Consumers

Fixes

• Decklink: fix support for driver 14.3 and later

Full Changelog: v2.4.1-stable...v2.4.2-stable

Core

Fixes

• Fix bad config file examples
• Fix casparcg_auto_restart.bat not starting scanner
• Revert removal of tbbmalloc, due to notable performance loss on windows
• Supress some cmake build warnings
• Build failure when doxygen installed on system
• Build failures with ffmpeg 7.0
• Revert RPATH linking changes

Producers

Fixes

• FFmpeg: Ignore ndi:// urls
• FFmpeg: Using both in and seek could result in incorrect duration
• Route: Race condition during destruction
• Image: Update freeimage on windows with some CVE fixes and failures with certain pngs
• Image: Respect EXIF rotate flag
• NDI: list local sources

Consumers

Fixes

• Decklink: subregion copy not respecting frame height
• Decklink: subregion vertical offset
• Decklink: subregion height limited with some formats

Full Changelog: v2.4.0-stable...v2.4.1-stable

Changes since 2.4.0 RC 1:

Core

Improvements

• Support 4K DCI frames
• Build: Allow configuring diag font path at build time
• AMCP: Add CALLBG command to perform CALL on background producer

Fixes

• OSC: Background state not being produced
• Scanner: resolve issues with database not being updated

Producers

Improvements

• HTML: Expose cache-path setting

Fixes

• FFmpeg: Unable to play files with extra dots in filenames
• FFmpeg: Support parameters with name containing a dash
• FFmpeg: Audio channels being swapped unexpectedly

Changes since 2.3.3

Core

Improvements

• Custom resultions can be specified in casparcg.config
• Interlaced mixer pipeline to ensure field accuracy
• Preserve unicode characters in console input/output
• Producers to be run at startup can be defined in casparcg.config
• Support 8K frames
• Support 4K DCI frames
• Remove undocumented CII and CLK protocol implementations
• Config parameter can be an absolute system path, not just relative to the working directory
• AMCP: Add CLEAR ALL command
• AMCP: Command batching syntax
• AMCP: LOAD/LOADBG/PLAY commands accept a CLEAR_ON_404 parameter, to instruct the layer to be cleared when the requested file was not found
• AMCP: Add commands to subscribe and unsubscribe to OSC on any port number
• AMCP: Add CALLBG command to perform CALL on background producer
• Build: Require C++17 for building
• Build: Support newer versions of Boost
• Build: Support newer versions of TBB
• Build: Disable precompiled headers for linux
• Build: Support VS2022
• Build: Replace nuget and locally committed dependencies with direct http downloads
• Build: Allow configuring diag font path at build time
• Linux: Support setting thread priorities
• Linux: Initial ARM64 compatibility
• Linux: Rework build to always use system boost
• Linux: Rework build process to better support being build as a system package
• Logging: add config option to disable logging to file and to disable column alignment
• Transitions: Support additional audio fade properties for STING transition

Fixes

• Crash upon exiting if HTML producer was running
• AMCP: Ensure all consumers and producers are reported in INFO commands
• AMCP: Deferred mixer operations were not being cleared after being applied
• AMCP: LOAD command would show a frame or two of black while new producer was loading
• OpenGL: Fix support for recent Linux drivers
• Linux: Fix endless looping on stdin
• Route: Fix error when clearing layer
• Transitions: Fix wipe duration

Producers

Improvements

• Decklink: Require driver 11.0 or later
• Decklink: Scale received frames on GPU
• FFmpeg: Update to v5.1
• FFmpeg: Improve performance
• FFmpeg: Allow specifying both SEEK and IN for PLAY commands
• HTML: Update to CEF 117
• HTML: CALL 1-10 RELOAD to reload a renderer
• HTML: Expose cache-path setting
• NDI: Upgrade to NDI5
• System Audio: Allow specifying output device to use

Fixes

• Decklink: Log spamming when using some input formats
• FFmpeg: Prevent loading unreadable files
• FFmpeg: Unable to play files with unicode filenames
• FFmpeg: Don't lowercase filter parameters
• FFmpeg: Support parameters with name containing a dash
• HTML: media-stream permission denied
• HTML: Expose angle backend config field, the best backend varies depending on the templates and machine
• HTML: Crash when multiple iframes were loaded within a renderer
• Image: Improve file loading algorithm to match the case insensitive and absolute path support already used by ffmpeg

Consumers

Improvements

• Artnet: New artnet consumer
• Decklink: Configure device duplex modes in casparcg.config
• Decklink: Output a subregion of the channel
• Decklink: Add secondary outputs in a consumer, to ensure sync when used within a single card
• iVGA: Remove consumer
• NDI: Upgrade to NDI5

Fixes

• Decklink: Fix stutter when loading clips
• FFmpeg: Fix RTMP streaming missing headers
• NDI: dejitter

Changes since Beta 1:

