Current Release Notes

Version 21.2 | Build 17779 | May 27, 2021

Improvements

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• Decreased latency in some live playback situations

Bugs

• Fixed - Time coded tag creation functions inconsistently
• Fixed - Fast Forward / Rewind popups do not go away after playback resumes
• Fixed - proxy file names changed when moved to S3 folders.
• Fixed - Unable to watch transport streams on S3 folders.
• Fixed - Users without permissions can see Edit Transcript page.
• Fixed - Invalid timestamps being spammed in ffmpeg debug output

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Version 21.1 | Build 17600 | March 9, 2021

Improvements

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• Added the ability to Transcribe from the search results page
• Notify groups can now subscribe to Streams
• User settings page maintains position when deleting social accounts

Bugs

• Fixed - Safari: Play button did not work in certain scenarios
• Fixed - Firefox: The webplayer failed to load in certain scenarios
• Fixed - Live TV clipping failed in certain scenarios
• Fixed - Improved handling of m3u8 playlist queries
• Fixed - Unable to trim files
• Fixed - Maximum Clip Length setting did not work
• Fixed - Clip cropping did not work in certain scenarios

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Version 9.6 | Build 17017 | December 16, 2020

New Features

• Audio Stream Recording, Playback and Clipping

Improvements

• Improved Twitter Error Handling
• Reconnect Streaming Transcribe Dropouts

Bugs

• ‍‍Fixed - Improperly displaying "You have used 0 out of 0 available Live Transcription minutes."
• Fixed - 24x7 recordings made with 30 minute blocks are reacting poorly to daylight savings time.
• Fixed - Safari: "Prefer closed captions and SDH" toggle shouldn't be required to view captions in video.js
• Fixed - Switching file formats with watermark, clears the watermark field incorrectly
• Fixed - "Federation Playlists" appears in the library sidebar when Federation isn't enabled
• Fixed - Clip points aren't valid after changing channels
• Fixed - HLS EXT-X-MAP tag is being ignored
• Fixed - Not all links to Slack channels are captured in the permalinks on notification popups
• Fixed - Allow recording from stream URLs up to 2048 chars
• Fixed - Unable to transcode files on S3 on a cloud system
• Fixed - Social posts have wrong aspect ratio
• Fixed - Player is opening too big/wide and controls are pushed off the bottom of screen
• Fixed - Web Player Transcript stops highlighting and scrolling properly with neighbors loaded

Support

• ‍‍Fixed - Some clips would not playback on Safari 13.1.2
• Fixed - Prepared tweets were failing with a nullreference exception
• Fixed - AWS transcode failure on Cloud for non US region instances
• Fixed - AWS Transcode stripped the audio out of large clips
• Fixed - Improved error display when attempting to stream incompatible files to Periscope
• Fixed - Viewing In-Progress Recordings on Chrome for iPhone results in constant spinny circle

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Version 9.5 | Build 16136 | October 2, 2020

New Features

• New stream-lined Streams interface
• Clip to Slack
• Automatic RTMP recoding
• Automatic Live transcription
• Cloud transcoding
• Geo-locking Facebook Posts
• Geo-locking Tweets
• Schedule Facebook Posts Natively

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Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Periodically refresh playlist data
• PTS rollover support
• Fixed - encoder Stream preview - Hide thumbnail and just show output bitrate
• Branding dropdown only showing up when watermark dropdown is also visible
• Keep clip for Twitter and YouTube keeps the edited clip instead of the original
• Client wants timecode to happen more frequently in transcripts
• Add support for Dropbox Pro/Business Team folders
• Add newer Facebook posting options
• Make task canceling simpler
• Make improvements to Submit Ticket page
• Display a warning when a connected node is running a different version
• Unable to determine series name in the library series view for long series names
• Allow workflow to filter by Tag
• A Cancel button could be added for editing video details page
• Provide ability to download caption files in VTT format
• Improve search to be aware of channel suffixes differences
• Add new file name and date formats to Filename Settings
• We should make it more obvious in the webui when the broker isn't running.
• RTMP play events should not hit the recorder
• Fixed - With DropBoxfolder added error is thrown when viewing recording 'UseRootNamespace' does not belong to table
• Fixed - Use SnapStream Frame Rate Converter setting doesn't display/store correct values when adding a new stream
• Fixed - Use SnapStream Frame Rate Converter setting doesn't trigger the "restart is required" message
• Fixed - "Master Hostname is not defined" tooltip appears when hovering over Frame Rate Converter option
• Fixed - Long tagsinput tags cut off the X in instances where the input as a fixed width.
• Fixed - Queued items are missing a background color
• Fixed - iPad Mini - Tour button is enabled in Help
• Fixed - Twitter, Facebook, and Periscope update frequency not correct
• Fixed - The shortcut for "Loop Clip" is broken in the web player
• Fixed - Task Status Counter shows tasks pending but no active tasks are currently in queue
• Fixed - Transcript loading spinner keeps going with no CC data
• Fixed - Failing encoder ContentStreamServiceObject.StartStreaming log messages are Information level but should be Warning
• Fixed - Opening the twitter handle auto complete and switching to facebook breaks stuff
• Fixed - User can bypass twitter gif limits when playing a clip
• Fixed - Clipping shows ALL + Audio Tracks as an option until you choose Transform, then it only allows Audio Tracks, All Disappears
• Fixed - Clip is missing audio/video at end of file, not matching clip point.
• Fixed - Twitter randomly fails when trying to tweet
• Fixed - Export Folder for google drive gives error if you try to leave it as Root folder
• Fixed - Clip with More Accurate Index OFF or ON, the clip is shifted ~2 seconds later than the clip points
• Fixed - Twitter auto complete misplaced when changing web browser window size
• Fixed - The multi & input player help panes feature icons for clip endpoint nudge buttons that don't exist
• Fixed - Edit Media "Save" will change recording time
• Fixed - Edit Media empty "Series" will not give user a warning message
• Fixed - Creating a new user - long email address pushes the edit user button off screen
• Fixed - No auto suggested list after entering "Input:" in search
• Fixed - Last chosen clip folder is not persistent and always defaults to first alphabetically listed folder
• Fixed - A folder for Animated Gif is set up, but it's not possible to clip/transform to a gif to that folder
• Fixed - Unable to Add Export folder with OneDrive account unless you have the Post Videos to YouTube permission
• Fixed - Cannot create bookmark within clips
• Fixed - PeriscopePostUpdater doesn't update streams in db
• Fixed - Watermarks applied to pre and post roll incorrectly
• Fixed - Big play button not showing up upon failed autoplay in Safari
• Fixed - Clipping - You can create an animated gif that's larger than the size limit
• Fixed - Clipping to animated gif in Clip folder, 0 byte files are left after finished
• Fixed - Twitter @ autocomplete does not work when facebook has an @ already
• Fixed - Interface doesn't prevent you from tweeting when over the character or length limit
• Fixed - Editing media item and changing series name, the name is not reflected on the item in the library
• Fixed - Problem with switching social tabs when a gif is tool large, the video button is also disabled
• Fixed - LiveTV in the Multiviewer sort of crumbles after slice expiration
• Fixed - LiveTV in the single player also sort of crumbles after slice expiration
• Fixed - We're following too closely when playing on the live edge in LiveTV/In-progress recordings
• Fixed - Multi-player help pane advertises button icons for buttons that don't exist
• Fixed - Make the clip adjuster paddles respond to holding the mouse down
• Fixed - Global email overrides can cause support tickets submitted via UI to come from wrong email

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Version 9.4 | Build 14198 | February 20, 2020

New Features

• New and improved clipping interface
• New Branding options for clips
• Export to Kaltura video platform
  

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Live button to jump to the current time
• Seek closer to the live edge for in-progress recordings
• Automatically set the opposing clip point
• User setting to auto minimize task notifications
• Option to play at the start, last watched or Live position of In-Progress Recordings
• Option to switch FPS filters for QAM Encoders
• Option to make Clip thumbnail generation asynchronous
• Support for DropBox Pro/Business Team folders
• Allow smaller clip sizes
• Add SnapStream STB to SnapStream Pro
• Fixed - Don't require "Administer Server Settings" to enable "Allow Playing to Set-Top Box"
• Fixed - Exporting to OneDrive for business doesn't seem to work but export task shows successful
• Fixed - Local DVB-T lineup configured with channels using 8 Mhz bandwidth changes to 7 on click
• Fixed - Editing a DVB-T lineup and clicking any of the configured channels, changes the bandwidth to 7 Mhz
• Fixed - Adding an emoji after composing a tweet causes linebreaks to be removed
• Fixed - Thumbnail generation was causing clips to take longer than necessary
• Fixed - Input fails after a couple of keypresses when viewing in-progress recordings on mobile
• Fixed - HLS playback of some random segment sizes causes a recording to be unplayable
• Fixed - Users with the social admin permissions can change a queued post/tweets target account to a user account
• Fixed - Pasting into the social dialogs is scrolling to the bottom of the page
• Fixed - a clip hang
• Fixed - Right Single Quotation Mark Causing JW Export to Fail
• Fixed - Remux step of clip failing when the end is near the end of the file
• Fixed - Recording slice change not happening on video sync point
• Fixed - Scrolling transcript during playback stops part way through very long recording
• Fixed - Tweeting with an exclude tag disables monetization and doesn't add the exclude tag to your video
• Fixed - Restart process hung after communication timeout
• Fixed - Social media update polling is too frequent
• Fixed - Clip and Transform to H.264 MP4 results in embedded captions being lost in the resulting MP4
• Fixed - Watching Live TV from a non-multicast stream opens up VLC instead of playing back in the webplayer
• Fixed - LiveTV from STB: Video freezes when recording finishes on same channel
• Fixed - Jittery video 2 minutes into clip when playing back in Chrome. Audio goes out of sync when dropped into Premiere
• Fixed - Twitter randomly fails when trying to tweet
• Fixed - Last chosen clip folder is not persistent and always defaults to first alphabetically listed folder
• Fixed - Unable to Add Export folder with OneDrive account unless you have the Post Videos to YouTube permission
• Fixed - Exporting to OneDrive works when the account is a OneDrive Personal account, but not when it is a OneDrive Business account
• Fixed - We should capitalize Kamala (as in Harris)
• Fixed - Win10 1903 update resulted in garbled CCs
• Fixed - Timeouts while playing recordings over VPN
• Fixed - Moving task failing at the Replacing Original File step
• Fixed - Clip has a stutter and then is out of sync after that
• Fixed - Apparent 5 GB file size limit on S3 moves
• Fixed - Clip and Add to Playlist fails with SetDestinationFile unable to communicate with Library
• Fixed - AWS refresh on SnapStream is limited to 1000 despite AWS buckets having no object limits
• Fixed - Some recordings become unavailable in the Library after they are moved to another video folder successfully
• Fixed - Two transcode nodes stop getting issued new tasks, because others are stuck
• Fixed - Unable to export to specific DropBox path

