MC Live Encoder 3.1 Release Notes

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Features in MainConcept Live Encoder V3.1

• Users now receive Windows desktop notifications when the encoding services are up and running or when they stop.
  
• Update  to  the  latest  MainConcept  video  /  audio  codecs  and  other  components  from MainConcept SDKs 13.0.
  
• Users can now specify the Program / Service Name, ID and Provider when outputting TS over UDP and TS over HTTP.
  
• New ready-to-use quality presets for HEVC 8K 60p encoding. 
  
• General improvements and extensive extensions to the REST API to better match the naming and functionality of the web UI, including (changes are incompatible with previous version of the MainConcept Live Encoder):
  - Ability to setup complete encoding workflows.
  - Creation of jobs via REST API is now also supported for RTMP and UDP sources.
  - Added description of headers for different request types to REST API documentation.
  
• Improved logging capabilities by adding more information when errors occur.
  
• Convenient settings propagation to setup many servers using the current server as a template.
  
• Updated Private Enterprise Number (PEN) and organization name for SNMP configuration.
  
• The  Apache  Tomcat  web  server  has  been  updated  to integrate  the  latest  security patches.Please review any related firewall rules on Windows because the process  name has changed.
  

Resolved Issues in MainConcept Live Encoder V3.1

• [NDE-376]: Removed warning about missing CodeMeter signature when installing Live Encoder on Linux.
  
• [NDE-377]: Job templates can now be edited with some non-English characters as well, such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.
  
• [NDE-378]: Job templates are now also preserved when upgrading.•[NDE-380]: HEVC/H.265 TS streams encoded in adaptive intra-refresh mode are now correctly ingested and decoded using UDP and other protocols.
  
• [NDE-398/MCC-11074]: Fixed quality drops for low bitrate AVC/H.264 encodings when there are scene changes from still images to camera feed inputs.
  
• [NDE-402]: Some USB capture devices require a USB 3.0 connection. Due to power failures, these devices can switch back to USB 2.0, which has insufficient bandwidth for proper performance and results in stuttering video and muted audio. There is now an error message in the log to inform the user when this will happen while encoding.
  
• [NDE-403]: When encoding a stream using CEA-708 closed captions, the sentences in the output are not mixed and messed up anymore.
  
• [NDE-407/MCC-11130]: Fixed quality drops for low bitrate AVC/H.264 encodings at scene changes when using B-frames.
  
• [NDE-408]: When using AJA Kona SDI capture cards, you need AJA 15.5.1 SDK’s drivers as a minimum version.