SelenioFlex Live 1.3.0 SelenioFlex Live 1.3.0 Requirements and License System Configuration The system ships as a fully configured 1RU encoding system. Your system configuration will differ depending on which model you purchased. The system is configured using a web portal. To connect to the system use a computer that is on the same network as the encoding system. The network settings for a new, un-configured system are: IP address: 10.10.10.10 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 10.10.10.1 You can modify these settings using a USB drive. Please see the Quick Start Guide or the User's Guide for complete details. Once you have a computer on the same network as the encoding system open a browser and enter the IP address of the encoder to connect. Note: Use a different network or subnet for each NIC (Management, Data 1, Data 2) you configure. Registration YOU MUST REGISTER YOUR PRODUCT TO OBTAIN A PERMANENT LICENSE. A new Stream Live Live system is delivered with a temporary license which will expire. In order to receive your permanent license you must register your system using the system's License ID. When you connect to a SelenioFlex Live system you will be able to see the License ID on the System > Model/License Info page. This ID is also displayed on a tag attached to the rear of the unit. To register go to http://www.digitalrapids.com/en/support/productregistration.aspx. Create a Imagine Communications customer login (or login using your existing credentials if you already have a customer login). Register your product using all 16 digits of the License ID (including the leading zeros). Your license will be emailed to the email address you specified when you created your customer login. The name of the permanent license file will use the License ID of your system. June 11, 2014 1 of 5
Once you have obtained the license file, copy it to the computer where you will launch the web user interface to connect to the encoder. Connect to the system by opening a browser and entering the IP address of the encoder, then go to the System > Upgrade page. Browse to the license file. MAKE SURE THE LICENSE FILE MATCHES THE LICENSE ID OF THE SYSTEM. If you use a license file that does not match the license ID of the system your current license will be unloaded. The next time you connect to the system you will be able to go to the System > Upgrade page, so that you can upload and apply the correct license file, however the License ID will not be shown on the web interface. Refer to the tag on the back of the system for the License ID. Once you are sure that the license file matches the license ID of the system, click the Send button to upload it to the system. Once the upload completes click the Apply button to load the new license on to the system. The system will then reboot to apply the updated license. For firmware upgrades, the file transfer will take a few second. After clicking on Apply, the encoder will then need approximately 5 minutes before it reboots on its own. Do not manually reboot or power cycle the encoder during any upgrade process. If no new message tells you to refresh the web browser after 5 minutes, then manually refresh it. Go to System > Model/License Info to verify the new firmware version. Maintenance and Warranty One year of Software/Firmware Maintenance and Standard Support must be purchased with your product, and is renewable annually. Maintenance includes free point upgrades (e.g., upgrade the firmware from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 or to 1.1.0). Standard support includes phone and online support during regular business days from 10am to 6pm based on the time zone of the regional Imagine Communications Support Office. Contact Imagine Communications Sales or your Imagine Communications Dealer to purchase an additional year of maintenance. The SelenioFlex Live limited Hardware Warranty is detailed in the SelenioFlex Live User's Guide. Upgrade Notes There are two types of upgrade files: Firmware updates License updates The firmware updates can be used on any SelenioFlex Live system. The license updates are for a specific system, and must be used on the system with the matching license ID. That is, each system will have its own unique license update file. If you are upgrading you must apply both a firmware update and a license update in order to use the new features. After a system Upgrade the web portal may display an error: Failed to connect to server. If this occurs the browser cache will need to be cleared, and then the browser will need to be refreshed. (This error will not occur when upgrading from version 1.2.0 to subsequent versions, only when upgrading from 1.0 or 1.1.) Once you have upgraded to version 1.1.0 you will not be able to easily downgrade to a previous version. If you need to downgrade please contact Imagine Communications support. June 11, 2014 2 of 5
SelenioFlex Live Change History Version 1.2.0.8 to 1.3.0.10 The product has been renamed SelenioFlex Live. The Channel Settings window has been reorganized to a dialog with separate tabs for different types of settings. Audio levels are now available on the Channel Settings dialog and can be adjusted manually. Slate Insertion is now an available option on the Channel Settings dialog. A slate can be used automatically if signal loss is detected and/or it can be triggered manually. Audio Mute and Input Preview settings have been moved to the Channel Settings dialog. The Channel Control (Management Access) setting has been moved to the Channel Settings dialog. Output warnings are now displayed on the web portal. For AAC encoding Dolby Metadata settings have been removed (and Dolby metadata is no longer added to the bitstream). Version 1.1.0.11 to 1.2.0.8 Smooth Streaming Live and VOD outputs can now include Timed Text tracks which acquire the data from the 608/708 closed caption data from the input's SDI ancillary data. Flash VOD outputs can now include Timed Text tracks which acquire the data from the 608/708 closed caption data from the input's SDI ancillary data. Flash RTMP Live outputs can now include captioning as oncaptioninfo which acquires the data from the 608/708 closed caption data from the input's SDI ancillary data. HLS Live and VOD outputs now have captions enabled using the Streaming Group configuration (previously it was enabled in each video layer). MPEG Transport Stream Live and VOD outputs now have captions enabled using the Streaming Group configuration (previously it was enabled in the video elementary stream). Flash RTMP Live outputs now support NIC binding. Fixed the following issue: After a reboot (e.g., following an Upgrade) occasionally you were unable to connect to the system using the web portal, and the following error was shown: Could not load page. Version 1.0.1.8 to 1.1.0.11 VOD/Archive file support was added (as an Output Destination) for Flash, HLS and Smooth Streaming. Transport Stream output was added. It can be used for VOD/Archive file output or for live UDP or RTP/RTSP streaming. Additional audio encoding support for Transport Stream output only: Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio encoding and MPEG-1 Layer II audio encoding June 11, 2014 3 of 5
