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StreamsPlaybackEncodingBitmovin Dashboard

Encoder 2.150.0 - 2.199.0

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2.199.0

Released 2024-06-04

Changed

  • Internal stability improvements

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.198.0

Released 2024-05-28

Fixed

  • HLS manifests used as HTTP or HTTPS input were sometimes not detected correctly due to additional query parameters in the URL.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.197.0

Released 2024-05-14

Fixed

  • Encodings having incompatible input and output color configuration were sometimes stalling. These will now properly fail with an explicit error message.
  • Fixed an issue that caused delays for up to one minute in firing Live Input Stream Changed webhooks.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.196.0

Released 2024-04-30

Added

  • Implemented usage of r-attribute in segment references of SegmentTimeline Dash manifests generated with manifest generator V2. As a result, repeated subsequent segment references with the same duration will be removed and replaced with an r-attribute to reduce the size of the Dash manifest.
  • Encoding name is now part of the Triggered event messages (for both LIVE and VOD).

Fixed

  • Fixed wrong VIDEO-RANGE attribute in HLS manifests created with manifest generator V2 for encodings performing a conversion from Dolby Vision to SDR.
  • Fixed CacheControl and MimeType for live manifests uploaded to an Azure Output.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.195.0

Released 2024-04-16

Added

  • Invalid or unspecified color properties (color space, color range, color transfer, color primaries) would trigger a warning message.

Fixed

  • Transcoding from a long duration input with Dolby E could result in a failed encoding. This has been fixed.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.194.0

Released 2024-04-03

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where encodings using progressive mov muxings would fail when the output file contained special characters (e.g. spaces).
  • Improved scheduling of 8k Encodings, which were previously getting stalled sometimes.
  • Encodings with fractional segment lengths, using keyframe feature, could sometimes result in missing subtitle segments. This has been fixed now.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.193.1

Released 2024-03-20

Added

  • VOD Encoder now supports transcoding Dolby E (as input) to Dolby Digital/Dolby Digital Plus (as output). Current support comes with following limitations:
    • Dolby E must be in 2 individual mono PCM channels in the input. One stereo channel in the input is not supported.
    • Only the first program can be transcoded
    • Programs with more than 6 channels are not supported.
      Any other usage of the API could result in incorrect output. If you intend to use Dolby E as input, please contact support.

Fixed

  • On setting handleVariableInputFps option to true, for some specific contents (where the number of consecutive B-Frames suddenly increased after a few hundred frames), the output was longer than the input. This has been fixed now.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.192.0

Released 2024-03-12

Added

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.191.0

Released 2024-02-28

Added

  • Support for variable segment durations in fMp4 IFramePlaylist for HLS manifests created with manifest generator V2.

Changed

  • Upgraded Zixi Edge Compute (ZEC) to v16.11 for the Zixi Input for Live Encoding.

Fixed

  • For the manifest generator V2, the HLS version in fMp4 IFramePlaylist is now set to the same version as the HLS media manifest. Before, the HLS version of the IFramePlaylist was always 4, which caused problems for features that are not supported with HLS version 4.
  • A regression introduced in 2.175.0 was producing darker HLG output when using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG. Fixed in the current version.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.190.0

Released 2024-02-06

Fixed

  • In case the audio track is much shorter than the video and RESYNC_AT_START_AND_END is selected in the StartEncodingRequest, the encoding is not slowing down anymore.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.189.0

Released 2024-01-31

Fixed

  • A faulty initial input connection on a reconnect could block the stream from writing output segments and regenerating itself. This has been fixed by forcing a reconnect if corrupt metadata was probed.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.188.0

Released 2024-01-23

Fixed

  • Fixed a regression introduced in 2.178.0 where an encoding may stall if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4".

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.187.0

Released 2024-01-12

Added

  • Added support for AV1 with fMP4 in HLS manifests. FairPlay is also supported for this combination.

