Release Notes 8.5
New Feature
- Support for recording from HLS streams
- Support for recording from MPEG-DASH streams
- Permission toggle for the ability to stop a recording
- Workflow filter for the user or user group that created a recording job
- Ability to train IR codes for directional buttons and Menu
- Toggle for turning off confirmation emails for shared clips
- Twitter Monetization for In-Stream Video Ads
- Support for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage as an export destination
- Support for Microsoft OneDrive as an export destination
- Support for Box as an export destination
- Workflow Action for Federated Transfer
- Toggle for turning off cleanup of closed captioning data
Improvements & Bug fixes
- New clipping engine for H.264
- New options for recording filename formats
- Display of manual recordings in the Program Guide
- Better handling of episodes that have been recorded already in the past
- Option to send a warning for a recording with no closed caption data before the recording has finished
- Send a warning when a node in a cluster goes offline
- Display software version for non-administrative users
- Improvements to integrated tuning
- Improved UI feedback when editing transcript
- Better handling of cancel requests for Export tasks
- Ability to view recording of a specific channel at a specific time
- Add “Force External Tuning on Recording Switch” option for cloud
- Fixed- Clip of a clip plays fine initially, then crashes Safari.
- Fixed- Final frames of clip have minor distortion in Safari & Firefox on Mac
- Fixed- Clipping a recording from thor encoder with autoremux clip turned on results in video of black screen
- Fixed- Pressing Enter to submit forms doesn’t work
- Fixed- LDAP-linked groups get deleted from a group when saving with bad LDAP password
- Fixed- Showsqueezing a 14-hour merged file hangs with EndpointNotFoundException
- Fixed- Recordings from SS encoders “are not broadcast safe in black levels”
- Fixed- Inaccurate clipping of recording from Osprey encoder in Cloud
- Fixed- Watching LiveTV with “Automatically convert H.264 recordings to .MP4” results in exceptions
- Fixed- Clipping files with odd encoding settings can lockup FFProbe
- Fixed- Linked servers dropdown has wrong text when you use the browser back button
- Fixed- Server (incorrectly) sending exception across wcf in some weird cases
- Fixed- With only TLS 1.2 enabled, the broker is not starting
- Fixed- Editing an analog tuner shows dropdowns for Color Settings adjustment fields
- Fixed- IE11 webplayer: while playing, quickly pressing the skip back/forward button twice in quick succession pauses the video
- Fixed- Using more accurate H.264 clipping results in clips that can’t be processed by GIF Brewery on OS X
- Fixed- Clip of clip resulted in bad file
- Fixed- Tuning encoder streams are constantly being reset after power outage (secondary outputs have unreachable destination)
- Fixed- When deleting a task, popup has non-functional button
- Fixed- Inaccurate clips made from recordings that come from audio re-encode node
- Fixed- Firefox somewhat rarely gets stuck at a loading spinner when seeking backwards in HLS.js
- Fixed- Can’t copy/paste from transcript in IE web player to Word 2007
- Fixed- Padding is not applied to the first recording in a Scheduled Guide job
- Fixed- Chrome HTML5 Player: Pressing skip to end causes the playback to start at the beginning
- Fixed- Deleting a playlist before a tasklist including an Add to Playlist step results in a failed task and breaks the details page
- Fixed- Keep Clip while Tweeting still deletes the clip
- Fixed- Clipping from RTMP created out of sync mp4
- Fixed- Two recordings from the same H.264 Multicast stream result in one that plays back and another that is detected as MPEG2 TS and refuses to playback
- Fixed- Using different creds for export path and resulting export shows the task completed, but the file didn’t actually export
- Fixed- Out of sync clip on cloud demo server
- Fixed- Remux to mp4 is causing files to lose AV sync
- Fixed- Playback controls in new Firefox can become transparent when moving the mouse at certain times in full screen
- Fixed- Workflow “switch to” action after a “move” action doesn’t give me the option to switch to the moved file
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