Pulsar Release: 5.5. Release: Date: August 30, New Features

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1 Pulsar Release: 5.5 Release: Date: August 30, H.265 (HEVC) video CODEC support: H.265 video codec support has been added as an optional feature if it is present in MPEG-DASH, QuickTime/MP4/MOV container or as an elementary stream. Main and Main10 profiles of H.265 video are supported. No video conformance checks are supported for H.265 video. No GOP level video parameter checks are supported for H.265 video. Color matrix, Video format, Max buffer size and Average bitrate checks present in Sequence level video parameter checks are not supported for H.265 video. Only Field orientation check present in Picture level check is supported for H.265 video. Calculated bitrate related checks are not supported for H.265 video. In container and video essence cross-checks Bitrate, GOP type, Maximum GOP length, Maximum consecutive B-pictures and Low delay flag checks are not supported for H.265 video. 2. Netflix Photon validation support: Pulsar is now able to perform IMF package(s) validation using the Netflix Photon tool. A new check namely Netflix Photon validation has been added in Package tab of template for this. Pulsar is using Netflix Photon version Long Path support for report: Pulsar can now generate the report at a location which has path length greater than windows max path limit of 260 characters, using the Allow long path for report check present under the Reporting section of General and Adaptive bitrate templates. When using this check full file name will be considered when creating the report folder name for the job. 4. MPEG TS checks: PCR PTS Gap: A new check namely PCR PTS Gap has been added in Stream (PES Level) checks of MPEG TS to verify the gap between PCR and PTS values of PES packets. 5. MXF UL support using external file: Pulsar can now support newly registered MXF ULs without reinstalling Pulsar. For this an encrypted file will be provided, which will need to be replaced in Pulsar Controller and Pulsar Verification Unit installation directories at specified location and restart of Pulsar Controller and Pulsar Verification Unit applications will be needed after that. After this process unsupported MXF ULs will be processed by Pulsar. 6. MySQL changes: Following changes have been made in MySQL: MySQL server has been updated to latest version root user has been made password protected. MySQL server connections are allowed only from local machine on which MySQL server has been installed.

2 1. Some security enhancements have been made. 2. Enhancement has been made in Job status on Processed Job Monitor Page for file(s) having Dolby-E audio CODEC, if Dolby-E is not licensed. 3. Reporting has been enhanced for unlicensed media tracks to show them as Unlicensed in Media Attribute node present under Container Information section of Pulsar report. 1. CODEC identification issue in QuickTime/MP4/MOV file(s), which had mdat atom size as 0, has been fixed. 2. Verification unit crash, when using track layout feature by specifying audio property test tone with some specific segment start and end time, has been fixed.

3 Pulsar Release: 5.4 Release: Date: May 05, Video Parameter: Following video parameter checks have been added/enhanced: ProRes profile: A new check has been added to verify the ProRes profile present in the video stream. Video duration: Video duration check has been enhanced to verify the duration of the video stream either by providing the duration range or by providing one/multiple discrete video duration values along with respective tolerance. Color matrix: Color matrix check has been enhanced to verify presence of BT.2020 coded color matrix. 2. Video Quality: Following video quality checks have been added/enhanced: Chroma hits: Chroma hits check has been enhanced to detect the presence of Chroma lines in video frame by providing a new check for it. 3. Rapid scanning depth An option to provide the scanning depth has been added in Rapid rule sets. This feature can be used to analyze the content present in rule set source folder up to specified sub-folder depth. 4. BT.2020 color space BT.2020 color space support has been added for MOV container. When using RGB related checks BT.2020 color matrix will be used for YUV to RGB conversion, if found in the stream. 5. Embedded Line21 VBI captions Support to log and verify presence of embedded line 21 VBI captions in MPEG-2 video stream has been added. 6. Harding certificate generation Pulsar is now able to generate the Harding certificate for the stream processed through Pulsar having Harding PSE check in template. Option to generate Harding certificate has been provided in Pulsar report. 1. New JP2K ULs support has been added in MXF container. 2. Issue in configuring the outgoing server which has no authentication has been fixed. 3. Issue of improper functioning of processed job page having auto-refresh check ON, in case of large number of processed streams, has been fixed. 4. Issue in showing the track layout graph with undefined segment for some cases has been fixed. 5. Issue in processing AS-02 package with referred streams having same track ID has been fixed.

4 Release: Date: May 23, Video Quality: Following video quality check has been added/enhanced: Letter/Pillar Box Detection: An option has been provided to choose the analysis mode as either frame-wise analysis or scene-wise analysis for letter/pillar box detection. 2. Performance of video quality check for Out of order frame detection has been improved. 1. Issue of incorrect processing of Dolby-E audio track present with Undefined Sound Coding UL, in MXF container, has been fixed.

