now sorted by date created rather than the date of the original recording
- Various display improvements
- Improvements to transcript formatting
- Continuous recordings
- Pre-written DVD-RWs can be formatted before the main burning process
- Drop-down field for Channel menu in Search
- User-specific Last Watched point to web player
- Added Channel Number and Callsign to main Library page
- DVD Burning in Enterprise TV Link now supports burning transport streams directly to disc
- Popup in web player shows progress of clip creation
- Analog TV now records as a transport stream by default
- Fixed- H.264 clips have incorrect aspect ratio
- Fixed- H.264 clips are out of sync
- Fixed- Unexpected behavior when accessing Live TV when all tuners are occupied
- Fixed- Search offers “did you mean” suggestions for search filters
- Fixed- Attempting to add tuners breaks in-progress digital recordings
- Fixed- DVD burn app settings are reset to defaults when the app is updated
- Fixed- Stopping a guide update can cause future guide updates to fail
- Fixed- Files that have been deleted from the library may not be removed from the search index
- Fixed- Up arrow does not always skip to the next SmartChapter mark in the web player
- Fixed- Workflows page does not render correctly in IE 8 on XP
- Fixed- E-mail clips sends a confirmation e-mail when no address is entered
- Fixed- Recording an episode on one channel prevents the same episode from being recorded on another channel
- Fixed- As-it-happens TV alerts fail to return some results
- Fixed- Conflicts aren’t handled correctly when a recording is canceled
- Fixed- SmartChapter jobs fail to complete on XP nodes
- Fixed- Sentences are not parsed correctly when closed caption files are created
Version 5.5 | Build 2002 | April 13, 2012
New Features
- Mac Player support in Safari and Google Chrome
- New Workflow filters for destination folder, series and category
- New Workflow triggers for recording started and clip created
- Maximum Number of Days expiration option
- Transcoding of in-progress recordings (ShowSqueeze Live)
- Ability to create directories on disk when creating video folders
- IR code for Cisco DTA30 cable box
- Ability to send a “no results” email when a TV alert returns no results
- Ability to jump to the start and end points of a clip in the Web Player
- Draggable clip end points in the Web Player
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Added custom lineup editing
- Added the option to enter a service account when running the software installer
- Added explanations of recording icons in the web interface program guide
- Added progress bar for clipping tasks
- Added program guide update button to the Program Guide section of Admin
- Added new Recording Types to Recording Manager display
- Added SmartChapters in the Web Player
- Removed Original Air Date line from transcripts of block-based recordings
- Better status reporting for library folder refresh operations
- Better transcript formatting
- Improved security
- Improvements to SmartChapter performance
- Various display improvements
- Fixed- Manual recordings have no original airdate
- Fixed- Deleting a recording job doesn’t delete maximum number expiration settings
- Fixed- SmartChapter jobs on Windows Media files fail
- Fixed- Keyboard shortcuts for the program guide don’t work in Chrome
- Fixed- Temporary files used for ShowSqueeze are not deleted if a task runner process crashes
- Fixed- Hiding a channel on one lineup hides the same channel on other lineups temporarily
- Fixed- Reloading the Edit Tuner page makes the Upload External Tuner Config File option disappear
- Fixed- Program Guide shows an incorrect recording icon for some upcoming recordings
- Fixed- Seeking to the end of an in-progress HD recording in the Web Player causes playback to pause
- Fixed- Closed-captioning information for some HD recordings is gibberish
- Fixed- User-generated groups with the same name as preset groups but different cases result in an exception when importing version 4 app data into version 5
Version 5.4.2 | Build 1802 | January 31, 2012
New Features
- HD support in Mac Web Player
- Process for loading Program Guide data on a system with a connection to the Internet
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Overhaul of IR blasting
- Added video resolution to Details pages in the Library
- Improvements to Mac Web Player stability
- Fixed- Audio and video out of sync in SDI playout
- Fixed- Can’t seek through very long recordings in Mac Player
- Fixed- Large program guide updates can cause database queries to take a long time
- Fixed- Some recording folders cannot be imported when upgrading software from version 4
- Fixed- various playback issues
Version 5.4.1 | Build 1718 | December 30, 2011
New Features
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Added Details link to search results
- More useful error messages
- View Transcript option in search result jumps to the location of the result
- Server installer runs with elevated permissions automatically
- Improved time bar for untagged files in the Web Player
- Improved playback over low-bandwidth and high-latency connections
- Various display improvements
- Fixed- No SRT found when attempting to download a transcript
- Fixed- Password matching on Edit User page doesn’t work
- Fixed- test E-mail button on Alert Settings page doesn’t ask for an e-mail address
