Flussonic Media Server 21.05

Flussonic Media Server 21.05 has been released.

Ingest and Play via SRT protocol, signaling CEA 608/708 in HLS and DASH manifests, monitoring streams and servers with Prometheus, and more in Flussonic 21.05

What's New

• #2693 (new) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can manage cluster ingest setting for the stream at Input page
• #6644 (new) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can monitor GPU usage and temperature via Pulse page in UI
• #7117 (new) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can manage DRM group settings for a stream in Auth page
• #7983 (new) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can manage the "schedule" setting of DVR in UI.
• #12225 (new)(Flussonic) Ingest SHOUTcast and ICEcast audio streams via HTTPS
• #12356 (new) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can now select PCMA codec for audio track in transcoder settings.
• #13310 (new) (Flussonic) Auth logging is improved for better parsing and reading
• #13313 (new)(Flussonic) Flussonic now Support Ingest via SRT protocol
• #13350 (new)(Flussonic) Flussonic now Support Play via SRT protocol
• #14681 (new) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can setup "API allowed from" setting on page Config -> Settings -> Access
• #15054 (new) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can now export Pulse charts as PNG images
• #15201 (new) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can now manage WEB-RTC settings for the Publishing Locations in UI
• #15667 (new) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can now get info about input URL in "source" column of stream list.
• #15762 (new) (Flussonic) DVR usage metrics is added into access.log (bytes_from_ram, bytes_from_dvr_cache, bytes_from_dvr_disk, bytes_from_dvr_remote, dvr_utc_ms)
• #15998 (new) (Flussonic) Server and streams metrics monitoring with Prometheus
• #14110 (new) Signaling of CEA 608 and 708 captions in HLS manifest
• #16048 (new) Signaling of CEA 608 and 708 captions in DASH manifest
• #16389 (new) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can now manage the volume of the audio track in transcoder settings.
• #16619 (new) (Flussonic UI) Administrator gets a warning on an attempt to play the encrypted stream.
• #16751 (improvement) Saving all intermediate sessions to retroview
• #16822 (new)(Flussonic Utils) dvbscan utility now can produce json structure of whole satellite when list of frequencies is provided
• #16850 (new) (Flussonic) Flussonic saves SSL as a session flag in Retroview.
• #16869 (new) (Flussonic Retroview) Better report of session close reason to retroview.

Issues Resolved

• #3326 (fixed) (Flussonic UI) Custom pulse query disappeared when selecting content
• #10886 (fixed) (Flussonic) Issues with processing DRM fetch error. Flussonic will now drop segments in case of a DRM error.
• #11847 (fixed) (Flussonic UI) Flussonic UI validates push url according to configuration schema
• #13528 (fixed)(Flussonic UI) Admin can now get a warning about special characters in the VOD file name
• #14764 (fixed) (Flussonic) Issues with EIT containing streams published via SRT protocol
• #15081 (fixed) (Flussonic) Incorrect stream status after primary source recovery
• #15580 (fixed) (Flussonic) Wrong status in "media_info" if source disappeared at Decllink card
• #15742 (fixed) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can change the order of streams by using drag-n-drop.
• #15771 (fixed) (Flussonic) Incorrect TARGET-DURATION in the playlist when restreaming via "source" option.
• #15810 (fixed) Flussonic restart when the process limit exceeded was fixed
• #15893 (fixed) (Flussonic) Error 500 when requesting from the archive via DASH was fixed.
• #16305 (fixed) (Flussonic UI) Administrator can use the search on any page of streams
• #16313 (fixed) (Flussonic) Issue with audio track ingest via rtsp
• #16705 (fixed) proper reporting of online sessions and streams
• #16724 (fixed) (Flussonic) Different status of VOD file on the list and detailed page.
• #16791 (fixed) (Flussonic UI) Incorrect 'hw' setting is displayed on the transcoder page

Documentation updates

• #15589 (doc) Updated IPTV-OTT guidelines
• #16371 (doc) New way to balance users between several Flussonic Media Server nodes described at load balancer page
• #16372 (doc) Reading CEA-608/708 closed captions from SDI and Converting closed captions from CEA-608/708 SDI to WebVTT
• #16373 (doc) Volume change option through config and UI info added.
• #16374 (doc) Channels accessibility info added to Catena also terms Streams and Channels have been distinguished.
• #16376 (doc) New events: dvr_mp4_export_start, dvr_mp4_export_ready, dvr_mp4_export_failed, dvr_mp4_export_aborted added to Events API
• #16377 (doc) Info about MPEG-TS SCTE-35 to VANC SCTE-104 conversion added Converting ad insertion markers with Flussonic
• #16378 (doc) Info about Flussonic update through HTTP API is added: Flussonic update
• #16641 (doc) New GPU performance metrics are described on transcoding with Nvidia page
• #16642 (doc) Recording schedule through UI info added with screenshots to Archive (DVR) Configuration
• #16648 (doc) Volume change option through Flussonic UI added to How to change the volume level