Changed

  • All progressive and fragmented MP4 muxings with an HEVC stream now have the codec tag name hvc1 (Apple recommendation) due to reported playback issues on Apple devices and the Quicktime player in the case of the codec tag name being hev1. Consequently, the codec tag names of HEVC streams in progressive MP4 muxings have been changed from hev1 to hvc1 in the following two cases:
    • When down-converting Dolby Vision to HDR10 or SDR
    • When the muxing contains a Dolby Atmos stream

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Encoding may stall with this version if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4". Please use 2.188.0 or more recent version.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.186.0

Released 2024-01-09

Changed

  • The Frame-rate change logic has been improved. This implies that starting with this version every Frame-rate conversion will result in constant output segment length behaviour.
    The old behaviour where in case of fractional frame rate changes from e.g. 23.976 fps to 24.0 fps the output segment length in frames for 4 seconds segments was alternating between 96 and 97 frames is removed.
    The new rate change behaviour introduces a new fail fast error if the encoding configuration is not compliant. Read more about the scenarios that will result in this fail-fast error here.

Fixed

  • Encodings started using an AV1 codec configuration without specifying a bitrate will now fail to be started as it eventually resulted in a transcoding error.
  • Different trimming configurations for multiple audio streams were not applied correctly. This has been fixed.
  • Perform interlaced-aware scaling from interlaced input to interlaced output.
  • Improved output quality of Dolby Vision encodes at lower bitrates.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Encoding may stall with this version if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4". Please use 2.188.0 or more recent version.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.185.0

Released 2023-12-12
Added

Fixed

  • For JPEG2000 4K input with exactly 1 output rendition (1080p or higher) resulted in failed encodings. This has been fixed now.
  • Fixed encodings with Dolby Vision JPEG2000 inputs that failed with the error "Color conversion between YUV formats where only the color range changes is not supported". The error was triggered by an unsuccessful detection of the input color properties.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Encoding may stall with this version if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4". Please use 2.188.0 or more recent version.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.184.1

Released 2023-11-30

Changed

  • Internal stability improvements.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Encoding may stall with this version if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4". Please use 2.188.0 or more recent version.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.184.0

Released 2023-11-28
Added

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Encoding may stall with this version if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4". Please use 2.188.0 or more recent version.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.183.0

Released 2023-11-14
Fixed

  • When using h264 hardware acceleration of Apple Silicon chips and ingesting via OBS with 60 fps there was no output written for Live streams.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Encoding may stall with this version if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4". Please use 2.188.0 or more recent version.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.182.0

Released 2023-10-31
Fixed

  • Improved handling of network failures that could lead to failed encodings.
  • Fixed Custom Tags with PositionMode KEYFRAME not working properly for encodings with FPS change since version Encoder v2.179.0.
  • Deinterlace filter (enhanced or normal) created with autoEnable value not set to ALWAYS_ON, sometimes resulted in activating the deinterlace filter for non-interlaced inputs.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Encoding may stall with this version if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4". Please use 2.188.0 or more recent version.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.181.0

Released 2023-10-17
Fixed

  • Fixed a bug that caused errors when SRT is used with backup ingest streams that are coming from a different IP address.
  • Significantly improved the performance of generating Live HLS manifests with longer timeshift and DVR windows.
  • The AudioVolume filter is now working for Live Encodings.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Encoding may stall with this version if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4". Please use 2.188.0 or more recent version.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.180.0

Released 2023-10-03
Added

  • Support for new Azure region: US_WEST

Fixed

  • Fixed an AV out of sync issue with a specific combination of frame rate conversion and segment length.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Encoding may stall with this version if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4". Please use 2.188.0 or more recent version.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.179.0

Released 2023-09-26
Added

  • Creation of keyframes now works with Smart Chunking.
  • Added support of keyframes creation for Dolby Vision encodings.
  • Support for new Azure regions: ASIA_EAST, ASIA_SOUTHEAST, BRAZIL_SOUTH, CANADA_CENTRAL, FRANCE_CENTRAL, INDIA_CENTRAL, INDIA_SOUTH, JAPAN_EAST, JAPAN_WEST, KOREA_CENTRAL, US_CENTRAL, US_EAST2, US_SOUTH_CENTRAL

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where encodings that used progressive subtitles together with segmented subtitles were outputting wrong progressive subtitles.
  • Fixed performance issues in HLS manifest generation that caused delays in live encodings with a big timeshift.