- Fixed- Users without “Administer Server Settings” permission can’t view the System Status page
- Fixed- Enterprise TV doesn’t start when installed for the first time under Windows XP
- Fixed- Clips fail with “Path too long” error
- Fixed- Web interface doesn’t display correctly under Windows Server 2003
- Fixed- Can’t save changes to show details in the library
- Fixed- Newly created local groups show up under LDAP-linked groups
- Fixed- Web Player shows end time incorrectly
- Fixed- Can’t save changes to Auto Email and Auto Schedule options in existing program guide search alerts
Version 5.4 | Build 1611 | November 21, 2011
New Features
- New Custom Lineup Wizard
- New rule-based postprocessing engine
- New DVD Burning plug-in for the web admin
- Permission settings for Video Folders
- Ability to create custom video profiles
- Ability to exclude times from 24-hour recordings
- SSL support for systems running Windows XP
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Faster H.264 transcoding
- New user permission category for Create Clips
- New System Status page in the web admin
- More efficient program guide updates
- Added display of version and build number in the web admin
- Added prompt for prerequisite installation and browser restart to Web Player installation
- Status monitor and more options for folder refreshes
- More accurate skipping during in-progress recordings
- Added prompt for tuners to be disabled and re-enabled when settings changes are made
- More useful warnings and error messages
- “Loop Playlist” option and Stop button in SDI interface
- Better filestreaming performance
- Option to force SSL in the web admin
- New default path selection for recording folders
- “Save & Restart” option removed from Local Settings page
- Updated DVD burning engine
- Improved automatic verification of in-progress recordings
- Improved settings options in Expiration Manager
- Improved formatting for guide data e-mail alerts
- Improvements to Web Player display and controls: volume control, skip forward/back options, “link to this show at this time” feature, clock time display
- Improvements to SDI playout interface
- Improvement to Email Alert setup page, including Test button
- Improvements to Tasks pages
- Improvements to Search Status page
- Improvements to Search and CC indexing
- Improvements to lineup editing
- Improvements to TV Alert creation in the web admin
- Improvements to management of in-progress recordings
- Improvements to show permalink feature in the web admin
- Improvements to logging
- Various display improvements
- Fixed- Expired web admin session in Program Guide doesn’t redirect to login page
- Fixed- Expiration Settings and Stats pages are slow when a node is disconnected
- Fixed- CTRL-F while playing back in Enterprise TV Link did not return to search screen
- Fixed- Once recording job that also had an All Episodes job in the past does not display correctly in program guide
- Fixed- High RAM usage by large search indexes
- Fixed- No error notification in Users and Groups when LDAP server is unavailable
- Fixed- Deleted lineups are not removed during a program guide update
- Fixed- Can change All Episodes and New Episodes jobs to Timeslot jobs by editing the recording job
- Fixed- Playing a non-existent search result in the Web Player shows no error message
- Fixed- Failed guide update does not result in an e-mail alert
- Fixed- No useful error messages when SMTP settings are incorrect
- Fixed- Changes in recording quality do not update in Upcoming Recordings in Enterprise TV Link
- Fixed- Attempting to e-mail a clip that is too large doesn’t result in an error message
- Fixed- Rebooting results in unnecessary e-mail alerts
- Fixed- Move feature creates an extraneous archive file
- Fixed- Clicking on Admin link after deleting tasks results in an exception
- Fixed- Error message in Expiration Manager says “Maximum Used Space” when it means “Maximum Free Space”
- Fixed- Extraneous error message when there are no product limits
- Fixed- Possible to enter a Maximum Used Space setting that exceeds the size of the drive
- Fixed- USB-UIRT training app locks the device
- Fixed- Can’t restart playback in Enterprise TV Link after leaving it paused for a long time
- Fixed- When a show is accessed via permalink, the right-side menu is blank
- Fixed- Completed recordings aren’t precached during playback
- Fixed- Some clip transcripts have a timestamp every 2-5 seconds
- Fixed- Search results include episode name, but not show name
- Fixed- Duplicate search results after CC reindex
- Fixed- SQL server settings are incompatible with password security requirements
- Fixed- Transcodes of long HD recordings to H.264 fail
- Fixed- Long transcodes that fail are not retried
- Fixed- CC write problem results in too many error messages
- Fixed- Download of a large files from the web admin on a slow connection fails
- Fixed- Results from a wildcard search aren’t highlighted
- Fixed- CC searches by date return results from the day before
- Fixed- Change Password option in Viewscape does not work
- Fixed- Silent installs of server software fail if the software is running
- Fixed- Recordings restart after 5 minutes when a Live TV session is open
- Fixed- When a recording is stopped in the Library, the red dot persists for several minutes
- Fixed- Administrator password saves without retyping
- Fixed- ShowSqueeze removes My Clips data