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Version 9.3 | Build 13071 | August 21, 2019

New Features

• Clipping across recording boundaries
• Gapless recording

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• XDCam transcodes preserve caption data
• Ability to transcode to H.264 from source files with no audio
• Task notifications can now be minimized
• “Recorded by Tuner” workflow filter
• Fullscreen mode hides mouse pointer
• Workflow filters are now hidden when “Only When Run Manually” trigger is selected 
• Support for 3x playback speed with audio
• Added Facebook Live and Youtube Live in Expand Details section of clips
• Jump To Time dialog box can now be dismissed with the ESC key
• Automatically add a space after hashtags(#) and mentions (@) when composing a Tweet
• Remote Tune Only mode for IPTV Reflector instances
• Ability to clear a single clip marker
• Links to social posts launch in new tabs by default
• User setting to enable the video player zoom bar by default
• Group permission to enable/disable Transcribe feature
• Improved seeking during playback
• Improvements to Facebook Live posting
• Improvements to Import Users feature
• Target Folder in Exports now defaults to the previously selected destination
• Various display and interface improvements
• Fixed - ShowSqueeze nodes do not purge temporary files
• Fixed - Multiview Play All/Pause All button is not updated with playback state
• Fixed - Indicators are hard to select on mobile devices
• Fixed - Trimming a file and refreshing the page results in the wrong end time
• Fixed - With security disabled, analytics refers to the single user with a GUID
• Fixed - Sony CI accounts have incorrect “account type” field
• Fixed - Modifying the zoom time in Zoom Track Bar subtracts 1 second
• Fixed - Log filter has no error handling
• Fixed- When editing a queued Tweet, bad reply-to link shows no error message
• Fixed- Ranged tag is not added in the right place when playback marker is outside boundaries
• Fixed- No validation error in Tweet creation for blank Post At time
• Fixed- Facebook Live stream stats show 0s after the stream stops
• Fixed- Facebook Live shares don’t update live
• Fixed- Tags added via Workflow don’t autopopulate in the Search bar
• Fixed- Character limit on Source URL field in IPTV lineup settings
• Fixed- Unable to stream Live to Facebook or YouTube from Multiviewer
• Fixed- Clicking a time-coded tag doesn’t jump to that time in playback
• Fixed- Cannot unmute when switching active windows in Multiviewer
• Fixed- From Periscope or YouTube Live posted list, reposting to Facebook doesn’t work
• Fixed- Endless “Uploading” screen when action doesn’t match import file
• Fixed- Export workflow fails to export metadata.xml
• Fixed- Folder refresh times out
• Fixed- “Copy a link to this item” fails in Firefox and Chrome
• Fixed- Thumbnail generation and HLS monitoring stop when the master node connection is lost
• Fixed- Multiviewer windows overlap in some resolutions in Chrome
• Fixed- Failure importing users file
• Fixed- Export to JW reports failure, but file is exported
• Fixed- Bookmark buttons are still active when editing a bookmark
• Fixed- Transcribe feature fails to index transcribed file
• Fixed- Task memory limit exceeds 950MB
• Fixed- Fast Forward/ Rewind playback buffers and stalls
• Fixed- Adelaide (AU) time zone isn’t handled correctly
• Fixed- Exported XML replaces RecordingId with EpisodeId
• Fixed- Zoom window loses its place when web player is resized
• Fixed- Clip markers do not show up when selecting a bookmark for the first time
• Fixed- Frame.io export fails to upload index files

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Version 9.2 | Build 12232 | March 8, 2019

New Features

• Proxy file generation and playback
• Transcript generation for recordings without closed captions
• Display closed captions natively in playback window using HTML5
• Closed caption display in the multiviewer
• Support for Azure AD SAML 2.0
• Workflow filter for recording length
• Export to the JW video platform
• Allow an admin to trigger a password reset for a cloud user
• Ability to assign users to a group in a batch
• Automatic database backups
• Include Title and Description when posting to Twitter
• Export filtered log results
• Export analytics to CSV

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Thumbnail images in Library
• Exclude disabled tuners from license limits
• My Clips membership is retained for clips remuxed through a workflow
• Better logging for recordings missing caption data
• Ability to crop when clipping from multiviewer and elsewhere
• Ability to cross-post when live streaming
• Ability to preview streams in encoder interface
• Ability to turn off new features pop-up administratively
• Upload SRTs to Sony Ci as asset elements instead of assets
• Improved handling of start/stop tags in HLS
• Display and interface improvements
• Fixed- Can’t transcode to H.264 transport stream or XDCAM with an S3 folder as the target
• Fixed- Closed caption time code snippets in Web Player and View Transcript page don't match
• Fixed- In Android fullscreen, tapping the video doesn’t pause
• Fixed- Date/time ranges don’t apply to analytics graph correctly
• Fixed- Zoomable trackbar loses focus after resize
• Fixed- In mobile interface, social options are displayed when they shouldn’t be
• Fixed- Seeking in H.264 transport streams causes playback hang
• Fixed- Without CreateClip permission, switching between Image and Video in social tab breaks duration string
• Fixed- When Create Clips is not granted, Clips of "tweetable" length in the web player twitter tab can only be queued, not Tweeted directly
• Fixed- Changes to media item tags are not reflected in the clip tab
• Fixed- When canceling unsaved dialog modal for playlist sort change, the order does not revert to existing right away
• Fixed- IE11 crashes when playing back items with a large number of tags
• Fixed- With the player paused, moving the zoom window does not move the filled portion of the zoom bar
• Fixed- UIRT settings on an encoder stream don’t take effect until the stream is disabed and re-enabled
• Fixed- On-the-fly transcodes are not immediately searchable
• Fixed- Clipping from Live TV ignores clip filename settings
• Fixed- Moving a media item causes the collaboration tab to lose all clips and bookmarks
• Fixed- Merging two clips with CC data results in a file with no CC data
• Fixed- Can’t play back MP4 files in S3 folders in the multiviewer
• Fixed- Download with Auxiliary Files doesn’t work for files in S3 folders
• Fixed- Refreshing an S3 folder doesn’t pick up deleted files
• Fixed- Can’t submit a clip in the Clip tab without using the mouse
• Fixed- Returning from fullscreen is broken in Chrome 71.0.3578.80
• Fixed- Using skip buttons during 2x playback returns playback speed to 1x
• Fixed- Clip title is not focused when using keyboard shortcuts
• Fixed- Grid view for Recording Schedule with large numbers of inputs takes too long to load
• Fixed- Library shows negative durations after unexpected shutdown
• Fixed- Ooyala export has hardwired options that aren’t reflected in Export options
• Fixed- Advanced search tool doesn’t handle multiple channel selections correctly
• Fixed- Clip + email is not available in the Clip tab when SnapStream Sharing is disabled
• Fixed- Creating a secondary output on an encoder fails if the protocol is set to RTMP
• Fixed- Clip title immediately resets to default upon task submission

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Version 9.1 | Build 10414 | November 6, 2018

New Features

• Live TV in Multiviewer
• Collaborative clipping tab in web player
• Export to Facebook Live
• Export to YouTube Live
• Export to Periscope
• Export to Sony Media Ci
• Export to frame.io
• "Read only" access option for video folders
• New usage reporting per user
• Ability to reassign keyboard shortcuts
• New virtual remote for DirecTV web tuning
• RTMP output option for SnapStream encoder
• Workflow filter for local channels
• Ability to view Guide by tuner
  

Improvements and Bug fixes

• Ability to crop video when Sharing clips
• Better mobile experience in web player
• “Refresh” button in Social tab
• Ability to configure SAML from XML
• Autocomplete for tags
• Ability to run software install without starting software services
• Improvements to playback and clipping
• Other display and interface improvements
• Fixed- Incorrect warning for garbled CC data
• Fixed- Incorrect cropped output resolution for clips/gifs
• Fixed- Clip and Share from Live TV does not autopopulate subject
• Fixed- Special character not handled correctly in CC data
• Fixed- Clip + Transform gives timestamp and crop options when audio-only transcode is selected
• Fixed- Timestamp and watermark positions don't reset when moving from Clip + Transform to Clip + Share
• Fixed- Encoder low bitrate messages don't handle stream resets correctly
• Fixed- Sorting doesn’t work when viewing API users
• Fixed- SnapStream Broker restarting in a loop with exception “System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file '_1bv.fdt' because it is being used by another process”
• Fixed- Integrated tuning on IP-IP encoders failed validation
• Fixed- Clips don’t inherit tags from parent items
• Fixed- Clipping from specific file never completes
• Fixed- API users are sometimes created with truncated or blank passwords
• Fixed- Live TV session fails after 1 minute
• Fixed- “Ghost recordings” on tuner restart
• Fixed- Merge Playlist with Add to Segment Fails At Clip step
• Fixed- Restarting the SnapStream broker service does not expire sessions
• Fixed- Account menu expands improperly at mobile resolution
• Fixed- Watch Recording - Latest version of Firefox 61.0.2 (64-bit) is moving focus in the Resize Zoom Window
• Fixed- Can’t add multiple buckets in the same S3 path
• Fixed- Clip and share in Clip tab is missing the Keep Clip option
• Fixed- Setting a clip start (and no end) and then opening the clipping tab results in error dialog
• Fixed- Clip & Export to S3 location results in unplayable clip
• Fixed- Mute shortcut goes from Mute to full volume
• Fixed- Multiview Play All/Pause All button doesn’t update based on the playback state

