Web player plug-in for Mac and PC NEW!

• Play recorded SD or HD TV directly from your Web browser
• Search archived TV from your Mac or PC
• Use tabs or windows to conduct multiple searches
• Create TV clips from your Web browser
• Smart plug-in self deploys; no administrative installation required

Advanced ShowSqueeze rules NEW!

• New rules-based post-processing engine gives you fined-tuned control
• Drag and drop actions to set advanced transcoding tasks at the job level
• Specify a destination folder for your transcoded files
• Replace your global ShowSqueeze settings
• Reduce file sizes to triple the amount of available storage
• Optimize the format of your TV content for e-mail, iPads, iPhones and more!

DVD burning helper application NEW!

• Burn TV clips or an entire show to DVD
• Launch the application directly from the Web interface
• Allows burning HD files to a standard DVD (no prior transcoding required!)
• Based on the latest Sonic AuthorScript SD (version 7.8.8); requires separate IT installation

Build a SnapStream cluster

• Record and search more TV by adding SD/HD tuners
• Expand your archive with SnapStream Storage Nodes
• Save disk space by mass-ShowSqueezing recordings to WMV or H.264
• Transfer TV content into editing suites seamlessly with the HD-SDI Playout node

Faster guide updates + black out recordings NEW!

• Program guide updates are up to 80% faster
• Daily updates occur more frequently and consistently
• Lighter, faster and more efficient queries for high traffic
• Allows you to edit custom lineups from the Web interface instead of snapstream.net
• Intelligent updater removes duplicates when you have multiple TV sources
• Black out specific chunks of time from your 24/7 recording jobs

• Improved database backend: SQL Server Express instead of INI and XML files
• Record TV and execute tasks with greater fault tolerance
• Recordings and post-processing tasks are dispatched across nodes with more intelligent error handling
• Service architecture designed from the ground up to be more robust, e.g. you will receive a notification e-mail if any individual tuner goes offline and each tuner will automatically be reallocated to match your recording priorities
• Enhancements to back-end file streaming improves recording reliability in large clusters NEW!
• Improvements from 4.9.3 to 5.4.1:

• New web interface runs on Microsoft IIS Express and is simpler, more nimble, and more intuitive
• Logging interface is faster and fully equipped to handle clustered systems
• Improved logging enables you to easily search your logs to isolate user activity and resolve problems
• “Prediction-based" file distribution makes more efficient use of disk space by using the upcoming recording schedule to put files in the best possible place
• Oldest content expires first, casting across all hard drives (in a cluster)
• Folder security in the Web interface: grant specific user groups permission to view and access particular video folders in the library NEW!