- Fixed- Searching with invalid input results in an exception
- Fixed- Can’t select a destination folder when creating or editing a recording job in the web admin
- Fixed- Can’'t stop a recording from the Library
- Fixed- H.264 ShowSqueezes are out of sync
- Fixed- Duplicate airings can be created by a program guide update
- Fixed- ShowSqueeze fails on some files
- Fixed- Some saved searches run over and over
- Fixed- Indexing failures are not accounted for properly
- Fixed- Deleting the last pending task on page 2 or higher returns No Items Found
- Fixed- E-mail Clip feature doesn’t show a warning if Alerts aren’t configured
- Fixed- Reindexing a folder doesn’t delete the existing index entries for that folder
- Fixed- Software services use the wrong application data
- Fixed- Exception when stopping transcode jobs
- Fixed- Playback is delayed 1-2 seconds while seeking on an In Progress HD recording
- Fixed- Playback is delayed 2-3 seconds at the beginning of an In Progress recording
- Fixed- Program Titiles search filter returns hits from CC data
- Fixed- Bad keyboard cursor behavior when creating a TV Alert
- Fixed- “Did you mean” suggestions are not returned in web admin search
- Fixed- Bad “Did you mean” suggestions
- Fixed- Some clips are missing data
- Fixed- Live TV session fails after channel change
- Fixed- LDAP authentication fails for some users
- Fixed- Downloading a file from the web admin blocks the session
- Fixed- Adding a new manual once job with padding doesn't save the job padding
- Fixed- A wildcard search of a* throws an exception
- Fixed- “Network” search filter does not work
- Fixed- Creating two manual recording jobs with the same title seems to work but doesn't
- Fixed- Hitting PageDown and then PageUp in Search Results screen doesn’t work as it should
- Fixed- Unhandled exception when trying to ShowSqueeze a deleted item
- Fixed- Single-job Delete buttons in Tasks pages don’t prompt for confirmation
- Fixed- Unexpected results when attempting to Delete in-progress recordings
- Fixed- Possible to attempt to stop recordings that don’t exist
- Fixed- Exception when performing the Start Selected action on a task
- Fixed- Saving tuner name fails with no warning message
- Fixed- Indexing a bad CC file results in incorrect error messages
- Fixed- Some recordings have bad CC files
- Fixed- TV Alerts with lots of search terms take too long to save and time out
- Fixed- Recordings are not re-indexed after metadata is edited
- Fixed- Errors when saving tuner properties are not useful
- Fixed- CC and log backups prevent software from shutting down
- Fixed- WMV recordings with # in the title do not play
- Fixed- Schedulers and Basic Schedulers cannot create manual recordings
- Fixed- Can’t restart a failed task on the Tasks page
- Fixed- Transcoding from WMV to WMV fails
- Fixed- Transcodes to WMV and H.264 are missing data
- Fixed- Batch ShowSqueeze does not obey default settings
- Fixed- HD clips fail when the end of the clip is the end of the recording
- Fixed- Manual Once recording scheduled through Enterprise TV Link goes in the schedule with the wrong date
- Fixed- Hours Remaining numbers in Enterprise TV Link do not change when the recording quality is changed
- Fixed- Failed transcodes leave a temporary file
- Fixed- Can’t enter more than one address in warning alerts To: field
- Fixed- Errors from bad e-mail address on Alert Settings page are not shown
- Fixed- Recordings fail due to socket exception
- Fixed- Upcoming Episodes view for Everything On This Channel job is incorrect
- Fixed- CC data are reindexed on software startup
- Fixed- Delete function in post-processing doesn’t work correctly
- Fixed- Stopping a recording from Live TV results in the error “Unable to start viewing Live TV.”
- Fixed- Some QAM recordings do not play
- Fixed- Recordings located on offline nodes are not indexed
- Fixed- Email alerts search in UTC when they should be searching local time
- Fixed- Once recording jobs are not deleted after they complete
- Fixed- No useful error message when tuners can’t be added
- Fixed- Recording jobs that change as a result of a guide update aren’t handled correctly
- Fixed- Using Composite or S-video requires Lock Tuner option
Version 5.3.1 | Build 1184 | June 29, 2011
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Fixed- IR Blasting with the USB UIRT wasn't tuning more than once
- Improved stability of file streaming when the system is under heavy load
- Improved server and client performance during playback of recorded content
- Fixed- Web Player does not always release a file handle at the end of playback
Version 5.3 | Build 1139 | June 16, 2011
New Features
- Web-based Player for Windows clients
- New path selection options for video folders
- DirecTV tuning through LAN using HTTP
- Ability to change the server name in TV Alerts
- Proxy settings to allow connecting to SnapStream.Net from behind a firewall
- Warning message when guide data is low
- New options for viewing logs
- Direct recording to UNC paths
- API documentation
- Feature and upgrade management through SnapStream.Net
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Various security improvements
- Various cosmetic improvements in the web admin
- E-mailed clips no longer require confirmation
- Documentation added to Enterprise TV Link
- Reduced memory usage when reindexing
- Added serial tuning codes for DirecTV receivers that can’t tune over IP
