Picturall Media Servers Changelog

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1 Picturall series Picturall Media Servers Changelog Picturall Media Servers Changelog Known problems

2 Known issues General Various operations may slow down significantly while the GUI is transferring large files over FTP. This is due to the fact that the file transfer consumes the network bandwidth required for interacting with the server. For best results avoid transferring large files during the show or while making significant changes to the configuration, e.g. while loading a show file. Server Disconnecting USB audio card freezes the layers with audio playback. When playing back inputs, if you disconnect the cable and then reconnect it, the "cable disconnected" error message persists. The workaround is to click stop and then play again. When the media file has audio in it, the FPS control appears enabled, even though it s not possible to adjust this value. It s not recommended that you overwrite files that are playing on Octo through an FTP connection as this is not supported and might result in the server crashing. Using multiple display devices with different refresh rates is not recommended as this may cause stuttering. The server can only play (non-prkl) files that have smaller resolution than the Max layer size specified in Configurator > Display Config > Advanced. This limitation doesn t affect PRKL playback. DPX image sequences support only 24bit and 10bit rgb (gbrp10le) colors. Other color spaces might cause havoc. Seeking and frame stepping with paused video only seeks / steps to closest keyframe. ProRes implementation doesn t support alpha channel. 10 bit colors only work when display is configured for auto mode. Forcing Dual-Link DVI resolution from 4xHDMI or 4xDP connectors can cause system to become unstable. Commander and Player Auto is only permitted target file value for sequences. This setting appears in transfer local files dialog. Remember last server browser path option doesn t work with Inputs folder. When dragging media in Media Library, media must be dropped into slot and not between slots. Macro name is not permitted to contain dot character Font sizes smaller than 10 and larger than 18 are not supported. Some fonts can render text non-visible. If font selector preview doesn t show valid preview, do not use the font. Font style settings (bold, italics) is not honored by all texts. 2

3 Release November 16, 2018 This is a bug fix release. Server Fixed the copy protection system to work with newer license firmware (#4738). Important: Servers starting from the following serial numbers are not compatible with software v2.6.1 and older versions: - Picturall TWIN: #FX Picturall QUAD: #FW Picturall PRO: #FV0131 Fixed the ArtNet universe and subnet ranges 0-15 (#4731) No changes in GUI. Release November 5, 2018 This is a bug fix release. Server Improved scheduler to make playback smoother with high loads (#4670) Fixed the error with dual DVI input cards when only single channel is detected (#4696) No changes in GUI. Release October 5, 2018 This release adds text generator and cue and cue stack macros. Server Cues and cue stacks can now have macros (#4427, #4587) Added text generator (#4425) Added '?' command (#4526) Playback of text is supported (#4425) 3 Web pages can now be automatically reloaded (#4512)

4 System startup process has been improved. o System now starts with all displays configured at 1080p using DisplayPort signaling (#4518) o All displays have new test image enabled at installation and factory reset with system IP address and display number. (#4545) o EULA can now be accepted from web configurator (#4518) Improved ProRes to PRKL conversion for some ProRes formats (#4528) Improved PRKL encoding performance (#4546) Fixed and improved video scaling filtering (#4559) Fixed webconfig edit custom modeline button (#4543) Fixed issue with DMX settings complaining about invalid value if DMX is disabled (#4479) Cues and Cue Stacks can now have macros. Please note that this is a separate macro concept from the layer macros. Macros can be accessed from contextual menu on Cues in Cue List and Cue Stacks in Cue Stack List. Cue macros are executed when cue is executed. Cue stack has entry end exit macro. Entry macro is executed when stack is loaded into a playback and exit macro when stack is released from a playback. Pre-defined macro templates include Trigger cue, Trigger playback and Trigger network command. Custom macros can also be defined. Please note that if any macro is defined, saved showfile can no longer be loaded with older Commander version. Showfiles containing macros are supported only in Commander or later. (#4464) Text can be added to media library. Under server files, new folder called Generators can be found. Drag Text generator into media library and a dialog opens. Enter text and specify text settings. Texts already added to media library can be edited from contextual menu. (#4425) Web page can now be automatically reloaded. When adding or editing web page, reload option can be entered to automatically reload web page at specified intervals. (#4512) Non-optimal GPU pixel space is automatically optimized after 5 second delay. If Commander detects that pixel space is not optimal, Commander will automatically execute optimize. This feature can be disabled or customized in Options, under General Options. (#4437) Minimum length of image sequence increased to 49 frames. If sequence contains less than 49 frames, it cannot be used and will not be detected as image sequence. (#4499) Layer composition graph can now be opened in a separate window. To open separate graph, select Layers Graph from Window-menu or graph icon from main toolbar. (#4434) Display position graph can now be opened in a separate window. To open separate graph, select Displays Graph from Window-menu or graph icon from main toolbar. (#4434) Dialog for entering image sequence FPS now displays image sequence name. (#4498) Release June 4, 2018 This is a bug fix release. Server 4 Fixed synchronization behavior when using PRKL on the slave layer (#4318)