5 Pulsar Release: 5.3 Release: Date: December 07, IMF/DCP package checks. Following category of checks have been added for IMF/DCP package: Package validation: Checks present under this category can be used to validate the package structure. CPL cross checks: Checks present under this category can be used to cross check meta-data between CPL and essence. PKL cross checks: Checks present under this category can be used to cross check meta-data between PKL and essence. 2. Processing IMF/DCP package using CPL Processing of DCP/IMF package has been enhanced to process the media as specified in the Composition playlist file. 3. Video Quality. Following checks have been added/enhanced. Camera Dead Pixel Detection: A new video quality check has been added to detect the camera dead pixels present in the video frame. Chroma Hit: A new video quality check has been added to detect the Chroma hit present in the video frame. Active Region Detection: A new video quality check has been added to verify the active region in the video stream. Active Region reporting: Default reporting of active region has been removed. It has been provided as an option in template. 4K Support in PSE: Support for 4K streams has been added in PSE detection. 4. File explorer enhancement File explorer has been enhanced to show the detailed view of the files including created date, modified date and file size. User can also sort the files based on these attributes i.e. created date, modified date, size. A new option to filter the files has been added. 5. Report editing Report editing feature can be used to remove the unwanted errors/warnings from the Pulsar report. Edited report will be saved along with the original report and can be retrieved any time by clicking on the edited report icon. 6. Encrypted DCP support Support to process the encrypted DCP content has been added. The following options related to this capability have been added: Option to generate/retrieve key pair. Ability to use decryption key provided by the user in the package folder to decrypt the content. 7. Hot folder scanning depth An option to provide the scanning depth has been added in hot folder. This feature can be used to analyze the content present in hot folder up to specified sub-folder depth. 8. User defined channel layout for 5.1/7.1 channels Option to specify the 5.1/7.1 channel layout has been provided when using channel configuration option.

6 9. Silence support in track layout Option to specify silence as an audio property has been added in track layout when defining track layout segment. 10. Reporting of missing image sequence files Reporting of missing image sequence files has been added as video conformance check. When processing image sequence content, if video conformance check is enabled by user, error will be reported for the missing files. 1. Incorrect reporting of decoded video duration for some transport stream files has been fixed. 2. Verification Unit crash while aborting the job after reaching user specified max error limit has been fixed. 3. Active region calculation algorithm has been enhanced. 4. Verification Unit crash when using PSE for 4K streams has been fixed. Release: Date: February 9, Issue of not reporting of MD5 checksum for the containers other than QuickTime/MP4/MOV or MXF has been fixed. Release: Date: February 13, Added support for new JP2K UL in MXF container. Release: Date: February 21, Issue of not showing the player icon in report, for video quality errors present in IMF/DCP package has been fixed. 2. Issue of incorrect identification of IMF/DCP package has been fixed. 3. Incorrect reporting of Audio quality issues for files with surround channels if a template is created from a factory template, has been fixed.

7 Pulsar Release: 5.2 Release: Date: May 12, File Explorer Changes Java File selection applet has been replaced with Venera s own file explorer. This file explorer explores file system based on Pulsar Controller s view. So if user accesses Pulsar Web interface from a remote machine, it will still be able to see the file system on which Pulsar system is running. A new functionality of setting favorites has been provided in file explorer, using which user can set any local/network folder path as favorite and access this location directly in a single click. 2. Language Support in User Interface Korean and Japanese language support has been added for tool-tips and alert messages in user interface. User can set his/her preferred language preference. 3. Improvement Of Multi-Selection Control The User interface control for selecting multiple inputs (options), have been modified. Now user can select/unselect an option with a click, and select multiple options with greater ease. Also, for one control user can select all the options by CTRL+A. This widget has not been introduced in Rapid (rule sets) interface. 4. Custom Columns For Processed Jobs Page Option to show/hide columns on the processed job page has been added. At the bottom of grid column chooser icon can be clicked to set selected columns which will be saved for the user. 5. Pre-populated template list in processed jobs filters for template name The template names in the Template filter on processed job page will be pre populated and the user can also type the template names. 6. Sortable columns in Processed Job page All the columns displayed in processed job page grid are sortable. The report column is also sortable which sorts the data by job ID. The sorting will be done in all the data spread across the grid pages and not only the displayed records. 7. In-grid filters The filters are now specific to grid columns, and thus are displayed at top of each column. Filters will be applied simultaneously when user start typing in the filters. 8. Template Copy/Save As naming convention: When using Copy/Save As feature for templates original template name will be pre-populated. User can thereafter modify the name or try to save the template. 9. Auto Refresh of Processed Job Page: Processed jobs result will be updated dynamically on processed job page when any job is completed. User can choose whether to auto refresh the processed job page or not. 10. Video Quality Digital Hits : A new category Major Dropouts has been added in digital hits which will detect the frames which has video drop in major portion of the frame.

8 Flash Frames: A new check to detect short scene has been added. 11. Audio Quality Loudness Correction Support o Loudness correction has been supported for MPEG-1 Layer-2 audio present in below containers: a) QuickTime/MP4/MOV b) Transport Stream c) Program Stream d) MXF o Loudness correction support for PCM audio has been enhanced to GXF container. o Loudness correction summary (original audio loudness and loudness value after correction) will be displayed on the processed job page. Audio Peak o A new unit dbu has been added in Audio peaks group check. User will need to define the conversion level between dbfs and dbu to use this unit. Audio Loudness Logging o Option to log short term and momentary audio loudness values in a CSV file has been provided in audio loudness. Channel Configuration Enhancement o Single Channel per track PCM configuration support has been enhanced to be supported in GXF container also. 12. Start Time Reporting Start Time reporting has been added in Pulsar report. This will contain display time of the first video frame. It has been added in the top section of the report. 13. Job ID Reporting Reporting of the unique job ID with which stream was analyzed, has been added in the Pulsar report. It has been added in the top section of the report. 14. Custom Report Path Support in SDK An additional parameter strcustomreportpath has been added in SDK PostJob API request parameter. It is an optional field. When this field is set, it will overwrite the report path present in the template used for job posting. 15. Reporting of Audio Tracks in Correct Order Reporting of audio tracks has been enhanced to show the audio results in order of the track ID. 16. Start Time Support in GXF Start time support has been added for the streams having GXF container. 17. PDF Report Naming Convention Naming convention of the Pulsar generated pdf report has been changed. It will be created in format of PulMoDt_JobID_<File Name>.pdf, where Mo referes to month and Dt refers the date. If this name exceeds 32 characters, in that case File Name is truncated to fit inside 32 characters. 18. Media player integration in reports Media Player support has been added in Pulsar to see the erroneous video quality frames in Iris player. For this player icon will be present in Pulsar report along with the video quality error and clicking on this icon, if Iris player s installed on the machine, the erroneous region will be played in a new pop-up by launching the player. Iris player will not be part of Pulsar installer and need to be installed separately.