- More reliable log searching
- Auth tickets in web admin renew automatically for active sessions
- Syntax check in LDAP integration
- Guide data details added to settings page
- Installer stops services automatically
- Error messages in installer GUI
- Better handling of attempts to delete locked files
- Improved robustness of Reindex Folder feature
- New logging backend
- LDAP groups are sorted in Group settings
- E-mail alerts now link to Web Player, not Link playback files
- Fixed- Locked files not handled exactly right
- Fixed- Record once job in Link EPG allows multiple scheduling of the same job
- Fixed- Changing Machine Name in LocalSettings.aspx to a bad value breaks the page
- Fixed- Tuners constantly try to restart if their server is off
- Fixed- In-progress recordings that finish in an error case aren’t handled correctly
- Fixed- Installation rollback due to install errors leaves product uninstalled
- Fixed- Failures in recording leave open file streams
- Fixed- QAM TP file with unknown audio stream does not play back
- Fixed- Email clip in the web admin doesn’t give correct user feedback
- Fixed- Node doesn't restart itself on an invalid ticket exception
- Fixed- Shows recorded before DST switch show incorrect time during playback
- Fixed- Full-length recordings are offered the option to "add to my clips"
- Fixed- Detailed task status is blank
- Fixed- Freespace expiration didn't log the machine name
- Fixed- Fix FF4 and IE9 rendering issues
- Fixed- View and Download Transcript in web admin don't show timestamps correctly after first couple of hours
- Fixed- Emailed clips dispatched from web admin list the wrong time in one place
- Fixed- When using the web admin to hide channels in large lineups, some channels refuse to be hidden
- Fixed- Browser back button doesn’t produce expected results in upcoming recordings in web admin
- Fixed- API samples have bad URLs
- Fixed- Confusing feedback when security is disabled
- Fixed- Limited users can’t change their own passwords
- Fixed- Manual Recording jobs do not display time correctly in Recording Settings and Priorities
- Fixed- E-mailed clips e-mails look different depending on where they were submitted from
- Fixed- Creating a duplicate group produces an unexpected error
- Fixed- Recent link in Recording Manager gives an unexpected error
- Fixed- Unexpected error when adding tuners
- Fixed- Three warning e-mails for same failure when a recording fails to start
- Fixed- Search results in Enterprise TV Link shows wrong time if show was recording before last DST change
- Fixed- Custom SnapStream.Net lineups with custom channels don’t download correctly when Major and Minor channel numbers are duplicated
- Fixed- Broker crash on node when master stops
- Fixed- Prompted for Web Player install when it’s already installed in Firefox 3.6 on Windows XP
- Fixed- If LDAP server goes offline, User and Groups page won’t load
- Fixed- Log messages for ShowSqueeze show GUID instead of machine name
- Fixed- Change “corrupt file” task failure to fatal error
- Fixed- DivX video does not play back consistently
- Fixed- Can’t add a weekly job with any day other than current in Enterprise TV Link
- Fixed- Jump to time doesn’t work in Enterprise TV Link
- Fixed- Product limits aren’t applied when user can’t connect to SnapStream.Net
- Fixed- H.264 feature disappears 30 minutes after startup
- Fixed- When Manual Recording is selected from EPG or Live TV, channel should default to what the user was looking at
- Fixed- Failed Delete File step during Move sends media item into limbo
- Fixed- Make Legacy Converter import media item size
Version 5.2 | Build 835 | April 8, 2011
New Features
- Ability to import configuration details from Enterprise TV version 4
- Ability to reindex media from web admin without shutting down
- Spelling correction in web admin search
- Scale SDI playout to 720p
- Creation of non-SnapStream.net digital lineups
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- End-user input for Server name, password, and scaling in SDI playout interface
- External tuning option defaults to Null tuner when Lock Tuner option is selected
- Removed default “To” addresses in Alert configuration
- Improvements to Active Directory integration
- Faster clip creation
- Added year of show to search results
- Added ability to throw exceptions from the database
- Added onscreen error messages for installer
- Clarified the difference between user-created lineups on SnapStream.Net vs. locally
- Adding a lineup triggers a guide update
- Simplified software update procedure
- Editing some tuner settings can be done without disabling/re-enabling the tuner
- Fixed- Record All Episodes jobs on any channel can result in duplicate recordings
- Fixed- Changing Live TV channel while recording restarts recordings
- Fixed- EPG shows all channels from every SnapStream.Net lineup, regardless of whether the lineup is associated with a tuner
- Fixed- Killing a tuner with a Live TV session on it results in incorrect behavior
- Fixed- Direct UNC playback doesn't play back directly from UNC path
- Fixed- Live TV hangs with multiple users on multiple-node clusters
- Fixed- Custom channels in SnapStream.Net lineups don’t work
- Fixed- Second of two 24x7 jobs with two tuners and padding doesn't behave in the expected way for the first upcoming recording
