Scope

This document is intended for existing Actus customers, with systems running
older versions.

It describes the main improvements introduced by Actus in version 5.8, which
was released in March 2015 and will gradually be distributed to all customers
during the second half of 2015, under support agreements.

The main emphasis of this version are an improved recording module and an
improved clips exports module, including faster exports, frame accurate.

It is intended as a brief description. If you require more technical information and
precise specifications, please contact [email protected]

Recording Engine

DTA-2131 Added support for Dektec card DTA-2131 for Digital
Terrestrial Transport Streams (DVB-T/T2).
CC608 Added support for CC (Closed captions) EIA-608 format
(CC608)
24:00 Overlay Support overlay time format in both 12H/24H hours
Flexible
Recording Path
The Live recording file storage does not have to be
under the Media root. Can be stored on any drive
Active
Recorder
Monitoring
The recorder can run either in Normal Mode, or in Active
Monitoring Mode which is much more robust and
provides more alerts on feed and ingest issues
Faster
Configure
Added a process that configures a specific recorder
(channel) without the need to restart all services.

Alert Center

Per Server Added a filtering option per server, or overall
Recorder Info Option to display full recorder information on Alert
Center
Server Health Added a server health monitoring module (Administrator
only)

Exports

Faster Cut-Join New concatenating module (cutting and joining chunks
for export) offers 50% to 90% speed improvement on
the concatenation, with no added CPU consumption.
Consistent Behaviour Exports using QuickExport and ClipFactory now behave
the same.
Frame
Accurate
Frame Accurate cuts are now default, not optional as
previously.
Standard
FFMPEG
Improve export formats FFMPEG commands. (removed
TVCC from export process)
Full HD Export Better support for export of Full HD clips
Clip length Supporting 24 hours export clip length

Administrator / Settings

Server Health Added a server health monitoring module (Administrator
only)
Multi Servers
Monitoring
ServerData web page to monitor multi machines
Cleanup More options for deleting old chunks from servers,
and/or from Central Storage.
Users Log Added Users activity report (Login, Password error, Clip,
etc.)

Catalog

Large MP4 Support of large MP4 playback in Private and shared
catalog

Multi-Viewer

16 channels Support for up to 16 Near Live channels per page, from
Analog, IP, SDI, ASI, DVB input.
Live Support Near Live mode
Controls Add play/Pause, Move back/forward, mute buttons

Viewer

Pinned Players Added Multitasking. It is now possible to “pin” up to 4
players, which remain fixed on the left of the screen in
Live, with Audio, and at the same time open any other
module (Clips, ads, ..)