9 1. Incorrect error reporting FIEL atom in MOV container has been fixed. 2. Incorrect segment detection issue for some streams has been fixed. 3. I-frame only HLS playlist has been handled. Release: Date: June 27, Container: o A new check has been provided to perform baseband checks on only the active portion of essence. This option is available only for MXF and GXF containers. 1. Brightness and Horizontal black bar errors have been clubbed to report single error for continuous erroneous frames instead of reporting errors individually for every frame. 1. Issue in loading processed job page in case of some non-english characters in Filename has been fixed. Release: Date: June 30, Bug fixed to show tool-tips in the language selected by user. Release: Date: July 8, Added support for new JP2K ULs in MXF container.

10 Pulsar Release: 5.1 Release: Date: September 24, DCP package support Pulsar now supports the DCP package. Pulsar can now process the DCP packing list file to generate a single report for entire package. DCP package can be analyzed using the dedicated tab for Package in Post Job page. In Hot Folder DCP package can be analyzed by choosing the Content Structure as Package. DCP package metadata can be specified in Package tab of template. 2. MXF checks Following new checks for MXF are now available: Audio o Block Align. o Channel Status Mode. o Fixed Channel Status Data. o Channel Assignment. o Two more options have been added for Audio essence coding. Video o Stored F2 offset. o Sampled X offset. o Sampled Y offset. o Display X offset. o Display Y offset. o Display F2 offset. o Identical GOP Indicator. Index tables o Edit unit byte count. o Slice count. o One more option has been added to check Index partition location w.r.t. essence partition. Partitions o Header Metadata size in Header Partition for Header type. Miscellaneous o Dark metadata. 3. Video Quality 3:2 Pull-down detection - Pulsar can now detect 3:2 pull-down (Cadence). HD Color bar support Pulsar can now detect HD color bars. 4. Video and Container User defined checks Frame drop flag detection Pulsar can now check time code drop frame flag status for QuickTime container and MPEG-2 video. 5. Automatic PDF report generation Pulsar can now automatically generate PDF report after the analysis is completed if specified by user. User can specify this option in General as well as in Adaptive Bitrate template.

11 6. Audio Quality Detect Quasi Peak: Detect Sample Peak check has been renamed to Detect Quasi Peak. Two separate options are provided to the users for stereo and other audio streams: o Discrete Channels: When using this check, quasi peak for each channel would be calculated separately. Maximum and minimum peak violation will be checked and alerts will be reported for any violation found. o Stereo: Quasi peak for stereo audio will be calculated using the user defined mode M3 or M6. M and S violations will be checked and alerts will be reported for any violation found. Detect True peak: Detect True peak check has been enhanced to take user input for erroneous samples in either sample count or as sample percentage within each 1 second audio. If the number of samples with peak violation exceeding this sample count then an alert will be reported. 7. Cross check Video (container & essence) At least one time GOP size of video essence match the container metadata Max GOP. 1. Color bar detection algorithm has been enhanced. 2. Flash frames (out of sequence frames) detection algorithm has been enhanced. 3. Reporting of start time/time code of error has been enhanced for the MOV files having timecode track. 1. Pulsar API GetPDFReportPath failure issue, in case of Attach template information to the job report is enabled in template, has been fixed. 2. IMF and DCP package video decoding issue has been fixed. 3. Issue of unwanted error reporting of Transport stream PID specific checks has been fixed. Error for stream_type was reported even if this particular check was not specified in template. 4. Issue of incorrect start and end time reporting has been fixed in segment information. 5. Issue of failure to add the ABR streams, having unicode path, using internet explorer browser has been fixed. Release: Date: Nov 10, MXF checks Following new checks for MXF are now available: Audio o Locked/Unlocked. o Audio Ref Level. Video o Image Start Offset. o Image End Offset. o Color Siting. o Padding Bits. o Black Ref Level.