- Fixed- Guide updates don't stop when the network stops existing
- Fixed- “Next 10 recordings to be deleted” list includes locked recordings
- Fixed- Crash in DVD Burning screen
- Fixed- Deleting an active lineup breaks tuner settings
- Fixed- Link hangs while drawing large text boxes
- Fixed- Some SRT files have the wrong initial timestamp
- Fixed- Possible recordings tables are not removed when they should be
- Fixed- Upgrades delete guide data without initiating a new update
- Fixed- Upgrader times out when backup up database
- Fixed- Shutting down tuners that are recording results in errors
- Fixed- Error message when clicking Back button after a search with 0 results
- Fixed- Moving recordings to another folder results in error
- Fixed- Recording processes on Hauppauge HVR-2250 cards do not stop when the software is shut down
- Fixed- Error when starting a recording after startup
- Fixed- SnapStream.net lineup with empty station number causes guide download to fail
- Fixed- Client connecting or disconnecting during sweep for dead proxies results in a crash
- Fixed- Hitting Enter on Search page doesn’t execute search
- Fixed- Series-level “new” (unwatched) indicators are not correct
- Fixed- Client hangs after 3-5 consecutive clips
- Fixed- Client hangs when using IP address as server name with pre-populated username
- Fixed- Some search results return incorrect time
- Fixed- Predicted Archive Depth is incorrect
- Fixed- Time constraints change crashes Link
- Fixed- Search results greater than 1 hour duplicate the minutes and seconds on the cc result
- Fixed- Time Constraints are in UTC
Version 5.1 | Build 569 | January 5, 2011
Improvements
- Better recovery from power failures and system restarts
- Better handling of heavy disk I/O
- Improvements to Recording Stats calculation
- Improved handling of failed tasks
- Better logging of user changes to job properties and settings
- Better logging of expiration
- Default Minimum Free Space option in Expiration Manager is now 10GB
- Improvements to scheduler
- Faster enabling/disabling of multiple tuners
- Added batch tuner editing
- Browsing jobs and alerts creates entries in browser history
- Eliminated “return” option in web admin, use browser Back button instead
- Improved handling of large libraries (>=100,000 items)
- Clips of HD recordings now happen at packet boundaries
- Improvements to server software installer to support upgrades in the future
- Various user interface improvements
- Improvements to management of recording and index files
- Playback no longer requires a sound device
- Enterprise TV Link installer places an icon on the desktop
- Set the “show” property on H.264 files for Apple compatibility
Bug Fixes
- Fixed- Partially completed manual Once recording jobs show up in upcoming recordings after they are recorded
- Fixed- With more than one Live TV viewer, starting a recording breaks the Live TV sessions
- Fixed- Loading database backup causes timeouts when a large number of new files are present
- Fixed- Enterprise TV Link displays clipping tools when F is pressed in Live TV while a show is being recorded
- Fixed- Back Button in Series View of web admin Recorded Shows does not handle paging correctly
- Fixed- Add Folders says the path is invalid improperly
- Fixed- 24x7 recording jobs get into a state where they are marked canceled and constantly restarted
- Fixed- Tuner restarting does not work properly
- Fixed- Exception when accessing active recordings list with low user permissions [
- Fixed- Stopping the broker via the Setup Wizard results in a hung Setup Wizard
- Fixed- Exception when accessing ShowSqueeze status list with low user permissions
- Fixed- Enabling LDAP integration wipes password field entries in Security Settings
- Fixed- Web Admin occasionally hangs when enabling, disabling, or deleting tuners
- Fixed- Blocking a recording causes all upcoming recordings on that job to reset their recording id
- Fixed- Cannot access Email Notification Settings page from the clip options page in Enterprise TV Link
- Fixed- User input is not interpreted correctly when updating tuner priorities
- Fixed- Disabling several tuners at once causes undesired results
- Fixed- Recording jobs do not start up correctly when several tuners are enabled at once
- Fixed- Pending task list shows 12/31/9999 for InProgress or Pending Tasks
- Fixed- Daily manual job records twice
- Fixed- Media refreshed back into the library always says channel is 0
- Fixed- Stopping a recording in order to change the channel in Live TV ends the Live TV session
- Fixed- Stopping a recording in order to change the channel in Live TV stops an additional recording as well
- Fixed- Incorrect time suggestion when clipping from Live TV
- Fixed- User interface locks up while scrolling through upcoming recordings
- Fixed- Folder count in SDI interface does not include clips
- Fixed- Movies are listed in Series view as Unknown Series
- Fixed- Clipping in-progress QAM results in a clipped segment of video at a different time than that which was requested by the user
- Fixed- When a new folder is added, Same As Source folder settings are switched to the new folder
- Fixed- Clips created through a Live TV session started through the Program Guide are never submitted for processing
- Fixed- “Managed” property on video folders is not respected during expiration
- Fixed- Recordings fails in specific cases near expiration limits
