VidiControl Release Notes

Item #

Release 23.2.142886

Breaking Changes

None.

Features

Recording Parameters

As specified by the configuration, a broad set of recording parameters can be made available to the user in the booking dialog. This includes several data types and also the selection of recording profiles for a recording.

Indicating Unusable Recording Ports

There may be recording ports that are unusable. They can be offline or blocked for other tasks. These will appear with a red-dash bar on the timeline. These ports are not considered for pool schedulings anymore. Running recordings on such ports are not touched, but they may fail. Scheduled recordings on such ports are not executed and rejected in the API. That state has to be set/reset by the recorder adapter implementations or API calls.

Roles

All system components, such as the VidiControl UI and the APIs now support different user roles. In addition, the current user is displayed in the ‘Settings’ menu.

Booking Dialog Improvements

Static ID fields are now displayed in the booking dialog specification tab. The chunk ID is the technical ID for the VidiControl recording object, the item ID is the corresponding VidiCore item ID, and clip ID is the corresponding technical ID for the clip on the video server. These fields are easy to copy to the clipboard. Also, the behaviour of the booking dialog was improved to be more usable for scenarios where multiple booking components are managed in the booking dialog.

Timeline Improvements

On currently recording recorder ports, a record symbol is displayed on the lane header in the timeline view.
The timeline tooltips were improved to show more details for timeline items and to show the current time position on the timeline.

External Notifications

Via events, notifications can be configured to send event notifications to a public ActiveMq topic (broadcast).

Configuration Interface

With Release 23.2 comes a configuration interface for VidiControl where administrator can manage router in/out ports, pools and devices. This GUI is described in the Operations Guide: Operations Guide [VCon OG] .

Recurring Recordings API

With release 23.2, VidiControl offers a feature to create and manage recurring recordings via it’s API. Please refer to the Integration Guide: UC Creating a BookingDefinition with Recurrence [VCon IG] .

Switch while Recording API

VidiControl offers the functionality to switch a router during a running recording via API. Please refer to the Integration Guide: UC Switch while Recording [VCon IG]

Fixes

Known Issues

• Using the “Start Now” command requires the client and the server clock being synchronized. Please take care, that a NTP sync is possible for the docker containers.