Changed

  • Improved startup time for AWS regions, leading to shorter queuing times.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Encoding may stall with this version if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4". Please use 2.188.0 or more recent version.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.178.0

Released 2023-09-19
Fixed

  • SRT input was getting disconnected after few seconds of the first connection.
  • Connection failures, sometimes happening due to backup SRT inputs, are now fixed.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Encoding may stall with this version if a progressive MP4 muxing is configured where the output file extension is not ".mp4". Please use 2.188.0 or more recent version.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.177.0

Released 2023-09-05
Fixed

  • For multi-pass encodings with prores or j2k inputs, overriding the colorConfig object attached to a codec configuration (for example here for h264) was not working as expected.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.176.0

Released 2023-08-30
Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where some specific mov inputs resulted in failed encoding.
  • Further improved stability for long-running live encodings.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.175.1

Released 2023-08-17
Fixed

  • Fixed timescale for WebVtt chunked text muxings in DASH manifests. Previously, Timescale was set to same value as for video representation, even when the duration of WebVtt segments didn't match with the timescale.
  • Fix codec string in DASH manifests for WebVtt this was set to 'vtt' now it is set correctly to 'wvtt'.
  • Encodings with an input that has change in color configuration (at frame level) would have failed. This color conversion is now handled.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Using HLG signalling, used for backward-compatible HLG, could result in darker output. Please use 2.191.0 or more recent version.

2.174.0

Released 2023-07-25
Fixed

  • Improved stability for long-running live encodings.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.173.0

Released 2023-07-18
Fixed

  • A regression that was introduced in 2.164.0 leading to missing analysis details for streams in cases when pertitle and audio was configured.
  • Fixed an issue with VP9 encodings where it could happen that a level violation was triggered in the encoder for SINGLE_PASS encodings. This was fixed by disabling alternate reference frames for all VP8/VP9 SINGLE_PASS encodings.
  • Queueing time considerably reduced when using Pre-warmed Encoder Pools.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.172.0

Released 2023-07-11

Added

  • Internal stability improvements.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.171.0

Released 2023-07-05

Added

  • Improved stability of Dolby Atmos audio-only encodings, which could have failed in the case the input duration was a multiple of the defined segment duration.

Fixed

  • Fixed a buffer overflow in Audio Service when using Akamai MSL/Netstorage output.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.170.0

Released 2023-06-20
Fixed

  • For Live Encodings, when using AesEncryptionDrm with a specified keyFileUri, the keyFile was not properly uploaded to the designated output. This has been fixed.
  • Improved resilience in case of intermittent infrastructure hiccups. If recovery is not possible, the encoding would eventually fail rather than stalling.
  • Improve s3 download speed in case the bucket location is not set for the encoding or can't be queried, which can be caused by a missing s3:GetBucketLocation permission.

Added

  • The behaviour of isDefault in hls manifest's mediainfo was changed. Setting a value of isDefault = false will now be flagged in manifests as DEFAULT=NO when using manifest V2.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.169.0

Released 2023-06-06

Added

  • Internal stability improvements

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.168.0

Released 2023-06-01

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug which could cause Dolby Vision encodings to fail on AWS in case they had large Metadata files and segmented output configured.
  • Fixed a bug which could cause Dolby Vision encodings from JPEG2000 or high-resolution ProRes mezzanine files to stall in case segmented output was configured.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.167.0

Released 2023-05-23

Fixed

  • Under rare conditions, inputs with negative timestamps at the start (e.g. due to B-frames before the first I-frame in presentation order) could result in audio and video being out of sync.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.166.0

Released 2023-05-16

Fixed

  • In cases where Dolby Vision with segmented muxing is configured, MuxingInformation was not calculated correctly for any additional audio or subtitle stream. This was fixed.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.165.0 (LTS)

Released 2023-05-09

Fixed

  • The issue impacting long running LIVE/VOD Encodings, identified in the previous release, is fixed.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.164.0

Released 2023-05-03

Added

  • autoLevelSetup: property for video configurations (h264, h265, av1, vp9) to enable/disable the automatic calculation of level, maximum bitrate, and buffer size based on the lowest level that satisfies maximum property values for picture resolution, frame rate, and bitrate. In the case the target level is set explicitly, the maximum bitrate and buffer size are calculated based on the defined level. The autoLevelSetup is enabled by default and is automatically disabled if the maximum bitrate or buffer size is set.

