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Wowza 4.8.0 Released

peerasan buranasanti

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Wowza 4.8.0 Released

Improvement

  • Transcoder support NVIDIA
  • Full support of WebRTC and SRT
  • CMAF, LL-HLS
  • OpenJDK Java SE JRE 9.0.4
  • Bug fixed

below is change lists from Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 Release Notes

Detailed list of changes in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0

Changes since 4.7.8 release

  • Fixed an issue with restarting long-running source streams that could trigger a memory leak in the MPEG-DASH and CMAF live packetizers.
  • Fixed an issue that caused uninitialized memory to be returned to users if a thumbnail was requested for an incomplete frame.
  • Fixed a Java non-heap memory leak with the creation and destruction of the thumbnailer.
  • Removed the Google protobuf library.
  • Fixed several security vulnerabilities in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager.
  • Restored HttpStreamerItem.getLiveStreamPacketizer() and HttpStreamerItem.getLiveStreamRepeater() in the Wowza Streaming Engine Java API. These were accidentally removed in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.7.8. This restores the functionality of the ModuleStreamResolver module.
  • Restored the leading forward slash in responses to Request.getRequestURI() in the Wowza Streaming Engine Java API. This was accidentally removed in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.7.8.
  • Updated the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager Tomcat web.xml file to use the default HTTP Header Security Filter.
  • Updated the XStream library to version 1.4.11.1.
  • Fixed an issue with audio-only and video-only streams packaged into MPEG-TS files for HLS that resulted in improper segment duration values.
  • Added support for SSL in outgoing HTTPS connections (MediaCasterConnection), such as pushing a DASH stream.
  • Fixed an issue with ingesting MPEG-TS with AC3 audio when there are multiple PES packets.
  • Fixed a problem with timecode rollover for long-running RTMP push publishing streams that need to send ABS timecode information.
  • Fixed an issue with DVB Teletext decoding for Cyrillic option 2 and option 3 so that it now correctly resolves character selection.
  • Improved error handling for the de-serialization of bad RTMP streams.
  • Added support for the MutlicastInterfaceAddress in .stream files when ingesting MPEG-TS/RTP streams.
  • Fixed an issue with Common Encryption (CENC) for CMAF so that streams are properly encrypted for playback over MPEG-DASH and work with Widevine DRM and Playready DRM.
  • Added support for the default H.265 transcoder template in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager.

Live Stream Encoding, Transcoding, and Transrating

  • Updated libvpx to version 1.8.1 on both Linux and Windows.
  • Fixed a transcoder issue with the sampling rate and channel number not being set for the Speex decoder.
  • Added support for the default H.265 transcoder template in the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager interface.
  • Fixed an issue with NVIDIA hardware-accelerated decoding that could result in the delivery of incorrect or corrupt frames downstream.
supported NVENC

WebRTC

  • Updated WebRTC session timeouts so clients won't disconnect as quickly when sources drop.
  • Added IMediaStreamNameAliasProvider3 to resolve stream name aliases for WebRTC sessions. The following methods were added to support the use of stream name aliasing:
  • String resolvePlayAlias(IApplicationInstance appInstance, String name, WebRTCSession webrtcSession)
  • String resolveStreamAlias(IApplicationInstance appInstance, String name, WebRTCSession webrtcSession)
  • String resolvePlayAlias(IApplicationInstance appInstance, String name, IWebSocketSession webSocket)
  • String resolveStreamAlias(IApplicationInstance appInstance, String name, IWebSocketSession webSocket)
  • Made the following updates to WebRTC logging, handling, and configuration:
  • Added logging for UDP sessions.
  • Added logging for UDP/TCP disconnects.
  • Updated the timeout handler so that it correctly times out inactive sessions.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented passing through codec updates for WebRTC connections in the system. Depending on your publishing clients source encoder, this could lead to frequent calls to IMediaStreamActionNotify3's onCodecInfoVideo method. To turn this off, you can use the webrtcCodecUpdates property (WebRTC/Properties Name: webrtcCodecUpdates Type: boolean default: true).

HLS, Low-Latency HLS, and CMAF

  • Added support for Low-Latency HLS EXT-X-SKIP tag and _HLS_skip query on playlist requests.
  • Added support for the HLS media playlist EXT-X-RENDITION-REPORT tag. The tags are included for each ABR rendition in both standard HLS CMAF and low-latency HLS CMAF media playlists.
  • Added support for Low-Latency HLS segment HOLD-BACK attribute on EXT-X-SERVER-CONTROL tag.
  • Added an application property to allow enabling and control of the segment HOLD-BACK value reported in Apple HLS CMAF media playlists (location: Application.xml:Application/HTTPStreamer/Properties, name: cupertinoSegmentHoldBack, type: Double, default: none)
  • Added an application property to allow control of the PART-HOLD-BACK value reported in Apple Low-Latency HLS media playlists (location: Application.xml:Application/HTTPStreamer/Properties, name: cupertinoPartHoldBack, type: Double, default: 3x CMAF chunk duration)

Stream Targets (Push Publishing)

  • Fixed issue where stream targets unnecessarily sent IGMP join when pushing out a stream. This caused PAT and PMT errors and caused extra network traffic.
  • Fixed a null pointer exception that occurred when initializing SSL configurations for some stream targets.
  • Fixed an issue where Push Publish session destroy was incorrectly calling session create notification.
  • Improved the performance of underlying child stream target sessions by updating the ModulePushPublish to immediately start "parent" targets (GroupManager, WowzaCDN, WowzaStreamingCloud) on application start and stop the parent targets on application stop.
  • Fixed the following issues with the stream target group manager:
  • Improper handling of the playbackHost parameter for child profiles that require it, such as Akamai targets on the Akamai MSL4 network.
  • Problems arising from using a calculated bitrate as part of the output streamName when "{bitrate}" is specified in the streamName parameter. Now the source stream name is used as the fallback.
  • Failure to properly shut down the push sessions when stopping or restarting MediaCaster source streams that were the source of the transcoded streams being pushed.

Live Stream DVR Playback (Wowza nDVR)

  • Fixed an issue with DVR recording with 48kHz audio and DASH playback that resulted in bad segment duration values in the DASH MPD.

SRT

  • Fixed an issue with SRT streams using the Medicacaster where stream targets weren't notified correctly of streams' changes in status.
  • Added support for setting the following SRT properties in a .stream file:
  • sendBufferSize
  • receiveBufferSize
  • sendBufferSizeUDP
  • receiveBufferSizeUDP
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Wowza Streaming Engine to crash when initializing SRT.
SRT - Secure Reliable Transport