Release Notes 9.0
New Feature
- Advanced clipping/tweeting/posting interface in the web player
- New fast and slow playback rates
- Ability to show timecode starting at 0 during playback instead of the clock time
- I / O keyboard shortcuts for setting clip start and end
- Cropping with varying aspect ratios during clipping
- Add Amazon S3 bucket as a video folder
- SAML 2.0 Authentication Integration (Okta, Ping, and others)
- Tuner-specific playback controls from the Tuner Settings page
- Ability to attach files when submitting a support ticket using the SnapStream UI
- One-click download of media file + timeindex & srt.
- Ability to export Schedule page
- Ability to switch Public playlists back to Private
- Ability to select a range in the Library with Shift + Click
- Filter by tuner in the Library
- Ability to limit clip duration globally
- Integrated tuning in IP/IP encode settings
- Ability to import Federated playlists
Improvements & Bug fixes
- Removed support for the browser plugin
- Added duration of shared content for email recipients
- Added logging when we attempt to authenticate an external account
- Ability to specify exact times for once jobs when creating them from the guide
- Improvements to Twitter monetization
- New options for global left/right padding
- “All Live” button on the multiviewer.
- Improvements to logging on SnapStream encoders
- Added user and group permissions to folder and Workflow exports
- IIS Express wrapper now replaces missing config files moved by Windows Update
- Added Help tab in the web player
- XDCam transcodes now set MXF timecode
- XDCam transcodes now preserve embedded captions
- Added an initial scheduling pass that puts recordings on the same channel on the same tuner
- Notifications for some set-top box error cases
- Fixed- Playback of in-progress transcodes occasionally lacks audio for some users
- Fixed- Non-reproducible hangs from in-progress transcodes
- Fixed- Record All New resulted in a show being recorded 4 times the same night
- Fixed- Trimmed files are being remuxed as if they were clips.
- Fixed- Playlist shows “Channel Not Found”
- Fixed- Multiviewer “play all” button starts in playing state even though videos start out paused in Safari
- Fixed- Workflow trigger for recording started does not behave properly for recordings that are NOT of format H.264 Transport Stream
- Fixed- Audio out of sync when exporting merged playlist to Avid
- Fixed- DVB-T H.264 channels are failing remux when a clip is made
- Fixed- HLS recordings failing
- Fixed- Failures on long H,264 transport stream clips without automatic remux
- Fixed- Error on FTP export: “MLSx fact value cannot be converted to integer value”
- Fixed- Task step progress updates don’t transition correctly
- Fixed- Clip failure with automatic remuxing enabled
- Fixed- DB Backup fails if the Temp directory doesn’t exist
- Fixed- Failed to finish creating MP4 remux output file within 20 minutes
- Fixed- Time operator for search not working properly in the web UI
- Fixed- UI performance issues along with ShowSqueeze task failures with a last message of, “H.264 is in an unknown state”.
- Fixed- Focused check boxes prevent F2 key press events from triggering
- Fixed- H.264 ShowSqueeze into the iPod formats fail with unspecified error
- Fixed- GIF preview always 16×9 Aspect Ratio
- Fixed- Library sidebar panels don’t close when screen is resized
- Fixed- Recordings do not start after software upgrade
- Fixed – Player window does not resize when existing fullscreen on Mac
- Fixed- Going into fullscreen doesn’t fill the screen with the video
- Fixed- Interaction between Live TV and recording resulted in System.NullReferenceException
- Fixed- Schedule > Stats results in Exception in WebUI
- Fixed- Bad audio in Multiviewer on startup
- Fixed- Small tasks from failed tasklists are shown as Pending
- Fixed- No warning when cluster lost communication with a node in the cluster until there was a resulting backlog of tasks.
- Fixed- Opening a library sidebar modal with a browser width between 500 and 900 leaves the bar open.
- Fixed- Clipping from MP4 source files that don’t currently reside on SnapStream local drives take an abnormally long period of time to complete
- Fixed- Sporting events not highlighted in green in the program guide
- Fixed- Recordings from osprey are having issues
- Fixed- Tweet won’t send although it is under 280 characters from the tweet modal
- Fixed- Adding a Box and Microsoft account with the same email value causes an exception
Need help? Have questions?
You can submit support a ticket or start a chat at https://support.snapstream.com/. We’re also available by phone at 877.696.3674 or +1.713.554.4560.