General

This is a major release with new features including the following (for more details on any of the following please see below):

  • Default CC per share destination

  • Multi share destination

  • Manual CC adjust per share operation

  • Ooyala native- replace existing

  • Equipment alerts

  • OTT Cloud configuration support

  • STB support- Manual mode

  • Schedule Recording

  • EPG

  • Slicer Integration

  • LTW to AWS

  • Hide Sub Encoders drop down

  • Localization

  • Slates detection

  • No transcoding for OTT streams

  • Support creating XDS based programs from encrypted TS

Hardware consideration

  • 8.1 supports only 64-bit systems (Central Server and Probe)

  • The CEM and Thumbnails services can be installed directly on the CS if server has at least 8 GB RAM and less than 50% CPU utilization.

  • In case of a standalone server (CS + Probe on the same machine), it is necessary to install the CEM and Thumbnails services on a separate server. The Thumbnails feature requires a large amount of storage- For one encoder, one day takes approximately ~400MB

No Version Interoperability

There is NO Version Interoperability with the 8.1 QB1 software.

  • The Central Server and Probe must both be on 8.1 QB1 in order to communicate.

  • In addition, the player must match the 8.1 QB1 software version in order to view content from a Client Machine.