Elementi 2023 release notes
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Elementi 2023 Update 7
Improvements
- Added support for SharePoint news posts created after August 2024, which expose the title area differently in the Microsoft Graph API.
Elementi 2023 Update 6
Elementi 2023 Update 6 (64-bit)
Version: "Stecknadelhorn" 4.8.6.39173
Release date: November 18th, 2024
Improvements
- Added support for extracting all media types from SharePoint news posts and pages, including images, videos, titles, descriptions, and links to full articles.
Fixes
- Raised the limit on the number of slices permitted in H.264 videos from 16 to 32, as some streaming encoders may use more than 16 slices.
- H.264 videos with negative Picture Order Count (POC) values, which occur when using open-GOP with Instantaneous Decoder Refresh (IDR) frames, were not decoded correctly, leading to choppy playback.
Elementi 2023 Update 5
Elementi 2023 Update 5 (64-bit)
Version: "Stecknadelhorn" 4.8.5.39079
Release date: August 12th, 2024
Improvements
- Improved the clock skew compensation mechanism added in Elementi 2023 Update 4 to reduce the number of requests needing to be retried.
Fixes
- Failed requests or requests requiring authentication were mistakenly considered as successful, making "Send to Cloud" operations fail when an HTTP proxy was used.
Elementi 2023 Update 4
New
- Added support for retrieving SharePoint news posts, including title, description, header image, and link to full article. This social network channel is available within the advanced data feed widgets of Elementi X.
Improvements
- Added capability to select audio track by number, using "#n" syntax in the
spx:audioattribute. - Added new
spx:rangeRequestsattribute to media layers for disabling the use of HTTP byte range requests for compatibility with servers that do not support it properly. - Added automatic clock skew compensation so that players or computers whose local clock is off by more than 5 minutes can still communicate with the SpinetiX cloud; the compensation is however limited, as very large offsets anyhow break TLS certificate validation.
- Updated EULA to the December 5, 2023, version.
Fixes
- The "device not compatible" dialog was missing the player type name in the message.
- SRT streams with multiple audio tracks failed to be decoded.
- Elementi and the player on DSOS did not use the same user HTTP user agent string, now they both use "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SpinetiX-resac/1.1".
Elementi 2023 Update 3
Improvements
- Elementi now allows importing images wider than 8K resolution when the target device is an iBX440, provided that the total pixel count does not exceed that of an 8K resolution.
- It is now possible to configure web page layers to run in secure context, as if they were loaded via HTTPS; this is controlled by the new
spx:secureContextattribute, which defaults to false for backwards compatibility. Running in a secure context allows access to some restricted HTML APIs, like audio and video capture, but disables loading of content from HTTP sources
Fixes
- The buffer size used for streaming was too small for high resolutions streams with bursty bitrates, and could cause lost video frames from streaming sources.
- Feature Set names were not correctly capitalized in the "New Project" and "Project Properties" dialogs.
Elementi 2023 Update 2
Elementi 2023 Update 2 (64-bit)
Version: "Stecknadelhorn" 4.8.2.38899
Release date: February 21st, 2024
New
- Added support for creating multi-output projects for use with the iBX440.
- Added support for new iBX410W model, variant of iBX410 with Wi-Fi capability.
Improvements
- Improved the create new project dialog to make it easier to select the proper target between the different player models and license types.
Fixes
- The icons for HMP400 and iBX410 were not consistent.
Elementi 2023 Update 1
Elementi 2023 Update 1 (64-bit)
Version: "Stecknadelhorn" 4.8.1.38761
Release date: December 6th, 2023
New
- Added support for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC / H.265 / MPEG-H Part 2) streaming sources with SRT, HLS and DASH protocols. This is a Technology Preview Feature.
Fixes
- Animated GIFs would play at a maximum of 10 fps, any higher fps animated GIF was playing in slow motion.
- Images in 8K would not display in Elementi for 8K capable players, such as iBX440.
- Color Emojis could sometimes be accidentally rendered in black and white.
Elementi 2023
New
- 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.
Improvements
- 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:audioattribute 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.
Changes
- 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.
Fixes
- 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.
Developer
- 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
setIntervaltimer 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.