12 o White Ref Level. o Color Range. o Constant B Picture Flag. o Single Sequence. o Low Delay Indicator. Index tables o Single Index Location. o Single Essence Location o Forward Index Direction. 2. MOV Checks Following new checks are available for MOV container: Validate Video Data: Validate video data check has been added to validate the MPEG-2 video data present in the MOV container. 1. Apple AVC-Intra video support has been added in mov container. 1. Incorrect conformance error reporting has been fixed. 2. Partitions validity checks bugs have been fixed. 3. Dark-metadata reporting issue has been fixed. 4. Error message of Audio essence coding, low delay indicator, display Y offset has been corrected. 5. KLV fill elements after header metadata check issues have been fixed. 6. Reporting of Index table offset has been corrected. 7. Loudness correction issue in MXF container has been fixed in case channel configuration is applied along with the loudness correction. 8. alert not being sent issue, in case of Apache port change after DB import/installer upgrade, has been fixed. 9. Some other minor bugs have also been fixed. Release: Date: December 3, Audio CODEC Support Support for RAW-PCM audio fourcc raw has been added in MOV container. 2. User Defined Check for Audio Codec - User can check for audio codec type PCM-RAW by selecting this under Audio Parameters group of Audio tab in template. Release: Date: February 11, 2016

13 Crash in large size Program Stream files has been fixed Release: Date: February 25, 2016 Due to Microsoft Windows updates KB and KB , which were released on 9 February 2016, Pulsar trial versions stopped working. This issue has now been resolved.

14 Pulsar Release: 5.0 Release: Date: June 20, IMF package support Pulsar now supports the IMF package. Pulsar can now process the IMF packing list file to generate a single report for entire package. Post Job page now includes a dedicated tab for Package. A new option called Package added under Content Structure in Hot Folders page. A new tab under template for Package. Package metadata can be specified in this tab. 2. MXF checks Following new checks for MXF are now available: Timecode o User can select the timecode source Material package time code track, Source/file package time code track, EBU recommendation time code source, content package system item. o Edit rate in Timeline Track - From file package, Material package or both. Index tables o Index edit rate in index table segment. o Index duration in index table segment. o Footer partition contains all index table segments. o Last Index table segment is present only in the footer partition. Origin parameters. Non-zero option has been replaced with Greater than zero and Greater than equal to zero options. KLV. User can now specify a valid range for size and count rather than a single value under KLV fill elements after header metadata. Audio o Sample rate. o Stream type in Audio Essence container. o Stream type in Audio Essence coding. o Edit rate in file package, Material package or both. Edit rate for timeline Track in file package, Material package or both. Descriptive Metadata o Edit rate for timeline Track in file package, Material package or both. System Item o Presence check. o System metadata pack presence. o Package metadata set presence. Streamability. Stream essence track count. Video o Video line map. o Frame layout. o Sample rate. o Sample width and Sample height. o Stream type in Picture essence coding. o Stream type in Picture essence container.

15 o Edit rate in file package, Material package or both. Ability to select the package (material, file/source or both) for audio/video track/pid count. 3. Audio Loudness Two new presets under Mode menu: 1. OP ARIB TR-B Cross checks a. An additional option for Report only if present at both locations provided under Video and Audio sections. b. Component depth check added under Video section. Only supported for MXF container. 5. Templates a. Factory templates. A separate tab for Factory templates provided on the Templates page. This lists the set of factory template under appropriate categories. b. A new column called Category added in the Templates table. The Category value can be specified inside the template form. c. New factory templates available for IRT RDD9 Playbox OP-59 loudness R128 loudness ARIB TR B-32 loudness d. Updated factory templates for DPP CableLabs bit. Pulsar is now a native 64-bit application. 7. International file/folder names. Pulsar now supports the files containing the international special characters in the file name or the folder names. 8. Timecode tracks in MXF. User can now select the following new timecode sources for reporting under MXF tab: Material package timecode track. Source (or File) package timecode track. Content package system item. 1. Color Gamut detection algorithm has been enhanced. 2. Support of new tags added for HLS. 1. Issue of Verification Unit (VU) crash for audio-only HLS sub index files is now fixed. 2. Decoding issue for some SOWT audio streams is now fixed. 3. Issue of VU crash for DNxHD 10 bit-depth streams is now fixed. 4. Issue of JPEG-2000 streams deadlock for fast analysis mode is now fixed.

16 5. Issue of VU crash for ProRes 16-bit streams is now fixed. 6. Issue of VU entering into deadlock for channel configuration feature in audio quality is now fixed. 7. Issue of incorrect reporting of timecode values for compliance errors in MPEG-2 is now fixed. 8. Issue of Pulsar controller crash during template population is now fixed. 9. Issue of media files being downloaded in the temporary Internet explorer folder for FTP jobs is now fixed. Release: Date: July 10, 2015 Pulsar API now supports the files containing the international special characters in the file names or the folder names. 10. Parsing issue with Null GXF Map packet media file name which causing erroneous repeated track identification during analysis and subsequent crash of Pulsar is now fixed. 11. Parsing issue in GXF user data which caused crash in some GXF files is now fixed. 12. Support for MPEG-2 video fourcc xd5e added in MOV container. 13. Parsing issue in MOV container meta-data which caused failure of codec identification for some MOV files is now fixed.