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Version 9.0 | Build 9943 | July 18, 2018

New Features

• ‍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 and 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 16x9 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

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Version 8.5 | Build 9496 | February 23, 2018

New Features

• ‍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 and 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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Version 8.4 | Build 9164 | December 1, 2017

New Features

• ‍Ability to Export directly to another SnapStream instance
• Ability to control SnapStream Set-Top Boxes from the web interface
• Ability to flip SnapStream encoder secondary IP stream on and off without blanking out settings
• Browser extension for launching VLC
• Ability to enter Description info when creating a manual recording
• Ability to search multiple snapstream servers in one interface
• Ability to clone a user group
• Conversion of H.264 transport streams to MP4 on demand and in Workflows
• Remote search and clipping with SnapStream Federation
• Support for multiple watermarks
• Support for 10 minute Twitter video uploads
• Support for 280 characters tweets

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• ‍Added tuner information to warnings for missing CC data
• Ability to specify credentials for UNC export paths
• Added 3-day expiration option for cloud shares
• Added 30-minute option for manual 24/7 recordings
• Better handling of special characters and spaces in search
• Better handling of default search filter
• Improvements to log filter interface
• Improved logging for integrated tuning
• Added links to CSV export of cloud shares
• Audio gain control for SnapStream component encoder
• ISO 8601 compliance for exported metadata XML
• Display and interface improvements
• Fixed- Integrated tuning failures
• Fixed- Entering some paths with double backslashes at the end freezes Export Folder creation page
• Fixed- Success notification for disabling tuners does not fade
• Fixed- Right-clicking the timeline/zoomable timebar and selecting "Add Tag Here" returns "The Tag end point is not defined."
• Fixed- Playback from More Details on search results page starts from the beginning of the recording
• Fixed- Taking an action from More Details on search results page jumps to the top of the page
• Fixed- Can't edit program number when switching transport type to RTMP in guide settings
• Fixed- Exports to Amazon S3 in Ohio region fail
• Fixed- Possible to add unplayable media to Multiview through search results
• Fixed- Search results for in-progress recordings are not sorted correctly
• Fixed- YouTube upload from search results details fails
• Fixed- Invalid paths are not handled well when saving Export location
• Fixed- Bogus log messages about automatic guide updates when automatic updates are disabled
• Fixed- Possible for power save prevention blasts to conflict with channel changes
• Fixed- Error during software installation on capture node
• Fixed- Case sensitivity in search filters
• Fixed- Attempting to create Export folder caused software restart
• Fixed- Library fails to load after Clip Destination role is removed from a folder
• Fixed- Remux to MP4 workflow overwrites previously remuxed clip
• Fixed- Incorrect time display in Live TV
• Fixed- RTMP endpoints aren’t sorted
• Fixed- Arrow keys stop working after switching away from the Web Player using ALT+TAB
• Fixed- Frameskip back then forward doesn't change the timecode in the zoomable trackbar in Firefox
• Fixed- Editing default folders results in "invalid" messages after 6.6 to 8.3 update
• Fixed- Seeking with the mouse twice in short succession causes video to be paused even if it was playing
• Fixed- File hangs during seek in Chrome on PC
• Fixed- Export failures due to permissions issue
• Fixed- Merging a playlist that includes a segment results in the entire source file being merged
• Fixed- After seeking in Edge/IE11, the video is paused, but transcript continues to roll
• Fixed- Country selector in tuner settings is incorrect
• Fixed- Automatic quote balancing in search query cleanup isn't working

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Version 8.3 | Build 8832 | August 31, 2017

New Features

• ‍Ability to print timecode on video
• Ability to export video thumbnail along with video
• Added TV Parental Guidelines to Program Guide and Library
• Vimeo integration
• Ability to edit the Description field when creating and exporting a clip
• Brightcove integration
• Ability to rename the local administrator account
• Support for VTT captions when importing
• Ability to send periodic Wake commands via IR

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• ‍Local administrator desktop session no longer necessary for QSV encoding
• Search performance upgrade
• Tooltip for source lineup of guide channels
• Ability to import/export SnapStream encoder configuration via XML
• Better display of invalid recording jobs
• Better handling of deep links on cloud servers
• Permissions for Export folders
• Better reporting of task errors in the log
• Better handling of aspect ratio changes in the SnapStream tuning encoder
• Ability to blast complete channel numbers from the tuner edit page
• Better handling of tags when using zoomable time bar
• Ability to sort cloud users by email domain
• Improvements to watermarking usability
• Improvements to interface selection for IPTV tuning
• Ability to watermark screenshots and social media image posts
• Ability to toggle proxied HTML5 playback on and off
• Installer automatically adds firewall rules for IPTV
• Clearer naming for IPTV tuners
• Changed default transport stream extension to .ts
• Automatic detection of runaway debugging
• Improvements to autoclipped multishares
• Display improvements
• Fixed- Cursor movement and Delete button behavior aren't quite right when mentioning Facebook pages in Firefox
• Fixed- In Safari, after backspacing to delete a Facebook tag and then typing in non-tagging characters, the orientation of the body is now centered
• Fixed- Move operation can have the same source and target folder
• Fixed- Titling for recordings from block jobs doesn’t handle excluded blocks correctly
• Fixed- Deleted folders show up in default drop-downs
• Fixed- Crashes in UsbUirtSetup.exe
• Fixed- False successes when refreshing LDAP groups
• Fixed- Unexpected error when trying to create a new group with a bad LDAP password
• Fixed- Possible to delete in-progress media items from the Info and More Info pages
• Fixed- Escape doesn't dismiss all modals
• Fixed- IE11 HTML5 player stuck on loading animation for MOV files
• Fixed- Format Profiles on a SnapStream encoder shows no profiles
• Fixed- Problem making a 3 hour long clip with More Accurate H.264 Transport Stream Clipping turned on.
• Fixed- Making clips at the end of mp4 files takes longer or times out
• Fixed- Preview image shrinks every time window is opened and closed
• Fixed- Already-assigned integrated tuners show up in the drop-down
• Fixed- Blast UIRT Commands by Digits is blasting wake command when wake is toggled ON
• Fixed- Rebooting a server can sometimes cause network interfaces to vanish
• Fixed- Selecting only "Keep Clip" on the Clip and Export dropdown shows "Remove Metadata" instead of "Keep Clip"
• Fixed- Showsqueezing a long merged file hangs with EndpointNotFoundException
• Fixed- No warnings on failed IR blast due to undetected UIRT
• Fixed- Stuttering playback of H.264 transport streams
• Fixed- "Clip and add to playlist" doesn’t “stick”

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Version 8.2 | Build 8528 | May 26, 2017

New Features

• Ability to tune channels dynamically in SnapStream Cloud
• Export to DropBox
• Export to Google Drive
• Export to FTPS
• Export to Ooyala
• New Workflow trigger for "hours after recording is finished"
• Zoomable Trackbar
• Watermarking for Social clips
• Generic LDAP integration
• New Social Media statistics
• New options for filename structure for full-length recordings
• Support for CBR H.264 encoding
• New “Weekdays” frequency option for Alerts
• Ability to link multiple LDAP groups to a single SnapStream group
• Export option added to “Clip And. . .” menu
• Ability to print Upcoming list to text
• Ability to print stats from System Status page
• Ability to upload a custom logo
• Default option for Copy Auxiliary Files option in Export

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Ability to download index.dat and timeindex.dat files from the WebUI
• Better quality for Twitter and Facebook uploads
• Playback pauses after jumping to a specific time
• Improved H.264 Transport Stream clipping accuracy
• Improvements to “add segment to playlist” option
• Improvements to folder refresh and reindex feedback
• Improvements to Live TV
• Various interface improvements
• User list sort option for "Last Login"
• New statistics section for session history
• Improvements to set-top box management
• Automatic redirect from Home to the Guide page when no other options are permitted
• Automatic handling of aspect ratio changes on the SnapStream tuning encoder
• Mac web player handles AC3 audio correctly by default
• Optional exit command for DirecTV web tuning
• Fixed- Removing a user doesn’t remove their social media accounts
• Fixed- Upload to FTP through proxy server fails with error “The requested FTP command is not supported when using HTTP proxy”
• Fixed- Facebook insights modal stays when the browser window is small
• Fixed- Recording menu doesn't update when clicking do not record this episode at this time
• Fixed- Facebook and Twitter button styles don't match other buttons at mobile resolutions
• Fixed- Can't see the "Log out" option on phones where the page has no scroll bar
• Fixed- Can’t clip from imported mp4 files
• Fixed- Twitter clip time validation always shows until you hit the "x"
• Fixed- Missing list from session on multiplayer throws nasty exception
• Fixed- Email address validation for required fields isn’t working properly
• Fixed- When an untagged file with time-coded tags is trimmed, time values switch from durations to timestamps
• Fixed- Schedule -> Upcoming doesn't reflect changes until manually refreshed.
• Fixed- YouTube queue details do not refresh unless title is edited
• Fixed- Removing a protected twitter account from external accounts results in repeated spam in debugview
• Fixed- External account errors repeat when going "back" to them from other pages
• Fixed- On Social Media Dashboard, hover text doesn’t show username for posted YouTube items
• Fixed- Clipping fails with popup error for specific user when using Clip+ Add to Playlist
• Fixed- Security Config form won't let you save after a mistyped password
• Fixed- Cloud: Last login for all recently-added users is reported as "N/A"
• Fixed- Deleting the blank row in a custom lineup stops you from adding new channels
• Fixed- TCP (Connect) doesn't accept DNS name
• Fixed- Volume controls aren’t hidden for iOS clients
• Fixed- Hitting the maximize button in the multiviewer from a small size doesn't scale the players
• Fixed- Resizing the browser while a video reaches the end of its timeline plays the last bit of audio as you are resizing the window
• Fixed- Corrupted QAM recordings after upgrade from 7.1.0 to 8.1.0
• Fixed- Guide -> Right-click menu doesn't vanish after choosing "Watch LiveTV" to download multicast VLC file
• Fixed- Playing MP4 and an MPEG-2 files in the multiviewer results in endless loading loop and type error
• Fixed- Multiviewer sidebar doesn't autohide in chrome in portrait mode with a small enough browser height

