Elementi 2023 release notes

Version: "Stecknadelhorn" 4.8.0.38683

Release date: September 27^th, 2023

Note:

For other versions, see the Elementi release notes page.

Added support for the new SpinetiX player models: iBX410 and iBX440.
Added a new project model: "DSOS 8K", to be used with iBX440 players.
Added support for importing HDR and 8K videos. HDR videos are tone-mapped on import.
Added support for close subtitling/captioning (CC) on video files or streaming media - subtitles can now be displayed on the screen in the selected language; the following formats are supported: EIA-708 (Line 21), Teletext, DVB, DVD, Blu-ray, SSA.
Added SRT protocol support for streaming sources. This is a Technology Preview Feature.
Added support for logging into SpinetiX ARYA™ using Google/Facebook social accounts or SSO, for cloud users set up to use those means of authentication, in addition to the previously supported e-mail and password credentials.

Updated the HTML rendering engine to CEF / Chromium 95.
Updated FFmpeg to version 4.4.3 for subtitles support and other improved video support.
Updated GStreamer to version 1.20
Added support for Opus audio codec.
Show the available audio and subtitle tracks in media information panel, including the language code.
Added capability to select a particular audio track within a video file by setting the spx:audio attribute to a language code (e.g., "ENG", "FRA", "SPA", etc.), "QAA" (for the original language), or "QAD" (for audio description).
Updated Intel Media SDK to 2021 R1 for full support of hardware accelerators for video encoding on newer Intel CPUs.
Tuned quality factors for transcoding videos to HEVC upon import.
More accurate detection of when transcoding is required for playback on the project's target players.

Weather widgets
- The weather widgets now use ARYA-style icons for the weather conditions, and their default location is set to Geneva.
- The "Current Weather" widget shows min/max temperatures and has a new option to skip the current day within the forecast widgets.
- Added a new "Forecast" widget.
Interactive widgets
- Reworked the Virtual Keyboard widget to follow the standard CLDR keyboard specification.
- Added a Pop-up Virtual Keyboard widget for web pages.
"Sun Times Playlist" widget
- Added a "Night" option and updated the layout to show a greeting text according to the 4 available options.
- Removed the "Default media" option and added a warning message when no slides are defined.
Flickr widgets now show the Flickr logo when no account is configured.

Publishing a project to a specific ARYA account if more than one is connected is now done via "Project Properties" in the project's context menu.
Twitter widgets have been removed since Twitter is no longer allowing applications as those used in the widgets.

Transcoding of videos with a format that is supported but not recommended, did not work as expected in multiscreen projects.
Show correct bitstream header names in logs.

Improved the RSS parsing by adding the support for retrieving the default media of a media object/group, defined with the "isDefault" attribute (used by Fox News RSS feeds, for instance).
Replaced setInterval timer with an SVG timer in jSignage.UI.fingerTouchClass to prevent safe mode when using the fingerTouch animation within a multiscreen project. Increased the JSignage UI plugin library version to 1.1.2.