Releases

• 1: Release 1.10.0
• 2: Release 1.8.0
• 3: Release 1.6.0
• 4: Release 1.4.0
• 5: Release 1.2.0
• 6: Release 1.0.0
• 7: Release 0.6.2

1 - Release 1.10.0

Change log

• NEW: New subtitle format support. cmft for HLS/DASH and stpp for DASH [ESB3021-129]
• NEW: Preserve SCTE35 information for HLS input [ESB3021-130]
• NEW: Support FTP ingest [ESB3021-151]
• NEW: Allow repackager to output VOD DASH SegmentNumber [ESB3021-160]
• IMPROVED: Better command line help [ESB3021-131]
• FIXED: Missing original subtitle after ingestion. Problem in 1.8.0 with lost subtitles [ESB3021-136]
• FIXED: Broken AC3/E-AC3 sample data lead to broken audio data. Audio will be muted [ESB3021-137]
• FIXED: Newline tag in ttml is not preserved [ESB3021-147]
• FIXED: Missing space characters when preserving styling in webvtt [ESB3021-149]
• FIXED: Crash on empty line of m3u8 files [ESB3021-153]
• FIXED: Cannot download input from external servers. this happens when the manifest (includes MPD and M3U8) contains absolute URL for media segments/files [ESB3021-154]
• FIXED: Multiple languages TTML subtitle is not supported [ESB3021-158]

Known limitations:

• Does not preserve TTML subtitle styling
• VoD ingest of SMIL over HTTP/FTP, does not work with query parameter audioIndex

Compatibility has been verified with the following products:

• Sw Repackager: 1.48.2
• Sw Live Ingest: 1.38.2
• Convoy: 3.0.1
• Sw Streamer: 1.34.0
• Orbit TV Server: 3.2.1

Release information

• Date: 2024-06-25
• Type: Production release

2 - Release 1.8.0

Features:

• New: Support for HLS VOD input
• New: Support for unencrypted ISM/MSS
• New: Support for irregular sample duration VODs (TS and MP4)
• New: Preserve WebVTT styling
• New: Support Audio Descriptions in VOD ingestion
• Fix: Missing CUE-IN for one segment ad break
• Fix: Average segment duration appears in content_info.json when common GoP cannot be detected
• Fix: Incorrect audio language
• Fix: Incorrect audio codec
• Fix: Duplicate track name for HEVC HDR and SDR tracks
• Fix: Ingest stops due to unrecognized tag in smil
• Fix: Missing role for subtitle track
• Fix: Cannot parse PES packet containing more than one AAC frame, causing silent audio output
• Fix: Incorrect maximum segment duration in content_info.json
• Fix: Redundant HLS target duration in content_info.json

Known limitations:

• Does not preserve TTML subtitle styling
• VoD ingest of SMIL over HTTP, does not work with query parameter audioIndex

Compatibility has been verified with the following products:

• Sw Repackager: 1.46.2
• Sw Live Ingest: 1.38.0
• DRM Gateway: 2.30.1
• Convoy: 2.36.0

Release information

• Date: 2023-11-29
• Type: Production release

3 - Release 1.6.0

Features:

• New: Support for DASH On-Demand
• New: Option to throttle the reading rate from local storage
• Fix: Incorrect subtitles timing
• Fix: Ingestion failed when missing some samples at the end of tracks
• Fix: Cannot stream MSS throught ew-repackager
• Fix: Lingering .dat file after ingestion failed
• Fix: Missing field content_duration_ms for recordings
• Fix: Language code is not extracted from subtiles filename when ingesting from SMIL (if language is not defined in SMIL)

Known limitations:

• Does not preserve subtitle styling
• VoD ingest of SMIL over HTTP, does not work with query parameter audioIndex

Release information

• Date: 2023-09-18
• Type: Production release

4 - Release 1.4.0

Features:

• New: Support for EC-3 audio in transport streams
• New: ew-vodmod tool to modify subtitle tracks of ingested VoD assets
• New: Option to drop incompatible media tracks
• Fix: ew-vodingest did not escape special character for WVTT format
• Fix: corrected VOD-asset duration in log
• Fix: corrected dropping of too early audio samples in TS ingest (causing “Bad box size” error)

Known limitations:

• Does not preserve subtitle styling
• HDR10 has not been tested fully on MP4 file
• VoD ingest of SMIL over HTTP, does not work with query parameter audioIndex
• live-recording-asset duration is logged as zero

Release information

• Date: 2023-06-08
• Type: Production release

5 - Release 1.2.0

Features:

• New: Live recordings (with esb3003 CBM)
• New: Command-line content-id (esb3005 style)
• New: Content template verification, for esb3019 integration
• New: Allow non-constant GoP-durations
• New: Improved S3 and NFS failure handling
• Fix: Superfluous audio-track generation
• Fix: Confused output audio bandwidths
• Fix: ADTS headers with 2-byte CRC

Known limitations:

• Does not preserve subtitle styling
• HDR10 has not been tested fully on MP4 file
• VoD ingest of SMIL over HTTP, does not work with query parameter audioIndex

Release information

• Date: 2023-03-08
• Type: Production release

6 - Release 1.0.0

Features:

• Ingest single file TS
• Ingest single file MP4
• Support for HDR10
• S3 and HTTP support
• Timeout handling
• Improved logging
• Offline licensing

Known limitations:

• Require constant GoP duration and constant sample steps
• Does not preserve subtitle styling
• HDR10 has not been tested fully on MP4 file

Release information

• Date: 2022-12-02
• Type: First production release

7 - Release 0.6.2

Features:

• Ingest SMIL + mp4 + subtitle assets in combined ESF + DASH OnDemand format
• Support AVC, HEVC video
• Support AAC, AC-3 audio
• Support TTML, WebVTT, SRT, STL subtitles
• Support displayName parameter for audio and subtitles
• Support role (caption or subtitle) parameter for subtitles

Known limitations:

• Requires mounted file system for input and output
• Require constant GoP duration and constant sample steps
• Does not preserve subtitle styling
• Logging is not nice

Release information

• Date: 2022-03-28
• Type: Beta for testing
• Expiration Date: 2022-09-24