Important

There is a known bug in the version of media-scanner included in this release.
It is recommended to replace it with v1.3.2 or newer from https://github.com/CasparCG/media-scanner/releases

Core

Improvements

• Config parameter can be an absolute system path, not just relative to the working directory
• Linux: Rework build to always use system boost
• Linux: Rework build process to better support being build as a system package
• Audio: 16 channel audio

Fixes

• Crash upon exiting if HTML producer was running
• AMCP: LOAD command would show a frame or two of black while new producer was loading

Producers

Fixes

• FFmpeg: Unable to play files with extra dots in filenames
• FFmpeg: Don't lowercase filter parameters
• HTML: Debugger connection closes
• HTML: Expose angle backend config field, the best backend varies depending on the templates and machine
• HTML: Crash when multiple iframes were loaded within a renderer
• Image: Improve file loading algorithm to match the case insensitive and absolute path support already used by ffmpeg

CasparCG 2.4.0 Beta 1

Core

Improvements

• Custom resultions can be specified in casparcg.config
• Interlaced mixer pipeline to ensure field accuracy
• Preserve unicode characters in console input/output
• Producers to be run at startup can be defined in casparcg.config
• Support 8K frames
• Remove undocumented CII and CLK protocol implementations
• AMCP: Add CLEAR ALL command
• AMCP: Command batching syntax
• AMCP: LOAD/LOADBG/PLAY commands accept a CLEAR_ON_404 parameter, to instruct the layer to be cleared when the requested file was not found
• AMCP: Add commands to subscribe and unsubscribe to OSC on any port number
• Build: Require C++17 for building
• Build: Support newer versions of Boost
• Build: Support newer versions of TBB
• Build: Disable precompiled headers for linux
• Build: Support VS2022
• Build: Replace nuget and locally committed dependencies with direct http downloads
• Linux: Support setting thread priorities
• Linux: Initial ARM64 compatibility
• Logging: add config option to disable logging to file and to disable column alignment
• Transitions: Support additional audio fade properties for STING transition

Fixes

• AMCP: Ensure all consumers and producers are reported in INFO commands
• AMCP: Deferred mixer operations were not being cleared after being applied
• OpenGL: Fix support for recent Linux drivers
• Linux: Fix endless looping on stdin
• Route: Fix error when clearing layer
• Transitions: Fix wipe duration

Producers

Improvements

• Decklink: Require driver 11.0 or later
• Decklink: Scale received frames on GPU
• FFmpeg: Update to v5.1
• FFmpeg: Improve performance
• FFmpeg: Allow specifying both SEEK and IN for PLAY commands
• HTML: Update to CEF 117
• HTML: CALL 1-10 RELOAD to reload a renderer
• NDI: Upgrade to NDI5
• System Audio: Allow specifying output device to use

Fixes

• Decklink: Log spamming when using some input formats
• FFmpeg: Prevent loading unreadable files
• FFmpeg: Unable to play files with unicode filenames
• HTML: media-stream permission denied

Consumers

Improvements

• Artnet: New artnet consumer
• Decklink: Configure device duplex modes in casparcg.config
• Decklink: Output a subregion of the channel
• Decklink: Add secondary outputs in a consumer, to ensure sync when used within a single card
• iVGA: Remove consumer
• NDI: Upgrade to NDI5

Fixes

• Decklink: Fix stutter when loading clips
• FFmpeg: Fix RTMP streaming missing headers
• NDI: dejitter

Producers

Fixes

• Packages: Update TBB library to v2021.1.1 - fixes CPU and memory growth when deleting threads
• FFmpeg: Fix possible deadlock leading to producer not being cleaned up correctly

Producers

Fixes

• Packages: Update TBB library to v2021.1.1 - fixes CPU and memory growth when deleting threads
• FFmpeg: Fix possible deadlock leading to producer not being cleaned up correctly

This is the first patch release for 2.3.

Primarily this contains a crtical fix to provide support for flash templates to be used after the flash player EOL at the end of 2020.
For more information on the issue see: #1352

Thanks to @silid for developing the fix and @didikunz for documenting the process and being a key member of chasing for these releases to be made

See the attached PDF, or the copy in the Zip for steps on how to prepare your system.

For any help or questions, check the forum

Changes

Producers

Fixes

• Flash: Use proper file urls when loading templates, to allow it to work after Flash Player EOL
• FFmpeg: Various HTTP playback improvements

This is a critical fix for the 2.0.7 release, to provide support for flash templates to be used after the flash player EOL at the end of 2020

For more information on the issue see: #1352

This has been built to be as close as possible to the previous 2.0.7 release, to minimise any risk of deployment.

Thanks to @silid for developing the fix and @didikunz for documenting the process and being a key member of chasing for these releases to be made

See the attached PDF, or the copy in the Zip for steps on how to prepare your system.

For any help or questions, check the forum