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Version 8.1 | Build 8125 | January 26, 2017

New Features

• Support for the new SnapStream set-top box
• YouTube shortcut in the Web Player
• Management of YouTube uploads on the Social page
• Ability to export a list of users and groups
• Ability to send shared clips with SMTP
• Added IR code for Amino A140 IPTV Cable Box/li>
• Added IR code for Time Warner Samsung SMT-H3362
• Reintroduction of Live TV

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Frame accurate clipping for MOV files
• Help Popup in the Web Player
• Improvements to database optimization
• Ability to send Exit command via DirecTV web tuning
• Ability to save clip when posting video or GIF to Twitter or Facebook
• Better playback experience on mobile interface
• API availability in SnapStream Cloud
• Better notification for search license limit
• Better estimation for CC search index backup
• Global option for From account for cloud shares
• Display and interface improvements
• Fixed- Colons break search functionality
• Fixed- Clip out of sync in merged playlist
• Fixed- Corrupt video in merged playlist Merging clips resulted in a video with corruption
• Fixed- Cannot access restricted Workflow or social accounts when security is off
• Fixed - Playback not working on macs for a recording in progress via cloud
• Fixed - Switching from H.264 to MPEG-2 in a playlist puts Chrome in a weird state
• Fixed - Multiviewer Sync to Time Of Day pauses the focused video
• Fixed- Transcoded files out of sync
• Fixed - Live TV session started off on the correct channel, but then the channel changed in the Live TV session at the turn of the hour while the user was watching
• Fixed - "Please Wait" dialog appears for 30 seconds when stopping a recording on a lineup that the user doesn't have access to
• Fixed - The requested FTP command is not supported when using HTTP proxy
• Fixed - Administrators can't view social media posts from accounts they can't use
• Fixed - QSV-encoded H.264 Main profile clips have incorrect endpoints
• Fixed - Recorded H.264 transport stream content starts out paused in Chrome in the multiviewer
• Fixed - Cancelling a db backup operation results in repeated JSON errors.
• Fixed - Skip to Start doesn't work for in-progress H.264 transport stream content in Chrome or Firefox
• Fixed - Can't Edit a Queued Facebook Post
• Fixed - Workflow Creation Fails When Non-Guide Channel Selected
• Fixed- Watch Recording from the Guide takes you to the "Welcome to SnapStream" page
• Fixed - Changing the name of a tuner does not reflect that change in the SnapStream log until broker is restarted
• Fixed - Transcoding clips to XDCam fails if they have been remuxed to .mp4
• Fixed - Merging a playlist doesn’t trigger the Clip Created workflow
• Fixed - Hitting F2 on workflow page results in an exception
• Fixed - Unplayable videos still have a blue link in Chrome for Mac
• Fixed - Clicking the title on unplayable files doesn't check the checkbox like any other part of the view
• Fixed - Text box is blank when editing a workflow that has a missing series
• Fixed - Invalid series on workflow popup says Invalid Job
• Fixed - Auto-remuxing of clips to mp4 doesn't actually happen when sharing the clip during clip creation
• Fixed - Tuner killed due to "Library.Scheduler_RecordingInProgress - unexpected exception: System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary...."
• Fixed - Generate transcript tasks created temp files in the wrong location
• Fixed - Changing channels with IE + plugin + H.264 transport stream loads video, but shows "loading" text" for title and description

Version 8.0 | Build 7839 | November 1, 2016

New Features

• Native HTML5 playback of H.264 transport stream video in most browsers
• Ability to convert H.264 transport streams to mp4 without re-encode
• Support for some custom EPG information
• Security for channel lineups
• Ability to sort playlists by most recently updated
• Ability to reset lost password
• Library stores most recent sort setting
• Ability to download multiple items from the Library at once
• Support for composite and S-Video input on the SnapStream encoder
• Frame-accurate clipping for H.264 MP4 video
• More accurate clipping for H.264 transport streams
• Configurable email address for support requests

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Context-sensitive Help links in the web interface
• Users in the Administrators group have the option to add a personal or global Twitter account when clicking the Tweet button
• In-progress recordings extend in response to changes in job settings
• Guide settings page automatically refreshes after guide update
• Improvements to fullscreen playback
• Remote profile for Shaw Cablesystems DCT700US
• Log entries for completed task lists
• Support for changes to Twitter character count for media
• Display improvements
• Fixed- Some guide menu tooltips are inaccurate
• Fixed- Specific H.264 TP files won't play on Macs
• Fixed- Unplugging source on a capture node puts the stream into a bad state
• Fixed- Content streams that fail due to a shortage of CPU cycles don’t restart
• Fixed- Smartchapter tasks take longer than expected on 4th-generation transcode nodes
• Fixed- Tuners sorted improperly
• Fixed- Failures when converting H.264 TS recordings to MP4
• Fixed- Scrolling selected portion into view after setting clip endpoints doesn’t work in transcript viewer
• Fixed- Improper color-coding in program guide
• Fixed- Strange behavior from Tweet modal in web player when character count is at 0 and a link is included
• Fixed- Tweet task failed with error "Status is over 140 characters"
• Fixed- Workflow with two or more of the same filters doesn’t default to NOT
• Fixed- Can’t upload screenshot as custom Facebook thumbnail
• Fixed- Task fails with message “Failed to add caption” when uploading to YouTube
• Fixed- Workflow with a large number of filters doesn’t load properly when editing
• Fixed- Can't use the same carrier frequency for multiple channels in DVB-T lineups
• Fixed- DVB-T lineups have no field for Guide Channel
• Fixed- Visual noise at the beginning of a clip
• Fixed- Playlist=> View Items=> Details is broken in SDI interface
• Fixed- In Firefox HTML5 player, skipping to start or end pauses playback
• Fixed- Can’t download clips
• Fixed- Workflows failed to trigger on recording finished
• Fixed- Search filters don’t autocomplete with - (exclude) operator

Version 7.2 | Build 7415 | August 12, 2016

New Features

• Native HTML5 playback of H.264 (.mp4) video
• Increased Twitter video limit to 140 seconds
• Increased Twitter GIF limit to 15 MB
• Ability to tune DirecTV subchannels
• New statistics and better presentation for system usage
• Ability to add multiple filters of the same type to a single Workflow
• Warning message for garbled or absent CC data
• Ability to submit a support ticket through the SnapStream interface
• Ability to choose different thumbnails for Facebook video uploads
• New Facebook analytics in the Social dashboard
• Ability to tag items via workflow
• Ability to scroll the guide vertically using the mouse wheel
• Ability to name clips by clip title only

