Wowza release 4.0.5

Wowza 4.0.5 - SHOUTcast and NVIDIA fixed

Detailed list of changes in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.0.5

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• Updated the localstatus function in the Linux services to return a code of 3 if the service is not running as per the Linux Standard Base Specification 3.1

• Updated code that queries the OperatingSystem MBean to do it in a way that is friendly to non-Oracle JVMs (fixes a problem with Wowza Streaming Engine not starting with IBM JVM)

• Added logging statements to Transcoder to log first codec config frame and first video frame processed by the video decoder

• Fixed Push Publishing to send NetStream.Data.Start using the correct stream identifier

• Added application property "securityPublishSendCloseOnReject" (Boolean, default: false) to ModuleSecurity to close connections upon reject

• Fixed ServerListenerStreamDemoPublisher shutdown so it does not throw a concurrency error

• Fixed a problem with Transcoder utility for extracting SEI NAL units that we were not properly checking for buffer length

• Fixed Transcoder H.264 decoder to properly guard against buffer overrun if NAL unit lengths are not correct in an H.264 frame

• Fixed Apple HLS (cupertino) VOD packetizer for audio-only renditions so that they are in sync with audio/video renditions (added TS offset to audio-only ID3 tag)

• Fixed nDVR Smooth Streaming chunk request where rounding to nearest available time in an MBR request would not result in a valid chunk. Fixes "Playlist alignment null store" log warning

• Fixed the ability to change your VHost name from "_defaultVHost_" to any name from within the VHost.xml file

• Removed the bad link during email generation process on Teradek Incoming Publishers page (within Wowza Streaming Engine Manager)

• Improved Apple HLS (cupertino) transport stream packetizer for VOD and live to properly indicate continuity counter breaks

• Fixed problem with ID3 tags in Apple HLS (cupertino) streams having timecodes 10 seconds off from audio and video content

• Added HTTPStreamers/Properties boolean property cupertinoAlwaysSendZeroPacketLen to instruct Apple HLS (cupertino) VOD packetizer to send zero length PES lengths for all video frames

• Added debugging code to H264Utils to log warning statement if NAL unit lengths do not match frame length (add Streams/Properties boolean property debugVideoH264NALUnits)

• Updated Transcoder to MainConcept SDK version 9.9

• Fixed Transcoder H.264 decoding issue with detecting changes in frame size (looking at incorrect decoder state)

• Fixed the failure to set the httpRandomizeMediaName property when creating an HTTP Origin application.

• Changed Apple HLS (cupertino) video on demand to not add a 10 second offset to the transport stream chunks by default (the mediastreamvalidator from Apple no longer throws the warning about the first chunks starting with timecode 0)

• Improved Apple HLS (cupertino) video on demand bitrate calculation to account for transport stream packetization and other overhead

• Fixed incorrect setting of X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS for live WebVTT captions, causing caption latency

• Fixed VOD WebVTT captions to correctly account for property "cupertinoAddTSOffset"

• Enhanced WMSLogger to support requesting a specific stack depth when logging exceptions

• Improved Transcoder on Windows to properly recognize new R340 NVidia driver, which removes support for CUDA encoder

• Fixed advanced stream monitor to work properly with SHOUTcast streams (when a reset occurred the monitor was not being torn down and re-created)

• Improved RTP MediaCaster to properly reset live stream packetizers for child transcoder streams

• Added API to ILiveStreamTranscoder to get the list of publisher associated with the transcoder

• List ILiveStreamTranscoder.getPublishers();

• Improved XML parsing utilities to trim read values

• Added ability in Transcoder to enable multi-threaded scaling (to control, add boolean property multiThreadScaler to LiveStreamTranscoder/Properties container in Application.xml, default is false)