MC Live Encoder 3.1.1 Release Notes

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Features in MainConcept Live Encoder V3.1.1

• Live HEVC 8K60p encoding on a g4dn.12xlarge instance of AWS-EC2 plus additional 4K and 1080p layers using an HEVC/H.265 8K source is now possible.
  
• NVIDIA NVDEC hardware decoding support is now available for AVC/H.264 and HEVC/H.265 ingest.
  
• 2SI/Quad Mode selection is now available for AJA capture boards on web UI and REST API.
  
• Update to the latest MainConcept video and audio codecs and other components from MainConcept SDKs 13.1.2.
  
• Security updates/patches have been applied to all third-party products used by the Live Encoder. Please review any related firewall rules on Windows as the process name of the web server has changed.
  
• Improved support for languages that use multibyte characters.
  

Resolved Issues in MainConcept Live Encoder V3.1.1

• [NDE-193]: Pressing the Stop button on the Output tab previously did not always stop encoding for MPEG-DASH and HLS output types. This now works as expected.
  
• [NDE-384]: Slate and output filenames can now be saved with multibyte characters.
  
• [NDE-385]: Logos with multibyte characters in the filename can now be uploaded.
  
• [NDE-386]: Multibyte characters can now be used for preset groups, preset names, and for scheduling.
  
• [NDE-387]: Specifying job names using multibyte characters no longer crashes the encoder.
  
• [NDE-388]: Device names containing multibyte characters are now displayed correctly.
  
• [NDE-396]: Fixed crash when uploading output to Amazon CloudFront with invalid or expired credentials on Linux.
  
• [NDE-413]: Fixed crash when uploading HLS chunks to Amazon CloudFront.
  
• [NDE-414]: RTSP ingest now supports AVC and HEVC Elementary Streams.
  
• [NDE-421]: Source device names containing multibyte characters can now be added to the Live Encoder.
  
• [MCC-11128] Fixed hangs in the HEVC/H.265 Video Encoder at specific resolutions when using an NVIDIA board with Ampere architecture, such as the RTX A6000