5 Fixed frame blending crashing the server (#4536) Fixed front panel display (#4538) Fixes display wizard layout issues (#4533) Fixes unresponsive display wizard when entering large grid size values. (#4535) Release This version includes support for Web page playback. Server is able to display web pages but sound or interaction is not supported. Web pages can be located on the Internet, server on a local network or stored locally. Server default IP-address is now This release changes cue programming: Play / Pause / Stop, media selection and other integer based controls will be applied at the start of fade period. Earlier they were applied at the middle of fade. (#4494) Cues that have all of the timings at zero (wait, fade and hold) will no longer wait for trigger if the cue triggering is configured as automatic. (#4495) Server changes Web page playback is supported. Multiple web pages can be running at same time. Web page background transparency is supported. (#4049) Video stream playback is supported. (#4394) Web page can be stored locally. Transfer web page using FTP to.webpages folder. Use url prefix to display locally stored web pages. (#4330) Server default IP-address is now and default netmask is (#4461) Webconfig displays warning when browser version is too old (IE 9 or earlier). (#4496) Removed custom display resolution warning from webconfig and console config (#4502) Updated GPU drivers which fixes issues with slow start with DP connectors (#4460) Improved error reporting for system startup (#4467) Improved configuration system web browser support. Adds warning when using too old browsers Removed custom modeline warning (#4502) Fixed issues with converting ProRes files to PRKL (#4528) 5

6 Web page media is now supported. Web page can be found from Server files panel under Network folder. Drag web page into Media library and enter URL and browser window size. Browser window size is the size of the browser window used to render the web page. So larger values means more of the webpage is visible. URL cannot be edited once set. To edit URL, remove and re-add Web page to Media library. Interaction with the web page is not supported. (#4316) Video stream media is now supported. Video stream can be found from Server files panel under Network folder. Drag video stream into Media library and enter URL. Only URLs beginning with rtsp:// and rtp:// are supported. URL cannot be edited once set. To edit URL, remove and re-add Video stream to Media library. For optimal streaming quality, experimentation with available options and video stream server settings might be required. (#4394) Display wizard now supports auto display size. It uses display resolutions instead of manually specified display sizes. When auto size is used, bezel correction can be specified in pixels. (#4336) Display wizard edge blending size option is no longer available, use Edge Blending panel after creating the blending group. (#4336) Display wizard can now be used to apply display overlap when displays are overlapping. Displays are assumed to be laid from left to right, from top to bottom. (#4336) Fonts can be changed in Options, General, Fonts -options panel. Primary font is used for most texts. Large font is used for some graphs. Monospace font is used for some counters. Font sizes 10 to 14 are recommended. Too small or too large font sizes can render application unusable. Some fonts might not be compatible and can render text non-visible. Font style (bold, italics) setting is not honored by all texts. (#4407) Timecode font size option is no longer available. Timecode uses primary font. Use Font options to select desired font. (#4407) Default font on some texts have been changed. (#4407) Multiple saved connections can be deleted. Previously each connection had to be deleted separately. (#4470) Fixed error message when clicking...-button on local file, description or sequence audio file property in media properties view. (#4522) Release This is a bugfix release. It fixes following issues: Server changes Fixes in handling pause and media end action pause (#4486, #4510) Fixed ProRes files with width not divisible by 16 (#4503) Fixed PRKL Alpha issues (#4450) Fixed audio issues when starting playback of file with audio fade-in (#4491) 6