17 Pulsar Release: 4.4 Release: Date: December 23, AS-02 Support Pulsar now supports the AS-02 file format. 2. Audio Quality Dual Mono Detection of identical data in Left and Right channels of a stereo pair. 3. Alert Severity 3. User can now configure the severity of various template parameters. Currently two levels Error and Warning are available. 4. User can now suppress error(s) or/and warning(s) for various Container and Video conformance errors by providing comma separated rule number. This option is available in Error Reporting section under General tab inside General template. 9. Installer a. User can now install pulsar on the basis of Edition. User will be asked to provide the Pulsar edition at the beginning of installation and the options displayed will be according to the edition. 1. Enhancement in the algorithm to detect Dead Pixels. A black bar on only the right side with a width of up to 24px will now be flagged as Dead Pixels. 2. Enhancement in Track Layout User can now define the last segment from end of the stream using the offset parameter. Sensitivity has also been added for Freeze frame video property. 1. Loudness measurement was not performed if track layout is applied in the template. Release: Date: January 15, Pulsar documents are renamed as follows: a. SDK Help.pdf to PulsarAPI.pdf. b. Help.pdf to Pulsar User Guide.pdf. 1. Pixel percentage calculation in RGB Gamut verification fixed. 2. Track Layout - Audio/Video skip option was available for the last segment defined as an offset

18 from the end. This is now disabled. 3. Track Layout Loudness calculation was not proper if Audio checks are skipped for a particular segment. Loudness (integrated) will now be calculated irrespective of this selection. Release: Date: February 25, Issue with continuity_counter error reporting in case adaptive_field_control field is set, is now fixed. 2. Track Layout Reporting issue for the last mute segment if the stream terminates precisely at a multiple of one second boundary, is now fixed.

19 Pulsar Release: 4.3 Release: Date: September 9, Container parameter checks a. MXF Parameters Checks: Following new parameter checks are added in this release: MXF version. Verify the timecode track presence in material and file package Timecode track count in material and file package Timecode track mode (drop frame/non-drop frame) in material and file package. Verify the presence of index table in various partitions Index table location wrt essence partition Index table completeness Index table correctness KLV alignment grid size KLV fill size after header metadata KLV fill element count after header metadata Maximum partition length External essence location verification Essence wrapping type Mapping between essence track in file package and material package Essence partition strategy First audio track number Audio track number continuity Audio element size in content package Number of audio channels in a track Allowed audio channel configurations as per EBU R48 and EBU R123 Descriptive metadata presence verification Descriptive metadata scheme used Random index pack presence Segmentation track presence File package count b. Number of Streams check enhanced to check for Audio/Video track count. Users can also provide multiple valid values. 2. Video Quality a. Photosensitive Epilepsy - Verification as per OfCom (ITU) and JAPAN NAB 2006 standard with integrated Harding FPA implementation. 3. Metadata a. Verification of AFD location b. Ability to verify that Closed Captions must not be present 4. URL support c. Direct analysis of ABR assets using HTTP URL. This is currently supported for HLS URLs. d. Manual input of the URL or a URL list using XML file 5. Smooth Streaming Following additional Smooth Streaming checks are now supported:

20 a. Audio must be same across all profiles. b. Segment bitrate should not exceed the bitrate in playlist. c. Each segment should be time aligned across all profiles. d. Playlists must use relative URIs. e. Display Aspect ratio should be same across all profiles. f. Each segment should begin with a random access point. 6. General a. User interface enhanced. Key enhancements include: b. Resizable columns for various tables displayed across the interface. c. Post Job page modified to accommodate ABR URL d. Template now made mandatory for adding a job. e. File filter option on Post Job removed. This option is available in the template. f. Enhanced DPP templates. g. Improved messages in Pulsar reports. h. Support for AVID MXF format. 1. Audio and Video track were not identified in GXF. 2. Crash with some MXF files containing JPEG Release: Date: November 12, MPEG-DASH Support Pulsar now supports the verification of MPEG-DASH files. Pulsar picks the playlist (.mpd) files, parses it to get the audio and video files referred by the playlist file. It then verifies each of the referred files and generates a consolidated report. User can set different templates for different encoding profiles that can be automatically assigned. 2. Video Quality Flash frame detection Detection of flash (out of sequence) frames. 3. Metadata a. Pulsar can now report an error if both CEA-608 and CEA-708 Closed Caption types are not present in the file. b. CDP check to verify the present of ccsvcinfo_section if CC data present has been added. c. Pulsar now logs the control codes for both CEA-608 and CEA-708 Closed Caption types if Log Closed Captions data is selected. 4. Proxy Support Proxy support has been added to connect to internet through proxy. Pulsar can now use proxy settings to post ABR URL jobs. Proxy settings can also be used to connect to Pulsar PPU portal. 1. PSE (Photo sensitive Epilepsy) version has been added in Pulsar report. 2. Warning has been added for CEA-708 missing texts due to invalid commands. 3. Warning has been added if improper data comes on the CEA-608 channels. 4. Info for the occurrence time of first CEA-708 valid text has been added if it comes after 15 seconds or more.

21 Release: Date: December 02, Pulsar crash when trying to parse certain QuickTime files. 2. MPEG-DASH MPD parsing issue if the name-space is present in the mpd file using a hard coded (predefined) name-space. 3. SUID mismatch issue even when the host machine is not changed. 4. Pulsar web interface login issue in case the login password is changed in the Pulsar portal.

