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Unified Streaming 1.11.20-GA Highlights
1. Release highlights:
● Operating System Support
● Manifest Edit
● SCTE 35 & Custom Timed Metadata
● Unified Origin, Remix, Packager
Unified Streaming - 1.11.20 GA
2. ● Added support for Rocky Linux 9 (an alternative upgrade path to CentOS)
Operating System Support
3. ● Manifest Edit now supports the manipulation HLS media playlist containing tags such as; #EXT-
X-DATERANGE, #EXT-X-CUE-IN , #EXT-X-CUE-OUT and #EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE (#9134).
● The "Default Language" plugin for HLS main playlists now supports the selection of tracks by
URI, allowing for use cases such as "edit a track if its URI matches a pattern".
Manifest Edit
4. ● Improved handling of #EXT-X-CUE-OUT and #EXT-X-CUE-IN in HLS media playlist when
segments move out of the DVR window (#9158).
● Fixed an issue with HLS/DASH segment durations incorrectly changing at splice boundaries
related to the active DVR window. All segment durations are now signalled correctly meaning
playback of a conditioned stream directly from Origin no longer fails. (#9133).
● The segmentation_type_id is now included in the ID attribute of the #EXT-X-DATERANGE tag
specifying SCTE35-CMD messages in HLS media playlists.
SCTE 35 & Custom Timed Metadata
5. Unified Origin (VOD)
● Improved error handling and response codes when connections are aborted between Unified Origin and remote (HTTP) storage by
returning a valid error code (403) to the client. (#9125)
● Added support for multiple #EXT-X-MAP tags in HLS media playlists making it possible to reference different media segment using
different URLS in a single media manifest. (#9138).
Unified Remix
● Improved handling of multiple tracks with different framerates by using the same timescale for all video tracks (#9137).
Unified Packager
● Added feature Unified Origin - VOD (Offline) making use of Unified Origin functionality, and deliver the output to a third party, or directly
upload a presentation to a CDN.
● Improved handling of FLAC audio data in ISOBMFF/MP4 helping to make FLAC streams play more reliably in Chrome and Firefox
browsers. Note that the codecs attribute in DASH manifests must still be converted to all lowercase for some browsers, which can be
done with Manifest Edit. (#9123).
● Improved encryption of large progressive source media files that only contained a single video track (#9139).
Unified Origin, Remix, Packager