7 No changes in GUI. Release This release fixes two major bugs: broke some still image formats and made simple manual ip settings sometimes fail to validate. This changes play / pause / stop handling. Server now remembers what was the last play/pause/stop command send by user and uses that when changing medias. This makes system behave more logically when using still images, media end action pause or with broken medias. Server changes Fixes still images (#4477) Fixes setting manual IP without gateway and DNS (#4476) Improves media error handling (#4481) No changes in GUI. Release This update fixes several bugs, makes programming shows with still images much easier and improves GUI usability. Server changes Fixed issue which caused some inputs card channels to have incorrect name. (#4419, #4272) Fixed issues with 10bit colors (#4269) Improved installation speed (#4355) Allow encoding ProRes files to PRKL (#4366) Fixed some Targa images which were shown upside down (#4409) Stop to pause now shows the first frame (NOTE: this makes working with still images much easier!) (#4417) Support for additional newer hardware components (#4418) Reduced memory load on complex shows (#4449) Fixed audio cracking under high loads (#4451) Added a new shutdown commands: poweroff and shutdown Fixed regression introduced in which caused license update request download to fail. (#4453) 7

8 Fixed regression introduced in which caused startup to take longer in some network environments. (#4448) Display graph, located under Displays tab in Position panel, now includes toggle button for displaying GPUs Pixel space areas. For optimal playback performance, displays located on same GPU should be kept close together. This new tool makes it easier to visualize size of pixel space on each GPU. (#4392) Pixel space panel, located under GPUs tab, now displays warning when pixel space is not optimal in any of the selected GPUs. (#4391) Pixel space panel, located under GPUs tab, now displays message when pixel space is limited and single GPU is selected. When size of pixel space is limited, increasing it can improve playback image quality at performance cost. (#4391) Warnings window now displays warning message when pixel space is not optimal. (#4391) Duplicate cue, cue stack or cue stack entry now work with multiple selected items. (#4398) Duplicate reference action in cue stack entry contextual menu is now called Duplicate. Previous duplicate action which duplicated both cue stack entry and cue has been removed. (#4398) Contextual menu for Cue Stack Entry now contains Replace... -action which allows changing the Cue the selected Cue Stack Entry references to. (#4398) Fixed duplicate not copying cue stack entry trigger type and name (#4397) Release This release fixes plenty of minor issues, adds some minor features and adds support for new hardware, most importantly dual DisplayPort 1.2 input option and uncompressed 8k playback option. This release also adds support for new audio cards: Presonus Studio 2 6 Presonus Studio 192 Server changes Added ability to disable artnet / DMX input (#4351) Test images can be enabled and disabled from Web configurator tools. (#4172) Added MAC address to webconfigurator (#4339) Added support for new input card models (#4326) Added support for uncompressed playback option (#4249, #4294) Added support for dual DisplayPort 1.2 input option (#4246) Increased GPU default pixel space to 35Mpix (#4338) Performance optimizations (#4412, #4370, #4368, #4284, #4264, #4259, #4254) 8 Some Targa images were displayed upside down. This is now fixed. (#4409)

9 Fixed obscure memory allocation error (#4408) Improvements in custom display mode handling (#4406, #4405, #4275) Improvements in display configuration (#4306) Support for Analog Way server models (#4395, #4386, #4383) Support for new GPU models (#4363, #4332, #4292, #4273) Improved diagnostics tools (#4390, #4389, #4250) Removed invalid framelock warning on console configuration tool. (#4388) Fixed playing image sequences that consist of just single frame (#4378) Fixed startup issues (#4371, #4362) Fixed PRKL alpha encoding (#4367) Fixed hardware / driver issues with multiple input cards (#4333) Fixed crashing when using audio on layers 48 and over (#4327) Minor improvements to the network configuration (#4357, #4314, #4310) Fixed DMX intensity calculation to allow 100% opacity (#4324) Fixed server startup issues where server could sometimes take minutes to start (#4308, #4298) Fixed wave and directional blur effects (#4280) Fixed webconfigurator showing invalid audio enabled value (#4279) Fixed free disk space calculation (#4278) Generic improvements in configuration tools (#4220) Fixed seeking image sequence with audio (#4199) Fixed blend areas test image which didn t always show up (#4151) Test images can be enabled and disabled from Web configurator tools. (#4172) Remaining time and elapsed time are now relative to media inpoint and outpoint. Previously these values were relative to media s full length. (#4261) Fixed minor issue with support dialog layout. (#4267) Fixed issue which caused About dialog to sometimes display wrong version number. (#4290) Fixed geometry button and panel not highlighted when corresponding change was added into programmer (#4297) 9

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