22 Pulsar Release: 4.2 Release: Date: April 23, 2014 A. Audio Quality 1. Loudness Correction User can now correct loudness level to the maximum or minimum value whichever is provided, or to the maximum value if both maximum and minimum are provided corresponding to EBU relative loudness and ATSC integrated loudness checks. Supported in MOV, MXF and wav container for unpackaged PCM. 2. Channel Layout User can now specify channel groups for multi-track, multi-channel PCM audio streams. Loudness and related measurements will be performed separately for each such group. 3. Detect Sample Peak Range User can now verify if the maximum sample peak lies within the range. 4. Reporting of Values in Audio information for User selected features. Loudness Range, True Peak, Peak and Loudness (EBU relative loudness and ATSC integrated loudness checks) are currently supported in this release. B. Application 1. User can now choose to maintain folder hierarchy in Hot Folders and Rule set in Rapid during file move operation. 2. User can now choose to replace existing files at target location in Hot Folders and Rule set in Rapid during file move operation. 3. Reporting of Values for N and M convention for GOP structure in Video information. C. Video Parameter Cross Checks 1. Bitrate Check 1.1 User can now specify tolerance value(in %) in average bitrate for the entire video stream when Pulsar cross checks it with the values from Containers or Essences as per the user choice in the template. D. HTTP Live Streaming(HLS) 1. HLS Parameter check Pulsar checks the following parameters: 1.1 Audio must be same across all profiles. 1.2 Segment bitrate should not exceed the bitrate in playlist. 1.3 Each segment should be time aligned across all profiles. 1.4 Playlists must use relative URIs. 1.5 Cross check the target duration in playlist with the actual segment duration. 1.6 Display Aspect ratio should be same across all profiles. 1.7 Each segment should begin with a random access point. 1.8 Decoding Time Stamp (DTS) and Presentation Time Stamp (PTS) should be present in each Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) header. 1.9 Segment duration as per INF tag should not exceed playlist target duration by more than two seconds. E. Container Parameter Checks 1. Unsupported Stream User can now choose to report if audio or video track is unsupported by Pulsar. This feature is not currently available for FLV, TS, and PS containers. The following options are now supported in this release:

23 1.1 Report if unsupported video is found. 1.2 Report if unsupported audio is found. F. Cross Checks 1. Container and Video Parameter cross check The following parameters are now supported in this release: 1.1. Duration Supported for MXF, MOV, AVI, GXF, LXF containers. 2. Container and Audio Parameter cross check User can now cross check the various audio parameters between container meta-date and the audio essence header. This feature is not currently available for FLV, TS and PS containers. The following parameters are now supported in this release: 2.1. Sampling Frequency 2.2. Bit Depth 2.3. Number of Channels 2.4. Bitrate 2.5. Duration 3. Audio and Video Parameter cross check User can now cross check the various audio-video parameters. This feature is not currently available for FLV, TS, and PS containers. The following parameters are now supported in this release: 3.1. Duration in container meta-data 3.2. Actual duration 1. Time code track is now supported for QuickTime files. 2. Detect Peak feature in Audio Quality has been renamed with Detect Sample Peak. Notes 1. Specify Channels to Analyze for multi-channel per track PCM configuration feature is modified in this release, Selection of channels for analysis have become obsolete from this release, User needs to configure Channel mapping again. Release: Date: May 21, 2014 A. Meta-data checks 1. CDP checks for closed captions. 1. Actual time-code reported for audio quality error locations rather than a zero-based time. This is currently supported for MXF and QuickTime container only. 2. Additional sample templates for Netflix are now provided. 1. Incorrect error reporting for closed captions fixed. 2. File pick-up issue for growing files in hot folders and rule-sets source folders fixed. 3. File pick-up issue for files without extension for Live hot folder fixed.

24 Release: Date: June 30, The following video parameters are now supported for DPX in this release: 1.1 Color Matrix 1.2 Scan mode 1.3 Frame Rate 1. alert for files without extension fixed. 2. Incorrect error reporting for RGB Gamut fixed. 3. Incorrect error reporting for Sample Peak Range fixed.

25 Pulsar Release: 4.1 Release: Date: January 29, 2014 A. Audio Quality 1. Channel Layout User can now specify channel groups for multi-track single channel PCM audio streams in MXF and MOV containers. Loudness and related measurements will be performed separately for each such group. B. Application 1. File Filter for Smart Template, General Template and Rule set in Rapid - User can now choose to exclude or include the files with specified file extensions for processing. 2. User can now choose to add the template information for the template used at the end of each job verification report. 3. User can now choose to process hidden files/folders in Hot Folders. 4. User can now choose to move associated files (files with same name of media file but having different extensions) along with the media file in hot Folders during file move operation. 1. Redesigned Hot folder Add/Edit page. 2. Dial-norm drop down is now hidden for the EBU Mode. 3. All Multi-select combo boxes are replaced with Multi-select lists in General template. 4. About page now shows additional licensing information for Pulsar. 5. in pop-up message boxes. 6. Enhancement in Pulsar web application to work with JRE version Fixed bug for Scan mode parameter in Container and Video Parameters cross checks 2. Changes to the following parameters in Container and Video Parameters cross checks in this release: 2.1 Coded Width Mov is not supported. 2.2 Coded Height Mov is not supported. 2.3 Display Width Mov is supported. 2.4 Display Height Mov is supported. Patch Release: Date: February 13, Support for Audio codec MP3 and AC3 in Transport stream and AC-3 as elementary stream for HTTP live streaming(hls) as per latest specification Streaming MediaGuide

26 1. Crash Fixed for Digital hit feature. 2. Crash Fixed for Combing feature. Patch Release: Date: February 25, Job Status column is added in Play List Information table to show the individual status of the master and referred files for ABR content. 2. The ABR reports now contain the Software Version field. Patch Release: Date: March 6, Modifications in Pulsar Installer to enhance installation process.

