MC Live Encoder 3.4 Release Notes

[Olga Bulava]

New Features and Major Improvements in MainConcept Live Encoder V3.4

• VVC/H.266 encoding support. 
  
• Enhanced LCEVC encoding support with AVC, HEVC and VVC base layers. 
  
• New presets compatible with next generation Brazilian Fórum SBTVD TV 2.5 and TV 3.0 draft standards. 
  
• Improved audio pre-processing workflow. 
  
• Users can now specify the number of reference frames for AVC/H.264. 
  
• Update to Fraunhofer’s latest MPEG-H software encoder. 
  
• Users can specify a name for HLS output segments that contains a date/time using a placeholder. 
  
• To provide an improved overview, the default preset groups are now displayed in a collapsed state. 
  
• The logic for scanning ingest sources has been improved: users can now re-scan the existing sources. 
  

Known Issues in MainConcept Live Encoder V3.4

• [NDE-151] Start/stop encoding causes the encoder to behave unpredictably when no disk space is available and, as a result, may not produce any output signal. 
  
• [NDE-153] If you configured two encodings (AVC & HEVC) you currently cannot remove the AVC/H.264 again if there is no related output connected to it. 
  
• [NDE-261/NDE-280] When using a 2 second segment size for HLS creation with either AVC/H.264 or HEVC/H.265 hardware or software encoding, the peak bitrate sometimes exceeds the bandwidth specified in the HLS master playlist by more than 20%. There is no problem when using 4 or 6 second segment sizes. 
  
• [NDE-409] Occasional frame drops when doing HEVC 8K 60p 10-bit liveencoding on Linux. 
  
• [NDE-462] It is currently not possible to insert logos with a bit depth of 8-bit or less. 
  
• [B-83199] Closed Captions information is not written into MPEG-DASH manifest files. This can be corrected by a separate packaging tool. 
  
• [NDE-524] There is a memory leak after stopping streaming of LCEVC streams on Linux. This memory is reused if streaming is restarted. 
  
• [NDE-525]: The web interface occasionally reports an error about losing the connection to the encoding engine when stopping an LCEVC output on Linux.