- Enterprise TV Link logs in multiple times for a single session
- Fixed- HD recording error results in recording that won’t play
- Fixed- Transcode settings and Batch ShowSqueeze pages do not load
- Fixed- Playback graph stalls on initial playback of some ATSC recordings
- Fixed- Transcoding page will not save if Same As Source is selected as the target folder
- Fixed- Add/Edit TV Alert page crashes if Same As Source is selected as the default folder[
- Fixed- Changing machine name breaks Download Transcript feature in Link
- Fixed- The Time Index is not updated in a timely manner
- Fixed- Add/Edit TV Alert page does not allow selection of Same As Source as the default folder
- Fixed- High CPU usage from sqlserver.exe
- Library refreshes on a large UNC location stop with no error message
- Fixed- Multiple custom lineups causes an exception during differential guide update
- Fixed- Cannot stop a block recording in order to change channels
- Fixed- Completed Tasks do not expire
- Fixed- Enterprise TV Link crashes when searching the program guide
- Fixed- Recent recordings are not considered when rebuilding the schedule
- Fixed- Right padding is ignored even when a tuner is available
- Fixed- In Edit Tuner, priority starts at 0 instead of at 1
- Fixed- Copying show link from inside of playback does not include position information
- Fixed- Block 24/7 jobs don't stick to proper timeslots when they cross the Daylight Savings boundary
- Fixed- Other recordings failing near DST changes
- Fixed-Series Record Once doesn't record anything if the series id changes
- Fixed- Tuner disabling does not work
- Fixed- Exception when accessing the Add Tuner page
- Fixed- Parent pages do not refresh when things are added in child pages
- Fixed- Tasks page does not load
- Fixed- No clip is created when Same As Source is selected as clip destination
- Fixed- Clearing In-progress media items fails with large libraries
- Fixed- Marking a folder as “can't record to” does not remove it as a default recording folder
- Fixed- Single 24x7 job, or multiple same episodes in a row, with two tuners and padding doesn't behave in the user expected way
Version 5.0.3 | Build 339 | September 17, 2010
Improvements
- Added an option to the Local Settings Web Admin page to perform a remote service restart
- Added Serial Tuning support
- New file based logging infrastructure
- Improved Web Admin Log viewing layout
- Use the File Access Client pool throughout the base service infrastructure to reduce channel opening delays
Bug Fixes
- Fixed- Link should not connect to incompatible server versions
- Fixed- Make folder creation throw specific exceptions on failure
- Fixed- Extending a recording in progress via the theater did not work
- Fixed- When creating a recording folder, minimum free space for that folder in the expiration manager defaults to 0 MB
- Fixed- Naming of clips automatically created from TV alerts are not correct
- Fixed- Invalid update times received from SS.Net need to be ignored and use a locally generated time
- Fixed- Web Admin favicon needs transparency
- Fixed- Web Admin library multiselect... delete shouldn't select the row
- Fixed- Portions of the Web Admin are display items that are not available based on the current licensed feature set
- Fixed- Manual recordings continuously stop and restart when there is a blocked recording
- Fixed- Job inserted above priority of a job that's going doesn't make it stop the first one.
- Fixed- Web Admin BatchMove did not work
- Fixed- TV Alert automatic post processing tasks not showing up in the Web Admin
- Fixed- Watching Live tv and recording that episode blocks the episode until you exit live tv.
- Fixed- Select All Checkbox dies if a sidebar action doesn't rebind the grid
- Fixed- Search can still lock itself for a minute every now and then with large 30,000+ item libraries
- Fixed- Viewing transcripts in the Web Admin can encounter timeouts
- Fixed- Web Admin only show view/download transcript on search items that have srt data to show
- Fixed- Web Admin Add Tuner/Edit Tuner pages only displaying first 10 lineups
- Fixed- Web Admin Task queue doesn't uncheck the top checkbox after using it to clear the queue
- Fixed- SDI Playout: Missing front audio on some 5.1 files
- Fixed- Web Admin IE compatibility issue with styled buttons
- Fixed- Blocking any recording for a block 24/7 job will stop the current recording for that job
- Fixed- USB-UIRT Setup application displays zones incorrectly
- Fixed- Some EPG searches crashes BTVD3DShell
- Fixed- Web Admin Clicking on 'Type' or 'Priority' or 'Name' sort options on /Scheduler/Jobs.aspx causes exception
- Fixed- Web Admin Deleting two tuners in a row (back to back) errors on the second
- Fixed- Web Admin disabled buttons on default.aspx don't look like disabled buttons, rather unclickable regular text.
- Fixed- Web Admin deleting two folders at once, the second doesn't delete
- Fixed- Web Admin should not display a download link for a recording in progress
- Fixed- Web Admin should display a play link for a recording in progress
- Fixed- Web Admin display of next runtime for TV Alerts is incorrectly converted from UTC
- Fixed- The "more" option on a result in an email alert does not work
- Fixed- Web Admin email alerts setup in webui, username not populated for non-alert admin user
- Fixed- Web Admin cannot assign a USER to a different GROUP without also resetting password.