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Renamed “Import” to “Upload”
• Closed captions on YouTube uploads
• Added screenshot to video and GIF uploads
• Progress bar for program guide updates
• More data about posted Facebook posts from the insights API
• Improved display of Guide legend options
• Added Import button to library area
• New Workflow trigger for File Imported
• Ability to sort queued social media posts by auto-post schedule time
• Add codec/container name to format profile names
• Improved social media dashboard look and feel for small screens
• Better messaging when YouTube uploads fail due to clip length
• Ability to repost the same media content to the same social network
• Left and right arrow keys cycle pages on what's new modal
• Web player screenshot hotkey automatically downloads screenshot
• Mouse hover shows details in Guide
• Ability to manually send a channel change from an encoder box
• Testing interface for IP tuning
• “Unsaved changes” message when editing a playlist
• Improvements to search helper drop-down
• Removed Reset button from Completed tasks page
• Share option on More Information page for recordings
• Improvements to Users page
• Expose color settings for analog encoder inputs
• Added username of scheduler to warning emails about invalid jobs
• Improvements to CC data formatting
• Various display and interface improvements
• Fixed- Enter key does not run search when the cursor is in one of the Search Bar dropdown fields
• Fixed- Guide update caused an in-progress recording to stop and start due to AiringID change
• Fixed- In transcript editor, lines that take up whole width of page do not wrap
• Fixed- Individual recording jobs on a channel with a 24x7 job aren’t handled well
• Fixed- Task Status Popups stop popping up after a while
• Fixed- Guide alert with auto-schedule turned on throws errors due to duplicate jobs
• Fixed- Bottom row of meme text is omitted when making a gif in Firefox or IE11 on Windows
• Fixed- Clips from a TV Alert with Local Smart Clips are not placed in “My Clips”
• Fixed- Multiview web player doesn't scale well at less than 1300 pixels screen width
• Fixed- Long file names are not displayed correctly in Playlist Details page
• Fixed- Moved playlist items lose "Locked" status and gain "New" status
• Fixed- Unable to enter “Everyone” in “Grant Access To” field when editing a Workflow
• Fixed- Items in playlists do not always play back from the beginning
• Fixed- Audio-only items do not play back in playlists
• Fixed- YouTube upload of clips with invalid title characters “<” or="" “="">” result in “unprocessed 400” response</”>
• Fixed- Tweet stream shows in Live TV for channels with no guide data
• Fixed- Clips longer than 15 minutes fail with 400 status on batch upload to YouTube
• Fixed- Workflow details modal doesn’t show trigger type
• Fixed- No feedback when saving priorities for the first time in IE10/11
• Fixed- Workflow to share a recording on recording finished is not triggering on an Express system
• Fixed- Facebook video views are reported incorrectly
• Fixed- Task Manager worker process exceptions and database problems after upgrading some customers to 7.1
• Fixed- Download Log doesn't work- calendar doesn't popup and textbox is blank
• Fixed- Adding e-mail address to generate transcript workflow results in invalid fields
• Fixed- Bad experience when a Workflow includes an Export action and there are no export locations configured
• Fixed- Webplayer hotkey combo for “Skip to start” is the same as the browser's "back" button in OS X
• Fixed- Clip name isn't automatically selected when clipping on iOS
• Fixed- Please Wait dialog stays up for 30 seconds when saving the Misc page
• Fixed- Search filter for “news/current events” category formatted incorrectly causing no results
• Fixed- Scroll wheel scrolls though the channel list instead of the jump to dropdown on Firefox and IE
• Fixed- Resizing the window during playback in Firefox on Mac can result in the transcript disappearing entirely
• Fixed- Can't save changes to manual daily jobs after upgrade from 6.6 to 7.0
• Fixed- "Download SRT" link saves a file titled "item.srt" in Safari
• Fixed- Social dashboard user-based account security broken
• Fixed- Server error when accessing playlists pages >1 in SDI interface
• Fixed- On guide alert edit and creation page, Auto Schedule Highest Priority checkbox does not appear right away when Auto Schedule is checked
• Fixed- Users without the "Email Clip" or “Create Clip” permission have alert "Smart Clip" options they shouldn't
• Fixed- Sort button on Schedule page is not present if the user lacks the EditRecordings permission
• Fixed- Users without 'Create Clip' can't repost video tweets to Twitter
• Fixed- Add Export Destination creates directory even on failure
• Fixed- Adding a term to an alert in IE11 produces an error: Object doesn't support property or method 'includes'
• Fixed- LDAP service account "Unable to obtain a list of groups from the LDAP server"
• Fixed- Tweet video preview gets lost
• Fixed- Guide page disappears from web UI
• Fixed- Series autocomplete select picker does not properly search the middle of fields
• Fixed- Video windows collapse in the multiviewer in Windows
• Fixed- Toggle All Settings on Edit Group page behaves oddly
• Fixed- Differential Guide update failed immediately after starting, subsequent update succeeded
• Fixed- Seeking to file start while paused starts playback
• Fixed- Tweeting a clip as a gif without setting clip points omits meme text
• Fixed- Safari tries to auto-correct login name
• Fixed- Recording duration is off by an hour in share email

Version 7.1 | Build 7011 | April 8, 2016

New Features

• iPad playback support for H.264 content
• Scheduling of social media posts
• Custom filenaming for clips
• Ability to share a full recording from the Library
• New statistics for recordings over time
• Permissions for Playlists
• Ability to export a list of video folders as text
• Video folder filter in Search
• New options for “trimming” excess material from the beginning and end of recordings
• New options for managing and tracking user logins
• Ability to apply permissions to specific users
• Ability to export to SFTP

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Previous/Next buttons hidden when watching the first or last item in a Playlist
• Ability to sort file format profiles by bitrate
• Ability to sort playlists by username
• Usability improvements on the Alerts page
• Estimated total export size for batch Exports
• Ability to sync multiviewer windows to a specific time of day
• Usability improvements to transcript editing
• Improvements to social media upload dialog window
• Better recording statistics for digital recordings
• Removal of links to items for completed tasks when item has been deleted by a subsequent task
• Ability to remove email addresses from autocomplete list
• Clearer presentation of Failed and Completed tasks
• Clearer error message when export path doesn’t exist
• New setting for default audio-only transcode profile
• Clearer error message when attempting to add tuners in excess of license limits
• Logging improvements
• Improvements to searching CC transcript in the web player
• Keyboard shortcut for screenshot capture
• Better presentation of archived search results
• Added Machine ID to the Machine Settings page
• Added Reply to Status field in Queued Tweets
• Added checkboxes for selected items in the Library
• Various display and interface improvements
• Improvements to interface display on small screens
• Fixed- Can’t use forms in landscape mode
• Fixed- Recording dialog in program guide doesn’t have channel information
• Fixed- Duplicate tags are hard to see when there are a lot of tags
• Fixed- Schedule conflict still shows up after conflicted job is deleted
• Fixed- Deleted archived item was not removed from the index
• Fixed- E-mail to/from form displays incorrectly temporarily
• Fixed- Creating a clip from the web player with no clip destinations configured does not result in a warning
• Fixed- Checkbox and Today text flashes when loading the Upcoming page in Chrome
• Fixed- Bad error cases when no valid Gif destination folder is set
• Fixed- Incorrect results when attempting to add a tuner with a duplicate name
• Fixed- Changing channels in Live TV crashes web player/browser on Mac
• Fixed- Pages do not update in response to drop-down menus in Firefox
• Fixed- Some tables are blue instead of white
• Fixed- Checkboxes on the Recording Manager page aren’t behaving correctly
• Fixed- Recordings auto-scheduled by guide alerts don’t show that they were created by the owner of the alert
• Fixed- Folders page doesn’t display correctly when there are no folders
• Fixed- Enable/Disable buttons stay highlighted when clicked
• Fixed- Media type button in social media dialog is clickable when only one type is possible
• Fixed- Labels in titles are cut off in IE9
• Fixed- In Edit Item Details screen in Library, Text field has no max width
• Fixed- Adding Amazon S3 location doesn’t display correctly on small screens
• Fixed- Columns in Media Item Details are not the same size
• Fixed- Sidebar effects do not display correctly on mobile
• Fixed- Clicking outside social media post menu does not close the dialog
• Fixed- YouTube title length validation message is off by one
• Fixed- Time Constraints displayed incorrectly
• Fixed- Start Time for jobs on custom channels is not implemented correctly
• Fixed- Social media buttons wrap inappropriately on small screens
• Fixed- Task popups for Merge Playlist operations don’t update the progress bar
• Fixed- In IE9, web player is not dismissed by click outside the modal
• Fixed- Social media dashboard permalinks redirect to the home page when the user doesn't have permission to view them
• Fixed- Stopping a movie recording does not delete the job
• Fixed- No feedback when saving the order of a playlist
• Fixed- Odd behavior when adding items from a playlist to that same playlist
• Fixed- Task Status popups stop appearing after a while
• Fixed- Library Day/Week/Month selection popup isn’t dismissed when selecting the currently selected Day/Week/Month
• Fixed- Alt text for rewind and fast-forward buttons is missing
• Fixed- Play button time in transcript viewer should show clock time instead of starting at 0
• Fixed- Disabling in-progress recording doesn't stop the recording
• Fixed- Web admin port doesn’t automatically change when HTTPS redirect option is enabled
• Fixed- Bad behavior from Mac player when attempting to play a playlist with WMV items
• Fixed- Incorrect feedback when cancelling new user setup in Cloud wizard
• Fixed- Exporting item to out-of-space drive causes null reference exception
• Fixed- Interface does not redirect to Guide Settings page after manual guide upload is complete
• Fixed- Verified icon does not appear when autocompleting twitter handles
• Fixed- On Tweets tab, animated loading icon stays on screen after no Tweets are found
• Fixed- Clicking Select Date in the library scrolls the page to the top
• Fixed- Page stops responding after right click during please wait dialog in Program Guide
• Fixed- Auto scroll turns on by itself when scrolling manually through transcript for in-progress recordings
• Fixed- Creating a local lineup triggers a guide update
• Fixed- YouTube title validation error persists on subsequent clip attempts
• Fixed- Keyboard shortcuts in web player remain enabled when model dialog is open
• Fixed- Cannot delete channels from a specific custom SnapStream.Net lineup
• Fixed- Social media uploads from the web player at the top of an hour take longer than normal to complete
• Fixed- Full screen hotkey mouseover text is incorrect
• Fixed- Volume hotkeys do not work
• Fixed- Step backward (left arrow while paused) does not work for in-progress recordings
• Fixed- In Safari, adding Facebook profiles on User Profile pages do not show checkmarks when selected
• Fixed- Adding Facebook pages on User Profile page scrolls user to the top of the page
• Fixed- Using Segmenter Sink option causes a memory leak
• Fixed- Incorrect behavior from Please Wait popup when stopping a recording in the Library
• Fixed- User Profile page doesn’t show Skip Back/Forward settings at 1200x900
• Fixed- Category filter for “Shopping”
• Fixed- Estimated GIF size text does not update when options are changed using arrow keys
• Fixed- Left sidebar is not viewable at some widths
• Fixed- Status indicator does not appear after a guide update is started
• Fixed- Cannot navigate recording using transcript in Web Player
• Fixed- Users without Administer Post-Processes permission still see Cancel link on tasks
• Fixed- Queued and posted social media items can’t be posted or controlled after their social account is deleted from SnapStream, even if the account is re-added
• Fixed- File Format filter for GIF
• Fixed- Usage statistics for screenshots do not update
• Fixed- Some pages fail to update in response to drop-down menu selections
• Fixed- Share option is available on GIF pages in Library
• Fixed- Clip button doesn't respond when using clip to GIF with H.264 on Safari on Mac
• Fixed- Uninstall leaves files behind
• Fixed- Changing channels in Live TV causes the Mac player to freeze

