Features

• Common changes
  • Microsoft Windows messages are blocked while SDK methods are executing.
  • Added new MFShader plugin for custom HLSL shader processing.
  • Added new Chroma Key implementation.
• Input/Output devices
  • Added SCTE-104 insertion for BMD devices.
  • NDI - updated to version 4.6.
  • BMD - added "bmd.inputMode" property to detect input format without ObjectStart method.
  • BMD - updated to version 12.0.
• Files encoding and network streaming
  • Added new SRT streaming implementation (srt.force_ffmpeg=true).
  • Added MPEG-DASH streaming support.
  • Added SCTE-35 insertion for the new SRT streaming.
  • Updates for error events (disk-full, for example).
  • Updates for PTS management in UDP/DVB streaming for SCTE-35 processing.
• Files and network streams playback
  • Added youtube-dl.exe for proper YouTube (and many other services) stream playback.
  • Stabilized decoding initialization.
  • SCC files timecode processing.
  • Updates for variable file frame rate playback.
• Graphics and frames overlay
  • HTML5 Overlay - target=_blank opens page in the same layer.

Fixes

• Common changes
  • Fix for the "crop" functionality.
• Input/Output devices
  • Bluefish444 - fix for input initialization when there is no valid signal available.
  • Bluefish444 - fix for multiple output initialization.
  • WebCapture engine - fix for cef_bootstrap.exe closing.
  • WebCapture engine - fix for audio processing in multiple instances running.
  • WebCapture engine - fix for proper initialization on Intel HD530 machines.
  • NDI - fix for sources detection.
  • NDI - fix for the ndi_bandwidth property after the input stream has been initialized.
  • BMD - fix for RGB output.
  • BMD - fix for keying processing.
  • BMD - fix for PAL input initialization with Closed Caption.
• WebRTC
  • Fix for Janus functionality for multichannel audio input.
  • Fix for VP8, VP9, H.264 encoding in the gpu_pipeline mode.
• Playlist management
  • Fix for background setting.
  • Fix for the loop functionality of network streams.
  • Fix for MServer.exe processes release in the playlist.init_next=2 mode.
• Files encoding and network streaming
  • Fix for the experimental.out_video_packets=2 mode.
  • Fix for multiple streaming stop.
  • Fix for HLS VOD playlist generation.
  • Fix for memory leak on playback.
  • Fix for the split_channels=1 mode.
  • Fix for the SCTE-35 program_splice_flag processing.
  • Fix for NVENC switching between files.
• Files and network streams playback
  • Fix for 444 ProRes and DNxHD decoding in the gpu_pipeline mode.
  • Fix for reverse playback to play the video till the start point.
  • Fix for network stream playback in case of playback direction is changed.
  • Fix for the nExtraCounter value for WMV files - now it is 0 for the 1st frame as expected.
  • Fix for a proper frame rate of network stream during the reconnect time.
  • Fix for the seeking performance.
  • Fix for the UDP H.265 playback in the NVIDIA-powered decoding mode.
• Graphics and frames overlay
  • CG - fix for external process crash.
  • CG - fix for the Closed Captions data processing in the L-shape mode.
  • CG - fix for audio gain in the L-shape mode for the gpu_pipeline mode.
  • MFOverlay - fix for proper transparency processing with the gpu_pipeline and GPU-powered decoding.