Wowza Streaming Engine 4.7.3 released!

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.7.3 build 21227 released!

Stream Target - SRT support

Stream Target: Facebook 360 Support

SSL support

Wowza Changes logs 

Changes since 4.7.2.02 release

• Added support for Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) on Windows operating systems
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• Fixed SRT parameters used by the SRT Push Publishing profile (StreamTargets)
• Fixed SRT Stream Target to resolve hostnames correctly
• Updated Facebook Stream Target to improve stability and error-handling, and to reduce overall graph API usage
• Updated Facebook Stream Target to support 360 video tagging
• Updated RTMP-based Stream Target to use query parameters correctly
• Improved Wowza Streaming Engine Manager configuration for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) deployments
• Fixed Microsoft Azure images to prevent license failures when restarting after prolonged stop
• Fixed MPEG-DASH streaming to correctly support wowzaplaystart, wowzaplayduration, and wowzaplayseek parameters embedded in segment request file names (originally from MPD request query params)
• Fixed H.264 media reader to correctly apply wowzaplayduration parameter to chunk requests
• Improved handling of streams with missing keyframes when using Apple HLS (Cupertino) packetizer
• Updated Transcoder log messages to show number of active decodes
• Updated Wowza Streaming Engine Manager to prevent incorrect LiveStreamRecord template keys from being entered
• Improved LiveStreamRecord to search deeper into the packet queue to align audio and video
• Added Application/Properties property liveStreamRecorderDefaultAudioSearchPosition (Boolean, default=true)
• Added Application/Properties property liveStreamRecorderSkipKeyFrameUntilAudioTimeout (Integer, default=10000 milliseconds)
• Fixed LiveStreamRecord template keys so they're always substituted correctly
• Fixed property Application/HTTPStreamer/Properties/httpMaxHTTPSessionsPerTCPSession to correctly limit session creation
• Fixed CORS headers to prevent them from being sent when disabled
• Fixed REST API to prevent null value properties from being added to XML configuration files
• Updated REST API HTTP return codes to better reflect API responses
• Improved Wowza Streaming Engine installer security

Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) Streaming

• Added support for ingesting Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) sources with the MediaCaster
• Updated Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) libraries
• Fixed SRT implementation to handle Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) key parameters correctly
• Added support for Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) Stream Targets in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager
• Fixed SRT MediaCaster to release lock correctly when a stream is being received

Stream Targets (Push Publishing)

• Updated Cupertino stream target base class so that the master playlist isn't sent when a target is defined with an adaptiveGroups value (reduces bandwidth usage and ensures compatibility with Akamai NetStorage)
• Resolved issues with CPU loading caused by threads monitoring live stream packetizers for PushPublishing HTTP protocol profiles (HLS, HDS, DASH)
• Fixed timing issue with PushPublishing HTTP targets when the livestreampacketizer wasn't detected properly, resulting in no files being pushed
• Fixed issue with handling of the URL attribute in HLS EXT-X-KEY tags in PushPublishing
• Fixed exception that occurred when PROGRAM-DATE-TIME tags were added to HLS/Cupertino stream targets

Media Cache

• Improved configuration validation of MediaCache Sources in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager
• Added default maximum and minimum time to live values for Media Cache sources when using Wowza Streaming Engine Manager
• Added default maximum and minimum time to live values for Media Cache sources when using the Wowza Streaming Engine REST API

MediaCasters, Stream Files, and Startup Streams

• Fixed issue causing exception with Apple HLS MediaCaster streams
• Improved LiveRepeater MediaCaster reset logic when streamForceResetOnReconnect is enabled
• Fixed MediaCaster so _definst_ is correctly removed when IsrRemoveDefaultAppInstance is set to true for WOWZ and RTMP connections
• Improved Apple HLS MediaCaster to support relative path pointers

Live Stream DVR Playback (Wowza nDVR)

• Changed incorrect Application/DVR/Properties property name chunkBreakOnPTSManifest to dvrChunkBreakOnPTSManifest
• Added Application/DVR/Properties property chunkBreakOnPTSManifest (Boolean, default false) to write presentation timestamp (PTS) time into manifest
• Fixed nDVR conversion to correctly handle audio-only MP3 stores

WebRTC (Preview)

• Added Application/Properties webrtcIdleTimeout property (Integer, default=5000) for WebRTC connections

RTSP/RTP Streaming

• Fixed RTP SDP exchange to include sprop-parameter-set parameter

Apple HLS (Cupertino) Streaming

• Added HTTPS support for Apple HLS stream files created in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager
• Fixed null pointer exceptions when an HLS chunk isn't ready for publishing

General Streaming

• Added on-demand playback support for MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (MPEG-4 ALS) using MPEG-DASH
• Fixed CORS headers that were being added incorrectly for HTTP requests
• Updated MPEG-DASH MPD creation to list elements in the order in which they are inserted through the CENC encryption APIs
• Improved NetConnection to allow send and receive chunk sizes to be changed for outbound connections:
• Added Application/Streams property rtmpSendChunkSize (Integer, default=512)
• Added Application/Streams property rtmpReceiveChunkSize (Integer, default=128)
• Fixed MediaReaderH264 to correctly return no audio type when files don't contain an audio track
• Added Transcoder decoding parameters for NVCUVID/CUDA to enable control of maxNumDecodeSurfaces

REST API

• Updated the REST API endpoint /v3/servers/{serverName}/vhosts/{vhostName}/applications/{appName}/instances/{instanceName}/incomingstreams/{streamName}
• Added parameter audioCodecString
• Added parameter videoCodecString
• Updated audio configuration string:
• Changed isAudioReady and isVideoReady to show the number of audio and video packets in the stream queue
• Fixed sourceIP to correctly show the publishing IP when using WebRTC
• Fixed video configuration so that it looks for the latest available video configuration packet rather than the current packet queue

General Server

• Updated core requirements to Java 7 and above
• Updated core Jackson libraries to 2.9.0
• Updated core Apache HTTP client library to 4.5.3
• Updated core Apache HTTP core library to 4.4.6
• Added winstone-log4j.properties to installer
• Removed unused Amazon S3 classes from core server code
• Improved filtering of query parameters in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager requests