Version 7.0 | Build 6638 | January 11, 2016

New Features

• All-new web interface (responsive design works on phones & tablets)
• New social TV dashboard to manage all Twitter & Facebook posts in one place
• Approval workflows to "queue" and review outgoing social media posts
• New user permissions settings for "queue Tweets" and "queue Facebook posts"
• Track performance of Twitter & Facebook posts (likes, retweets, shares, video views, comments)
• Cross-post native videos & screenshots between Twitter & Facebook
• Post TV clips to Facebook with video captions uploaded automatically
• Auto-complete and tagging for Twitter & Facebook
• Manage GIFs in the TV Library (like TV shows & clips)
• Clip to audio files (WAV or MP3)
• New search filter to include or exclude local channels
• Export to Google Cloud Storage
• Export to FTP
• Native HTML5 video playback for H.264 & H.264 TP files in Safari on Mac OS X (no plug-in)
• Workflow filter for “Days since recordings finished”
• Ability to exclude airings from 24/7 guide jobs based on genre/category

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• TV clip uploads to Twitter & Facebook are up to 50% faster
• TV Alerts can be turned on or off
• Smart Clips are more accurate and tightly focused on alert keyword
• Global option to ignore recent recordings
• Better log search for tuner names
• Is:GIF filter in search
• Improvements to lineup editing
• When jumping to clip start from paused playback, playback remains paused
• Improvements to display of custom channels in the EPG
• Various display improvements
• Performance improvements
• Fixed- Tweets show invalid Jump links
• Fixed- Can’t rewind when stopped at the end of a segment that is the last item in a playlist
• Fixed- Transcode fails with error "temp file is of size 0"
• Fixed- Default clip folder does not behave as expected when using Same As Source option
• Fixed- EPG does not display correctly on mobile
• Fixed- Email fields do not handle combined user formatted and address formatted email addresses correctly
• Fixed- Clicking a button and then hitting spacebar has unexpected results
• Fixed- Inaccurate clipping when source is a clip
• Fixed- Segment status is lost when adding a segment to a playlist from another playlist
• Fixed- Run Workflow on a Library item doesn't show a popup notification when security is off
• Fixed- Some names are being displayed in all caps in CC data
• Fixed- Display issues in transcript viewer for archived items
• Fixed- Successfully deleted media items stay in the Deleted Items queue
• Fixed- Closed Captioning does not appear during webplayer playback unless the user has the "Administer Fixed- Server Settings" permission
• Fixed- Specific SRT files cannot be indexed
• Fixed- Merge Playlist operation fails with status: "SetDestinationFolder Unable to communicate with the Library"
• Fixed- Clipping from a specific recording produced a bad clip
• Fixed- CC playback problems in Mac player
• Fixed- Problems with deleting items from Search
• Fixed- Clipping from specific recording failed
• Fixed- GIF creation from specific item failed
• Fixed- Bulk delete icon in library filters appear when user doesn't have permission to delete recordings.
• Fixed- Specific file won’t play out via SDI
• Fixed- Clip and Share on HD Recordings periodically hangs during the showsqueeze step
• Fixed- Mac playback and clipping on SnapStream Cloud is inaccurate
• Fixed- Guide searches by category don't work correctly
• Fixed- Incorrect path selection behavior for recordings
• Fixed- Skipping through timeline results in out-of-sync CC display
• Fixed- Failure when clipping full recording
• Fixed- Clipped file lacks CC data

Version 6.6 | Build 5993 | June 25, 2015

New Features

• Ability to merge multiple clips into a single file
• Sharing to native Twitter video
• Support for transcoding to XDCAM
• Ability to create GIFs with meme text
• Time-coded tagging
• Ability to auto-schedule guide search results at top recording priority
• Filter in program guide search for airings that are scheduled to record
• Ability to apply a workflow to recordings from a specific recording job automatically through the job settings
• Ability to share an entire recording to the cloud via Workflow
• Ability to remove audio during transcode
• Context-sensitive “Smartsnap” link in the Tweets tab
• Detection for recordings with no CC data
• Ability to add tags when submitting a clip
• Automatic expiration of playlists
• Ability to export a list of active Workflows
• Ability to download logs from the web interface
• Ability to batch share segments in a playlist

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Ability to merge media items from different channel IDs under a single channel ID
• Ability to exclude and include blocks on a by-day basis for 24/7 recordings
• Ability to disable Workflows without deleting them
• Ability to e-mail transcripts without keeping the transcript on disk
• Ability to delete series items in bulk from Library sidebar
• Ability to play and clip transport stream files without audio
• Watch Live TV link on the Home page
• Autocomplete for previous To and From e-mail addresses on a per-user basis
• Commercial indicators in transcripts of SmartChaptered recordings
• Warning emails for ongoing problems decay in frequency over time
• Better look for e-mailed screenshots
• Better support for touchscreen interfaces in the Program Guide
• Better feedback on the progress of folder refreshes
• Better handling of warnings for failed alert searches
• Better behavior when in-use lineup ceases to exist on SnapStream.Net
• Improvements to Add to Playlist dialog
• Import Files permission separate from other Admin permissions
• Improvements to performance of file copy tasks
• Various display improvements
• Fixed- Dead Tuners count doesn't update after a tuner is reset
• Fixed- Mac web player locks up when it is viewing Live TV on a digital channel and the channel is changed by a PC client
• Fixed- Possible to edit a recording job to be a duplicate of another job
• Fixed- If the Program Guide is open during a software restart, the user sees an error message
• Fixed- Clip from HD recording was 2 minutes long instead of 1 minute long
• Fixed- Software crash on tuner node when dispatching tasks
• Fixed- Channel filters don’t catch channels that appear in the Library but not the Program Guide
• Fixed- Search index dropped after master node reboot
• Fixed- Dialog boxes do not close after a manual recording job is created in the Program Guide
• Fixed- Task list shows two identical Play and two Details links for Clip and Squeeze task lists where the original is kept
• Fixed- Timeouts during folder refresh on UNC path
• Fixed- Webplayer and transcript control buttons don't change appearance with mouse hover or click
• Fixed- SmartChapters run at the start of a recording complete shortly after starting
• Fixed- "Use SnapStream.Net E-mail Service" setting doesn’t take effect if an e-mail host is entered
• Fixed- Crash in Chrome when opening the Group Permissions page for LDAP linked group
• Fixed- Missing capitalization for an acronym in CC data
• Fixed- Software crash when dispatching tasks
• Fixed- Task popup for single-item YouTube upload links to Task Details instead of the uploaded file
• Fixed- Exceptions following attempted AD login
• Fixed- During batch upload to YouTube, editing an item and removing tags does not cause the tags to be removed
• Fixed- Installation instructions for Mac player are missing from the DMG file
• Fixed- Using Wake Up option for IR codes that don’t have a code causes tuning failure
• Fixed- Recording failures triggered by automatic clip sharing
• Fixed- Deleting the alert that triggered a currently running autoshare task causes an exception
• Fixed- Adding a channel to a custom lineup doesn't display properly
• Fixed- Editing a custom lineup and deleting a row hides the zip/postal code field
• Fixed- Clipping MPEG-2 program stream fails with error "Skipping file due to size being too small"
• Fixed- Playback hang in IE 8 and 9 under 32-bit Vista
• Fixed- File with apostrophe in filename won’t play back in SDI interface
• Fixed- Incorrect playback behavior from search result
• Fixed- Guide alerts don’t handle the automatic scheduling setting properly
• Fixed- Recordings hang during transcode
• Fixed- From e-mail address field doesn't auto-populate from alert settings when cloud sharing from the library view
• Fixed- Clipping MPEG-2 transport stream fails with error "Skipping file due to size being too small"
• Fixed- Incorrect behavior when toggling fullscreen on and off in Mac player
• Fixed- Incorrect behavior when saving Workflow with “Run with frequency” option
• Fixed- Created MPEG-2 program stream clip doesn’t match set endpoints
• Fixed- Creating a Workflow with “Run with frequency” trigger breaks manual Workflow option in the Library
• Fixed- Details aren’t displayed correctly for Workflows using Switch To option
• Fixed- Manual Workflow option isn’t handled correctly when there are no Workflows configured
• Fixed- Clicking on web player window to control playback doesn’t work
• Fixed- Missing fields when editing custom digital lineups
• Fixed- H.264 playback fails when toggling fullscreen on and off in Mac player in Yosemite
• Fixed- CC display disappears when toggling fullscreen on and off in Mac player in Yosemite

Version 6.5 | Build 5699 | March 11, 2015

New Features

• Install package for the Mac web player
• Multi-viewer support for Macs
• Ability to disable password management for users in restricted groups
• Ability to send a GIF as an email attachment
• Ability to send a screenshot as an email attachment
• Ability to create a GIF of a clip from the Library
• Ability to upload multiple clips to YouTube at once
• Support for UDP unicast, RTP over UDP, and TCP modes in IPTV recorder
• Workflow trigger for specific time at periodic intervals
• Ability to change how “short clips” are defined in the Tasks queue
• IR remote code for Armstrong Cable DCT700
• Ability to set server time zone in the web interface
• "Play from here" option in the transcript viewer
• Channel tester for IPTV

