MC Live Encoder 4.1.1 Release Notes

[Olga Bulava]

New Features and Major Improvements in MainConcept Live Encoder V4.1.1

• Interlaced streams are now successfully processed from NDI sources.
  
• Added support for digest and basic HTTP authentication types for WebDAV servers.
  
• A description can now be added to output streams.
  
• The MainConcept Live Encoder can now use redundant license servers.
  
• The IP address of a license server can be changed via a hitless update.
  
• It is now possible to start and stop all jobs from the Home page.
  
• Bugfixes for specific Premium customers.
  

Known Issues in MainConcept Live Encoder V4.1.1

• [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-261/NDE-280] When using a two-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 and HLS playlist 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.