27 Pulsar Release: 4.0 Release: Date: October 25, 2013 A. Video Quality 1. Combing -- Detect combing within a frame. B. Audio Quality 1. Loudness Range (LRA) -- User can now verify the loudness range as per EBU R Audio Clipping -- User can now check the presence of audio clipping. 3. Loudness check against dialnorm -- User can cross verify the relative audio loudness against dialnorm present in audio bit streams (AC3, EAC3 and Dolby E) and in container (MXF). C. Pulsar SDK 1. Smart Template support for job posting. 2. Support for PDF reporting. D. Video parameter checks 1. GOP level checks 1.1 User can check the GOP category, i.e. whether long GOP or I frame only. 1.2 User can check for the presence of sequence header before start of each GOP. 1.3 User can check for absence of any B picture in GOP. 1.4 User can check for maximum distance between two I frames. 2. Picture level checks 2.1 User can check the value for inter_dc_precision parameter in MPEG2 stream. E. Container parameter checks 1. MXF Parameters Checks -- The following parameter checks are added in this release: 1.1 User can verify the operational pattern of the MXF container. 1.2 User can check the origin parameters (pre-charge and roll out) for the source package tracks. User can also opt to get the values of these parameters in the report. 1.3 User can verify the presence of run-in at the beginning of an MXF file. Pulsar now reports the run-in length. 1.4 User can check and verify the structure, number of occurrences and status (open/close, complete/incomplete) of various types of partitions. 1.5 User can opt to report the list of the locations of the index table. F. Container conformance checks 1. MXF -- The following conformance checks are added in this release: 1.1 OP1A specific conformance checks added. 1.2 OP-ATOM specific conformance checks added. G. Application 1. User Management -- Admin can now create users with well defined and flexible privileges. 2. Smart Template This new template type has been introduced so that the user can select appropriate general template for a particular job depending on the file name, container type or video codec type. 3. User can now create a concise view of a template in the HTML & PDF format.

28 1. Enhancement in JPEG2000 decoding library to reduce the decoding time. 2. Enhancement in Closed Caption data logging to handle Closed Caption data starting from middle of the frames. 3. Enhancement in the algorithm to detect additional types of digital hits. 4. Enhancement in the algorithm to detect freeze frame. 5. Adaptive Streaming tab has been renamed to Adaptive Bitrate. 6. Enhancement in DNxHD decoder library to support 10 bits stream. 7. Report string is now showing the time code to describe the location of audio quality check errors on time scale format instead of in seconds. 8. Enhancement in Pulsar web application to work with JRE version User can now create a copy of a particular template from template page. 1. The analysis jobs for ABR content sometimes showed as complete before the completion of their sub-jobs. This bug has been fixed. Patch Release: Date: December 4, New conformance checks added for unintentional frame drop in H Fixed bug in Audio silence detection 2. Fixed memory allocation issue while checking closed caption data

29 Pulsar Release: 3.3 Release: Release Date: June 25, 2013 A. Video Quality 1. Dead Pixel -- Detect Dead Pixel within a frame. B. MD5 Checksum 1. Pulsar calculates the MD5 checksum for the processed file and reports it. C. Pulsar SDK Test Application 1. Added ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate) files support for job posting. 2. Added folder authentication support at job posting. 3. Added FTP support for job posting. D. Video parameters cross checks 1. Bitrate Check 1.1 Pulsar calculates the average bitrate for the entire video stream and cross checks it with the values from Containers or Essences as per the user choice in Template. E. Container Parameter Checks 1. QuickTime/MP4 Parameters Checks -- The following parameter checks are added in this release: 1.1 User can verify the movie timescale appearing in mvhd atom. 2.1 User can check the Minimum and Maximum values for the Start Time for a track either in millisecond or in Timescale unit. F. Application 1. Over-rideable alerts setting -- User can provide an pre-defined xml file in stream folder to over-ride the alert settings in preference page. 1. Hotfolder s watching algorithm has been enhanced to reduce the initial pick up time and to increase its performance. 2. Rapid s watching algorithm has been enhanced to reduce the initial pick up time and to increase its performance. 3. User can now check Audio Loudness against different maximum and minimum values for different time-scales. 4. SMTP outgoing server needs no authentication is now supported and user can set the server port also. 5. User can now search processed jobs by Start Date, End Date, File and Template names using Advance Filter option.

30 1. Fixed issues with video user defined parameter checks for RGB and YUV video 2. Fixed issue related to error check for CC Report an alert if closed caption payload contain only padding data 3. Fixed bitrate check issue for DV video Release: Release Date: July 15, 2013 A. Application 1. WSDL -- Using URL in browser user can see the WSDL file that Pulsar is using now ("hostname:portnumber/pulsar?wsdl"). 1. Test template has been removed from default templates provided by Puslar 1. In Rapid, report is not generated if the move action failed. This bug has been fixed. 2. Garbage value in container track information for some HLS files has been fixed. 3. Pulsar sometimes fails to access network file during processing while going to access them first time. This has been fixed. 4. Pulsar keeps crashing with LXF stream with version 0. This has been handled by bypassing the processing as considering the streams unsupported. 5. Bug fixed in showing the actual video length at the top left corner of the report. 6. Bug fixed for improper year value in advanced filter. 7. Some sorting related issues in advanced search has been fixed. Release: Release Date: July 22, Support of H.264/AVC codec in GXF container 1. Pulsar keeps crashing with ASF files in service mode. This has been fixed in this release. Release: Release Date: July 24, Freeze frame detection algorithm has been enhanced by changing the tolerance limit