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Support for ports other than default in TV Alert emails
• Default program number of 0 in QAM and IPTV channel setup
• Better handling of proxy servers in Upload to YouTube
• Better handling of system shutdowns in the log
• Better error handling in Import File
• Added Tag view to Library in SDI interface
• Allow multiple TV Alerts to run simultaneously for better performance
• Improvements to logging
• Improvements to Alerts
• Improvements to IPTV tuner setup
• Improvements to Twitter stream
• Improvements to Program Guide update performance
• Various display improvements
• Various performance improvements
• Fixed- Repeated errors in CC data
• Fixed- Guide updater gets stuck in limbo
• Fixed- Error when switching Live TV from analog to digital part of a single tuner
• Fixed- Live TV doesn’t handle folder paths on nodes correctly
• Fixed- Incorrect behavior on H.264 transcodes
• Fixed- Timeout when attempting to parse data for playback
• Fixed- Some search results can be missed in alerts due to a time precision problem
• Fixed- Can't play HD recordings with PMTs that span packets
• Fixed- Calendar previous/next button doesn't work in IE
• Fixed- ShowSqueeze tasks hang at 98% due to folder not being available
• Fixed- Amazon S3 uploads are slower than they should be
• Fixed- Mac Player: Closing one player causes javascript errors for players in other tabs
• Fixed- Days Since Workflow trigger doesn’t work for some Actions
• Fixed- Clip and transcode from Live TV fails
• Fixed- Recording titles do not show with limited permissions
• Fixed- Closed Captioning missing on some HD recordings
• Fixed- Pending tasks page flashes “Please wait”
• Fixed- Clicking View Transcript for a zero-byte file results in an exception
• Fixed- Some autoclipped results fail to share
• Fixed- SDI interface doesn't handle Segments in Playlists correctly
• Fixed- Transcode to UNC path fails with the message “failed to write tags because the file was corrupt”
• Fixed- Failed tasks cannot be reset
• Fixed- Canceling a recording that triggered a Workflow results in warnings
• Fixed- On the Folder Manager page, clicking Save twice causes the page to hang
• Fixed- “Next items scheduled to be processed” is incorrect

Version 6.4 | Build 5072 | September 16, 2014

New Features

• Sharing videos, GIFs, screenshots, and "memes" to Twitter
• Sharing videos and screenshots to Facebook
• User-specific Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts
• Option to ignore time limit when uploading to YouTube
• In the web player, clicking the video toggles Pause and Play
• Email alerts for recording conflicts
• Reports on upcoming actions for Workflows with the "Days Since" trigger
• Manual IR controls, including Power On option
• Ability to merge series with names that are similar but not exactly the same
• Ability to include SRT (closed caption) file when downloading a recording
• Workflow filters based on time of day and day of week
• Custom expiration settings for shared clips
• Ability to create clips from Live TV
• Priority management in the task queue
• Browsing by Tag in the Library
• Option to transcode manually when submitting a clip

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Automatic refresh on the Tasks page
• Added a warning when the Library Delete queue exceeds 50 items
• Ability to sort the jobs list in Recording Manager by channel
• Ability to disable/enable multiple recording jobs at once
• Option for earlier notification of Task Queue length
• Paused video remains paused after skipping forward
• Ability to sort tuner list by machine or tuner name
• RSS feeds list number of items when feed is generated
• Search query is displayed when playing back results from TV Alerts
• Clip start and end times are generated automatically when the Clip field is switched On in Edit Recording
• Interacting with the controls or player window for a recording in the Multiplayer activates that recording
• Play links in Upload to YouTube task popups open in new browser tab
• Transcodes of short clips ignore time constraints
• New permission settings for social media features
• Autopopulate title when creating a TV Alert from a Search
• Cancel option in Task popups
• Ability to set share duration when submitting a share task
• Diagnostic information for tuners in the web player
• Ability to tuner QAM program 0 in order to record an entire physical channel
• Help file added to the web interface
• Improvements to H.264 clipping and playback
• Improvements to Web Player load time
• Improvements to autoclipping
• Improvements to Task Popups
• Improvements to Search
• Various display improvements
• Fixed- Strange playback behavior in H.264 clips
• Fixed- Possible to attempt to upload to YouTube when no accounts are available
• Fixed- Users logged in as Administrator are not forced to log in again when the password is changed
• Fixed- Fast forward in Mac player is jerky
• Fixed- Web Player does not work when connecting to the server when using Direct Access instead of a VPN
• Fixed- Without security settings enabled, editing a YouTube account results in a page with no options
• Fixed- Users are not forced to log in when Security is changed from Disabled to Enabled
• Fixed- Add More button goes back to the last page instead of the last-viewed library page
• Fixed- Working list number doesn't update after item deletion
• Fixed- Blocked live tv viewing needs better options
• Fixed- User is not forced to enter a title when creating a recording job on a channel without guide data
• Fixed- Creating a disabled recording job sets it as enabled
• Fixed- Display issue when importing a file
• Fixed- iPad app does not show View Transcript buttons
• Fixed- When a search in the Web Player returns no results, the transcript pane reloads unnecessarily and doesn't always scroll to the right position
• Fixed- Disabled job highlighting does not work when sorting by Title
• Fixed- Live TV reported start and end times on digital channels are off on recordings that have switched (or they simply don't start live tv at all)
• Fixed- Special characters in channel names are not handled properly in the Program Guide "Jump To" list
• Fixed- Clicking Item Details for a shared clip doesn't go to the item
• Fixed- Autoclips use incorrect description
• Fixed- Removing Create Email Alerts permission from a group disables search
• Fixed- Digital channels with 24x7 recordings won't start live tv
• Fixed- Youtube uploads do not retry properly after failure
• Fixed- Clips from movies don't have the movie name in
• the file on disk
• Fixed- When adding IPTV tuners, Network Interface menu does not populate with values from nodes
• Fixed- Tasks hang if the wrong windows user is logged into the server
• Fixed- When using Autoclip + Share from TV alerts, If there's whitespace around your alert search term, results for that term will not appear in the share email
• Fixed- Administrators group does not get the Twitter
• permission automatically on an upgrade
• Fixed- ShowShareTask default proxy credentials are not handled properly
• Fixed- Recording jobs that create conflicts because of a start early or end late setting do not show up in conflict details
• Fixed- Transcoding a recording from a different date results in an incorrect filename
• Fixed- "Allow processor intensive tasks" setting doesn't taking effect until after a restart
• Fixed- A user with only "create user" permission can't add groups or users
• Fixed- Export to S3 doesn't work with proxy
• Fixed- Recordings with no metadata show 0 for channel number during playback
• Fixed- Link titles in batched Share emails are different from titles in single-link emails
• Fixed - Video unpauses when the clipping dialog asks to create a clip with no title
• Fixed- Confirming submission of a clip with no title results in a clip task only, regardless of the intended action
• Fixed- Delete Workflow action ignores the switch to command
• Fixed- Guide update failure due to SQL timeout
• Fixed- X on finished task popup notifications flickers and doesn't always register click
• Fixed- Adding a large number of Workflow tasks to the queue takes a long time

Version 6.3 | Build 4758 | May 29, 2014

New Features

• Ability to clip and share automatically from TV Alerts
• Support for IPTV capture
• Option for "Always Recording" mode
• "Find in this show" option in the web player
• Ability to share multiple clips in a single e-mail
• Ability to share clips to Twitter
• Richer options for constraining task processing by time
• Ability to enable/disable individual recording jobs
• Channel changing in Live TV in the web player
• Added IR code for Motorola DCT-700 DTA

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Ability to save transport streams with extension .TS
• Changes to playback method for Windows Media files
• Added lineup information for individual channels in the Program Guide
• Ability to add segments of shows to a playlist without creating clips
• Transcoded clips now maintain capitalization in filename
• Added Delete and Keep Until options to Search results page
• Added Export to actions list in the web player
• RSS feed for clips
• Outlook integration in RSS feeds
• Tags from SnapStream library are now passed on when uploading to YouTube
• Custom channel lineups now distinguish between channels with and without program guide data
• Better display of recording conflicts in Program Guide
• Clip + add to playlist is one action when there aren't any existing playlists
• Synonym highlighting in web player transcript viewer
• Improvements to handling of archive recordings
• Improvements to search
• Improvements to Program Guide update performance
• Display and interface improvements
• Fixed- Web player exits fullscreen mode when switching between playlist items
• Fixed- Some transcodes display incorrect durations in the Library
• Fixed- H.264 1280x720 transcoded recording doesn't play back correctly
• Fixed- Task allocation isn't right for some HD=>SD WMV transcodes
• Fixed- Editing transcript to add HTML or javascript causes the code to be run by the browser
• Fixed- Completed tasks stuck in the Task queue as Pending
• Fixed- File Imports Should Check for Available Drive Space
• Fixed- Resetting failed tasks doesn't work
• Fixed- In workflows, adding the export item task when no export folders are configured results in a blank drop down
• Fixed- Delete playlist button doesn't have a confirmation
• Fixed- Sending a test email for a TV alert when clipping is enabled starts creating clips
• Fixed- Start time does not update when watching live TV across show borders
• Fixed- Clicking "Delete All" in the custom dictionary doesn't delete the word in the last row
• Fixed- No error message when adding to SDI queue and nothing is selected
• Fixed- Lowercase phrases in the internal custom phrase dictionary aren't being ignored during spelling correction
• Fixed- Weird scrolling effect with an exact amount of library items in firefox on a 1080p display
• Fixed- Manual recording jobs allow the channel to be edited when the recording was originally scheduled for a channel on a lineup that no longer exists
• Fixed- Items with apostrophes in the name will not play in SDI Queue
• Fixed- Duration in SDI queue is truncated
• Fixed- Issues with one-way LDAP trusts
• Fixed- Add to SDI Queue only works for the 1st item on the Playlists page
• Fixed- Incorrect response when user attempts to stop recording for an item that is not in progress
• Fixed- Lock icon doesn't appear for all search results for in-progress shows
• Fixed- Series and Channel dropdowns don't work on the Playlists page in the SDI interface
• Fixed- Expiration of "Once" jobs does not handle movies correctly
• Fixed- Tune QAM channel and IR blast at the same time
• Fixed- Add/ Edit Workflow page uses wrong drop-down for allowed groups
• Fixed- Unfriendly error when clicking "Edit this alert" link for an alert that no longer exists
• Fixed- Non-real-time alerts use improper time bounds
• Fixed- CTRL-Click on web player options does not open the new item in a tab
• Fixed- Workflow page for SBEs doesn't limit actions to clips
• Fixed- Apostrophes in filenames break links and buttons in SDI interface
• Fixed- Sorting from My Guide Alerts redirects you to All Guide Alerts
• Fixed Keyboard shortcuts for jumping to Clip Start/End do not work
• Fixed- Task popups keep coming back for the same user logged on from multiple browsers
• Fixed- Upload to YouTube fails with the error "Could not find a part of the path"
• Fixed- Some clip filenames show an incorrect date
• Fixed- Exporting a recording/srt file that already exists in the export location does not have the desired effect
• Fixed- Alerts created with security off disappear when security is turned on
• Fixed- Export folders on nodes don't work until the broker is restarted
• Fixed- Export tasks don't list the destination file

