Encoding Encoder Releases
Beta
3/14/2023
2.158.0
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.
3/7/2023
2.157.0
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.
2/28/2023
2.156.0
Added
- Smart Chunking is enabled for Dolby Vision workflows without frame rate changes.
Changed
- For HDR manifests the
ManifestGenerator.V2
does not write theprofile
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.
2/23/2023
2.155.0
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.
2/14/2023
2.154.0
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:
- Dolby Vision mezzanine input
- Concatenation
- set Keyframe
- VP9 or AV1 output codec
- PSNR feature
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.
2/7/2023
2.153.0
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.
1/31/2023
2.152.0
Changed
- Internal stability improvements
Known Issues
- S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
1/24/2023
2.151.0
Added
- LIVE_STANDARD preset is now available for H265 Codec Configuration.
Fixed
- Configuring a lot of muxings sometimes resulted in failed encoding.
Known Issues
- S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
1/17/2023
2.150.0
Changed
- Internal stability improvements
Known Issues
- S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.
Stable
1/10/2023
2.149.0
Changed
- Usage of conform filter in combination with relaxed concatenation setup (enabled in 2.142.0) is not supported!
Fixed
- A bug that led to incorrect brightness levels on encodes with DolbyVision inputs using 2 Pass & 3 Pass Encoding. Fail-fast had been added for the impacted encoder versions: 2.137.0 - 2.148.0.
- For 3-pass H.265 encodings, some resolutions could lead to encoding failures. This is fixed now.
Known Issues
- S3 role-based output for segmented muxings: No upload verification available.