31 Pulsar Release: 3.2 Release: Release Date: April 04, 2013 A. Video Quality 1. Digital Hits (Tape Hits) -- Detect Digital Hits within a frame. B. Track Properties 1. Detect Segment -- Pulsar can now detect segments in a media track on the basis of separator properties (video properties, audio properties along with duration). To detect the segments, providing video property for separator is mandatory. At present, user can select only Black as the separator video property, while the audio property could be either None or Mute. C. Application 1. Controller and VU as Service -- User can run the controller and VU as a Windows services. 2. Controller s Redundancy -- Controller redundancy has been implemented using NLB (available in Windows Server 2008) 3. Use of User Defined MySql Service for Pulsar DB -- User can choose his own MySql service for Pulsar DB. D. User Interface 1. Adaptive Streaming Template -- User can define the templates to test Adaptive Streaming Media on the basis of the file names and bit rates using this Adaptive Streaming Template. E. Container Parameter Checks 1. Container and Video Parameters cross checks -- Pulsar can now cross check between the various parameters that it gets from the Containers with the corresponding values that it gets from the corresponding video. This feature is not available for WMV and FLV containers at this release as well as the parameter set also varies between the Containers depending on their availability in side them. The following parameters are now supported in this release: 1.1 Coded Width -- Mxf, Mov, AVI, TS, PS are supported. 1.2 Coded Height -- Mxf, Mov, AVI, TS, PS are supported. 1.3 Display Width -- Mxf, AVI, TS, PS are supported. 1.4 Display Height Mxf, AVI, TS, PS are supported. 1.5 Frame Rate -- Mxf, MOV, AVI, GXF, LXF, TS, PS are supported. 1.6 Display Aspect Ratio -- Mxf, MOV, AVI, GXF, LXF, TS, PS are supported. 1.7 Bitrate -- Mxf, AVI, LXF, TS are supported. 1.8 Profile and Level -- TS and PS are supported. 1.9 Scan Mode -- MXF and MOV are supported Field Order -- MXF and MOV are supported Chroma Format -- MXF and MOV are supported GOP Type -- MXF is supported Maximum GOP Length MXF, TS and PS are supported Maximum Consecutive B-Pictures -- MXF is supported Low Delay Flag -- MXF is supported. 2. MPEG TS Parameters checks -- Pulsar checks the following parameters: 2.1 PID specific check -- User can check the stream type corresponding to a PID.

32 2.2 Program Number -- Check the number of program in TS. 2.3 Packet Length -- Check the TS packet length. 2.4 Check for the coming of complete PAT before the first byte of the PMT payload. 2.5 Check for identical PAT packets and identical version number of the PAT packets throughout the TS. 2.6 Check for PES packet length. 2.7 Check for the occurrence of section table in the same transport packet. 2.8 Check for the occurrence of PMT containing complete program definition before the first transport packet of an elementary stream PID. 2.9 Check for identical PMT packets and identical version number of the PMT packets throughout the TS Check for the continuity_counter values must be continuous First byte of the file for the TS must be first byte of the transport packet Check for adaptation_field_length must not remain zero always Check for presence of PCR in all transport packets containing the first byte of a video PES payload. 3. QuickTime/MP4 Parameters Checks -- The following parameter checks are added in this release: 1.1 Media Time Scale -- User can check this field in container against a given value for a track. 1.2 Movie Time Scale -- User can check this field in container against a given value for a track. 1.3 Sample Duration -- User can check the sample duration for a track. F. Audio Parameters Checks 1. Bitrate Checks 1.1 Pulsar calculates the average bitrate for the entire audio stream and checks it for to be within the user defined minimum and maximum values. 1.2 Pulsar calculates the piece-wise bitrates over a measurement length given by user for the audio stream and checks it for to be within the user defined minimum and maximum values (for VBR audio stream) or checks it for to be equal to a user defined value with some tolerance again given by user(for CBR audio stream). User can opt the checks either for CBR or for VBR from user interface. G. Video parameters checks 1. Bitrate Checks 1.1 Pulsar calculates the average bitrate for the entire video stream and checks it for to be within the user defined minimum and maximum values. 1.2 Pulsar calculates the piece-wise bitrates over a measurement length given by user for the video stream and checks it for to be within the user defined minimum and maximum values (for VBR video stream) or checks it for to be equal to a user defined value with some tolerance again given by user(for CBR video stream). User can opt the checks either for CBR or for VBR from user interface. 2. H.264 Checks: no_output_of_prior_pics_flag, constraint_set0_flag, constraint_set1_flag, constraint_set2_flag, constraint_set3_flag, gaps_in_frame_number_value, vui_parameters_present_flag 3. MPEG-2 Checks: First byte of elementary stream must be the start code of sequence header, constrained_parameters_flag H. Pulsar SDK 1. SDK now supports posting of Adaptive streams. 1. Pulsar s performance has been increased for Blockiness check. 2. The Video Drop checks in Container Tab has been renamed to more appropriate name Timecode Discontinuity.