Version 6.2 | Build 4449 | February 26, 2014

New Features

• Ability to switch workflow target to its own resulting file
• Security options for Workflows
• Ability to email transcripts automatically using Workflows
• Share Clip action for Workflows
• Playlists created in the Library now populate to the SDI playout interface
• Ability to submit tasks on the items in a playlist
• Ability to add to playlist, share, or upload when a clip is submitted
• RSS support in the Library
• Upload to YouTube
• Export to Amazon S3
• Ability to add custom tags to recordings
• Ability to edit transcripts in the web interface
• Ability to create a clip from a transcript
• Added IR code for Comcast DC50Xu DTA

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Lineup change detection
• Extended log of shared clips
• Faster playback startup for completed recordings
• Ability to remove shared clips
• Ability to use multiple "not" filters in Workflows
• Ability to use the Delete action with Workflows triggered on Recording Started
• Added custom dictionary entries as autocorrect options
• Add a tab section in the web player "More info" panel
• Better user feedback in conflict management
• Improved detection of topical boundaries in search results
• Display improvements on Admin page
• Fixed- Playback of clips from HD recordings stutters at the end
• Fixed- File downloads through the web interface are slower than they should be
• Fixed- CC data does not display correctly in Safari
• Fixed- Library Destination Folder on Import File page defaults to the first item in the list
• Fixed- Display problems switching between TV Guide Search and Closed Captioning Search
• Fixed- WMV transcode hangs or makes very slow progress for some files
• Fixed- Search box Down Arrow shortcut doesn't work in IE 11
• Fixed- Attempting to create a duplicate manual job results in the form being lost
• Fixed- Task memory limit exceeded on some transcodes
• Fixed- LDAP trust relationship fails to authenticate
• Fixed- Workflows are prohibited on search results from in-progress recordings
• Fixed- Hybrid tuners can still record from analog side when it's disabled
• Fixed- Incorrect formatting of quotation marks in guide data
• Fixed- Series filter in Workflows does not populate items in the library
• Fixed- API call to GetTaskList fails

Version 6.1 | Build 4180 | December 2, 2013

New Features

• Playlists in the web player
• Analytics on cloud-shared clips
• Ability to reserve tuners for Live TV only
• Ability to schedule workflows to run at a specific time
• Truecasing, spelling correction, and other language features in closed caption processing
• Support for ASI input
• Permission category for multi-viewer
• New workflow filters and actions for lock status

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Improvements to search
• Improvements to clip sharing
• Improved conflict resolution
• Improvements to IR blasting test tool
• Notifications for software updates
• Limit to clip filenames
• Suggestions in guide search
• Improvements to API samples
• Better logging for Workflow editing
• Better handling of files from failed digital recordings
• Improvements to task management
• Ability to play back multiple recordings that are not on the same page of the library
• Improved handling of offline nodes
• Fixed- Possible to create video folders on the C drive
• Fixed- Some recordings exceed RAM usage limit while transcoding
• Fixed- For some recordings, Mac player plays search results incorrectly
• Fixed- For some recordings, Mac clipping is inaccurate
• Fixed- In-progress icon doesn't disappear after a recording is stopped through the Library
• Fixed- Attempting to save a custom lineup while a blank field is selected results in an error message
• Fixed- Search spell checker suggests unusual words and/or words that yield zero results
• Fixed- file with spanish name can't play on mac
• Fixed- Program Guide time line displayed with all times overlapping each other in IE9
• Fixed- Share clip doesn't use email From setting
• Fixed- Share clip doesn't redirect after sending
• Fixed- Moving a clip removes it from My Clips
• Fixed- Edit User page doesn't list LDAP groups
• Fixed- Machine Name is not displayed properly on the Tuners page
• Fixed- Share Clip dialog doesn't disappear when clicking Send from details page
• Fixed- Discovery server doesn't reflect changes to Machine Name setting

Version 6 | Build 3966 | September 17, 2013

New Features

• Live TV in the web player
• Full screen playback in the web player
• Ability to play up to 4 videos simultaneously
• Download link in the web player
• Setting to move the MOOV atom in front of the MDAT atom in H.264 files (i.e. "fast start")
• Ability to submit operations on multiple items from search results
• Ability to run a Workflow from search results
• Added a workflow trigger for Days Since Clip Created
• New task resource management settings with better performance
• Ability to split back-end and front-end networking

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Improvements to the tuner settings pages
• Added a link to the Help file in the web interface
• Redirect connections to the web interface on nodes to the master
• Filter validation logic in Workflows
• Added warning notification for overloaded Tasks queue
• Awesomized the Program Guide by adding right-click options
• Ability to change the name of a custom lineup
• Removed the "Clip and ShowSqueeze" option from TV Alerts options
• On the Tasks page, default view is All Tasks for administrators if the My Tasks page is empty
• Added Task parameter information to the web interface
• Fixed- Administrative users can downgrade their own permissions
• Fixed- Musical notes aren't handled correctly in transcripts of in-progress recordings
• Fixed- Arabic characters aren't displayed correctly in TV Alert e-mails
• Fixed- Progress bars don't advance for long clips from WMV and H.264 files
• Fixed- Possible to add mount-point drives as folder paths
• Fixed- Timeouts when enabling large numbers of tuners
• Fixed- Long in-progress recordings cannot be selected in the Library
• Fixed- Clips with no CC data have blank SRT files
• Fixed- Shows without transcripts still have the option to View and Download transcript in search results
• Fixed- Deleting the target folder of a recording job causes future recordings from that job to fail
• Fixed- CC highlighting missing from web player
• Fixed- Auto Scroll is not turned on when the user goes into a show through a search
• Fixed- On Mac in Safari 5.1.9, Import File always produces "There was an error uploading the file. HTTP ERROR."
• Fixed- When clipping an in-progress recording, the clipping indicators don't move as the show length increases
• Fixed- You can't enable a disabled tuner after an upgrade before a guide update finishes
• Fixed- For clips with duration under 2 minutes, clip start indicator may stop responding to mouse drags
• Fixed- In-progress transcodes don't respond properly to tuner disabling
• Fixed- In-progress transcodes don't ignore 0-byte files
• Fixed- Process Search Results option in TV Alerts doesn't obey folder roles
• Fixed- H.264 Files from UNC network paths don't play on Macs due to permissions on IIS
• Fixed- If the user has added a Date Within to a search and then selects Create an Alert, the Alert has the search dates
• Fixed- Importing to a folder that has paths on multiple machines does not display the Machine names
• Fixed- Spaces disappear when text is copied from CC display in the web player
• Fixed- Category generation during guide updates is inefficient
• Fixed- A manually stopped automatic guide update will kick off again right away
• Fixed- Workflows page doesn't display correctly in Internet Explorer 10
• Fixed- LDAP login takes longer than it should
• Fixed- USB-UIRT settings don't work in Firefox 22
• Fixed- Web player plugin detection doesn't work properly in Internet Explorer 11
• Fixed- Some in-progress transcodes hang
• Fixed- In Chrome and Internet Explorer, using CTRL-F breaks clipping shortcuts until CTRL is pressed again
• Fixed- Clipping Task fails when endpoints are near the beginning and end of the file
• Fixed- Transport stream playback jumps forward during 3x FF
• Fixed- ALLCAPS check in CC parser fails to catch some cases (e.g. McDONALD'S)
• Fixed- Parentheses break ALLCAPS check

Version 5.10 | Build 3640 | June 20, 2013

New Features

• New closed-captioning display in the web player, with more lines of text, scrolling display, and text find during playback
• Clip share history for each user
• Sizable elements in the web player screen
• Ability to import files from client computer
• Options to specify functional roles for video folders

Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Ability to sort Tuners list by machine or tuner name
• New viewing options for Workflows
• Ability for users to disable task popups
• "Share" button in web player for clips
• Play and Details links for completed items in My Tasks
• Task popups for clip transcodes created from a Workflow
• Dropdown in Search box for advanced options
• Better handling of task conflicts
• Better seeking and parsing of duration data for transport streams
• Logging improvements
• Fixed- Switching tabs or minimizing when the web player is paused results in a white screen
• Fixed- Possible to add the same UNC path to multiple video folders
• Fixed- Credits field is not indexed for search
• Fixed- Can't stop an in-progress recording from the Program Guide in order to watch another channel in Enterprise TV Link
• Fixed- Problem with time display in Program Guide in IE 9 when local lineups are in use
• Fixed- Transcoding 720p source to non-720p H.264 results in playback problems for Macs
• Fixed- Using the "within X words" search option (~X) results in playback with no CC data
• Fixed- Playback of search results doesn't work after searching for a phrase that includes a contraction
• Fixed- Incorrect login behavior after software restart with security on
• Fixed- Recording options are cut off in the web Program Guide with some display settings
• Fixed- Editing an alert created in Enterprise TV Link cause the Alerts page to fail to load
• Fixed- CC data stops partway through a QAM recording
• Fixed- 0-second recordings of unknown origin

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- 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

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 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- 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
• 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
• 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- 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

• Web Player for Mac

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
• 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
• 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

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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

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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- 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

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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

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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

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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

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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- 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

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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

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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

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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
• 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

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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)

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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

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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
• 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