- Fixed- Web Admin should not display the delete option on librarymediaitem.aspx page for in progress shows
- Fixed- Web Admin cannot get to transcode settings due to invalid email clip size setting
- Fixed- Web Admin batch blocking episodes from upcoming recordings isn't blocking the second and following recordings correctly
- Fixed- Web Admin removing all items on the last page of recent recordings does not take you to the next to last page
- Fixed- Web Admin blocking all recordings from the last page of upcoming recordings does not refresh the page
- Fixed- Web Admin Minimum Free Space: expiration settings field doesn't show/hide when the setting is disabled
- Fixed- Web Admin file format editing doesn't change based on the dropdown you select
- Fixed- Web Admin Configuration/EditChannels.aspx should return to lineups list on save
- Fixed- Web Admin Configuration/LocalSettings.aspx needs to have information on machine name property
- Fixed- web Admin Configuration/RecordingSettings.aspx doesn't honor can record to setting
- Fixed- Web Admin Configuration/UserSettings.aspx "create ldap group" is superfluous
- Fixed- Web Admin create SS.Net lineup page does not always create the correct lineup
- Fixed- Searching within a show inside the theater returns no results
- Fixed- Forcing and then stopping another recording start/stops the stopped recording over and over
- Fixed- Incorrect icon used on the e-mail clip screen
- Fixed- Non-Post Process Admin can't get showsqueeze status in viewscape library
- Fixed- Inconsistent naming of the options for TV Alerts between the ViewScape and the Web Admin
- Fixed- ViewScape TV Alert creation gives time options for guide data (not cc) search
- Fixed- Starting a Live TV Session will sometimes restart a recording
- Fixed- Recording the currently viewed live tv show will block until the Live TV session ends
- Fixed- ViewScape upcoming recordings screen gives option to block upcoming recordings even without appropriate permissions even though the option does not work
- Fixed- Viewscape manual recording screen offers conflict options for a user that doesn't have edit permissions even though the option does not work
- Fixed- Throttling of automatic tuner resets is not working correctly
- Fixed- In viewScape with global padding enabled the resolve conflict options are presented when they should not be
- Fixed- Web Admin "same as source" isn't a folder option
- Fixed- Web Admin and ViewScape do not use the same setting for automatic guide updates
- Fixed- ShowSqueeze in Link does not obey Default Transcoding Folder setting
- Fixed- Expiration Manager is getting incorrect drive statistics for offline UNC paths
- Fixed- Deadlock during bulk enable/disable of tuners with active recordings going
- Fixed- ViewScape stopping a recording from the theater screen is timing out blocking the recording
- Fixed- Transitioning to live tv from recording does not push out all necessary events
- Fixed- Live TV can't transition from lineup to lineup with two sessions going
- Fixed- Web Admin ending client sessions from Client Management ends the wrong session
- Fixed- Turning the system on after a few minutes of downtime will cause a tuner reset
- Fixed- Web Admin return URLs are not preserving paging information
- Fixed- Edit Media Item should not call the tagger if it is not needed
- Fixed- Web Admin does not allow setting of global padding
Version 5.0 | Build 229 | August 1, 2010
New Features
- New TV recording engine
- New web services
- New admin interface
- Server clustering capability
- SDI playout through SnapStream SDI appliance
Note: All bug fixes above this line apply only to version 5 architecture. If you are running 4.x (meaning any version of 4), please disregard these fixes as they don't relate.
Version 4.9.3 | Build 6535 | July 25, 2010
New Features
- Ability to ShowSqueeze all clips
- Allow software rendering warnings to be disabled in Link
- Support for iPod Touch and iPhone with firmware version 3.x
- DirecTV RC32 remote added to USB-UIRT code library
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- New encoder and file tagger for H.264 ShowSqueeze
- Improved passthrough authentication for ISA proxy servers. Corrects failed guide data downloads and resolves "trial expired" messages in Link.
- Improvements to library detection during service startup
- Fixed- Link clients crash when downloading video
- Fixed- Hard-coded server list feature does not work
- Fixed- Port conflict with Placeshifting feature causes high CPU usage and continuous error messages
- Fixed- Special characters cause LDAP username field to break in Security Settings page
- Fixed- Hide option in Recorded Shows defaults to none when original is actually hidden
- Fixed- ShowSqueeze to H.264 fails for files larger than 4GB
- Fixed- E-mail clip feature autopopulates the same e-mail address for all users
- Fixed- Some manual recordings display projected record time incorrectly after Daylight Savings Time change
- Fixed- Users without Manage Conflicts permission can force recordings
- Fixed- E-mail clip feature times out after 100 seconds
- Fixed- Can’t burn long files to a data DVD
- Fixed- E-mail clip feature reports size of e-mailed clip incorrectly
- Fixed- Series view in Recorded Shows disrupts the scrollbar
- Fixed- Unicode file tags are not handled properly by H.264 ShowSqueeze
Version 4.9.2 | Build 6330 | June 8, 2009
New Features
- Ability to download complete transcripts using the Enterprise Link Client
- Ability to download search results to a .CSV (Comma Separated Values) file for export into 3rd party applications
- Specify a destination folder for clips
- Track and view you're TV Alert History
- Designate a tuner for viewing Live TV only
- Added Authentication Pass-Through to LDAP Integration to allow network users to log in to the SnapStream Server securely without having to provide credentials
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Fix to managment of pooled video folders
- During LiveTV or Recorded Show playback, a system's screen saver or auto-lock will end the playback session
- Fixed bug in web admin where large lists would cause timeouts before a page could save
- Fixed several scheduler issues regarding lineup configurations with show duplicates existing on analog/digital
- Fixed a bug that caused ShowSqueeze operations on 4+ hour HD recordings to fail and/or loop
- Improved QAM mapping resolution detection and fixed a bug that would show 1080i for all channels
