ZEN Master Release Notes 1 April 2025
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the following updates will be included in the zen master release for april 01, 2025 features map range support for pid mapping profiles pid mapping by category and type now supports the zixi broadcaster’s map range functionality corresponding matching pids are mapped consecutively from the provided starting pid number map range for pid mapping frame thinning support on zixi sources and targets advanced settings now include an option for frame thinning requires broadcaster v18 or greater frame thinning for zixi sources and targets fec and traffic shaping controls for zixi sources and targets advanced settings now include traffic shaping and max fec overhead parameters supported for push / pull sources push targets requires broadcaster v18 2 for pull, and 18 3 for push or greater fec and traffic shapingframe thinning for zixi sources and targets added option to show downstream sources/channels on source diagrams and details pages the next tier of objects can be toggled on/off for diagrams and are also shown in a new ‘downstream’ tab downstream objects on source diagrams additional improvements and changes aws mediaconnect thumbnails and information support to enable thumbnails, be sure to check ‘enable thumbnails’ in the mediaconnect flow channel configuration enable mediaconnect thumbnails once enabled, thumbnails will begin to update in the aws media source stream tab sample thumbnail for aws media sources note that the frequency of thumbnail updates is limited by the aws account api rate limits, and the scope of information available for display in the transport stream tree from aws is a subset of that of the standalone zixi broadcaster capability time zone selection updates allow resetting to local time allow setting datetime format to eu/us formats time zone selection new options transcoding profiles now list sources that use them sources using a transcoding profile updating dynamic pull targets now propagates to child targets a checkbox is added to the dynamic target configuration to dictate the behavior of edits to the parent on corresponding child targets for changes do not require a restart, such as tags or event profile, etc all existing child targets, as well as the parent dynamic target, will update to reflect the changes for changes requiring a restart all existing (including offline) child targets will be deleted active clients will automatically reconnect and acquire the new settings if unchecked, the parent dynamic target is updated, and only future child targets take the new configuration changes to dynamic pull targets propagate to child targets separated 608/708 closed captions monitoring 608 and 708 captions are now isolated and can be monitored and distinguished in the alert body monitor 608 and 708 captions separately added support for minimize latency for zixi sources added support for billing codes on public outputs on sources added hover over source details on active live events added new scte 35 to hls ad marker conversion controls added filters and more details to channel/target assignment dialogs updated event reports to download a simple list of events instead of trying to break them down into per object sheets updated target thumbnails to no longer require permissions on the current active source updated source monitoring to take error concealment/pid mapping into account updated tag filter on tables to allow selecting from existing tags added audio support for html overlay requires v18 2 broadcaster or greater added more configuration info to object details pages added distinct monitoring rule for error concealment statistics implemented front end performance improvements for pass through channels with dozens of targets implemented major performance improvements on channels and targets list pages esni & esam esni match signal now respects the @reusable attribute fixed inconsistencies with viewingpolicy reuse wrong audit messages on update match time is now ignored if there is a conflicting match signal media with matchtime outside of effective/expires range will now be rejected respect scte 35 pts when triggering esni switches various policy related tweaks esam syslog logging support added controls/logic to handle slow/late responses from decision server fixed pois based on input acquisitionpointidentity updated handling of unsolicited messages to support multiple responsesignal and alternatecontent elements logging improvements api api documentation has been added or updated for fields in the following sections sources create (general) update by id list sources get source by id tr101 status summary and details new endpoint for scte 35 message insertion /sources/{sourceid}/scte35 failover channels pass through channels adaptive channels mediaconnect channels added enable thumbnails users added is objects manager is incident manager removed zixi internal fields new fields traffic shaping kbps max fec overhead percent for zixi push targets zec push sources broadcaster push/pull sources rtmp push sources added public url tags added vip field remote access