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An HTML5-compatible live streaming server supporting the WebM and H.264 formats. vbence/stream-m. TAG Video Systems is the world leader in 100% software based integrated IP Multiviewer, Probing and Monitoring solutions. Introducing its first IP solution in 2008, today TAG supports over 50,000 channels across the four primary broadcasting applications – Live Production, Playout/Master Control, Distribution and OTT.
These release notes are for version 12.1.3. The changes in this and earlier versions are listed below.
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Changes since 12.1.2
Issue Id | Summary |
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VM-17284 | Editing the default anonymous incident share email address now takes effect immediately. |
Changes since 12.1.0
Issue Id | Summary |
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VM-16884 | Anonymous incident share email address can now be filled in automatically with a default value. |
VM-17010 | Video metadata overlay can now be enabled in the device profile for VT-50, VT-100 and VB-400 devices. |
VM-17144 | The System administrator role no longer grants permission to allocate devices and collect allocated devices. |
VM-16963 | Automatic imports did not always work. |
Changes since 12.0.3
Issue Id | Summary |
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VM-16727 | Video quality when playing videos at 'highest' playback quality level has been improved. |
VM-16706 | Edesix VideoManager can now interact correctly with VB-400 devices which are running firmware more recent than this version of Edesix VideoManager. |
Earlier changes
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See the V12.0.x release notes for earlier changes.
Upgrade notes
If you use any of the 'Shared configuration settings' - on the Auto-fetch settings page - to replicate configuration information to sites, then the site will use out-of-date configuration information until upgraded to the minimum required version for that setting. Configuration changes made on the central system will have no effect until the site is upgraded.
The following table shows the minimum required version of Edesix VideoManager running at the site in order for each shared configuration setting to replicate correctly.
Shared configuration setting | Minimum compatible site version |
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Keys | 5.1.0 |
Roles & Password Rules | 6.4.0 |
Users | 7.0.1 |
Device Profiles | 6.4.1 |
Deletion policies | 6.4.0 |
User-defined fields | 6.4.0 |
Device states and locations | 10.0.0 |
Supported platforms
Edesix VideoManager is supported on the following platforms: Privatus 6 1 8 quart.
- Windows 8 Pro & Enterprise 64-bit
- Windows 8.1 Pro & Enterprise 64-bit
- Windows 10 Pro & Enterprise 64-bit
- Windows Server 2012 Essentials, Standard & Datacenter
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, Standard & Datacenter
- Windows Server 2016 Essentials, Standard & Datacenter **
- CentOS-7 Linux x86_64
* - USB attached devices are not supported on Windows Server 2016.
Note that accessing the Edesix VideoManager web application from a web browser running on a Windows Server desktop is not supported. However, Windows Server can be used for running the Edesix VideoManager service.
Versions of the product which run on 32-bit Windows are available from support. 32-bit support will be discontinued in a future release.
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Supported browsers
The new Edesix VideoManager web application is supported on the following browsers:
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- Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (Windows 7/8.1/10) **
- Microsoft Edge 14+ (Windows 10)
- Firefox 47+ * (Windows 7/8.1/10).
- Chrome 48+ (Windows 7/8.1/10, MAC OS X v10.10)
Accessing the Edesix VideoManager web application from a web browser running on a Windows Server desktop is not supported.
* When using Firefox on Windows, you may need to run Windows Media Player once to install codecs before video playback will work. Firefox video playback only works if the operating system provides an MP3 codec.
** When using Internet Explorer, audio is not supported on Device live view page.
Supported device firmware
As of version 9.0+ we will no longer support assignment of devices running firmware older than version 6.0. These devices will still connect but only for the purposes of upgrading them.
Included device firmware
This release of Edesix VideoManager includes the following firmware:
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VideoBadge firmware | V12.1.1 |
VideoBadge (pss4) firmware | V12.1.2 |
VideoTag firmware | V12.1.3 |
DockController firmware | V12.1.1 |
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As long as our player has been around, we have received requests from our customers asking to slow down video playback. Unfortunately, Flash never exposed any sort of playback speed control across the board. Take a video with progressive download -- by default controlling playback speed is not supported. The only way for this to work is by using RTMP, with either Adobe Flash Media server or Wowza Media Server (FLV only). As a support team, we would get around this by using the player API to mute the audio track and essentially make the play pause very quickly, over and over again, using a timer, to simulate the illusion of slow motion, however, this solution was not very elegant, and it made the play icon flicker.
Enter HTML5
Unlike Flash, the HTML5 standard does allow you to set playback speed. All modern HTML5 capable browsers have implemented the playbackRate and defaultPlaybackRate properties now, so it is very easy to create a basic video tag that plays back at an alternative rate. The only browsers that support these are: IE10, IE9, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari.
On to JW Player
Since the JW Player is already built upon HTML5, it is very easy to control playback speed inside JW Player 6 too. We have moved the speed button into the player itself in order to make it look like this is a function native to the player.
Into the Code
The above demo can be seen as a standalone page here. Below is the breakdown of the JavaScript code that is used. First, a basic player set up, like we always have. We include a WebM video so Firefox can play in HTML5 mode:
Next, we store references and set up the slow motion toggle only if HTML5 is supported:
Lastly, we set up the function to toggle the slow motion to either be on or off. Note there’s a small hack to work around a Firefox bug. Without it, Firefox would never return to 1x speed:
Wrapping Up
As you have seen, it is quite easy to control the playback speed of your videos withJW Player 6. Feel free to use the demo in this blog post and adjust this as you see fit (adding more speed buttons, etc). A direct link to this demo is available here. Please let us know if you have any questions or if you have built a cool integration that you wish to show off, comments are welcome, happy embedding!