- Fixed a bug where special characters in LDAP group names would cause them not to import
- Extremely large HD files would report incorrect duration
- Overhaul of the lineup configuration page of the Web UI (Channels.aspx)
- Updated h264 Decoder
- Improvements to the WebUI when using IE8
- Improved handling of recording meta-data when being transferred from an external source
Version 4.9.1 | Build 6165 | February 2, 2009
New Features
- Added support for Clear/Unencrypted QAM
- Added Placeshifting (web based playback of recordings)
- Added Closed Caption and Clipping support for ATSC and QAM
- StreamSnip on the fly for ATSC and QAM recordings
- Added option to tag recordings with the user who scheduled them
- Created a new MPEG-2 transport stream demultiplexer
- Added Novell support to LDAP Integration
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- H.264 iTunes conversions no longer have audio/video sync on iPod Touch and iPhone 2.X firmware
- Added daily backup to the search index
- Ability to do a Tech Support Upload through Web Admin
- Added "send ENTER / OK / SELECT before channel change" option to IR blaster tuning
- Improved library section in the Web Admin
- Improved SmartChapter accuracy
- Improved SSL support in the Web Admin
- Faster service startups
- Upgrade to Lucene 2.3.1
- Created option to change the default "Keep Until" status of clips
- Improved management of clipping during ShowSqueeze
- Added information to ClosedCaption Indexer Status
- Separated permissions sets for editing recorded shows and viewing/downloading CC transcripts
Version 4.8.2 | Build 5902 | September 5, 2008
New Features
- Library Folder permissions
- Brand new Recorded Shows page in the Web Admin
- Scrollable program guide added to the Web Admin (ala Couchville)
- User specific watched/new properties
- Add user accounting messages to Beyond TV log
- Automatic handling of programs that overlap by 5 minutes or less
- Automatic HD ShowSqueeze with independent settings
- E-mail clip
- Record every show on a single channel with guide data
- HTTP Authentication option for RSS feeds and downloads
- DVD Burner detection
- Archive all closed caption data option
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Scheduler overhaul, offering up to 80X performance increases over 4.8.1
- Record On Any channel updates to more intelligently schedule recordings and resolve conflicts
- Improved conflict resolution in general
- Web Admin look and feel improvements to nearly every page
- Updated to the latest H.264 and DivX encoders and decoders
- Saved Guide Searches has new fields such as IS:New and IS:Movie
- More accurate skipping in recorded VBR transport stream files
- New 640x480 iPod options in H.264 profiles
- Fixed ViewScape lockups while watching Live TV in Link
- Fixed SmartChapter markers show in inprogress recordings after viewing a smartchapter recording.
- Fixed volume goes to 0 if you play a corrupt file
- Fixed handling unicode text in the Web Admin
- Fixed IE proxy settings interfering with Link connectivity
- Fixed extending recordings creating multiple files
- Fixed Live TV prompting to change channel to make a recording when it didn't need to
- Fixed corrupt audio on WMV ShowSqueeze
- Fixed Saved Guide Searches ignoring certain words
Version 4.8.1 | Build 5118 | March 20, 2008
New Features
- Added "Saved Guide Searches"
- DirecTV Pay Per View Guide Data
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- BTV isn't installed properly on Vista64 or XP64
- Fixed playback of >2GB H.264 files
- Weekly timeslot recordings have a UTC vs. Local bug
- Setup Wizard not using USB-UIRT correctly
- Program Guide scrolling performance no longer terrible
- Active Directory LDAP fixes for large number of groups, universal groups, and recursive groups
- Eliminated web service performance degradation when LDAP integration is enabled
- Handle DST in the Guide better
- Major Web Admin improvements (New navigation menu, improved Opera/Safari compatibility)
Version 4.8 | Build 4904 | February 1, 2008
New Features
- Support for searching of non-English characters
- Added H.264 ShowSqueeze
- Lineup change detection
- User level access controls
- "Enter Servername" feature to link
- "Link Client Management" to the Web Admin
- Playback of closed captions while recordings are in progress
- Clipping of inprogress recordings
- Added TV Alerts
- Closed caption search of inprogress recordings
- Google One Box integration
- "Get Show Bookmark" option
- Frame by frame playback
- Recording stats displays in ViewScape and Web Admin
- Ability to filter and sort recordings in ViewScape Recorded Shows
- Direct UNC playback option to Link
- SSL support to Beyond TV Web Server
- ACompression support to Beyond TV Web Server
- Record a show at a particular timeslot only
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Control over ShowSqueeze and SmartSkip tasks in the ViewScape
- Closed caption search accuracy
- Closed caption search result presentation in ViewScape
- Closed caption search result presentation in the Web Admin
- ISearch highlighting performance and accuracy
- Closed caption search syntax
- Link client connection performance
Version 4.7 | Build 4218 | July 15, 2007
New Features
- Drive pooling allows for a single recording folder to span multiple physical drives
- "Search recorded shows" allows searching within recordings based on closed captioning data
- "Advanced search" allows advanced searching within recordings
- Clipping from within the interface
- URL to particular time in a recording on a SnapStream Server
- "Download" action now available for clips and recordings in the ViewScape
- Closed caption data displayed on playback of recorded shows
- WebAdmin for searching and adding jobs
- 24x7 manual recordings
- Burn to DVD within SnapStream Enterprise TV Link
- Link session management and resource allocation
- Support for multiple USB-UIRT devices
- Add view transcript and change old transcript to download transcript
Improvements & Bug fixes
- Application now runs as service
- Fixed Showsqueeze COPY function
- Killing SnapStream Server while recording now recovers the partial recording
- Fixed long-term live TV freeze bug in SnapStream Enterprise TV Link
- Increased state and settings stability in the event of an "ungraceful" shutdown
- Fixed bug of recording back-to-back episodes and only getting every other episode recorded