PlayReady DRM support was added for Live Smooth Streaming outputs. Support was added for Irdeto PlayReady, a generic Web Service method for contacting a PlayReady server and a "manual" PlayReady configuration (used primarily for testing). The audio can now include a Language code. This can be used by the Smooth Streaming outputs so that the user can use the language to select the audio during playback. An input preview has been added to the web console for each channel. Note that switching to a tab with the input preview enabled will cause the interface to stop responding for several seconds. To prevent this delay, and to prevent other browser instabilities caused by the plugin used to playback the video, the input preview should be toggled off when it is not currently being used to verify the input. The audio may be muted on a channel-by-channel basis. This feature must first be enabled using the System > Input Audio Mute option. Once it is enabled a "Mute Audio Input" button will be visible for each channel. Added support for setting an HTTP Proxy. To use a proxy configuration all channels need to have their settings re-applied after the proxy settings have been saved. The Graphic Overlay settings now include an Anchor Point setting, to make it easier to position the graphic. A "maintain aspect ratio" option has been added. The Graphic Overlay performance has been optimized. A full sized 1920x1080 graphic can now be used on all 4 channels with approximately a 2% increase in system load. The Management port (INT_MGMT) on the encoder should not use DHCP, it should use a static address. If it has been set to DHCP then the web interface will now let you switch to "Manual" so that a static address can be set. It will no longer allow you to select DHCP. Version 1.0.0.52 to 1.0.1.8 Cropping: Pre-processing capability for streaming groups Graphic Overlay: Pre-processing capability for streaming groups Network settings can be automatically read from the encoding system and written to a file on an attached USB key. This allows the IP address to be obtained without using a browser to connect to the system. Network settings can be changed on the encoding system by attaching a USB key with the new settings in a file on the root of the USB. The License ID is now displayed on the System > Model/License Info page. The Input Signal Aspect Ratio can now be specified in the Group Pre-processing for streaming groups. This allows the output video aspect ratio to be different from the input video, such as with anamorphic NTSC/PAL (4:3) input and 16:9 output. Flash/RTMP: Improved the handling of timeouts for outputs that are streaming to Akamai. Fixed: Issue which caused the encoder to stop when the SDI input had an invalid ancillary data checksum. Fixed the AAC encode settings default values for 5.1 surround. Fixed the AVC encoder's "Aspect Ratio Converter". Previously if the Aspect Ratio Converter setting did not match the input video's setting an error would be generated ("Input pixel aspect ratio not detected"). June 11, 2014 4 of 5
Known Limitations When setting the Graphic Overlay, the green "preview" area will show the graphic image area, not the actual graphic image size within that area (taking into account the aspect ratio of the actual image file), but it will be rendered correctly when it is encoded. Graphic overlay: The following 32-bit file formats are supported with restrictions: When using Photoshop to save 32-bit PNG files, use "Save for Web & Devices", choose PNG-24, and enable "Transparency". 32-bit TIFF files may be used. In Photoshop if the image has transparency then the default "save as" values in Photoshop produces a TIFF file that can be used as a graphic overlay. 32-bit TGA files must use an alpha channel, they will not work if they are simply saved with transparency. In Photoshop, this will mean converting the transparency to an alpha channel before the file is saved as a TGA file. (Tip: TGA files can only use RGB color mode.) For PNG graphics, only images with an even number of pixels in width are currently supported. When creating a Smooth Streaming output which uses PlayReady encryption, the *first* time an encode is run on the system which includes PlayReady, the encoder must have access to the internet, in order to "individualize" the encoder for use with PlayReady. After that step has occurred subsequent encodes can take place even if the encoder is not connected to the internet. Smooth Streaming limitation: Currently a Smooth Streaming output will stop if the data cannot be sent to the media server. That is, the "On Error" selection is not being used. After an encoding group has started streaming, only outputs of the same output type (Flash, HLS or Smooth Streaming) may be added on-the-fly, while the group continues streaming. If you will require additional output types, then add those Outputs and the Configuration/Layers that you will use before you start streaming. (These additional "place holder" outputs do not need to include a Destination before you start streaming. You can add a Destination after the group has started streaming). After a system Upgrade the web portal may display an error: Failed to connect to server. If this occurs the browser cache will need to be cleared, and then the browser will need to be refreshed. (This error will not occur when upgrading from version 1.2.0 to subsequent versions, only when upgrading from 1.0 or 1.1.) Once you have upgraded to version 1.1.0 you will not be able to easily downgrade to a previous version. If you need to downgrade please contact Imagine Communications support. When using the USB Drive method to read or write the network settings on the encoder, the file names used are case sensitive. Use SzlReadIp.txt (where Szl stands for S Z L) and LicenseID_SzlWriteIp.txt (where the LicenseID is the 16-digit hex number used for the license ID, e.g., 000000004ab19865_SzlWriteIp.txt). Also, when attempting to write from a USB drive, if the SzlReadIp.txt file is present delete it from the root of the drive, as a read takes precedence over a write, and the write will be ignored. For a Transport Stream live output, for the Destination IP, you can only use an IPv4 IP address (4 octets, no number greater than 255). You cannot use a host name or an IPv6 IP address. When closed captioning is enabled for the Streaming Group, captions are not embedded in the AVC user data for frame rates lower than 23.98 fps. (This affects closed captioning for HLS and MPEG Transport Stream.) June 11, 2014 5 of 5