Fixed

  • PerTitle Algorithm was sometimes losing a configured FIXED_RESOLUTION_AND_BITRATE when the configuration contained two FIXED_RESOLUTION_AND_BITRATE with the same resolution.
  • Fixed rare failures for encodings using three-pass with specific content.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Long running LIVE/VOD Encodings could potentially fail. We highly recommend using the STABLE version or the higher versions (from 2.165.0 onwards) for such encodings.

2.163.0

Released 2023-04-25

Changed

  • In addition to the encoding start call, the limit for the Maximum VOD encodings queued is now also checked for the encoding create call.
  • Debug messages will not be returned by the Encoding Status API anymore.
  • Additional internal stability improvements.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.162.0

Released 2023-04-18

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where using a closed caption media info lead to an error in HLS manifests.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.161.0

Released 2023-04-12

Changed

  • Internal stability improvements.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.160.0

Released 2023-04-04

Added

  • Smart Chunking is now enabled for VP9.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where paths in manifests were not correctly updated for live encodings after automatically detecting the output resolution.
  • Zixi and SRT ingest systems have been completely overhauled, resulting in improved stability and error handling.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.159.0

Released 2023-03-29

Added

  • For DASH manifests, when using profile: ON_DEMAND and manifestGenerator: V2, the duration property of Periods is now set when the manifest has multiple Periods.
  • WebM Muxing now supports SPEKE PlayReady encryption for VP9 video streams.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug that caused the LIVE input probing to fail in some situations.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.158.0

Released 2023-03-14

Added

  • WebM Muxing now supports CENC PlayReady encryption for VP9 video streams using fMP4

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.157.0

Released 2023-03-07

Added

  • Smart Chunking enabled in Dolby Vision to HDR10 and SDR workflows with frame rate changes.

Changed

  • Internal stability improvements.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.156.0

Released 2023-02-28

Added

  • Smart Chunking is enabled for Dolby Vision workflows without frame rate changes.

Changed

  • For HDR manifests the ManifestGenerator.V2 does not write the profile attribute on AdaptationSet level anymore.

Fixed

  • Improved the turnaround times for encodings with 4K inputs shorter than 16 seconds.
  • Creation of a GcsInput or GcsOutput was failing randomly with "Unable to query location of the bucket" if a bucket with the same name existed on AWS S3. The same could also happen for S3Input or S3Output for a bucket with the same name on GCS.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.155.0

Released 2023-02-23

Fixed

  • Stability improvements for Dolby Vision workflows with ProRes inputs

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Creating a GcsInput or GcsOutput might fail randomly with "Unable to query location of the bucket" if a bucket with the same name exists on AWS S3. The same may happen for S3Input or S3Output and a bucket with the same name on GCS.

2.154.0

Released 2023-02-14

Added

  • Smart Chunking
    • We completely overhauled the general bitrate distribution in our outputs to prevent quality drops at segment borders thus leading to a smoother playback experience.
    • This optimization is automatically applied to all encodings except when using the following features which will be added over the course of the next releases:

Changed

  • Codec settings for VP9 will now be automatically optimized for Live Encodings.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
  • Creating a GcsInput or GcsOutput might fail randomly with "Unable to query location of the bucket" if a bucket with the same name exists on AWS S3. The same may happen for S3Input or S3Output and a bucket with the same name on GCS.

2.153.0

Released 2023-02-07

Changed

  • We completely overhauled our muxing engine for fMP4 output with codecs H.264, AAC, HE-AAC, and HE-AACv2. For more details about the changes, read this article.

Fixed

  • Manifest segment durations were calculated inaccurately when a concatenation contained fractional and non-fractional framerate changes. Now the segment duration calculation is based on the number of encoded frames.
  • Corrected an issue which lead to Nielsen audio watermarking with multiple output video renditions to not be correctly applied under certain conditions.

Known Issues

  • Live Encodings using fMP4 or Webm muxings could potentially fail after running longer than appr. 6 hours. We highly recommend using the STABLE version or the higher versions (from 2.154.0 onwards) for such encodings.
  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.152.0

Released 2023-01-31

Changed

  • Internal stability improvements

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.151.0

Released 2023-01-24

Added

Fixed

  • Configuring a lot of muxings sometimes resulted in failed encoding.

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

2.150.0

Released 2023-01-17

Changed

  • Internal stability improvements

Known Issues

  • S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.

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